Just started playing pic related.
Picked up Montaron, Xzar, Jaheira, and a fuccboi.
Is it worth completing the quests of characters like Monty and Xzar if I don't plan on keeping them in my party? Are the rewards significant for party member quests?
Also general Baldur's Gate thread.
>>332452874
I'm personally playing EE now and can't stop wondering why people hate it so much
party members in bg1 are kinda bare. BG2 they are much more involved but bg 1 they don't have much in the way of quests or dialogue.
>>332453513
Alright, so ditching them isn't too big a loss.
Xzar's portrait and voice really irritate me, so I'm looking forward to leaving him and Monty in some inn to rot.
>>332452874
You get exp which is always nice but other than that, no.
Just pick whichever characters you want anon but remember the "canon" party is Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc, Dynaheir and Imoen.
>>332452874
The fun thing about BG1 is that while the companions aren't fleshed out like they are in BG2 (unless you get mods), there's so many you don't need to revive party members. When a party member dies in the first I usually just keep them dead.
>>332454334
They will flat out try to murder you if you don't get them to Nashkel soon because in BG games companions with conflicting opinions (aka alignments) will turn on eachother.
If you don't do their quests they will also get mad and either permanently despawn from the game or try to murder you.
Don't even think about mixing Evil and Good companions.
>>332452874
>Siege of Dragonspear xp cap is a measly 500k
>paladins and rangers will only be able to gain a single level thourought the entire new game
>all other classes will only be able to level twice
top kek
>>332453313
It was a lot worse when it first launched. After a few years of patching they've actually made it worthwhile compared to modding vanilla, especially now that they've got sword and board or dual-wielding working with having two-handed weapons equipped. It also didn't help that the new characters Beamdog added are pretty poorly written and stick out horribly.
People that pick out the original over enhanced edition are just stupid
almost lvl 3 warrior, will dual to cleric
dual wielding morning stars
made my way to nashkel, but trying to do every subquest available before entering the mine
any interesting subquest I may miss?
does anyone have that thread from earlier today that talked about Balders Gate HD edition vs all the mods? didn't get a chance to read through it
>>332454570
How do you know?
Anyhow that's understandable if they don't want to fucking break the balance with BG2.
>>332454458
>Don't even think about mixing Evil and Good companions
Nothing wrong with that.
>>332454948
They will LITERALLY turn on eachother and murder eachother permanently.
>>332454805
Go with EE, literally 0 reason to go with original.
>>332454926
Cap has already been revealed by the developers
>>332455105
I honestly expected them to have a higher cap and simply de-level you upon import to BG2 with the excuse of "well Irenicus tortured you".
>he doesn't know about CTRL+J
>>332455016
It's just some characters not compatible, you still can mix alignments without any fights.
Do you guys play on smartphones?
I beat bg 1 , 2 and icewind dale on my android phone doing all subquests, i seriously dont get the hate for phones. The learning curve is a bit steep in the beginning, but its great once you get ahold of the controls.
>>332454570
That's still much higher than the original cap.
>>332452874
Playing with 6 player pre-made party is the best.
What do you guys prefer?
Baldurs gate or icewind dale?
Id pick ID for gameplay over BG in a heartbeat
>>332456141
baldur's gate for sure
>>332456141
totally different games, ID is much more linear
>find a nice HUD mod
>the log isn't transparent
For fucks sake.
>>332456141
BG all the way.
IWD is linear and equivalent of "we want wider audience" with dumbed down everything and more focus on combat and action.
>>332452874
If you yourself are not a thief, you really should take imoen too; the other thieves are too far away, and you pretty much need one.
>>332454458
>Don't even think about mixing Evil and Good companions
Can be easily done without any bloodshed.
>>332454570
There is the possibility that people might enjoy all the other stuff in it, not just the numbers getting slightly bigger.
I know, weird thought.
>>332456020
Agreed. I love that the EE made it a single player option for BG1 and 2 like IWD.
>>332456141
I prefer IWD, but I'm really fond of dungeon crawling. BG1 dungeons are mostly horrible, non-descript mazes asides from Durlag's Tower and BG2 has a lot of poorly designed dungeons as well with the exception of Watcher's Keep. The Severed Hand, Dragon's Eye, and Dorn's Deep are all way better crawls than anything in the BG series. Also Justin Sweet portraits are way better than the photorealistic BG1 portraits or the insane braid fetishism of BG2.
>>332456447
It's more the opposite really. BG1 and 2 are pretty easy for D&D games and focused on exploring and talking, although they're still very combat heavy. IWD is more for the dungeon crawl enthusiast, which was not really popular outside of Japan even in the late 90's. Most big name RPGs then were switching to more open environments.
I think I fucked up by playing Torment before Baldur's Gate. The writing in this is just way too stock and comes off pretty flat. Does it get any better, or is the appeal just in the stat game?
>>332457131
>EE made 6 player pre-made party a single player option for BG1 and 2 like IWD
It didn´t.
You could do so from the start.
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does the +X to thac0 in proficiencies stack each pip? I mean, going from 2 pips to 3 gives you (iirc) +3 to thac0 instead of +2
or is it +5 total?
>>332457364
BG1 writing is very simple.
BG1 shines the most in exploration something where PST and IWD absolutely fail due to their linear nature.
So as long as you play for exploration you will enjoy it.
>>332457539
THAC0 bonuses stack.
AC do not.
So bracers with AC6 will give you jack shit if you have AC5 armor for example.
You also can't stack magical items with AC bonuses, you flat out won't be able to equip them.
>>332457506
It's been a while, but I remember having to start a multiplayer game, roll up a party, save, and then change it into a single player save file in the folder. EE just has a create party button in single player.
>>332457539
Yes it does
so 1 is +1 and 3 pips is +2 for a total of +3
>>332457667
AC bonuses stack if it's from different sources assuming it's not just an upgrade over the same item you already had
Such as Helm of Balduran, Ring +2, Ring of Earth Control,Cloak of the Sewers would give +5 total AC
>>332457667
thank you anon
that's fucking cool
>>332457798
damn good
>>332457772
I used to do that.
>>332457798
Obviously by magic items I meant non-uniques anon.
Magic items are +1/+2/+3 items.
>Girdle of Gender-Bending
>>332458746
>there's porn of Edwina
rule 34 never disappoints
>>332458936
>there a Edwina romance mod
>there's a Edwina portrait
>>332454334
>Xzar's portrait and voice really irritate me
You're a bad person.
>>332454570
Is it for sure exactly 500k?
If so that means it's possible for me to reach exactly level 9 fighter and then level 10 mage using the expansion?
250k for fighter then dual limits that to exactly 250k and mage requires 250k to get to level 10 anyway.
>>332456141
IWD was honestly just not that fun to me.
I think it'd be the better game to co-op with a friend but it's too much of a straight slog through dungeon after dungeon without really using any non-combat abilities aside from charisma and paladin's detect evil in conversations which was honestly pretty funny.
Best Druid kit?
>>332460426
Cleric
>>332460426
Cleric/Ranger
>>332460045
>>332460426
Totemic Druid actually has some pretty strong summons
wolf causes level drain on hit
snake does poison on hit
bear causes fear on hit
All with immunity to normal weapons and most are immune to a ton of status ailments
Avenger has great mage spells: Chromatic Orb, Web, Chaos, Improved Invis. Also the spider wildshape is op as fuck with no save poison on hit, 5 apr, web immunity
>>332460426
>levels 14/15
>massive exp jump
Why?
>There are faggots in this thread who went with Kensai/Mage
Shame on all of you
>>332461710
Aren't f/m multiclass better?
This is about Neverwinter Nights, but I'll just ask here
Anyone got a good Paladin module? Either 1 or 2
>>332460045
>>332461049
But they're right, Cleric/Ranger is awesome. You can still summon shit and use Druid spells while also getting more healing and buffs, AND you're still useful in melee combat.
>>332462005
Not at all, Kensai does not let you wear armor, which is no problem since Mages don't wear armor either. Mage spells will also effectively make no point of wearing armor in general.
The bonuses you receive as a Kensai are grand considering it's free ac+THACO with no dissadvantage by being a mage.
The lack of missile weapons are mitigated since you can use MMM and you can simply use axes to make up for it.
With kai you are also a major damage dealer as you deal max damage with all damage rolls.
Fighter/Mage multiclass is good, but Kensai/Mage dual class is insanely broken.
>BG2
>party members scale to your level the first time you load the area they are in
>if you start as a druid, thief or bard you can easily be level 11-12 at the start Chapter 1
>this means some party members will literally start with a whopping +400-800k more xp over what they had if your main character was a paladin or ranger or multiclass
Aerie for example can start with 1.2m xp instead of 400k if you begin the game as a bard/thief. Even more if you start as a druid.
top kek, paladins and rangers shit like always
>>332462443
Aielund Saga is pretty decent
>>332462443
Have you played Twilight and Midnight?
>>332463612
>>332463724
I'll start giving Twilight a try. Thanks for the recs guys
>>332463148
Who cares when the game has an XP cap?
>>332454570
play diablo
you can lvl up to 99
>>332464826
Said cap takes forever to be reached if you have a 6 member party. Literally talking about late ToB only
>>332465009
Enjoy PoE 2.0
>>332459679
>>332458936
>no edwina romance
why even live?
>>332465162
>you will never impregnate Edwina with your bhaalspawn seed
>>332465162
>2016
>no edwina becomes minsc witch mod
>>332465121
enjoy your grind
>>332467939
that's all you do in diablo though
