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Baldur's Gate - familiar

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Shaewaroz said:
I just noticed that BG:EE has changed the familiar stats and skills quite dramatically, mostly they're nerfed to not make having a familiar too OP.

However there's one exception - the imp familiar. Holy hell, what were they thinking? Instead of it having 1x Polymorph Other spell it actually has 1x Polymorph Self. This means from the beginning of BG1 you can have a hasted Flint or a Sword Spider fight by your side. I guess they thought nobody is ever going to use the Polymorph Other spell so they changed it into something more useful. But now the imp is so OP it's not even funny - you can for instance polymorph the imp into an ogre and force open almost any lock.

Although, now that I'm actually playing through Candle Keep with an Ogre stumbling around with me, it's actually pretty exciting.
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The imp always had polymorph self. It was overpowered ever since the early days of BG1Tutu.
 
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Yea, you're right. I read somewhere it was originally Polymorph Other. I'm surprised I had never noticed this familiar ability before, or maybe I had but just didn't remember it after so many years.
 
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