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Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread

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Baldur's Gate retrospective at RPGWatch: http://www.rpgwatch.com/articles/the-nostalgia-files--baldurs-gate-270.html

Among RPG fans, saying that Baldur's Gate is a classic is probably the most uncontroversial remark you can make.
:lol: Not on The Codex. :D

The year is 1998.

Grunge is gone, and something fake has taken its place; empty music plays meaninglessly in insurance offices everywhere. Trashy white guys have taken up rap and they try to mix it with guitars. Pagers are a common sight at every county fair, hanging on the belts of daisy duke shorts and baggy raver pants. They'll be in style for less than a year. Everyone's playing Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering. Those of us without beepers, anyway.
Wow, talk about pretentious.
The article has little substance, although I have read worse. 5/10, would read another one.

In fact, i even rate both IWDs above BG1
Heresy! ;)
 

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Baldur's Gate retrospective at RPGWatch: http://www.rpgwatch.com/articles/the-nostalgia-files--baldurs-gate-270.html
It's like I clicked on RPGWatch but found myself at RPS.
I really couldn't bring myself to finish reading this stylistics exercise. I guess it tries to set up some kind of an atmosphere, but it's just too lofty for its own good. Doesn't help that the style overall is rather unbalanced, or that the entire "atmosphere" setup for me personally is a complete miss. Sure, I got BG1 in 1998, but I gave roughly 0 fucks about everything mentioned. Third person omniscient backfires, FPO/FPU would've suited it much more.

TL;DR if I were the editor, this would be sent back to the desk for major rework.
 

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Drago, most of us have moved beyond vanilla BG1 and have learnt to use mods that use different (and adjustable) spawn rates.
But even in vanilla BG1 you could prevent kobolds spawning in the central chamber of the Firewine ruins by parking one of your characters there.
Where there is will and intelligence there is a way.

It also helps if you have a tank with -10 or so effective missile AC.
 

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I wasn't even aware RPGWatch had a female staff member. Now all they need is a homosexual and a Jew, those copycats.

We are no copycats...

Aubrielle has a female partner, is an atheist and likes social warrior topics - the complete package -> she's Myrthos' secret weapon to troll the Codex :) (*)

So the catfight between Aubrielle and CrookedBee can begin...

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We are no copycats...

Aubrielle has a female partner, is an atheist and likes social warrior topics - the complete package -> she's Myrthos' secret weapon to troll the Codex :) (*)

I must admit that she's pretty ballsy to use her real name on RPGWatch...wait, what?
 

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I must admit that she's pretty ballsy to use her real name on RPGWatch...wait, what?
Yup, same style.
On Writing.
Posted by Emma Yorke at 11:07 PM Friday, January 31, 2014
One time some preposterous twat tried to tell me that when you write, you always write for other people. It’s all for them. Like some kind of altruistic nightmare where you dress up in a giant ape suit made of itchy fake fur and dance on a stage so brainless plebs can throw banana peels and clumps of shit at you. I didn’t bother to correct her. It’s good that she went on thinking that, and it’s good that other writing failures believe that too. The dodgy outer suburbs of our global village are packed with filthy tenements full of unsuccessful creatives, and they all believe they’re better, smarter, more profound, than everyone else in the world. It’s my firm conviction that they should stay there, smelling bad and growing old in filthy cluttered apartments, still trying feebly to convince the world that they’re brilliant. As the last dying light of self-assurance in their eyes flickers out, their hubris will fade into equally devout cynicism and bitterness at how nobody gets recognized. Night will come, and maybe before they end they’ll end up on the ground floor of some office building, possibly not as arrogant as they were before, but believing with all their hearts that it’s the only way to have a decent life. And their hatred and jealousy, companions throughout life, will remain when they tumble into their shallow, cheap graves.

Great authors, great artists, great photographers all have one thing in common. The best of them are generally humble people. Self-confident, of course, and self-assured. But there’s no cheap jabs there, no cold shoulders, no fawning ass-kissing for those one step up on the ladder of success. Great creatives are always great, from the time they’re obscure and on into their recognition, and by great, I mean that there’s something about them, some vibe of wafting talent you sense when you get near, some spark of greatness lurking about them. Greatness has no room for pompousness, and arrogance is the first herald of one’s miserable demise and imminent obscurity.

My name is Emma Yorke, and I’m here to make you uncomfortable.
Okay...
 

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Great authors, great artists, great photographers all have one thing in common. The best of them are generally humble people.
So they all have one thing in common, except it's actually only the best of them, and then generally only.

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Right !
 

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Siren's in BG1 are annoying as shit. Even my Dwarf with 19 CON and a Ring of Protection +1 still fails his saving throws. wtf lol
 

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Siren's in BG1 are annoying as shit. Even my Dwarf with 19 CON and a Ring of Protection +1 still fails his saving throws. wtf lol

CON doesn't adjust saving throws.
With the right mindset you don't even need to worry about saving throws against the sirens.
 
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Well, his dwarf should be getting +5 to saves versus death, spell and wand (19/3.5=5.42=5). I think Siren abilities are classed as spells?
 

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Well, his dwarf should be getting +5 to saves versus death, spell and wand (19/3.5=5.42=5). I think Siren abilities are classed as spells?

So high CON does give bonus to saving throws? Maybe I'm confusing with older AD&D games.
Anyway, there are characters that don't need to worry about saving throws against Charm spells.
 

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Well, his dwarf should be getting +5 to saves versus death, spell and wand (19/3.5=5.42=5). I think Siren abilities are classed as spells?

So high CON does give bonus to saving throws? Maybe I'm confusing with older AD&D games.
Anyway, there are characters that don't need to worry about saving throws against Charm spells.

Short races in BG1/2 get bonuses to their Spell/Wand/Death saving throws based on their CON.
 

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Well, his dwarf should be getting +5 to saves versus death, spell and wand (19/3.5=5.42=5). I think Siren abilities are classed as spells?

So high CON does give bonus to saving throws? Maybe I'm confusing with older AD&D games.
Anyway, there are characters that don't need to worry about saving throws against Charm spells.

Short races in BG1/2 get bonuses to their Spell/Wand/Death saving throws based on their CON.

I think it's a fixed number, rather than based on their CON score. In vanilla at least. In IWD I think you do get the bonuses based on CON.
 

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Well, his dwarf should be getting +5 to saves versus death, spell and wand (19/3.5=5.42=5). I think Siren abilities are classed as spells?

So high CON does give bonus to saving throws? Maybe I'm confusing with older AD&D games.
Anyway, there are characters that don't need to worry about saving throws against Charm spells.

Short races in BG1/2 get bonuses to their Spell/Wand/Death saving throws based on their CON.

I think it's a fixed number, rather than based on their CON score. In vanilla at least. In IWD I think you do get the bonuses based on CON.

I could go test it but I'm pretty sure it's not fixed.
 

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The manlet saving throw bonus isn't in vanilla BG1 even with Baldurdash's fixes (the same for elven charm and sleep resistances). At least Kagain and Khalid had the same boni in my game.
 
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The racial saving throw bonuses for dwarf, halfling and gnome were implemented, it's just that BioWare made a mess of their companion NPCs who are missing them (and break many other rules).
A player created character is unaffected by these oversights.

Dwarfs and halfings get +1 to death, spell and wand saving throws for every 3.5 CON, gnomes get the same bonus but just for spell and wand saves.

Most of the errors for NPCs were fixed in the DudleyFix, and elven charm/sleep fix was by aVenger (for PCs and NPCs).
 

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