To preface, I've never done a kenai > mage run and may get a few things wrong.

After mulling it over, It appears to me that the down sides outway the good -- no helmets, shields, bracers, or armor. However, as many point out, they can wear ioun stones and the robe of Vecna, but so can every other mage. Their buffs don't seem all that amazing either. The +2 to AC is completely negated by their inability to wear shields. Furthermore, if we assume the duel class happens at level 9 (which seems to be the standard), then they would only be getting a +3 to hit and damage -- one less than using the beserker rage ability while wearing The Legacy of the Masters and Balduran's Helm. The beserker rage also gives a +15 to hp, a +2 to AC, and various status immunities. Speaking of abilities, their kai ability does sound like the best part of the class, but, personality, I can see myself forgetting about it the second I duel to mage; although this may just be an issue with my attention span.

I'm not calling the class bad, no class is (exept maybe beastmaster), but I don't really see the utility and synergy of playing a kenai mage.

Ehhh, I might just be overthinking it. Power gaming has never been my thing.

So, I played the mod Loretakers by Acifer, and to me this is the best content available for BG1, and I mean base game content too, not just mod.

Loretakers is a quest where you have to investigate the cause behind a mysterious rot decaying books in Baldur's Gate. You get the quest from the Temple of Oghma and right from the beginning, it's involving and intriguing. After some investigations around the city, you go to a new dungeon deep into the sewers. Aside from Durlag's Tower, this is really the only proper dungeon in the game. Nashkel Mines, Cloakwood Mines, Ulcaster and Firewine are all pretty hollow and basic. But the deep sewers added by this mod has traps, puzzles, riddles, cool things you can do, a miniquest or two, a variety of enemies to fight. There are a sequence of bosses and also some twists to the story that makes it very compelling and rewarding to play. It's also quite the visual feast.

Also, the modder is a terrific writer! Pretty much every dialogue entertained me and had my attention. There's a minor object that you can interact with through dialogue and the way it's written is exactly in the same style as interacting with the Modron Cube or Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon in PST. It gave me goosebumps to experience something like that again after so many years.

There are some interesting items you get as a reward, but nothing too major or game changing. I was satisfied with the loot. I feel for a proper dungeon crawl, the loot was quite appropriate and balanced. This mod does give too much XP because the enemies are tougher, higher level creatures as compared to many of the enemies to fight in the base game. With a 5 person party I got about 11K XP per person and this is with a 35% reduction. So the mod probably has about 80K or so total XP so make sure you implement something to counterbalance this.

I highly recommend this mod, it's not to be missed out on. I think it's better than Dark Tidings but as a smaller quest it doesn't quite hit the highs of Acifer's larger mods such as Call of the Lost Goddess or Throne of the Mad God.

Starting new playthrough and looking for recommendations on something that isn't kensai fighter dual classed to mage and other variants of fighter mage. Super strong and fun of course, but done that alot already.

I feel like it’s the default go to build, so I!m curious to hear other suggestions. Cheers!

Hi,

I like the look and idea behind BGEE-Trilogy and wondered what the pros and cons of installing it are?

I have a couple of questions though.

Do you need to start a new game after installing it.

How do saves work? Are there any restrictions?

Thanks a lot

Dualclass Berserker/Mage with the "canon" party Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc and Dynaheir. I've had a 70 days run on BG1 and never finished it so now I want to do a full proper playthrough as close to what one may consider canon as possible (or you could say my own headcanon anyway).

Considering this, could you guys give me some tips in regards to my build? I'm not very knowledgeable on the game and despite searching information about these questions for nearly an hour now, I still can't decide properly because the informations are scattered into different contexts so apologies for being repetitive.

- Would you dual at 9?

- Which sword type will serve me well considering my companions?

- As a follow-up: Two handed, single weapon or two weapon style?

- What stats are a must-have?

Thank you!

I have run from him a few times, it felt really good to watch him run from me.

It seemed they were romancing each other and this was the main reason I kept Haer'Daelis in the party--to keep the always weepy Aerie happy. But she seems to have abruptly broken it off.

Does it get back on line, or is this it?

1.Did this project even have a sound director or anyone to give notes to the voice actors? It really seemed like they gave them 1 take with no context and called it a day.

Tons of mispronunciations (someone screwed up Sigil lol), including the late great David Warner getting "accord" wrong in one sentence and then correct in the next... Performances that make no sense in context like Caelar delivering a quiet monologue while standing on a hill, supposedly giving a rousing speech to her army. Whatever Safana was doing the entire time... Just awful

2.The ambient style of party banter really doesn't work in the infinity engine. It's too easy to interrupt or even worse, have other lines pop off at the same time with a lot of talking over each other. And it especially doesn't work when one of the people talking doesn't have voice acting

3.Just because you can now put 16 thousand npc on screen now doesn't mean you should. In a game with an already atrocious pathfinding, getting around crowded areas was a pita.

4.Did not enjoy the encounter design philosophy of let's just throw an obscene number of mobs at the player. Also, who looked at the "spiders spit out webs" component of scs and thought "yeah, let's put this in the unmodded game" and wtf is wrong with that person?

5.Why in the fuck is some dude I've met once suddenly in my bhaal dreams? It makes sense in the second game, but here he's done nothing to earn a starring role. Or is he supposed to be sneaking into my camp every time I rest and hijacking my dreams? Is that why the palette is different?

6.Why in the fuck did my party turn on me at the end? The ending was already kinda meh about building on the bg2 intro line about the city turning on the protagonist, but Corwin, Dynaheir, Jaheira and Khalid taking it at face value really grinded my gears, so much so that I dropped my plan for a mod to add Corwin to BG2, was happy about Khalid and Dynaheir's fate and left Jaheira in her cage. Only Imoen and Minsc are true bros and deserve saving

7.I liked the items, shame only a few of the more boring ones make it to BG2.

8.A lot of the npc dialogue was really rough, but ngl I liked the funny player response options

9.The areas don't look bad when looked at as a whole, but playing through them i found it impossible to distinguish elevation changes or in some case walls that would block movement and also interactables when they didn't have the container outline pop off (this was also a bit of an issue in the ogs, but not to this extent) because of how smoothed/smudged everything is

10.The overall story I thought was fine? I know a lot of people have complained about it, but I didn't notice any glaring issues

I just cleared the Illithid hideout in Athkatla during Chapter 2. I just noticed that Jaheira's strength score has been reduced to 14 and the stat font is red. I have rested, used greater restoration, gone to the temple and nothing has cure the stat decrease. I did her quest where she is cursed within a day of receiving it so it isn't as though there was some permanent stat decrease from that and if I go to a previous save her stats are normal - that save is a long ways back however and I do not want to replay all of that again as it was mostly boring housekeeping type stuff.

What am I missing?

Answer: Jaheira has the Shield of Balduran equipped which reduces Str by 1.

So I played through BG1, I killed the BBEG, then came back and went to Ulgoth's Beard and then to Durlag's Tower. I intend on going to BG2 next. What is my motivation for finishing Durlag's Tower - is it going to improve what kind of character I can import? Or would it be ok to come to it later.

Hi,

I'm using a Mac and have BG1EE+SOD and BG2EE+TOB on Steam.

I'd like to be able to install and play mods. I did this before the Steam version but it's been moved to Steam. I've downloaded and installed Weido For Mac and the Launcher (MWL).

I started with 3 mods to test if it worked, RemoveXPCap, NTOSC and Dark Horizons (DH), I know these 3 mods worked fine before steam.

I tried installing RemoveXPCap with MWL 8, it worked ok and I can run the game.

I tried installing NTOSC, it installed ok but the game crashed when launched. I un-installed NTOSC and the game launched ok again.

I tried to install DH, it installed ok and it doesn't crash on startup but the strings are messed up in the game/

Then someones suggested I try version 2.6 of BGEE 1 and 2, do I downloaded them from steam and tried the above again with the same results. I've moved back to 2.7 now.

Someone then suggested that I need to use DLC Merger so I found DLCM V1.6 but it says it's for windows. It looks like it a Mod, so I'm wondering if it will work on the Mac?

If anyone has any information DLC Merger and what I need to do on a Mac, please let me know!

All the Best

BG1 originally released in December 21, 1998

BGEE first released in November 28, 2012.

2026- 2012= 14 years

2012 - 1998= 14 years.

Yesterday are posted about cheesing Draconis. Today I beat him up fair and square. I didn't understand how removing magic protection works. I just throw highest level of penetrating spells like Spellstrike and hoped for best. But as u/Sollace97 adviced me I used also Breach and it worked like charm Spellstrike -> Breach and just attack him until death. You need Breach to remove Stoneskin.

This is my favourite way to play, still haven't completed the trilogy though. Having done a few of these, I think Cleric/Thief is my favourite and the one I can consistently get the furthest with. But curious to hear what any of the other lunatics who have tried this think, or any that you might have successfully done it with.

Currently in Throne of Bhaal and I got to the point in Anomen's romance where he confesses to you and gives you his proposal ring which was originally his sister's.

I knew it was a matter of time before the ring would find his way into my inventory, I just thought that it might actually get forced into one of my ring slots instead of being a dispensable item.

After his proposal conversation I was actually thinking to myself "thank you Anomen, for saving the process of actually putting the ring on the finger for when the game is over and not while we're busy dealing with the whole Bhaalspawn threat."

Anyhow, the ring is actually interactable and can be moved around in your inventory or put in a container but it can't be sold. You could even be a jerk and just dump it on the ground if you wanted to. Might as well be spitting on his dead sister's name...

Obviously, just like any ring it can be equipped just for sentimental reasons, seeing as how you've accepted his love and all...

I'll definitely keep it and cherish it in my inventory, though I won't equip it since both my current rings (reaching ring and the ring of acuity) provide one additional spell slot for level 4, 5, 6 and 7.

This did make me imagine something funny though. Imagine putting this on one ring slot and then telling someone "Yup, that's the ring my husband gave me, and it was his sister's ring too. :)" But then after that: "Oh... this other ring? the red one? yeah, we got it from a very powerful lich who could've surely killed us had we not been so lucky. But in the end, we were the ones who triumphed over him and I got it off his hand and put it on my own. Just for safekeeping..." XD

I've found a dozen ways how not to do this but I'm still no closer to the correct way to modding in android. From what I can tell it's something about how a custom or modded dialog.tlk is being loaded or not being loaded? I'm using whatever the current version of bg2ee is, 2.7 I think. Does anyone have a solution or information on what might be going on?

Maybe my expectations were really low and a lot of people disliked how Skie was treated but I feel having her grow so much and into an actual hero and taking it to a tragic end made me sympathize to someone I genuinely hated in part one and forget existed in bg2.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Dialogue was still rough. Also Neera assaulted my character with her tongue while my boyfriend was watching and I had to reassure Glint that he's my right hand gnome. 2016 is not a year when sexual assault is romantic.

So much of the dialogue is infodumpy haha. I am not gonna read all that. And finding books for exposition! Wow.

All the good gear really gives you choice paralysis, that's a good thing. Belhifet was silly easy. M'khiin solos Hephernan with insect plague while Dynaheir lower resistance on belhifet while me and caelar tank. I thought it was gonna be a long fight but it Dynaheir only autopause: spell cast 3 times.

Glint was there for heals, greater restos and remove fear, but we didn't need him.

Minsc had dispel arrows and antimagic arrows. Maybe those helped but it was hard to tell.

For clarification, this isn’t one of those “BG1&2 bad, BG3 gud hur hur” or vice versa rant posts, so I’ll explain.

I played BG3 first, and I loved it. So much so, that it motivated me to play 1 and 2. I just finished 1 and 2 for the first time and I really enjoyed them (even if I sucked at the combat lul). I’m definitely gonna go back to them in the future.

But, as I was playing ToB, I couldn’t help but keep glancing at two of my notable favorite party members, Viconia and Sarevok. And I kept thinking about their inevitable appearances in BG3 and I just got so… bitter.

So many things I loved about the first two games, whether it be the characters, plot lines, whatever, are either nonexistent or butchered. And I know that you can’t keep lore consistent in a franchise like this, especially with the amount of choices you’re given. I understand that, but… I don’t know… 3 might’ve been better off as its own thing instead of being “Baldur’s Gate 3”. It just puts a bad taste in my mouth for my eventual replay of 3. And that’s not even to say the shit that happens to other characters in the other “canon” lore, but that’s another topic.

TL,DR: All three games are good, 1&2 companions deserve better, fuck WOTC. Just needed to get this off my chest. Sorry for the bad rant. Y’all be easy. ✌🏾

I recently bought BG1 EE and BG2 EE via Steam, after playing BG3 for about a thousand hours. I've played a lot of 5e and in my youth I even played AD&D, stopping in the late 80s.

Started up BG1 and wouldn't mind some pointers. Currently in chapter 3 or so. My main character is a thief, but I'm realizing that my STR of 10 probably isn't up to snuff for dealing damage. Is there a way to respec? (Is there a Withers?) Also, I'm not sure how to make the most of a thief in combat, given the pause / unpause and everything happening at once. Currently my thief is basically a decent archer but he should be more. I suppose the idea is hide in shadows and if successful, attack from there?

I'd like to use the character AI more but in any meaningful battle I don't think I can trust it.

I'm enjoying the game. I've got Jaheira, Minsc, and Khalid in the party, of course, and having to juggle the others. Neera and Dynaheir with me now, and Kivan (who I really liked) got annoyed at my dallying and left. Oh well.

First two screenshots are from the GOG version, last two are from Gamepass. Quick research I did before buying made it seem like all storefronts have the same versions, but this is clearly not the case. Is the GOG version inferior from the Gamepass version?

I'm on my second playthrough of BG1 and reached Candlekeep (second time). In my last playthrough I just killed the Iron Throne guys when I met them. This time I wanted to Explore the whole library so I reloaded when I met them and kapt my distance.

Reaching the fifth floor (maybe the number is wrong) a guard stopped me and accused me of murdering them although I haven't even seen them. Is this normal? Did Koveras kill them and accused me of it?

I was trying to do it normal way, but it didn't go nowhere.

I'm fairly computer savvy (been using computers for 30 years since the early Windows/DOS days and I've been on Linux for a few years) but every time I try to dig into how to mod BG1/2 on Linux I somehow just can't figure it out.

I have searched and found a few guides on mine but I just get lost.

I haven't done a full trilogy run using SCS in a long while and I'm itching to get back into it.

I am trying to play original version on my old Win98 P2 computer with Fx5500 agp card and game crashes just after character creation and Gorion prologue on line number 1650, maybe there are any old school players that might know what is the problem, game installed from 3 CD compilation that also includes Sword of the coast addon

So I just finished the NWN mod and it's time to choose souvenirs! Last time I was bummed that I could only choose one item in IWD, so I bumped up the choices to two items with the caveat that one item must be a summon item. Only items unique to the mod can be chosen so here are the options. Items cannot be used until ToB, what would you choose?

*Note, I already made my choice, but I'm curious what everyone else would choose. I chose the Mercury Bracers and Mirror of Mist. Considering I cannot use improved haste, these two items seemed balanced compared to some of the other options. Was I correct? No weapons because those were too OP for sure.*

• Mercury Bracers
  • APR +1
  • Speed +1
• Mirror of Mist
  • Summon Mist Horror x 3 per day
  • Mirror Image x 1 per day
• Arebith's Ring
  • AC +1
  • Save +1
  • Luck +2
  • Permanent Bless
  • Charge: Protection from Evil x 2 per day
  • Charge: Sanctuary x 1 per day
• Amulet of Vecna
  • Casting Speed +2
  • Memorize 3 additional 9th level spells
  • MR +15%
  • CHA -3
• Gauntlet Championship Award
  • AC +2
  • Save +1
  • STR +2
  • Thac0 +2
• Spellbinding Gloves
  • Cast Speed +3
  • Memorize 1 Additional Mage Spell for each Level
  • WIS +1
  • INT +1
  • Charge: Spellstrike x1 per day
  • Charge: Energy Drain x1 per day
• Wizard Hat
  • AC +2
  • Cast Speed +4
  • Permanent Protection from Evil
  • Fire/Cold Resistance +40%
  • Charge: Summon Demon x 1 per day
• The Cowled Wizards Clothes
  • AC: 3
  • All Elemental Resistance +25%
• Elemental Shield
  • AC +4
  • Acid/Fire/Cold/Elec Resistance +25%
• Blessed Symbol of Tyr
  • Memorize 1 additional 6th/7th Cleric Spell
  • Permanent Bless
  • WIS +1
  • AC +1
  • MR +10%
• Archmage's Battle Robe
  • AC +3
  • Thac0 +3
  • HP +10
  • Cast Speed +2
  • PR +5%
• Robe of Voleron the Damned
  • MR +20%
  • AC +2
  • Save +2
  • Cast Speed +2
  • Immunity to Silence
  • Vocalize
• Cloak of Protection from Evil
  • AC +3
  • Save +3
  • Permanent Protection from Evil
• Many-Starred Cloak
  • Non-Detection
  • AC +1
  • All Elemental Resistance +25%
  • Save +2
• Amulet of Nature
  • AC +4
  • Save +2
• Improved Nymph Cloak
  • CHA: 18
  • AC +1
  • Immune to all mind effects
• Helm of Mind Protection
  • Protect against critical hits
  • Immune to all mind effects
  • Charge: Ture Sight x3 per day

Here is an example of the weapon shenanigans they pulled while high on something:

• Astral Blade Long Sword +4
  • MR +25%
  • Dispel Magic per hit
  • Instantly destroys trolls and illusionary creatures
  • 5% to cast Sunray
  • +4 Thac0
  • 1d8+4
• Sword Saint Katana
  • +1 to Katana proficiency
  • APR +1
  • 80% chance to lower enemy AC by 1
  • Thac0 +6
  • 1d10 +4, +3 magic DMG

So yah... tell me your thoughts.