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Been reading enough of this grand thread to inspire a brandy-new BGT playthrough. Loving all of it for so long, just caught up to post-Firewine for the story. I can swear I just heard the following In-game: "Sheep haven't been putting out lately." - Commoner/Boring Twat  - Wryrms Crossing - Pre Baldur's Gate Admittance
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Damnit, I'm caught up now. I'm kind of glad I didn't go for a whole BWP install and cherry-picked a few NPCs in addition to simple tweaks and fixes. I haven't played through this since...crap about 13 years ago. It's nice to go through it again and remember just enough to allow for a good degree of nostalgia, and forgetting enough that it seems like a fresh game again.  I just finished going through Durlag's in my run and holy crap the traps in this dungeon are relentless. All kinds of nastiness all over the place with infinite triggers. I bet 2 votes on Imoen dying to physical damage trap.\ edit: words durrrr Blasphemaster fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Aug 18, 2013 |
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Aug 17, 2013 02:40
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Frontspac posted:As far as I'm aware the game is like 2E in that regard. There's no set "difficulty class" or automatic success. You roll against your base chance to perform a task with modifiers. As far as I am aware it is exactly as you say, and would explain a 100%+ rogue overlooking everything, stepping forward and getting the party gibbed, thus adding to the legend of Durlag and his Tower. Also a continent's worth of quicksaves.
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Aug 18, 2013 05:07
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All Tomes to Syv, and YES as long as it makes sense for the characters. It'd be neat to see a mini-update of the party walking past Syv getting issued equipment like the line at a school cafeteria.
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Sep 27, 2013 02:50
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caleramaen posted:Think of the Lawful/Chaotic axis as order vs. freedom, and the Good/Evil Axis as empathy vs. exploitation. This makes perfect sense. Also, I made a thing.   <-------->  <------>   <---------->  <-------->   <----->  <-------> 
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Nov 13, 2013 03:32
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Hope it's nothing too nasty or complex. Holiday times are a bitch as it is.
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Dec 9, 2013 05:46
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Livewire42 posted:It's as they say: if you gaze long into the mods, the mods gaze also into you. And then they gently caress up your installation so you have to start over. 
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Dec 13, 2013 04:59
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How would you even go about getting everyone in the temple zone? Fancy pocket plane stone thinger abuse? I say do all three but keep the 'lure bro into a hail of death outside daddy's summer house' as the real version. Can't wait to see Syv drop the entire contents of the lower plains on baldie's head with the best series of wild surges EVER. 
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Jan 28, 2014 07:45
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I always either died or slaughtered his party before thinking to try it. :p
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Jan 28, 2014 08:34
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1 vote each for Kagain as the party JDAM, Kivan as our Maxim Gun, and Lady Seafoam Wonderbounce as our Distraction In the Corner/Cheerleader.
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Jan 28, 2014 18:26
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I have a mental image of Squirrel skittering up to Sarevok, pouncing on him, and trying in vain to gnaw through thru armor whilst Sarevok just stands there, looks at Syv, and gestures at Squirrel in a "WTF, Bro?" kind of way.
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Feb 1, 2014 05:07
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JustJeff88 posted:NOTHING is worse than Chloe. There could be a mod that erased your hard drive, gave your sister incurable smallpox, killed off the bottlenose dolphin as a species and directed a tactical nuclear strike to your house every time you started the game and it would still be better than Chloe by a wide margin. Do elaborate.
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Feb 5, 2014 06:53
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Maybe the power of protagonism allows Syv to run around and lvl up whilst to the BBEG time is passing all slow-like. RPG physics or some poo poo.
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Feb 6, 2014 16:34
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Vorgen posted:I'm really curious, how did you go about reading it? Did you read every single post, or skip to the next update? I think the commentary really informs the actions in the updates, but I don't know how new readers feel about 200 pages of text. I read and will always read every goddamn post. An LP is a narrative not only from the author, but the thread. The archive loses this dichotomy, unfortunately. Honestly, I want to see what happens with Syvishtaerie. Bumpity WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Can't help but love her though.
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Feb 13, 2014 06:13
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Solitary exploding bunny gets hit by an aoe and down goes spikey!sebzilla posted:Bunnies, like Gremlins, hate to be moisturised. Oopsies. Funny image though. 
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Feb 15, 2014 22:22
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Also, future readers would miss out on the Shar-teel wars and the universal demand for the demise of Sir Billy-Bob!
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Feb 17, 2014 07:58
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BwenGun posted:Part of me hopes he drops in the first few moments under a hail of arrow fire. Purely because the image of Hedgehog Sarevok makes me giggle a little bit. Well, when you think of the beginning cutscenes of BG2 it is canon.
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Feb 20, 2014 23:00
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Oh, Vorgen, where art thou? Seriously, someone go poke him with a stick. A NORMAL stick. Wouldn't want to exacerbate things.
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Mar 12, 2014 06:47
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Shei-kun posted:BGII has an exponentially larger mod community than BGI. We'll have belters.
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Mar 15, 2014 01:59
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Siegkrow posted:We'll have personal WORKING jetpacks. Gravity manipulators that we are BORN with.
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Mar 15, 2014 03:10
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Shei-kun posted:Whoa, now. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here. While we're dreaming, I'd like a personal greenhouse/time machine so I have an endless supply of peat for the production of Scotch. Cause that's the real prize of life. Good Scotch, and people to share it with. Before you shoot them in the face and take their territory!
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Mar 15, 2014 05:44
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Are the EEs even worth getting? I've considered them but...eh. They'd have to be something special.
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Apr 17, 2014 04:27
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Deaderinred posted:Vorgen must be stuck in some kind of npc equipping purgatory. 
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Apr 17, 2014 23:59
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Maugrim posted:You totally should As a blatant antitheist, I celebrate the hell out of 'Easter'. There's just so much fun to be had with coloring eggs. 
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Apr 19, 2014 07:08
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Just imagine the devastation if one of Sarevok's cronies drops a Confusion in the mix.
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May 4, 2014 04:04
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Out of rampant curiosity, can we get a spell list for Syv before the fight starts? I can only imagine what the goons can put together for opener spell salvo strategies. 
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May 5, 2014 04:26
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Shei-kun posted:If it isn't Random Spell or some variant of, it shouldn't be memorized Still, isn't it fun to guess?
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May 5, 2014 07:42
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I'd say at some point grab Sarevok with the Irresistible Attraction thing and then lay down a Thunderslap! 
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May 5, 2014 20:30
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 Goddamn, Syv. You're one cold, cold man/woman/murder factory.
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May 6, 2014 19:20
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Goddamn but that was so close! You were going to go through each of the 4 plans until each succeeded, right? I'm pretty drat sure that the Solo plan will work if the surges are kinder to you next time.
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Speaking of mods. God Damnit. Sometimes, computers are the bane of my existence. My current (limited) install of the BWP worked nicely through BG into most of the first chapter of BGII. Now it doesn't. CTD every time it runs. Not sure WTF happened, but it was going nicely. Had a GISH build with a neat combat stat boosting robe. Goddamn thing wont even start now.  If anyone has experience with the "Extended/Enhanced/Etc" version, is it different/stuff-adding enough to justify a purchase from an admitted money-at-IP-chucking/supporting-(but wary) fan? I really just want to see poo poo I didn't do with my only complete trek through the series-Being: Elf Fighter-Come-Archer -> Neutral Good -> Aerie Romance -> Stay Mortal 'cause RP-wise Aerie=win. It'd be neat to do an evil run, but those don't get very good quest rewards until the far end of BGII, I've found/seen/etc'd. Eh. It would be awesome if someone did a mod pack ala FWE without the mish-mash involved in a BWP install.
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Vorgen posted:what were you doing when it stopped working? I hope it doesn't happen to me. On my way to Gromnir, after you talk to Mellisande, so watch out! Blasphemaster fucked around with this message at 04:07 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 04:04
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Serifina posted:Oh, man. It took me like a dozen tries to get my FO3 install working with all the mods, and it was only like 8 or 9 mods... Fairly big ones, but still. So unstable and buggy. I kinda just wiggled everything around till it worked. Good times now. BG2 is loving sacred, though. F03-wise, that's a different discussion for a different thread. Blasphemaster fucked around with this message at 04:20 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 04:17
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Serifina posted:I think it only took me four tries for a BWP set up, but it's such a huge install that it takes forever. FO3 was much faster but more frustrating. Thus, more of an active bastard. 
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May 9, 2014 04:22
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Serifina posted:Gotta admit though, once I got FO3 working right, it was a never ending blast of fun, even if it was a hard-as-hell kick in the teeth. (The BG games are never not fun which is why I own them like three different ways now) Until you need to reload them every 6d6 minutes. 
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May 9, 2014 04:43
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Vorgen posted:If you're getting a ctd every time you start up its because one of your recent save games is corrupted. Go to where they are stored and delete them one at a time until the game starts again. You'll lose progress but you'll keep your game Tried that, no dice. To be more specific, it's TOB Extender that opens up then crashes. Eh. E - Oh hey. I had a backup install all ready to go and without errors. Copied the saves over and BAM good to go.  EE - Nope. Somehow my weapons have armor stats and vice versa, so gently caress it. I'd rather watch you play anyway. Blasphemaster fucked around with this message at 18:12 on May 10, 2014 |
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May 10, 2014 16:29
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Pickled Tink posted:I hope one of them is the charge of the bunny brigade. It was fun to watch, in respect to seeing Syv's growth in power to be able to take on anything the realms chuck in the way.
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May 16, 2014 00:11
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Bunn-grenade goes boink.
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May 16, 2014 16:29
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Maybe Syv can go hoard Charm scrolls or something? The problem seems to be that the rest of the NPC's went totally neutral.
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It definitely looks like it, what with the multiple demons and all.
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