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I just got caught up, and would like to say that this LP is pretty awesome. I'm eagerly awaiting more wild magic insanity. Squirrel armies and zombie sex changes are just the tip of the iceberg of what's possible, especially once higher level spells come into play.
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A, "Your formidable mate" is getting creepy and Minsc's 29 hp is gonna be useful. He's also pretty close to level 4! Edit: How much time do we have to save Dynaheir before Minsc leaves the group?
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Oct 17, 2011 16:50
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D - Gavin's back story is depressing and I want to see what happens when Shar-Teel gets pissed at our reputation. 
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Oct 18, 2011 23:57
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D - We can adventure with Branwen later, right now we need to "rescue" Dynaheir with a half evil party.
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Oct 22, 2011 18:22
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It means Syvishtar will get more chances to watch his party die around him! tim. kim. wim... (Or fewer re-loads when a fight goes badly.) Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Oct 30, 2011 |
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Oct 30, 2011 05:11
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3. Let the weave decide! Edit: It's what Rhialto would have wanted.
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Nov 9, 2011 01:54
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Well that didn't go well. I instinctively rage-clicked in a pointless attempt to skip the death video. 
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Nov 12, 2011 04:32
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+1 Imoen Her dialogue is actually pretty decent, plus I like the foreshadowing that's been happening. +2 Viconia More interesting than I remembered her being so far. +2 Dynaheir I've never actually used her in a play-through, so I'm curious.
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Nov 13, 2011 16:14
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C Just because she's the closest contender next to Xzar. I do hope we can get Viconia and Slimeboy together at some point so they reminisce about the good old underdark days.
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Nov 20, 2011 16:47
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Vorgen posted:Remember to change your original vote posts if you want to change your vote. Looking forward to it! Replaying everything, let alone installing BGP twice is true
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Nov 21, 2011 09:12
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1. No 2. No 3. Yes The risk of permanent death raises the stakes. Garrick just disappeared somehow, let's give him a second chance. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Nov 21, 2011 |
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Nov 21, 2011 20:43
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1 Minsc probably shouldn't be around when we rez Finch. That would be awkward. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nov 29, 2011 23:45
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I don't understand. Can you not reach their equipment? Wouldn't it be on their corpses, and don't you need said corpses to bring them back to life? Or did they die naked.
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Dec 3, 2011 14:00
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Add Bjornin and Hothgrimm
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Vorgen posted:Hey guys, I went back and re-visited the problem of video editing and this time I got a lot further. Here is an edited version of the fight where Minsc slaughters the whole party, but this time I took out all the pauses and the audio, and put in a new audio track which is just the fight music. You got me to instinctively rage-click on the death screen again.  Also I recently started replaying the game again, and even on a relatively easier setting (only the sword coast strategies mod and BGT), the bandit camp which you are headed towards is absolutely brutal. 2 hard fights in a row and no chance to rest and recover spells in between. Perhaps you could show the levels of all the npcs next time we have a vote? That way we can intelligently choose
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Dec 23, 2011 13:51
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Vorgen posted:what do you think guys, too golden? Well the one on the far left is holding a staff which seems appropriate. The "come hither" gaze is out of character for the Syvishtar we know so far though  Edit: Syvishtariel? Syvishemale? Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Dec 27, 2011 |
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Dec 27, 2011 07:39
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Vorgen posted:Man, I don't know why I'm spending so much time on this, but here's my photoshop hack job of mixing the two: Haha, that's perfect. Voting for this. Is this G then? Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Dec 27, 2011 |
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pokie posted:I too want to see how you do bandit camp. My level 6/7 party barely survived it after numerous attempts. And that included Xan as level 6 sorcerer. I'm not sure exactly how the Big World mashup will play out, but from my recent playthrough with just Sword Coast Strategies, it seems the battle can be cut short depending on who you kill at the start.
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+1 to: Imoen - What will she say about the new you, I wonder? Kivan - We need a bandit-killing machine to carry the rest of the horrifically under-leveled party. Rose - Together with Imoen, partners in crime? +2 to: Edwin - Get this man some good spells already!
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JT Jag posted:For the record, I've already cast my votes, but I think the best party composition (balancing party dynamics and party capability) would be: I don't think going for an optimal party is a very good idea. If anything, it ensures that the more interesting (but low-level) characters become even worse and less likely to be voted for. I didn't vote for Mur-Neth, but I applaud everybody who did. This game needs more weirdness.
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JT Jag posted:Why the hell are you people voting for Shar-Teel If our votes are really the voices in his head, Syvishtara is seriously conflicted. At least Shar-teel won't follow us into BG2 ...right? Edit: Dammit, her head. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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Anal Papist posted:You are right it would be far more interesting to get imoen gibbed as that would solve the problem of having to deal with her blandness in BG2, plus it would change the plot in interesting ways. Is that even possible? That would remove half of the game, unless the writers added a different reason to travel to Spellhold.
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107 votes wasted on the Shar-Teel controversy.  That's like 1 out every 3 votes! Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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JT Jag posted:It seems like every one of these romance mods has a cliche'd "one partner has commitment issues, fucks things up for a while", or "all hope is lost" moment. If the trope follows the traditional patterns, this should lead to the "touching reconciliation and even stronger relationship than before" next. With Shar-Teel, this happens every day. Also, wow I had about 300 pages to catch up on and it was awesome. If you read it all in one go, you can really tell how different characters were written by different modders. The writing style (and quality) varies a lot. Annoying as he is, I hope Xan returns to the party to complete his romance thingy. The writing was ok and his obsession with death makes for good foreshadowing, not to mention Syvishtara reacts to it in an interesting way.
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Vorgen posted:Christmas come early! Woohoo! This is about the best thing ever! So many bugs they can fix, so many graphics they can overhaul, so many features they can implement that they didn't before! Just think, your LP could be the swan song of the Baldur's Gate mega-mods. I'm sure a lot of the more popular npc and quest modules will be converted though. Hopefully Beamdog are keeping compatibility in mind. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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^^^You don't like Sean Connery, do you.^^^ A - If nothing else, bard song gives everybody nice bonuses. Let his corpse rot when he dies again(bards ALWAYS die). I don't think I've said it yet, but this LP is all kinds of awesome.
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Vorgen posted:I'm really trying to remember in which game you can kill people by standing them in the campfire. It sounds really familiar but I can't place it. You could also do this to people in the Thief games, although you had to knock them out first and lug their body around. It was like the game had a secondary serial killer mode where you broke into people's houses just to bash them in the head and burn/drown/drop them from a great height. Anyways, if we can get BillyBob to join the party, my vote is that we sell anything not glued to his body and make him go hug illithids in BG2.  Cythereal posted:Doesn't help that BGEE seems to be meeting with a lukewarm reception by the modders themselves. Some are excited about it, more are worried that it will break existing mods and more importantly modding tools, and fracture an already small community. The presence of numerous shills drumming up excitement for the game has not helped, and a considerable number of the modders are worried that this is just a cash grab and that BG3 will just be trying to cash in on the Baldur's Gate name like those BG: Dark Alliance games. That's interesting, I can imagine a lot of modders aren't looking forward to yet another another round of mod conversions and bug patching. That said, if BGEE retains mod compatibility, the barrier to entry for modded content is going to be much lower than it is now. I had to reinstall everything yesterday after breaking my installation trying to undo a tweak. (Being stripped of equipment in Spellhold is a cool idea, and so is having Bodhi chase you, but both at the same time are close to impossible, especially when you are trying to memorize spells that might somehow let you kill golems with your bare fists.) It would be nice if I could install just one game instead of 3 games, 2 patches, 2 bugfixing mods, a widescreen patch, BGT and a bodge to get music working. On the plus side, I decided to try some new content. There are apparently several banter projects for BG2, and they appear to focus on friendships, not romances like BG1's npc project.
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This is perhaps a little cynical, but I think most modding communities exist in a state of perpetual drama. Regardless of competing egos, a lot of modders really love the games they work on and thrive on feedback from the community. I expect many of them will stick around and keep updating/producing new content after the dust has settled. Whether BGEE will compatible is another matter, although the news released so far makes me hope it will be without too many alterations to existing mod content.Cythereal posted:The BG1 NPC Project is somewhat misleading when looking at BG2 and its mods. In BG1, characters virtually never interact at all. There are no banters, friendships, romances, etc - that was all an invention of BG2. BG2 mods are significantly more numerous, and generally seek to expand upon existing content or add new characters. The BG1 NPC Project sought to bring BG1 up to where BG2 began, with banters, romances, and dialogue for party members. You make a good point, it's been a long time since I played vanilla BG and I probably don't remember how sparse it was. BG2 characters just seem quiet compared to the chatty ones from the NPC Project. That shouldn't be a problem in my new game. I'm planning to run through BG2 with Aerie, Edwin, Korgan, Keldorn and Imoen. I'm not sure who will end up dead, but I'll need the extra slot for my good buddy Sarevok. 
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I was playing around with the the Wild Magic mod that added Rhialto's spellbook, and it's a lot of fun. There's some really fun content we haven't seen yet which I probably shouldn't mention as it might constitute spoilers depending on what Syvishtara ends up doing. It's gonna be super cool though. If any of you are contemplating doing a wild mage run with the mod, definitely go through the readme so you can plan ahead. Killing Rhialto with a level 2 party was pretty much impossible, but I was lucky. He turned himself into a squirrel on my fifth attempt.
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B - A fast-moving thief/mage has potential especially with some of the illusion spells that you get later on. That said, having squishy characters move faster than the tanks is generally a terrible idea, since they will be the first to trigger ambushes and traps. Either way, we get a show and Vorgen has to deal with the consequences!
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Unless a mod changed things, thieves can only put one point in a proficiency. She'll get -1 THAC0, better saves and a x4 backstab multiplier at level 9...
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Longinus00 posted:The kit lets her specialise in all thief proficiencies. Oh cool. Looks like it also gives her a bonus to AC at level 10 I think level 8 is a good choice. She is going to be using shortbows throughout the entire saga, so the bonuses from an extra proficiency point would be put to good use. Should I edit my previous vote? Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 1, 2012 |
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Viola the Mad posted:Good idea, but you should start selling some of that stuff soon. Syvishtar/a should probably be stockpiling weapons for her army's final assault on the Armored Figure. She's basically a guerilla leader at this point, with 20-odd troops and a supply train.
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Well I'm glad this section is almost over. The npc interactions are keeping things interesting (Imoen's conversation with Branwen couldn't have been timed better on purpose  ), but I'm looking forward to the more varied combat and actual plot of vanilla BG.Vorgen posted:Nobody wants to make a big deal about me legitimately summoning a fire elemental at level 5 through Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, when I shouldn't be able to do that until level 9 and BG2 at the very earliest? Its the first clue to the true power that a wild mage can wield. I'm just amazed by Syvistara's consistent luck. How was she able to skip the 3-round mental battle with the elemental? Nahal's dweomer always messes up at the worst possible times for me. I just assaulted the bandit camp in BG1, and my wild mage managed to silence all my casters, kill Tiax with a sunburst and enchant a bandit with protection from arrows. Kagain ended up tanking everything 
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Junior G-man posted:By the way, is there any sort of level cap in the BWP? We'll be halfway through the BGII level structures before we hit the city proper at this rate. There's an option in the BGT tweak pack to cap XP around level 8, so maybe? It's probably going to come down to one very high level wild mage and a pack of underlevelled npcs as cannon fodder.
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Looks like a foregone conclusion, but I'll vote for 3. I would love a quest revolving around a bunch of adventurers robbing a town blind and then finding a culprit to pin the blame on, but I'm guessing this isn't it.
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I'll vote for Illusionist. Imoen loves playing pranks, and that's what illusion is all about, right? It also bars her from using the really evil spells such as Death Spell or Abi Dalzim's Horrid Wilting. Roasting people with fireballs can be nasty but it isn't evil on the same level as a mage who can snuff out the lifeforce of weaker creatures with a word, or evaporate all of their bodily fluids in an agonizing death. I don't think Enchanter is a good fit for her since 1. Imoen's already shown enthusiasm for evocation spells like burning hands, so I don't think she has any problem with casting evocation spells. 2. Enchanting is all about controlling people. Imoen seems like more of a trickster who would resort to enchantment if absolutely necessary. Wild mage would be... interesting, but wouldn't it make more sense for Imoen's wild magic potential to be unlocked by Irenicus' experiments? Just a thought for the future.
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I thought the several days long battle with the amazons was pretty awesome. The situation was really desperate, and watching characters die raises the stakes. There's also a big difference between dying in an epic battle, and dying of a lucky hit while grinding repetitive content. I'm looking forward to the final assault on the bandit camp for that very reason. Even if it doesn't prove difficult, revenge will be sweet. Are we going to get Haiass back?
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2-Imoen as always 3-Kerairiera Silverstring Let's see what this special snowflake can do! That kit is ridiculous. I imagine the modder thought bards were underpowered and tried to fix that by giving her more spells than a specialist mage, while still letting her use chainmail. Syvishtara, you have spent the past few weeks working tirelessly to help the citizens of Restenford. The ungratefel assholes accused you of theft and murder! It's time to get out from under the Monk's heel and look out for yourself. Take what is yours, it doesn't matter if you lower your reputation. yes Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Apr 16, 2012 |
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2 B Delta Dude. Coran starts with 20 dex (assuming nothing has been changed by modders) The Blade Master kit adds a +2 bonus to dex. That's 22 dexterity. You all know what to do. Coran also tries to flirt with pretty much anything female, I'm looking forward to seeing his attempts to woo Shar-Teel  Edit:got my numbers mixed up. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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