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This idea still has merit even with a lone summon. You will want the "Wall" spells like Wall of Ice, Stone, Force. Throw a wall of fire into the entryway and use a fire elemental to guard for a little extra spice. This creates a chokepoint for your elemental to guard the entryway. Then you can...

Yes, you get your backstab damage from attacking from behind. Or if they are stunned/paralyzed. Even if you aren't a psionic, if you chose Telepathy as a wild talent you get improved invisibility and ego whip (1D6 turns of stun), always useful for your thief.

You can look at your buffs on the character menu screen, and they will show up in your combat statistics as well if you have buffs up. What is your elemental sphere for your cleric? Fire clerics have enough nukes that they stay interesting, but yes, at the end of the day clerics are inferior...

This and the sequel are some of my favorite DnD games. Triple dual classing, elemental spheres with good spells in almost all of them, psionic wild talents, and one of the best intros of the genre. Athas in general is a fantastic world. You rest by the campfires, by the way. Just click on them.

I legitimately enjoy tabletop, so much so that I will run quick solo campaigns to try new rulesets or adventure books. So I recently did with Dark Sun, trying to play the rules exactly as they are written, and honestly, it was a fantastic experience. There is a depth to build crafting in Dark...

It's one of my favorites! Hanharr is such a cool character, I often take him even when going Light Side. I've done runs where I try to push everyones alignment as far as possible to the dark side (the force-heavy prestige classes give a bonus to this for some reason, as does charisma) to see...

KOTOR and (to a lesser extent) Neverwinter Nights had those incredible rtwp combat animations that were a treat to watch. What happened to that? Modern games have devolved in so many ways

In the Black Pits in particular, you can afford to wait. XP will be granted generously and you can get your class back in just a few fights. I still think 7 is generally the optimal time regardless, though.

My Warden did it twice, first with Morrigan when starting a budding romance before I broke it up for Leliana, again for the ritual. I also slept with the elven girl in the Dalish Camp. He even flirted a bit with Zevran. Yeah, my Warden was a bit of a dog this time. In hindsight maybe I should...

Awakening can nearly be considered another campaign with the amount of content it has, but no Inquisition is the third. Your choices carry over, after all. I want to see the ultimate fate of this Warden, even if its only mentioned in passing or in a short meeting with a companion. I miss this...

I decided to go another Dragon Age trilogy run. I've only done a full trilogy run once. Why not do it differently given it has that heavy choices-carry-over mechanic? Last time I was a Dwarf Noble, female, Ranger, romanced Alistair, let him keep the throne, kept the relationship going, and...

I should also mention that for dual classing, your class abilities for your original class use the combined average level of both your classes. This is still true for the EE. Why do I bring this up? Because I once rolled an Assassin 5/Fighter who took advantage of this engine perk. I assume you...

Swashbuckler loses backstab but they end up being one of the most interesting classes by endgame if you can suffer them that long. With whirlwind, higher base damage than a fighter, access to all spells and items thanks to UAI, the busted traps, and AC so good it's one of the only classes able...

What the hay, i'll update mine as well. Working under the Powers Division in Praetoria proved to be a disillusioning experience. Praetor Baerry was too focused on his own research and hobby projects to protect the citizens from his own creations. Bobcat cared more about upsetting her boyfriend...

I remember the old official Bioware website when it still had NWN stuff featured a list of interesting epic level builds, complete with in-game models and storylines and all that. I distinctly remember the dragon disciple/bard build on that site being a gnome. The connection between dragons...