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That's funny! And yet, so much gaming discourse surrounds how such and such game isn't "modern" enough. Any game that doesn't give super clear numbers for how their skills work for example, you'll hear so many people saying that "Modern Gamers don't put up with that sort of stuff. It needs to...

Maybe they did it that way to accomodate weapons like throwing axes that can be used as both ranged and melee weapons.

It sounds like missile damage generally can't gib, but since you were using darts in melee range it worked, meaning that the game checks your distance from the target for the gib, rather than the kind of weapon you're using.

Seems to be a bit of a trend in the gaming industry. You'll make a name for yourself with a very high end product. And then rapidly come to resent the expense that goes into making a product like that.

The player character in BG3 is a bhaalspawn? Christ, can you imagine all the discourse that would've been avoided if they'd included that in the marketing and not made it a plot twist?

Interesting! I'd heard that apparently the way that Hasbro tried to monetize BG3 was so scuzzy that Larian refused to work with them again. But I guess not. Don't know what Hasbro did that was so terrible but it sounds like they're both running a business here and things can be mutually...

"Best Community" feels like a weird category to begin with. That's not really a quality of the game itself. It's more just saying "All the cool kids are playing this".

Intresting. I would've assumed it would just spawn a new Imoen regardless of whether you'd chunked her. Especially since the Imoen in Candlekeep has an entirely different character sheet.

Haer'Dalis's tiefling race gets him some minor damage resistances. 50% resistance to cold, 25% resistance to fire and electrcity, 15% resistance to blunt, slashing, and piercing damage.

In Durlag's Tower, directly before the Demon Knight, you encounter this man who just saw his party march off to fight the guy and die. He tells you about the Demon Knight's fearsome mirror of opposition, which creates an exact clone of your party to kill you. He says advises that if you were to...

These dopplegangers have gotta stop calling people fleshlings. I don't know how anybody's fooled by them. This feels like a pretty big tell.

So, I play with the item randomizer mod. Which swaps around the locations of about 100 different items in the game. It has some kind of priority system, where the sweet loot tends to go in places where you found sweet loot in the base game. It's just not the same sweet loot you normally find...

Noralee is hilarious. Potions of Infravision. The most useful items in the game.

There's that quest in Nashkel where the miner's wife asks you to check in on him, and you come back with his greenstone ring to report his death. Cracking up right now over the option to claim the ring as payment for your services. It's a greenstone ring. It's technically jewellery but it might...

I was fighting this wizard, and he cast horror on us. Everybody starts running around like chickens with their head cut off. So I cast "Remove Fear" and it gets everybody back into the fight. Everybody except Khalid, who managed to be tucked behind a book shelf when the spell went off. Khalid...

So, the party I'm running with on my mage/thief is Charname, Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Rasaad, Branwen. The party I'm running with on my shadowdancer is the same but with Neera instead of Branwen. And Branwen really does make a big difference. A single class cleric is kind of a god send, not...

Had a bit of a jump scare, when my shadowdancer was fighting the shadow archdruid. Failed a stealth check, and decided to use Shadowstep to make a hasty retreat down the stairs. When I exited out of the shadowstep, the archdruid was down the stairs with me. Didn't know it worked like that...

I'm honestly not super clear on the mechanics of non-detection, since not a whole lot of enemies in BG1 try to dispel your invisibility. I'm told it's more of an issue in BG2. I've heard the cloak is super important though, because if you cast non-detection as a spell, then that it itself...

Interesting! Happy to hear another perspective. Mine isn't quite in "Stealth on Demand" territory yet. I've been splitting the skill points because I need her to handle the locks and traps while Imoen's dualing. Baldur's Gate 1 is also disproportionately outdoors, in the sunlight, as opposed to...

Wait, I accidentally posted this in the wrong subforum. There doesn't seem to be a button to delete it. Maybe you can't do that with entire threads. Could one of the mods move this to "RPG Discussion"? Edit: Thank you