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I also find myself going "Whoa, I don't remember it being this!" every time I replay original BG1. Modding over the years after BG2 released turned a BG1 play into a totally different game, and the time when original BG1 was all there was, is so distant in the past, few remember what a "true"...

This paragraph made me think of Clone Wars era Anakin with Ahsoka. Looks like Beatrix is the "Snips" analogue in this comparison. I don't think Ajantis has it in him to turn to the dark side like Anakin, but still. Male supervisor who isn't a master in the order, female "padawan" with a destiny...

I love a party with two paladins in it. It creates a roleplay dynamic like Star Wars' Jedi Master-Padawan pairs. This particular "Jedi" pair seems to have Beatrix as the more experienced, just going by Ajantis' voice set personality, which makes him seem awfully young. He's not a full-fledged...

I wish you had in fact remembered the "right" answers to give Bassilus to avoid the skeleton fight, because I would be interested in your thoughts on role-playing a paladin through those dialogues. You have to lie to him by humoring him and pretending to be his father. One line is a flat-out...

Thank you for the new link. There's a lot more fascinating information there, "straight from the horse's mouth", as it were. One of the nice things about being a fan of a living composer's music is that you don't have to speculate on what they were thinking or what influenced their compositions...

I love that you're doing this in original BG1! I think it has a lot of charm to it that got lost in all the changes through the years. A couple of things that you probably haven't forgotten, but just to remind you: Plan your quickslots and fast weapon slots carefully, because no pausing in...

I enjoyed reading the latest chapter of Maven's story. I'm a sucker for (admittedly kind of silly but still fun for me) Forgotten Realms theological discussions. Maven's thoughts about Umberlee and Talos got me to thinking. Anyone in the FR who depends upon the sea for their living has little...

I've never had the green borders problem, but the blocky fog of war in vanilla BG1 is standard and long-forgotten by most players. I think it had to do with the memory limitations of the computers of the day, and they made it like that for optimization of performance. How interesting, and...

I have a run of original BG1 going right now, and Minsc's original proficiencies were large swords ++, spiked weapons +, and axe + It was BG2 that changed him to bows and maces. You can certainly give him any proficiencies you want, but he wasn't originally proficient in bows or blunt weapons...

Fun reading, as always. I'm starting to wonder if Kivan's timer is going to run out on you, or are you Keepering your way around that?

I'd forgotten how much EasyTutu changes the game from its vanilla version. NPC Project also puts in a lot of little-known changes besides just adding dialogues, that wind up changing the base gameplay. After years of modding, it gets hard to remember what adds what - the tendency is to start...

I look forward to reading this. I haven't seen a story-based documented run in a while. I think it's good to put it in its own thread this way, so that it doesn't get mixed up with more mechanics-based no-reload runs. I see you're not going for a no- or minimal-reload any way, but rather just...

Great informational finds here. Thank you so much for these.

I'm currently going on a nostalgia trip through the mid-90's games that let me find my joy in life through gaming. That means starting with Dark Wizard, then Heroes of Might and Magic 1, then Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Price of Loyalty. @Urdnot_Wrex , I know I've consulted you before on this...

Currently and over the past month or so, I've gotten pulled back into World of Warcraft. I wanted to try their new "Season of Discovery", which was interesting to me up to about level 20, but then I got more interested in re-doing Loremaster in Wrath of the Lich King Classic. I found a nice...

I could log into Steam and post mine, but it would be wildly misleading, because of massive hours I spend per year in World of Warcraft and Might and Magic 6-7-8. I've also spent a lot of time this year playing original Baldur's Gate 1 from GoG in offline-backup mode, i.e. directly downloaded...

Thank you all again for all the insightful feedback and suggestions. @Antimatter , I didn't mean to derail this thread topic with a BG3 discussion. I mean, it kind of fits "What I'm playing now" for a lot of people, but I'm not sure if it's really on-topic. Would it be good to maybe split out...

@Antimatter, thank you so much for taking the time to examine my source and to give such a detailed, fair, and balanced response. You've definitely started me on a path to being eventually willing to try the game for myself. It's still a bit pricey for my budget, but it won't always be. (Hello...

@Antimatter , Thank you for taking the time to watch and respond to the video's points. It sounds like a lot of the streamer's problems were bugs that have since been patched, as you say, and that his objections to the end of Act 2 may have come from misreading the situation, or from a...

@Antimatter and @Cahir , Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my concerns. I really appreciate it, and I will think about what you've both said. The source for my spoiler information was this video: He says he got this impossible "Sophie's Choice" at the end of act two, and that he...