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Alia, Halfling Kensai: Final Update I'm sorry to report that Alia fell to Gromnir. The new version of SCS made this fight much more challenging and I underestimated it. Alia was dispelled early, worn down by damage spells and ultimately cornered, with the aid of summons. Gromnir's crew just...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Illasera Throughout SoA, Alia's greatest weakness had been her inability to wear bracers or armor, and her associated dependance on dispellable AC buffs. As she transitions to ToB, other kit restrictions will take center stage. Specifically, her inability to use the...

I thought you'd like The Warning, @Serg_BlackStrider . They're pretty awesome- especially given how young they are. They were 18, 16 and 13 respectively in that last video.

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Irenicus in Hell What words come to mind when you think of a battle to the death in Hell? How about courteous? Orderly? Polite? Yeah. Those aren't the first three that pop into my noggin either, but they were apt descriptors of Alia's final confrontation with Irenicus...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Suldanessellar Looking back on Alia's fight with Bodhi, and her raid on Suldanessellar, I see that she was in danger- critical danger. I was rushing. I was over-confident. Alia is fortunate that she survived my folly. And my future characters will benefit from the...

Understood. And I respect your decision, of course. I do hope we'll continue to see you around in the thread. :) Cheers, A. Btw, in future play throughs you may want to consider activating Autopause: Round End. That may approximate the pacing that you're used to. I actually play with most, if...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Bodhi Well, I've settled into my new digs, with sunset views of the Pacific, in Costa Rica. I'll miss The Love Boat vibes of the cruise ship town I had been living in for the last six months, but this will do nicely until I'm ready for a change. Anyhoo, let's talk...

Glad to see Sadie making progress, m7600!

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Athkatla Clean-Up Alia's Athkatala clean-up went smoothly, although it did come at a cost. Who's to say whether that cost will come back to haunt Alia. Let's talk about the easy part first: The Guarded Compound. This was a straight up trouncing. While Alia failed in...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: The Underdark Of all the areas in Baldur's Gate, the Underdark is the only one that fails, and it fails because it succeeds so well. The designers did a wonderful job of creating a dark, foreboding, oppressive world that you, the player, will want to escape. But that's...

Earl Boen, yes. He passed away this year. That was one of the most surprising ones for me. I knew Earl Boen from the Terminator films. I never would have guessed that he voiced Montaron.

Btw, with regards to actors who voiced multiple characters, there's a comprehensive list here. Some of these are really surprising. I would have never guessed that Yoshimo, Minister Lloyd and the Avatar of Rillifane were all voiced by the same actor, for example...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: The Sahuagin City Ok! I'm eating dinner now, and I've decided to knock off Fishville super quick. Might as well make progress while I can. I've long called the Sahuagin City Fishville, but now that I think about it, it should be called Lootville. It's loaded with...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Spellhold With the exception of a single buggy-ish battle, Alia's trip through Spellhold was exceptionally smooth. The vamps were thwacked with the iMod. From there on out, the Pixie Prick was the star of the show. It was like nap time at Brynnlaw Nursery School...

As mentioned, I can't comment on IWD, since I've never played it. We seem to agree, though, that there are many options preferable to a kensai->mage in BG, including some of the other fighter duals, which was my original point.

EE changed it. They removed the +6 bonus. The old version was a little underpowered but the current version is over-powered. The middle ground of +3 makes sense to me.

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Bodhi's Lair We're catching up with a quickness, but we still have a ways to go. Let's get this done. Following the Windspear Hills quest, Alia was just shy of her first HLA. I decided to do a little minor questing so she'd have Hardiness for Bodhi. We started with...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Windspear Hills By now Alia was like Madonna: she was into the groove. The denizens of Firkraag's Pleasure Palace were the next to learn. The Plath Redege fight is another encounter that could use a spruce up. Firkraag knows of the protagonist, and this crew was sent...

Alia, Halfling Kensai: Mae'Var's Guild Hall The thief stronghold quest line was short and sweet for Alia. For Mae'Var it was short and not so sweet. This is partly because I allowed Alia it ambush attack her mages, just as I allowed her to do so against Gaius and others. Is this dirty or does...

I could imagine that. But of course that strategy would work with any fighter dual, as well as an F/M or an F/I. F/Ms and F/Is are indeed monsters. Fighter duals can be excellent, too- I freely acknowledge that. It's the excessive enthusiasm for kensai kit variant in particular that I take issue...