Favorite class and noobish questions

He doesn't become evil anymore, but I don't think Sarevok will ever be good. Too much bad blood, between you and him, I suppose.

 

And the noobish questions continue.

This one is about BGTutu. Is grandmastery nerfed there like it is in BG2? If not a dual-wielding Khalid might actually be quite powerful, provided I give him the strength gauntlets.

I installed the BG1 NPC mod into my BG2 game and noticed Kivan is an archer now. Do the called shot bonuses stack? If so that would make him very useful, with the lowering Thac0 and strength scores. Do they get a save to prevent it? And if anyone has played with that mod before, do they interact often and with BG2 characters?

Thank you to everyone who has tolerated my ceaseless questions btw.

 

BGTutu is based on the BG2 engine, so I'd expect that grand mastery is nerfed in Tutu as well. This also means that the same grand mastery fix as for BG2 should work in Tutu as well. Or at least, that's what I did, but to be fair, I've never really noticed much difference.

I've played a few archer PCs, but never really used called shot, so I don't really know about that one.

 

The called shot bonuses stack and as far as I know there's no save against it (it always works on dragons). The THAC0/str penalties have a duration of only a few rounds but the penalties stack from multiple attacks.

 

I felt this too, I forced myself to play it up to halfway, but boy I'm glad I did that

 

I'd been playing RPGs since the end of the '80s and had played all of the Gold Box games available for the Apple II. I found the mage fight at the FAI to be one of the hardest fights in the game and a bit unfair for new players. You pretty much HAVE to metagame it unless you're lucky enough to have a character that can cast remove/resist fear.
They should have put such a scroll in Candlekeep as one of the quest rewards so you could have Xar cast it. That change and I wouldn't decry the mage out side the FAI as being unfairly hard.
I still find the fight a challenge if I take a fighter, paladin, ranger, or thief.

I also agree that second mercenary in Nashkel is hard, but you have plenty of opportunity to level up and have somebody memorize resist fear (or recruit Garrick), which you should do after seeing how bad the first mage crippled you with the horror spell.

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Ever since I got internet access in '97, I've made a habit of going to www.gamefaqs.com after I've beating an RPG once or twice, and downloading some FAQs, then using them to see what I've missed.

I generally try to avoid spoilers unless I'm really stuck until I've beaten the game for the first time, but afterwards when the game is losing the replay value, I'll go for them and take a Pokemon approach to secrets and treasures: Gotta find them all.

 

I cant find a better place to ask so im hoping someone here can help me.

Ive played through the game twice now and im about to start my third play through. One thing that has always bothered me though are the number of important characters in the game who dont have portraits tied to them. I Know that for npcs or for characters with existing portraits(such as bodhi) they can be changed with the NXXXXXXM method in the override folder but is there a way to add portraits for characters who dont have them already? For example....renal bloodscalp, aran lindvale, and phaere are a few of many that i would like to add pics for

 

There are several mods out there that hook up (most) npc's with a portrait, so that you get to see it during conversations. Been a while since I played, but G3Tweaks or similar "fixpack" sounds like a good place to start searching as candidates go.