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I just recently reinstalled BG1 to play it again with my new computer with WinXP. It worked fine until I went to Beregost and took Kagain in my party. After he joined the party went walking to Beregost, and the game crashed the whole WinXP, forcing a reboot. After one of the crashes I got a blue ...

I played a straight kensai trough SoA and ToB. Well, he hasn't much use for tactics (they're for the NPC:s...) but he does quite well with simple brute force. In the end of ToB he was wielding Foebane +5 and Angurvadal +5, had 24 total strength and 5 attacks per round (9 with imp. haste). His THACO ...

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly:
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curdis, are you sure dispell magic will remove spell protections???!!! like spell trap and spell turning? and will remove magic do the same thing? I always used specific spells to breach thruy and spell strike for magical defenses, but if a sufficiently ...

...when Jaheira got a Harm spell through to Firkraag with the first try... Edwin finished with MM.

I've never had a single-class thief in my party, Jan is a good enough thief, AND a mage.

Originally posted by King Leoric:
<STRONG>There are some good quest level spells, but the druid-especific ones aren't much better than the cleric's, opposing to what happened in previous levels (ironskins, nature's, insects...)</STRONG>

I'll have to disagree. Greater Elemental Summoning just ...

Maybe a Tarrasque somewhere would be some more challenge to players... or a dracolich.

Where can I find it? "Cespenar's Forge" page of GameBanshee says it's in Rock the Minotaur's safe, but where is that?

Whirlwind's great with weapons that usually get few hits per turn. Choose whirlwind with Keldorn, whacking 10 times per round with Carsomyr is fun...

Well, I sure would like to loot that sword from Arkanis...
I don't think I can, though.

What effects does a character's charisma have in the game? I heard that talking to the Black Dragon involves a charisma roll. Other than that, I don't know any.

Jaheira looks sexy in red... dragon scale mail.

Originally posted by Xyx:
<STRONG> (I guess they hear or smell him, or have some sixth sense that warns them).</STRONG>

As far as I know, faint vibration of air, somewhat like that around hot objects, can be seen around invisible creatures. Someone intelligent (a mage, usually) can probably ...

You can't handle objects during the time stop, because time is stopped for them. There's no time, so they can't move in it. Right...?

Seemingly useless spells can be used for advantage in tough situations by a creative player. A pity that few of these uses are implemented in BG2. I mean, casting ...

Magic missile is good because it gets better as the caster gets stronger. That makes it usable for high level mages. I remember playing a PnP campaign where my party of mages (a theme campaign) fought a pit fiend. We thought what to do a while, and could think of nothing better at the moment than to ...

Maybe some hidden feature would be funny: you attack a squirrel -> the squirrel releases a chain contingency with 3 Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting spells stored in it

Point here is, my character was NOT good, he was neutral. Generally he isn't just after his own good, but seeing Sarevok, someone who just recently almost got him killed provoking him to attack, he, as a fighter, responds with aggression. Just like Jaheira in the beginning of SoA is ready to tear to ...

I think the alignment change system in the end of SoA sucks. In my opinion, the alignment change should be balanced so that the more evil paths the character chooses, the more evil he gets. But if he takes four good paths end one evil, the balance should be in the side of good. My lawful neutral ...

The wizard slayer who dual classes to a wizard is a quite funny, though rather useless dual class combination.

How long in game time does it usually take for you guys to finish Baldur's Gate? Is there any known "world record" for that, with no edited characters or such of course.