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Are *you* retarded? I just said symbol stun never works for me. Get out of my thread, please.

How'd you get past the fight with 11 orcs where Emma Moonblade makes her appearance?

Have you tried HoF? Monster saving throws are through the roof. I think I've seen them fail to save twice. That's all. Mostly, my mages just lob spells that don't do anything at them. And summoning only works if they don't chunk you before you complete the spell.

Only problem with that is some of the melee situations would be unwinnable. Like the Emma ambush mentioned above.

Well, I decided to go ahead and give HoF a whirl, since I'm about to start on the Evercrack in about three weeks.

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I chose to use Veldrin, since he was a high level and could take care of himself. I tried starting a new party, but quickly dropped that idea as the urge to tear out my hair or ...

Agreed. Although that's not to say a certain amount of embellishment is forbidden; for example, assume one or two party members stand guard, and if they hear approaching monsters, they alert the other party members and they all hide in the shadows or they have a mage cast invisibility. Of course, a ...

They're everywhere, aren't they. They seem to like computer related material these days, eh.

I'll concede the trouble resting part. If I want to rest to recover spells, I don't want to get interrupted 5 times before I finally get to sleep. I want to do it successfully the first time. It's unrealistic, but I believe games must sacrifice believeability for the sake of playability at times.

Hey I'm a database programmer, I'm paid to sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day. I can do a little surfing, so long as I meet my deadlines. :D

IIRC, Aasimar have 5 points fire, cold, and acid resistance, Tieflings are 5 points cold, electricity, and acid. I'm not 100% sure that is right, but I ...

Yxunomei is a tan'arii, giving her 65% magic resistance and a high resistance to fire and electricity. Fireballs are not a good tactic to use. Instead, a well placed chromatic orb can actually get past her save vs spells (its only about 10...pretty weak for a 10 mage/10 cleric) and if your ...

No it's just a bug that causes it. There tend to be a lot of glitches like that in games as complex as IWD/BG. It tends to happen most after you travel between areas on the world map, and your highest con characters get tired first (a mismatched variable or an unedited copy-pasted if statement ...

The fight with Yxunomei was the first real test of your characters. If you could stomp her without trouble, you were going to completely own the rest of the game. If she gave you pause, you still had a hard road ahead.

Considering that I defeated her with a solo cleric of level 8 in a no-killing ...

How about an aasimar Stormlord of Talos? 5 Resistance to all forms of elemental damage. Or is that a tiefling? I'm at work again.

I'm True Neutral in real life. I took those alignment tests and I really do have a tendency to favor the losing side or take the opposite end of an argument because I don't like to see any one person or entity get too powerful. And I'm sometimes generous and caring and othertimes apathetic and ...

Actually, I think some of the other guys were talking about exploiting the unpatched version. But no matter. If you don't have the patch, it will be hard to find because Interplay's site is down. Since I like IE games, I've considered putting together an IE fan site hosting files like this since ...

three pre-created characters? What's the point?

Yeah that was really poorly done. I had to consult the strategy guide to figure out wtf that ghost was talking about. I basically had to follow the guide word for word to get out of there. I tried it myself a few times and kept breaking the scripts because I'd do things out of order (if you go to ...

I choose Lorekeeper of Oghma for the Identify 1/day. Made it easy to keep my magic items identified cheaply. (1st level domain spell is eagle's splendor or a second identify)

Why not play it now?

If you installed the 2.01 patch Improved Invisibility is fixed to what it should be. You become half visible and can be attacked at a -4 penalty and your saving throws are given a +4 bonus. No different than what it was in other IE games.