Shadow Mages

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Thu Jul 26, 2001 1:58 pm

Originally posted by Pebz:
How do you "accidentally" press Ctrl+Y insted of Ctrl+R?... they dont look THAT identical

Eww... after Ctrl+Y-ing dozens of Beholders and Ctrl+R-ing my party a number of times, the motion gets kinda automative...

Originally posted by Pebz:
heh, wheres the fun in chating about mages and assassins all day long?

Well, I don't mind at all.

Originally posted by PDF:
We're at Shadow Mages here, speak of Shadows, or Mages

Ya just did!

OK guys, this fills our shadow/mage quota for the month, we can now go back to the more important matters of orcas and miniskirts.

Just kidding, of course. Some more
solid discussion wouldn't look bad in this post.

For example, I will soon start writing Smart Mage scripts to give all those poor Liches and high level Mages a fair chance. Any suggestions about what to/not to do?

]RiPPeR[ · Post by **]RiPPeR[** » Thu Jul 26, 2001 2:04 pm

oh ****, this post has so many replies, you know i never taked a look at this post but now it has 1100 replies i want to know what you guys talk here cuz im not crazy to spend hours reading all this

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Fri Jul 27, 2001 12:34 am

@Ripper: here we try to discuss everything related to mages and thieves (mainly assassins) topics. There is definetly some really good discussion....but sometimes this good discussion is on the hell orca or miniskirt...

Hey!!! Noone has to suggest the ideal BGI party for BGII!??!

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 2:06 am

low page 2!!!!

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 4:44 am

Originally posted by Edwin:
Hey!!! Noone has to suggest the ideal BGI party for BGII!??!

OK, I'll bite.

If you're looking for story continuity, you'd obviously have to include:

Minsc
Dynaheir
Jaheira
Khalid
Imoen

Which doesn't exactly leave you with many options.

And you'd have to travel with Viconia for some time as well, since she reminds you of that. When Khalid and Dynaheir kick the bucket, you can pick up Viconia again, which is good since the party doesn't have a Cleric yet. When you get to ToB, you should get Sarevok for continuity as well, bringing you back up to a full party.

Follow-up question: What kind of protagonist could this party use? It's a bit underdone in the Cleric department during BG1, and lacks a skilled Thief in BG2. Creating a Cleric and dualling to Thief in BG2 doesn't strike me as a particularly fun idea, though, and there are no Half-Orc Cleric/Thieves possible in BG1.

nael · Post by **nael** » Sun Jul 29, 2001 4:39 pm

i posted a whole topic on this as well, but thought i would pose it to my brethren here as well (bump us from the BOTTOM of the SECOND page)
is there a file to edit to make a wild mage's wild surge teke effect more often that 5% of the time?

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 12:46 pm

Originally posted by Xyx:
Follow-up question: What kind of protagonist could this party use? It's a bit underdone in the Cleric department during BG1, and lacks a skilled Thief in BG2. Creating a Cleric and dualling to Thief in BG2 doesn't strike me as a particularly fun idea, though, and there are no Half-Orc Cleric/Thieves possible in BG1.

I usually use a fighter type for my BG1 progtagonist. In BG1 it's not as much fun to play as a thief or a mage as in BG2, so I usually don't use them as much (for my main character anyway). Besides, the Baldur's Gate 'offical hero' Abdel is a fighter too.

P.S. We were on the third page guys!

]RiPPeR[ · Post by **]RiPPeR[** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 12:50 pm

ok i will enter in this discussion
the good protagonist would be an assassin since you are the son of the lord of murder

KillerKid · Post by **KillerKid** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 7:14 pm

if the shadow mages or what ever is suposivly a "guild" or "clan" which i have no problem with why is it on a public forum?

General · Post by **General** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 11:02 pm

Can I be in??? I like Mages and Sorcerors and am trying to learn how to get good with thieves

Garcia · Post by **Garcia** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 12:04 am

Originally posted by General:
Can I be in??? I like Mages and Sorcerors and am trying to learn how to get good with thieves

sure General, jump in on the discussion when ever you like. ask if you have any doubts or wanna start a discussion. if you have or wanna have hints and tips this is were they go

General · Post by **General** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 9:43 am

WOOHOO!

First question, because I am very inexperienced with a thief. Do I have to get behind the person to backstab or just be hidden in shadows?

nael · Post by **nael** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 11:09 am

yes, you have to be behind the person.

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 11:18 am

Originally posted by General:
Do I have to get behind the person to backstab or just be hidden in shadows?

From what I've seen, you have to be in the 180 degree arc behind the target. You have to be invisible one way or the other (hide or magic).

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 10:14 pm

Originally posted by KillerKid:
if the shadow mages or what ever is suposivly a "guild" or "clan" which i have no problem with why is it on a public forum?

We're not the type of guild/clan you seem to be thinking of. We're a group of people with common interests who discuss stuff on a message board, but we don't do competitive/cooperative play online together. There's really no need for us to acquire an entire channel just for casual conversation about strategy and spam.

nael · Post by **nael** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 10:19 pm

[ 08-02-2001: Message edited by: nael ]

General · Post by **General** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 10:35 pm

Originally posted by Kayless:
We're not the type of guild/clan you seem to be thinking of. We're a group of people with common interests who discuss stuff on a message board, but we don't do competitive/cooperative play online together. There's really no need for us to acquire an entire channel just for casual conversation about strategy and SPAM.

Keyword being spam, right?

SPAM

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 1:12 am

Hello there!!!!
I've really a lot to do in these days.....so not much time for posting and playing BG....

Anyway..where are Dude and U-Niq???? Ahhhhhhhhh maybe they're enjoying their LONG awaited ToB....

Welcome to the new member

Have you seen the new cloack of mirroring???? (the one after you install ToB)...really great graphic and finally less powerful vs beholder.

KillerKid · Post by **KillerKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 1:42 am

We're not the type of guild/clan you seem to be thinking of. We're a group of people with common interests who discuss stuff on a message board, but we don't do competitive/cooperative play online together. There's really no need for us to acquire an entire channel just for casual conversation about strategy and spam.

if you guyz are just doing that why devote a clan to just mages/theifs sounds kinda unfair and really unlogical cause i bet half the peeps in there dont even use mages/theifs anymore lol anyway i would just like to mention kinda dumb to do this why not just post like normal to make it easier

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 2:17 am

I don't really understand people that come here to ask why we continue posting or saying that maybe the "members" are not using mages or thieves......ok this topic is sometimes out of the lines, but we keep it clean, post some good discussion and strategies and, last but not least, have started some good friendship between some of us

.....and now tell me that this is not enough to continue posting!!!!!