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Dual Class Edwin??
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:04 pm
by Grendel
Decided to have another run through. While this info may exist, I was not able to search it up. So, .. I want a decent thief and don't want Jan. I want to dual Edwin to thief but I need a 17 in Dex to do this (he is a 10) I think? My Q, if I equip him with Gaunlets of Dex to artificially boost him to 18, can I then dual? Ta much..
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:05 pm
by SP101
2 words : You can't.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:41 am
by Grendel
One word: bummer.
Appreciate the feedback, it will save me lugging him around with the group early on and then discovering the hard way he can't be dualed to Thief.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:13 am
by nephtu
Well..
You can easily tweak his stats - and class(es) for that matter - in Shadowkeeper if you like - I made him a half elven dual class Kensai/Mage gor this gothrough
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:27 am
by Grendel
@Nephtu
You know, that had occurred to me but as a Maccie I have not been able to get Shadowkeeper to run in OSX. So have not been able to edit anything in BG2/ToB. (Actually, I had deleted old SoA saved games and lost my orginal PC and STUFF he had, tried to start ToB with a fresh version of the PC but in the absence of his tweaked/perfected loot and goodies, was much displeased. Hence the re-run through SoA...)
Anyone got a Mac friendly (OSX compatible) Shadowkeeper download site???
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:20 am
by Brookster
as a collary to that: do you know how many of the mods work with OSX? I've tried a few, which seemed to be ok, but the Balderdash bugfix pack seems to be PC only...
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:50 am
by Rob-hin
[QUOTE=SP101]2 words : You can't.[/QUOTE]
Actually, those are three words.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:24 pm
by Skuld
I'm pretty sure it's two words, because even not contracted "you cannot" is still two words. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:50 pm
by SP101
You're not right, because Cannot is Can + Not, 2 words.
Well, lets say : 2.5 words
Now back to the threat subject...
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:46 am
by Thrain
it's a compound word and therefore it's two.
why would you want to dual class edwin? he's the best mage in the game!
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:03 am
by Grendel
@Thrain
2 it is indeed
Edwin - IMO I need a decent Th that stays constant within the group, given what happens throught the game. Choices are limited (why exactly did they dual imoen to T/M anyway - that does not logically follow from BG1). Anyway, I don't like Jan and my PC is a gnome F/M to boot. Nalia is wrecked, Yoshi has his faults. So then the need to dual someone else (restricted to human) and therein lies the problem of insufficient Dex in the candidates.
Never really been fond of Edwin and so thought the dualing would endear him to me.
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:30 pm
by Thrain
[QUOTE=Grendel]
Edwin - IMO I need a decent Th that stays constant within the group, given what happens throught the game. Choices are limited (why exactly did they dual imoen to T/M anyway - that does not logically follow from BG1). Anyway, I don't like Jan and my PC is a gnome F/M to boot. Nalia is wrecked, Yoshi has his faults. So then the need to dual someone else (restricted to human) and therein lies the problem of insufficient Dex in the candidates.
Never really been fond of Edwin and so thought the dualing would endear him to me. [/QUOTE]
how can you not be fond of edwin? he's the one dimensional bad guy who never gets it right. i agree that Nalia's stats are fubar but with the thievery rings, it isn't a problem
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:13 pm
by Grendel
Actually I did buff Nalia last time with rings, gauntlets etc. Just wasn't satisfying since she didn't get any better at backstabbing, which proved a pain later in the game.
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:36 pm
by SP101
Well... nalia is a "Mage that can use Thieves Equipement" more than a "Thief with Magic"
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:26 am
by Thrain
this is true.
if you want a mage that can backstab then jan is the only way to go. the mislead spell is great for this