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Btw, has anyone seen the Star Trek film that inspired the BG2 plot line and Irenicus's character in particular? It's Star Trek: Insurrection, right? Is it worth watching, as a BG fan who is marginally interested in Star Trek?

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Dukes The return to Candlekeep was uneventful, handled in my character's standard way. A potion of magic blocking took care of the ogre mage ambush. Violet potion + potion of agility + potion of fortitude shattered the locks, without compromising combat...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Gate There are two types of Baldur's Gate players: 1) those who started with BG1, love it, and lose interest in BG2; 2) those who started with BG2, love it, and rush through BG1. I am unequivocally a type two player. I simply can't make myself slowdown...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Cloakwood Astrid celebrated her victory over the bandits by heading back to the Feldepost and cracking open a bottle of Algernon. Most of my characters wouldn't do this, but Astrid, as a Talassan, has no reason not to. Was it about the cloak? No...

Happy to help! And I know this isn't the right thread for this, but here are a couple of basic ones to get you started on identifying spells. 1. When a high level mage says vita, mortis, careo that usually means Horrid Wilting. 2. When a high level mage says praeses, alia, fero that's usually...

I always, always, always listen to the original game sounds in BG, since there is a lot of tactically relevant information conveyed via sound, most notably the incantations. If you know the level of your opponent, and a little bit about their scripts, you can usually deduce which spell they're...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Bandit Camp This post covers Larswood, Peldvale, Bandit Camp, and a quad of misguided interlopers. It's a lot of combat for one post, and we're going to push the screenshot limit, but we'll fit it all in. I promise. First up, the Larswood bandits. These...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Assassins and Such It's time for an inventory peak, don't you think? Here it is. As you can tell from the inventory, this post covers Nimbul, Tranzig and the Black Alaric Cave. If you were to look into that potion case, you'd know that it covers the...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Nashkel Mines With Wand of Sleep charges in short supply, Astrid took an economical approach in the Nashkel Mines. She used her skeletons in the first battle zone. And her sanctuaries in the next. The damage you see here came from the traps on the bridge...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Early Adventures, Part 2 It's Saturday, so no 50% off sushi rolls. Instead it's take out Chinese, like Christmas. Ok. So were were we? Astrid's early adventures: right. Since I had squandered Astrid's PoI, I owed her a new one. That meant a trip to the Valley...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Early Adventures, Part 1 Ok. Let's talk about Astrid. First things first: I re-rolled her and edited her entry post accordingly. Why, you ask? Her strength. Her initial strength of 11 would have left her one point shy of wielding Ages and the Defender without...

Sounds promising, Alice! Looking forward to it!

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos Having played a thief, and two consecutive warriors, it's now time for something completely different. Enter Astrid, halfling priest of Talos. Proficiencies: Quarterstaves, Slings Mods: SCS 34.3, Ascension, G3 Fixpack- Free Action Protects Against Stun...

Btw, for those interested in the comic book like approach, the Legends of Baldur's Gate series is available from Amazon, through Comixology Unlimted. They offer a 30 day free trial, so you can check them out for free, as long as you remember to cancel.

Lol. No reason, really. The first character I truly enjoyed was my bounty hunter, Alesia. Her name became my forum name, and the A thing just kind of followed. By now it's a tradition. These days I look at lists of baby names that start with A whenever I roll a character.

Part, 3 Of all the things Arcadia could have packed, and of all the things she was forced to leave behind, Arcadia chose to bring Captain Swarmi's tiara and cloak. Captain Swarmi doesn't like the tiara and the cloak, truth be told: he finds them demeaning. And yet he understands that they are...

Part 2: Footsteps and flames. And then a race to freedom, to another day. That's all Arcadia could remember. And yet somehow the night had ended- somehow it was morning. Footsteps again. Imoen approached. “I'm...I'm sorry about Gorion,” Imoen stammered. “I followed you from the shadows. I saw...

NW: This isn't a new run. It's just a repost, intended to serve as an example of a third person narrative Introduction: Character Description: When asked about Arcadia, Imoen shoots you a deeply serious stare, paired with a incongruous lopsided smirk. She huffs though her nostrils as if to...

No worries! I'm happy to offer what advice I can. On literary composition. It's hard, right? Narrativizing an entire run is a challenge, one that I have never completed. I can comment on my experiences, for what that's worth.. I've narratived BG1 runs before, and I've quasi-narrativized up...

You can feel free to start asking questions, M7600. I'm accustomed to writing for other no reloaders in the NR challenge threads. I may have assumed more familiarity with NR run practices in this run than I should have, in light of the different audience. Apologies if that was the case.