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Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Bodhi's Lair As the attentive reader knows, Astrid struggles late at night, or more precisely, early in the morning. Astrid's raid on Bodhi's lair took place at 5:00am, and so your might reasonably suspect that she floundered. Alas, Astrid is a high level...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Unseeing Eye Since the Unseeing Eye is Astrid's stronghold quest, she probably should have done this sooner. In retrospect, she should have done it just after the Planar Prison, when she reached level 15. Even with SCS, skeleton warriors are beasts...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The Planar Sphere When people talk about the most powerful builds in the game there is a diversity of opinions. The consensus is that arcane characters are stronger than non-arcane characters. There are, however, those that carry the flag of pure warriors...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Windspear Hills And so the procession of catch up posts begins. I'd like to start by sharing the results of a recent scientific study, conducted by yours truly. These days I play in two contexts: either during the day, on a roof top patio, overlooking the...

Quick Note on Astrid's Game: Astrid is alive and well. In fact, she's made significant progress, completing the Windspear Hills, the Planar Sphere, the Unseeing Eye, Bodhi's Lair and Spellhold. I definitely have some catching up to do, in respect to her posts. I just wanted to briefly comment...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Mae'Var's Guild Hall On two occasions now, Astrid has tried to build a battle plan around Firestorm. On both occasions she failed. Miserably. In one case she almost got herself killed, in the other she had to turn tail and run. Despite that record, Astrid...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: The De'Arnise Keep I maintain that chaos is the future And beyond it is freedom Confusion is next and next after that is the truth -Sonic Youth One of the great things about playing a priest of Talos is that you don't need to finish your quests. Seriously...

Has anyone here read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? It's a NYTimes best selling novel, described as "a love letter to the literary gamer." It sounds right up my alley, as both an avid gamer and avid reader. If anyone here has read it, I'd be interested in hearing your take. Thanks...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Planar Prison Quest, Part 2 I suspected that a time would come when Astrid's early successes would breed overconfidence, threatening her run. That time arrived in the Planar Prison. She survived, but there were three occasions when she could have found...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Planar Prison Quest, Part 1 Now here's a competitor in a Baldur's Gate Fashion competition, in the in game avatar category. Deep purple, red and white gold: that's a look. As some of you may have inferred from the screenshot in the Temple District, Astrid...

Sounds like a prime competitor in a Baldur's Gate Fashion Show

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Trademeet If you can't defeat the green, accessorize it. That anhkeg plate looks semi-ok with the EE Shield of Harmony. In general I loathe the EE's new item appearances -especially the Shield of Harmony and the Reflex- but in this case that green shield kind...

Astrid, Halfing Priest of Talos: Umar Hills Things are looking up for Astrid, fashion wise. Accordingly, she has a new temporary -temporary- theme song. Alas, Astrid can't actually fight in that outfit. She would, however, like to show it off. I propose that we have a Baldur's Gate Fashion...

I vote for a multicolored ankhegs mod. Let them come in brown, yellow, classic green and ocean blue-green. You could, like, shop for the right shell in the ankheg lair. Sounds fun. Call it The Amazing Technicolor Ankheg Mod

Agreed. I've been browsing ankheg shells online. Viconia would look good in this one.

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Suna Seni and Friends I regret to inform you that I failed in my stated objective. Astrid still looks awful. I blame Cromwell. I recalled that in EE ankheg plate permits use of magical protection items, making ankheg plate the best choice for our strength...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Early Adventures in Athkatla What can I say about Astrid's performance in early BG2? Um, she's awesome? No really: she rocks. I don't want to say she's the most powerful character I've piloted in the post-Chateau phase of the game, but I'm not sure why I...

Astrid, Halfing Priest of Talos: Chateau Irenicus Look out, Athkatala. Astrid is here. Equip your Boots of Grounding, and scoop up those potions of insulation. You've been warned. Thanks to my recent experience in the Chateau, Astrid's passage was a breeze. She benefitted from the aid of...

Interesting! Thanks for sharing! I just watched Star Trek: Insurrection. The similarities are uncanny. Here's a description of the Irenicus like character, from Memory Alpha. Born Ro'tin of the Ba'ku, Ru'afo became dissatisfied with the simple life that the other inhabitants of the colony...

Astrid, Halfling Priest of Talos: Sarevok At the Temple of Bhaal we were treated to the comedic stylings of Sarevok. You're calling Astrid foolish, and then you proceed to tell her exactly how to kill you? Hilarious. And now you're attacking the skellies while we nix your acolytes, your...