Fuck Yeah Baldur's Gate

All things related to Baldur's Gate including Tales of the Sword, Shadows of Amn, Throne of Bhaal and Siege of Dragonspear. My primary focus is the infinity engine games with the occasional bit of BG3.

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A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning

The Bhaalspawn are back, baby!

Rising from my grave to post this. I definitely have conflicted emotions and remain somewhat skeptical of how this can be achieved but we'll see

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Prologue & Epilogue - The Story of Kelila

commissions done by @ 怪物地窖 for my Gorion's Ward Kelila

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In the middle of conquering cities and whatnot

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Woaoaoaohoohhhohhhhh story of underdark

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viconia

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Just did a meme for BG2 originals. Still don't like Anomen.

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I am the same although recently I made an effort to go back through Anomen’s romance and it wasn't quite as bad as I remembered haha.

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@fuckyeahbaldursgate Maybe it's me that I hate his arrogant and bragging attitude towards this NPC and maybe some his racist attitude towards other NPCs. That's just my opinion, that I don't llike him so much and prefer instal some mods.

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Oh for sure he remains a douchebag but I also think Anomen is very much a product of his environment. Not that it excuses him but I suspect Anomen's dad wasn't probably raising him with particular tolerant racial views.

I would really have loved to see more depth to his conversations with Mazzy beyond the one 'you're a lowly halfing' exchange because they literally only have one dialogue in standard BG2. Having something like a 'come to jesus' moment, acknowledging that he's been a total dickhead, like he does with Keldorn after he passes his test would have been better.

Also as soon as the Kelsey mod came out in 2002, it was basically a staple in my install list haha.

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@blackjackkent since we were talking about Rasaad's writing in-game, this is my favorite Rasaad dialogue from BG2.

In Rikka's run, this probably induced a moment of panic, overhearing her boyfriend and Minsc talking and mostly only catching something about honeymoons. Jaheira definitely had to explain the context later.

It hit very differently in Rian's run, where this conversation, by sheer coincidence, happened minutes before a bog ghost impersonating Jaheira's dead husband accused her of murder. Fun times.

Anyway, overall one of my favorite Rasaad moments. Love that Minsc picks the man with zero real life experience and an abysmal to nonexistent love life to ask this particular question. Love Rasaad basically going "well there MIGHT be bees, I wouldn't know..." Love the nearly audible eye-roll from Jaheira when she realises that, oh gods, she really is The Grownup in this situation.

Definitely up there with "stomach to shoulder with a goblin".

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judith's portrait for bg2! first attempt at the bg2 coloring style, very happy with the results ^_^c

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when you and your boyfriend are both in your joint flop era

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Ur-Gothoz has been making some really weird requests lately

(sorry the quality is so shit)

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Kind of want to write this as a fic now haha.

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Just did a meme for BG2 originals. Still don't like Anomen.

[fuckyeahbaldursgate]

I am the same although recently I made an effort to go back through Anomen’s romance and it wasn't quite as bad as I remembered haha.

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again, a portrait commission done by my friend 狩猎

love the way she drew Anomen and my Charname

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immy wimmyy

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if you're an evil alignment lesbian vampire just know my blood is very warm and i am very vulnerable 🙏

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Do you have any advice for someone much more used to modern games who is having a hard time getting used to bg1? im playing on the lowest difficulty and cleared out the nashkel mines but real time with pause just feels really clunky & unintuitive still

I know the feeling! After years of bouncing off fallout 1 and 2, I finally completeted them this year so with that in mind here's a few tips.

1.) Use a walkthrough. It might feel a bit cheaty but honestly this is what saved me with Fallout 1 and 2 because I just didn't know where to go or what to expect in combat. There will be spoiler free ones avaliable given the age of BG so don't be afraid to just look something up if you don't know where to go next.

2.) In BG1 specifically ranged weapons are king, equip ranged weapons on everyone as some enemies can easily be defeated before they reach you or can be kited around the map until they are dead. Just watch out for the bandits as this won't necessarily work on them if they also have a ranged weapon.

3.) if you find it a pain in the ass to give instructions to everyone then try assigning some AI to your characters so they start attacking automatically although make sure you read through what the AI does because some will switch to melee automatically. You can toggle the AI on and off if you want to take control directly for particularly hard fights.

4.) Check out the auto pause functions in the settings. What I tend to find useful is autopause for when a character reaches low health, when someone spots a trap and immunity to weapons.

5.) Pick up the tweak pack at Gibberlings3 https://www.gibberlings3.net/mods/tweaks/tweaks/ Now I usually say for first time players don't install mods but the tweak pack contains a lot of quality of life changes that do make your life easier in the long run and as a veteran player I always pick it up. Make sure you read the read me file though for an explanation of each feature, you can skip sections I.e. Content changes or rule changes if you don't want to have to go through them all.

6.) Skip BG1 altogether. While I love BG1, it's also a bit lighter on story and NPC content to the point that if you are really struggling with it then go straight to BG2, which is considered the best of the series. It's also much tighter in terms of locations e.g. Much less random wilderness areas without a whole lot in them. It does a fairly good job at the start of catching you up to speed right in the opening too.

I'm sure my followers can chip in with a few more.

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Lady Mary. Child of Bhaal.

[murderyn]

ok it's technically a spectator but-