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Did you know if you look up Dorn Il-Khan on the Rule 34 sites, nothing comes up.

Literally nothing.

You would think the R34 artists would be all over a bisexual half-orc. Especially the monster fucker community.

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Worst party that still works (hopefully) Bhaalspawn is a cleric/thief (thanks mod that allows all races to class anything!)

#shar-teel's been pumped up with the skill books #who wants team squishy?#baldur's gate #baldur's gate ee #BG:ee #xan #edwin #shar-teel #xzar #montaron #team snark is a go #BG1

My Baldur’s Gate EE mod list

This is done for my love @guidethisonekalahira but I am posting it here to keep links for everything in one place. Also maybe someone else will find it useful.

The BG1 NPC Project (comes in parts so various content can be disabled, if for example you find it too ooc for the characters)

Baldur’s Gate 1 Unfinished Business (a must)

Baldur's Gate Mini Quests & Encounters (adds some really fun and nicely done mods)

The Tweaks Anthology (for pretty much all the ease of use stuff and some immersion tweaks like drab colors for commoners)

One Pixel Productions (everything is better with better pixels! yay!)

Minor NPC portraits (adds portraits to minor NPCs, i.e. Gorion, Ellminster, etc)

And for extra sexy time

Baldur's Gate Romantic Encounters (there is some nsfw stuff, so be careful. You can reduce the adult content by choosing “safe” version, otherwise be prepared for some written action with some least expected characters lol)

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So I Finished Baldur’s Gate EE

and overall, I didn’t enjoy the game, and really had to push myself to finish the main campaign. I think what I didn’t like about the game can be broken down into the annoying game-play elements which made me disinclined to explore, and the game hasn’t aged well.

I’m sure I’ll get replies that there are mods to fix what I didn’t like, or these were stylistic choices of the genre. Also I’ve been told the great story isn’t the main quest, but with side quests, player choice, and different companions. Which is accurate, the main quest was very dull.

So when I complain about game-play elements, I mean that I stuck with the first 5 companions I picked up, because guides told me that there are a large amount of companions that once you dismiss them, they vanish forever. There are only a few companions who go back to an inn to wait, but half the time if they don’t leave they will just stand wherever you left them. So the game discourages me from playing with party composition. The modern convention of a hub map where you can keep all your companions is something I really appreciate now.

I kept getting this weird glitch in the later half of the game that was super annoying where the camera would just start panning in one direction, like one of the camera keys was being held down when no keys were being pressed, and it would keep doing it when I would bring the camera back to center by double clicking on a character portrait. To get the game to stop doing that I would have to quick save, and then load the game again. Doesn’t sound so bad until it starts happening every five minutes.

Another minor annoyance with gameplay that built into something bigger was how tedious exploration was, to the point that I only went to 60% or so of the different locations. The party moves very slow, you have to basically hand hold them since they won’t go anywhere with the dark FoW, to the point that if there is a small area blacked out in the middle of a bridge directly ahead of them, and you set location on the other side, the path-finding AI will make them detour across the entire local map just to get to the other side of the bridge.

Side note: I have a special hatred in my heart for Jaheira’s voice line of “Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure?" as she gets stuck behind something as the path-finding AI fails at straight lines with obstacles, yet the rest of the party didn’t get stuck when walking to the edge of the map. I also have a special hatred in my heart for “you must gather your party before venturing forth”, it really makes me appreciate modern games where I just need 1 person at the edge of the map to travel. I guess it’s an older technical limitation that hasn’t aged well.

As for story complaints, I know this is a case of the game not aging well, and an era of being expected to refer to a manual to finish the game, but the quest journal was a mess, and I think I had to look up online where to go for almost every quest. Side quests were placed in whatever chapter you started them, rather than their own separate section, and sometimes the quest journal just wouldn’t go back to past chapters until I reloaded the game.

I had trouble telling if things were bugs, or the info was buried in past chapters of the quest journal. I had Rasaad in my party, and I did a bit of his personal quest, but it was hard to tell from the journal if there was more remaining, and there was little information online. So I guess the quest just finished after my party was ambushed in Baldur’s Gate docks? I have the same complaint with Kivan, there was a quest when I recruited him about destroying bandits, but after I did he didn’t have any dialogue, and I never got a quest update.

I didn’t really enjoy the combat, but that’s because I didn’t know how to modify AI scripts until the end of the game, and my personal preference of not caring for 2nd edition special rules. I left the game on story mode for the achievement, and because I’m not playing this for the combat.

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