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Re: [MOD] Shades of the Sword Coast
V6.1 is here! It went through 2nd proofreading run by @Brokenkatana 
Thank you, dear proofreader! You're amazing!
Thank you, dear proofreader! You're amazing! 
Re: [Mod] The Deratiseur Unused Kits Pack versions v18.1 in french and english
no. just take the "infravision" spell and the spell will be changed to the kit version of "called shot"
This is writed in the read-me
This is writed in the read-me
Re: Euro 2020 - Discussion, Opinions, and Prediction game
I did the math before the match, so I knew I could clinch a late comeback if Italy did their best. And luckily they did 
In all fairness I believe the Italians where the deserved winners. They played the best football and perservered against the strongest opposition (Belgium and Spain - ranking 1 and 6 in the world).
I am game for the world cup 2022 quiz.
In all fairness I believe the Italians where the deserved winners. They played the best football and perservered against the strongest opposition (Belgium and Spain - ranking 1 and 6 in the world).
I am game for the world cup 2022 quiz.
Re: Wierd Sun in NwN
@TarotRedhand
At first, I was apprehensive in my agreement with your comment. So long as the Sun's position in the sky was relative to the time of day, I didn't see a problem. After giving it some thought, I have concluded that having the Sun travel from East to West would be more logical. In a fantasy game setting, objects in space could travel in all sorts of directions. Take the Astral Plane, for example. You don't so much as fly through the Astral Plane as you focus on an object floating away from you, then you suddenly gravitate towards that object at high velocity. When you wish to change direction, you focus on another far away object in orbit before colliding with the previous object you were focused on. Beware of the Astral Dreadnought. Thank you for reading. Happy, healthy (both mentally and physically) gaming to all.
At first, I was apprehensive in my agreement with your comment. So long as the Sun's position in the sky was relative to the time of day, I didn't see a problem. After giving it some thought, I have concluded that having the Sun travel from East to West would be more logical. In a fantasy game setting, objects in space could travel in all sorts of directions. Take the Astral Plane, for example. You don't so much as fly through the Astral Plane as you focus on an object floating away from you, then you suddenly gravitate towards that object at high velocity. When you wish to change direction, you focus on another far away object in orbit before colliding with the previous object you were focused on. Beware of the Astral Dreadnought. Thank you for reading. Happy, healthy (both mentally and physically) gaming to all.
Re: [Released] Black Hearts - BG1
It looks impressive and I am quite excited that I'll be able to play a mod I have nothing to do with. Something new, something fresh, and something with stories and details I do not know. I'll happily play it once it's released
Re: Euro 2020 - Discussion, Opinions, and Prediction game
Wow, actually, we have our champion of the overall prediction game. It's @StummvonBordwehr!!!! Congratulations to you and the Italy team. You have won with the very last kick of the tournament! +25 points for the winner meant you've leap-frogged @Cahir, who still kept his win in the match-by-match predictions. Sorry that I was premature and forgot the winner gets 25 points, not 15.
Hope this win will serve as a testament - never give up, and fight until the end. Just like Erikson's heart. What a tournament this has been, and how it has united people.
I got 10 points for guessing the vice-champion and saved myself from embarrassing 53 points which was the worst match-by-match predictions result.
This has been a great tournament and a great forum game. I feel the next World Cup - which will happen very soon - is going to be a fun tournament as well, with Argentina winning Copa America against Brazil in Brazil just yesterday. Let's see how it will go there, with lots of exciting matches awaiting. Just imagine: Argentina vs England, Italy vs Brazil... I want it to happen already!
Hope this win will serve as a testament - never give up, and fight until the end. Just like Erikson's heart. What a tournament this has been, and how it has united people.
I got 10 points for guessing the vice-champion and saved myself from embarrassing 53 points which was the worst match-by-match predictions result.
This has been a great tournament and a great forum game. I feel the next World Cup - which will happen very soon - is going to be a fun tournament as well, with Argentina winning Copa America against Brazil in Brazil just yesterday. Let's see how it will go there, with lots of exciting matches awaiting. Just imagine: Argentina vs England, Italy vs Brazil... I want it to happen already!
Re: Baldur's Gate III released into Early Access
Can see some Kingmaker influence there in the addition of boosting skill check rolls and adding a camping resource. Definitely good mechanics to copy, imo.
Camping resources would be the influence of PoE. But I suspect it comes mostly from reading the posts or simply thinking about how to implement that DnD mechanic without things like day/night cycles.
Mirandel
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Re: Diablo Minimal and No Reload Thread (spoilers)
Most of a week later ... Nightmare difficulty done. I cleared the whole thing at players 8, finding lots of stuff but not much of it very good. I switched from my starter gear with 100 MF to proper resistance gear after act 2, including a Duress dusk shroud and some crafted gloves (20% IAS, 9% crushing blow, 2% life steal). Over all five acts, it was a total of 11 new items that I didn't have already in HC. Skystrike is probably the best of them.
The character tends to take lots of damage and need to recover it with life steal and Carrion Vine, so there were some times that life got low. Especially against enemies I couldn't steal life from. Skeletal warriors and mages in the Stony Tomb, skeletal archers in Abaddon. Oddly, the ghost/gloam/bone mage draw in the Frozen River isn't a problem at all. The closest calls came from minotaurs - a fire/lightning enchanted Blood Lord in the Crystalline Passage that knocked Osmadi down to about 20% health, and a cursed Death Lord just inside the Worldstone Keep that I had to retreat back up against twice.
The normal difficulty threat of Diablo was no longer an issue. Osmadi just stayed in melee and ignored the multiple attempts at lightning hose attacks for no damage.
Some pictures:
A truly evil thing here. A maggot egg that just wouldn't die or hatch. And it blocked the way, except for the brief moment that it let Osmadi through. I ended up having to portal out and return from the waypoint.
My best find of the difficulty, from a random container in the Crystalline Passage. Actually, my act 5 session also picked up two Ko runes. I could literally make a Sanctuary runeword shield with the finds from that one session, not resetting the monsters at all. Not that Osmadi has any use for such a thing.
Nihlathak. Yes, I cleared everything. Nihlathak involved some careful play drawing out minions and letting the vine eat their corpses. Eventually I got him clear, and brought him down without risking the corpse explosion.
Baal. Killed at level 75. Or, at least, Osmadi was at level 75 after killing him. He has about 2100 life in bear form with Oak Sage out, and Fire Claws is good for 2700 average damage. Plus the physical component, which is smaller even with the very powerful weapon.
Current skill build: Fire Claws 20, Lycanthropy 5, other shapeshifting skills (except wolf-only) 1. Summons all 1 except 5 Oak Sage. One point in Arctic Blast and Cyclone Armor ... a waste, really. Raw life with Oak Sage and Lycanthropy would be better. 37 points FC synergies, aiming for 40 before I go back to boosting life. Items grant +2 shapeshifting, with another +3 all on switch for buffing.
Current stat build: 190 base strength, one misclicked point into dexterity, all the rest vitality.
Attack rating is fine when using Fire Claws, low when using Maul. That misses a lot, so I use mostly FC even on fire immunes. Maul is only worth it to build up or maintain a charge; once the charge is there, Fire Claws is strictly better.
The character tends to take lots of damage and need to recover it with life steal and Carrion Vine, so there were some times that life got low. Especially against enemies I couldn't steal life from. Skeletal warriors and mages in the Stony Tomb, skeletal archers in Abaddon. Oddly, the ghost/gloam/bone mage draw in the Frozen River isn't a problem at all. The closest calls came from minotaurs - a fire/lightning enchanted Blood Lord in the Crystalline Passage that knocked Osmadi down to about 20% health, and a cursed Death Lord just inside the Worldstone Keep that I had to retreat back up against twice.
The normal difficulty threat of Diablo was no longer an issue. Osmadi just stayed in melee and ignored the multiple attempts at lightning hose attacks for no damage.
Some pictures:
Current skill build: Fire Claws 20, Lycanthropy 5, other shapeshifting skills (except wolf-only) 1. Summons all 1 except 5 Oak Sage. One point in Arctic Blast and Cyclone Armor ... a waste, really. Raw life with Oak Sage and Lycanthropy would be better. 37 points FC synergies, aiming for 40 before I go back to boosting life. Items grant +2 shapeshifting, with another +3 all on switch for buffing.
Current stat build: 190 base strength, one misclicked point into dexterity, all the rest vitality.
Attack rating is fine when using Fire Claws, low when using Maul. That misses a lot, so I use mostly FC even on fire immunes. Maul is only worth it to build up or maintain a charge; once the charge is there, Fire Claws is strictly better.
jmerry
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Re: Ten things you didn't know about the original Baldur's Gate games
Pretty great stuff! I did not know about most of those and it was really interesting
By the way, Mike Sass also drew portraits for BGII; he just adapted to the style and general aesthetic of the second game, which was a significant departure from the first’s.
By the way, Mike Sass also drew portraits for BGII; he just adapted to the style and general aesthetic of the second game, which was a significant departure from the first’s.
