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Specialist Mages; is this true?

chickenhedchickenhed Member Posts: 208
edited November 2013 in Archive (General Discussion)
Hello all,

I happened upon http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG2/conjurer.php the other day. Is the description there true? I know you get an additional spell per day, and I also knew you were not able to cast spells from the opposing school. But I had never heard of the 15% bonus/penalty to learning spells and the +1/-1 saves you receive.

Is this truly the case in the BG series?

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  • rathe101rathe101 Member Posts: 61
    As far as I know, it is not. It may have been intended, but was never officially implemented into the actual game.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited May 2015
    Apparently it actually is. Except its +2 to your saves against your school of magic and enemies get -2 to their saving throws when you are casting a spell of your chosen school at them. On top of the 15% chance to learn spells in your school and a 15% penalty to learn spells outside of your school.
    Post edited by elminster on
  • AristilliusAristillius Member Posts: 873
    It would be awesome if it was included
  • OperativeNLOperativeNL Member Posts: 146
    Little things like this should have been included, I never heard why in the end they were left out. Its quite dissapointing that, in the original making of BG, they decided to leave them out.

    Another thing I can think about is the bonus to saving throws based on wisdom, and sorcerers using charisma as a dependent stat instead of intelligence...
  • chickenhedchickenhed Member Posts: 208
    Thanks guys.
  • KaltzorKaltzor Member Posts: 1,050
    OperativeNL said:

    Another thing I can think about is the bonus to saving throws based on wisdom, and sorcerers using charisma as a dependent stat instead of intelligence...

    Unless I'm mistaken, but don't sorcerers as they currently are have no primary no stat and recieve no benefits from having high intelligence or charisma?
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    As far as I'm aware these stats don't affect casting abilities for a sorcerer. They affect other things like lore rating (INT), how long the character is mazed for (INT), and NPC reactions (CHA), of course.
  • FaydarkFaydark Member Posts: 279
    @OperativeNL was meaning "they left out the bonus to saving throws from wisdom and sorcerers using charisma as primary stat".
  • Mule72Mule72 Member Posts: 9
    These kind of things, that are present in manuals but never made it into the game (presumably because of lack of time) are the kind of things I was hoping EE would implement. =(

    It would certainly have added a little more flavor to the specialist mage.
  • PeccaPecca Member Posts: 2,221
    Bonuses to saves vs. spellschool require new opcode. It already is in a feature request tracker, but there are a lot of other things too.
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