-You know Emissary Tar, the lady who is going upstairs at the iron Throne building and ends up murdered and copied by a doppleganger? Her ttile sounds a lot like "M is a retard" . I wonder who M is?
-The SoD epilogue scene where Corwyn has you cornered in the sewers and then you jump is a clear reference to Harrison Ford's "The fugitive" . I'm old enough to remember it s2
-You know Emissary Tar, the lady who is going upstairs at the iron Throne building and ends up murdered and copied by a doppleganger? Her ttile sounds a lot like "M is a retard" . I wonder who M is?
-The SoD epilogue scene where Corwyn has you cornered in the sewers and then you jump is a clear reference to Harrison Ford's "The fugitive" . I'm old enough to remember it s2
If I were a betting man, M is for Minsc. Fully agree about the Corwin scene.
BG2 brings the player to a city of drow, a true hive of scum and villainy. Nearly everyone you meet there is evil. But how close is that "nearly"? How many of the drow you meet in Ust Natha have thrown off the shackles of their society, and are not evil?
Three. Solaufein, and the two drow torturers who continuously torment a captured djinn near the entrance. It's just a job, after all.
BG2 brings the player to a city of drow, a true hive of scum and villainy. Nearly everyone you meet there is evil. But how close is that "nearly"? How many of the drow you meet in Ust Natha have thrown off the shackles of their society, and are not evil?
Three. Solaufein, and the two drow torturers who continuously torment a captured djinn near the entrance. It's just a job, after all.
I mean, doing evil is pretty much a necessity, when you're living in a city like that. Been a while since I read the drizzt books but I seem to recall even he largely had to go along with what his superiors would have him do until he left for the surface world, and he's the very definition of a Good Drow.
@Chronicler Being good in a bad society can definitely be dangerous. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Anne Frank, "Corrie" ten Boom and many other lesser known people discovered that as did some of my friends living in Zimbabwe and Afghanistan and other places too that are not so renowned for being evil. However that is no excuse for being evil yourself. It is those sorts of situations that actually display whether you are good or evil.
On a lesser level, what you do when you see bullying at school or in the workplace displays your character. When people see such things happening they often keep their heads down for standing up for what is right can be dangerous for your career.
@Chronicler Being good in a bad society can definitely be dangerous. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Anne Frank, "Corrie" ten Boom and many other lesser known people discovered that as did some of my friends living in Zimbabwe and Afghanistan and other places too that are not so renowned for being evil. However that is no excuse for being evil yourself. It is those sorts of situations that actually display whether you are good or evil.
On a lesser level, what you do when you see bullying at school or in the workplace displays your character. When people see such things happening they often keep their heads down for standing up for what is right can be dangerous for your career.
I mean, that's all fine and dandy, but if you get yourself killed openly defying the Matron Mother on day one you'll never get to do any good at all.
Using your Anne Frank example, being good in Nazi Germany generally didn't mean brazenly telling your Nazi Overlords to shove it. You do as you're told until you have the opportunity to discretely do otherwise.
Did you know that while you can sent one of your characters to leave Candlekeep library (I mean the building you can enter in Chapter VI), they won't be able to enter again? You'll get message "you must gather you party before venturing forth", and you'll have to make your entire party leave library, then enter again. Weird.
Did you know that you can colorize the name of your character during character creation?
The game comes with several predefined colors which can be selected by prefixing the name with ^X where X is one of the characters (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,R,G,M or $) and closing it with the two characters ^- . Most of those are boring colors though.
For arbitrary colors you can use the long form, which takes a hexadecimal number in place of a simple X. Format is ^0xAABBGGRR where AA=alpha/transparency (and should always be FF), BB=blue, GG=green and RR=red color component. Again, the color definition ends with "^-".
Examples:
"^RCharname^-" uses one of the predefined colors for a red "Charname".
"^0xFF0080FFCharname^-" creates a golden "Charname".
"^0xFFFF00FFCharname^-" creates a purple "Charname".
Btw, you aren't limited to a single color. It is possible to colorize every single letter of the name, as long as the total length doesn't exceed 32 characters. It really only makes sense to use predefined colors though, since a single arbitrary color definition would already reduce available name length by 13 characters.
I still see people having trouble with Tarnesh.
Here is a simple strategy if you have a solo cleric.
Position yourself so that as many guards as possible can see you when Tarnesh initiates conversation.
Cast sanctuary. The guards will attack Tarnesh and he will attack them. You could just wait for the guards to kill him, but then you would lose the experience. Better is to wait until he is no longer mirror imaged and cast command upon him.
You can then kill him before he regains conciousness. Note that after casting command the guards will cease to attack him. That is both good and bad. It means that they won't take your experience, but it also means that they aren't hurting him.
The priest spell Confusion is of the Chaos sphere. But the spell Rigid Thinking is of the Law sphere. Apparently both law and chaos spells can cause confusion.
The priest spell Confusion is of the Chaos sphere. But the spell Rigid Thinking is of the Law sphere. Apparently both law and chaos spells can cause confusion.
The priest spell Confusion is of the Chaos sphere. But the spell Rigid Thinking is of the Law sphere. Apparently both law and chaos spells can cause confusion.
That's... not how it's spelled. The word you wrote looks more like a system of government which puts bears in charge - which would be confusing, I grant you.
That's... not how it's spelled. The word you wrote looks more like a system of government which puts bears in charge - which would be confusing, I grant you.
No, he said beaurocracy. Which I believe would be rule by a group of someone's ex-boyfriends.
I can never spell bureaucracy without spellchecking or googling. If I have to use that word in a test I know that's an immediate mark I've lost before even considering if my answer's correct. It's a persistent enough issue that you'd think just through repetition I'd have learned by now but no go.
That's... not how it's spelled. The word you wrote looks more like a system of government which puts bears in charge - which would be confusing, I grant you.
No, he said beaurocracy. Which I believe would be rule by a group of someone's ex-boyfriends.
Of course not necessarily EX-boyfriends. It could be current boyfriends. Not every girl dumps her current beau when moving on to a new one.
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-You know Emissary Tar, the lady who is going upstairs at the iron Throne building and ends up murdered and copied by a doppleganger? Her ttile sounds a lot like "M is a retard" . I wonder who M is?
-The SoD epilogue scene where Corwyn has you cornered in the sewers and then you jump is a clear reference to Harrison Ford's "The fugitive" . I'm old enough to remember it s2
If I were a betting man, M is for Minsc. Fully agree about the Corwin scene.
Three. Solaufein, and the two drow torturers who continuously torment a captured djinn near the entrance. It's just a job, after all.
I mean, doing evil is pretty much a necessity, when you're living in a city like that. Been a while since I read the drizzt books but I seem to recall even he largely had to go along with what his superiors would have him do until he left for the surface world, and he's the very definition of a Good Drow.
On a lesser level, what you do when you see bullying at school or in the workplace displays your character. When people see such things happening they often keep their heads down for standing up for what is right can be dangerous for your career.
I mean, that's all fine and dandy, but if you get yourself killed openly defying the Matron Mother on day one you'll never get to do any good at all.
Using your Anne Frank example, being good in Nazi Germany generally didn't mean brazenly telling your Nazi Overlords to shove it. You do as you're told until you have the opportunity to discretely do otherwise.
The game comes with several predefined colors which can be selected by prefixing the name with ^X where X is one of the characters (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,R,G,M or $) and closing it with the two characters ^- . Most of those are boring colors though.
For arbitrary colors you can use the long form, which takes a hexadecimal number in place of a simple X. Format is ^0xAABBGGRR where AA=alpha/transparency (and should always be FF), BB=blue, GG=green and RR=red color component. Again, the color definition ends with "^-".
Examples:
"^RCharname^-" uses one of the predefined colors for a red "Charname".
"^0xFF0080FFCharname^-" creates a golden "Charname".
"^0xFFFF00FFCharname^-" creates a purple "Charname".
Btw, you aren't limited to a single color. It is possible to colorize every single letter of the name, as long as the total length doesn't exceed 32 characters. It really only makes sense to use predefined colors though, since a single arbitrary color definition would already reduce available name length by 13 characters.
A colorful party:
Here is a simple strategy if you have a solo cleric.
Position yourself so that as many guards as possible can see you when Tarnesh initiates conversation.
Cast sanctuary. The guards will attack Tarnesh and he will attack them. You could just wait for the guards to kill him, but then you would lose the experience. Better is to wait until he is no longer mirror imaged and cast command upon him.
You can then kill him before he regains conciousness. Note that after casting command the guards will cease to attack him. That is both good and bad. It means that they won't take your experience, but it also means that they aren't hurting him.
Timing of the command spell is crucial.
The same holds for strings in opcodes #139, #330 and also when using any of the 'DisplayString()' script actions...
Well, that’s certainly confusing.
One word: Beaurocracy.
No, he said beaurocracy. Which I believe would be rule by a group of someone's ex-boyfriends.
It's where you store all your junk, never to see the light of day again. Kinda like what happens when you request something from the government.
"We'll get right on that Ma'am!" (writes note and sticks it in bottom drawer of bureau - right on top of the last 250 requests).
On the bright side, you didn't write it in the meme thread, so you won't have to face an avalanche of beaurocracy memes.
Sphere of Chaos
Sphere: Chaos
Description: "What do you want me to spell it out for you? It's a sphere made of chaos."
"IT DOES CHAOS."