Did you know that Abela the nymph and Kirinhale the succubus both have 30 Charisma?
How is that possible?
The data is stored in a single byte, which allows values from 0 to 255. The engine caps out and corrects stats over 25 for party members, but I doubt it does that for other active creatures.
Did you know that Abela the nymph and Kirinhale the succubus both have 30 Charisma?
How is that possible?
The data is stored in a single byte, which allows values from 0 to 255. The engine caps out and corrects stats over 25 for party members, but I doubt it does that for other active creatures.
I went into EE Keeper and sure enough Charisma is 30 for both of them. However, I have no idea how that affects the game.
That if you speak to Firebead often enough in Candlekeep, he will give you 300gp. At least he did to my paladin Cha 17. At this stage of the game that is a lot of gold.
That if you speak to Firebead often enough in Candlekeep, he will give you 300gp. At least he did to my paladin Cha 17. At this stage of the game that is a lot of gold.
Only 30 times! If you talk to him for a 31rst time before the gold appears, you wont get it.
The description of the two-handed sword +3 of Baldur's Gate 1 claims that "the blood it has spilled could fill a small sea." You hear about "seas of blood" all the time in these games. But how much blood would it really take to fill a small sea?
First of all, how big is a small sea? I'm going to treat a small sea as one with the volume of Lake Victoria, one of the largest lakes in the world. According to Wikipedia, Lake Victoria has a volume of 2750 cubic kilometers (in comparison, the Mediterranean Sea has a volume of 3,750,000 cubic kilometers).
Now, how much blood does a human have? I looked it up, and supposedly the average adult human has about 5.5 liters of blood. 5.5 liters is .0055 cubic meters. 2750 cubic kilometers is 2,750,000,000,000 cubic meters. 2,750,000,000,000 cubic meters per sea / .0055 cubic meters per human = 500,000,000,000,000 humans per sea. Even if humans were made entirely of blood, that number would still be in the trillions. Although perhaps the sword has been used to kill frost giants or other creatures with more blood than a human, you'd still have to kill billions of frost giants.
You would indeed. Sea of Galilee = 4000 cu. m. However being daft, the Foaming Sea or Mare Spumans has no water in it and so its volume is 0, despite having a diameter of 140km.
You would indeed. Sea of Galilee = 4000 cu. m. However being daft, the Foaming Sea or Mare Spumans has no water in it and so its volume is 0, despite having a diameter of 140km.
Well, regardless of whether it has water or not, the point is that takes a lot of humans worth of blood to fill such a huge space.
Clearly all that extra blood came from a regenerating creature. An adventurer must have been using that sword when he fought a troll without bringing fire or acid.
Clearly all that extra blood came from a regenerating creature. An adventurer must have been using that sword when he fought a troll without bringing fire or acid.
Did you know that there's a variant of the Nahal's Reckless Dweomer hotkey trick? Before EE, you could set Nahal's Reckless Dweomer to a hotkey and cast it without losing a spell slot. This effectively meant infinite spells and Improved Alacrity as long as you didn't switch to another character or try to attack someone.
I've found that you can replicate the trick in EE via the Wand of Lightning trick. It also gives infinite spells with Improved Alacrity. However, it only works on my Big World Setup install; not on unmodded EE. It's not clear which mod makes it possible, as I have many installed. It also requires expending one spell slot, whereas the NRD hotkey trick cost no spell slots (though you still needed at least one spell memorized to perform it).
The Wand of Lightning trick can also let you chain-cast Protection from Elemental Energy and Enchanted Weapon in Spell Revisions, without losing more than one spell slot.
It also lets Spellbenders (another mod kit, for cleric/mages) chain-cast their kit spells. Thus, a Spellbender with a Wand of Lightning can chain-cast Secret Word and Stoneskin for the cost of only one level 5 priest (not mage) spell slot, or cast 10 Holy Smite spells for the cost of a single level 4 mage spell slot.
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Personally I didn't realize it was ported to a gameboy.
At this stage of the game that is a lot of gold.
Get on my level, Noob. EVERYONE throws rocks at me!
First of all, how big is a small sea? I'm going to treat a small sea as one with the volume of Lake Victoria, one of the largest lakes in the world. According to Wikipedia, Lake Victoria has a volume of 2750 cubic kilometers (in comparison, the Mediterranean Sea has a volume of 3,750,000 cubic kilometers).
Now, how much blood does a human have? I looked it up, and supposedly the average adult human has about 5.5 liters of blood. 5.5 liters is .0055 cubic meters. 2750 cubic kilometers is 2,750,000,000,000 cubic meters. 2,750,000,000,000 cubic meters per sea / .0055 cubic meters per human = 500,000,000,000,000 humans per sea. Even if humans were made entirely of blood, that number would still be in the trillions. Although perhaps the sword has been used to kill frost giants or other creatures with more blood than a human, you'd still have to kill billions of frost giants.
Sea of Galilee = 4000 cu. m.
However being daft, the Foaming Sea or Mare Spumans has no water in it and so its volume is 0, despite having a diameter of 140km.
Or a football playing king in space.
With a mustache.
"You know, Spongebob, there's something I've been meaning to tell you since the day we met.
Goodbye."
I've found that you can replicate the trick in EE via the Wand of Lightning trick. It also gives infinite spells with Improved Alacrity. However, it only works on my Big World Setup install; not on unmodded EE. It's not clear which mod makes it possible, as I have many installed. It also requires expending one spell slot, whereas the NRD hotkey trick cost no spell slots (though you still needed at least one spell memorized to perform it).
The Wand of Lightning trick can also let you chain-cast Protection from Elemental Energy and Enchanted Weapon in Spell Revisions, without losing more than one spell slot.
It also lets Spellbenders (another mod kit, for cleric/mages) chain-cast their kit spells. Thus, a Spellbender with a Wand of Lightning can chain-cast Secret Word and Stoneskin for the cost of only one level 5 priest (not mage) spell slot, or cast 10 Holy Smite spells for the cost of a single level 4 mage spell slot.
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