I think the real question is "Why don't more men and women play BG?"
It's an old, buggy game with a trite story and forgettable characters, and it's mechanics are incredibly dated and confusing at the same time. Hope This Helps
It does rather help actually. It made me realize what kind of people don't like the game: People who don't like to think too hard and who only like the latest fad in flashy and vapid things. Seems like quite a lot of people fall into these categories these days, so in all honestly that does explain exactly why more people do not play the game. Thank you for your help!
*sigh* People, can we not descend into the usual "rabidly defend our beloved game from the troll (thereby giving him/her the exact level of attention that he/she desires)" faction?
Oh wait, I forgot...this is the internet. Of course we can't not do that. *eyeroll*
I think the real question is "Why don't more men and women play BG?"
It's an old, buggy game with a trite story and forgettable characters, and it's mechanics are incredibly dated and confusing at the same time. Hope This Helps
I mean this in the most positive and supportive way but...
With such an apparently low opinion of the game, why are you even here at this forum?
The world needs my mods to make BG2 better
e: Which! Doesn't mean! That I don't fully believe and support what I said in my previous post, here!
I think the real question is "Why don't more men and women play BG?"
It's an old, buggy game with a trite story and forgettable characters, and it's mechanics are incredibly dated and confusing at the same time. Hope This Helps
It does rather help actually. It made me realize what kind of people don't like the game: People who don't like to think too hard and who only like the latest fad in flashy and vapid things. Seems like quite a lot of people fall into these categories these days, so in all honestly that does explain exactly why more people do not play the game. Thank you for your help!
I'm glad I could be an assistance! Also, that's pretty much me, thinking is for nerds only, imo
Anyway, no Thayan in his right mind would EVER under ANY circumstances let their hair grow out. Trust me on that one. On the flipside, Minsc being bald is a huuuuuge faux pas, too. big time.
Outside of Thay they might do if they want to hide their Thayan origins. Like spending their time in hiding from harpers, Zhentarim, Cowled wizards (Edwin), other Thayans (Edwin again), vengeful Rashemi witches (...aaand Edwin again), anyone with hatred for evil mages (Edwin time and again).
Thayans don't brush the side of idiotism in their pride. If they have to hide outside of the borders of Thay or avoid suspicion to reach their goals they are willing to grow out their hair for it. It takes a few minutes to get rid of it when needed.
Is that actually a rule, though? If so, maybe a moderator should lock this thread, or move the offending post to a new thread. Or maybe the admins can create an auto-archive function that locks threads after 6 months of inactivity to avoid such breaches of the unwritten laws of forum etiquette in the future.
Anyway, I'll answer the OP: Edwin openly wears Red Wizard livery, and I seem to remember he tells you that he's a Red Wizard (although I could be wrong on that front... it's been a while). If he does, then likelihood is he says the same thing to every armed mercenary he tries to poach. He's not doing a very good job of hiding his lineage, is he?
My impression was that he's open about it because, like all Red Wizards, he's arrogant enough to believe nobody would dare do him any harm. And tbf, in a small mining village on the Amnian border, most people probably won't. He doesn't know you're the Chosen One, after all.
As for the hair... maybe he's used to having servants (or slaves) take care of that for him, and he hasn't had access to one for a while. Or something. I dunno... or maybe he's a disgraced RW trying to buy his way back into their good books by hunting the "Rashemite Witch".
No problem necroing an old thread... actually it's nearly a tradition around here... I've seem threads from the beginning of the forum before the release of BGEE being necroed...
Anyway a thread is usually locked only if it gets so off topic that not even splitting it will save the thread or when there are so many rule breaking posts we see no way of the thread continuing without further rule breaking or when the OP is already breaking the forum rules...
Anyway a thread is usually locked only if it gets so off topic that not even splitting it will save the thread or when there are so many rule breaking posts we see no way of the thread continuing without further rule breaking or when the OP is already breaking the forum rules...
Challenge accepted!
All seriousness aside, my wife is a gamer but she doesn’t play BG because she doesn’t like the 2E rule restrictions. But she liked NWN, and we would regularly do multiplayer with the kids back in the day.
Not to derail the thread by posting something on topic or anything… But what first caught my attention was being told about the possible social interactions with fellow adventurers that you meet within the game. This prompted me take a look, many things made me stay.
Anyway a thread is usually locked only if it gets so off topic that not even splitting it will save the thread or when there are so many rule breaking posts we see no way of the thread continuing without further rule breaking or when the OP is already breaking the forum rules...
Challenge accepted!
All seriousness aside, my wife is a gamer but she doesn’t play BG because she doesn’t like the 2E rule restrictions. But she liked NWN, and we would regularly do multiplayer with the kids back in the day.
I think I have commented about this already but in my case my wife does not like controlling entire groups.. That's why we normally play ARPGs together only... or used to before the kids
Anyway a thread is usually locked only if it gets so off topic that not even splitting it will save the thread or when there are so many rule breaking posts we see no way of the thread continuing without further rule breaking or when the OP is already breaking the forum rules...
Challenge accepted!
All seriousness aside, my wife is a gamer but she doesn’t play BG because she doesn’t like the 2E rule restrictions. But she liked NWN, and we would regularly do multiplayer with the kids back in the day.
This sounds great tbh. I never grew up around any typical ''gamer'' friendly families and a lot of the stigma around it just started disappearing in the last 10 years, well in my experience at least.
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Oh wait, I forgot...this is the internet. Of course we can't not do that. *eyeroll*
(Oh, I see what I did here...)
e: Which! Doesn't mean! That I don't fully believe and support what I said in my previous post, here!
Also, that's pretty much me, thinking is for nerds only, imo
@EveryoneElse Keep it civil, folks.
Thayans don't brush the side of idiotism in their pride. If they have to hide outside of the borders of Thay or avoid suspicion to reach their goals they are willing to grow out their hair for it. It takes a few minutes to get rid of it when needed.
[loads silly string grenades]
To the gazebo!
(This might be a rare case where my knack for derailing a thread is actually a good thing.
FWIW it's good etiquette to check the date of the last post in a thread, and ponder in your mind whether it's worth necroing a two-year-old topic.
Anyway, I'll answer the OP: Edwin openly wears Red Wizard livery, and I seem to remember he tells you that he's a Red Wizard (although I could be wrong on that front... it's been a while). If he does, then likelihood is he says the same thing to every armed mercenary he tries to poach. He's not doing a very good job of hiding his lineage, is he?
My impression was that he's open about it because, like all Red Wizards, he's arrogant enough to believe nobody would dare do him any harm. And tbf, in a small mining village on the Amnian border, most people probably won't. He doesn't know you're the Chosen One, after all.
As for the hair... maybe he's used to having servants (or slaves) take care of that for him, and he hasn't had access to one for a while. Or something. I dunno... or maybe he's a disgraced RW trying to buy his way back into their good books by hunting the "Rashemite Witch".
Anyway a thread is usually locked only if it gets so off topic that not even splitting it will save the thread or when there are so many rule breaking posts we see no way of the thread continuing without further rule breaking or when the OP is already breaking the forum rules...
All seriousness aside, my wife is a gamer but she doesn’t play BG because she doesn’t like the 2E rule restrictions. But she liked NWN, and we would regularly do multiplayer with the kids back in the day.