Minimum roll is 75?
moody_mage
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Can anyone point me in the direction of proof concluding that minimum starting roll for a character is 75 points OR could someone from Beamdog in the position of knowing the coding confirm this please? Is this also true for the previous versions of BG and not just the EE's?
I'm having a discussion with a rather stubborn person and this would be the simplest way to shut them down.
Thanks in advance!
I'm having a discussion with a rather stubborn person and this would be the simplest way to shut them down.
Thanks in advance!
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Meanwhile, you can click "Done" even if you've lowered the values of your ability score less than 75, thus getting a character with 60 points for e.g.
"I solemnly swear that this restriction is in the code, with the addendum that the total of the values can be reduced below 75 by de-allocating points and continuing with them in the pool."
Edit: Btw, the above is obviously a joke. Don't actually throw people off bridges. Unless it's Noober. Then it's ok.
on further thought, while I have access to the code and can see how it's changed from the original, the original is for bg2 rather than bg1 (I think)
Sit them down in front of a computer and load up the orginial baldur's gate.
Place 500 dollars on the table.
Tell the person to roll a character and continuously reroll it till they roll an amount less than 75. Once they do, they get the 500 dollars.
For every reroll the person does though, they have to give you ten cents.
They can give up rolling whenever they want but if they dont roll less than 75 they dont get thr 500 dollars and still owe you however much they rolled for.
Easy money.
Hence the links to six or seven youtube videos all detailing character creation, all of which not showing a single roll under 75 and the cherry on top being a developer confirmation.
It's a lost cause. The person in question has never completed a game of BG and believes the manual supplied with the original BG saga is a holy grail and cannot be disbelieved. I wrote off the discussion at that point and didn't go into the numerous errors present in that manual.
Ohh and Haste? Only affects 1 creature/level.
Confusion of course casts in a 60 foot cube. Much better than Entangle's 40 foot cube or Bless's 50 foot cube.
These are all undeniable facts.
What will be the purpose of the effort of creating such mod? The vast majority of the player seeing a very low roll would probably roll again and the masochistic ones that want to run a Charname with very low stats (and I see their purpose, it actually makes the game way more difficult if you want a solo run and mildly difficult if you go with a full party) can easily obtain the same rolling their stats with real life dices or any other tool and then minmax the stats accordingly at the character creation, a single roll is needed as they want a total less then the minimum value set in the rolling code of the game.
So even if it is possible, and I don't have an answer, why a modder would have to loose his time and effort in doing something that most of the players would not use and that the few interested in it can easily replicate with some real life dices?