My first 97 roll - synchronicity?
BelgarathMTH
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Hey, I was just inspired by the character Jon Morgan from Heroes of Might and Magic 6 to start thinking about this new character I might play for the BG Trilogy, including Adventure Y.
And, lo and behold, while trying to establish and save a prototype, I got the first 97 roll I've ever seen in my life!
The character that inspired me was from Might and Magic Duel of Champions, a Haven hero who leads the human faction, hates evil magic, and can heal himself. I've started building a deck that's based on Haven stacking, and he's doing pretty well with it so far (in the card game). I've only recently fired up HoMM6 and started the first tutorial mission, with Haven, but I've found out enough to know that the card game I'm enjoying is completely inspired by HoMM6. All the hero cards come from that game.
He's this guy:
Yada, yada, yada, TLDR, I've found that I really identify with the equivalent of inquisitors/knights/paladins/clerics, human "holy rollers" who hate evil magic of all kinds. And, in youth, I had the brown hair and hairiness of Morgan, symbolized by his beard. So, I started thinking, hey, there's a perfect tie-in to BG here, where I could play "Keldorn".
So, I could play this 97 roll, which I've saved as a new inquisitor file, as though I *am* Keldorn. The one in BG2 will not exist in this hypothetical run. In BG1, I would be this "young" version of myself/big K/Morgan:
And, in BG2, I would be the "me" version of the Big K we all know and love, except, of course, I would never have married or started a family, and the canon version of Big K would then not exist in my game.
I might even post a journaled run with this dude after Adventure Y is released. I'm kind of tripping on the idea of this version of "me" from youth to middle/old age in the BGT universe, including whatever the new adventure will be.
Side question: Will "Adventure Y" be released on Steam? I'm kind of into the idea of eventually buying all of the EE's on Steam now, so that I can get the nice in-game counter, and the inclusion of the EE's to my general collection.
And, lo and behold, while trying to establish and save a prototype, I got the first 97 roll I've ever seen in my life!
The character that inspired me was from Might and Magic Duel of Champions, a Haven hero who leads the human faction, hates evil magic, and can heal himself. I've started building a deck that's based on Haven stacking, and he's doing pretty well with it so far (in the card game). I've only recently fired up HoMM6 and started the first tutorial mission, with Haven, but I've found out enough to know that the card game I'm enjoying is completely inspired by HoMM6. All the hero cards come from that game.
He's this guy:
Yada, yada, yada, TLDR, I've found that I really identify with the equivalent of inquisitors/knights/paladins/clerics, human "holy rollers" who hate evil magic of all kinds. And, in youth, I had the brown hair and hairiness of Morgan, symbolized by his beard. So, I started thinking, hey, there's a perfect tie-in to BG here, where I could play "Keldorn".
So, I could play this 97 roll, which I've saved as a new inquisitor file, as though I *am* Keldorn. The one in BG2 will not exist in this hypothetical run. In BG1, I would be this "young" version of myself/big K/Morgan:
And, in BG2, I would be the "me" version of the Big K we all know and love, except, of course, I would never have married or started a family, and the canon version of Big K would then not exist in my game.
I might even post a journaled run with this dude after Adventure Y is released. I'm kind of tripping on the idea of this version of "me" from youth to middle/old age in the BGT universe, including whatever the new adventure will be.
Side question: Will "Adventure Y" be released on Steam? I'm kind of into the idea of eventually buying all of the EE's on Steam now, so that I can get the nice in-game counter, and the inclusion of the EE's to my general collection.
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Just rolled uo a half elf druid and got a 94 I was very pleased about that one
good job, also, VERY interesting character concept, stinks about that str roll though O.o
I really don't think 18/90-100 is worth giving up a frickin' *97* for the other stats! I do believe there's even enough INT there to withstand at least one mind flayer hit! Sometimes I get tired of all the pallys running around with 3 INT, who should be able to say nothing in Common but "derp", "duh", and "uhhhhh....me smite evil and lay on hands....duhhhhh."
Is there a "Union of Paladins and Barbarians Of Strangely Low Intelligence" or something? The "UPBOSLI"? "Up Barbarians and Paladins of Low Intelligence?"
This is another ridiculous thing about the D&D stat system. The power-gaming tendency of pretty much every human gamer leads to an absurd correlation in intelligence among fighters of all stripes - brawny, athletic, and as stupid as a log. Or, is that a reflection of real life after all? The Nerd Revenge trope in action?
Regardless, at least pallys have it in the wisdom and charisma departments. But, come on, a 3 INT? That's barely above infant human or animal. I see this nonsense as a failure of the D&D rules - every human ought to have a requirement for a 10 INT. Anything lower in INT ought to be only available to half-orcs, or only to Minsc-like character concepts (and still not lower than about 8), with significant penalties, at least in any version of D&D that has "talky" skills as an important factor.
But come on, 3 INT ought to be illegal in the game rules.
BTW - just got this hilarious image - of the INQUISITOR of all classes, with 3 INT - casting Inquisitor Dispel: "Duh.... derp.... yousa evil wizsard.... meesa big bad INQUISHITORSH! Derp, duh.... me DISPEL all yousha magey dagey pruhtekshiuuns, duh... abra-kaduhbrash.... d'or, somethin'.... Duhhhh.... Uh, yousa GENIUSH, meesa not care.... BAMF!.... mage dies." Come on, really?
Ah well.
Edit: Oh, forgot to answer you on your question: Yes, SoD will be released on Steam. (It's in the FAQ and various posts from the Devs. From the sound of it, it'll be released on all platforms the games are currently released on).
As for low intelligence, I don't think one would want to go that low in BG...I mean, mind flayers and all. Now, I do laugh when I see low intelligence characters in NWN. God. So funny.
Though, I'm semi-inspired to roll a Cavalier for SoD. I usually don't do Paladins.
got 95 points pretty good roll
BUT
when I moved his points around he had a 18/00 in Strength
So he is a keeper
to bad I cant put more into his Melee weapons