Unpopular opinion: Boots of Speed are overrated. All they do is make your characters looks like the are in a movie that has been speeded up. Boots of Grounding are much more useful.
The background music should change to Yakety Sax whenever you wear them.
Wouldn't that make you a whiny brat then? Since its you making the choices?
If I play Charname as a murderer does that make me a murderer? If I play a mage and choose a certain spell (let's say magic missile) because I made that choice does that mean I'm capable of actually doing spells and casting magic missile in real life?
@Blackbɨrd
Charname is whatever YOU make him/her so all you have to do to fix that problem is play Charname differently.
I think that Charname is a ''whiny brat'' by default. By definition a brat is ''typically one that is badly behaved'', ''a person that always gets what they want and the rules are bent in their favor'' and is spoiled/obnoxius.
It is clear Charname is a ''brat'' by default as they don't like/oppose having to share their soul with Jon Irenicus (similar to a child not wanting to share a toy), can't accept that Imoen commited an illegal magical crime and was right to be imprisoned, instead going on some glory misson to ''save her'' instead of just dealing with the proper authorties (cowled wizards) among other actions.
jon was int sharing your soul he takes it and then was leaving you to die. wanting revenge on someone for not only killing your friends but also leaving you for dead is not being brat.
and the way you describe charname makes it seem they are a teenager when they are in their early 20's.
@Blackbɨrd
Charname is whatever YOU make him/her so all you have to do to fix that problem is play Charname differently.
I think that Charname is a ''whiny brat'' by default. By definition a brat is ''typically one that is badly behaved'', ''a person that always gets what they want and the rules are bent in their favor'' and is spoiled/obnoxius.
It is clear Charname is a ''brat'' by default as they don't like/oppose having to share their soul with Jon Irenicus (similar to a child not wanting to share a toy), can't accept that Imoen commited an illegal magical crime and was right to be imprisoned, instead going on some glory misson to ''save her'' instead of just dealing with the proper authorties (cowled wizards) among other actions.
that's not how the story goes. i'd ask you if you had even played the game, but suspecting you had, i won't ask you anything but rather make a certain conclusion, which i'll keep to myself.
I mean it's very obvious that is not how the story goes at all, it's almost as if I was being sarcastic and making a joke the entire time...
JoKinG?! No, it can't be.. such a thing does not exist!! Especially on the Beamdog forums!!
It's more or less standard these days to use the sarcasm tag, /sarcasm or /s, at the end of sarcastic comments.
Online comments have no tone of voice, no inflection, and no body language. This means sarcasm is virtually indistinguishable from a silly or trolling statement. This is especially true in a thread called "Unpopular opinions." This specific discussion is the one place on this forum where a sarcastic comment would be the most likely to be taken seriously--the entire purpose of the discussion is to post opinions that most people would disagree with.
The sarcasm tag prevents this from happening. Otherwise you accept the risk of people thinking you're being serious. It only takes two buttons to input.
It's more or less standard these days to use the sarcasm tag, /sarcasm or /s, at the end of sarcastic comments.
Online comments have no tone of voice, no inflection, and no body language. This means sarcasm is virtually indistinguishable from a silly or trolling statement. This is especially true in a thread called "Unpopular opinions." This specific discussion is the one place on this forum where a sarcastic comment would be the most likely to be taken seriously--the entire purpose of the discussion is to post opinions that most people would disagree with.
The sarcasm tag prevents this from happening. Otherwise you accept the risk of people thinking you're being serious. It only takes two buttons to input.
The use of /s ruins the joke/use of sarcasm, almost always.
''The entire purpose of the discussion is to post opinions that most people would disagree with'', Well my original comment did prove to be very unpopular, so I am contributing to the unpopular opinion thread. Albeit with not my own opinion but with a potential opinion, which anyone could have.
/s Unpopular opinion: there are far too many popular opinions in this thread and far too much outrage at opinions which really are unpopular. /s
My contribution: fully modded BG1EE is better than BG2 - doesn't feel rushed, more sandboxy, not so crowded, not too big or long, greater character progression without feeling overpowered. I prefer going from noob to mid-tier, than from mid to superpowered, with so many magical weapons I drop some on the floor.
@Blackbɨrd
Charname is whatever YOU make him/her so all you have to do to fix that problem is play Charname differently.
I think that Charname is a ''whiny brat'' by default. By definition a brat is ''typically one that is badly behaved'', ''a person that always gets what they want and the rules are bent in their favor'' and is spoiled/obnoxius.
It is clear Charname is a ''brat'' by default as they don't like/oppose having to share their soul with Jon Irenicus (similar to a child not wanting to share a toy), can't accept that Imoen commited an illegal magical crime and was right to be imprisoned, instead going on some glory misson to ''save her'' instead of just dealing with the proper authorties (cowled wizards) among other actions.
that's not how the story goes. i'd ask you if you had even played the game, but suspecting you had, i won't ask you anything but rather make a certain conclusion, which i'll keep to myself.
I mean it's very obvious that is not how the story goes at all, it's almost as if I was being sarcastic and making a joke the entire time...
JoKinG?! No, it can't be.. such a thing does not exist!! Especially on the Beamdog forums!!
Seems liek justification after the fact. If it was a joke the whole time, you would have copped to it in the first response, rather than drag it out. Besides, acting like a whiny teenager, and equating it to being a murder is so not equivalent.
Hm. Maybe we should just drop it before it gets into a weird semantic argument. This thread is more about unpopular opinions about BG and stuff rather than Internet rhetoric in general. Let's get back on topic.
Unpopular opinion: SCS mages don't take that long to debuff with the right party, even with maximum pre-buffs. Most SCS mages only come with 2-4 spell protections:
A simple secret Word can remove anything but Spell Trap, Spell Thrust can take down Spell Immunity and MGOI (though Globe of Invulnerability will block Spell Thrust, if not Secret Word), and a Ruby Ray of Reversal is sufficient to deal with Spell Trap. All mages can be rendered completely vulnerable within a single round:
1. Remove Spell Shield with Secret Word
2. Remove Spell Trap with Ruby Ray, or remove Spell Deflection/Turning with Secret Word
3. Remove Spell Immunity with Secret Sword
4. Remove Improved Invisibility/Shadow Door with a thief's Detect Illusions ability or Invisibility Purge/Oracle/True Seeing (True Seeing can be pre-cast)
5. Remove all other defenses with Breach
Sometimes steps 1, 2, or 3 aren't necessary, and sometimes you can just take down Spell Immunity: Abjuration and follow up with a high-level bard or Inquisitor's Remove/Dispel Magic. Sometimes you need an extra couple of Secret Sword spells and another Breach to deal with a Spell Shield+Spell Deflection+PFMW Spell Trigger. But even if you don't render a mage completely vulnerable, you can force them to spend a round restoring their defenses, and that buys you time, all while the mage's opening weapon immunity spell wears off.
Granted, not every party has multiple mages in it to cast Secret Word and Breach. But these are not very high-level spells (the highest one you'll ever need is just the level 7 Ruby Ray of Reversal), so multi-classed mages will work perfectly fine for these purposes. Jan is a great tool for this: he can get past Improved Invisibility+SI: Divination using his Detect Illusions ability (he starts out with a high value, and his goggles increase it further) and use Secret Word within the same round.
Thank you for the kind words @Maurvir@Permidion_Stark@Mirandel !
Just a note: I didn't receive notifications for these posts, maybe because the name tagg was followerd by an apostrophe?
On topic: I don't like Imoen's BGII portrait. It looks rediculous and not like Imoen at all. When I played BGII the first time and Imoen opened the PC's cage, I was convinced she's a Doppelganger. Blew my immersion a little when I finally understood that it's supposed to be her, because it fealt like I was expected to go rescue the Doppelganger.
The name looks promising at the very least. Didn't know @subtledoctor had ever worked on a mod that kills off Imoen. Would love to see it eventually completed.
@Kamigoroshi The mod was made by me by @subtledoctor 's design. It is completed in itself*: Depending on choice of (hopefully not immersion breaking) reply options, Imoen will survive Spellhold - or not.
*Well, ok, I was too lazy writing a readme.
@Blackbɨrd
Charname is whatever YOU make him/her so all you have to do to fix that problem is play Charname differently.
I think that Charname is a ''whiny brat'' by default. By definition a brat is ''typically one that is badly behaved'', ''a person that always gets what they want and the rules are bent in their favor'' and is spoiled/obnoxius.
It is clear Charname is a ''brat'' by default as they don't like/oppose having to share their soul with Jon Irenicus (similar to a child not wanting to share a toy), can't accept that Imoen commited an illegal magical crime and was right to be imprisoned, instead going on some glory misson to ''save her'' instead of just dealing with the proper authorties (cowled wizards) among other actions.
that's not how the story goes. i'd ask you if you had even played the game, but suspecting you had, i won't ask you anything but rather make a certain conclusion, which i'll keep to myself.
I mean it's very obvious that is not how the story goes at all, it's almost as if I was being sarcastic and making a joke the entire time...
JoKinG?! No, it can't be.. such a thing does not exist!! Especially on the Beamdog forums!!
Seems liek justification after the fact. If it was a joke the whole time, you would have copped to it in the first response, rather than drag it out. Besides, acting like a whiny teenager, and equating it to being a murder is so not equivalent.
On topic: I don't like Imoen's BGII portrait. It looks rediculous and not like Imoen at all. When I played BGII the first time and Imoen opened the PC's cage, I was convinced she's a Doppelganger. Blew my immersion a little when I finally understood that it's supposed to be her, because it fealt like I was expected to go rescue the Doppelganger.
I've never managed to find an image of Imoen that I really do like. BG1 Imoen looks too wordly, BG2 Imoen looks so miserable, SoD Imoen has grown on me a bit - but that's not saying much because I hated the picture with a passion when I first saw it.
@Permidion_Stark not bad. But I admit I like @Acifer 's take on Imoen best: Imoen by Acifer.
The only reason I did not pester him yet to make this a portrait is that I like my portraits in one style-for-all so I'd need it "baldurized" to use it in game.
Yeah I know what you are thinking, but in my BWS the picture (or a similar) was in the ingame files as an option, and it was before I met my wife - so don’t judge me.
Back then I totally thought it captured her personality...
Yeah I know what you are thinking, but in my BWS the picture (or a similar) was in the ingame files as an option, and it was before I met my wife - so don’t judge me.
Back then I totally thought it captured her personality...
They are both quite 'Imoeny' but I don't like using pictures based on film stars because I tend to think of them as the actor not as the character they are playing. Having said that this portrait based on Ellen Page is pretty good:
And a Baldurised version of Imoen's voice actor Melissa Disney would work pretty well too:
Unpopular opinion (?)
Dorn and Hexxat could have been replaced by new evil npcs who scheme and plot bit not necessarily murder innocents, that would make evil npcs more popular and players would welcome them aboard even in good parties.
Unpopular opinion (?)
Dorn and Hexxat could have been replaced by new evil npcs who scheme and plot bit not necessarily murder innocents, that would make evil npcs more popular and players would welcome them aboard even in good parties.
Unpopular opinion (?)
Dorn and Hexxat could have been replaced by new evil npcs who scheme and plot bit not necessarily murder innocents, that would make evil npcs more popular and players would welcome them aboard even in good parties.
Unpopular opinion (?)
Dorn and Hexxat could have been replaced by new evil npcs who scheme and plot bit not necessarily murder innocents, that would make evil npcs more popular and players would welcome them aboard even in good parties.
Now that was a real spoiler for me. I'm playing with Dorn in the party for the first time and wasn't aware that killing innocents was on the agenda. At least I am playing an evil party. [Currently 100% evil.]
It goes to show that you have to be very careful concerning who you have as allies. [The UK went to war to preserve the independence of Poland and it was decades later before they got independence. ] Our ally "The Soviet Union" was no better than Germany, and some would say they were worse.
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The background music should change to Yakety Sax whenever you wear them.
If I play Charname as a murderer does that make me a murderer? If I play a mage and choose a certain spell (let's say magic missile) because I made that choice does that mean I'm capable of actually doing spells and casting magic missile in real life?
Don't be preposterous.
Perhaps charname has the maturity of a teenager?
I mean it's very obvious that is not how the story goes at all, it's almost as if I was being sarcastic and making a joke the entire time...
JoKinG?! No, it can't be.. such a thing does not exist!! Especially on the Beamdog forums!!
Online comments have no tone of voice, no inflection, and no body language. This means sarcasm is virtually indistinguishable from a silly or trolling statement. This is especially true in a thread called "Unpopular opinions." This specific discussion is the one place on this forum where a sarcastic comment would be the most likely to be taken seriously--the entire purpose of the discussion is to post opinions that most people would disagree with.
The sarcasm tag prevents this from happening. Otherwise you accept the risk of people thinking you're being serious. It only takes two buttons to input.
The use of /s ruins the joke/use of sarcasm, almost always.
''The entire purpose of the discussion is to post opinions that most people would disagree with'', Well my original comment did prove to be very unpopular, so I am contributing to the unpopular opinion thread. Albeit with not my own opinion but with a potential opinion, which anyone could have.
My contribution: fully modded BG1EE is better than BG2 - doesn't feel rushed, more sandboxy, not so crowded, not too big or long, greater character progression without feeling overpowered. I prefer going from noob to mid-tier, than from mid to superpowered, with so many magical weapons I drop some on the floor.
Seems liek justification after the fact. If it was a joke the whole time, you would have copped to it in the first response, rather than drag it out. Besides, acting like a whiny teenager, and equating it to being a murder is so not equivalent.
Unpopular opinion: SCS mages don't take that long to debuff with the right party, even with maximum pre-buffs. Most SCS mages only come with 2-4 spell protections:
1. (Minor) Globe of Invulnerability
2. (Minor) Spell Deflection/Turning/Trap
3. Spell Shield
4. Spell Immunity: Abjuration/Divination
A simple secret Word can remove anything but Spell Trap, Spell Thrust can take down Spell Immunity and MGOI (though Globe of Invulnerability will block Spell Thrust, if not Secret Word), and a Ruby Ray of Reversal is sufficient to deal with Spell Trap. All mages can be rendered completely vulnerable within a single round:
1. Remove Spell Shield with Secret Word
2. Remove Spell Trap with Ruby Ray, or remove Spell Deflection/Turning with Secret Word
3. Remove Spell Immunity with Secret Sword
4. Remove Improved Invisibility/Shadow Door with a thief's Detect Illusions ability or Invisibility Purge/Oracle/True Seeing (True Seeing can be pre-cast)
5. Remove all other defenses with Breach
Sometimes steps 1, 2, or 3 aren't necessary, and sometimes you can just take down Spell Immunity: Abjuration and follow up with a high-level bard or Inquisitor's Remove/Dispel Magic. Sometimes you need an extra couple of Secret Sword spells and another Breach to deal with a Spell Shield+Spell Deflection+PFMW Spell Trigger. But even if you don't render a mage completely vulnerable, you can force them to spend a round restoring their defenses, and that buys you time, all while the mage's opening weapon immunity spell wears off.
Granted, not every party has multiple mages in it to cast Secret Word and Breach. But these are not very high-level spells (the highest one you'll ever need is just the level 7 Ruby Ray of Reversal), so multi-classed mages will work perfectly fine for these purposes. Jan is a great tool for this: he can get past Improved Invisibility+SI: Divination using his Detect Illusions ability (he starts out with a high value, and his goggles increase it further) and use Secret Word within the same round.
EDIT (rephrased as unpopular opinion): definitely not writing that mage nutcracker recipe down.
Semanticgod?
Just a note: I didn't receive notifications for these posts, maybe because the name tagg was followerd by an apostrophe? @Kamigoroshi This might be a start?
On topic: I don't like Imoen's BGII portrait. It looks rediculous and not like Imoen at all. When I played BGII the first time and Imoen opened the PC's cage, I was convinced she's a Doppelganger. Blew my immersion a little when I finally understood that it's supposed to be her, because it fealt like I was expected to go rescue the Doppelganger.
*Well, ok, I was too lazy writing a readme.
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I've never managed to find an image of Imoen that I really do like. BG1 Imoen looks too wordly, BG2 Imoen looks so miserable, SoD Imoen has grown on me a bit - but that's not saying much because I hated the picture with a passion when I first saw it.
My favourite Imoen is the one made by @Nixxi : https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/12232/original-artwork-imoen/p1
I just wish she was smiling. And wearing pink . . .
The only reason I did not pester him yet to make this a portrait is that I like my portraits in one style-for-all so I'd need it "baldurized" to use it in game.
This one has got the personality exactly right but IMO is a bit too old, quite fancy her though:
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/images/portrait/imoen-0
This one is the nearest to my concept of her:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/71663/imoen
Back then I totally thought it captured her personality...
It captures her personality perfectly.
They are both quite 'Imoeny' but I don't like using pictures based on film stars because I tend to think of them as the actor not as the character they are playing. Having said that this portrait based on Ellen Page is pretty good:
And a Baldurised version of Imoen's voice actor Melissa Disney would work pretty well too:
Oh.
Dorn and Hexxat could have been replaced by new evil npcs who scheme and plot bit not necessarily murder innocents, that would make evil npcs more popular and players would welcome them aboard even in good parties.
Semanticgoddess?
@StummvonBordwehr Hey, I already made that joke! ?
"The Diet Coke of evil."
Now that was a real spoiler for me. I'm playing with Dorn in the party for the first time and wasn't aware that killing innocents was on the agenda.
It goes to show that you have to be very careful concerning who you have as allies. [The UK went to war to preserve the independence of Poland and it was decades later before they got independence.