I have the BG1 Aerie mod installed. Her store identifies all items for free and heals for free too. All you have to do is free Bentha which any decent person would do anyway.
and before anyone asks. i odn't mind identifying items in nwn as it's easier and faster.
there also seems to be no mod to auto identify for that game.
i found that max lore ranks for your level with 10 INT and a ring of insight is usually enough to identify all unidentified items in NWN, only perhaps in chapter 1 there might be a couple of items out of that range, but the lore skill will start to out strip the cost of what an item is usually once you start chapter 2
PS: also if you want to be able to identify all items with a "mod" per se, just use the cheat console and set your lore to like 80 or something, then you will be able to identify all items no sweat
I actually find it hilarious when you can't identify an object in game when you can clearly see and know what the item is... because of having played the game so much.
I consider it a proper RPG aspect and wouldn't ever consider a mod that changes it.
I did write a bit of a skit about my NPC all standing around wondering what the hell the gauntlets of dexterity were when they found them in my storied playthrough of BG.
And sad person that I am, still find it funny when Edwin can't identify any of the tomes in BG. FFS, it's a book, all you have to do is read the title.
Edited to add
And I'm not the only one, as the same joke is made late TOB when you meet Bondari and his group.
< PS: also if you want to be able to identify all items with a "mod" per se, just use the cheat console and set your lore to like 80 or something, then you will be able to identify all items no sweat
Yes, but then you still have to the whole Shufflin' Inventories dance, moving stacks back and forth to create spots in your mage's backpack. This was a major hassle pre-EE, when there were no gem bags or bags of holding, so you needed to dedicate one NPC to holding gems (for the stacking), one dude to hold potions, etc., and then cycle items back and forth between the rest of the crew and the mage for the ID. Nalia's Keep was a major PAIN! "Ooooh, another weapons rack, yet another handful reddish, glowing, unknowable rocks. What will it be this time? Eeeeedwiiiin? Hand me those other rocks you just studied and take a look at these instead!"
So I just install a mod that auto-identifies everything, which ensures that I miss nice loot from time to time because I am not a careful student of the loot piles and nothing glows to stand out anymore.
the dnd rpgs are the only ones that make you have to identify items even gear. i know dnd rules and all that. but most crpgs has them already identify making it there just to be there.
< PS: also if you want to be able to identify all items with a "mod" per se, just use the cheat console and set your lore to like 80 or something, then you will be able to identify all items no sweat
Yes, but then you still have to the whole Shufflin' Inventories dance, moving stacks back and forth to create spots in your mage's backpack. This was a major hassle pre-EE, when there were no gem bags or bags of holding, so you needed to dedicate one NPC to holding gems (for the stacking), one dude to hold potions, etc., and then cycle items back and forth between the rest of the crew and the mage for the ID. Nalia's Keep was a major PAIN! "Ooooh, another weapons rack, yet another handful reddish, glowing, unknowable rocks. What will it be this time? Eeeeedwiiiin? Hand me those other rocks you just studied and take a look at these instead!"
So I just install a mod that auto-identifies everything, which ensures that I miss nice loot from time to time because I am not a careful student of the loot piles and nothing glows to stand out anymore.
oooooooooooh, i thought we were talking about NWN, so a mod that you could do for the BG series ( even though you already said that you have one but someone else could do this ) is just use NI and go to the INT table and set the lore value to 120 for any intelligence score and you will be able to identify any item in the game regardless of which character has it
Thread necros are awesome! I know, I know. I'm not talking about this thread. That said, it just had its third birthday and is 96 pages long. I found it yesterday. I read all 96 pages. And now I continue with unpopular opinions not yet mentioned in this encyclopedia-sized discussion....
Cats > Dogs That's why all mage/sorcerer CHARNAMES must be Chaotic Neutral.
Catsup, not mustard, on hot dogs What is wrong with you people?
If gnomes could be Fighter/Clerics, they would be better than both dwarf and half-orc F/Cs
Did I get you? Gnomes CAN be F/Cs!!!!! You didn't even know that, did you? No mods required. Told you it was unpopular.
If halflings could be Fighter/Clerics or Cleric/Thieves, they would be just as good as gnomes!
No, sorry. Halflings really can't be F/Cs or C/Ts. Why the heck not??
All Star Wars feature length movies are meh except for The Empire Strikes Back and Rogue One If I have to watch one, I'd better have a hotdog with catsup.
Unpopular opinion: BG1 is better than BG2 because it's got tomes. The plots of the games are irrelevant: Baldur's Gate is all about finding tomes and that is all the plot you need. BG2 would be much better if they left out all the nonsense about Imoen being taken to Spellhold and just scattered some tomes around for the Charname to look for.
Unpopular opinion: BG1 is better than BG2 because it's got tomes. The plots of the games are irrelevant: Baldur's Gate is all about finding tomes and that is all the plot you need. BG2 would be much better if they left out all the nonsense about Imoen being taken to Spellhold and just scattered some tomes around for the Charname to look for.
Unpopular opinion: BG1 is better than BG2 because it's got tomes. The plots of the games are irrelevant: Baldur's Gate is all about finding tomes and that is all the plot you need. BG2 would be much better if they left out all the nonsense about Imoen being taken to Spellhold and just scattered some tomes around for the Charname to look for.
Unpopular opinion: BG1 is better than BG2 because it's got tomes. The plots of the games are irrelevant: Baldur's Gate is all about finding tomes and that is all the plot you need. BG2 would be much better if they left out all the nonsense about Imoen being taken to Spellhold and just scattered some tomes around for the Charname to look for.
Funny you should post this now as I was just considering making a thread entitled, "what they should have put in BG2 from BG1", and tomes were the first thing I thought of.
Thread necros are awesome! I know, I know. I'm not talking about this thread. That said, it just had its third birthday and is 96 pages long. I found it yesterday. I read all 96 pages. And now I continue with unpopular opinions not yet mentioned in this encyclopedia-sized discussion....
Cats > Dogs That's why all mage/sorcerer CHARNAMES must be Chaotic Neutral.
Catsup, not mustard, on hot dogs What is wrong with you people?
If gnomes could be Fighter/Clerics, they would be better than both dwarf and half-orc F/Cs
Did I get you? Gnomes CAN be F/Cs!!!!! You didn't even know that, did you? No mods required. Told you it was unpopular.
If halflings could be Fighter/Clerics or Cleric/Thieves, they would be just as good as gnomes!
No, sorry. Halflings really can't be F/Cs or C/Ts. Why the heck not??
All Star Wars feature length movies are meh except for The Empire Strikes Back and Rogue One If I have to watch one, I'd better have a hotdog with catsup.
Why "catsup"? Seriously, what is it? Is it ketchup/tomato sauce?
Sounds like something one of those cat familiars you like have regurtitated when they have a furball, horrible name.
Losing the Coalition Camp invasion fight by letting the barrels blow up shouldn't result in a game over. It should result in the player being forced to flee the area, and then having to lay siege to Dragonspear Castle with only a tiny handful of allies, instead of a small army.
But the machine just seems cheesy to me. Tomes are classy. The best bit in the game is when you put a tome in your quick slot and click on it and then go back to your character screen to look at how much stronger or smarter or charismatic you are.
But the machine just seems cheesy to me. Tomes are classy. The best bit in the game is when you put a tome in your quick slot and click on it and then go back to your character screen to look at how much stronger or smarter or charismatic you are.
How so? Tomes are just click and use. THe machine actually requires some extra steps. The end result is the same anyway.
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(That will be a highly unpopular opinion amongst purists!
there also seems to be no mod to auto identify for that game.
PS: also if you want to be able to identify all items with a "mod" per se, just use the cheat console and set your lore to like 80 or something, then you will be able to identify all items no sweat
I consider it a proper RPG aspect and wouldn't ever consider a mod that changes it.
I did write a bit of a skit about my NPC all standing around wondering what the hell the gauntlets of dexterity were when they found them in my storied playthrough of BG.
And sad person that I am, still find it funny when Edwin can't identify any of the tomes in BG. FFS, it's a book, all you have to do is read the title.
Edited to add
And I'm not the only one, as the same joke is made late TOB when you meet Bondari and his group.
So I just install a mod that auto-identifies everything, which ensures that I miss nice loot from time to time because I am not a careful student of the loot piles and nothing glows to stand out anymore.
I know, I know. I'm not talking about this thread. That said, it just had its third birthday and is 96 pages long. I found it yesterday. I read all 96 pages. And now I continue with unpopular opinions not yet mentioned in this encyclopedia-sized discussion....
That's why all mage/sorcerer CHARNAMES must be Chaotic Neutral.
What is wrong with you people?
If I have to watch one, I'd better have a hotdog with catsup.
"what they should have put in BG2 from BG1",
and tomes were the first thing I thought of.
Why "catsup"?
Seriously, what is it?
Is it ketchup/tomato sauce?
Sounds like something one of those cat familiars you like have regurtitated when they have a furball, horrible name.
Regarding my condiment claim: either spelling is acceptable, so of course go with the "cat" one!
Not that I hold that opinion myself. It's unpopular, though.