Yea that reaction adjustment seems really off. If you were soloing with a mage with 3 charisma, according to your chart unless you have above 13 reputation every person will want to kill you and the flaming fist will be called whenever you appear.
Make a character with 3 Charisma. At the bottom of your stats page you will have Reaction -8, likewise you will have Reaction -1 with 9 Charisma. In any case, the BG1 and SoA manual have it wrong, but the ToSC manual has it right. Mind of messy.
And no, you don't get attacked for having low reaction, you get attacked for having low reputation.
Make a character with 3 Charisma. At the bottom of your stats page you will have Reaction -8, likewise you will have Reaction -1 with 9 Charisma. In any case, the BG1 and SoA manual have it wrong, but the ToSC manual has it right. Mind of messy.
And no, you don't get attacked for having low reaction, you get attacked for having low reputation.
Yea my bad for whatever reason I was thinking reaction had an impact on this. You are right.
I wasn't really that worried once I realised if you put the name like so (@Jalily) rather than so ( @jalily) it doesn't go orange (it shouldn't pm you).
@elminster Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but on page 56 of "Mastering Melee and Magic" in the first line of the Two-Handed Weapon Style description it says "two-handedw eapon" where it should say "two handed weapon".
Somehow I can't find anyone mentioning that the table for racial thieving bonuses is missing. You can only find racial bonuses for detect hidden doors. Are these racial bonuses no longer in game or they are just not covered in manual (or were they never implemented?)
Somehow I can't find anyone mentioning that the table for racial thieving bonuses is missing. You can only find racial bonuses for detect hidden doors. Are these racial bonuses no longer in game or they are just not covered in manual (or were they never implemented?)
I'd be very surprised if they're not in the game, as they're defintitely in BG2, I suspect it's just another omission in the manual.
On the missing tables, like saving throws, spell progression and stuff, I would suggest adding the tables from playitharcore.com (or something like that): playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php?title=Baldur's_Gate:_Progression_Charts
If over-saturation of tables in a concern, at least for THAC0, you can explain that it starts at 20 for everyone at first level and improves based on level and class like this:
Warrior classes and Monk: Improves by 1 every level. Priest classes: Improves by 2 every 3 levels. Rogue classes: Improves by 1 every 2 levels. Wizard classes: Improves by 1 every 3 levels.
Under Stealth/backstab section the following can be read:
"Note that in order to backstab someone, the thief must be standing behind the target."
I was under the impression that BG didn't have any way to actually know this, and thus you can backstab someone in the face. I believe this was a topic in bugs section before.
@Thantalas I believe you were involved in that discussion (as in all others)
Under Stealth/backstab section the following can be read:
"Note that in order to backstab someone, the thief must be standing behind the target."
I was under the impression that BG didn't have any way to actually know this, and thus you can backstab someone in the face. I believe this was a topic in bugs section before.
@Thantalas I believe you were involved in that discussion (as in all others)
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure you *do* have to be behind, or very nearly behind the target to backstab successfully
Is it possible to get the (hopefully) perfect final version for translation in the future? Although there was no hungarian version of bg (not officially anyway) bg2 came with a badly translated manual in Hungary. I would do it if needed. (maybe a bit slowly, I have a thesis to write:P )
Is it possible to get the (hopefully) perfect final version for translation in the future? Although there was no hungarian version of bg (not officially anyway) bg2 came with a badly translated manual in Hungary. I would do it if needed. (maybe a bit slowly, I have a thesis to write:P )
Could help you with that I really hate bad translations... But I also have a thesis to write
One thing I noticed (unless I completely missed it) is the Theif Skills Race/Dexterity modifer chart is missing. Class/Kit bonus/penalties are included in their respective descriptions (though vaguely in some cases) however the Racial/Dexterity modifers are not mentioned at all, in either the Racial of Stat sections, nor in the Tables section.
A lot of the charts were left out because they were either unnecessary, inaccurate, both, or just plain cumbersome to include. I didn't want another twenty pages of appendices, so I left certain ones out (I tried to only leave out the ones that were less immediately relevant, like spell progression and THAC0).
The thief skill/race chart was one of those. But the values ought to be listed somewhere else (I don't recall where off-hand).
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How are you confirming the score reaction and adj. is wrong?
And no, you don't get attacked for having low reaction, you get attacked for having low reputation.
playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php?title=Baldur's_Gate:_Progression_Charts
Warrior classes and Monk: Improves by 1 every level.
Priest classes: Improves by 2 every 3 levels.
Rogue classes: Improves by 1 every 2 levels.
Wizard classes: Improves by 1 every 3 levels.
"Note that in order to backstab someone, the thief must be standing behind the target."
I was under the impression that BG didn't have any way to actually know this, and thus you can backstab someone in the face. I believe this was a topic in bugs section before.
@Thantalas I believe you were involved in that discussion (as in all others)
Page: 56
"Two-Handed Weapon Style This weapon class allows the character to use a two-handedw eapon and receive special bonuses: "
No, not sure, that's why I brought it up. It has been a discussion here on the forums.
Class/Kit bonus/penalties are included in their respective descriptions (though vaguely in some cases) however the Racial/Dexterity modifers are not mentioned at all, in either the Racial of Stat sections, nor in the Tables section.
The thief skill/race chart was one of those. But the values ought to be listed somewhere else (I don't recall where off-hand).