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Kit or rule rebalancing found in the manuals?

PugPugPugPug Member Posts: 560
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With the release of the manuals, we know what has been changed:

http://www.baldursgate.com/manuals.en.html

I noticed that they kept the "shorty races" saving throw bonuses, which were in the BG manual but not implemented.

They deleted the Wisdom saving throw bonus to mind-affecting spells, which was in the BG manual but not implemented.

No kit changes that I could spot.

I know we want to stay as true to the source material as possible, but I was still disappointed. Game design has evolved a lot since the initial release, and we have more than a decade of play experience to draw upon.

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  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    PugPug said:

    With the release of the manuals, we know what has been changed:

    http://www.baldursgate.com/manuals.en.html

    I noticed that they kept the "shorty races" saving throw bonuses, which were in the BG manual but not implemented.

    They deleted the Wisdom saving throw bonus to mind-affecting spells, which was in the BG manual but not implemented.

    No kit changes that I could spot.

    I know we want to stay as true to the source material as possible, but I was still disappointed. Game design has evolved a lot since the initial release, and we have more than a decade of play experience to draw upon.

    Shorty saves existed in BG1.
  • TanthalasTanthalas Member Posts: 6,738
    The only kit that received any kind of change that wasn't a bug fix was the Totemic Druid. In short the spirit animals were nerfed for low level play.
  • neur0neur0 Member Posts: 83
    PugPug said:


    They deleted the Wisdom saving throw bonus to mind-affecting spells, which was in the BG manual but not implemented.

    I don't know if it's still implemented, but it's in the manual in spell description for "Confusion"

    Can someone confirm if it's in the game?
  • PugPugPugPug Member Posts: 560
    neur0 said:


    Can someone confirm if it's in the game?

    It isn't.

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/158218/#Comment_158218
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    Tanthalas said:

    The only kit that received any kind of change that wasn't a bug fix was the Totemic Druid. In short the spirit animals were nerfed for low level play.

    They also partly needed find familiar for LE alignments, and maybe even the polymorph spell. Funilly enough they removed the sword spider and haste from the mustard jelly, but all the other dorms including the 18/00 str black bear are still hasted. Though I havnt tested it on my actual mage yet, just on my familiar.
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