If you play the game enough times and make enough (ab)use of Spray Colours/Command/Sleep/Cloudkill/Death Spell, you'll end up memorizing the hit dice of most if not all enemies. :)
Edit: remember that one can never have enough Baldur's Gate. Once you get into the game, the game gets inside you. When you face monsters, remember that you can also beat them by Shapeshifting into a more powerful monster yourself. -Nietzsche.
Without looking at the game files, or having an old copy of the monstrous compendium, it's hard to know. Umber Hulks seem pretty big and bad, but go down instantly from a death spell. I think it can take down mind flayers, too, so long as they fail their spell resistance, which is not often.
If you play the game enough times and make enough (ab)use of Spray Colours/Command/Sleep/Cloudkill/Death Spell, you'll end up memorizing the hit dice of most if not all enemies. :)
Edit: remember that one can never have enough Baldur's Gate. Once you get into the game, the game gets inside you. When you face monsters, remember that you can also beat them by Shapeshifting into a more powerful monster yourself. -Nietzsche.
I... I'm not certain, but I don't think Nietzsche said that...
Death spell is only good against summons and if you get disrupted by 56 goblins when resting, and still its not the best alternative.
Summons and trolls and umber hulks and minotaurs and spiders and quite a few other things. You're really selling it short if you just think of it as the anti-summon spell. I think the really important part is that it's party friendly, unlike Cloudkill.
Death spell is only good against summons and if you get disrupted by 56 goblins when resting, and still its not the best alternative.
Summons and trolls and umber hulks and minotaurs and spiders and quite a few other things. You're really selling it short if you just think of it as the anti-summon spell. I think the really important part is that it's party friendly, unlike Cloudkill.
All of which I don't need to waste a level 6 spell to kill. Yes it has it uses but I don't think I will be putting Spiders to rest with a death spell anytime soon.
All of which I don't need to waste a level 6 spell to kill. Yes it has it uses but I don't think I will be putting Spiders to rest with a death spell anytime soon.
Umber hulks hit pretty hard, and spirit trolls have that annoying STR drain, so it's not as bad as you're making it. Regardless, the point is that it's a BG2 spell that divides enemies based on hit dice, where Sleep has become all but obsolete, no?
All of which I don't need to waste a level 6 spell to kill. Yes it has it uses but I don't think I will be putting Spiders to rest with a death spell anytime soon.
Umber hulks hit pretty hard, and spirit trolls have that annoying STR drain, so it's not as bad as you're making it. Regardless, the point is that it's a BG2 spell that divides enemies based on hit dice, where Sleep has become all but obsolete, no?
Oh, I thought you meant Death spell was BG2 version of Sleep, as in My opinion, sleep in bg1 was way more powerul than Death spell in BG2. But sure.
Well, having an AD&D monster manual helps, but the game has its own liberties in some cases. You get to learn the hitdice of monsters via trial and error. Death spell and greater death blow are more useful than most think, though.
Well, having an AD&D monster manual helps, but the game has its own liberties in some cases. You get to learn the hitdice of monsters via trial and error. Death spell and greater death blow are more useful than most think, though.
By the way, deathbow slays mind flayers and greater death blow slays ulitharids s2
If you play the game enough times and make enough (ab)use of Spray Colours/Command/Sleep/Cloudkill/Death Spell, you'll end up memorizing the hit dice of most if not all enemies. :)
Edit: remember that one can never have enough Baldur's Gate. Once you get into the game, the game gets inside you. When you face monsters, remember that you can also beat them by Shapeshifting into a more powerful monster yourself. -Nietzsche.
I... I'm not certain, but I don't think Nietzsche said that...
@Durenas , he's making a clever paraphrase of the actual Nietzsche quote from BG1. "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/friedrichn124387.html
But maybe you knew that and were making a joke yourself?
But maybe you knew that and were making a joke yourself?
Yes, I reckon he was.
And anyway, it's an Einstein quote. Or was it Kurt Cobain? It's hard to know with all those wildly attributed quotes going around on Facebook these days.
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Edit: remember that one can never have enough Baldur's Gate. Once you get into the game, the game gets inside you. When you face monsters, remember that you can also beat them by Shapeshifting into a more powerful monster yourself. -Nietzsche.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/friedrichn124387.html
But maybe you knew that and were making a joke yourself?
if we exclude undead stuff