As I understand it, the anti-magic ray consumes the Spell Shield as well as other buffs. Taking into account the fact that you rarely face Beholders on their own, this could mean death. I had a succe… (View Post)

Thanks @bengoshi, for summoning me. I actually started an answer to @MalacPok's question but realized that I wasn't sure about Firkraag's vanilla behavior anymore (used as I am to playing with SCS). … (View Post)

I once soloed an Avenger through BG1. The secondary effects happened remarkably often. :) Still I agree with you that the spell is inferior to Magic Missile, which is just a very good spell disrupter… (View Post)

Well there is one danger in my (subjective) experience: when traveling north, i.e. to the FAI or the Ankheg area, the ambush with the ten bandit archers seems to occur quite often in my games. They c… (View Post)

Wow! A slight, interesting change of perspective there. And what a battle that must have been on the roof of the Iron Throne building... The shield icon in Durak's portrait, was that from a potion or… (View Post)