I'm always unclear on whether "Rest" necessarily means "sleep" in the game terminology. Like, when you rent a room at an inn for the night, that's obviously sleep, but when you po… (View Post)

Necromancer. Studied on in all the various ways you can manipulate the body and soul. Cannot use this knowledge to heal others. Countless ages of necromantic study and apparently nobody ever thought … (View Post)

I think the overlap between the capes genre and the fantasy genre is broader than you're giving it credit for. Atlantis is both a technologically and magically advanced society. If magic is all it ta… (View Post)

My assumption has always been that you're just bashing the lock. Not like smashing the chest itself to pieces or anything. (View Post)

In one of the other Infinity Engine games the illiteracy thing is implemented, but in Baldur's Gate it just means you can't use scrolls, if you would otherwise have the ability to do so. Alignment is… (View Post)