Designers' views here are probably less valuable than players', but for what it's worth, if you don't feel thoroughly on top of the BG combat system I'd suggest installing nearly all of the "imp… (View Post)

In vanilla BG2, and also in SCS, any spell that takes down spell protections (e.g., Spell Thrust, Secret Word, Ruby Ray) is flagged to bypass Spell Immunity. The main point of Spell Immunity: Abjurat… (View Post)

My experience of terminology as used by commentators on BG2 is that the only stable translations are as follows: "This is broken"= "I don't like this" "This is cheese"= … (View Post)

Although you can do a lot on the compilation side to automate repetitive/tedious tasks, and/or hide them from the modder - much as the d format has a lot of functionality that looks very clean and si… (View Post)

I pretty much alternate but I think it's been slightly more often female than male. (View Post)