"Hack" is a term that applies far more appropriately to Dickens than to Tolkien. He was a very very talented hack, but a hack is definitely what he was, turning out pages of text week in an… (View Post)

I actually did a BG playthrough with Conanette, a female halfing barbarian who duel wields bastard swords. (View Post)

The thing about the BG1 characters is they didn't really have any, they where really just a couple of lines of dialogue. This left players to form their own impressions of the characters. Thus, diffe… (View Post)

If the PC can't get out of that, the Bhaal's essence isn't sufficiently strong in the PC. Time to find another test subject. It's entirely constant with Chapter 2 of SoA, where he puts the protagonis… (View Post)

I reckon character creation is the best part of an rpg. Not only do I spend ages on the character creation screen, I spend ages thinking about characters and working things out with pencil and paper. (View Post)