Generally summons are pretty good at dealing with melee enemies, but the shaman is vulnerable to spells and missiles while dancing. Getting summons in position to deal with those sorts of enemies, wi… (View Post)

The average fighter die roll in vanilla BG was 5.5, but in BGEE the roll taken is the best of 2 rolls. That pushes the average up to 7.13 (I knew from experience it was about 7, but your post prompte… (View Post)

Roulette might be a better analogy. The house edge there means that a slow and careful series of bets is not a good strategy anyway, but in any case the casino is due to close shortly. In this analog… (View Post)

That's correct. BG has always worked on that basis - rather than just reduce your saves slightly from the reduced level, saves are reduced down to what they would be for a naked character of your new… (View Post)

Sounds interesting @semiticgod. I've got a few questions about your intentions though. - were you envisaging playing the original BG (without TotSC) and then importing characters into TotSC. Alternat… (View Post)