To me, the essence of Baldur's Gate is how high-impact everything is. A fighter can kill even a powerful enemy in a couple rounds, if all goes according to plan. A mage can paralyze an entire group o… (View Post)

Man, he's really committed to his cover, then. "All the other doppelgangers are trying to kill me. I could reveal myself, thereby showing them that I'm not actually an enemy, but that would be b… (View Post)

@deltago has it. You're up. (View Post)

Demogorgon isn't too bad. He's got a truck-load of hit points, but by ToB that shouldn't be too much of a problem. He only does two particularly nasty things: he casts Implosion, which is countered b… (View Post)

I have a thought I'd like to share, which I think relates to this thread pretty strongly. I don't think BG is really a combat game. In combat games, from God of War to Starcraft and everything in bet… (View Post)