This is everything I can think of. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of SOD items, at the very least. Both games: Cloak of Displacement, -2 to death, breath, and wand Adoy's Belt, -5 vs. polymorph Claw of… (View Post)

BG does a terrible job explaining itself. It's a great game, but it just does not explain how it works on a very basic level. If you're interested, I wrote a quick guide to the mechanics for new play… (View Post)

That is, of course, a more difficult question to answer. I'd still say it's not generally worth it, because there are usually relatively few characters who stand to benefit from the best magic items.… (View Post)

See, I'd take Eldoth before I took Garrick, just because of his poison arrows ability. But yeah, he's really only good if you don't have another use for the Gloves of Dex and want both a bard and a s… (View Post)

Artemius_I is of course correct, but it's worth noting that the vast majority of mages in the vanilla game don't use any of those protections other than Improved Invisibility, which means True Sight … (View Post)