For quite a while, I had thought that when you battle the four warders Fear turns into a doppelganger. More recently, I looked at Fear's file on NearInfinity and actually Fear turns into a revenant. … (View Post)

Did you know that in Baldur's Gate 1, the Green Slime's weapon has a save-or-die effect? If they hit you and you fail the save (which is pretty easy to make), you take a few points of poison damage o… (View Post)

Most diagrams of the Solar System have the Sun taking up a good portion of the picture. In reality, although the Sun is much larger than any of the planets, it is tiny compared to the distances betwe… (View Post)

In Baldur's Gate, the bastard sword has a weight of 10, whereas the long sword only has a weight of 4. Are bastard swords really that much heavier than long swords? Meanwhile, the golden Sword of Bal… (View Post)

Did you know that doppelgangers aren't evil? They're neutral. I was really surprised when I found this out. This means that you can't ferret out doppelganger imposters using Detect Evil. (View Post)