I don't like failing, but if there is no chance of failure, there is no meaning in success. If everything is guaranteed ahead of time, your strategy doesn't count for anything. Having a chance to fai… (View Post)

Realistically, a party would rest and train for days, weeks or months between combats. By the end of BG1, your party racks up more kills and fights in more battles than any real world elite fighting … (View Post)

The high level of power that magic-users have is also an artifact of the original D&D rules adapted to computer games in a way that is out of step with the way D&D way played on paper. For on… (View Post)

In BG2, I am drawn to the paladin who is locked in an inner struggle against her innate nature as a child of murder, who does lawful good with a certain grittiness, and who thinks Ajantis and Keldorn… (View Post)

There are more enemies resistant to piercing damage than slashing by a large margin, but I think that blunt weapons are efective against everything. Between a +4 or better staff or club and a plain o… (View Post)