It looks to me like monsters all get maximum hit point rolls, which means they have on average about twice as many hit points as they typically would in a PnP game. You also face far, far more combat… (View Post)
In D&D, clerics have more spells but are under more restrictions about how and when they can use them. In Baldur's Gate and most CRPGs (and most current PnP games, especially ones based on newer … (View Post)
The benefit of two-handed weapons is minimal in BG1: their main advantage is doing slightly more damage than one-handed, but this mattered more in PnP where monsters didn't have maximum hit points an… (View Post)
It is true that Nalia and Imoen occupy the same nice operationally: they are mages who can open locks and find traps, only Imoen can do it well enough that she can pretty much make it through to the … (View Post)
