Called Shot is underwhelming in terms of damage, but it's a superlative debuff. Remember: every effect stacks on every hit, Archers have some of the best THACO values which means every attack hits, a… (View Post)

I imagine most people would just follow with a minor-sequencered Chromatic Orb for a one-round kill. Toss in Web or Blind in your second sequencer slot to still disable monsters immune to instant dea… (View Post)

Divorcing the gameplay from the story works. Sometimes it's fun to go in the opposite direction and weave the story around the gameplay, though. I once did a run as a Jester who spent the entire game… (View Post)

The big one in the BG trilogy is stating at the outset that charname is ~20 years old, but also allowing players to select one of the longer-lived races, who would be virtual babies still at age 20. … (View Post)

Feeblemind is the funnest spell ever and I have 100% rolled an enchanter *just* for the -2 save penalty on it. In-combat, feeblemind vs. chaos is an interesting debate. Chaos is AoE, which makes it e… (View Post)