This raises an interesting question to me. Thieves and Bards are “balanced” (i.e. on par with mages and fighters) solely because they get access to Spike Traps and Use Any Item, arguably the two most… (View Post)

Copying over the discussion from the other thread: SomeSort: ThacoBell: SomeSort: ThacoBell: SomeSort: ThacoBell: (View Post)

For starters, I think it's easy to dismiss ToB and Heart of Winter out of hand. Both are balanced okay if you're playing them as standalones, but completely ruin the underlying balance of the games t… (View Post)

Game balance, to me, is the Goldilocks principle: fights that are not too easy and not too hard, but just right. Now, it's possible to very tightly arrange a BG2 run to maximize how many fights adher… (View Post)

I think the fact that the economy of IWD doesn't give you a lot of options is kind of the point. It's not supposed to. You're in the middle of nowhere, not smack in the heart of one of the most prosp… (View Post)