I don't despise SOD, far from it. It's a good game, but not a BG game. But it strikes me the same type of mistake was made. Too keen to make "their" mark, too keen to update in an effort to… (View Post)

Further to the above. I've always "headcannoned" that BG starts in the spring and takes place from then and over the following summer. Autumn you defeat Sarevok. Irenicus captures you after… (View Post)

It's not canon for me and never will be. I can't even play it through nowadays, and I've tried, God knows I've tried. Mind you, IMO, nothing about a RPG where the charname has choices should ever be … (View Post)

@PaulaMigrate But it's not like the choices in TOB because of where the game has been set. BG2 teaches you, more than anything else it does, about being a Bhaalspawn. It's from Irenicus, your journey… (View Post)

@Pantalion More like The Last Jedi. Massive plot holes, characters discarded/ruined, pathetic underdeveloped Big Bad, deus ex machina (soultaker dagger, really?), smattering of current politics/issue… (View Post)