Given that I like to play the long game by starting my character build in BG but always with the ToB endgame in mind I invariably play multi (or more recently, dual) class characters. Also, whenever … (View Post)

A carnivorous black swan features in "The Fionavar Tapestry" by Guy Gavriel Kay, along with 'lios alfar' and a race of giants that are opposed to violence, plus a huge chunk of Arthurian my… (View Post)

For me by far the most annoying spell is The Spell With No Name - you know, the one that hits you just before the kill screen and leaves you wondering what the heck just happened. (View Post)

An interesting article which suggests some of the things that might have influenced "The Hobbit". http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-hobbit-80-jrr-tolkien-annive… (View Post)

In BG1 I find I can relieve my arrow management issues by not letting any of my party members use long or short bows at all (tenuous role-playing justification: Are all the feathers used for the flig… (View Post)