In BGEE (including SoD), you can accumulate XP beyond the cap. However, every time you load a save - and only when you load a save - your XP is reset down to the cap. The longer you go without a load… (View Post)

To elaborate: Before the EE, all of the standard NPCs came in multiple different versions, joining at a level that approximately matched the protagonist's. The EE changed this system, making it so th… (View Post)

I'm kind of embarrassed that it took me this long to spot ... but the v33 fire elemental token (Improved Shapeshifting) has a major inconsistency between the item description and the actual effect. N… (View Post)

This is already done, in part. In BG1, only a few shops will buy wands from you, and they're generally the mage shops. They also can't be shoplifted from, and fully charged wands are quite expensive … (View Post)

Indeed. Standard beholders and gauths are all level 9. More advanced variants - Elder Orbs and Death Tyrants - are higher-level and thus immune. So, in short - if you take deathblows into the Underda… (View Post)