I enjoyed SoD quite a bit overall but the OP is exactly right about the Skie situation. In the midst of being toasted across the Sword Coast, our hero decides to throw all of that away by eliminating… (View Post)

Pillars of Eternity provides a great recent example of a BG-type game in which level-ups always occur one level at a time. Or if Beamdog didn't want to make that route mandatory, perhaps there could … (View Post)

The transition seems smooth to me: I too would like to see new BG2 content, such as a continuation of the Skie storyline, but I don't see "how you got from SoD to BG2" as being especially i… (View Post)

Single-class thieves aren't great melee combatants in SoD due to their low hit points and don't bring much to the table ranged-wise either. On the other hand, dual-classed thief/mages are much better… (View Post)

Well said. SoD is on a par with BG1 -- while there are some weak individual encounters over the course of the game, it held my interest and felt like an organic continuation of the BG1 story. Given h… (View Post)