İ buyed the pc version of neverwinter nights for 1€. İ didn't played any baldur's gate game yet. Can i start from it? Also is there any major problems with new operating systems?

Just like my paychecks in real life. Too real. Who do I talk to about taxes in Amn

There are quite a few cursed items, and I like putting them on would-be adventurers.

Some choices are obvious:

• Helmet of Opposite Alignment -> Ajantis

• Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity-> Shart Eel

The others I dispense as I see fit.

This offers no gameplay advantage, but when I am playing as an evil wizard I am obligated to gift cursed items to unsuspecting people.

considering shaking my game up a little and wondering if you guys have come across any particularly interesting alternatives for our companion pics. I'm usually a purist but idk

Hooo boy, trying to get into this old game is rough haha

Is there a way to rebind things so that you can use keys other then alphanumeric? Like I wanted to change map to Tab but it just made it blank. And change the highlight everything from Tab to alt, etc.

Greetings everyone! I’ve posted before with portraits in the style of Ryoko Kui. Here’s another set of portraits! Wilson (I totally forgot him earlier, I’m sorry), Bristlelick, Isra, Tamoko (based off her PPE Portrait, I think), Sir Arkanis, Mother Lost, Irenicus, and Bodhi.

All credit to SheriffTwisted, who can be found here.

The Bristlelick companion mod can be found here, Isra can be found here, while Sir Arkanis and Mother Lost can both be found here.

Got those bad boys in the mail today. You can easily tweak them to be in English but with all the means to play English versions right now, those are more of a collection pieces than something to actually play 😅

The NWN collector's is just insane. It's a shame BG and IWD never got anything quite on this level.

Things such as bug fixes, graphical/UI enhancements, QoL, stuff that doesn't alter the vanilla game "too" much.

In one modding session, I got NPCs that joined at level 1, and got up to speed in XP by getting just enough to next level, until catching up with Gorion's Ward. This way, you could level Imoen (for example) from level 1 fine tuning her skills, up to just T5, then dual to a neat T5/W6+. Now I get Imoen and bam, 35k xp at once, and she's gone from T1 to T6, and the dual is a steeper T6/W7.

I remember using BG1NPC and SCS.

Now I'm using BG1NPC, CDTweaks and SCS.

Does anyone know which order and which options to get this one level at a time xp gain for npcs?

Replaying and having a great time, the dialogue in this game is incredible. How are the younger generations taking it?

English version "Lost yer sense of humor, have ye? Aye, I've heard what ye've been telling all yer little friends—that ol' Winthrop has a hankerin' fer a little elven arse every now and then! Heh, come here, my pretty, and I'll soon change yer mind..."

https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Winthrop

About to replay bg1 and then import in 2 are there any mobs that I should try that add to the games ?

I have charname-- fighter/mage/thief

Dorn, possibly change to Minsc.

Branwen, possibly change to Vic or Yeslick.

Imoen, dualed to wizard after thief 2.

Xan, possibly change to Dynaheir if I bring back Minsc.

**edir**

Neera, is now in the party. I might replace her or Xan with Baeloth, who is one of my favorites

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I've never had a mostly arcane caster party. I've heard it's a bad choice in bg1, but I'm not sure that's true.

I've never used any of the late-game companions in BG1 (The ones that join in chapters 4 or 5) and feel like I'm potentially missing out on a lot of great party interactions and characters... but I am also notoriously thorough in the early game about clearing out quests and the like and it makes me worry that once I get to those companions I won't have enough XP to get them to max level.

So I am curious if this is really something I need to be concerned about. Can I max out my late-chapter companions without having to carefully save early-game quests? Is it normal for players who plan to have a party built around late-chapter companions rush through the story content to recruit them ASAP and then do side content? I'm just trying to plan what sort of balance to do.

Also I'm playing on console, I know there's mods and third party programs, but looking at just vanilla EE experience.

I am in chapter 5 of BG1EE and we have hit 161000xp. I feel bad about the XP going to waste, so should I recruit a new set of 5 for the rest of the game?

Hello everyone! I'm currently playing BGEE for the first time, and I'd like to share something incredible that occurred 5 minutes ago:

This afternoon, around 2 p.m. I was doing the serial killer quest when I discovered that bringing silver dragon blood to the SK accomplice allows me to create a unique armor, so I immediately went into the Underdark to slay the bitch. Needless to say, she kicked my ass.

So I started looking online for ways to beat her, changing spells and builds, experimenting with different strategies, researching the best weapons for killing dragons, etc. And when I finally figured out the perfect strategy at 7:30 p.m., I buffed everyone and summoned an army of skeletons and one Dark Planetar. I sent everyone to fight; I started casting spells to break her defenses, and...

The Dark Planetar hit her with a vorpal hit one second after the fight began, one-shotting her. I've never been so happily disappointed in my life; someone needs to come up with a term to describe how I'm feeling.

Installed Mods by recommendation: SCS, Portraits Everywhere, Deities of Faerun

So I was fighting Kangaxx and at some point, something weird happened that actually made me pause and think for a moment.

This divides into two scenarios, although the first scenario is actually kind of a funny one for me.

First scenario: Anomen takes way more damage from s horrid wilting than a mountain bear! This genuinely seemed hilarious to me in the time. I don't know how much hit points mountains bears from the spell "conjure animals" have, but that bear next to Anomen (in the first picture) should've been vaporized instantly from that horrid wilting. Of course, the funny part for me is that both Anomen and the bear made a save to take minimum damage. But somehow, SOMEHOW that bear took way less damage than Anomen did. Edwin had spell immunity necromancy on, so it was no biggie for him standing close there. And that skeleton warrior, well... they just have magic resistance so it does come in clutch when they take magical damage. (Keep in mind that this is in insane difficulty.)

Second scenario: And this is actually what I'm bewildered about. Since Anomen took so much damage and got close to death, I made him run away so that he can cast a heal on himself. But of course Kangaxx wasn't wasting any chances and this bastard literally cast a finger of death at Anomen right after that horrid wilting. Now here's the thing: Anomen had death ward on, which by the looks of it's description is supposed to protect you from death magic like death spell and finger of death.

But Anomen here, still took magic damage from that finger of death and dropped on the floor. Poor guy was running pretty fast too. XD

"This includes, but is not limited to," I don't get this about the death ward. I'd appreciate it if anyone could offer some insight here... maybe it's something I don't know despite having played Baldur's Gate a dozen times. I still love learning new things about it though, it never gets old...

I explored the city in a chaotic way(cause it's my first playthrough), so I had applied "stone to flesh" spells before I got the quest. And all these guys just ran away... So I wonder if the quest still could be finished?

*It's the quest, where a mage asks to retrieve the helm from stoned bandits.

**I don't want spoilers, so please be mindful.

But in this case, two Earth Elementals enhance the cooking procedure! I have to get that earthiness in somehow.

I always have my wizard cast an orb after tearing down the defenses of a tough enemy. The joy (and kind of anti-climax :)) it brings when it works.. :)

Also thought it was "good RP" that Edwin appears to be hiding behind a pillar while the rest of the team is putting their lives on the line. Consider 6 adventurers surprised that Firkraag was suddenly painting the floor with different shades of red :)

I’ve been playing BG since 1999, and I LOVE the game. BGII is still my favorite and best game of all time.
But there are mechanics in the game that I never use. Traps, for instance, and poisons.

What are things that you never use?

EDIT: GOT IT TO WORK! Now I’m praying it doesn’t break my game by the time I get to the Underdark 😂

Hi! So a while back I asked about a Solaufein Romance mod, cuz I heard about it and wanted to try it. Someone did mention that the Weidu one wouldn’t work for enhanced edition (which is what I’m playing) but I decided to try it anyway, and the pop up that came up after installment says it failed to set up cuz there isn’t a dialogue.tlk or something? I’m not sure what that means but the only option I found online was to try and verify if I have those files under Engl.US in the languages folder, which I do)

Now, I’ve been digging and turns out there’s a flirt pack that’s compatible with EE and supposed to be an add on for this mod, but since the original Weidu one no longer works with EE, how am I supposed to install and work both? The expansion flirt pack doesn’t work without the Weidu mod, and I can’t run the Weidu mod cuz it’s no longer compatible with EE.

I saw someone online say they’re running a v2.04 for the Weidu romance mod? And that’s why it works just fine with EE and the flirt pack. But all I can find on the original Weidu site is v1.04 or something. And when I try to click into the link for the GitHub support for BG2EE provided by the commenter, it says the site no longer exists. This is from 2022 btw so not super long ago either.

If anyone can confirm the Solaufein Romance mod no longer works, or if there’s an alternative way to get it to work, please let me know!!! I’ve been wanting to romance this guy since I first started playing like 11 years ago…

Btw, I know about the Jastey mod, but I want my romance!!! So I’m prioritizing this at the moment.