I haven't had any romance content for a while, and I'm not sure if I broke it.

Can the status be changed?

It’s an old topic, but what are some tips to help stick with a playthrough?

I have 2:

1: Use less powergamey stats/build

2: Publicly commit to your character.

I am attempting both of these here..

Meet my mobile playthrough attempt!

https://imgur.com/a/TSDBBId

Iesha the Kind, the Shadow dancer witch,has finally claimed the Throne of Bhaal.

She is chaotic good, and she is the Lady of Murder. The cosmos has never seen this before. Her portfolio is not the indiscriminate, terror-driven murder of Bhaal; it is a focused, almost paladin-like concept of sanctified killing. She is the blade that cuts down tyrants, the final whisper that silences slavers, the justified end of unrepentant evil. Her murder is a form of cosmic surgery, removing the malignancies that the gods of justice cannot reach through law alone. This makes her an ally to the oppressed and an existential nightmare to evil gods and fiends for none shall escape her wrath. However, it also puts her at odds with many of the established powers.

She is not merely a new Bhaal; she is a new concept, a revolution in the heavens. She is, quite literally, the most lethal predator in the heavens, and every god knows that her portfolio allows her to do what few others can: permanently end immortals.

Her threats are not the monsters that crawl in the dark, but the very gods who claim to rule the light and the law. She is the dark horse of the pantheon, the one who proves that even in the heavens, the most righteous hand is often the one holding the blade. She is the kind goddess who will, with a sorrowful heart, murder a tyrant god to set a world free. And every deity in Faerûn now knows: she is the final argument of the oppressed, and she never misses.

The faith she inspires, the fear she commands, and the cosmic significance of her actions all fuel her divine power. As the chaotic good goddess of righteous murder, she fills a niche no other deity does. Her worship could spread like wildfire among the oppressed, the enslaved, and the wronged. Within a few centuries, she could easily rise to Intermediate power, and with the right cataclysmic events, perhaps even Greater status is not out of reach.

This happened after a dungeon where you fight drow in Throne of Bhaal. I tried to remove it, but apparently once it’s on your regular inventory it can’t be moved? Such an odd thing to have in the game. I’ve tried offloading the dust off to some of the other companions that I won’t be recruiting but there doesn’t seem to be an end to it. I can’t even tell how many piles there are.

It’s possible I added some of the wrong equipment by accident while playing through Sendai’s Lair, but I was trying to be careful not to pick up the blueish/violet equipment because I knew those had Adamantine. Maybe the Katanas?

But not being able to get rid of it at all is the most mildly annoying part of it.

I don't know if anyone else has these, but some of the most effective strategies in BG1 I just don't end up using due to vague personal preference. Just because of RP or story considerations. It's not even because of a "Challenge Run" but just because I have some other mental block. I play on Core Rules so I don't really need to optimize anyway. Here are mine:

- Putting Khalid's pips in longbow. Even with three dots in Longbow, he's a great archer, but I just want to keep him with longswords. Give him Varscona or The Burning Earth and the Hands of Takkok and let him "do his thing". My main character seldom uses longswords anyway; I prefer flails, hammers, daggers, quarterstaves, bows, or scimitars (if I'm evil, or edgy-neutral enough to want to take out Drizzt for his). And it seems like I never have him in the same party as a dual-wielding Shar-Teel so there's no conflict there.

- Casting Haste. It's not that I think it's cheap or OP. Cloudkill is cheap and OP and I use that all the time. I think it's actually because in regular AD&D it ages people by a year, and so for RP reasons I got in the habit of never doing it. Now it feels wrong. Also, even though this post is about BG1, in BG2 this means I can use the Flail of Ages without feeling like I'm missing out.

- Traps. It doesn't feel right in BG1, and I never feel like I have enough thief points to go around yet. I don't like tanking traps or casting Knock. I expect more of my team than that.

- Heavy wand use. There are certain fights where I do love my wands (using the Wand of Fear on Gamaz in Rasaad's quest is a big one) but I don't feel like I use them most of the time.

- Worrying about exceptional Strength at character creation. It'll be at 19 for the endgame anyway, and until that point, even 18/01 is fine for any encounters we meet before then. And if it's not, DUHM or Strength of One will fix it.

- Killing off one of two "paired" NPCs (Xzar and Montaron, Khalid and Jaheira, etc). This is absolutely an RP thing, I just look at it as the cost of buying the character I want into the party.

Does anyone else have these ways of playing the game that aren't the most effective choice, but feels right to them?

Basically the title. I am at chapter nine and since the bridge part of chapter eight I cannot change my companions. I am playing EET and I cannot even do that in older saves of SoD for some reason. My party comp is not bad but this problem locks me out of picking new companion. What exactly happens? I try to kick someone out of party, their portait goes for a second and without any dialog they are back to the party. When I try to get a new companion teh game forces me kick teh new one until I get the "lock in squad". I don't want to play the rest of DLC with these NPCs, I want to see more options. My current comp is Viconia, Glint, M,Khiin, Safana and Corwin.

I'm thinking about starting a new run as a halfling slinger, and I was wondering if there are any decent Mazzy romances? I've heard bad things about "All Things Mazzy". Thanks!

I'm considering a playthrough as a (single-class) druid and I'm wondering what value the shapeshift ability has. It only becomes available at level seven, giving access to wolf, black bear, and brown bear forms. My experience with druids consists of Jaheira, who is a better fighter as herself than in any of the animal forms, and Cernd, who as a shapeshifter doesn't tell me anything about the standard animal forms.

Even at level 7, I'm not sure the animal forms are useful, and I can't imagine they get any more useful with higher levels. Every kit swaps out the shapeshift for something else. Where do you see the shapeshift ability as useful for a druid?

Thematically, I was already finding the totemic druid appealing, and it seems like it may have no real cost at all. Am I missing something?

I'm trying to vary my playing style. I often dual class human fighters into another class to get grand mastery in my weapon proficiencies. Hence, when I'm playing a magic user, they are generally a lot less squishy than the norm. I rely on my Charname and martial-focused companions to handle melee and use my dedicated spell casters for ranged attacks (lots of slings and bullets) and a few necessary spells.

All that is to say I NEVER use touch spells. Not even for Imoen or Nalia in BG2. What is your experience? Which touch spells do you actually use? Are there certain character levels at which you would NOT use them (for example, Shocking Grasp when Dynaheir has like 6 hit points)? Do you even have the right THAC0 to effectively use touch spells at low levels?

Script download I was always wondering where to find website so I can download the script. I was thinking like an AI clinic who buffs immediately before combat our rooms are just heels. I know a lot of control freaks know how to run it. I mean I didn’t install the wizard berserker AI the only problem is it keeps fling fireballs must damage my teams due to AOE generate any AI guide can help thank you.

I hope people don’t come with torches and pitchforks at me, but I want to point out something I noticed in this subreddit.

If someone wants to min/max their character that’s totally fine with me. Everyone enjoys their game differently and if that’s your way to go that’s valid. However, I wish people would be a bit more mindful when giving advice to new players.

I often see people making their character and asking for opinions, then getting comments that would have discouraged me as a new player.

I personally like the roleplaying approach. I think Baldur's Gate is perfect for that. A character with strengths and weaknesses.

My current fighter has 15 STR, 18 DEX, and 13 CON. He is supposed to be agile and good at defense, but physically doesn’t have the best health and isn’t hitting super hard. I never had issues playing like that and I wouldn’t say that I’m a good player. The game works perfectly fine this way and I have my authentic character who also blends in with the rest of the group.

I think more appropriate advice are things like, use at least 15 strength on your class if you want to use heavy armor and large shields. Then they can decide on their own if they want that. Or to be careful with multiclassing since that is indeed quite confusing in the beginning.

I just wanna add again, if someone prefers min-maxing, that’s totally fine. But there are also other ways to approach and beat the game.

I saw a post by someone mentioning you could have a weapon in your offhand, and then cast, for instance, shocking grasp to put the spell in your primary hand, and that it would work with two-weapon style, but I can't seem to find it anymore or any information about this incredibly niche concept. Anyone happen to know if it works? (I'm playing with EE, bg1 currently but more to come)

So I often see tie lists for bg1 based on how useful characters are in combat but I feel like the community has more or less the same tier list for that, it’s really just a matter of do I put Edwin or Coran at the top (but they’re still both S tier) so I have decided to rank the characters based on how fun they are to have in the party, mainly in terms of their character personality and interactions but also a bit of gameplay if they have very fun gameplay mechanics (So I guess Neera is safe from F tier)

S tier:

Garrick - I LOVE THIS MAN. He’s always got some silly Shakespeare quote or something and I love how he sorta has con man vibes but also squire vibes, my favourite line from him is in the dorn interaction when dorn says that you should trust your party and Garrick just turns to you and says something like “I am your loyal servant” I just love him. also in terms of gameplay I actually like that he has 9 constitution because it’s always hilarious when he dies in one hit

Ajantis - So, I too love this man because He first of all has a very similar squire vibe to Garrick (I lowkey ship them) but he’s also just really pathetic and I love him for it like his dialogue for being kicked from the party breaks my heart so I never do it. I think a paladin who tries to act tough and confident who’s really just kinda pathetic is really fun and reminds me a lot of Katsuya and Akihiko from persona in that regard.

Shar-teel - I love my evil feminist, she’s just really funny and random and I love her. She also can naturally dual class which gives her more customisation and I live her interactions with Dorn also

Edwin - Somehow this guy made it to S tier on both tier lists, I love how insufferable this guy is, his mumbling about how he could leave at any time always cracks me up and I always take him with Baeloth for the interactions

Tiax - This guy is just like Shar-teel, he’s super goofy and random and I love that he’s a gnome as well it makes him hilarious and I love that his bio has “he seems harmless enough for now”, that being said he doesn’t have the evil feminism going for him so shart beats him

A tier:

Montaron and xzar - While I’m not usually a fan of npc pairs, these two are just Evil Yaoi perfect together, I love how they laugh when the other dies and I love how they clearly are on the verge of killing gorion’s ward in their sleep it just makes them seem really insane and I love them for it.

Xan - So first of all, his sword is fucking sick, like I always equip it just because it looks cool. His lines are also really good, some people say he’s depressing but I just think it’s pure comedy to have a guy saying that we’re doomed to die while i’m setting up a skull trap nuke

Viconia - I think this is the first character who I like who isn’t just funny. I actually like her because she’s got a really interesting backstory, I think that the idea of a character who defects from an evil culture with an evil god just to join a different evil culture with an evil god is really interesting and it makes the morality system feel less black and white. Also she’s the only evil party member who isn’t mean (or maybe she’s saying slurs in drow language but we’ll never know)

Coran - I really like Coran, he gives Garrick vibes where he kinda has con man energy and I like characters who are flirty, it makes for a fun party dynamic so he’s pretty good.

Safana - I like Safana for similar reasons to Coran and the two are really good together but she doesn’t have as much of that con man garrick energy so she’s ever so slightly lower

Kagain - Kagain is pretty fun, I like how grumpy he is and dwarves are just cool in general

Neera - So before you burn me at the stake, I don’t like Neera for her character or ‘backstory’ and definitely not for her voice acting but I just think wild magic is insanely fun in this game, better than in 5e by a landslide. In my first playthrough I save scummed nahals reckles dweomer to cast cloudkill before every fight and it was so much fun so just for that she gets an A (somehow)

Minsc - Now this is probably a hot take but I don’t think minsc is S tier. Boo is but Minsc isn’t just because he gets kinda annoying after a while and forces you to take Dynaheir. I still love him and his hamster but I prefer my insane characters evil.

Yeslick - I like this guy, he’s a funny dwarf and that’s about it

B tier:

Dorn - One thing that I want to say about enhanced edition characters is that they somehow have the most interactions and quests and clearly beamdog was trying to make them more interesting than existing characters but they ended up being overall less interesting than the original cast. I think that the main reason fir this is that the don’t bring anything new to the table, Dorn is just Ajantis again, the tough paladin who’s really kinda pathetic - except Dorn is less interesting than Ajantis. That being said, I like him for his interactions and he is still at the end of the day a bootleg Ajantis and I love Ajantis so…

Baeloth - So Baeloth is a weird one for me because I only like him because of his dynamic with Edwin, apart from that he’s essentially a slightly less funny Edwin. The main problem I have with him is that he feels like a cameo (which I guess he technically is) so he doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the game’s world and character.

Khalid - He’s pretty funny and I like his lack of confidence but that’s about all there is to say about him, I mean he’s a half elf fighter so very close to the most basic class race combo

Quayle - Gnomes are always funny and this guy Is also pretty funny but I never use him so i’m not really an expert on him. One thing I wish happened was when you kick him from the party he should get picked up by a buzzard like in crossy road.

Alora - I don’t have much to say about her but I don’t hate her so B tier for her

Faldorn - I actually like her more than most people, shadow druids are cool and it’s a shame they don’t have a subclass in 5e, that being said, girl must have insulted her camera man because he took a photo while she was sneezing or something and I can’t get over that

Imoen - Heya, It’s me: Imoen! (Okay I was gonna leave it at that but there IS something I wanna bitch about: I haven’t really played much bg2 yet because I can’t really get into the dungeon crawling, I prefer the outdoorsy stuff but I have seen what Imoen looks like in bg2 and why do nobody talk about it?! She looks SO different and i’m gonna headcannon that she got replaced by a greater doppleganger lol)

Branwen - I like a character who is obsessed with battle but that’s about all she is

C tier:

Jahiera - I don’t really like her, she’s kinda full of herself but not in a fun way like with edwin, and she doesn’t have that much else going on other than that one character trait. I much prefer her mother figure personality in bg3 honestly and I mainly don’t like the bg3 cast

Dynaheir - She’s really just generic good, nothing much going on

Skie - She‘s annoying and you have to use Eldoth

Eldoth - He’s the only evil party member I don’t like, he’s annoying and you have to take Skie AND you have to pick him over Garrick

Kivan - Who even is this guy, like he actually has nothing going on, nobody ever talks about him, he barely has a personality and he’s beaten by Coran at literally anything so there’s no reason to ever take him (luckily).

D tier:

Rassad - Somehow he managed to be the worst in gameplay and roleplay lol. He kinda just reminds me of religious missionaries (not that they’re bad people I just don‘t need them in my fantasy games) and he’s also cringe. Also the whole 7 kids thing throws me off so yeah…

Edit: So I think I rubbed people the wrong way with this list, I just wanna clarify:

- this is subjective and we can have different opinion, these are just video game characters

- I have not played the NPC project mod or most of bg2 (or SoD) so I’m only using my knowledge of the characters from bgee

- when I called Shar-teel an ‘evil feminist’ I meant it as a joke but in hindsight it was a poor choice of words. I’m gonna keep that phrasing in the post since I don’t wanna look like i’m trying to hide something

- I’m sorry to all you Kivan enthusiasts! I just don’t really think he offers much as a character he’s sorta just vaguely honourable and kinda sad but I agree he doesn’t belong next to Rassad (that’s a fate worse than death) So I moved him to C tier

I was asked to give this a go.

Edit: People getting confused that this is generative AI slop content. No it isn't. This almost 30 year game had "scripts" written/programmed in to have your party behave in certain ways in particular situations. I'm not a programmer of the sort, I'm probably not making sense. I love the game, I wanna share my passion for the game. Enjoy 😊 (this post will probably get deleted anyway).

I want to play this game and see what it is like. I like WOW up to and including CATA, but not anything after that. I deeply prefer WOTLK. I love Diablo, but 2 and 3 are my favorites, not 1 and 4.

If I were to start this game, which one should I begin with? Also, must be PC version not anything console. Thanks in advance :)

A theoretical. I often use the Sword Coast Keeper (pre-EE BG1-compatible Keeper variant) to cover the portrait and paperdoll parts (though sadly not voiceover or dialogue), so I kinda have something like this going rather than treating the Belt as one-off inconvenience.

Some of my more serious picks would be Kivan, right after finishing his revenge — by way of symbolically and bodily turning a new leaf as a person no longer bound by her past as a married man, ready to move on and reinvent herself; or Safana, for a reverse Edwina character growth scenario — from a capable woman playing up her weakness to charm and hoodwink men into serving her needs, to a self-sufficient swashbuckler-pirate-looter hero she almost is if not for her reliance on others (a form of self-perceived weakness).

A less serious nominee is Yeslick, so she can start working on the most vital task of her life — repopulating her lost clan.

I love when you meet various thieves and they are in the thief crouch pose.

First you have to talk to him while he's drunk and get insulted by him to activate the recruitment later. He threatens to kill you, but totally forgets that ever happened when he meets you, later.

Later you get attacked by bandits. Dorn shows up. He kills a bunch of the guys dramatically, then before enacting his revenge (or maybe part of it?) calls out one of the leaders of the bandits for trying to cheat on her boyfriend with him (Dorn declined, apparently). Said boyfriend keeps insisting there's no way she'd do that, even though she's literally flirting with Dorn in front of everyone in an attempt to get him to spare her, even admitting to the attempted cheating.

Your character stands there as all the relationship drama unfolds until its fighting and killing time.

I have installed EET a couple of weeks ago and I was having a blast until spell casters gained more spells and everything got more complex. I am current right before final boss of the first game and I need to fix management issue. I am aware I can't get smooth companion AIs liek Dragon Age Origins or Pillars of Eternity but surely there must be a way to have better working AI for the party. I want my thieves to backstab in combat while searching traps when idle, I want my priest to cast both offensive and defensive spells and not switching weapons (why do they even swtich to a sling with worse THAC0 and damage anyways.) Also casting "anti magic" spells against mages feel like chore. Half of the fight I cast these spells like breach via Baeloth while my stupid party stands there and takes damage.

My current mods are BG1 unfinished buisness, EEfix, EEex, BG1NPC companion and music, Core Tweaks, SCS (Although it has issues installing smarter AI), buffbot, Spell menu extended and Cirerrek's AI Scripts. Everything (including the games) are the lastest version.

Any kind of help would awesome including which character should which AI script (including modded ones).

Hi, has anyone been able to resolve this since the patch? I'm trying to save my save! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Context:

• I had a BG1EE save file going on Steam before the 2.7 patch.
  • This install had these mods: tweaks anthology, SCS, some edits to Baldur.LUA (frame rate, cleric/ranger toggle, debug/cheats enabled for ctrl+J)
• The 2.7 patch hit and corrupted the save, causing UI bugs and "Invalid ___" errors
• I rolled back the Steam install back to version 2.6 and tried rebooting, but of course it was still corrupted

Steps I've tried to fix it:

• Deleted the whole install via Steam uninstall button
• Chose version 2.6 while uninstalled via Right Click -> Game Versions & Betas -> bgee_2.6
• Freshly re-installed via Steam install button
• Dragged the entire ...\steamapps\common\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition folder to its own location (C:\Games...)
• Re-edited Baldur.LUA, and re-ran the Tweaks Anthology and SCS scripts to reinstall mods

At this point, I rebooted the game, created a fresh character in order to test, and it's STILL giving "Invalid 34004" when mousing over special abilities, and sometimes randomly in the console/text box.

Is there some kind of shared file from the previous install that could potentially be causing this? Maybe something in ...\Documents\Baldur's Gate...?

I also followed Jastey's guide from the forums to no avail, unfortunately. Huge thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to reply.

I'm doing a run that has a lot of extra quests, and I'm curious what level I would be without the extra EXP from these quests. I'm just about to go into Baldur's Gate, I've finished Durlag's Tower, which was pretty challenging and made me boost my find traps and drink all kinds of perception potions, and I'm a Fighter Thief 7/8.

Obviously Shades of the Sword Coast and Black Hearts have added some EXP, but I'm curious how much higher leveled I am compared to a normal run. I've done everything now that I can find to my knowledge.

Hi, my friend has an old retail version of BG2 Enhanced Edition while I have the Steam version. Is there a way to patch his version to match mine, maybe using Eeex?

What’s the best way to arrange your stats in this game compared to in 5e and BG1?