But you can run away from them (they're pretty slow, like all enemies whose sprites never got updated since the original BG1), and if you're familiar with the map, you can avoid running into them and go straight to the basilisks with Korax leading the way.Ĭan you name a single RPG that doesn't have similar level progression? A cleric can use Sanctuary to get the wand with no risk of getting hurt (opening containers cancels invisibility, but not Sanctuary), while a thief's stealth will merely give him or her a chance of grabbing the wand and making it out alive.Īs for the gnolls in the basilisk area, they can definitely kill you at level 1.
I often use Xzar and Montaron as tanks, simply because I don't care if they get killed.Īnd, of course, it's always possible to sneak into the ankheg cave and nab the Wand of Fire. If you're playing with SCS, you can recruit Tiax from Beregost and use his Ghast to absorb the ankhegs' attacks. Ankhegs have 52 HP, but unless you're playing solo, it should be possible to finish off an unconscious ankheg by dual-wielding weapons, as the THAC0 penalties from dual-wielding don't matter when you're getting automatic hits. Command offers no save at all for targets below level 5, so a cleric can chain-cast Command spells and keep an ankheg down for 3 whole rounds (or 2 rounds for a cleric with below 18 Wisdom, like a gnome). spell at -3, which amounts to a 75% chance of success. However, Command and Sleep can both disable ankhegs. breath, it's entirely possible for a bad hit to be instantly fatal, even for level 1 characters with less than 14 HP (which normally cannot be killed in a single blow, as they stop at 1 HP before dying). A good set of armor will help, but because ankhegs also do acid damage on a failed save vs. The ankheg farm is indeed doable at level 1, but it's not exactly safe. That's not Liches range from level 18 to level 27, so your cleric would essentially need to be at epic levels in order to destroy one (or control one, if your cleric is evil) with Turn Undead. So to get any challenge at all from vampires, you have to play a certain way, don't take a cleric early. I can't remember the last time I bothered to fight a vampire after the random encounters on the streets. SCS makes a huge difference to BG2, BG not so much, the game achieves that balance by itself.īG2 allows you to turn one of it's major enemies into being not even fightable because you don't need to anymore, vampires. And that's with not going out of your way to do it but by simply doing all the quests in chapter 2. The whole of Spellhold, the underdark, the return to BG, Suldenesselar, all of it is routine unless you nerf yourself. Seriously, how much of BG2 is a walk in the park? And then before you know it, nothing much comes close to being a challenge at all. Perfect, that plateau you reach where the game is still challenging but with care/thought/tactics you can proceed.ĭo you know how desperately hard that is to achieve in a game?īG2 doesn't do it, it punishes you too much when you judge it wrong.
Other times you bite off something hard to chew and struggle but succeed. You take chances because you are feeling cocky, and sometimes you don't get away with it. You get through that quick and have masses and masses of sweet gameplay where your level matches the game just right. Low level is a nightmare, you can't do anything. All depends really.I, for one, am absolutely delighted the way the level progression works in BG. But of course the "Before or after a roll is made" rule may require tweaking combat rolls in BG3.īut yeah, if they add Bard and the Level cap goes to 14 a Rogue Bard Dip would be insane though 14 Levels of Lore Bard also allows stuff like inspiring your own initiative and skill checks. I just hope they realize exactly how much stuff Jack of All Trades give half proficiency to, and that Inspiration is a bonus to any roll in the game with Cutting Words and Unsettling Words being really good penalty rolls. Reliable Talent also requires Proficiency, so a dip into Bard for Lore Bard and maybe even a deep dip for all Bard Expertise and Lore Bard Additional Magical Secrets (for 4 Bard Expertise and 4 Rogue Expertise) with one magical secret on Guidance and the other on Counterspell (an ability check) for an unstoppable skill check machine. Just gonna drop here that Bards get Jack of All Trades if they get added which applies to even checks like initiative and counterspell, and how since bards don:t have restrictions on their skills it would be very viable to have a 3 Level Lore Bard 11 Level Rogue to get 6 Expertise total with a lot of skills that cannot roll lower than 10 + Bonus.
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