Together Retro: Baldur's Gate

[Jmustang1968]

Explore all the areas around the story areas. Tons of wilderness to unlock and explore. Tab button is also your friend to locate stuff on the ground. Pausing is your friend as well.

Once you learn the ins and outs of the game and know how to min/max, it actually can become quite easy.

[dsheinem]

Explore all the areas around the story areas. Tons of wilderness to unlock and explore. Tab button is also your friend to locate stuff on the ground. Pausing is your friend as well.

Once you learn the ins and outs of the game and know how to min/max, it actually can become quite easy.

min/max?

[Jmustang1968]

Explore all the areas around the story areas. Tons of wilderness to unlock and explore. Tab button is also your friend to locate stuff on the ground. Pausing is your friend as well.

Once you learn the ins and outs of the game and know how to min/max, it actually can become quite easy.

min/max?

Rerolling your main to maximize stats per class, npc composition, skill selection, lowering armor class and increasing thaco. Picking the more powerul spells, finding the hidden magic items when exploring.

[Jmustang1968]

Another tactic is to draw enemies out instead of rushing in.

Keep your mage out of melee range.

Have a thief learn detect traps to a decent level.

Have a competent archer.

[dsheinem]

Explore all the areas around the story areas. Tons of wilderness to unlock and explore. Tab button is also your friend to locate stuff on the ground. Pausing is your friend as well.

Once you learn the ins and outs of the game and know how to min/max, it actually can become quite easy.

min/max?

Rerolling your main to maximize stats per class, npc composition, skill selection, lowering armor class and increasing thaco. Picking the more powerul spells, finding the hidden magic items when exploring.

what do you mean rerolling stats? like starting over? you are losing me on all this as I don't play D&D...

[Nemoide]

Your stats are based on dice rolls in D&D. In Baldur's Gate, it's the same way. So when you're making the player character, it's generally a good idea to re-roll many times to get as high stats as you can get. Unless the character creation process is different in the enhanced edition?

Similarly, when a character gains a level you can save before selecting "level up" and load that save to see if you can get a higher boost to HP, since that's also based on a virtual die roll.

[Jmustang1968]

min/max?

Rerolling your main to maximize stats per class, npc composition, skill selection, lowering armor class and increasing thaco. Picking the more powerul spells, finding the hidden magic items when exploring.

what do you mean rerolling stats? like starting over? you are losing me on all this as I don't play D&D...

I don't really play d&d either, just the pc games heh.

But what stats you assign when creating the pc is very important. A mage with low int will be bad. A fighter with low str won't do much damage.

You can keep rerolling your base stats until you are satisfied. Then you can reassign them. For a powerful character, an aggregate of 84 or 85 or higher would suffice. You can go lower for more of a challenge.

[dsheinem]

I'm many hours in with no idea what I "rolled." I don't want to restart. If I unknowingly rolled a shitty character, can I still fix the stats as I go?

I figured out the other fighting techniques, though.

[Jmustang1968]

I'm many hours in with no idea what I "rolled." I don't want to restart. If I unknowingly rolled a shitty character, can I still fix the stats as I go?

I figured out the other fighting techniques, though.

You can look at your chatacter sheet. And it is called rolled becaue it is simulating dice rolls for the base stats.

What is your str, dex, int etc?

[dsheinem]

I'm many hours in with no idea what I "rolled." I don't want to restart. If I unknowingly rolled a shitty character, can I still fix the stats as I go?

I figured out the other fighting techniques, though.

You can look at your chatacter sheet. And it is called rolled becaue it is simulating dice rolls for the base stats.

What is your str, dex, int etc?

Here's the stats:

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Those are the stats of my main character, which frankly I feel like I am escorting the whole time so far as she has low HP and nothing but a magic missile and a heal attack which have to be replenished often by camping.