Let's Play - BGT with a Codex Crew

[ghostdog]

I prefer installing the mods myself (for some reason). You can safely install the following stuff (in the same order of course) for a BGT game:

No big story mods included of course. Terrible creatures.

Hmm, there's a new version of ascension, in which tehre's a component incompatible with BGT, unless you install it before BGT.

Is this ascension 1.41 better, or just the same?

I don't know, but I don't think that there are any major changes there. Check the readmes to be sure.

 

[Ulminati]

I assume we're going to be playing on highest difficulty to offset the obscne amount of 18's in our attributes?

 

[Sergiu64]

I assume we're going to be playing on highest difficulty to offset the obscne amount of 18's in our attributes?

18's barely do anything in ToB. Everyone's too high level to miss and there's plenty of magic items that fill in holes in the attributes by that point.

 

[taplonaplo]

The title is missing an L and the letters are in the wrong order.
Anyway, looking forward to it. You put shitloads of contents mod in so i'm curious how those will play out if you ever get there.

 

[BethesdaLove]

Lets make bets on how far this brave soul will manage!

I bet 500 posts that he'll never even complete BG1.

 

[Morkar Left]

Don´t be a pussy and do it ironman ^^ so you have an excuse for not completing it...

 

[oldmanpaco]

Lets make bets on how far this brave soul will manage!

I bet 500 posts that he'll never even complete BG1.

You're on bitch.

Don´t be a pussy and do it ironman ^^ so you have an excuse for not completing it...

The problem is this is not a generic BG setup. SCS and other mods make the game a little bit harder than the generic game. This still would not be a huge problem but the surprise factor of the added mods would probably ensure at least a few deaths.

 

[Morkar Left]

The problem is this is not a generic BG setup. SCS and other mods make the game a little bit harder than the generic game. This still would not be a huge problem but the surprise factor of the added mods would probably ensure at least a few deaths.

Just grind a bit at the beginning. It´s a while but I think ressurection was available in BG1. And I don´t know but playing in multiplayer you can just create new chars to fill the empty ranks? We could bet who dies next...

 

[Ulminati]

Iron Man is the only way to go. you already have more than 5 voulenteers, so replacements are available.

So long as the main character doesn't die, any party member that isn't ressurected could easily be replaced by another schmuck from the pile. Say, at the level of the lowest-level party member -1, just so they won't be completely useless later on.

 

[taplonaplo]

Ironman-ish would more enjoyable for us readers. Ofc main character death is a reason to load, but otherwise characters dying left and right is probably the best part of codex crews.
But do however you like it, SCS screwed me over before so i can see why you wouldn't want to iron man.

 

[Grunker]

Yeah! Nice LP!

If I can get in, I'd like this character:

Feng-Grunker

Large portrait

Small portrait

Race: Dwarf

Class: Cleric of Helm (or, if you prefer, Fighter Dual-Classing into Cleric or even Fighter/Cleric)

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Stats:

STR: 10

DEX: 16

CON: 20

WIS: 18

INT: 11

CHA: 10

Also, chiming in with the chorus:

Either original party members for a more lulzy playthrough, or iron-man for the five other members, so the members of the prestigious magazine will all get a shot a the villains + the great benefit of playing with a lot of different party styles!

 

[hoverdog]

Ironman for the five codex members, maximum difficulty, let the massacre begin

 

[oldmanpaco]

When I say no iron man I am referring to Paco dying. I could care less how many meat shields... er Codexers die.

 

[Morkar Left]

sounds like a plan...

 

[oldmanpaco]

First post updated.

 

[Cassidy]

Cassidy is representin' his hood mothafucka

Portrait: Whichever token black guy is available

Race: Ni... Human

Class: Machete Ra, Barbarian.

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Stats:

STR: 18

DEX: 14

CON: 20

WIS: 3

INT: 3

CHA: 3

 

[taplonaplo]

In that, i'm signing in for the slaughter house
taplonaplo, half-elf fighter/mage, chaotic neutral
stats: dump/min all
Death by a pack of rabid gibberlings would be preferable, but any encounter will do really.

 

[hoverdog]

Louie Louie, halfling bard, chaotic whatever
18 dex, 10 con, 18 cha, rest as you please

 

[oldmanpaco]

Hmm.. where can I find the small portraits for the original BG1/2 npcs?

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Yay!!! I made the roster!

 

[taplonaplo]

If you still need em, extracted from portraits.bif:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K0O1B72Q

 

[Wulfstand]

I wanted to join the group, but then I saw I'd have to have a fucking transsexual in the party.

Nevermind, just add me as soon as the faggot dies:

Wulfstand

Dwarven Fighter, kicking ass, drinking ale, and has scottish accent and a great sense of humor.

STR 18/80 (or whatever, don't want to make you roll the fucking dice for that 80)
DEX 12
CON 16
WIS 10
INT 12
CHA 15

Since he's basically the fucking awesome liked by all dwarf, he needs that bit of CHA for his witty sense of humour.
Give him that BG 1 dwarf portrait, the one who looks as if he's thinking (i forgot how he was called, didn't really play BG 1 that much, as opposed to its sequel )
edit:

Fuck yeah.

 

[Nickless]

We've no idea if he's larping this or not though, so there may or may not be a point to fleshing out the personality of PCs

 

[Wulfstand]

What do you mean, larping? Fuck me, I just described one of the most stereotypical (and personally most enjoyed) types of dwarves in the history of rpgs and that counts as larping?

 

[Luzur]

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