Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition: Character Creation Guide
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Follow me on Facebook and Twitter to chat!
/ quill18
/ quill18
Visit my website and vote on games!
towerdive.com
I occasionally do live streams, follow me on Twitch to get alerted when I do!
/ quill18
I remeember one time I tried to play as a wild mage in baldur's gate, and my spell messed up and summoned a hostile demon
That sounds like a problem lol
I once dropped an exploding cow on a bandit.
I looked and noticed I was missing 80%-ish of my gold. I just restarted I was so irate. I was saving gold for a long time to kit everyone out with nice gear once I hit BG and beregost. It wassomething like 70k lost. Never again lol.
I will say, they are fun for a wacky game. But be prepared for reloading a lot though.
That sounds a lot of fun actually
Dude should have gone Human just to show all the classe
That's exactly what I was saying when I saw the first like 7 min.
Really good video! You didn't go over shorty saving throws! For those of you wondering at 18+ CON if you are a Dwarf, Halfling or Gnome you will get +5 (which is max) to the saving throws listed on the race selection screen. So even if you are not a "Warrior" class, max CON is still important-ish. (14-17 CON will still get you +4 to said rolls) So if you would still rather put 2 more points into CON instead of something else that will not boost any other vital stats for your class, as a "Shorty" you get an extra +1 to your saving throws.
Bard is more like a thief / sorcerer type deal. You didn't click Dragon Disciple to show that off.
Fun fact: Your alignment also affects your starting reputation. Good guys will start off popular, while evil guys will start off with people not liking them very much.
Just picked this up in Anticipation of 3, thanks for the help
Same :) plus ggot a surge of nostalgia remembering when I was playing bg 1 when it came out
Same
Just got this for the switch and your video has so far been the easiest to understand, mainly because I've never really played a D&D game before lol
Thank you for explaining the stats (strength, dex, etc), i've been trying to figure out what they actually do for a long time. very helpful
It's the best possible introduction one could ask for to be honest :)
The hours I spent with this and a calculator back in the day just re-rolling and re-rolling trying to get that magical 90 stat points :)
i got 92 one time... call me lucky hehe
david3430100 so did i... but then accidently rerolled :(
92 points is the "magical' number and isn't that hard to get. The highest I ever got is 96. Every play through I reroll until I get 92 or better.
@@TH-camTookMyNickname.WhyNot 103
@@everythingpony 103 is a higher than 17 average.
Nothing is impossible, but without proof, I'm definitely NOT believing this one.
Friends and I have literally played hundreds and hundreds of hours and the highest anyone has ever rolled is a 96 like mentioned above. Max could be higher, but definitely not 103. A 17 average.... nope.
Useful video, thanks for making this. I like that it's concise and you don't ummmm and errrr for minutes on end.
I've played this game a lot (1000hrs so far) and a elf fighter/mage (true neutral alignment so he can eventually wear the robes of the neutral archmagi) with 92 points total for attributes to start with (current character has str 18-94, dex 19, con17, int 18, wis 10, cha 10, I reroll until I get the attributes I want ) is by far the best protagonist. I like to dual wield flails or longswords (played through with both choices) and I wear ankheg plate (which disables my spells but at low levels who cares as you aren't much of a spell caster anyway) until I can afford the robes of neutral archmagi.
Great video! I jumped into D&D in e5 so this helps explain the older stuff. Thanks again!
OMG what a throwback! Never would've thought I'd be looking at this video in 2020 ready to play this on a handheld device.
For Baldur's Gate 2, it can be dangerous to lower the intelligence of your frontline fighters. When you run into the mind flayers, their melee attack can drain intelligence, i believe its 5 for each hit, so I try to have 11 for my fighters if possible, takes three hits to kill them that way. From the intelligence drain atleast.
I'm about to play for the first time. Thanks for the tip.
That's a funny way to die. "Stabbed himself out of sheer stupidity"
Thank you so much, did like you said and got it during the steam sale, but it had been so long I couldn't remember any of the actual stat charts. This was a literal game life saver !
so i noticed that dragon disciple gives very good attributes. I rolled 94 on it.
I watched the whole thing 2 times and only now have I noticed this was made all the way back in 2013.
The game is light as it can get. 2 gbs of space, and can run in almost any machine. SOME graphical chipsets have problems with it, but there are solutions on the forums.
Both games (BG1 and BG2) are 80+ hours of gameplay and GOD DAMN FUN to play, are masterfully written and have set the standard quality-o-meter for all modern rpgs, including Dragon Age (once acclaimed to be BG2 spiritual successor by Bioware).
Great video, I've never really sunk my teeth into an old school RPG like this (I played about an hour of it but never finished) so I'm definitely going to make good use this guide when I play this game again.
No, Baldur's Gate is AD&D 2nd Edition. Neverwinter Nights is 3rd Edition. Neverwinter Nights 2 is 3.5 Edition.
Yep, there are good mods for the original game that drastically improve it as well.
you left off one thing... for humans stats matter to what classes are available if you multiclass.
+NUKE you cant multiclass as a human
typed wrong word... dualclass
Yes, if you're going to dual class later you will need a 15 or higher in your primary stats of your original class; and a 17 or higher for the primary stats of the second class. Makes something like a good Fighter -> Druid a tough roll.
Бонжур создателям такого шикарного контента! quill18
Жаль, что этому видео нельзя поставить больше одного лайка, а то я бы поставил сразу 10!
Хорошего дня и ... до встречи
Since this video was made, BeamDog totally fucked the menu GUI in the game. Damn, I really miss this classic menu system. The new one blows.
Excellent guide and not long to understand. Thank you.
Just a few things regarding the attributes:
Dex is the same from 7 to 14, and iirc you said 6 (minor difference)
Cha of 8 or above makes sure that if nothing else affects the roll, you cannot get a hostile reaction (the other possible are neutral and friendly reactions)
Otherwise an incredibly informative video, there's a lot of stuff about the mechanics that never really become obvious no matter how many times you play it. Good to know that the new players have somewhere to turn for info.
Fireball is Invocation, Quill.
Melf's Acid Arrow is Conjuration, maybe that's what you were thinking of? =P
Fantastic guide. Thumbs up. Thanks for doing this.
I’m just now getting into this game. Really late lol. But my friends and I still play 2nd edition D&d. I’m prolly gonna try to make our character xD
Never too late friend! I highly recommend playing icewind dale
Is the game very big?
I have a pretty bad computer right now but i reeeeeaally want to play something, more specifically i wanted to play Dragon Age Origins but it got pretty laggy so I'm trying to find something else to play.
Do you think there's a chance that I'll be able to play this game?
Diva Quinzel this is like 20 years before dragon age
i remember playing BG2 and mashing the reroll button all day to get the best stats possible haha
A few questions Quill (Or anyone else, and don't worry, I'm capable of typing words into a search engine, I just figured these would be common questions that other people would ask, plus I'd like to hear *your* personal view) -
1) What total roll would you recommend stopping at, and how much does it matter later in the game? i.e. if I'm someone who hates messing up characters and being able to undo it, if I choose say 82 points will I notice the difference to say 88 much or do you cap out pretty much the same regardless?
2) What class would you recommend to get the most enjoyment out of your first playthrough based on your own past experiences? I know with NWN the enjoyment you got out of the original campaign was vastly dependent on what role you chose since some classes just didn't get utilised to their full potential in the base story, I'm curious if BG is similar.
3) Not really a question but I'd love to see you do an LP of Arcanum. It's the one RPG other than the Elder Scrolls games I can just go back to and replay over and over because it's so open ended in what you can do/be, plus if you like the kind of freedom you get in creating your character in D&D you'll seriously love the system Arcanum uses, I've probably made like 50-60 completely unique builds/characters and not covered half the stuff you can do. (Plus it's top-down isometric like BG with a fun party of followers you can obtain throughout the game depending on if they like you or not/what kind of person you are/if you agree to help them etc. The closest game I've played to it would be Divinity - Original Sin, but I prefer the setting of Arcanum, and the combat in Divinity)
JesusGreenBL I would not play a fighter in this game, if your character die's it's game over unlike your friends who can be revived.
Play a pure archer or a mage. Archer is better because there's less micro, and your probably going to have Jaheira for the summons/revives and then another mage like Nerra or Aerie (I recommend Nerra there's less character interactions but a better romance.) If you play pure mage then be a wild mage it's a lot more fun. you should ether keep Jaheira or veronica. Veronica has a cool romance path but Jaheira is he obvios choice early on, cus she has awesome summons (Veronica Is better later on when you get the hang of things like immunity spells). (if you go duel class for a cleric/summoner then you can pick up Neera or Aerie) """"there is a editor you can use later on if you want to change.""""
Also pro tip do the umir hills quest early on. it's tough but awesome for xp and you have to go there later anyway + you get one of the most relaxing keeps in the game. you can also do the unseeing eye since you get a really amazing fighter from it. pro, pro tip, grab those gloves of dexterity.
+JesusGreenBL minimum I accept is 92, with 99 being the best I have rolled. This gives you (92)18(xx) str, 18 dex, 18 con and 18 int, 10 in wis and cha. Any 'extra' points over 92 always goes to cha (to reduce store costs),I always play 1/2 elf fighter/mage multi class, as they are potentially the most powerful class by the end of Throne of Bhaal. It takes a few hours of mindless rerolling but if you think about the hours you are going to invest in playing it is not that bad.
I will add as well I dual wield, flails (for the flail of ages in SOA), but am going long swords right now, as there are few nice flails in Baldurs Gate but a couple of nice long swords (will go with flails eventually so when I go into SOA I am ready for the Flail of Ages)
+colin8696908 Who the fuck is Veronica?
+JesusGreenBL I should have added you should take into account the tomes available in Buldurs Gate. I have just finished BG 1 with an elf fighter/mage/thief and the base stat roll was 91
(Str 18[97] Dex 19 Con 17 Int 18 Wis 9 Cha 10) and at the finish of BG1
(just coming out of the CandleKeep catacombs) my Elf now has
Str 19 Dex 20 Con 18 Int 19 Wis 12 Cha 11.
By the end of SOA(in hell, taking some evil and some good picks and changing my alignment to evil)/Throne of Bhaal (Lum the Mad Machine) I will have something like
Str 22 Dex 21 Con 21 Int 20 Wis 12 Cha 12
BG character creation guide - "The instruction book will explain how dual & multi classing works".
Well ok then, at least I know that strength makes my character stronger now...
I have never played any of the Baldur's Gate games, and would very much appreciate of you did a full LP on it. Please and thanks.
It's funny to hear you talk about how outdated the character gen is... I never played anything past 2nd edition, so this is how I remember the game. LOL
I loved playing P&P Dungeons and Dragons! I REALLY want this game. Think i might buy it soon
I just started playing Baldur's gate 2 as a Wild Mage and ended up blowing up half my party and turning myself into a dog when one of my fireball spells backfired during the shade lord questline. I was worried I might get stuck as a dog for the remainder of the game but fortunately it's only temporary.... but I've heard that if you accidently do a sex change wild surge as a wild mage it's permanent
I know your schedule is insano mode right now but... please do a Let's Play of this! I played BG2 and Icewind Dale, Neverwinter, Planescape: Torment and pretty much all the other classics, but I never managed to actually play the original and would love to be able to just chill on the couch and watch you cruise through the story. :D
The consequences are only for palladins and rangers if they stray from the path of Good they loose a LOT of benefits, other than that little to no impact. And monks are awesome!
I hope that they will release a Baldur's Gate 2 EE with Throne of Bhaal Included. Also would like an EE of both of the Icewind Dale games. The Neverwinter franchise is getting picked up as a Free to Play MMO so I am looking forward to that.
It's the same world, Faerun. And the same coastal region as well (The Sword Coast). You can't visit the "other" place in either game though. Too far away from each other.
That means same lore, gods and so forth though. :)
There are no new graphics - it's all about giving the player a stable HD version of the game that runs as intended on never systems. You can achieve similar things with the old GOG bundle and TUTU - but you'd miss out on some awesome new henchmen.
The Half-Elf race would probably be for role-players and for special conversation/dialogue options, if i'm not mistaken
Like your vids quill18.I played pen paper D&D i remember savings throws were based off certain stats.Does the game do the same? If does dropping stats to lowest would be a bad idea.Like dropping your int on a warrior sounds good until you fail a save vs illusions dex for balance checks con for poison saves ect.I'm so buying this now after watching your vid i got a serious nostalgia vibe (still haz me dice!) plus many positive reviews saying this is best pc rpg ever made.
Kind-of-sort-of... they've skewed some of the rules a bit. This game was bridging the era between 2nd and 3rd editions.
the consequences of not following his alignment can go as far as the fallen class and lose a LOT of statistics.
because shooting magic missles at giant golems is realistic enough
So I stumbled upon your channel because you played SimCity 5 , which I do too! Then I came across your development channel and found out you are a C# developer like me. Now I see you do D&D, which is freaking awesome!! This one BG1 was my first RPG which I played for hours!!! Don't tell me you like to watch Die Hard movies as well.... :D lol
Not really - The rules are very different from any of the modern editions (Video games or pen and paper). You'd probably want to start out with something like Neverwinter Nights 1 for an introduction to everything D&D. And then if you like it, either continue with its expansion packs, then NWN2 or go back to the roots with Baldurs Gate (And note that BG uses an older system with very different rules)
My favorite RPG of all time.
The long sword bonus doesn't make sense for elves. They should just get +2 or +3 with bows instead.
would definitely love to see a let's play of one of the d&d games. baulders gate or neverwinter nights, whichever edition you prefer
Baldur's gate is on sale on steam this weekend!
Thanks quill18, nearly missed this sale, been waiting for this game for ages :)
elves aren't broken in this game, humans are the ones that are broken, duel classing breaks the game apart, a kensai thief with use any item ability is really broken, kesai mages are pretty broken aswell, but of course they won't become good until high levels, plus blunt weapons are some the best weapons in BG2 (crom faeyer, flail of ages)
Thank you for this, it has help me so much.
I freakin love Baulder's Gate! Especially since I read books that coincide with the games :) I was always better at the Icewindale games though, I created the most powerful characters I could over multiple playthroughs :3
In traditional, table top 2nd edition dungeons and dragons, Wild Mages and bards, specifically lore master bards and blade singers were some of the most powerful (if not THE most powerful) player character classes to pick. One more example of Quill just saying whatever _confidently_ to appear like he knows what he's talking about.
I love how he has no concept of alignment. Klingons are LN for example, following their code of honor, which has nothing to do with laws.... especially evident in DS9... For that matter, neither does chaotic. Much more about are you selfish vs calculated.
looks interesting, might pick it up later, but ill stick with DDO for now
also could you do some DDO coverage in the future?
21:00 did anyone else also just kinda zone off into a mental state of sleep at this point out of pure overload of the facts and stats quill pumps into you? lol =)
Uhhh how the hell do you get past this screen and start playing the game?
Which UI mod is this? Or did Vanilla Baldur's gate have this UI back in the day?
Thank you, friend.
Awesome video. Thanks.
Greate guide, just got the game and im downloading it, seems legit!
quill you must play this game now that this video is out
I remember playing this as a kid.
Do you plan on making a video like this for BG2?
Thanks for the video :D You helped me understand this better, great job!
Just bought this on the switch as a newbie to the game and franchise and I am intimidated
I sure am - In this context at least.
I watched the video for 17 minutes and finally realized I'm downloading boulder gate 2 not 1
still applies.
It runs well. Still a few minor bugs, but nothing game-breaking.
Baldur's gate the original was too... Ice wind dales are, and so is BG2...
Hey man, really good video, the only thing you didn't go over stat wise was how it affected saving throws. Are they really significant in BG:EE or is it another you can just ignore?
Wis doesn't help saves in BG2, just gives bonus Cleric and Druid spells and raises Lore.
It is because the game runs horribly on Intel HD (aka. onboard graphics cards) - it isn't an issue if you have an actual graphics card.
It makes more sense, D&D fluffwise, but 3.5 is way easier to play and to teach.
I have a question for you. in your experiance is that confusion spell (that was in baldurs gate 2) in the enhanced edition? i recall magics bieng unforgiving in baldurs gate 2 shadows of amn, but never played the first game. But i do remember a confusion spell bieng a game ender as you'd get hit by it than shortly afterwards run into combat as you cant control your character than be slain... i also remember bieng turned to stone and smashed xD
so can elf or any other race except for humans can still get a classes that human can get from the start
I thought he was trying to spell salmon at first.
It is set in the same place though right? Or is the sword coast just a coincidence?
BG2 EE is in the works--not sure how soon it will be released.
My only problem with this game was beamdog couldn't fix the sound issue i was having. Shame really it was fun while i had it.
you need an 18 dexterity as a fighter, in 2 E rules you don't have penalties for wearing armour and also they get killed alot even at 15 DEX in full armour. I try and roll my fighers/paladins ect to at least 18 in all physical nice to get an 18/91-00 but that is hard as Hell. if you take the Knoll strong hold at level 1-3 and get crappy luck on hit rolls or HP per level rolls, you will be in for a night of reloads if you are anything less than 18 in all phsyical stats as a fighter class(except ranger-who is a ranged attacker) your main PC dies, that's it, reload time, it is not like Icewind Dale. rumor states that low intelligence affects pathfinding AI, but I think it is a lie, the node can be set to 32000(in original BG-haven't got EE so don't know if it is settable.) and less of an effect. haven't tried it with a 3.
If I am not mistaken, is it not wise to have a few surplus points in the mental stats if possible for protection reasons? I seem to recall some spells needing to beat a roll against a targets stat in order to go through making a fighting type with next to nil mental capacity a super vulnerable target for such things.
Please do this Quill!
and i think charisma also determines the moral failure chance of you party.
or am i wrong with that?
The updates helped a lot on the graphical matters, and actually, a shittier computer runs BGee way better than a top notch pc with best graphic engines because of OLD.
Sorcerer was in BG2.
Amazingly Helpful!
!! Baldur'S Gate! Fantastic!
how do you get that thing that tells you the total roll ?
Aren't bards considered OP in 3.5?
Lol i remember one time spending about 2 hours re-rolling stats to get the highest total.
finalsight yeah
Ya, hes pretty fucking awesome.
It's in the enhanced edition.
Can you write your own biography for your hero?
why bother :P
bboyfocused Just curious
Alex Bakker yes you can
I just bought this game today on the steam sale and for some reason all the Chaotic alignments are grayed out for me no matter what character i choose, do you have any idea what may be wrong?
Can I emulate this game on the tiny playstation?
Ps4 has both games 1 and 2
in 3rd wisdom was important for monks. is it the same for 2nd?
Says the guy with Normandy picture. :P
Please do an LP of this! :)