28 replies to this topic

[Klorox]

If you're playing a character who you did not play in BGI, do you give him/her the additional stats & experience you would have gotten if you had played him/her through BGI (+1 STR,DEX,CON,INT,CHA, +3 WIS and 161,000 XP)??

Just wondering. I can't decide if I think it's just way too cheesy or not. What do the rest of y'all do?

[SConrad]

Personally, I never do. I tend to not need it, especially with all the good items in the game.

[Zyraen]

Not having played BG1, I have never. BG2 is a tad too easy as it is already. I think my components in Zyraen's Misc Mods should show my perceptions

[Sammi Somara]

I don't know how.

[Daulmakan]

I generally play from BG1 and then import the PC. But if I'm not, I don't use the stat bonuses.

However, if I'm importing, I always keep my inventory.

[Kellen]

I commonly cheat in the cloak of Balduran, but rarely the books. Not into BG2 anyways.

Edited by Kellen, 27 April 2008 - 07:29 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Well, I usually cheat myself the 18/100 str and 18 to the other stats, but I leave it at that, so in a way yes, even though the 18 to all really doesn't even help that much...

[Eleima]

Nope, not ever. I usually create a character from scratch at the beginning of BG2, or import a character I've already created and used in BG2, so you couldn't say the games I play are really hard... My character's already boosted as is.

[Azkyroth]

If you're playing a character who you did not play in BGI, do you give him/her the additional stats & experience you would have gotten if you had played him/her through BGI (+1 STR,DEX,CON,INT,CHA, +3 WIS and 161,000 XP)??

Just wondering. I can't decide if I think it's just way too cheesy or not. What do the rest of y'all do?

I generally do, to the point of also boosting Minsc, Jaheira, and Imoen to the XP count they had at the end of BG1 (with ToTSC installed, I find it's almost impossible not to hit the XP cap by about chapter 6, so I tend to remove it).

[Abigail]

It may be a little bit cheesy, but I do it all, for the sake of continuity I usually play with a plain, simple warrior in BG1 which seems too boring to import to BGII.

[Deathsangel]

Either I start from scratch and write a new biography (people no I am a writer-type of modder not a coder right? ) or I import from BG1.

Unlike many here, I do find some of the fights in BG2 quite hard enough... Really Sendai without being improved I find tough enough. Neither do I think most Dragons a walk in the park. Am I that bad a player?

I whipe the floor with strategic empire building games, but not this stuff like BG or NWN (I do not have Oblivion or KOTOR don't ask, and yes even I can handle PS:T quite easily when giving it effort)

Edited by Deathsangel, 28 April 2008 - 01:40 AM.

[Choo Choo]

I import. I have one chr file at the beginning of BG1 with my dear Bhaalspawn level 1 and with base stat, and one with 161k XP at the beginning of BG2 with all her original stats + increases.

[Jazhara7]

You can give yourself bonuses for having played BG I at the start of BGII?!





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[Choo Choo]

Yeah. With the console.

Like the tomes, for example. There is one tome of strength in BG1, so you make a character in BG2, clua in the tomes and stuff. And set your experience to 161000.

[Nuuskamuikkunen]

I have a couple of times, however I don't generally anymore since it's still fun to play with less-than-perfect stats (althouh having a mage with 19 strength can prove interesting )

[Sammi Somara]

Is it possible to bring in other items from BGI that aren't in BGII?

[Daulmakan]

Is it possible to bring in other items from BGI that aren't in BGII?

Yes.

[Bluenose]

If it's a PC I played through BG1, then they get whatever they had in BG1 and like it, or else. If it's one I'm generating to start in SoA, then I might give them one or two of the bonuses depending on how their stats rolled up, but not more. My latest PC actually had their strength reduced from 18/98 to 18/31, for reasons that seemed sensible at the time.

[Cal Jones]

If it's a PC I played through BG1, then they get whatever they had in BG1 and like it, or else. If it's one I'm generating to start in SoA, then I might give them one or two of the bonuses depending on how their stats rolled up, but not more. My latest PC actually had their strength reduced from 18/98 to 18/31, for reasons that seemed sensible at the time.

Well, like I said over at BoM, I have, in the past, cheated in a few tomes via the CLUAConsole (I don't use Shadowkeeper or any of those things), but if you import from BG1, there's not much need, really. The character I imported from my last game of BG1 had 19, 19, 19, 13, 13, 15 (after using the tomes from that game) which is more than adequate to give most things a good kicking.
Of course, it really does depend how patient you are and how long you will take rolling your BG character...

[arguskos]

Hey, random question: I know you can get the tomes and everything in BG1, but how do you get the +3 Wisdom? +1 from a tome, and +2 from... what, exactly? I've played more BG2 than anyone ever needs to, but am not as familiar with BG1.

-Argus