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The Hurricane
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Icewind Dale 2
   

Anyone getting it?

Games I shall buy in the future:
Gothic 2
Icewind Dale 2
Lionheart

Games I might get:
Arx Fatalis
Warcraft 3
SWG
Divinity
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Post Sun Jul 14, 2002 2:20 am
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I'm currently busy with NWN right now, but I can see myself get IWD 2. I'll probably wait for RPGDot's review and the first price drop.
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Post Sun Jul 14, 2002 2:26 am
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Same as Val here... i think.
Post Sun Jul 14, 2002 2:51 am
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We'll have a preview up in the coming week. A real review will have to wait until it hits gold.
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Post Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:00 pm
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I'm looking foward to it

I loved IWD! by the way what was your party?

mine was
human paladin
half-elf fighter/thief
2 half-elf fighter/clerics
2 half-elf fighter/wizards

That party rocked! 4 melee and 2 battlemages behind who could also shoot bows or melee if they had run out of spells

Now that IWD2 has 3rd edition rules goodbye to multiclass fighter/spellcasting types (they were too powerful anyway)
Post Wed Jul 17, 2002 6:25 am
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No doubt I'll be getting it.

I've had fun with Gothic, Morrowind and NWN but I'm itching to get back to a party-based isometric RPG and they don't get any better than BIS products.

Onward to the Ten Towns!
Post Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:37 am
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I will get it as well.

My party?
Human Fighter
Elf Ranger
Half elf Bard
Hafling Thief
Elf Wizard
Human Cleric
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Post Wed Jul 17, 2002 1:12 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by Seth
I will get it as well.

My party?
Human Fighter
Elf Ranger
Half elf Bard
Hafling Thief
Elf Wizard
Human Cleric


Sweet party. I just read that you can pick sub-races that have unique skills and feats for your character. So you could have a Wood-Elf Ranger or maybe a Drow. Plus they are using the 3E rules....this game sounds very solid so far.
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Post Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:41 pm
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They use most of the 3E rules, some things they haven't covered though. Today I learned that Spell Resistance stacks. Meaning the SR for your class and SR for your race will be added together. From the IWD2 forums:
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Have any of you actually thought through what happens if SR stacks? It doesn't really matter for six characters games with players who don't milk XP out of everything, but there are a lot of people who play with small parties, single characters, or play through in HoF mode. If a 13th level drow monk has SR stack, the result is 23 + 24 = 47 SR! You would need to be 27th level to HOPE to overcome that 5% of the time. At 20th level, this becomes 30 + 31 = 61 SR. And that ignores the possibility of having random items and spells grant additional SR bonuses. Sorry, it just doesn't work. It makes those characters, for all practical purposes, completely invulnerable to magic.


And there are indeed subraces for dwarves, elves, gnomes, halflings and humans. I have a list here.

BTW... I'll move this to the proper D&D forum.
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Post Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:02 pm
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My party in IWD, BG1, and BG2 is always boring, yet highly effective:

2 male human fighters
2 elven female clerics
2 male human magic-users

who needs thieves? not me.

BTW Icewind Dale is probably the most played game i have ever had except for the retarded Doom2 freak frenzy that happened to me one time (hey there was nothing else to play at the time except Betrayal at Krondor)...
Post Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:48 am
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Thanks for the link Myrthos,

You can even play as a half-deity - Aasimar, sub-race of a human. So far character creation sounds like it will be a game in itself. A party of six 3E characters will probably mow through just about anything.
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Post Thu Jul 18, 2002 7:28 am
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Well as already introduced in Heart of Winter, the monsters will be matched to the average level of your party. It is also claimed that it's impossible to play the game with a single character, unlike Icewind Dale 1.
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Post Thu Jul 18, 2002 8:45 am
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quote:
Originally posted by The Hurricane
Thanks for the link Myrthos,

You can even play as a half-deity - Aasimar, sub-race of a human. So far character creation sounds like it will be a game in itself. A party of six 3E characters will probably mow through just about anything.


Aasimar aren't half-deities. They're rather wimpy (Great paladins and clerics, though) people born DESCENDED from some sort of divine blood (like... you're grandfather was an Astral Deva or something).

Your mother or father would be a half-celestial... and with complete immunity to 3 elements, the ability to throw around clerical spells on the side rivalling a level 14 cleric just for something to do, and an average of +2 to +4 to every attribute... they would seem more like a deity. Even then they're pale comparisons to your grandfather/grandmother... who, as a Astral Deva or Solar, can face down just about anything and survive.
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Post Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:22 pm
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I am really looking forward to Icewind Dale 2
Only wish it would be possible to import a party from IDW1.
Post Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:49 am
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There are several reasons why that's not possible. The first being that the timeframe of IWDII, would make your party consists of old folks
Secondly, they would have a lot of work to do to transfer the weapons, armor, items and character stats from 2e to 3e. Which in itself is probably the reason they did not want to do the first
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