Journal 7.0, diary of Aria Joyce, an auramaster, Updated: Final notes Options

[pekkae]

Hi

Welcome.

Yet another journal, as the weather is terrible and I have some time (well, a few days)

The rules:

- Auramaster PC
- Max HP's for NPC's
- No non protagonist related forging (though if auramaster doesn't get amazing equipment, we will most likely forge Vagrant's stuffs)
- One custom NPC (a fighter mage multiclass, we'll decide later which one)
- Rotating crew in the beginning
- We are looking to completely dominate and blast away all encounters
- Looking to try the new stuffs
- Tomes from bg1
- Starting exp from BGTotSC
- Insane all the way (well, except two early game liches & final part of the final )

Edit:And we have the following tweaks

- Multiple strongholds
- Simplified Economy
- A few class changes from IAtweaks
- Tower of Deception (we did it in chapter 6)

Let's see how far we can go.

This post has been edited by pekkae: Oct 14 2024, 07:39 PM

[critto]

is that doable?

The harder spellhold? Probably, the golem fights might be more challenging, but depending on party composition it should be doable. Having a F/I would definitely help. In my own recent testing game, I started with F/I and Neera as a sorceress, but later I changed Neera to Wild Mage and dropped F/I in favor of Imoen in Spellhold. I was really missing F/I tanking capacity for the golem fights in Spellhold.

Doing lots of content in ch3 is definitely an option, but I have never been a fun of it because it throws off the balance for a lot of content in CH4-5 and does not leave much to do in CH6.

[pekkae]

is that doable?

The harder spellhold? Probably, the golem fights might be more challenging, but depending on party composition it should be doable. Having a F/I would definitely help. In my own recent testing game, I started with F/I and Neera as a sorceress, but later I changed Neera to Wild Mage and dropped F/I in favor of Imoen in Spellhold. I was really missing F/I tanking capacity for the golem fights in Spellhold.

Doing lots of content in ch3 is definitely an option, but I have never been a fun of it because it throws off the balance for a lot of content in CH4-5 and does not leave much to do in CH6.

Then again, it probably messes up the following druid stronghold encounters as well? (messes up as in they are not balanced anymore?)

And if so, then this run would not serve it's purpose anymore - as in the sole purpose of the run is to try the new stuff as it is meant to be played and give a little bit of feedback .

I think the next encounter is in spellhold. However, do we return to Brynnlaw post spellhold? I'm asking because I'll micro-optimize quest order a little bit in order to make sure we fit within the xp cap (as in do all that is not necessary pre spellhold post spellhold, dwarf, minor things, trolls, shadows etc.)

This post has been edited by pekkae: Jun 19 2024, 06:50 PM