BG1 under tutu - anyway to play without being overpowering?

On 29 Jan 2007 04:22:51 -0800, "magnate" <chrisc.RemoveThis@dbass.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Jan 28, 2:45 pm, Void Sucker <latexh....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to play the original Buldar's Gate 1 (with TOTSC expansion)
>> under tutu or easy tutu, but I understand playing this game with the
>> BG2 engine can incur too powerful a character class that may throw off
>> game balance. I don't like cakewalks. I'm currently playing BG2:TOB
>> and I'm finding the Watcher's Keep dungeon incredibly challenging. I
>> just don't want to deal with the negative transfer of going back to
>> BG1 (which I never played) and finding it too easy. Any mods out
>> there that I can use in conjunction with Tutu to simulate the original
>> BG1 gaming experience the way the game developers pretty much intended
>> it to be played? Thanks.
>
>Er, all you have to do is use one of the original classes, and resist
>the temptation to use the kits. Using an Archer or a Kensai does
>indeed make BG1 a cakewalk, but if you use one of the BG1 classes
>(Fighter/Paladin/Ranger/Thief/Cleric) it should be fine. In fact if
>you use a Sorceror or a Monk, you're in for a real challenge, because
>those classes were designed for characters starting BG2 at level 8 or
>so, and are really really weak for most of BG1.
>
>I didn't mention Mages above - some people think that the extra spell
>available to specialist mages in the BG2 engine makes them too easy
>also. Personally I always found keeping mages alive really difficult,
>so it made no odds to me.
>
>CC

Thanks. I saw this post only after I already responded to you in the
other rpg newsgroup asking about the extra spell availability. Yeah,
mages are a bitch to keep alive so maybe this will help keep down the
frustration level.

VS
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Void Sucker wrote:
> I'd like to play the original Buldar's Gate 1 (with TOTSC expansion)
> under tutu or easy tutu, but I understand playing this game with the
> BG2 engine can incur too powerful a character class that may throw off
> game balance. I don't like cakewalks. I'm currently playing BG2:TOB
> and I'm finding the Watcher's Keep dungeon incredibly challenging. I
> just don't want to deal with the negative transfer of going back to
> BG1 (which I never played) and finding it too easy. Any mods out
> there that I can use in conjunction with Tutu to simulate the original
> BG1 gaming experience the way the game developers pretty much intended
> it to be played? Thanks.
>
> VS
Some people will self limit themselves to not using non bg1 items,
that's up to you.
If you play Tutu you will have kits available like inquisitor, cavilier
instead of just plain paladin, etc. you don't pick the kits it will be
just like playing in bg1 where kits weren't available, although the
inquisitors single disple or trusight per day don't seem too unbalancing.
You are still starting out at level 1 so you may only have 4-10 HP to
start with, and are very easy ti kill regardless of class.
There is a mod 'sword coast strategems' (SCS) (www.gibberlings3.net)
which will improve the AI of enemies, it doesn't give them abilities
that they didn't already have,(ie. cheating) it just makes them use it
more intelligently.

The bg2 engine will allow a higher XP cap, so you could exceed the 161K
cap, but that will probably only account for about 1 extra level anyway.

You could add some other mods, grey clan episode 1, (blackwyrmlair.net)
adds an entire quest with several difficult battles,(you may need to
cheese your way through them) they will also add a bunch ofXP to further
raise the total XP you get, although not sure if you will gain another
level in the end, by the time you start getting to the 160+K XP levels
you have a pretty good jump to the next level.
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