I love Aerie

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Yeah, there's a mod, or a component of the tweakpack or banterpack or some such that reduces the time between the different talks / banter, so that you can get it all in one go. Even so, I'm sure I've missed some dialogue here and there because other dialogue took primacy (like not being able to redeem Sarevok because not all his talks would trigger in time, due to lovetalks all the time).

So bascally, Khalid got gibbed.

 

Isn't it cruel that the developers incorporated Khalid's violent death into the game, yet did not add any material from the Book of Vile Darkness into the game. They didn't make it instantly obvious exactly what happened to Kahlid, but whatever happened was rather unpleasant. It would have been cool if there was some quest to redeem Khalid or to even get him in your party.

 

I'm curious how Beamdog will explain the death in the expansion they are working on. I assume lots of long standing questions will recieve some form of answer.

A bit unrelated, but wondering if there's a way I can reply to this thread without the forum automatically making me watch it. There's no need to spam my inbox when someone replies. I'll come by and check when I have the time and inclination. I'm noting that the thread watching thing keeps turning on when I reply, in spite of me previously having turned it off. Not a big deal, but if there's a way to prevent this I'd be happy to learn about it.

 

Aerie having access to both arcane and divine spellcasting does give her some merit, especially since elves naturally can't multiclass into cleric/mage.
As soon as you make your way to the government district to pick up Viconia though, you can pick up Jan as well, also giving you access to both kinds of spellcasting - which might be preferred for players rolling an evil party. (though Jan isn't evil but Chaotic Neutral instead, but afaik he does not conflict with any of the evil npc's.)

Aerie's real merit comes from the sheer amount of spells she has access to and can cast, as well as the fact that you can delegate buffing and damaging spells to the mage side, keeping her cleric spell slots open for healing spells.
You'll have to bump up her INT a bit in some way or another for her to learn mage spells reliably since she only has a base of 16, but even that isn't big enough of a shortcoming to write her off as a potential party member, especially if you are running a good party.

 

I don't think they will. AFAIK, the game will cover the break between BG1 and BG2, that is to say the time from defeating Sarevok to the time before being captured by Irenicus. So in all likelihood, we're not gonna find out anything about what Irenicus did to Khalid.

And it's not an expansion, it's a full-sized, standalone game.

 

Yeah, i'm pretty sure I had the tweak installed that slightly lowered the in-game time between talks. That's the only way i've ever experienced a full romance + complete Sarevok dialogue in a playthough. I think the whole lovetalk where you have the baby runs on real time however, which can be explained by me falling asleep while keeping the game up more than once

Aerie can also do mage/cleric spell combos that nobody else in the game but her (or a M/C PC) can do. Greater malison + Doom + Chromatic Orb
was one I was rather fond of.

Hyped for the new BG game.

 

Beamdog doesn't seem to agree. From http://www.siegeofdragonspear.com/:

 

That's odd, I was sure they said it was gonna come out as a standalone campaign with an upgraded engine when I was talking to the devs. Must have misunderstood.

If it's not, that means they've gotta rollover all engine changes to BG:EE as well, which is definitely good news for me and other modders, but a lot of extra work for them...