Say something nice about Siege of Dragonspear. I'll start
>this character portrait for vico is pretty bitching
Usefulness
Aiden White
Michael Clark
She has no HP and useful elven chain mail doesn't come up until near the end.
Mason Rivera
No.
William Wilson
That's why you hide her at the back with stoneskin on at all times (and probably a few other protective spells like globe of invulnerability and mislead too).
Wyatt Rivera
Beamdog is guilty of a number of different crimes. Here are the major ones.
1. The Enhanced Editions are essentially a collection of free mods that had existed for nearly twenty years. Beamdog gathered them all up, slapped "Enhanced Edition" on it and resold it as a new product. There's very very little in the Enhanced Editions that wasn't already out there, and most of it is stuff you don't want (like obnoxious character outlines).
2. The games didn't sell so well and the originals were still far outselling them, even twenty years after their release, so Beamdog had EVERY digital distributor stop selling the originals and ONLY sell the Enhanced Edition. If you want to buy a digital copy of the originals now, they're "bundled" into the Enhanced Edition. Now these scumbags can claim sales from people just wanting to buy the originals as their own.
3. The infamous 600+ bugs on launch. The game is still riddled with bugs (as even a perfunctory glance over their forums show) but the fact that it took nearly two years for them to get a game that had been working fine for 20 years to reach playability after launch is telling of their wild incompetence.
4. This is where we get to the ones that really piss people off. Beamdog couldn't just remaster the game, they had to fuck with the content too. New dialogue for existing NPCs like Jaheira, Viconia, Safana, Kivan, et cetera was written in to make the characters more progressive and leftist friendly. Beamdog shills will argue that "adding content isn't changing content XDDD" but it is when the new content changes the core personalities of the existing characters. This is in addition to adding a slew of their own LGBT (hitherto there were none in Baldur's Gate) NPCs, all flooded with OP attributes and magic items to encourage people to play them despite their cancer.
5. Siege of motherfucking Dragonspear.
Julian Torres
the whole underground necromancer cult thing was pretty cool, especially if you free the lich there
Elijah Taylor
None of you can play this game for shit
Pure fighters are bad, especially Sarevok, his dogshit saving throws, his bad proficiencies and his couple of lacking million XP compared to the rest of your team
Any mage multiclass is busted
Jan has some amazing utilities if you boost his melee thac0, mislead backstabs at 8 attacks per round are insane damage
Nalia is pretty good and her ring is a nice touch
Cleric mage is beyond busted, literally cant die
Pure class druids are insanely powerful
Creeping doom best spell in the game
Jaheira has bad proficiencies but fighter/druid has an insane late game
Shapeshifter is an amazing kit
Pure thieves like Yoshimo are completely worthless
Rangers are shit
Play Sword Coast Stratagems it will make you git gud and its fucking amazing
Austin Nelson
If you keep her adequately buffed she literally cant die
Really if you keep her adequately buffed she wont even lose a single HP
Also she can melee pretty well with a couple cleric buffs while having enough spells to keep your entire party protected against literally anything
And when she finally gets Shapechange she can kill almost everything in 3 hits tops at 8 attacks per round and -20 thac0
Aerie is a beast
Liam Anderson
Going thru BG1 for the first time with SCS and its fucking great. That bandit camp battle was insane fun.
Blake Morris
Edwin is the best party member and a better mage than even the MC can be.