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Posted by: SimDing0™
« on: February 07, 2005, 04:35:53 AM »

There's nothing about it in the manual, thank god.
Posted by: Reverendratbastard
« on: February 04, 2005, 07:00:55 PM »

  oops, thought you were checking on its currency.
  i'd have to emphatically deny the possibility that something that obscure and achilles'-heel-y would have been originally written into bg2.
  without looking.  :P (the denial, not the writing)
Posted by: Andyr
« on: February 04, 2005, 05:32:53 PM »

I meant BG2 manual as opposed to pnp, as I know it is in pnp. :) If it'd said something about it in the BG2 manual then it may have been something to restore.
Posted by: Reverendratbastard
« on: February 04, 2005, 03:51:34 PM »

Is the Blessed Bolt explicitly listed in the manual? I don't have mine.

  in case you forgot to check eventually -
 
  definitely explicit in the 1e manual...
 
  not mentioned at all in the 3.5 manual...
 
  and naturally, my 2e compendium, with all expansions and inserts, has gone missing.  >:(!!!  if anyone sees one wandering aimlessly, please whack it across the 'spine', bind and package it, and drop me a pm. :P 
Posted by: Andyr
« on: January 27, 2005, 09:38:25 AM »

Is the Blessed Bolt explicitly listed in the manual? I don't have mine.
Posted by: Barren
« on: January 26, 2005, 08:39:38 PM »

I don't think it's UB material (although adding the Blessed Bolt back in might be), but it's certainly something I'd like to see!
Posted by: Ghreyfain
« on: January 26, 2005, 02:02:58 PM »

Then again, it could also be called a design decision, because they didn't just skip it, they added something else instead (85% MR).  I recall playing a game called... um, Curse of the Silver Shield/Swords/Something, and you had to fight Rakshasa.  I'm pretty sure they were implemented in proper PnP style, but I had no clue about PnP, since for me it was just a computer game.  Had a hell of a time trying to kill them, and I think I wound up quitting because of the Rakshasa.
Posted by: belboz
« on: January 26, 2005, 01:49:32 PM »

It's not just in P&P rules. It's in (or at least strongly implied in) the BGII manual.

Which I know is not a very good source for anything. But you *could* use it to make the claim that it's UB, since apparently at one point the devs intended it to go in.
Posted by: Andyr
« on: January 25, 2005, 08:21:42 PM »

I do not think making Jafir, or other Rakshasi, immune to level 1-8 spells fits in with UB.

However, it'd be something I'd think about for LoI. :) I checked, same rules in 3.0 too.
Posted by: Barren
« on: January 18, 2005, 09:18:11 PM »

Making Rakshasas only killable using a certain item would be a pretty poor restoration. They may be super-badass in PnP, but in BG2 there's nothing to separate them from other mid-level enemies. If I had to use a Blessed Bolt to kill them, I'd be asking what made them so special.

The blessed bolt isn't the only way to kill rakshasi, it's just the easiest way. But of course, with Bioware's "the party should be able to kill anything so that any social misfit playing the game can get a feeling of superiority out of it" idea of balance, it's definitely not needed.
Posted by: SixOfSpades
« on: January 18, 2005, 03:09:51 PM »

... in BG2 there's nothing to separate them from other mid-level enemies.
Yes, there is: The comedy value of sending a single Skeleton Warrior against 50 Rakshasa.  ;D
Posted by: SimDing0™
« on: January 18, 2005, 11:25:44 AM »

Making Rakshasas only killable using a certain item would be a pretty poor restoration. They may be super-badass in PnP, but in BG2 there's nothing to separate them from other mid-level enemies. If I had to use a Blessed Bolt to kill them, I'd be asking what made them so special.
Posted by: Barren
« on: January 18, 2005, 10:32:06 AM »

Gah? Another reason why 3.5E is an abomination! (As if gnomes having bard as their favored class wasn't enough...)
Posted by: Mr.WaeseL
« on: January 18, 2005, 06:50:59 AM »

In 3.0 a hit with a blessed crossbow bolt instatly slayed a Rakshasha (but they could be killed through more mundane means) and they were immune to spells of 8th level and below.

In 3.5 they've got DR 15/piercing and magic, and the equivalent of 85% MR.
Posted by: Andyr
« on: January 17, 2005, 11:05:55 AM »

What, completely immune? Are you sure? In 2E I don't know, but in 3E I don't think they are immune.