DavesGaming

I’ve finished the original game, and am now a ways into Siege of Dragonspear. At some point, this team seems to have grown much more powerful. Through the mid-point of BG1 I felt like they were struggling a bit for their level/place in the game. But from Durlag’s Tower through the BG1 endgame it seemed to get very easy. Maybe I just got lucky on initiative and some saving throws? But Gerold and Company became a sort of steamroller.

Now into SoD, of course that means a minor rebuild. No more Imoen, so we need a new thief.

This is where I often just create a new character. But this time, I thought it might be fun to have a bit of a troublemaker along.

Of course we also lose Jaheira and Khalid. For a bit. You can get either of them back easily enough, eventually. But here I thought I would go with a new team-mate for this stretch.

I do think Corwin could only be a “friendship path” sort of character for Gerold. And of course, ultimately she’s not even a very good friend. Someone he wouldn’t feel a need to see again, any more than Safana. I do wish they didn’t make her out to be such a lousy friend in the end.
One thing strikes me as funny is the ranks in SoD. Capt Corwin was apparently in charge of the trip up north, her number 2 is “Corporal Duncan”. Huh. It seems questionable to me that a Captain would be in charge of such a large expedition, its a fairly low officer rank for such a big thing. A Colonel seems more fitting. And a Corporal? That’s not even an officer! Its an NCO below Sergeant!
I have to keep reminding myself, ranks actually change A LOT with both time and geography. Even to say police forces often use very different ranks from their own national military. It seems completely backwards, but there are places where a Lieutenant would outrank a Captain. So I keep telling myself, this isn’t the US military…

So many big fights in the outdoors, Dyna will throw a lot of Fireballs!

Defeating a first Dragon seems like a big thing. The Temple of the Mad God was another thing where this party seemed ready to rock. Cleared the whole thing, from the dragon down, without a rest. I think that’s a first for me?

Minsc needed Boo’s help understanding the issues we were investigating for the besieged River Fort. He just wanted to do some butt kicking.

This led to our first really sprawling sort of battle. Louisa, along with other clerics and a certain Druid with the expedition, exhausted herself healing up the army after the battle.

I expect I’ll finish up SoD this weekend. I know I’m pretty busy next week, but I expect I’ll at least start BG2 pretty soon.