BG2-Spells
Marie-France
I have reached the maximum for Aerie's intelligence and wish to replace some
level 3 spells with others I have just found.
Thks,
M-F
flake
Give her a potion of intelligence to drink, then memorise all the spells you
want. The spells remain in the spell book even after the potion wears off.
Burning_Ranger
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Use a potion of genius and learn the spells you want. Then you won't have to
remove any spells.
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Burning_Ranger
Samurai
Drink an intelligence-enhancing potion. While it is in effect you will be
able to scribe more spells.
Geoffrey Brent
No. But you can use IQ boosters (eg Potion of Genius) to
increase your maximum, then learn extra spells - even after
the IQ boost is gone, the spells will remain. Obviously the
best way is to save up a whole lot of scrolls then write them
all at once, so you don't waste potions.
Geoffrey Brent
Jan
"Geoffrey Brent" <g.b...@student.unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
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I never thought of this. Is this a feature or a bug? It doesn't matter of
course but I would expect that when the mage returns to normal then some of
those spells would have to disappear to make the game hang together.
I have a problem with Jan. He often fails to learn spells. Why is this? I
can't seem to find a reason for this in the manual.
J
Barbarian X
"Jan" <hrobj...@earthling.net> skrev i meddelandet
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> I have a problem with Jan. He often fails to learn spells. Why is this? I
> can't seem to find a reason for this in the manual.
>
> J
I don't remember what INT he has but that matters when the computer
calculates the chance of failure, AFAIR.
On top of that, he is a specialist mage (Illusionist) which means there are
some spells he cannot learn (tho they shouldn't be marked with "write magic"
tho).
/S
Christian Landry
"Jan" <hrobj...@earthling.net> wrote in message
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>
> I have a problem with Jan. He often fails to learn spells. Why is this? I
> can't seem to find a reason for this in the manual.
>
The chance to successfully scribe a spell into a spellbook is determined by
the character's Intelligence score. Jan is also an Illusionist, and
assuming they have implemented that rule in BG2, he will get a better chance
to scribe Illusion/Phantasm spells, but he will also have a worse chance to
scribe spells such as Invocation/Evocation or Divination. He will have no
chance to scribe Necromancy spells, in fact he won't even get the option.
Christian Landry
Rabain
memorise the first spell i tried and then fail everyone after that unless i
saved and reloaded and tried again or slept.
Rabain
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Geoffrey Brent
> > No. But you can use IQ boosters (eg Potion of Genius) to
> > increase your maximum, then learn extra spells - even after
> > the IQ boost is gone, the spells will remain. Obviously the
> > best way is to save up a whole lot of scrolls then write them
> > all at once, so you don't waste potions.
> >
>
> I never thought of this. Is this a feature or a bug?
Your call. It's about the only use I have for those potions
(you can use them to boost your Lore skill for identifying
items, but with the Goggles of Identification that's not a
major consideration.)
> It doesn't matter of
> course but I would expect that when the mage returns to normal then some of
> those spells would have to disappear to make the game hang together.
>
> I have a problem with Jan. He often fails to learn spells. Why is this? I
> can't seem to find a reason for this in the manual.
When you try to write a spell from a scroll to your book,
you have a chance of failure - the higher your Int, the
better your chance of successfully writing the spell. The
tables near the end of the book give your chance - apparently
temporary Int boosts _don't_ affect this. If you don't want
this to happen, save before trying to write a spell.
Geoffrey Brent
Mikko P Vuorinen
>> > No. But you can use IQ boosters (eg Potion of Genius) to
>> > increase your maximum, then learn extra spells - even after
>> > the IQ boost is gone, the spells will remain. Obviously the
>> > best way is to save up a whole lot of scrolls then write them
>> > all at once, so you don't waste potions.
>>
>> I never thought of this. Is this a feature or a bug?
>Your call. It's about the only use I have for those potions
Well, if you use the core rules you can drink a potion of genius to have
100% possibility to learn a new spell.
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Marie-France skrev i meddelelsen ...
Have her drink some potions that raise intelligence, there two types of them
in the game, blue and purple. Then memorize.
f.
The Wasteland
>course but I would expect that when the mage returns to normal then some of
>those spells would have to disappear to make the game hang together.
No, this is perfectly normal. You raise your int and can scribe some more
in your book. They will still be there when the effects wear off. 3E D&D
will change this though and make it more realistic...I think.
F.
bob
<g.b...@student.unsw.edu.NOS.PAM.au> wrote:
>Jan wrote:
>When you try to write a spell from a scroll to your book,
>you have a chance of failure - the higher your Int, the
>better your chance of successfully writing the spell. The
>tables near the end of the book give your chance - apparently
>temporary Int boosts _don't_ affect this. If you don't want
>this to happen, save before trying to write a spell.
>
>Geoffrey Brent
>
The potions do raise your chance of success - read in the char record,
theres a 'chance to learn spells', which I think Jan has around 60 -
70%.
I think the table at the back is wrong, as iirc my 18 Int mage has a
90% chance to learn spells, then 19 Int has 95%, increaseing by 1%
untill 24/25 Int have 100%. Even with a 90% chance to learn, my mage
still manages to not learn about 60% of his spells :-(
Funny how mages *always* manage to memorize their spells every rest -
things like evil cicaders or crickets buzzing around or birds pooping
on them dont break their concentration...
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Geoffrey Brent
> >> I never thought of this. Is this a feature or a bug?
>
> >Your call. It's about the only use I have for those potions
>
> Well, if you use the core rules you can drink a potion of genius to have
> 100% possibility to learn a new spell.
Didn't somebody say that this doesn't work in BGII, though?
Geoffrey Brent