Hi, I am solo-developing Knights of Frontier Valley, a low-fantasy RPG with gridless tactical combat, deep character customization, complex NPC behavior, and procedural world building. Explore a new valley each game run, solve quests, make meaningful choices, and gain riches and glory while staying alive.

The game is heavily influenced by the isometric RPG classics of the 80s, 90s and 2000s such as Baldur's Gate.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085830/Knights_of_Frontier_Valley/

The second Steam Playtest is still on for another day - join and try it out yourself.

The engine was written from scratch. All art is hand-made with no AI involved. Music was made by top composers including Kevin Manthei (Neverwinter Nights, Jagged Alliance 2, Wizardry 8...)

this part was so funny because at first i was like damn this has to be a puzzle and you need to play really carefully but you quickly realize that its a massive fucking brawl so you just start spamming some good old fireball in the enemy backline lol.

Since I buyed, so many years ago, Baldur's Gate 2 (5 CD-ROM if I remember correctly...), one thing has always bugged me: the erasure of the free roaming. In BG 1 you could just go anywhere in the map, finding totally unexpected quests or dreadful new ways to die. Just go to the corner of the map and... Discover where the road leads you!

But in BG 2 the areas where few and accessible only when some npc pointed you there. To me, just an absurd thing. Why can't I just roam free?? Why the huge Amn, so much feared in the Sword Coast had so few places to visit???

Sooo... Please please please. It exist some mod that add new maps and collect them like the first Baldur's Gate???

Unreal Engine - Retro RPG Pre Rendered Graphics (NO AI!)

For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with capturing the exact feel of classic late-90s infinity engine RPGs like Baldur’s Gate II especially that timeless aesthetic of 3D characters traversing handcrafted, pre-rendered background art that Obsidian Entertainment managed to revive.

This look was achieved by baking complex lighting, shadows, and environment details into flat 2D image slates, using collision meshes and depth layers to handle character sorting. Recreating that hybrid pipeline inside Unreal Engine 5 while keeping it dynamic and modular has been a real technical puzzle for me but i made it work!

P.S. that wall and 2 props are there because ue5 bugs on calculating the from the depth pre rendered map there

Hi,

I found a cursed +3 sword. Is it possible to remove the curse of it?

I thought that the remove curse spell might work but it doesn't remove curses on items

Thanks

Human btw

Hi,

I've got the character Scripts of my NPCs set the "Advanced AI" (I think by default), but I NPCs don't really seem to do much. For instance, there was kobold next to my fighter trying to hit him but he didn't hit back! I had to manually get him to hit it.

How does this work?

Thanks

I activated it for a run and then ran into Shank. Ended up having to kite him into two watchers, had them take off most of his health, then kited him back inside to get his experience.

I then proceeded down to the rats in Reevor's storehouse, which I was unable to kill without breaking both of my longswords.

I stopped there because if that's the way things are going to be I'm not sure if I'll actually enjoy the challenge of this difficulty or just hate every second of it.

I'd be curious to have thoughts from others who have tried this difficulty.

Hi,

I remember ages ago having more Party/Group formations, for instance, one was all 6 in line, perfect for moving around passages.

It doesn't appear to be in the standard game, does anyone know of a Mod for it?

Thanks

Title. I’m planning not doing my first playthrough, but can’t decide on a class. I always love playing as a paladin in games, but saw they don’t get spells till level 9. So I’m wondering which of these 2 would be best

In all of my years playing the game, this is the second time I've come across this ambush. Needless to say that me and my sister perished. Spoiler alert : they did not kick us in the head 'til we were dead.

Edit : I should have been more specific in my description; this is the second time I've been ambushed while travelling from the area with the rogue ogre, to the Friendly Arm Inn. To be honest though, I don't recall being ambushed by bandits often, even in other areas. How many times has this happened to everyone?

Once again im thinking about going through BG1-BG2 and Throne of Bhaal. I never had enough comitment to do it with one character (how much would that take - like 350hrs lol), but i wanna try again. Im sick and tired of playing a warrior, last time i tried elf warrior in BG1 but chickened out from dual classing to mage in BG2. This time i really want to play a character that is the most fun one in both games, i dont really care about being OP that much, i can handle both games at the highest difficulties just fine.
Any tips what would be the biggest fun ? I really like magic, especially in BG2, clerics can also be damn OP and i like their premise, but being a mage in BG1 is pretty damn hard for a couple of first levels, so i dont know if pure mage in any form is the way to go.

Haer'Daelis copied a 7th level spell into his book.

This was before I realized Blades couldn't cast higher than 6th.

Seems like the game shouldn't have let me write it. Not like limited wish scrolls grow on trees.

Website: https://baldursgateee.th.gl/

I am replaying the game and made a map for every area, Siege of Dragonspear included. It shows what is in each container, traps, locked and secret doors, merchants and the enemies with their gear and resistances.

Beyond the map:

- Items, spells and a bestiary with the weapon types that work best

- Characters, stores, journal quests and a searchable Quotes page

- Game Rules from the Candlekeep tutors

There's also a Companion App: an overlay or second-screen map that follows your party and shows the enemies around you live.

The site is open to everyone with no account or payment. Before going further I asked Beamdog about it: their Community Manager said it is fine under the Fan Content Policy, and they shared it here: https://x.com/BeamdogInc/status/2109723181007122741

If something is off or missing, please tell me here. Thank you!

So best are I think Minsc and Jaehira. They kept their personality only they got upgraded. Jaehira was always catty and holier than thou (neutral alignment my ass) so they made her older and wiser in BG3, also fighting for a good cause and her alignment is I think good, having past regrets, and being more sarcastic than original.

Minsc was always a savage funny character trying to do good so they made him a naive but good natured idiot character trying to do good in BG3 and gave him more lines. He is not as obsessed with having a witch to protect which is imo a good thing. Though he was about that in BG1, in BG2 he was more a regular companion with funny moments.

Worst in my opinion is Sarevok. They really made his ass a subservient to Baal incestous minion. He wasn't like that even when he was a villain, he was trying to usurp not serve his fake idiot god father lol. And he can also get somewhat of a redemption in the BG Throne of Ball expansion.

So from a badass warrior villain with iron will to a henchman cultist that does incest.... hmmmm...

Viconia, eh,,, yeah she also. BG1 and 2 made it clear she only served Shar because she was cast away from her spider Goddess and Drow tribe, I think for being too good and moral for them lol. So from serving Shar out of necessity to becoming a Shar fanatic who is also a cultist. They made her and Sarevok be weird cultists.

Exactly what the title says. Consider the entire saga from BGEE -> SoD -> BG2EE -> ToB. What class Bhallspawn ‘feels’ the best in terms of rewards, fun, power-fantasy, how ‘canon’ it feels, etc? Whatever metrics are important to you other than simple mechanical power-gaming.

I’ve heard a lot of people say Fighter/Mage or a dual-classes version of that combo because it’s the only class a companion doesn’t fill in the base game. I personally like Sorcerer or Mage because it puts you in stark contrast to Sarevok’s brutish melee build, and likewise it gives you similarities to Irenicus that are interesting to roleplay around.

Thoughts?

If he only had bought a license from the cowled wizards. He had still half a spellbook left and could have easily wiped the lvl 7 party, instead of spending it all on the wizards. Prime example of saving on a minor expense which bites you later in your clean, elven arse.

Guys I can’t believe how happy I am that I found my old original BG2 Box and I didn’t even remember that at some point they sold it together with TOB 😭 I only have to find my external CD drive now

I just thought it was a neat name.

Just like when I made the post about beating Baldur's Gate 1 for the first time, I have to say it's a very good game. But… at least for me, I still feel that the first game left a better taste in my mouth.

I loved playing high-level AD&D even though many times I didn't know what was happening on screen or why my protagonist suddenly went from +100 hp to 10 in 1 round with certain enemies.

Jon Irenicus is a better villain in the sense that he appears more than Sarevok, is much more powerful, and commands respect with his voice.

But at least for me, the last two battles against him were very underwhelming. Yes, I lost like three times in the Tree of Life, but after casting Improved Alacrity with Imoen and spamming Ruby Rays, from one moment to the next, his entire life went to 1 in 0 seconds. And I was like, "Is that all?" After that, the battle in hell is even easier. With Sarevok, at least, I feel more tension; the music is incredible, and his companions are there to cause serious trouble.

And the world… the reduction in exploration is very noticeable, and that's saying something considering that Baldur's Gate 1 wasn't exactly a huge world either. I felt quite confined, going through the same maps multiple times in each chapter. Everything feels very small: Athkatla, Spellhold, The Underdark. I expected more, in short.

What is worth highlighting is the amount of dialogue with the characters, especially with the potential lovers of Gorion's Ward. As you may have noticed in the image, I brought the Big 3 in my group: Jaheira, Aerie and Viconia DeVir. Since it was my first time playing, I wanted to experience as many interactions as possible. Who won? Viccy.

I really like characters who are distrustful of everything, and you try to gain their trust without forcing it, simply by being there and listening. Also, the fact that it's not like some "I can save her" type of thing; she's haughty and tough throughout the entire romance and I love it. She's not perfect, she's cruel, vain and a liar, but that's precisely what makes her a good, well-written character. Nobody's perfect. Also, I loved the breakup at the end; she knows she's causing problems and is afraid of causing further harm.

In short, the story is good, it's fun to play, the villains are very good, their final battles not so much (for me), the world seemed like a madhouse to me and what kept me sane was a drow. A good experience.

I give Baldur's Gate 1 a 9.5 out of 10

I give Baldur's Gate 2 a 9 out of 10