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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
You were supposed to get some more in ToB based on alignment but I guess they never got around to putting them in.
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Yup thats right they thought that due to game balance, the bhaalspawn abilities should be taken out (combined with the high level abilities they thought they would make your PC to powerfull). Another thing they changed was the demogorgon encounter, he was originally baldurs gate's answer to Final fantasy 7's emerald and ruby weapon (remember these chaps) but again due to game balance they toned him down because he was far to difficult.
But fortunatly for us David Gaider an employee of Bioware wasn't happy with all this and in his own spare time wrote a series of mods to rectify this they are:
Originally planed Bhaalspawn powers (as you mentioned)
Original tougher Demogorgon
Improved Illesera (she was originally planed to be a ranger but because players could potentially create a new TOB game with just 1 char they thought she whould be to hard to most newbies)
Improved Gromnir (in my opinion not that much tougher)
Improved Abazigal (heh heh heh, multiple dragon fight anyone [img]smile.gif[/img] )
Improved Balthasar (A right pain in the arse for my solo assasin, literally took days to beat)
And finally ascension (he wasn't pleased with the final chapter of the game and so modified it to make it more satisfying.
here are a few of the nice new new features of ascension, if you want to play don't read on as it will spoil some nice surprises.
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* Slayer form upgrades as you gain experience (to the ravager at 8 million xp)
* Sarevok alignment change always happens (instead of being randon like normally in TOB)
* Imoen gets some bhaalspawn powers
* The mellisan fight has been buffed up, gone are the elemental prince's, fallen solars etc and in are all the of the 5 who you are going to have to battle against instead [img]smile.gif[/img]
* two new chars depending on alignment (Bohdi or Balthasar)
plus lots of other stuff i cannot remember
If anyone wants to give them a bash you can download them here:
http://theforge.blackmagicgames.com/.../davesmods.htm
(I just wish he made an improved Sendai
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