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Originally posted by Byrd:
What I want to know is how can you hit a 5' something dark elf surrounded by gnolls or hobs, with your arrows. The graphics look like your shooting over them. They must fall fast.
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It is the main reason why missile attacks are so good in BG: The lack of rules for firing into a melee. You should be able to hit your own party members/summons as well, because melee fighting individuals are moving fast and unpredictable.
As goes for the discussion of role playing vs. power gaming: I am as a player a power gamer in my hearth, BUT I would NOT allow my characters to turn against their 'inner' beliefs. Example:
As a player I would very much like to have the items of Drizzt (and thereby killing him). No one in my party wants to kill him (maybe except for Edwin, but he sees it as too much risk to do it on his own [img]smile.gif[/img] ). Anyway my neutral thief sees the items on Drizzt and thinks: "What sort of nice weapons - He has two scimitars - I guess he wouldn't notice if I 'borrowed' one of them". The next thing that happens is that my thief gets caught red handed and Drizzt turns into a rage wanting to chop the thief into pieces. The rest of the party - not knowing what happened - try to calm down Drizzt without succes. They now have to choose side: Drizzt or the good old thief (maybe my paladin and lawful good cleric don't even know she is a thief). If they choose the side against Drizzt they will certainly use what they have to conquer the drow (summonings and missiles).
When the drow is dead - they might think - well, he was a drow. Maybe he fell back to old habits.
The thief would certainly pick up all the items on the dead body.
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Insane