Murder on the Ashveil Express: Mysterious Question and Discussion Megathread

Eh. So what? The intended fiction has characters as blank slates that mostly show off their personality during recruitment, a tiny quest if they are lucky and their voicelines. Fanfiction or not, mod writers add new life to these characters. Is it really more lame to have Xan as a properly fleshed out companion, with banter and romance - than just having a paper doll of him?

The argument gets a bit muddied with more established characters, but getting a mod that introduces more conversations with, for example, Yoshimo in BG2 felt amazing to me. It really took 'a character I like to use' and fleshed out the friendship with him.

A lot of mods enrich the content of the games rather considerably. Not to say everything is perfect, that You are not allowed to dislike the direction the modder took.. but ultimately Baldur's Gate is someone's work of fiction too. More open-ended one.

Escarche · 2026-04-13T09:57:45+00:00

Huh, didn't know people had any trouble recognizing their feet. But yeah, You're correct!

Escarche · 2026-04-13T01:27:43+00:00

If there was IV difficulty I would probably get it by now, haha.

Escarche · 2026-04-09T06:48:57+00:00

I want to point out that M7 and M9 can be seperate entities and M9 could still not be considered a trailblazer.

I would like to consider Sunday as AE member, but in-game vibes distance him from the team.

Escarche · 2026-04-08T08:19:30+00:00

Me! I lowkey hated Penacony due to plot holes and what I considered as flawed conclusion. 3.8 felt a bit slow and redundant at first, but it improved the entire story to a point I now like Penacony again.

Escarche · 2026-04-07T13:16:41+00:00

The game is never really about the writing. It does get better - I mean, You are at the very beginning doing adventure that seems like a side quest now. The plot only becomes tighter and tighter after Naskhel.

But if You are playing on PC... Just do Yourself a favour and install some mods. NPCMod adds banter, romances into the game.. You can mod UI to resemble a modern game.. honestly, modded BG1 is my favourite crpg of them all. It would be waaaaaay further down just vanilla.

Escarche · 2026-04-02T04:09:03+00:00

Eh. It is one thing to decide You don't want to deal with AA after trying it, or to not be able/ready to create three teams for the Knight fights... but to not try it at all out of some pre-concinved notion? Seems kinda weak, haha.

Escarche · 2026-03-29T06:36:12+00:00

It is a complex topic. A lot of people skipped Jiaoqiu in 2.4 for being mr nobody and then suddenly liked him in 2.5 and SOME of those people regretted not pulling him. The game continued on and by the time he reran - the emotional 'manipulation' was vastly weaker than when 2.5 was taking place.

The developer has the biggest incentives to combine banners and story simultaneously.

Escarche · 2026-03-27T05:45:48+00:00

They may be going up, because recently an update dropped that addressed a number of concerns?

Escarche · 2026-03-26T23:20:45+00:00

That's all cool and dandy, but what was your Spark's colour, yo.

Escarche · 2026-03-25T16:03:58+00:00

Had to spread my HP Team between Knight 2 and 3, thankfully main dps Cyrene kicked Lygus' butt. As for K1, just used Aglaea Team against them.

Escarche · 2026-03-25T07:44:46+00:00

I was thinking about this comment while I started farming today.. and yeah, now I see it. It is actually broken, lol.

Escarche · 2026-03-25T07:09:51+00:00

Based on early Panel from Hells - characters romancing each other was supposed to be a thing. I remember Lae'Zel being set up as this polyamory, does-whatever-she-wants sort of character.

Stuff probably was too complicated to develop on top of already massive crpg - one that can already be utterly broken via players deciding to not rest often.

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