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Baldur's Gate Saga No Reload Rules


Baldur's Gate 1 Specific

Banned Items:
- All wands except magic miffle wand
- One Gift Lost
- Detonation Arrows


All Three Games:

Banned Spells

- Improved Haste in its spell form; via items and Wish is allowed
- Mislead
- Project Image
- Remove Magic
- Divine Protection and Greater Divine Protection
- Planetar in Shadows of Amn (exception if trying to do Ust Natha)
- Emotion: Courage, Emotion: Hope
- Protection from magic/undead scrolls
- Ravager transformation
- Earth Elemental Form


Item/Spell Modifications

- Mace of Diruption, Azuredge, Runehammer and Deva's weapon all have their undead destroying effect removed
- Flail of Ages has its slow effect removed
- Ring of Duplication only gives two extra images
- Fighter Hardiness no longer breachable (Hardiness from wish spell remains breachable), Evasion and Greater Evasion no longer breachable


Stealing

- Can only steal 5 scrolls or 5k worth of scrolls per merchant
- Can only steal 5 potions or 5k worth of potions per merchant
- Can only steal 1 item of any value that isn't a potion, scroll or body armour per merchant
- No stealing for the sole purpose of reselling; if a stolen item is legitimately used for a while, then sold later, that is fine


Other Restrictions

- Removing a party member from the party during combat in order to escape the area results in that party member being permanently dead. You can collect their equipment.
- No abusing double damage on party members via vampiric touch or similar spells to gain double hitpoints
- Dispelling arrows only allowed on friendlies
- Simulacrum from mage/sorcerer cannot use level 9 spells or mage HLAs. Exception for Improved Alacrity but only once the simulacrum can cast level 9 spells.
- Simulacrum of any other class (through Vhailor's Helm) not allowed to use HLAs until 6 million exp.
- Timestop treated as HLA - only one cast per mage per rest
- No potion stacking except genius and mind focusing to learn spells and combat mind flayers
- No deliberate stacking of regeneration spell
- No recharging items through vendors
- No using ammo in ammo generating weapons to stack damage; if you need to use a specific ammunition for some reason (like a fire arrow to kill a troll) that is fine
- No dual wielding with summoned weapons
- Slayer transformation only allowed until you start taking scripted damage

Enemy Modifications

- Each dragon melee attack applies a -5 stacking resistance penalty of their respective element for 3 rounds
- Red dragon lower resist spell now has -10 save penalty
- Blue dragon lower resist spell now has -10 save penalty
- Mind flayers given 50% fire resistance, ulitharids given 70% fire resistance