Lawful Neutral Character abilities

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I'm playing Lawful Neutral and I saw in a cheat guide that I should have Holy Might as an inate ability. However what I started with was two cure light wounds, one slow poison, one horror, and two vampiric chills.

Is this what I'm supposed to have?

[ February 04, 2004, 15:02: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

I remember seeing in Dan Simpson's walkthrough a section that said certain alignments give certain abilities, but I've tested this a number of times, and I'll get different results with the same alignments. So if alignment has anything to do with it, there must be other factors that have an impact as well.

 

Lawful Good will grant you all the *good* innate abilities: Slow Poison, Cure Light Wounds, Draw Upon Holy Might.
Chaotic Evil will grant you all the *evil* innate abilities: Larloch's Minor Drain, Horror, Vampiric Touch.
True Neutral will give you on of each, IIRC. Every alignment between these are mixes, and you'll usually get more innates of a certain type based on whether your alignment is nearer to Chaotic Evil or Lawful Good.

But this selection seems to be at random.

 

Could it be possible that selection depends also from character class in addition to alignment?

 

I'm 100% sure with Druids and Paladins.
I'm not sure with the other classes, but based on experience every other class seems to be able to have equal access to the abilities.

 

Only alignment matters, not class. But I don't really know what LN gets, as I always play LG cavaliers I'm sure it's somewhere here at SP.

 

With my recent CN character I got 1 Cure Minior Wounds, 1 Larloch's Minior Drain, 2 Slow Poison and 2 Draw Upon Holy Might.

 

It's partially based on alignment (Although I've always gotten 2 of the "good" abilities while playing LG), and partially random (I've gotten different abilities while playing the exact same class/race combinations).

 

According to DSimpson's walkthrough you get these:

- 2x Larloch's Minor Drain
- 1x Horror
- 1x Slow Poison
- 1x DU Holy Might
- 1x Vampiric Touch

 

Could it also be based on stats? Like strength for DU Holy Might, or something?

 

Hi everyone, I'm new here.

I remember reading somewhere that special abilities in BG1 were based on reputation. So maybe for new characters in BG2 they're based on an approximation of what your reputation might have been in BG1. So that could be partially random and partially based on alignment, like Klorox said.

I'll look around for the site I read that on and post a link later.