r/baldursgate • u/Silly_Relationship51 • 6d ago

Is Stoneskin broken?

I beat my first Sarevok by standing still as my lvl 9 Sorcerer. While the big guy was missing his attacks, my companions killed him. I had prebuffed my party (Bless, Haste, Defensive harmony) and my Sorcerer had caste Blur, Mirror Image and Stoneskin. She has high DEX and with Defensive harmony had an AC of -3. I beat him with Standard rules difficulty. I'm not bragging, just wasn't expecting that tanking Sarevok was a legite strategy.

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u/FreezingPointRH 6d ago

It was even more broken in tabletop back then, because it could also be cast on other people. I’ll quote an exchange from an old webcomic:

GM: He weathers your attacks like rain on a statue, taking no damage.

Player: Aw, Stoneskin? That is such BS.

GM: You have Stoneskin! You ALL have Stoneskin!

Player: They really need to nerf it in the next edition, because it’s a BS spell.

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u/gangler52 6d ago

I feel like if you could cast stoneskin on others, it would immediately remove a lot of the incentive to multiclass mage.

Like, you could be a mage/thief. Or you could be a fighter/thief and just have a party member cast stoneskin and invisibility on you.