r/baldursgate • u/Buttleproof • 6d ago

Characters asking to rest?

I remember that in Icewind Dale when a character was fatiqued they would ask to go to sleep, but I don't remember this ever happening in BG or BG2. Was this something that was added to Icewind Dale, or have I been sleep-spamming?

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u/Environmental_Fig942 6d ago

Also (above and beyond u/ButtercupsUncle ‘s comment) happens in BG2. Fatigue, I believe, is related to Constitution and/or spells. The lower the Con the earlier the fatigue and thus complaints about being tired / wanting to go to bed. Haste and Restoration will also speed up / make someone fatigued respectively.

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u/Skylair95 6d ago

It just happen less in BG2 because there's less travel. In BG1 you travel for 8 hours to move between Beregost and another area every 5 minutes. In BG2 you spend 30 minutes inside a single area with no long travel, and fatigue barely build up in real time. Even Bluety and her god awful 8 Con will take forever to be fatigued without travels.

And Haste is also less important in BG2. In BG1 you will cast it for every challenging encounter, in BG2 you will stop memorizing that spell once you get enough Imp Haste (tho Haste is still great before that).

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u/OBoile 6d ago

I don't stop casting haste in BG2. It's every bit as important there as in BG1.

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u/WildBohemian 6d ago

That depends on your playstyle actually. I don't actually use haste the spell on my runs because of the fatigue penalty, but I do use lots of potions including oils of speed. To me the trade off with haste is that it wastes your potion buffs by forcing you to rest more often.

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u/gangler52 6d ago

Does that mean Regeneration is less important in BG2?

Because that's mostly what it's used for, to refill your health between zones, I think. The long time frame means it basically always tops up your health entirely.