I play No-Reload with SCS/Ascension.
On Hardcore / 50% Damage increase. I NEED to powergame, or I won't make it. I;'ve never made it all the way, actually.
Hey, if you need to power game, you do you, Back in the late Jurassic, I always played on PnP mode and beat the game several times. But now, I just don't have the patience to do all the prep work of setting up Chain Contingencies and all the other stuff I used to do to whack Firkraag.
You don't need that much prep work for Firkraag, even if you play with SCS. But I get what you mean. If you play with SCS, the amount of preparation you need to to is going to be crazy, especially in ToB. And then someone gets a lucky crit in and one-shots one of your party to perma-death anyway. I can't even imagine playing no-reload.
As for evil companions in BG2, I used to care more about this but the evil ones are actually quite a bit more enjoyable than you might think, and Korgan is a beast, easily worth two of the other fighter types. I mod my reputation to be capped at 18 and enjoy them for what they are. My favorite character types are off-the-scale on the live-and-let-live meter so it tends to work well.'
