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* BeingEvilSucks: Having an evil cleric means you have access to many evil-exclusive offensive spells. However, you're denied many healing spells and your party will need tp spend more gold on healing potions.

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* BeingEvilSucks: Having an evil cleric means you have access to many evil-exclusive offensive spells. However, you're denied many healing spells and your party will need tp to spend more gold on healing potions.


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* EvilPaysBetter: With the update from the ''Heart of Winter'' expansion, you can kill certain NPC and loot their exclusive gear at the cost reputation loss.
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* BeingEvilSucks: Having an evil cleric means you have access to many evil-exclusive offensive spells. However, you're denied many healing spells and your party will need tp spend more gold on healing potions.
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** The Winter Wolf cloak. This piece of garment will grant you resistance to cold and on top of this, it will make you completely immune to winter wolves' icy breath. Problem is, you get the cloak late in the game and winter wolves are only encountered in two places.

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** The Winter Wolf cloak. This piece of garment will grant you resistance to cold and on top of this, it will make you completely immune to winter wolves' icy breath. Problem is, you get the cloak late in the game and winter wolves are only encountered in two few places.
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** The Deep Gnome hidden village needs your help against an enventual umber hulks attack. Nothing ever comes ou of this, since the attack never occured.
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* {{Nerf}}: Mithral Plates +2 were not considered magical armors and allowed players to stack lots of AC. This is no longer the case in the expansion: they are now magical armors, limiting the number of AC you can have.
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* UltimateBlacksmith: Tiernon in ''Heart of Winter''. Despite being blind, he can craft and repair many items for you. His speciality is weapons made of ice.
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* SnipeHunt: You meet a depressed bard in Lonelywood. He explains that he's competing with a noble to marry a beautiful princess. The noble issued him a challenge of finding an ice rose in the tundra in exchange for winning the princess' hand. After four years of fruitless searching, he comes to realize he had been duped. You can help find an ice rose for him.
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* {{Nerf}}: The druid spell [[ShockAndAwe Static Charge]] which shock all opponents in the room every round. In the sequel, it only shock one random monster per round.

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* {{Nerf}}: The druid spell [[ShockAndAwe Static Charge]] which shock all opponents in the room every round. In the sequel, it only shock one random monster per round. It's also nerfed the same way in the EE.

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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Even if you detect Lysan's evil alignment in the Root Cellar Tavern, you aren't given an option to confront her about it, as the plot would really rather she survive into the Vale of Shadows arc. Attacking her will also turn all of Kuldahar hostile, including [[BigGood Arundel]].

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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: GameplayAndStorySegregation:
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Even if you detect Lysan's evil alignment in the Root Cellar Tavern, you aren't given an option to confront her about it, as the plot would really rather she survive into the Vale of Shadows arc. Attacking her will also turn all of Kuldahar hostile, including [[BigGood Arundel]].Arundel]].
** Larrel has deep hatred of dwarves. If you talk to him as a dwarf in your party, he will not react negatively to you.
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler:After possessing Wylfdene's body, Icasarach defaced his tribal insigna out of spite for humans. Had she refrained from doing so, the party of adventurers would had not found the proof needed to convince Hjollder that Wylfdene isn't possessed by Jerrod.]]

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** ChainLightning can damage multiple enemies, but it's not party friendly. It can will hit your adventurers even if they clear of the spell's path.

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** ChainLightning can damage multiple enemies, but it's not party friendly. It can will hit your adventurers even if they stay clear of the spell's path.



** The Winter Wolf cloak. This piece of garment will grant you resistance to cold and on top of this, it will make you completely immune to winter wolves' icy breath. Problem is, you get the cloak late in the game and winter wolves are hardly encountered after acquiring this.

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** The Winter Wolf cloak. This piece of garment will grant you resistance to cold and on top of this, it will make you completely immune to winter wolves' icy breath. Problem is, you get the cloak late in the game and winter wolves are hardly only encountered after acquiring this.in two places.
** The Viper Gout spell allows the caster to spit out vipers that attack for you. Unforunatly, vipers are weak and you can't cast any spells until you spat all those snakes.

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* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:In the first game, you've rescued kidnapped townfolk of Kuldahar from the monsters of Dragon Eye. The sequel revealed that the kidnapped women gave birth to yuan-ti halfbreeds not long after. The men's town were angry and wanted to exterminate the halfbreeds, while the women wanted to protect them. They took the halfbreed to the only place in Faerûn where they'd be safe: Dragon Eye. Just to drive the point further, 30 years later, the new party of adventurers have no choice but to enter Dragon Eye and slaughter those now-adult halfbreeds.]]

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* HappyEndingOverride: HappyEndingOverride:
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[[spoiler:In the first game, you've rescued kidnapped townfolk of Kuldahar from the monsters of Dragon Eye. The sequel revealed that the kidnapped women gave birth to yuan-ti halfbreeds not long after. The men's town were angry and wanted to exterminate the halfbreeds, while the women wanted to protect them. They took the halfbreed to the only place in Faerûn where they'd be safe: Dragon Eye. Just to drive the point further, 30 years later, the new party of adventurers have no choice but to enter Dragon Eye and slaughter those now-adult halfbreeds.]]
** During the first game, you have a quest to restore a garden and an elven shrine in the Severed Hand. By the end of the second game, [[spoiler:the Severed Hand shifted to the plane of Limbo, undoing all of the hard work of the first party of adventurers.
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* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: After finishing with Dragon's Eye and returning to Kuldahar, the town is attacked by Neo-Orogs. After slaying them, some townfolk blame you for the attack. While it's true your actions had cause the attack, it was only a matter of time before the enemy would have made their attack and along with the rest of Faerûn.
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** The Call Lightning spell will down a thunder on your foes. However, the spell can only be cast outdoor and most of the areas in the game take place inside.

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** The Call Lightning spell will strke down a thunder on your foes. However, the spell can only be cast outdoor and most of the areas in the game take place inside.
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** The Winter Wolf cloak. This piece of garment will grant you resistance to cold and on top of this, it will make you completely immune to winter wolves' icy breath. Problem is, you get the cloak late in the game and winter wolves are hardly encountered after acquiring this.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: ChainLightning can damage multiple enemies, but it's not party friendly. It can will hit your adventurers even if they clear of the spell's path.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: AwesomeButImpractical:
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ChainLightning can damage multiple enemies, but it's not party friendly. It can will hit your adventurers even if they clear of the spell's path.path.
** The Call Lightning spell will down a thunder on your foes. However, the spell can only be cast outdoor and most of the areas in the game take place inside.

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* BenevolentBoss: Zigzagged with Yxunomei, who thinks highly of her yuan-ti servitors, intends to leave behind a kingdom for them once her work is done, and insults the player if they mislabel the race as "snake people". On the other hand, she welcomes you to try and take the Heartstone Gem from them by force once she's finished with it, apathetic to your success or failure, as she has no tolerance for ineptitude.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: ChainLightning can damage multiple enemies, but it's not party friendly. It can will hit your adventurers even if they clear of the spell's path.
* BenevolentBoss: Zigzagged with Yxunomei, who thinks highly of her yuan-ti servitors, intends to leave behind a kingdom for them once her work is done, and insults the player if they mislabel the race as "snake people". On the other hand, she welcomes you to try and take the Heartstone Gem from them by force once she's finished with it, apathetic to your success or failure, as she has no tolerance for ineptitude.

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