CRPGang

[wild nexus]

@modest musk

[modest musk]

throwcels

[tawdry glacier]

[tawdry glacier]

done with my first playthrough

ending kinda meh, but overall great game

[modest musk]

yeah I think my rating of 8.75 is perfect

[foggy valve]

what game is a 9 or above

[sharp vault]

get proned you fucking casual

[modest musk]

not many

[tawdry glacier]

but what

[modest musk]

mass effect 1

thats up there

[tawdry glacier]

nah no way man

[modest musk]

really my only problem with bg3 is things they've said they'll work on to fix so

[tawdry glacier]

while me1 is great I wouldn't put it above bg3

[modest musk]

thats fair it's just my personal ratin

I would say crash 2 is at 9

[winter vigil]

What would you put THIS

[modest musk]

its crazy if they just put a slideshow epiogue in bg3 it'd catapult my personal pov

[tawdry glacier]

lol what

[modest musk]

there's ||no ending||

[winter vigil]

I'm happy knowing i'll be plowing shart for the rest of my short life

[modest musk]

it soured the last act

[tawdry glacier]

yeah I agree with that, could've been more fleshed out

||it's like oh we did this amazing thing, okay bye||

[modest musk]

yeah I was kind of like ||oh maybe my game bugged since it was so jarring||

[wild nexus]

i clicked the black bars bros

[tawdry glacier]

[winter vigil]

I think the thing that bothers me most

||is how the emp just fucks off to go to the netherbrain like bro???????????? orpheus was fine with one of the party or even himself going squid like SURELY it would've been fine ||

[tawdry glacier]

yeah kinda dumb

[winter vigil]

||Especially since emp is a really good example of how a squider can have a sense of free will and rebel against elder brains in the first place ||

|| Which is what orpheus praises you/party member for doing ||

[modest musk]

||i think it's fair to presume the emperor would be like "this guy will bash my brains in with hammer as soon as he is free, because I have been keeping him enslaved for a long time||

[winter vigil]

||Only since the start of the campaign more or less tho||

[modest musk]

||yes i am sure a githyanki would be OK with their mortal enemy keeping them as a paralyzed battery since it was only for a short while with no hard feelings||

[tawdry glacier]

||sure, but suddenly joining the braining also makes zero sense||

[modest musk]

||yeah||

[winter vigil]

||I think it would've been better if there was even a short argument between them after you break him free and it gives a bit more lee-way into emp going to brain||

[tawdry glacier]

what do I play now

monk or ebin blaster

[winter vigil]

ebin

monk gross idiot

ebin smart and sexy

[tawdry glacier]

sir?

[modest musk]

play a melee class imo

since u did throw this time

[tawdry glacier]

I played sorlock

[modest musk]

oh

[tawdry glacier]

uh I mean sorcadin

[modest musk]

and u werent ebin blasting?

ohhh okay

I stil say play monk then

[tawdry glacier]

hmmm

[modest musk]

theyre strong

[tawdry glacier]

I could make laezel a monk

that would fit I think

[modest musk]

ebin blast is fun as ufck tho

ya

[tawdry glacier]

does the durge have to be dragonborn

[modest musk]

nope

you can switch

[tawdry glacier]

hm but would that fit

[subtle herald]

yeah

[modest musk]

nothing about dark urge necesitates dragonborn

trust

[tawdry glacier]

but the default looks so evil

[winter vigil]

Who's gonna tell him

[wild nexus]

monk thief

tavern brawler feat

[tawdry glacier]

too late I'm already blasting

gonna make laezel a monk

[wild nexus]

based

[tawdry glacier]

made the durge gythyanki

[wild nexus]

i wanna make a dragonborn that looks like that one in the hag house

looked like a cool snake guy

[tawdry glacier]

the what

oh that one

[wild nexus]

the house with the hag victims

yea

idr his name

[modest musk]

@tawdry glacier makes ure to save the tieflings

[tawdry glacier]

I will

would never not do it

[winter vigil]

Don't be like me and find out ||The literal GIGA bis warlock chest is locked behind that quest and realize wyll's ebin blasting could've been going like 2x harder||

[tawdry glacier]

wdym

[modest musk]

if you consisently save the tieflings ||in act 2 you get a robe that increases your cantrip damage by an amoujnt equal to your cha modifier||

[modest musk]

also based as fuck

[tawdry glacier]

oh I see

[sharp vault]

https://youtu.be/soki3D8RKgI

some fair thoughts on the act 3 issues people have been having

TL;DR

if act 1 is 100
and act 2 is a 90-95
then act 3 is like a 70-80

[tawdry glacier]

agreed mostly

[modest musk]

that averages to 8.6 repeating

which is really close to my 8.7

lookslike I really do have perfect opinions

[tawdry glacier]

[potent hamlet]

Is good game

Maybe not the best game ever made, maybe not the best CRPG

but a very good game

[twilit raft]

Patch 2 tot replay

Fix act 3

Then 10/10

[foggy valve]

I haven’t had any issues in act 3 yet

Goated gamer?

[potent hamlet]

justice for Karlach

[foggy valve]

I guess only weird thing was Minsc reacting to shdowheart stuff that he wasn’t in party for

But other than that nothing yet

[twilit raft]

Just wait

[sharp vault]

fucked up opinion

I had small issues in act 3 but nothing gamebreaking

but as the video says, if act 3 was lifted up to be as tight and smooth and well-oiled as act 1

holeee

[potent hamlet]

I didnt have any massive issues with A3 either

I just really vibe with the mechanical complexity and difficulty of WotR

And BG3 still might edge it out, expecially with a tactician+ mod

[wild nexus]

wotr looks pretty crazy

systems wise

anyone ever played planescape torment?

[foggy valve]

Wait i didn’t Swe this take

Ur cooked

WotR doesn’t come close

Its great but its not close

[potent hamlet]

I dont care

[wild nexus]

[modest musk]

bg3 is the best crpg for one reason

[potent hamlet]

I loved it enough to play 350 hours in two months and do the secret ending playthrough

[foggy valve]

Petition to mute Dave for a week

[wild nexus]

shart better

[modest musk]

othres crpgs dont have karlach, so they are mid

shadowcute is a pleb romance pick for plebs who play human male fighters

[wild nexus]

yeah

me

[potent hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/you-really-are-the-best-of-the-best-of-the-best-you're-the-best-i-appreciate-you-love-you-gif-3275607315749619046

[foggy valve]

Only non ebin blasters romance Karlach

[potent hamlet]

shart basic bitch romance

[wild nexus]

wtf dave...

[foggy valve]

Im excited to romance minthara….

[wild nexus]

same

[modest musk]

wish you didnt have to be cartoonishly evil to recruit her

[sharp vault]

evil playthrough enjoyers are real life psychopaths change my mind

[modest musk]

sideyes ghost

[dusky shale]

started new run, smacked shadowheart when she was unconcious after intro. And she started running away and then i killed her and then the thingy on her went automatically to me

[potent hamlet]

She spicy

[twilit raft]

Dark urge has a very special Canon part

Phat spoiler || you can choose to turn into a Bhaalspawn ||

[tawdry glacier]

I would never

[wild nexus]

does anyone actually use tactical view for combat

[modest musk]

i do someitmes

[wild nexus]

i got ebin blasted

[modest musk]

[wild nexus]

[wild nexus]

yurgir is such a bro

[wild nexus]

??

ending spoilies i think

[wild nexus]

[twilit raft]

It still works

Gives you a nice enemy debuff

[modest musk]

@wild nexus ur pics arent loading

oh there we go

[tawdry glacier]

yurgir was so useless in that fight lol

[potent hamlet]

Fuck you Yurgir is a cutie

[tawdry glacier]

ye he is

calls me little bunny

[twilit raft]

yurgir is only useless because the mind flayers you yeet off teleport back on top

[potent hamlet]

Tbh who needs any help on that fight when you have double empowered black hole every turn for 60 damage on all enemies

[tawdry glacier]

mind flayers?

I was talking about the raphael fight

[potent hamlet]

Get spoiled nerd

[tawdry glacier]

nothing to be spoiled

[twilit raft]

He's alright

[potent hamlet]

Raphael fight music

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-bateman-american-psycho-mood-listening-to-music-headphones-gif-20933203

[tawdry glacier]

literally did nothing for me

maybe like 5 damage or something

[twilit raft]

He sometimes concussive blast his allies

What a lad

[potent hamlet]

I had him on my side for raph

He's pretty useful there against all the cambions

[twilit raft]

Tfw you turned on arcane battery and forget to turn it off before you misty step

[tawdry glacier]

||god damn the durge is brutal, just straight up massacred poor alfira ||

[potent hamlet]

She's so cute too

I wanted to sex her

[tawdry glacier]

same

[twilit raft]

I'm doing wild mage dark urge now

Just to get || bhaalspawn || mode

[potent hamlet]

I wonder how Orin takes that one

[tawdry glacier]

https://imgur.com/a/jERDEW2

I wonder if gale is okay

[wild nexus]

his orb is vibrating

[tawdry glacier]

😳

[twilit raft]

T-posing fr

[potent hamlet]

[winter vigil]

You think he lyin

[winter vigil]

||You can prevent her death||

[tawdry glacier]

How

[wild nexus]

gulp

[potent hamlet]

He lies

[wild nexus]

idk how i wanna go about the end

|| to become fully squidpilled or free the githman||

[twilit raft]

|| free Orpheus and tell him to become a squid ||

[sharp vault]

thats what I did

felt ok

the ||emperor|| didnt have much to live for beyond destroying the ||brain|| lets be real

[wild nexus]

didnt know this was a thing

i like the sound of it tho

[sharp vault]

600 mb update

patch 2?

[sharp vault]

Also

Do the origin characters have their racial benefits

Because I'm kind of over having the origin characters be lore appropriate builds/classes

[wild nexus]

think so yea

think i might just continue on the path of being || squid|| and do the || orpheus thing|| another time

[modest musk]

@tawdry glacier LOL enjoye rthe spoilers noob you fight mind flayers

[modest musk]

based?

I wish alfira was in the party

[modest musk]

you mean like their racial abilities and stuff or?

[wild nexus]

i got this right

[modest musk]

patch 2 is out

[sharp vault]

oh this fix

||Fixed [spoiler]Ansur’s Stormheart Nova[/spoiler] blasting right through the ice shields you can hide behind.||

I thought I was just an idiot

[wild nexus]

SAME lol

[modest musk]

just kill him before it does that lole

I wish you werent so op at level 12

[sharp vault]

non tactician player talking reduce volume to 0.gif

[modest musk]

im on tact rn

and at level 12 it doesn't really matter i would bet you money

[sharp vault]

what part doesn't matter

the ability oneshot my entire party except for those I drank lightning resist potions on, think I was level 12 when I did it

[modest musk]

yeah he was dead before that, even with hp or ac that tact adds

[sharp vault]

well you'll get there and show us

[modest musk]

unless tact makes him use it right away

[sharp vault]

Dunno

!rm 7d did doolbee kill the thing before the thing on tact

[left marsh]

Alright azortharion, I'll remind you about did doolbee kill the thing before the thing on tact in 7 days. ID: 60668579

[modest musk]

my current party is not very optimal

beast master ranger
sword and board pally
laezel will go monk which tbf is op

then Im gonna swap out wyll for jaheria

[sharp vault]

whats so neat about jaheira

its not a bad shout though, since I've done the other stories

[twilit raft]

He's also the evil corrupted version of ||balduran|| so he deserves it for killing his bestie

[sharp vault]

||its not really clear that he's evil even by the end||

[twilit raft]

You cN oneshot him on tactician

[modest musk]

i like cougars mostly

im suure i'll change my mind after a few fights with her tbh

[twilit raft]

If you play the piss the emperor off route he admits he'd using you

[tawdry glacier]

No way bro..

[twilit raft]

You also fuck em

[foggy valve]

Will you be enjoying Karlach even more now

[sharp vault]

I feel like patch 2 invalidates the canon status of my first playthru..

[tawdry glacier]

True..

[foggy valve]

Nothing to do but play again…..

[modest musk]

it doesn't change a whole lot but

I think my tief ranger woujld make a lot of sense to go with her

[twilit raft]

Make every companion into a gloom ranger

[tawdry glacier]

I think I’m gonna romance laezel this playthrough, some nice githyanki on githyanki action

[winter vigil]

Be sure to fertilize the eggs

[tawdry glacier]

There will be no eggs

[twilit raft]

It's so-so

Baezel is too easy

[potent hamlet]

I SWEAR TO GOD I TRIED THIS AND WAS SO ANGRY IT DID NOTHING

[tawdry glacier]

but I’ve already romanced Karlach, Shadowheart is too tragic and the rest is weird

[potent hamlet]

astarion

[tawdry glacier]

I fucked him once in my previous game, but idk

[tawdry glacier]

You haven’t answered my question

[winter vigil]

Apparently if she is knocked out it skips it

And you never try to do it again or something

Unsure if bug or not

[tawdry glacier]

oh, yeah that sounds stupid

not gonna do that

[winter vigil]

I didn't even know she could be a companion

[tawdry glacier]

maybe she only tries to join the camp if you're the durge?

[winter vigil]

Oh maybe not I just assumed since she never joined my camp ever

But there's no companion bard so...

[tawdry glacier]

would be dope

I'd rather have her instead of stupid halsin

[winter vigil]

stupid?

bros got a fat cock and a will to tap that's all you need

[potent hamlet]

its durge only ye

[winter vigil]

y tho

[tawdry glacier]

ye he stupid

never used him and never will

[potent hamlet]

I dont make the rules

[winter vigil]

oh

[tawdry glacier]

you know the rules

[wild nexus]

[tawdry glacier]

[wild nexus]

ending was pretty good for me

do i skip credits or is there something at the end

[modest musk]

You can skio

[wild nexus]

dead three btfo'd

also i like how at the end || the emperor asked me to help him reestablish the knights of shield so i ate his brains ||

i might load a save and do the || orpheus || route

[modest musk]

@wild nexus wait 2 months and do new githyanki zealot run

[wild nexus]

can i fix minthara

[tawdry glacier]

how much playtime did you guys have for your first playthrough

I had 105h, that seems a bit much

[sharp vault]

all's well that ends..

not as bad as it could have

[tawdry glacier]

well okay

[wild nexus]

i think minus 20 or so

bc of co-op run i abandoned

[modest musk]

I feel like without afk time it was around 70h but I did miss some things

[twilit raft]

https://i.imgur.com/oYjwdjU.png

[wild nexus]

[tawdry glacier]

I think I pretty much did everything

[wild nexus]

same

need to play some armored core now

[modest musk]

i will never 100% game cause I cant do durge

[tawdry glacier]

why can't you do durge

[modest musk]

i dont want to see alfira all torn up for nothing besudes beubg edgy

[tawdry glacier]

it's not his fault

I think you should play durge and try to be nice

I feel like starting with githyanki instead of half elf was a mistake, no shield is sucky

[modest musk]

doenst everony estart with the same thing

[tawdry glacier]

hm?

half elfs have proficiency in shields

[modest musk]

yeh but cant you switch your backgrou
dn to give you proficiency

[tawdry glacier]

no?

[modest musk]

you sure?

i swear soldier gives you proficiency in weapons etc

[tawdry glacier]

well you're wrong, background only influences your skills

also you can't change background as durge

[modest musk]

fuck you then

[tawdry glacier]

moooods

[wild nexus]

whos gonna tell em....

[twilit raft]

you tell that bozo

[modest musk]

I can

[tawdry glacier]

no you can't

man I'm already noticing so many thing I've missed in my first playthrough

||like the shadow druids for example||

[modest musk]

they wre creepy

[tawdry glacier]

I got this at lvl 4??

seems op

[stark acorn]

Man that's sick

Where is that from

[modest musk]

looks like dark urge only

[stark acorn]

Lame

Bad guys get all the loot smh

[tawdry glacier]

my butler gave it to me

[tawdry glacier]

bros I just realised I can't get the potent robe with alfira being dead...

[modest musk]

Ooof

[tawdry glacier]

grim

[wild nexus]

rare ebin blaster L

[modest musk]

edgy gamer

[winter vigil]

knock out doesn't seem so stupid now huh....

[odd ravine]

You gotta knock your character out before long resting that night or something

Rip scroll boss

[tawdry glacier]

that’s too much metagaming for me

[twilit raft]

Savescumming ain't?

[tawdry glacier]

nah

there’s a mod to still get the robe, but idk..

[odd ravine]

Clayp is more of a "let her get murderised then rub one out on her corpse" kinda guy, he's a durge sympathiser

[tawdry glacier]

n-no

[wild nexus]

ok fuck armored core maybe i do more bg3

or perhaps starfield

@potent hamlet how is starfield

or is it still not out

[twilit raft]

It's out

Okay reviews but that means fuck all

[wild nexus]

ye

that mortismal guy dropped a review ill prob give it a listen

[potent hamlet]

I do not have much interest in playing it

[sharp vault]

I just started

It feels like it's gonna be good but we'll see..

[wild nexus]

lmk

[wild nexus]

oh my b

perhaps i should go back and play old crpg's i own

like bg1/2, divinity 2, planescape torment

[cobalt talon]

Yep

Do it

[foggy valve]

Play Starfield and report back

Or WotR

[cobalt talon]

Don’t give lying Todd Howard your money

[foggy valve]

Todd wouldn’t Lie

[wild nexus]

lyin todd

[foggy valve]

I dont think i could play Divinity again when BG3 exists….

They’re similiar enough that I’d rather just BG3 rn

[wild nexus]

i think i like divinity co-op more

[potent hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/fall-out-it-just-works-todd-howard-gif-15906998

[dusky shale]

wait few more days and buy gamepass

[wild nexus]

tru

[potent hamlet]

Until people work out how to add nails to shoes its so grief I love it

[twilit raft]

Play pillars of eternity 1+2

[wild nexus]

maybe i will refund armored core and buy them

[twilit raft]

Torment: tides of numenera is the successor to planesc ape torment

Bit dialogue heavy still good

[wild nexus]

yea wanted somethin on the darker side, i enjoyed act 2 in bg3 a lot

thats why i was considering planescape

[twilit raft]

Do tides of numenera

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment:_Tides_of_Numenera

[wild nexus]

ill check it out

i like the vibe

[twilit raft]

Appears more like sanitarium in style

Older but great game if you're Nostalgia gaming

[wild nexus]

ill add to the wishlist

pillars of eternity 1+2 bundle on sale?

[twilit raft]

[wild nexus]

wait

[twilit raft]

Ice wind dale with legacy of baal difficulty

[wild nexus]

am i a crpg gamer now

[cobalt talon]

https://tenor.com/view/always-has-been-among-us-astronaut-space-betrayal-gif-23836476

[wild nexus]

[tawdry glacier]

I kinda like divinity combat more tbh

[wild nexus]

[tawdry glacier]

why you grumpy

[wild nexus]

divinity doesnt have ebin blast

worse game by default

[tawdry glacier]

well..

[wild nexus]

i only played ranger so i actually have no clue if it does have a ebin blast

[tawdry glacier]

it does not, but there are other very cool abilities

[twilit raft]

OK? Name them all then

Go on

[wild nexus]

ill wait.....

[tawdry glacier]

corpse explosion

[wild nexus]

just play d4 for that

[tawdry glacier]

I’ll pass on that one

[wild nexus]

holy

[modest musk]

corpse explosion in d4 is so fucking comfy

[cobalt talon]

[foggy valve]

Pngn wrong again

[tawdry glacier]

I don’t think så

[cobalt talon]

DOS2 went overboard with ground effects

dont @ me

[wild nexus]

u should try it in d2

maggot lair

[modest musk]

diabore 2

🥱

[wild nexus]

[tawdry glacier]

it did, but made it interesting nonetheless

[modest musk]

@cobalt talon about to fight ragzlin but im just gonn throw the bottled spectator at him

[wild nexus]

i never used that thing my whole run man

i should have for the last fight

[modest musk]

I figure itll clear out the room pretty well and get its own hp pretty low

[wild nexus]

is it insta aggro or does it only turn after it kills everyone else

[modest musk]

it instant aggros but i climbed up on the rafters and threw it on the gorund

so it only goes for the gobbos right away

[wild nexus]

[modest musk]

it does aggro you tho so once it runs otu of gobbos it can just turn on you

tho maybe I should save this for the ||creche|| fight

I really dont wanna barrelmancy that boss

[wild nexus]

lmao

[tawdry glacier]

no need for barrelmancy

[wild nexus]

just play on explorer

[modest musk]

i hate fighting gith

so much

[tawdry glacier]

git gud

[modest musk]

guy who missed out on best lock robe says what

[winter vigil]

It's not even like

"Best" as in there's other optinos too

Its literally THE lock robe

It gaps everything else

[wild nexus]

optinos

[modest musk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSypgtN0Fqs

omg

this first exploit

LOL

[wild nexus]

squid chads

i wish you could look as cool as emperor though

[tawdry glacier]

don’t need it, I’m just that good

[modest musk]

missing out on 5-7 free dmg....

more like 15-21 free dmg...

[tawdry glacier]

sure but I feel like your AC is gonna be kinda shit when you don’t have a shield

[wild nexus]

you dont need AC when everything is dead

[tawdry glacier]

eh

[wild nexus]

u can blind or fear people too so they just cant reach you

[tawdry glacier]

you can’t fear or blind everyone lole

[wild nexus]

sez who

[tawdry glacier]

says I

[modest musk]

@tawdry glacier the robe also gives u temp hp each and every round

equal to your cha modifier

it's twisted

[tawdry glacier]

yeah I know, but that’s kinda meh

[modest musk]

it's really op

trust

[tawdry glacier]

I don’t trust like that

[modest musk]

guess ull never be a true ebin blaster

and thats okay

[tawdry glacier]

I can’t get it anyway so it doesn’t matter

[odd ravine]

Starfield plays a lot better than it reviews by the sounds of things

Looks like reviewers pre-decided shitting on it would get better engagement metrics and wrote their reviews through that lens

[potent hamlet]

idk man I watched quin play a few hours earlier and it looked hyper dogger

MIDFIELD CONFIRMED

[wild nexus]

baseg

lyin todd wont fool us again

[odd ravine]

To be fair quin makes every game look mid

For someone who's job is to play games, he's fucking dog at it

Makes every game miserable

[modest musk]

isnt that his wohle job

to be a degen loser

[potent hamlet]

This was far from all him though, plenty of bugs, awful dialogue, characters, mid graphics, loading screens and cutscenes for all travel

but yes, he's handicapped at best

[lament hatch]

Would be like watching dabbi play?

[mental linden]

Mid graphics

[plucky quail]

Wait can you actually dismiss player characetrs now

[modest musk]

ya

[plucky quail]

@modest musk ||We killed the guy raphael wanted us to kill but our whole party wiped ||

||I invis'd in the last turn and spammed tele so I wouldn't aggro so I'm the sole survivor now||

[modest musk]

rez them

[wild nexus]

lone wanderer

[plucky quail]

all hope was lost

shadowheart with 2 health left

I spammed invis and spammed tele didn't look back

now we just gotta go back and finish the job against those scumbag merrogons

[wild nexus]

[twilit raft]

Shadowheart is such a queen for baiting abilities

[lament hatch]

For karlach simps https://www.dexerto.com/baldurs-gate/baldurs-gate-3-players-discover-hidden-shortcut-to-find-karlach-early-2275808/

[modest musk]

been doing this

[tawdry glacier]

imagine not doing that from day one

can also get that nice ring very quick

bis for looting the grove

[lament hatch]

https://youtu.be/OxWbTftu3Fw?si=CS_mVt02KmsipXMo

[dusky shale]

[tawdry glacier]

[wild nexus]

akabi off a perc

[foggy valve]

Ghost playing unpatched

[modest musk]

@foggy valve What should I make laezel be after the ||creche|| incident

Monk?

[tawdry glacier]

Ye

[exotic kayak]

too scared to click the spoiler so I'm going to assume that it says cottage cheese incident

[odd ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/cottage-cheese-nom-nom-love-eating-yum-gif-22007184

[tawdry glacier]

unless you haven't played at all, you should know this

[exotic kayak]

I mean any spoiler tag idk when in the game it is cuz its a black bar

[tawdry glacier]

well..

gotta be a bit risky sometimes

[exotic kayak]

tru tru gotta finish it soon

but been so busy

how big is act 3 closer to 1 or 2 in size

[tawdry glacier]

closer to 2 I'd say

definitely not as big as 1

[foggy valve]

Keep her as is King

[tawdry glacier]

don’t listen to him

[twilit raft]

She makes a fine Bard

[tawdry glacier]

I'm playing bard rn

pretty fun

[keen sundial]

Sooo ... I am entirely new to D&D but can anyone explain to me why the hell is there a weapon that can deal 0 damage?

[sharp vault]

well, it's 1d8 but because your strength is sub-10, you get a -1 modifier to strength rolls

and the weapon is a strength roll

hence, 1d8-1

= 0-7

[keen sundial]

Considering I was looking at this from a wizard's perspective it makes sense.. it gets me to wonder if you can go into negative though?

[sharp vault]

I think it bottoms out at 0.

[foggy valve]

Ye 0

[wild nexus]

been holdin on to these for a bit maybe i should run them

[foggy valve]

me on the left

[twilit raft]

Tomb of annihilation is a classic isn't it?

[wild nexus]

curse of strahd too yeah

[mental linden]

curse of strahd

[wild nexus]

i always wanted to play in curse of strahd idk about running it tho

[modest musk]

why cant we use all these ais to just make the perfect GM

[wild nexus]

feel like i wouldnt do it justice

i think wotc is working on something like that

[foggy valve]

There's a DMDAN chatgpt script

[wild nexus]

dmdan?

[foggy valve]

dan is short for "do anything now" and are like scripts made to break chatgpt out of their normal set of rules

unsure if it works still

[wild nexus]

ill try this later

[modest musk]

@foggy valve roll for athletics

[foggy valve]

5

just ate a borgir so unathletic rn

[modest musk]

the dodgeball hits you in the face

[foggy valve]

[modest musk]

man how are peopple like this klol

[tawdry glacier]

huh wdym

[modest musk]

"huh this area is on fire I better just wait"

[tawdry glacier]

oh yeah that's dum

I'm almost lvl 5 again

[modest musk]

based???

[tawdry glacier]

ong

gonna go full tadpole this run

[modest musk]

do it

@tawdry glacier ||go to the creche to get purified it makes tadpoles even more op||

[tawdry glacier]

wdym by that

I mean I'm gonna go there regardless

[modest musk]

||if you sit in the barber chair all your illithid abilities cost a bonus action instead of a reuglar ction||

[tawdry glacier]

Oh damn

[twilit raft]

Yeah it's worth it

[keen sundial]

Okay, I might be playing BG3 wrong. Was I supposed to escort the tieflings out of the grove because now I have a bunch of dead druids on my hands and a lot of stolen shit with no alive vendors to sell to?

[tawdry glacier]

what did you do lol

[keen sundial]

I just attacked whoever showed attitude

[tawdry glacier]

bruh

[keen sundial]

That druid lady was too sassy

[modest musk]

The ghosteld strategy

[keen sundial]

After checking Ghosteld's posts apparently I did one better - ||I just committed genocide upon seeing them without progressing any quests||

[twilit raft]

Goodness

The druid lady is infected

[foggy valve]

I mean you do you but killing ppl on sight in an rpg isnt gonna let you do many quests

[keen sundial]

I mean, I gave them a chance and they insulted me. Now that I think of it, I should have rolled a barbarian to give them a better idea of what's coming.

[modest musk]

"wtf why doesn't everyone lick my boots"

[foggy valve]

They do when I have 22 cha

do it or get ebin blasted

[modest musk]

ebin blast is simply too good

[wild nexus]

my durge

[modest musk]

more like my wife

I'm going to lewd your OC and you can't stop me

[wild nexus]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[modest musk]

@foggy valve use y our EU cconnections to make thje tiefling bard a proper companion in the definiitive edition

[tawdry glacier]

mine is cuter

[wild nexus]

frog

[tawdry glacier]

[modest musk]

githyanki girls are meant for ||holding hands||

[tawdry glacier]

true and real

[foggy valve]

Swen Vincke is in the US and A right now

Pop down and say hi to him

he's lonely

[wild nexus]

we back

[foggy valve]

[wild nexus]

i got that increased party size mod so now i can have everyone i want with me

and shadowcute too

[foggy valve]

shadowcute mandatory

[wild nexus]

might make her a spore druid for this run

[foggy valve]

NOOOO

[tawdry glacier]

wtf is that gale portrait

why did it change

[keen sundial]

He likes you. And he wants you.

[wild nexus]

that is the most evil portrait ive ever seen

[tawdry glacier]

he's looking into my soul

[twilit raft]

Get the mod that enables achievements with mods

[tawdry glacier]

nice cheating

[twilit raft]

Shut up

[wild nexus]

[twilit raft]

Why did you do that

[keen sundial]

I'm more interested in how

[wild nexus]

bc im so evil and cool

[twilit raft]

Durge lol

[wild nexus]

[wild nexus]

is there no way to get potent robe whilst siding with goblins

[tawdry glacier]

nope

well there’s a mod, but other than that no

[keen sundial]

I just had an idea. Could this be because my character is as charismatic as sewer elemental?

[foggy valve]

No

You can’t just attack them

Maybe if you did some exploring and investigating there’d be other solutions

Or not kill on sight when someone is rude to you

[dusky shale]

wait this potent robe is sick and i dont have it

[foggy valve]

[modest musk]

pov you find out that killing every npc doesnt give you rewards

[wild nexus]

modding does tho

[wild nexus]

why is being evil so hard

or being evil without the path of just murdering everyone

[modest musk]

bc almost every rpg morality system is either "be a decent/good/selfless person/hero" or "cartoonishly evil"

except jade empire for the first few arcs

[modest musk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/168wyan/karlachs_likability_is_teachin_me_how_to_be/

[wild nexus]

what is jade empire

[modest musk]

Old biowqre rpg

Fantasy wuxia

[wild nexus]

old bioware

[modest musk]

Pure pog....

[wild nexus]

@foggy valve this dmdan thing kinda goes hard

[foggy valve]

[twilit raft]

Old bioware is Bae

[tawdry glacier]

[twilit raft]

Thanks clay

[tawdry glacier]

you’re welcome

[wild nexus]

@foggy valve dmdan doesnt let you bang party members

tragic

[foggy valve]

What in the

How dare he

[wild nexus]

ik

lmao i hit the release brake lever on the windmill

the gnome went flying

[foggy valve]

[tawdry glacier]

how could you

[wild nexus]

its quite shrimple actually

[tawdry glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/youve-got-to-be-squidding-me-its-as-shrimple-as-that-shrimple-squid-gif-26786461

[tawdry glacier]

has anyone found those fish people in the underdark, quite hidden the little fuckers

[cobalt talon]

which fisk people?

screenshot?

i thought i did 100% of that area but i dont immediately recall fish people

[modest musk]

i only saw it from a youtube short

[cobalt talon]

nope never seen those

the fuck

[tawdry glacier]

the entrance is hidden very well

[modest musk]

its in a well?

[tawdry glacier]

nah there's a cragged rock you can jump to

but very hard to spot

you can reach it from the torchstalk field

[cobalt talon]

thats pretty cool

i legit thought i was thorough in the zone

good to see there's well hidden stuff

[mental linden]

i need to play again

[tawdry glacier]

do it

[modest musk]

im entering underdark now, i think fighting hte gith in creche is going to be tough at level 5

[cobalt talon]

he definitely got that pooldripp

[modest musk]

beast master kinda sucks bros, but at least I have spike growth now

[cobalt talon]

i still have act 3 left to do on playthrough 1

[mental linden]

it 100% depends on how you fight

[cobalt talon]

soon done with PoE

[tawdry glacier]

I'm playing bard rn, pretty baller

[modest musk]

also since its september It hink it's fair to not spoiler tag anything act 1

[cobalt talon]

then im BG gaming hard again

[modest musk]

cant believe tho I completely missed mountain pass firstr playthrough

I thought it wa sjust pick 1

[tawdry glacier]

you didn't even try?

[modest musk]

also crazy how expansive underdark part of act 1 is compared to mountain pass

[tawdry glacier]

bruv

[modest musk]

no why would I

underdark did great at moving me along

I was like "oh I need to go to moonrise"

[tawdry glacier]

why wouldn't you??

[modest musk]

there was no reason to

especially bc in underdark its like "you cant waste a lot of time or Ill die in this tunnel"

[tawdry glacier]

smh

[modest musk]

then when you free them its like "this is the way to moonrise, go go go"

[tawdry glacier]

nice drawing

[cobalt talon]

true but mountain pass has an epic quest

[modest musk]

super important too for laezel

[cobalt talon]

another quest

for the secret weapon

[modest musk]

also this random ass vendor in creche had like this fantastic 1h sword for my ranger lol

like

[cobalt talon]

yep

astarion still has it in act 3 for me

[modest musk]

my least favorite thing about beast master is that you cant have your summon out bc npcs just freak out

[foggy valve]

@modest muskthoughts?

[exotic kayak]

I wanna be able to play as a fish now

[tawdry glacier]

same

already missed an achievement, looks like I'll have to do another playthrough

[modest musk]

me

[lament hatch]

Thoughts on speed run that uses shadowharts corpse?

[exotic kayak]

No one hurts my queen

[twilit raft]

Didn't they fix that stuff?

[cobalt talon]

[odd ravine]

unpopular opinion

her nose is cute

[wild nexus]

prox is into bats

[odd ravine]

can never finish a batman movie without spilling seed

https://tenor.com/view/laezel-bg3-baldurs-gate3-baezel-gif-21344828

[tawdry glacier]

I agree with prox

[odd ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/better-a-short-life-built-on-truth-than-immortality-woven-of-lies-better-honesty-than-lies-lae'zel-laezel-githyanki-gif-13253027886725257676

[tawdry glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/eye-roll-lae'zel-baldur's-gate-3-bg3-gif-5101551200010396987

[modest musk]

this was so funny

"actually it's tieFling"

[tawdry glacier]

[odd ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/tsk'va-curses-lae'zel-laezel-githyanki-gif-1109605854417543371

[tawdry glacier]

chk

[tawdry glacier]

@twilit raft you played monk, right?

[twilit raft]

Yes @tawdry glacier

[tawdry glacier]

I want to make laezel a tavern brawler monk
starting with fighter for heavy armour and 17/14/16/8/10/8, might dump dex when I get the gloves of dexterity
does that sound right?

[modest musk]

i think monks get leveling things that give them bonuses when not wearing armor

i think tho

i feel like the meta is thief 3 for anything martial tho for the 2nd bonus action and then free dashes/etc

[tawdry glacier]

yeah gonna get thief later as well

reason for fighter is that AC will be shit when I go with strength instead of dex

(can also wear a shield)

[modest musk]

dont you need both hands free for monk

for all the juicy multistrikes

[tawdry glacier]

don’t think so

[modest musk]

i hope modders can add in combat stuff

like fights etc

[tawdry glacier]

oh you loose unarmored movement when using shields, hm I wonder if that really matters

nvm I’m dumb

[twilit raft]

You can be better off with armor

But unarmored is more movement

If you're a gith is sort of whatever since their racials = movement

[tawdry glacier]

ye thought the same

[twilit raft]

Tavern brawler is strength tho

[tawdry glacier]

I have two misty steps with the amulet atm

movement isn’t an issue

[twilit raft]

If your subclass is the four ways you don't really multiclass

Need the ki points

[tawdry glacier]

I took open hand

[twilit raft]

Then you multi

Iirc it's either wis or dex for armorclass

Dex gloves removes some kushido options

There's good ones early one with melee 1d6 and unarmed 1d...4?

[plucky quail]

[modest musk]

Kind of wish druid or ranger had these cool things to consider tbh I'm not resly viving with my lvl 6 ranger atm

[tawdry glacier]

where do you get those?

[twilit raft]

Tbf my monk turned into a cc bot the moment unarmed strike showed up

[twilit raft]

No clue but the flawed hell dusk gloves work similar

[tawdry glacier]

you only get those in act 3 right

[twilit raft]

Monk is a sort of meme in that paralyzing has very trash saves

Flawed is underdark

But there's a specific few for unarmed

[modest musk]

More enemies need to be immune to cc

[twilit raft]

Keeping Raphael stun locked eight turns in a row

Yeha idk

[tawdry glacier]

when you have the helm of arcane w/e and hold monster

[sharp vault]

Hold monster should be banned on tactician

Or bosses should just be perma cc immune

[tawdry glacier]

lol

[wild nexus]

u can do so much more fucked up things in 5e

wall of force/force cage

[twilit raft]

Banish into walling off into telekinesis into the abyss

[wild nexus]

[modest musk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBtcCBw-U8

[foggy valve]

im so confused how all this stuff is skipped

[wild nexus]

wtf

[keen sundial]

Bet

[wild nexus]

thou hath sinned

apologize to our queen immediately

[modest musk]

i think that having any companion enter a cell where a cutscene plays if they're alive or dead will trigger it?

[foggy valve]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1141505959915700224/1148651922795016332/20230905_110400.png

[sharp vault]

what the FUCK is happening in that video

[twilit raft]

It's a dank meme

Interacting with an object whilst throwing it to an illegal terrain makes it legal

Ergo yeet to high heavens

Shadow heart corpse is a legal cutscene trigger for the cinematic

But ded bitches can't talk so it's gales choice from across the world

[sharp vault]

but in act 2 he seems to throw to a completely arbitrary place

and then hes at the act's end

also just came across this

https://www.reddit.com/r/AestusGuides/comments/15oj00i/aestuss_hardcore_baldurs_gate_3_rules/?context=3

an interesting kind of playthru

[twilit raft]

Yeah that spot counts as the end

Very kewl

[exotic kayak]

hmm the long rests part is interesting

[foggy valve]

5 per act

best not be playing a spell caster

[exotic kayak]

ye thats what I was thinking

but then those potions exist right?

[tawdry glacier]

the guardian had me laffing

[wild nexus]

what is karmic dice

[tawdry glacier]

weighted dice basically

[sharp vault]

good/bad luck protection

[tawdry glacier]

avoids luck/failure streaks

[wild nexus]

i didnt even know that was a thing

is it on by default?

[tawdry glacier]

Ye

at least it was for me

[wild nexus]

ive been cheating this whole time

[tawdry glacier]

is it really cheating though

just evens everything out

[sharp vault]

you could technically cheese with it no?

via ability checks and such

[wild nexus]

not sure

[sharp vault]

doubt it matters for a normie playthru tho

the guy who made that is a hypersweater

[tawdry glacier]

how would you cheat with it?

[wild nexus]

also is the || 99 dc check at the end of the game always a guaranteed crit success?|| [endgame spoilie]

[tawdry glacier]

no

[wild nexus]

oh

[tawdry glacier]

doesn’t really matter if you pass the checks or not

[sharp vault]

I think the good/bad luck protection carries over from ability checks to damage checks and such

[wild nexus]

well i || ran through it twice and got crit success both times it came up ||

[sharp vault]

So if you just rolled a natty 1 on an ability check you could initiate some hard fight elsewhere

THAT SAID

look what I found https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/zwqaem/psa_having_the_karmic_dice_setting_turned_on/

that is from early access tho

[foggy valve]

bad data gathering and been patched since

[tawdry glacier]

that’s not really true I think

[wild nexus]

ive been on hard mode the whole time?

[foggy valve]

he reloaded the same save over and over so karmic dice state was the same

and he was intentionally giga AC vs low level mobs

[wild nexus]

i think i found out that rolls are decided as soon as the dice screen pops up

either that or i got the same result 3 times in a row on the same roll

[tawdry glacier]

I failed and then reloaded to see what happens when you succeed

[wild nexus]

oh on that roll? idk what happens when you fail, i thought it was scripted

[wild nexus]

this was a different occasion though

i was hoping that if you pass that one roll you would just get a situation like those couple act 2 bosses

[modest musk]

if you succeed the ||last boss has less HP||

[tawdry glacier]

oh i guess it does matter then

[wild nexus]

oh

well i guess i was just playin on ezmode

[modest musk]

fwiw it's only 100 less hp which is kind of neglible then

[wild nexus]

true

i solo'd him with tav on my first run of it

[modest musk]

I save scummed that fight cause I wanted zevlor to live but then ||there was no ending so it didnt matter||

but in my head it matters

[wild nexus]

in my second time playing through that || mizora died but wyll doesnt die with her if she dies in battle||

idk if thats intended or not

[modest musk]

oh you had her as additional forces?

thats neat howd u do that

[wild nexus]

yea

[sharp vault]

surely he cant die if you want the "save every tiefling" achiev right

[wild nexus]

i dont think shes a tiefling

[modest musk]

hes asking about zevlor

[wild nexus]

oh

oops

[modest musk]

do you get that when credits roll or prior to that?

I never got that achievement which is weird cause Im pretty sure I saved every tiefling but w/e

[sharp vault]

pretty sure it was when credits rolled but thats a very specific and faint memory heh

[wild nexus]

i dont remember how it came up tbh but i think || wyll has to agree to serve her instead of breaking off the pact||

[modest musk]

that checks out'

[wild nexus]

plus i banged

maybe that was it

[foggy valve]

horny luka moment

[wild nexus]

you telling me you wouldnt

[modest musk]

I didnt

I am loyal

[wild nexus]

shadowheart called her a mediocre lay

fuckin love her

[foggy valve]

[modest musk]

think next time I play with shadowcute gonna make her a rogue

[wild nexus]

@modest musk in the final part did you give karlach ||the squidpill||

[modest musk]

maybe an all martial playthrough

[foggy valve]

im about to go bananas on u

[modest musk]

that'd the treal hardcore

[modest musk]

no

[sharp vault]

not the bananas..

[foggy valve]

gonna drop one in front of doolbees car tomorrow.....

[wild nexus]

as far as i know ||thats the only way she can survive without fleeing to avernus||

[modest musk]

ya

but it's not really her

[wild nexus]

true

i tried doing the gale || crown|| thing too but idk how it works

i saw the ending on yt though it wasnt that cool

[tawdry glacier]

the real ending is|| becoming bhaals slayer and taking the crown for yourself||

[wild nexus]

is there a confirmed canon ending?

[foggy valve]

me marrying shadowcute

luka being maid of honour

[modest musk]

karlach and I holding hands on our porch swing as we look at our 2 kids

[wild nexus]

in avernus?

[sharp vault]

Does the concept of a canon ending even make sense

[wild nexus]

[wild nexus]

if there is a sequel then yea

such is the case for bg1 and bg2 i think

i guess it would depends how prior entries go about it

dont most games with multiple endings have a canon one?