#Baldurs Gate 3

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fair marten
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Weegy did you had any performance issue in Baldur's Gate?

maiden parcel
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i did yeah

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About half of them i chalked up to the game

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the other half is my system bottlenecks with my CPU

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so can't fully blame them, its why i knocked one off from 10/10. along with minor pacing issues and personal preferences

fair marten
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yeah the high numbers of entities

maiden parcel
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objectively the game is a masterpiece

fair marten
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the game is great

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you can go so many ways

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with each characters

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and if you want you can even try all these ways with DU

maiden parcel
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they said 17k ending variations, ||but i'd say the real amount of "endings" is around 8 real endings and 5 subendings. but each with a massive amount of variation depending on choices. ||

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||Didn't manage to save karlach, but her death was so heartwarming. it wasn't a death that made you feel bad about not finding the actual solution to her engine(which i couldn't find for the life of me) but it was a celebration of a life well-lived, she earned her freedom and became a better person in the company of the Hero and it was a super sad wholesome moment, that makes her story probably my second favorite behind Shadowhearts.|| -Companion Stuff

fair marten
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I had to kill Laz'hiel before entering Baldur's Gate, ||i can't allow a Vlaakith's loyalist to stay stay in my camp, to many things depend on the Prism||

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Laz'hiel is either a child soldier, or she has no brain cells

maiden parcel
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Huh

fair marten
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i already know the answer don't worry

maiden parcel
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|| You see for me she was anti vlaakith, she wanted to free Orpheus and was disillusioned||

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My version of her

fair marten
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||you gave her the third part of his story?||

maiden parcel
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||Don't think so, I was just her friend||

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But yeah fantastic game

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Gotta play it again once definitive edition drops

fair marten
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i'm taking a small break from BD3, i did binged 90+ hours in very few days

hollow tapir
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I did too

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So I'm still in Act 1

hollow tapir
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Glad I let Volo stab me since the first battle I got into in the Underdark has invisible enemies

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Question about the Underdark || If I get on the boat does it take me to Act 2 or something? ||

hollow vortex
hollow tapir
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Oh okay

hollow vortex
# hollow tapir Oh okay

||The underdark route to act 2 is a door near the beginning of Grymforge, mind you. You'll be warned by the NPCs outside of it that its a bad idea to go up there||

fleet lance
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big download is big

oblique quail
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Finally installing the game, @fleet lance ?

fleet lance
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yep, still got an hour and a half to go

maiden parcel
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its worth it

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its fantastic

fleet lance
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I feel alseep so this is late but

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i am begin

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i do not consent to brain worms

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also the hardest part, character creation

plucky tapir
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Brain worm consents to you

fleet lance
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every class and race seems fun to play

halcyon flume
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I finally got to level 8, second feat seems like an underwhelming choice though

fleet lance
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am duergar ranger, time to hunt mindflayers and telated stuff

fleet lance
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game do be eating my steamdecks battery tho

feral valley
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Managed to squeeze in some playing today.
'Tis done. The gate has been baldured.
I am now free.

maiden parcel
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until DE drops

feral valley
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Im hoping for some story additions in it 😄

maiden parcel
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oh there will be

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i don't doubt it

feral valley
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If there wont, there will be a riot :<

maiden parcel
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probably expanded romance and some side quests

feral valley
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Includes spoiler @ ending part @ companions || yes. :< And karlachs story needs expansion + ending improvement, it was sad sad + not quite complete it seemed ||

fair marten
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haven't they said they would take a big break from making things?

feral valley
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Last i heard twitter rejoiced that they said that char look customizer is cookin

fair marten
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they are improving character customisation?

feral valley
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Not sure if there is an official post on that, i just heard that mentioned

fair marten
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we already eat good with dragonborns, but man i would love to play a dumb kobold one day

maiden parcel
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at most, character creation will get artificer+new subraces IMO

fair marten
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the Doctor look artificer enough no?

maiden parcel
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He did

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But yeah, definitive edition(when it comes in like 2 years) aside from big fixes will probably only have a few new things, like class, subraces. Maybe a voted race in and a few extra sidequests

fair marten
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and maybe starting gift

maiden parcel
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My guess is artificer will be the final thing. Like the formal goodbye to the game

fair marten
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like on DOS2 with some official mods

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official mods? mods officially endorsed by Larian

feral valley
# maiden parcel re i disagree,|| i found her ending to be great, really stressed her character a...

re || i did not like 2 aspects of her ending. 1. you either make her die, make her suffer fate worse than death(back to avernus) or make her suffer fates worse than those 2 ( flayer transformation + enslavement + soul loss(?)) 2. but ok, lets assume avernus is semi happy ending, could have at least made a mini-cinematic for it. Up till the very last moment it was good. You dont dongle a potential of saving if there is none - especially weird in cases when many dieties are involved, and many options for immortality are in play even within the story and directly tied to you. ||

fair marten
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||or the other one in the underdark||

feral valley
fair marten
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shit sorry for the ping

feral valley
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no worries

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Some fun times ahead still 😄

fair marten
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||managed to talk my way out of conflic in many major conflics and fights, but i really don't know if i can sway him, the murder happy lady i'm pretty sure cannot be talked out of combat||

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||well the Elden brain did mind control someone to talk to me, are we on a doom clock or something? I HATE Doomclock scenarios||

feral valley
fair marten
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re ||but even then, the Tyrant wont let me out and Gale out of our predicament, but even Gale talk about controlling and using the crown for our own interest, i don't know where to sit man. like the Tyrant will obviously wont make Baldur's Gate walk into a golden age, i'm also afraid of Gale therizing to use the crown and all ||

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||So far Gale was a good soul, a wonderful companion to stay with me, but hearing him saying to use the crown for our own benefit, what if he only want to hand it to Mystra? what if he's only exploiting me and the feeling my CC have for him?||

feral valley
fair marten
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||Fricking hell only Shadowheart sound half-truthful because of her amnesia and change on the Deity and Faith compass||

fair marten
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using all my "luck" on traps and chest, during impactfull moments? MAN i roll the 5% of 5% SO MANY TIMES

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like rolling on advantage the SAME RESULT

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it happen already 6 times!

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maybe i should turn it off...

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||also Laz'hiel is dead because she's a danger for EVERYONE||

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wait a second.... it might be the brain rot kicking

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but why do the tadpoles persist on death?

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shouldn't they wither and die inside?

maiden parcel
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Gods

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I'm like 90% sure the lore is that they just turn the body into a mindflayer after a day or two

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So they've got their own independent power source for lack of words

fair marten
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god damn it they have an emergency generator

maiden parcel
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Something like that

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Which makes sense and why the illithids are so dangerous

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Even if you kill an infected

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You have to destroy the body/head to be sure

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Classic zombie rules

fair marten
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yeah if you cut their head either they turn into miniature version of mindflayers or they just turn into intellect devour

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i don't know how this shit works, but either way they take a firebolt or something

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||also man making Gale an evocator was a good idea, enjoy those 25+ damage cantrips with the necklace for 2 times spellcasting ability modifier as additional damage||

scarlet girder
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Did ya'll ||evolve||?

fair marten
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I did ||not, too afraid there is no way back and don't really want to become more illithid, i want to get rid of that tadpol not drug it even more||

hollow vortex
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Early act 2: ||I just got to the toll house and WHAT THE HECK is this creature?? It's terrifying||

fair marten
hollow vortex
fair marten
hollow vortex
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but yeah

fair marten
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||i completely cheesed her, i'm not even ashamed of that||

hollow vortex
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||I said heck no to her taking all my gold and attacked. My main char died instantly||

fair marten
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||let me guess, they took more than 200 damage?||

hollow vortex
fair marten
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||"lucky" you, you saved against it||

scarlet girder
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I don't think she ever attacked me.

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She just kept summoning more trash weapons in odd unreachable spots.

hollow vortex
hollow tapir
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Death approaches

halcyon flume
feral valley
# scarlet girder Did ya'll ||evolve||?

Did not || evolve. though i accidentally got one tadpole power without intentionally consuming tadpole in act 1. but it was very very tempting to evolve... power wise and story wise, now im left wondering how it would turn out if i would go all in on tadpoles. ||

hollow vortex
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I feel like I'm losing steam

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30 hours in my save, I'm at early act 2(I think??) in the shadowcursed lands

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And I'm feeling less drive to continue

fleet lance
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so uhh, is there a lot of time sensitive quests in this?

feral valley
feral valley
fleet lance
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cause i know for a fact i messed up on getting one of the companions on my druegar ranger

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found em dead and all

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and the game isn't going to just push me into the next act?

feral valley
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The transition between acts comes with a warning

fleet lance
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awesome, thank you

feral valley
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( also, something that i failed realising )
Transition between regions/maps is not the same as transition between acts 😄 i ended up not visiting a fairly large region while thinking that it will be act transition. But the wording on region transition is different than act transition iirc

hollow vortex
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So probably not that direction?

fleet lance
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from the little i saw

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goblins seem to be the easier

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their "leaders" go lv4 then 5 still havent seen the last one

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i am being roflestomped by badluck trying to fight the first

hollow vortex
halcyon flume
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I'm pretty sure act 2 is the first region transition, but you can still return to act 1 zones

feral valley
feral valley
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or was it act 2?

halcyon flume
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There is a point in act 2 which makes it a point of no return though, but it will give you a warning before that happens

hollow vortex
halcyon flume
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Funny thing too, since if you try backtracking after the point of no return (spoilers act 2) ||the dream visitor will try and stop you, but if you ignore them and do backtrack, you'll transform into mind flayers and game over||

feral valley
hollow vortex
feral valley
hollow vortex
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Huh

feral valley
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so hard to write things in not spoilery way even in spoilers 😄

hollow vortex
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Yeah haha

halcyon flume
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If I think a spoiler I'm writing can be further spoilery, I just put it in two spoilers, that logically lead into one another, so if you read the first one and don't get it, you sure as hell ain't getting the second spoiler

feral valley
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Smart 😄

halcyon flume
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I typically do it in 3 spoilers too, outside the spoiler is the act, the first spoiler is location, second is a brief talk about what happened, and third is the entire thing

fleet lance
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the greatest spell in this game is the save and load spell

hot warren
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A little bit late and I had fly through to find the end

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Regarding Mindflayers and Souls and additional info about Karlach as extra
Ingame cutscene at the end
|| Withers talks to the three about their failed plan to gather souls as he says mindflayers lose their soul upon transforming. Not their self but the soul is lost. So if Karlach transforms she still is Karlach as a personality but has no soul anymore and feels the hunger of an ilithid. ||

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Link to a clip of the scene

fleet lance
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gnolls are uhh

scarlet girder
# hollow vortex I feel like I'm losing steam

I just started Act 3 and I've lost most of my will to continue.

I'll do it, because otherwise it'll be stuck in my backlog forever, but I'm not nearly as excited as I was 50 hours ago.

maiden parcel
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It picks up

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fast and hard

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Orin and Gortash are Terrifying villains

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But thats most cRPG's to be blunt, they really drag around the mid second act

plucky tapir
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I’ve been taking it really slow
I’m only 12 hours in

fleet lance
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i gotta stop stepping in hazard

fleet lance
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I really want to ||Take Raphaels deal, but not with this specific character||

fleet lance
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also i really want to make a Tiefling druid

fair marten
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just to dunk on the Druids in act 1? Wanderp

fleet lance
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kinda

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also to see the druid optiom for that

halcyon flume
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From what I heard from a friend, they're slightly friendlier with you since you're a druid and the tiefling portion is kinda swept under the rug

fleet lance
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how to deal with goblin camps 101 ||Find a specator in a bottle, somewhere? Release||

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||oh crap it flies ||

fair marten
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sneak your way up, fireball?

fleet lance
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dont have that yet

neon osprey
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it's all fun and games until the party goes north for a bit before going to the second town. ||then it's a cakewalk (if you survive the gnoll fights).||

hollow tapir
plucky tapir
fleet lance
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i think, after work today, i'm gonna make a character for each class so i can jump between characters and not worry about doing everything in one go

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I'm open to ideas for those, currently have a duergar ranger, dragonborn monk and githyanky(?) sorcerer

halcyon flume
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Is dark urge on the table for that?

fleet lance
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yes? whats dark urge?

halcyon flume
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The murder character

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You can customise the race and class, but it's under origin characters

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Basically you get bonuses after killing a lot, idk the specifics though as I haven't done it myself yet

fleet lance
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so a murderhobo

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definetly making one

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what class would be funny as a murderhobo tho?

fair marten
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Cleric of Life? Wanderp

fleet lance
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i kinda really love that

fair marten
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"I'm here to protect life.... MY life!"

fleet lance
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"Everyone dies! Except you, you get watch everything!"

storm horizon
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Overheal

fleet lance
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grow them extra organs?

storm horizon
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Or uncontrolled bone growth.

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Turning your victims into living bone sculptures would fit Dark Pact.

halcyon flume
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I wanna finish my current game then do a dark urge game, it'll be fun

storm horizon
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A proper dark urge run would be solo after the first camping night.

fair marten
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just spam the partial rest and gift your companion's life to the Urge

fleet lance
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would a multiplayer, 4 dark urges campaing be possible?

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or would that just go into pvp and only having one person left?

maiden parcel
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I don't think so?

halcyon flume
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There can only be one dark urge

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Since it's an origin character, only one person can pick it

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I know since I'm in a 2 player game with my friend being the urge

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If I happen to die in the process of the game, so be it

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Although our guess is that since I'm a custom character, there is no event where the dark urge would kill me

hot warren
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also I dont think it kills pcs

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only npcs

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that would be just unfair and asshole move

fair marten
storm horizon
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You will just have to make a custom psychopath that is worse than Dark Urge

fair marten
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The Dark Gary, ending in apocalyptical scenario because they keep rolling 1

maiden parcel
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They had something similar in it

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So its not out of the question

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You could just go PvP against party members at random times

hot warren
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thats a player decision

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thats player agency

maiden parcel
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original part came out rude, woops sorry about that

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Thats fair

hot warren
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randomly removing you from the game is being an asshole

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If you play dnd and the dm says your character jjust died while resting

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what would you do ?

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The dm is here the game

maiden parcel
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Yeah, thats true thats an extreme dick move

hot warren
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So i HIGHLY doubt that this random action is a thing ti happen

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Larian are competent developers

neon osprey
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hoo boy, the dark urge origin is immensely messed up. self-mutilation ||for stat boosts|| included

fleet lance
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the barbarian npc companion do be liable to rampage, not sure if they attack the player tho, i was already dying from battle wounds

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only character who survived the encounter went on a rampage and all

plucky tapir
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Looking at new patch notes I kind of appreciate how they care enough about modding to specifically work on bugs that only appear if you are modding the game

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fleet lance
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I'm wondering how many of the mods are like races/classes ones

ember aurora
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Soon it will be many. Right now mods are still relatively few. Though I think races and classes make up the majority

fair marten
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i was wondering something about the tadpol (potential spoiler that can range from mid act 1 to near beginning of act 2)
||If you can talk party members into using and nuturing their Ilithids powers, can you talk them out?||

oblique quail
ember aurora
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Always nice when it's "modding is good for the community and makes the game more fun"
And not "But we could be making money off that content reeeeeeee"

fleet lance
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is there a way to keep braindog?

feral valley
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Yes

fleet lance
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how?

feral valley
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But || only later. || - || you will encounter Us later on, and if you free Us, you will get him as summon ||

fleet lance
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ohh

feral valley
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Im not sure if there are other points where that happens, but for me - i found Us in || act 2. Location is a big spiler for some things so wont mention precisely ||

scarlet girder
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When you are in the meatspace, then you'll be in the right place.

oblique quail
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Though there are two parts to the meatspace. One you can get to early, and one you can only get to towards the end of the act.

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They are separate from each other, you need to be in the one you can only get to towards the end of the act.

hollow vortex
fleet lance
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lots of games have a meatspace it's fine

halcyon flume
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I'm in the end game of act 2, and man, I'm enjoying it

ember aurora
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Huge appreciation for the spoiler tags in patch notes

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neon osprey
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excuse me, cruel sting used to do what

oblique quail
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Add infinite Psychic Damage to attacks.

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It was great.

fair marten
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i'm kinda sad there is not the cantrips that use your weapons for melee spell/weapon attack

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cruel sting? i suppose it's a bard thing

hollow vortex
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is there a mod for ASI and Feat at the usual interval?

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Since that's an, I believe, fairly common house rule in tabletop

fair marten
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every 4 character level instead of 4 class level

hollow vortex
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one of my friends worries me

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fair marten
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lass/lad, please take a break

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both you and your computer will greatly appreciate it

oblique quail
hollow vortex
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I know that

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I was asking

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for a mod that lets me take both, rather than pick one

oblique quail
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Oh, you mean one that lets you get both the feat and ASI, rather than swapping it to being every 4 Character Levels instead of 4 Class Levels.

hollow vortex
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I specified usual interval because I saw a mod that's like "ASI and Feat every single level"

hollow vortex
oblique quail
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Far as I'm aware, only the super cheaty mod of "ASI and Feat every level" exists.

hollow vortex
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blegh.

oblique quail
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For mods that let you take both at a given interval.

hollow vortex
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unfilled niche

hollow tapir
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I haven’t been playing this enough

feral valley
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That would make one crazy strong 😅 even with the regular leveling i felt overleveled at the end on normal

hollow tapir
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Because I suppose my subconscious like to be contrarian

storm horizon
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Wish you could turn off the slow levelup summary screens without a mod. It gets old and tedious fast. Especially if you want to reclass

plucky tapir
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Why can I not load random saves?

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Oh it says incompatible version

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...Why would older ones be okay then?

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Oh never mind it's temporary

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halcyon flume
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Welp, I have credits rolling

maiden parcel
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ahhh

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did that choice

halcyon flume
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although (ending spoiler)
||it ain't exactly the good ending when gale uses nuclear bomb at the end of act 2||

maiden parcel
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Well (more spoilers) ||thats actually the "best" ending objectively ||

halcyon flume
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I mean, probably

fleet lance
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wait|| so we should definetly save gale at the start?||

fair marten
oblique quail
fleet lance
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also I kinda love how baldur's gate 3 being a fully functoning, drm free, no microtransaction game is making some other game studios lose it.

oblique quail
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They apparently got a bunch of compiler corruptions from a last minute rerun through the compiler to tweak the displayed version number.

fleet lance
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did the game already have a mod folder or is it like terraria where theres tmodloader?

storm horizon
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When i tried it a bit, i did see the modloader just copies files to the mods folder and edits some config file.

neon osprey
hollow tapir
oblique quail
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100K people getting rejected by the character with basically no standards.

hollow tapir
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That’s just him manipulating you so he can suck your blood

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If you deny his obviously suspicious advances, find out the truth, offer your blood willingly, he’s not interested in you

fair marten
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he had the first suck for free, everyone other he ever had were from "willing" foes

neon osprey
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the best way to unlock the ||Devil's in the details|| achievement, is to ||teach your illithid to gid gud. also save scum each time they(?) miss an attack.||

hot warren
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So uhhhh

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There is already a Getting-Laid% category for speedruns..

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and its sub 8m

oblique quail
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How fast is the Any% Credits down to? Last I saw it was at 10 minutes.

storm horizon
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Does anyone actually use the dip action(bonus)? I keep forgetting it exists.

fleet lance
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i tried it to see but it only works for poison, so like you cant use a sleep potion to make sleep arrows, unless that was just that specific potion

fair marten
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doesn't it also work with lit candles?

hollow vortex
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Fire surfaces and anything with burning status ye

feral valley
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Dipping swords in your teammates

fleet lance
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ohh i did not know that

halcyon flume
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I tried dipping in blood, it didn't work, and never looked at the option again

lime silo
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Sam's ad read for BG3

storm horizon
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So you can stab karlach for fire effect?

halcyon flume
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end of act 2 spoilers (like end end)
||Yeah, I think this cutscene is a tad broken, my source being the fact I've seen it before in previous attempts, and it didn't look quite as... bright||

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storm horizon
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anyone else got the annoying audio issue where mechanical doors etc keep playing hte opening sound in a loop?

neon osprey
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haven't run into audio problems on my own playthroughs yet, ketek

fleet lance
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Most I had is an imp ragdolling into nothingness in the intro fights

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also phasing through a cracked wall

fair marten
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imagine being a evocation wizard with 1 level dip in warlock for eldritch blast, and each beam deal 13 to 24 force damage

storm horizon
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Can't you also get it with a feat to get extra cantrips from warlock withotu the need to multiclass?

fair marten
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yeah but that would mean using your first feat for magic initiate: warlock

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so why not dipping 1 level in warlock for a spellslot that you recover after each short rest

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heck you could take 2 level for 2 spellslots

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and still get potent cantrip from evocation 10

storm horizon
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potent cantrip is quite meaningless tho. I think there are only 2 that work with it? The cantrip must have a save enemy has to roll for it to apply.

fair marten
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ok so the other feat that add inteligence modifier to evocation spells

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PC is lvl6

feral valley
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There are items that give you Additional targets to cantrips, etc, cantrips can grow fairly powerful

fair marten
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additional targets

feral valley
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not as powerful as lvl6 spells ofc, for the most part, but with synergies they can grow

fair marten
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whaaat?

feral valley
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( additional targets - from which the additional target can be the same target, that is you can double it on same target too, blast 2x with pew pew )

fair marten
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I...

feral valley
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tho i dont remember if there is an item that gives you that for infinite times or just couple of times per short rest.
items are very powerful

storm horizon
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I have a robe for the +CHA modifier added to cantrips

fair marten
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really needed that? despite knowing what mean additional target

feral valley
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there are some combos where items feed off things that other items generate ( lightning charges/heat charges etc )

fair marten
storm horizon
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yeah that one

fair marten
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yeeeee

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Warlocks goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

storm horizon
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with the additional passive, it double dips for another cha modifier

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20 CHA its +10 always to damage

feral valley
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There are also some items that set your base stats ( i got them for str and con ) to 20 n such

fair marten
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so Bunkovsky what is this item that give cantrips +1 targets

feral valley
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trying to google dont want to launch game 😄

fair marten
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warped band of intelect and bracers of dexterity

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bracelet

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gantlet?

storm horizon
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the headband sets int to 17

fair marten
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and the hands equipment set dexterity to 18

feral valley
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Ok, launching game, to check

storm horizon
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i have the headband on, could just drop int to 8 for free points but not have bad saves/checks

fair marten
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you still get +2 int in the end

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-1 because your natural inteligence is 8 and +3 because the band set it to 17

feral valley
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i think str 20 was a helmet
and con 20 was a neklace

storm horizon
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Havent checked tho - do they set it to fixed value or can still go above with potions/buffs etc?

feral valley
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i used cloud potion to go to 23 or 27

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( i forget 😄 as i only checked them at endgame, as i am potion hoarder )

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21 for giant elixir and 27 for cloud giant potion and 23 for gountlets

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And con amulet = also 23

fair marten
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damn that is a lot!

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quest rewards i suppose

feral valley
halcyon flume
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Those are some powerful gloves

feral valley
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Items = the true source of power in bg3 😄

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Ah, ok, checked - sadly its only once per short rest, so they are not as powerful as they seem, but still - good for some situations

storm horizon
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You can swap them in for one combat and then another item. Luckily all rest spells/effects are item bound.

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magic missile has one necklace that adds +1 every time.

oblique quail
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And a free 1 per rest "cantrip" of MM, along with the +1 to number of bolts from any MM you cast.
It's my main necklace for Gale, that I swap out with the Arcane Reservoir necklaces when I need to replenish his slots.

fair marten
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now that i think about it... metamagic: twinned spell is often used on cantrip cast?

hot warren
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jesus christ

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Why are dnd players SO horny ??

storm horizon
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It's all laezels fault!

hot warren
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4m 12s

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The new WR for Laid%

storm horizon
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I didn't even try and she already "liked my smell" by the 2nd long rest.

fair marten
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she's... quite receptive?

oblique quail
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Out of curiosity, do the runs only start at the beach? Because 4m12s seems way too fast for a run that includes the Nautiloid segment.

storm horizon
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Or just a warrior thing, they take what they want

hot warren
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Character creator hero

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Character creator...

fair marten
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alos gotta give them credit, you'll probably die in the next few days

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why refusing some last moment fun?

oblique quail
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Start of character creation, or upon finalizing it? Because again that seems way too fast, any real human, speedrunner or not, would be spending at least 2 hours in Character Creation.

hot warren
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JESUS CHRSIT LAE'ZEL

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Its the second rest

feral valley
fair marten
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again cryo, they'll probably turn into mindflayers in the next few days

hot warren
#

Note :
In case you see a Githyanki Bard
RUN

feral valley
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My relationship with githyanki in bg3 - i managed to cast exterminatus on them

fair marten
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can't you say that of EVERY bards?

hot warren
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There are bards

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Human bards

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and Githyenki Bards

storm horizon
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She just needs very bare minimum of approval i guess

scarlet girder
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Bae'zel has a thirst that cannot be quenched.

hot warren
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Apparently

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okay

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the runners comment has me almost on the floor

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oh god

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my joke "muscle wizard" is actually speedrunners choice

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Str for jump distance and enhance leap ritual...

fair marten
#

isn't increasing AC to 13 and reduce attack rolls against you by 3 the same thing?

hot warren
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yesnt

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If you start with 10 then there is a slight difference depending on the enemy attack stats

fair marten
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in every scenario you would still need to roll 13 in the final result to hit

hot warren
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....

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They call them .....

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The Lae'rizzler

storm horizon
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Is the omeluum reward ||ring of mind shielding supposed to do something? now or was that just EA? It seems it's just a magic item with " advantage on charm save" and all the powers are still active||

fair marten
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||maybe it also give you the same protection as the strange artifact?||

halcyon flume
halcyon flume
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Start of act 3 spoilers
||welp, I've reached the fabled choice of evolution, I would like to ask what immediate downsides I might face choosing it, as I'd imagine there would be a few given my new appearance||

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||I feel like it'd make sense to evolve given I've already maxed out my brain tree, but also, I don't want to look different, I like my dude||

maiden parcel
halcyon flume
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ok, good to know

halcyon flume
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Well, I guess I'm now officially in act 3, the line between act 2 and 3 is a bit fuzzy in that regard

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plucky tapir
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Question about end of act 1:
||Is the act 1-2 break when you decide if you're going over the mountains or via underdark or can you explore both paths? Or are those just, more difficult areas||

maiden parcel
halcyon flume
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I think I succeeded

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plucky tapir
maiden parcel
storm horizon
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Had to go and cancel lazael romance that just stayed active with nothing happening since Act 1 for some reason.|| She suddenly wanted to "claim me" now and end up in a fight where she wasted bunch of very rare consumables. You do not just waste my stuff like that!||

errant shell
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Anyone else only use 1 companion for a while in act 1?

hot warren
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I am actually impressed...

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It could have been 20 seconds shorter

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mage hand was still out and blocked going to camp

feral valley
hot warren
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bunk

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why ?!

feral valley
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There must be a way 🤔

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Cruising trough the realms ir romantic and such 😅

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Bet yea, its dang crazy to see what speed people have found already 😄 and im here ||120||++ hours, barely got trough content, because i had to rush

prime sigil
errant shell
storm horizon
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Why did they not add the actual elixir/potion effects to the craft menu.. just the meaningless flavor text -_-

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Also has anyone gotten the narrator message "there is a parasite in the corpse"... Yet there is nothing - heard it several times

fleet lance
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parasite like our psychic hitchiker? or something else?

fair marten
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sometimes corpses have things in them despite their inventory showing nothing

neon osprey
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sometimes you've got to push/throw the corpse to make the item show up.

storm horizon
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seems like narrator triggered by another copse 20+ meters away

neon osprey
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fun fact: there are 3 ways to get to act 2. 1: ||walking down the path past gale's mentor|| 2: ||through the creche across the skytram|| 3: ||featherfall down the green hole in the well in blighted village||

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wait, four. technically ||through the deep part of goblintown's temple, there's an exit into that zone as well||

fair marten
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||the path behind Gale's mentor?||

neon osprey
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||past those ghouls in the mountainous area and to the left, down the long staircase with the wasp-nest looking things everywhere.||

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further directions for path 1 ||on the path to the goblin infested temple, there's a side path just to the left after the wooden fort checkpoint, guarded by three goblins that leads to a cave. once through the cave, you enter a mountainous zone, and if you stick to the left the whole time, you'll fight some ghouls, immediately followed by a broken bridge with those wasp-nest things all over it. there's a path down to the left of the bridge that leads to act 2.||

storm horizon
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It's really just 2 paths to Act2 ||Mountain path or the door in Grimforge - Underdark is still Act 1||

storm horizon
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Tried the gale "ending"|| It was just extra dull and boring ! No fancy explosion or anything or followup, a completely worthless ending leading to credits in like 10s||

hollow vortex
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I encountered the mimic. Gotta say that it was amazingly animated

hollow vortex
hot warren
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pffft

feral valley
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This impressive

storm horizon
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Now make a whole bowl of tadpole pasta.

halcyon flume
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(act 3 spoilers in image)
I just started this quest, and it already says it's complete in the journal, I even talk to the person I'm supposed to and they are saying I haven't done it though which is strange

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halcyon flume
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There was a chance, and I took it, and it saved a potential fight that would've killed me, hell yeah

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halcyon flume
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Scratch ain't looking too good

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fair marten
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please let the dog load their texture, you don't want to see them partially rendered

halcyon flume
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Wyll is looking a bit worse than normal

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He's turned into a painting on the wall

fair marten
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oooh... indeed Wyll doesn't look so good

halcyon flume
#

(Minor act 3 spoilers)
||Oh no, they've given the most difficult fight of all, a swarm of rats that all have their own individual initiative!||

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feral valley
fair marten
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re ||this one would almost call for an evocation wizard||

maiden parcel
neon osprey
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bold of you to assume I'm not playing a cleric myself.

maiden parcel
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You can't guidance yourself

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can you?

lime silo
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yes you can in 5e

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you can target yourself with touch spells

maiden parcel
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Huh

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Thats

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broken

fair marten
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perma guidance outside of combat

lime silo
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to be fair, it is normally balanced as it can only be used for skill checks that last up a minute given its duration

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I don't know if BG3 incorporates that

hollow vortex
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Not exactly

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Bg3 doesn't really do long-duratiom skill checks as such?

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You roll and things happen

halcyon flume
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Yeah, all checks in BG3 are immediate

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only time you don't get guidance is in camp, but idk if that's because it's a different character outside of a do anything situation or what

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unlike normal D&D where an investigation check can't be guidanced because investigating takes time

plucky tapir
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It also doesn't seem to work when surprised unless it had already been cast? Or maybe something was weird there

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I was ambushed once and Shadowheart couldn't guidance the persuasion check

hollow tapir
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And a mod to get rid of the visual effect

hollow vortex
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average dark urge player

hollow tapir
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Didn’t even know you could pick up bodies

hollow vortex
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you can, but they're very heavy

feral valley
#

What the ( confused dissonance with this angle in my brain ) https://twitter.com/daunt_lys/status/1693024278248075705
Saw this tweet today. I think i had a totally different experience as a Mephistopheles Tiefling. And i guess was oblivious to anything against me(?)
I blasted in the druid groove, saved couple of druid-pepople, eradicated parts of and cleaned up druid leadership(the lady mentioned as the one trying to attack tiefling kid amongst others), and ||got karlach and druid-bear-man, brought tieflings to safe place, exterminated gith(including lazel) from this plane of existance ( shoo invaders, at least be polite if you invade ), liberated Will from pact (because karlach was saying good things in his defence) and i guess glossed over all agressions against me going on happy dates with karlach in the city|| 😅 ( not major spoilers in spoiler tag, but some content things past first half of act 1 )

It seems they nailed the part of evoking different emotions to different people while roleplaying.

Lys 💫 (@daunt_lys)

The racism in Baldur’s Gate is genuinely so fucking hard on me. Playing a Tiefling as a Black person is brutal. Your party members antagonize you, the game antagonizes you, and the plot positions you as the bad guy if you don’t help the druids calling you slurs. 🥲🫠 1/3

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hollow tapir
feral valley
feral valley
hollow tapir
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|| So Wyll is still became a demon? ||

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I thought I had missed something big during that dialogue

feral valley
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||wyll remains demon-ish for the duration of the game, but the situation ends with pact being broken and "he will be released in 6 months"||

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At least that what happened for me 😄 mby there are other resolutions to the situation

hot warren
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Relevant information

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I have no more to say

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BG3 players are too horny

plucky tapir
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I don't think this is even a horny thing so much as speedrunners saw a category they could play with

hollow vortex
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Would any of y'all be interested in trying to do a multiplayer campaign?

lime silo
fleet lance
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I have found monk hands of being op

lime silo
feral valley
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Btw on Karlach ending || it came out couple of days ago that some people checked cut content and locations, and one location was cut, that was kinda crucial to enabling good endings for karlach, and without access to that only the not-good ones remained, if the content checkers are to be believed. ||
Quote from the reddit post that referenced this
||"Datamined content shows that not only did Karlach have a full ending where her infernal engine was fixed and that she survived, but that most of it was fully voiced and complete. However it required triggers from the Upper City portion of Baldur's Gate and when that was cut, so was Karlach's Act 3 storyline. What we have behind have been confirmed to be Karlach's "fail state" endings which were meant to only play if the player neglected her quest chain." ||

halcyon flume
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I swear, everytime I have advantage on a roll, it always makes me roll terribly

fair marten
hot warren
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Any% category

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6m 37s

halcyon flume
#

30 second intro, damn

storm horizon
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My best speedrun was when i died in the first room on nautilus on my first char.

plucky tapir
#

Poked the explosive as a low health class?

storm horizon
#

I walked into fire and burned

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was exploring the catwalks, in case there is something hidden. Jumped over into fire. The only way back was to walk into fire again.

plucky tapir
#

You should try being fireproof

fair marten
#

just say no to fire

storm horizon
#

Best i can do is 50%.

halcyon flume
#

New patch dropped, and I think this is the most important one for people who just want to be friends with Gale

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I do hope it's you picturing a scene just having some beers with him

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3 of the 4 least played races being the short Dwarfs, Gnomes and Halflings bugs me

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Githyanki being the 4th of the bottom 4 does not though

fair marten
#

I mean...

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||If you picture you and him having a romantic time he still appreciate the gesture, it also startle him because he's a bit of a wizard nerd that spent the last few years in total isolation 😂 ||

neon osprey
#

sometimes the fantasy you want to live out is just having wizard friends

storm horizon
#

Ugh npc turn, tries to escape through locked gate and fails. infinitely....

neon osprey
#

location? preferably in spoilertext. that's two of these -> | <- on either side

storm horizon
#

||Gray harbor docks where volo is ||

neon osprey
#

ahh. I see why I don't recognize that situation, then. that npc is dead in my playthrough. incidents happened.

fair marten
#

That is very much true, I didn't see many friendly options, it was most of the time flirts options

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Time for the friendzone% baby

fleet lance
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but did they fix the karlach stuff?

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||Can you good ending her or is that still borken||

feral valley
maiden parcel
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Honestly ||I liked her bad ending. It was a really touching story ||

feral valley
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I would guess they will expand on that

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esp if they already did have work done

maiden parcel
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||It was about how even if you knew youre dying, you still fight for what's right, you still live life to it's fullest and be a good person until the moment it comes, and then you spend that with someone she loved, the player||

feral valley
#

its just that they probably want to nail basic bugs down first as ps release is still coming

maiden parcel
#

And xbox

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They've announced Xbox is coming this year BUT local co-op was cut

feral valley
#

Oh right, they announced that, nice 😄

feral valley
hot warren
#

Now I know why BG3 tickles so many needs

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Its DnD freedom combined with the goofyness and exploits of a videogame

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Carrying 50 carates in your inventory, stacking them up and then having an enlarged owlbear dead drop on your enemy

fair marten
#

what IF i kill everyone?
Dark Urge : :)

hot warren
#

its not something you do in DnD normally or a videogame alone

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its the magical combination of the two that allows that

fair marten
#

slap a goblin to death with another goblin

storm horizon
#

Lvl 12 does feel a bit short - at least for a complete full playthrough. Realized i hit max and I likely have another 20h to play if not more.
Could have at least left passive levelling that just increases base health or something.
It's not even the lack of higher level spells etc - it just feels like i'm not getting any reward now for doing a lot of things.

hot warren
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12 is fine

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The issue is power wise after lvl 12 you start to tread on the realm of demigods and gods

maiden parcel
#

It doesn't feel right both thematically and gameplay wise thats the issue

#

usually you hit 12 as Ketec says, 20-30 hours before the game ends

hot warren
#

Seems more of a pacing issue then of the game

storm horizon
#

It's likely not a problem for when you do a main quest run, but exploring everything, you hit max mid/early Act 3

#

Could have transformed the xp into something else after 12 - recover short rest charges or something.

hot warren
#

would have rather spread the xp out a bit more

hollow tapir
neon osprey
#

bah, lae'zel is gonna get that baby some gains

oblique quail
#

She's doing proper spotting, the baby'll be fine.

fair marten
#

wont gain much on milk, give them some chimken!

oblique quail
#

And they gotta stay up all night getting them sick gains, and ain't nobody got time for a gentle cleaning, so cue Astarion with the hot caffienated beverage, and Minthara with the washing machine.

fair marten
storm horizon
#

I noticed using Bracers of defense +2AC says it should not work when wearing armor, yet i get +2 AC with heavy armor.

feral valley
hollow tapir
#

Astarion is based on a cat

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This cat

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whole cedar
#

Are you serious?

neon osprey
#

no wonder he's so anime.

fair marten
#

allow me to doubt, i did not see Astarion knocking stuff off table and ledges

neon osprey
#

thundering arrows and a longbow.

storm horizon
#

pushing off the edge is a great way to kill stuff... but loot... ||Killed Casador with eldrich blast in round 1. He fell of the edge :/ time to load a save i guess||

feral valley
maiden parcel
storm horizon
#

Spock ruined the fight. Just at the end a "unrecoverable Vulcan error"

neon osprey
#

apparently they're planning on just having a "loot bag" where some enemies have been thrown off. powerful magic items/story things/||the brain worms||

feral valley
#

"Knocked their shoes off with this blow" -> "knocked their pouch off when kicking them over the ledge"

halcyon flume
#

T-pose for dominance

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My friends are seeing something much different to me

halcyon flume
#

I just got tavern brawler potion'd

neon osprey
#

always throw potions at allies before they fail a death save.

halcyon flume
#

In their defence, I built a wood elf monk who has longstrider and the heel click boots, and I just ran off ahead, expecting to not get high damage crit by the strongest enemy there

halcyon flume
#

Welp, in my single-player game, I'm in the end-game now

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hollow tapir
halcyon flume
#

Man, I just had a hell of a fight, won't go into specifics because it's ultra turbo spoilers, but it started with my full party of 4 at full capacity, against a big boss and a decent number of lackeys, and it ended with Karlach and the boss being the only ones left alive having a slap fight and me just barely pulling through

feral valley
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"Perhaps more notably, we’re adding better closure to the story’s final act in the form of a more fleshed-out ending for Karlach - something many of you have been asking for. " Nice, hopefully 😄
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/3669924544104905987 + addressing some things about "cut content" + appearance change during game + and getting rid of offline coop people coming in @ patch 2

maiden parcel
#

Damn

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thats a really good post

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Though i was thinking about their next game by accident when para asked if people wanted to do a co-op game

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This game is just too long for that

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However i'd really like if they launched a game with like 4-5 mini campaigns each about a dozen hours long

maiden parcel
plucky tapir
#

Ah, I'll wait for the patch before moving into the next act
I've not seen what Karlach's actual endings are just heard that her good ones are presently cut content so if they're adding that back

maiden parcel
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No ETA on patch

#

Probably few months out

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and I've given my thoughts before, but her current endings are good endings for her character arc, just not good endings for her

plucky tapir
#

I mean
They said patch 2 was "just around the corner"
I don't think that means several months

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maybe one

maiden parcel
#

probably 1

#

Since PS5 launch is in a week

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and then Xbox launch within the next 3 months

halcyon flume
#

The great image from the update

ember aurora
#

BG4 when

storm horizon
#

in 23 years

halcyon flume
#

This is a first so far

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halcyon flume
#

So I do have a question for anyone in Act 3 (spoilers)
||Is there a way to disable the steel watch, since on the wiki, it seems like there are only 2 ways, both requiring certain characters that in my save, are both dead, one before I got to act 3 (can't remember their name but their method would've been big boom), and the other being tanner zoobin, who died in the confrontation inside, where they apparantly know a psionic feedback loop to put the thing in, but both are dead and I really wanna kill gortash without the million steel watch in the way||

feral valley
halcyon flume
#

good shout

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I'll try it

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worked, thank

halcyon flume
#

"oh hey, that's a cool item that has something to combine with, I wonder what the wiki says it combines with"

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halcyon flume
#

Could've probably made a few things earlier easier too, but ah well

neon osprey
#

wait, how can you check if an item combines with something?

maiden parcel
#

Wikis

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Or trial and error

halcyon flume
oblique quail
thick wave
#

Just bought game. Now I must wait a little over 2 days before I can play

storm horizon
#

Upcoming perf updates to Act3 will hopefully be nice. Pretty sad to see game getting stuttery and dropping low in frames/consistency, even if i enable DLSS quality. And it's barely using my hardware, it's half idling and way beyond recommended.

hot warren
#

WOOOOOHOO

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Karlach Good ending was re-added

feral valley
#

This makes me happy. And it seems like it migh be better fleshed out during earlier gameplay too as it seems like they added moments of reflection in act1/2 on potential things

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Even if its not "the bestest ending" this is enough to at least count as satisfactory ending for me tbh

halcyon flume
#

Myconids are too polite to hit while you're down, and I succeeded all my saves, so I'm in an endless loop of being downed but not out with a very long turn order to wait through

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oak dirge
#

Game: Update your drivers Sadcat

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Me: No Mizugun

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Game: Proceeds to stutter

frozen phoenix
#

Does anyone use ranger? I was thinking of multiclassing

oak dirge
#

I’m currently updating my drivers NekoHmmm

frozen phoenix
#

It warned you

oak dirge
#

It did

maiden parcel
#

coward

oak dirge
#

It ran fine for about 90 minutes then started to brick

maiden parcel
#

Real gamers would not update drivers

#

that reminds me that i do in fact need to update my drivers for STARFIELD

oak dirge
#

My last driver version was from feb 2022

maiden parcel
#

Ouch

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Bad gothics

oak dirge
#

Restarting for safe measure

halcyon flume
#

Before BG3, idk when my last driver update was, and that's probably bad

oak dirge
#

It tells you in the task manager if you go to the performance section

halcyon flume
#

Yeah, but I'm currently in the "After BG3" part of my life

oak dirge
#

(It’s also the only reason I know the specs of my pc)

whole cedar
#

don't remind me..

halcyon flume
#

Finally beat the game, spoilering since they're achievements related to beating the game in case people don't wanna spoil themselves

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but man, the ending sure could've hit harder if the textures loaded properly

#

so many people deciding to goth it out with full black, buildings included

#

others going for a single shade of colour

storm horizon
#

Ugh the update somehow caused my steam to trigger full file verification and now it's downloading but doesn't tell me how much or how long. just slowly moving 1% every 5-10s

storm horizon
#

perf is still pretty bad, even worse than before.

#

i'm dropping down to under 60 doing nothing in lower city.

neon osprey
#

look, if I can't have colgate-colored coif of hair and a magnificent schemer mustache on a gnome wizard, then I'm not playing dnd the way I normally would.

storm horizon
#

Mizora has been naughty, i pickpocketed a sussur flower into her inventory just in case.

feral valley
#

I wonder if an anti-magic run is viable, with all melee chars

storm horizon
#

Ah, you can put a corpse inside a corpse.

fair marten
#

well... someone already made a mod that add the artificer with 4 subclasses

hollow vortex
#

dammmn

fair marten
#

i almost feel like Larian will do like DoS2 and turn some community mods into gifts

storm horizon
#

I wonder what the enemies feel when they see me pulling out 10 smokepoder barrels and piling them in front of them

storm horizon
#

127h for the playthrough. But the ending... || Disliked much of it. The closer ACT 3 got to the end, the less choice you had and pretty much got pushed to one type of end. And no options to choose otherwise, as if your choices really didn't matter this far.
Just leaves you disappointed and wishing i had just not finished the game at all||

dusk swift
#

is this the average Baldur's Gate 3 player (my friend)

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maiden parcel
#

yes

dusk swift
#

have you been doing any genociding recently...?

hollow vortex
#

I did it as a halfling

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then I went and did the same to the tieflings

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and then the goblins

maiden parcel
#

Pirates

#

Genocide

dusk swift
#

im starting to think this game may be worth an investment of time and money

hollow vortex
#

it is

maiden parcel
#

Yes

dusk swift
#

cant find it on steam, which is odd

maiden parcel
#

Thats a you problem

#

Its on steam

#

so it should show up

#

could be parental controls/age rating stuff

dusk swift
#

ohhh...

#

i have the sexual themes blocker one turned on

maiden parcel
#

Yup

#

this is firmly 18+

#

Lots of titties and dickies

hollow vortex
#

.>

maiden parcel
#

(very little titties and dickies in actual quantity)

hollow vortex
#

dont say it like that

maiden parcel
#

How should i say it

hollow vortex
#

not like that

feral valley
lime silo
thick wave
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I'll have time to create my first character and play an hour or two, once I get off work here in just a little bit. But then I need bed. I should just wait till later, but I have the next 3 days off, and I know I won't be able to fully wait lol

halcyon flume
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Bound weapon, returns when thrown huh? well I'm waiting

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thick wave
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Annoyingly, I can't use keyboard and mouse in ps5

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Meh

oblique quail
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It's bound to the Lava, now, obviously. :P

halcyon flume
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(I used mage hand to throw it back up, and the moment I threw it up, it got put back into my hand, as if spiting me)

hollow vortex
hollow vortex
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two solid hours of insults

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hollow vortex
hollow vortex
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act 2 spoilers, shadowheart and a temple.

||She looks pretty awesome in this gear||

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same place spoilers, ||WHAT!? What's this guy's deal||

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||he scary||

feral valley
hollow vortex
feral valley
hollow vortex
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I seeee

halcyon flume
halcyon flume
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Weird, somehow my party died but it hasn't prompted a save reload (image is simply an act 2 location spoiler)

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halcyon flume
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I think I need more buffs

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neon osprey
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ahh, act 2, then. also, that first one is a debuff.

halcyon flume
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I mean sure, but it's not entirely a debuff, it's partially buff (even if it's not the build)

halcyon flume
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxhi-odubE

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The tl;dw of the technique is this
When moving a box, even if you try and move it to an invalid location, it'll still store that location
So you kill shadowheart, stuff her in a burning box, and do a trick to move the box to the stored location, and once the box breaks from fire, shadowheart's corpse falls out and can trigger cutscenes

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so you just fling her to the cutscene for the end

frozen phoenix
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Anyone else notice they patched the scale colors on the dragonborn? I turned BG3 on yesterday and noticed my black dragonborn looking duller. The sheen was also gone.

neon osprey
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But... my super slimy looking green dragonborn

frozen phoenix
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Gone feenPH

oblique quail
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Reduced to atoms.

halcyon flume
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I'm encountering more bugs, this time, being in a combat encounter while in camp, will be spoilered as the characters in combat are end act 2 ones

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Yeah, I'm not getting shadowheart back until this combat is over

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hollow vortex
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Spoilers: Act 2, shadowheart, and a temple.

||Is this the screen where I can no longer backtrack to act 1 stuff?||

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well, doing some backtracking... THAT is really interesting

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Mage Tower/underdark ||The chest of the mundane, that turns your items into mundame cups etc, will be disabled if you put a sussur bloom inside of it||

oblique quail
hollow vortex
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cool thanks

oblique quail
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You can go back to Act 1 after, but nothing of note will be there anymore.

hollow vortex
oblique quail
hollow vortex
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yeah in the tower

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ooooooh~

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oblique quail
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It's the Gale Staff.

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For lore reasons.

hollow tapir
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Nice attention to detail

hollow vortex
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There's a ||legendary mace|| in the gith creche right?

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where do I find it?

feral valley
# hollow vortex where do I find it?

Its located || behind a secret wall in the deepest depths of the monastery || you reach it by || getting past the stone enabled shield wall and getting to the place where big gith lady projection appears and you interact with your artefact || you open it by || going in one of the side corridors in that hall, where 2 rotateable statues are, and turning the statues. Secret passage will appear ||

hollow vortex
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Ah, I pissed off the goddess.

hollow vortex
feral valley
hollow vortex
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Dang I didn't know that was possible

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Will try next time I play

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Just logged off now

halcyon flume
halcyon flume
neon osprey
halcyon flume
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beeg AC

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neon osprey
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Mmm, numbers

halcyon flume
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if I cast shield of faith, it could be higher

jagged cedar
fair marten
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i shouldn't laugh.... but yeah Shadoheart is the guidance dispenser

hot warren
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yep

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Astarion thief fully unloading all his boni on the poor DC 10 lock in front of him ?

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Have some guidance

oak dirge
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I love rolling a 2 and still unlocking it

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First time I saw all his bonuses I damn near spit my drink

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Rogues be wild

oblique quail
halcyon flume
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Halsin being 10 strength is weird

maiden parcel
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Halsin is the most just... existing companion in all of bg3

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He caused problems

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And solves a single one

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And then tries to fuck you as a bear

halcyon flume
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The spoilers being location and important characters

prime sigil
hollow tapir
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Oh hey it’s Shenpai

hollow vortex
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heeheehoohoo

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oh the screenshot is balls but

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I took the Burthir's greatclub and bound it as pact weapon

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weapon so big it clips through the ground

halcyon flume
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Beeg stick

hollow vortex
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ITS CONSIDERED ONE HANDED

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you can use a shield with it

halcyon flume
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I think it's actually considered as a weapon you're not supposed to be able to wield

hollow vortex
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well yes

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but

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I am clearly wielding it

oak dirge
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i accidentally killed Bonkenheimer (our third wasnt present and i was controlling his character)

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hollow vortex
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So I was inspired to check by a conversation on another discord, and I have to say, the game's playercount is still VERY healthy after more than a month, 'specially for a singleplayer RPG

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grizzled oasis
hollow vortex
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any word on if BG3 is gonna be game pass when it comes to Xbox?

maiden parcel
hollow vortex
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I figured, but it wouldve been a neat surprise

hollow vortex
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I just had two enemies in this same combat, kill themselves by walking into the same cloud of daggers

halcyon flume
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So in act 3, there's this "wannabe adventurer" they aren't important to the story at all, so I'm not gonna bother spoilering, since I doubt anyone here who beat the game even knows of them, but everytime you talk to them, they make some comment of being a different class, and man, Mr. Durge is gonna murder this man with words on option 3

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since this is like the 10th time I've talked to him

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he is insufferable

hollow vortex
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Jeez

halcyon flume
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He ran off after saying this

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neon osprey
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absolutely so. he... suffered a terrible accident in my one playthrough. in totally unrelated news, I found this cool mummy minion

halcyon flume
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huh, neat

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It isn't good

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neon osprey
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good old dumb joke items

maiden parcel
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there was a similar guy in witcher 3 that was fun

hollow vortex
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I get a very "Adoring Fan" impression from these posts

halcyon flume
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So I just finished the dark urge storyline (act 3 spoilers)
||I've seen a lot of people showing the awesomeness of rejecting the gift when doing a good playthrough, so I did full murder playthrough, never got my cape I should've gotten when killing the bard in the grove, got my slayer form during the act 2-3 transition, and after killing orin and accepting my gift as chosen of bhall, I got the beautiful spell called Power Word Kill||

hollow vortex
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NYEHEHEHEHE

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neon osprey
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wait... you can pact weapon things players couldn't normally use?

halcyon flume
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It's a different exploit on the thing letting the weapon be equipped

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since I'm pretty sure you can only pact weapon equipped items

halcyon flume
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This is oh so satisfying at such a pivotal moment

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guidance for the win

fair marten
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I keep repeating myself, but Larian did such a great job on the dragonborn models, look at that happy boi

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hollow vortex
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haha

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Larian seem to be pretty good at reptilian people models. The Lizardfolk in Divinity OS2 were quite distinctive

neon osprey
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oh the models are great, now if only the helmets didn't look massively stupid on them

halcyon flume
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Me and the boys

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oblique quail
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And because the Dragonborn racial models look amazing, the hats/helmets for them have to look dumb.

oak dirge
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Can confirm

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halcyon flume
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End of game spoilers (like end of act 3 end) ||Advantage with 4 inspiration my beloved, managed to dominate the elder brain (totally not gonna fail for story reasons, god no...||

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halcyon flume
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As I beat the game, I sit upon my play dough throne, as the textures certainly got screwed, even on the title screen

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fair marten
halcyon flume
neon osprey
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ahh yes, playdough graphics, my old foe/friend. found many secret rooms/sidequest areas already

halcyon flume
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act 3, where my graphics can start jittering, the end sequence, where play dough reins supreme

neon osprey
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and eternal.

fair marten
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i must say... maybe only the warped headband of intellect doesn't look completely goffy on them

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just.... slightly embeded in their skull

hollow tapir
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I remember on launch day the piercings on Dragonborn were borked, and just appeared pitch black

oblique quail
halcyon flume
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I've started my level 1 multiclass playthrough

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started cleric, for the starting items and heavy armour proficiency, went bard next for the extra talking options to talk my way out of things, then went sorceror for wild magic surge since advantage on everything

hollow vortex
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huh, nice

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I hit level 8 by yeeting a dude off a cliff with eldritch blast

grizzled oasis
maiden parcel
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they were always hot

hollow tapir
neon osprey
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the sheer narcissism of|| having Raphael's VA singing his own boss music|| is just amazing. act 3 spoilers

halcyon flume
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They live in the hells, it's very hot there

hollow tapir
hot warren
hollow vortex
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Astarion is just fantastic

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I'm still not sure where that scene takes place

halcyon flume
hollow vortex
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ooooh

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right

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See I just disarmed that whole thing

halcyon flume
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Yeah, that's the easy way to do things

hollow vortex
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There's just so dang many dialogues reacting to different events

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its nuts

neon osprey
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there's even separate dialogue if you kill the characters first when you meet them. some people are worryingly violent.

prime sigil
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I'm sure they prefer the term 'inventive' and 'explosive'

neon osprey
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nah, inventive and explosive is ||rigging gortash's audience chamber to blow with ten smokepowder barrels boxing him in, then casting fireball on the whole stack|| early act 3 spoilers

neon osprey
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woof, playing a four player game and talking to npcs is causing the game to lock up for everyone in the lobby.

halcyon flume
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That's a new one

hollow tapir
neon osprey
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cue red beam of "haha no" from that wizard everyone forgot was there

hollow vortex
hot warren
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So 2 Barbarians

lime silo
hollow vortex
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huh one long rest or a bunch of gold

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maiden parcel
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Evil

halcyon flume
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On tactician, that'd be half a long rest (but also I still never ran out of food so if you're gonna do one of those two options, sell it)

maiden parcel
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Or hatch it

halcyon flume
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I'd keep it for the memories tho :p

hollow vortex
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you can hatch it?

oblique quail
hollow vortex
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Got level 9, game crashed. >.>

hollow tapir
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So the message at the launcher that tells me to update drivers and the driver updater say I have different versions of drivers installed

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Baldur is convinced I have 23.5 while AMD says I have 23.10

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fun

hollow vortex
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8X-6W4MlKk

The narrator plays a dark urge run

*probably plenty of profanity warning

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hollow vortex
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@hot sable @tawny linden @coral ivy I see yall are playing this now? 👀

coral ivy
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yea we just started, got to to grove

tawny linden
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wassup

hot sable
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ye

halcyon flume
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New people for the meat grinder!

whole cedar
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enjoy enjoy! I should really get back to act 2

hollow vortex
coral ivy
maiden parcel
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we sat that

coral ivy
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did copy link not image

fair marten
coral ivy
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Behold! 5 Mg Karlach

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fair marten
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she zoomy

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HECK +19!?

hollow vortex
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im sorry 5005 kg?

fair marten
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maybe enlarge effect?

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volume x 2 = weight x 8 after all

coral ivy
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Yea apparently some enlarge effects atack

coral ivy
hot warren
hollow vortex
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Hey..

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Would anyone be keen on a co op playthrough?

halcyon flume
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I could certainly start my one thousand and first co-op playthrough, sure

fair marten
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just finished the game, missed what could be described as the best ending because ONE (well three with Wyll and Karlack) was a tad TOO militaristic

jagged cedar
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My favorite mod

coral ivy
hollow tapir
hollow tapir
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Putting this here so i can find it later

halcyon flume
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Post game scenes added

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coral ivy
oak dirge
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Ah good thing I didn’t start act 3 last night huh

neon osprey
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I'm probably going to have to wipe a few alts to make room for new honour mode characters

feral valley
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"Today’s update includes brand-new epilogue scenes, Honour Mode, and much much more." cat darn it

fair marten
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The epilogue is a sweet touch, Wither monologue also got a few additional lines

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Also potent spell from evocation wizard apply on every damage die, enjoy that lvl 6 magic missile dealing 8d4+8+40 damage on a single target

hollow vortex
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sorry HOW much damage

fair marten
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5 damage from potent spell because 20 intelligence

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But it procs on EACH PROJECTILES

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at level 6 it launch 8

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That's... 56 to 80 force damage

hollow vortex
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not bad

fair marten
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The unique level 5 magic missile will deal a lot more damage obviously, but it's still a solid amount of damage

lime silo
maiden parcel
weary adder
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I saw these and thought y'all might like them

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oak dirge
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Identify crisis sisters

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One deserves pats more than the other tho xenoEyes

weary adder
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Well yeah, one nuked her own brain because I don't even know why

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Though to be fair the other was raised in a culture where screwing up, even slightly, gets you unceremoniously killed

coral ivy
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little impressed only 464 honor mode parties finished the game

halcyon flume
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I mean, honour mode has only existed for a small amount of time, so some people will still be on their way

feral valley
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wait, what... 👀

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halcyon flume
neon osprey
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.> hint: it's related to the sentient cheese

feral valley
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👀 well crap. i think i also missed sentient cheese

neon osprey
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also, I'd have liked to know how many paladins promptly dumped their paladin oaths in the dirt and became oathbreakers

feral valley
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must prep a repeat playtrough for one of deepest winter months

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tangerines, some post christmas discount gingerbread, hot drink and sum baldurs gate

hot warren
neon osprey
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Yup.

coral ivy
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yea a certain NPC in act 3 turns you into a cheese wheel for a reason

neon osprey
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And if you press at that reason, you eventually get dinosaur'd

halcyon flume
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To no-one's surprise, BG3 winning most of the awards it was nominated for, including GOTY

weary adder
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I mean that's what happens when you make an actually good product

halcyon flume
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My favourite part of the game awards is definitely this image

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So perfect, they had enough perfect scores to fill up the screen

prime sigil
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What game?

maiden parcel
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bg3

prime sigil
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ahh

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Makes sense

maiden parcel
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i disagree with it

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the game is great

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BUT

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||the ending... is bad, like very bad||

halcyon flume
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Yeah, also act 3 having heavy performance issues

prime sigil
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...

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PFT

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I didn't even realize I was in the BG3 channel

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when I asked the question

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herp

maiden parcel
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that i'm willing to forgive/not count shroud since its an entire industry issue

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not BG3

halcyon flume
maiden parcel
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same

prime sigil
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You should've

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I appreciate your restraint, but you absolutely should have

oak dirge
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I have had an interaction alarun

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Admittedly it wasn’t off to the greatest start

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But good news! I’m forgiven!

hollow vortex
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she works at mcdonalds

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hollow vortex
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renamed her to Jane McDonald at @fierce plover's suggestion

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fierce plover
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I suggested Jane Donald TBH, but that works too

oblique quail