Baldur's Gate 3

[simple spire]

You also need to rebuild all the camp maps

[white sleet]

hack the travel chest to be tony's blorbo instead

this will cause no problems.

[frigid oxide]

Correct

"why do you have sixteen skulls in your inventory"

[soft tundra]

"why you lookin in my travel chest"

[white sleet]

"they were on sale"

[grave prism]

gods my character as an NPC would be some real shit

she's actually just nuts

[frigid oxide]

My friend has voice claimed Ralph Ineson for Aznakh and I've not stopped hearing it since

[grave prism]

my NPC would be the murderhobo friendly one

sitting there egging on Durge

[frigid oxide]

Me, the huge half orc murderhobo, is also the Nice One in the party.

[grave prism]

i decided to do my character without consideration for morality so for her it's not about good or bad but interesting and boring

[frigid oxide]

Meanwhile the cute little tiefling fighter is a student of higher commerce and extortion

[grave prism]

and helping people and being morally steadfast is usually boring

so she goes around doing stupid shit and being a psycho

[white sleet]

my tav was both a very gentle soul who tried to do what was best for people but also was a thief with like

an insatiable need for more busted character powers power

[grave prism]

my Tav is the kind you want to be friendly with

because if she has positive interaction with you, she won't ever try to hurt you

[white sleet]

"yes we should be nice to everyone but also i want that free 60ft flight speed"

[grave prism]

so long as you have some kind of positive interaction you are immediately on the VIP list as far as she is considered

the downside being that negative interactions generally lead to murder attempts

[frigid oxide]

The duo in question side by side

Barblock is surprisingly easy in bg3

[grave prism]

my character, Kharalathri

[frigid oxide]

Aw hell yeah

[grave prism]

most hinged Warlock

[frigid oxide]

Oh those screenshots don't include it but Aznakh is hag-eyed

[grave prism]

neat

[frigid oxide]

I love the glow on your eye

[grave prism]

Kharalathri is hag-eyed, and a necromancer, and has had some fun with tadpoles

[white sleet]

my tav, looking like freyja and i had similar design sensibilities for rather disparate characters lol

[grave prism]

hasn't gone further than just normal tadpoles tho

she's not that crazy

[frigid oxide]

The one red eye is very cool

Everyone should have a freaky eye

[grave prism]

she had a normal eye

but she traded it for the had eye

[frigid oxide]

Az ate the funny tadpole so Mal couldn't use it

He also teleports around and summons black holes now so his fate is probably sealed

[grave prism]

sounds like it

[frigid oxide]

He will be even more handsome one day

Handsome and squiddly

[grave prism]

Kharalathri won't

as much as she dislikes thinking about consequences, there is a method to her madness

[frigid oxide]

Aznakh is used to people looking at him and going "oh no, a horrible bloodthirsty monster" so why not go all the way

[severe robin]

My character is:

I want to be a good guy
I want to use the cool Illithid powers
I cannot guarantee that I will ever play this game to completion again

[white sleet]

that third point is so real

[severe robin]

Enter my cute little Tiefling Warlock who believes that power is not inherently good or evil, but what it is used for determines that

[frigid oxide]

Besides, imagine an eight foot tall squid man with a greatsword who appears from stealth by immediately entering a rage, but also saved the local village because it was the right thing to do

That's fuggin cool right there

Squidbarian

Kalamarauder

Some other pun

[white sleet]

mind slayer

[frigid oxide]

Ayyyy

[white sleet]

killithid

[frigid oxide]

AYYYYY

I wish the necklace that lets me cast black tentacles was a ring so I could keep my speak with dead amulet also

[severe robin]

Easy just read the book

[frigid oxide]

You think I can read

[severe robin]

Yes

[proven forum]

Gale is by far my favorite

I like the others a lot but I adore Gale

[frigid oxide]

My friend every time a character flirts with her in bg3

I say this to be funny but she has legit come to the conclusion she is neither straight nor monogamous over the course of us playing together

[severe robin]

Hm

I am about to fight ||Sarevok|| in Act 3

I have a feeling this is going to end poorly...

[neon junco]

I was scared when he was ||level 16 but it wasn't as scary as I thought||

[severe robin]

See, the real big problem I have is

I didn't rest before the fight

There is, however, one thing that if it works is going to be so funny

I have two scrolls of Hold Person, Hex, and the ability to throw 6 Eldritch Blasts in a single turn

Also, I've got a single Portent left and that's an 11

If I've done this right, he has no legendary resistances left...

[grave prism]

love when the game randomly doesn't fucking work

try to run game
doesn't even start
turn off steam
game starts

well it started, doesn't seem to want to load though

[simple spire]

I was having some problems this morning, maybe due to the hotfix?

[grave prism]

and it still will not launch through steam and i can't do multiplayer without steam

[grave prism]

might be

how did you fix it?

[severe robin]

It did not work

[simple spire]

I didn’t. I didn’t play this morning >_>

[grave prism]

ok so the game WILL launch without steam

but that doesn't help

ok stupid bullshit bypassed

i just closed steam, opened the game and used Direct Connection

forgor that ||my blood is explosive||

fighting ||Ethe|| in act 3 and i am comically weak against ||her, she has magic resist and i have disadvantage on all my attacks. As a warlock this is a bad situation||

[white sleet]

God that's such a silly ability

I love it

[grave prism]

||Ethel is fucking dead, owned||

[grave prism]

if i ever die in the middle of a group of enemies my allies will be able to do something really funny

[severe robin]

By Desna the Haarlep fight is...

Awful

[severe robin]

Oh boy

I'm level 11 entering the (Act 3 spoilers) ||Raphael|| fight

Time to kick some Infernal ass

S'got some pretty nice music

Shame it goes away as soon as you leave the room

[severe robin]

Doing the Orin fight now

Fuck me I hate Unstoppable

[severe robin]

Orin: Slain

[soft tundra]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo7ugWudCA|| its very good

[sonic pollen]

||Halsin died while I was clearing the goblins for the refugees in the druid grove, and his corpse has been in my camp since. Any ideas on how to get rid of it?||

[sonic pollen]

||it's making my camp a bit smelly||

[clear kestrel]

Have you tried bringing him back?

[sonic pollen]

Withers won't let me revive him, and revivify scrolls didn't work

can't even use Speak With Dead

[clear kestrel]

Weird

[sonic pollen]

I've just got a useless corpse perpetually in my camp

it's a real mood killer tbh

[clear kestrel]

You can throw it in a box

[sonic pollen]

I'm not strong enough to pick it up :(

[simple spire]

Entering Baldur's Gate with your smelly-ass box

"What's in the box sir?"

"Druid corpse?"

"Carry on"

[clear kestrel]

Can anyone else pick it up?

You can control them in camp

Can also get a very strong hireling

[sonic pollen]

I'm playing a barb. Halsin is just a fat fuck

[severe robin]

For my next character, should I be a Duegar or one of the other dwarves?

[rich plover]

duergar seems fun. Lots of conversation hooks, a tie to the mindflayers, and fun abilities

[simple spire]

Duergar abilities are really good, iirc

[severe robin]

Hm

I seem to have set myself up for a bit of a challenge

If I long rest again, a prisoner I am trying to save will be executed

Oh well

Time to be a big damn hero

Again

I made a mistake!!

I forgor to cast my spells after long resting but before starting a tough fight

In other news: Cloudkill is... aw man

When Cloudkill works it fuckin works

It's great, I love it

[severe robin]

Whoooo level 12!!

[clear kestrel]

Yeee

[severe robin]

Hm

[clear kestrel]

Get those max level spells

[severe robin]

Would it be worth taking War Caster on my Warlock just for the advantage on Conc save?

Oh, I got 6th level spells like, a level ago

[clear kestrel]

Its not a bad choice

[severe robin]

The only Concentration spells I use on her are Hex and Hunger of Hadar

Really the only other option I feel would be taking Tough

[clear kestrel]

Stat increases?

Or no good break points

[severe robin]

I'm already at 20 CHA

[soft tundra]

Resilient is good for int/wisdom proficiency for the endgame bit if you have an odd stat

[severe robin]

And, to be honest, I barely get attacked on this character

Wait

That's...

I may have found something silly

So, there's a hat that gives you a +1 to Charisma somewhere in Act 3, yeah?

And it's not capped at 20?

Because

It seems that the Actor feat gives a +1 to Charisma

And my character sheet is telling me it'll put me up to 21

I'm gonna go see if I can find that hat actually first

Eh, it looks like it actually gives +2, and I didn't take the Hag's deal, so

War Caster or Tough

Oh

It looks like I might have accidentally permanently locked myself out of the hat that increases Charisma?

That's...

Not very nice...

Oh, no, nevermind

I found it!

[severe robin]

I have a feeling this is not going to end well, but also I really want to see what happens, and it might end up not terrible

It has the potential to be good, even

Y'know

I just realised

I probably could be doing non-lethal attacks as I storm the prison...

Eh, whatever

Fuck the Flaming Fist

[severe robin]

I did

A thing

That I thought was "haha clever" but actually it broke the AI in such a way that it takes like, a full minute for every character to decide "I am going to Dash and then stand still and pass my turn"

But like, they are coming down the stairs one at a time...

[soft tundra]

yeeeeah mess up the fist they suck

[severe robin]

ACAB

I've seen like, at least 3 discrete instances of fists shaking down and threatening random people on the street

Time to kill a Hag

||again||

[soft tundra]

ive thought about just stealing Ethel to make her a campaign antagonist, shes got the style for it

[dawn terrace]

AGAB

[severe robin]

Assigned G? At Birth?

Oh wait

All Grannies Are Bastards?

[dawn terrace]

Guards

[severe robin]

Ah

[frigid oxide]

Sometimes you just wanna pack your shit and go to Neverwinter instead tbh

[neon junco]

Not me seeing ||all the portals and not being able to go through them||

[frigid oxide]

Mood

Neverwinter and Icewind Dale are my famorite places in Faerun I am a simple man

[grave prism]

The Gods seeing you eyeing those portals and making sure you don't try to do a runner

[simple spire]

I hear Neverwinter has a great Night-life

[simple spire]

Alright, I think I have completed everything in Act 1

I am more than halfway to level 8

I cannot find anything else to do

[frigid oxide]

Scream

[simple spire]

So I guess it's time for Act 2

[sonic pollen]

The Underdark is pain

[clear kestrel]

You done underdark and Mountain pass?

If so, you're probably good for act 2

[sonic pollen]

haven't done the pass yet

[clear kestrel]

Ah I meant for gkatheller

Minor act 3 spoilers ||I clearly didn't talk to Naber enough last time||

Didn't realise he'd do... all of them

[simple spire]

Yeah, I've reached Act 2 before (got most of the way through it), this was just a much more comprehensive playthrough. I think last time I got to level 6.

I restarted to install a few mods

[grave prism]

love Baldurs Gate still not working through steam

honestly quite incredible

[simple spire]

Oh god turning down Wyll's attempts at flirtation is uh

I feel like I have comitted a crime

Take me away coppers

[severe robin]

Got any good ones you'd be willing to share?

Ugh, I should probably kill the big bad vampire, but also I don't really feel like it and like, Astarion isn't really part of my party comp...

Eh, I can swap out Karlach and take him, why not

I'm making a hard save though cause I think something very horribly bad might happen if I long rest...

[soft tundra]

it can be a pretty tough fight!

if you have anyone who can make some daylight or bring some summons... that helps

[grave prism]

i don't think me and my friends are going to be fighting any vampires

[severe robin]

Is Sunbeam daylight?

[grave prism]

Astarion is dead in our playthrough and we have told any other vampires we met to fuck off

[simple spire]

Here's what I'm using:
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1879
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1529?tab=description
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2400

[severe robin]

Don't you love it when you take your specialist at a skill to do a check, and you roll, and you fail, and so you use inspiration, and you fail 4 more times?

[clear kestrel]

How so?

Or do you mean they have their own launcher

[soft tundra]

the event notif mod is very good

[clear kestrel]

I might mod my evil run

[grave prism]

it literally refuses to run the launcher

if i click start on steam it says it starts the game then does nothing

[clear kestrel]

Weird

Never had that myself

[simple spire]

You could try doing a reinstall

[proven forum]

Can you try running it as admin from the executable?

I think you may also be able to skip the launcher by using options and adding “—skip-launcher”

[grave prism]

tried running the actual game launcher through steam

i can try some other options

[soft tundra]

Verify files?

[grave prism]

act 3 spoilers ||me and the boys entering the bank and starting to steal things not a minute into being inside the bank||

[white sleet]

||if they didn't want their shit stolen they shouldn't have put it in a boring crate instead of an interesting safe||

[severe robin]

Huh...

So, I started a fight in the Vampire's house,

And the door closed...

And all of my party is on one side, and all the enemies are on the other, and the door can't be opened

And, I can't end the combat, but I can't kill them either, because there's an unpassable wall blocking them

Did I softlock myself?

[clear kestrel]

Maybe flee combat?

Or reload earlier save

The one inside the room won't be able to flee but once they die your party will all be in camp

[severe robin]

I reloaded an earlier save

I can't flee combat inside this area, and there was nobody inside the room period

[soft tundra]

https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-has-slowdown-issues-because-it-keeps-thinking-about-all-your-theft-and-violence

Lmaoooo

[clear kestrel]

kisses and crimes update

[frigid oxide]

You can't stop my spree, Larian

[severe robin]

I love Cloudkill

Even when I accidentally run Gale into it...

[rich plover]

Gale just wants to make sure you know he vapes

[severe robin]

He managed to pass the concentration check though

[safe jungle]

[severe robin]

Ooohhhh this fight looks like it is not going to be easy...

Doesn't help my bloody inspect function broke :\

[rich plover]

one of my friends ran into that in our last multiplayer session. I think she said restarting the game fixed it?

[severe robin]

It does

but restarting the game is annoying

[severe robin]

Y'know that fight wasn't so bad actually

[severe robin]

Well

Here goes

I am about to fight the final boss

[severe robin]

Lmao I had a party member get downed before I even reached them

Oops...

I forgot to take my gear off of Astarion and give it to Karlach...

[severe robin]

Also I'm having a very funny and very endgame Act 3 spoilery experience

So, I ||freed Orpheus, became a mindflayer and took him with me||, and he keeps missing like, every single attack he makes

This fight is both like, really cool, and also oh my god I hate it

There's like, thirty enemies

[soft tundra]

that last 1-2 hour combat is huge

[white sleet]

Having friends helped a lot

[severe robin]

Friends as in like, other players, or friends as in the ingame allies you can call in

[white sleet]

In-game. I didn't co-op, personally

Allies yeah

[severe robin]

Oh yeah, they definitely help

(Even if the Harpers that were supposed to give me ranged backup got stunlocked and killed without doing a thing lol)

[white sleet]

Lol yeah...

Some of them aren't super helpful beyond being meat shields tbqh

[simple spire]

It is kinda weird how Act 2 places so much emphasis on the shadow curse, and then gives you the means to circumvent it almost immediately if you ||free the pixie||

[severe robin]

The people I summoned to be meat shields were actually very helpful outside of being meatshields

Oh great

I am very upset now.

One of my party members was downed, so I threw a healing potion at them to try to heal them

It killed them.

I tried to use a Revifiy scroll, and I have no fucking clue if it's actually able to be used in combat or not because they seem so buggy and they just never actually work it seems

Okay nevermind I finally figured out how they actually work

This fight is even more annoying wow

[neon junco]

Ah yes killing or missing with a thrown healing potion

It took a while for me to get it right

[soft tundra]

Had no idea you could kill with a healing potion

[neon junco]

Yea it deals default throwing damage if you hit directly on the character

So if you're like at 4 HP there's a chance to kill

[soft tundra]

Thatll do it

I usually just aim at the ground

[severe robin]

I did it...

It's over...

[neon junco]

Yea the hitbox is wonky, I've accident hit my character even though it looked like it shouldn't

It's all about being just close enough to have the hit target circle show up and back up a little until it's gone

[severe robin]

lmfao

One of the final cutscenes. I'm saying goodbye. The camera cuts to me. My head is dancing around like a gmod ragdoll

Oh hey, neat

[clear kestrel]

Nice

[soft tundra]

Welcome to the cool kids club 💪💪💪

[severe robin]

Ugh what now

Hm...

Redemption Durge Duegar Strength Monk?

[soft tundra]

The Big Punch

[simple spire]

Strength Monk is extremely rad

[severe robin]

But I think I'm gonna take a break for now

[simple spire]

I have Karlach kitted as one, which on the one hand makes her racial spells basically useless, but on the other hand it doesn't matter because she's Captain Freakin' America

Ginormous AC, routinely has a 95% chance to hit without advantage, pretty decent saves, more attacks per round than anyone in the party dealing enormous damage

Basically killed Grym on her own

And that's at 7th level

Plus the Monstrosity-hunting crossbow's advantage against Monstrosities applies to your melee attacks as well, so she's carrying that in her ranged slot

[severe robin]

How'd you get good AC with them?

Aaaaaah I want to start again

Fuck it I'll make the character

[simple spire]

Start Fighter 1, take the Defense fighting style, wear heavy armor and a shield

Then take Monk to 8

Open Hand

[severe robin]

Ah, Multiclassing shenanigans

[simple spire]

Tavern Brawler at Monk 4, +2 Str at Monk 8 for 20 Strength

[severe robin]

Hm... Monk only gets a feat at level 12...

[simple spire]

Finishing off with Rogue 3 for Thief is my plan

But yeah I strongly endorse going the heavy armor + shield route, makes life a lot easier, and there are really good shields even early in the game

You can pick up +1 Chainmail from the Grove early on and be rocking 20 AC nice and early

Currently I have Karlach wearing Adamantine Splint and an Adamantine Shield, so that anyone who attacks her in melee can get sent reeling, hit or miss 😄

And not needing any ability-score modifying items means she can wear fun gloves

[severe robin]

Oh but who do I take in my party...

I guess I could respec the party members

[simple spire]

I respecced everyone, because that's just the kind of guy I am, but fundamentally this build is a beatstick and should fit into any party that needs one

[severe robin]

Hm...

Shadowheart, Astarion, and...

[simple spire]

You could just do the classic Fighter/Rogue/Cleric/Wizard

[severe robin]

See, the big thing is, I don't really want to take one of the people I had in my main party last time

[simple spire]

Fair!

[severe robin]

Which was Gale Karlack and Lae'zel

(All default classes)

[simple spire]

Wyll is a perfectly reasonable 4th member with those two

[severe robin]

Yeah but I'd have to respec him off of Warlock and into...

Something

[simple spire]

Warlock would work fine IMO

[severe robin]

I really don't want to play another Warlock, I just finished a game where I was one

[simple spire]

My Wyll is respecced into a Paladin 2/Bard X

[severe robin]

A warlock in the party would be fun and nice, if someone else was playing

Ooooh

Paladin

[simple spire]

You could also do something like Paladin 6/Sorcerer 6 for those fun sorc/wiz utility spells

Gets you Aura of Protection and real good smites

[soft tundra]

Wyll makes a fun Paladin!

[simple spire]

And still kinda has those Pact of the Blade-y vibes in terms of mechanics

[soft tundra]

Shadowheart also makes a funny Paladin

[severe robin]

See, the big thing for me is not really the mechanics, it's that Wyll's deal with the devil is like, a big part of his character and quests

[soft tundra]

True

Draconic Sorc or Wild Magic as a curse?

[severe robin]

Don't really like Sorcerer, esp the subclasses that are in the game

[soft tundra]

Ah, hmm

Apologies i dont have much beyond that then

[severe robin]

But nah, Paladin works

Thank you!

[simple spire]

I always see Paladin and Warlock as sort of interchangeable, and great to multiclass for that reason

My MC is a Pallock

[soft tundra]

MC monk, Wyll paladin, SH cleric Astarion rogue is a great mix

[simple spire]

And gives you a good mix in terms of itemization

[severe robin]

It'll also help me learn how to play a Cleric lol

[soft tundra]

Clerics are my fave class!

[severe robin]

I've wanted to play a cleric for a while, but never actually have

[soft tundra]

Being able to switch up your list whenever in bg3 really helps, as well as how nice Guidance, Bless and Enhance Ability are early on

Shadowheart's Trickster subclass works well, but my advice would be to play around with the different subclasses, each one has neat tricks.

Im personally a huge fan of Light for the reaction

Life Cleric is also baseline great just for giving you more heal per heal and a nice aoe heal action, just really helps lessen the impact of harder combats

[severe robin]

Ack

Woe is me

Taking Monk at 2nd level doesn't give me Insight proficiency ;w;

[severe robin]

What weapon do you use?

[simple spire]

You can use anything 1 or 2 handed until you get the monk level

[severe robin]

I just got it

[simple spire]

There's even an argument to keep using a weapon for a bit, maybe until you get Tavern Brawler at Monk 4, but bear in mind that unless you're using unarmed strikes or a monk weapon, you cannot use the bonus action unarmed attack that monks get (you can use flurry, but not the one that doesn't require ki)

[severe robin]

Might just use a longsword, honestly

[simple spire]

Yeah, honestly just use the best thing that comes along

[severe robin]

Unless it's Heavy or Two Handed, if you have proficiency in it it's a Monk weapon

[simple spire]

Oh, huh

Live and learn!

But yeah, once you get Tavern Brawler, you'll want to switch to unarmed

Oh, my preferred gloves for the early game are the ones that give you lightning charges on hit

[soft tundra]

When I did monk it was pure 12 levels, and i was just a Dex monk until i got the Club of Hill Giant Strength

And then later when i got those 18 Dex gloves, i respecced points into Str so id have like, 16 str 18 dex 16 con 16 wis or some nonsense like that it was great

[neon junco]

Lightning charges are just very nice for most every build

[soft tundra]

Its a fun item set

[neon junco]

Spell sparkler and magic missiles stuff can carry early game so hard

[severe robin]

Haha yeah, spell sparkler...

Totally didn't botch getting that and accidentally killed counselor Florrick in a game where I'm thinking of possibly respeccing into wizard or anything

[neon junco]

Accidently?

[severe robin]

Fun fact, did you know that if you run up to the waypoint to get it as a fast travel point, and then go do something else, florrick will burn to death?

[soft tundra]

😭

I did know that unfortunately

[neon junco]

Oh huh makes sense

[severe robin]

I wanted to like, get the waypoint, kill the gnolls and then fast travel back and do all the Waukeen's Rest stuff in one trip ;w;

[neon junco]

If you leave Ethel and the brothers they end up ||dead||

I believe

[severe robin]

Is there any way to not have them end up dead?

[neon junco]

Never enter the region or talk to ethel ig

[severe robin]

I guess you could nonlethally knock them out before they run into the swamp...

[soft tundra]

yeah, nonlethal attacks is the only way i've found, but i'd love if folks found another weird solution

i feel like i learn about new weird ways to do quests every week

[frigid oxide]

Yesterday I learned I could just go to the druid grove, jump off the ledge above Zevlor's hideout, and grab Karlach without triggering Raphael or any of the things between there and the grove. I am slightly embarrassed to have only learned it now.

Moreso that I did not use a scroll of feather fall despite having one and just ate 24hp

[simple spire]

Oh, huh, I didn’t know that either

[sonic pollen]

I finally found Lae'Zel

[soft tundra]

Feather Fall lets you do some neat shortcuts

[simple spire]

The Feather Fall boots are a big deal

[severe robin]

Feather fall boots?

[soft tundra]

In the Underdark wizard tower theres a pair of boots hidden away that give you Feather Fall

[simple spire]

Handy to have, unlimited use and everything

So you can just put them on as needed

[soft tundra]

thats how i feel about the speak with dead necklace

just pop it on when needed

[simple spire]

Same, although Necromancy of Thay can clear the need for it

[neon junco]

Always get the forbidden free speak with dead

If only there was a speak with animal permanent buff

[simple spire]

Yeah, that’d be nice

[safe jungle]

Laughs in warlock

[soft tundra]

at least Scratch gives you a ton of free Speak potions

[neon junco]

Totem barbarian, I'm so angry I can understand animals

[grave prism]

i have a necklace that gives me unlimited feather falling as a passive effect

it's pretty sweet

[simple spire]

Having to give up an invocation for it is rough

And as it’s a ritual spell, a regular caster actually gets it more easily

[safe jungle]

Shush u

eldritch blasts

[simple spire]

Fortunately your eldritch blast lacks the ability to push me, since you used your second invocation on Speak With Animals XD

[grave prism]

me using my third invocation to regain the ability to push stuff with eldritch blast

technically i think my warlock has 4 out of the maximum 5 you can have, though i don't think i used any of them for the speak with animals thing

[frigid oxide]

I have a mod that raises my party limit and I've learned

Having 10+ party members is really weird

They really like walking into traps

[grave prism]

Doesn't having that many characters kinda trivialize the combat a bit?

[frigid oxide]

Strangely enough most of the time I'm struggling to use them all because they're all bunched up

[grave prism]

My party is playing on tactician and even then we honestly didn't have too hard of a time going through the game

[frigid oxide]

I just like having them :(

[grave prism]

That's fair

Not like, saying it's bad

Just wondering

[frigid oxide]

But yeah the trade-off is "I picked a bunch of melee characters and everyone is stuck in the Friend Blob

[simple spire]

Gotta just jump everywhere

[frigid oxide]

The AI is not meant for friends

[grave prism]

our party didn't exactly min-max but it helps that now in the endgame our paladin can dish out like 400-600 damage in a single turn

[frigid oxide]

Bwuh

[grave prism]

keeping in mind that it kinda taps him out

but he can do it

[frigid oxide]

That's a lot of damage

[severe robin]

https://tenor.com/view/damage-thats-a-lot-of-damage-jon-tron-gif-13054497

[grave prism]

our Cleric also has insanely good melee damage cause his character has a deva mace that has like, 50 potential base damage or something to that effect

so when he starts swinging he also does great damage

[frigid oxide]

Those are numbers that make my head spin

[grave prism]

and then our Rogue can kinda just crit whenever he feels like so he also pops off often

low-key my Warlock is like, the weakest when it comes to damage without expending spellslots, which i am kinda stingy with

though i have like, 5 spellslots i can use and i can easily do like 50-80 damage a pop if i wanted to

[frigid oxide]

[grave prism]

we are, pretty strong overall

[frigid oxide]

Yeah

[grave prism]

again not min-maxed but overall pretty good

single target damage is through the roof so honestly group mob fights take longer to do than bosses

[severe robin]

Just get a Wizard, teach them Cloudkill and boom

[grave prism]

i would fireball

[frigid oxide]

I'mm scared what you could do with minmaxing

[severe robin]

Unless you're fighting Undead or Constructs, they're taking 5d8 damage whenever they start or end the turn in the cloud

[grave prism]

like when we fought (Act 3 spoiler) ||The Dragon in the prison, we fought it once while just trying stuff out, died to it, then tried the fight again and killed it in about 2 turns||

[severe robin]

Fireball's a one and done

Cloudkill lasts 10 turns and can be moved

Now, it does take Concentration

But honestly I think it's worth it

[grave prism]

funny thing, when we fought (Act 2 finale spoiler) ||Ketheric Thorm, our Paladin hit him so fucking hard when he finally caught up with him that he immediately went to his second phase||

(Act 2 finale spoiler) ||and we absolutely bullied the Avatar of Myrkul when we finished dispatching all of its minions||

when we are done with this playthrough and do a modded one we will probably add some kind of difficulty mod

as it turns out getting to lvl 12 makes you very fucking strong

[severe robin]

Hey I have a question

Does anyone know what this door is in Auntie Ethel's cave?

[soft tundra]

yes!

I'll put it in spoilers, but: ||theres a mushroom cliff in the Underdark that leads to a portal that goes behind that door!||

[severe robin]

Is there even anything on the other side?

I didn't see anything

[clear kestrel]

There is

[simple spire]

There is but you can get there in other ways

[soft tundra]

yeah theres some stuffz

[severe robin]

There's like, a single cleaver

What's the secret?

[soft tundra]

its just another route into / out of the underdark, really

[frigid oxide]

Awkward company photo

Most important member of the group in the front

[soft tundra]

https://vxtwitter.com/larianstudios/status/1729893317113000369?t=BGY9U72YKG5K2ZwMzNiRWg&s=19

[clear kestrel]

Epilogue party?

They're changing the games epilogue?

Maybe some kinda final hurrah at camp before credits?

[soft tundra]

yeah, i could see it as the dock scene -> camp -> withers epilogue

[safe jungle]

I think this is biased to my undead friend

[soft tundra]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/3897365207669541523

Honour Mode ups the intensity of what was previously our most challenging mode - Tactician - and not only makes the game more difficult in and out of combat, but also introduces over 30 new tweaks to all of Baldur's Gate 3’s boss-fights, with a new Legendary Action system designed to catch players off-guard and increase the challenge. Now, bosses can perform new actions, adding twists and turns to all major fights throughout the game.

And

Patch 5 introduces a huge quality of life update in the form of improved inventory access. Now while in camp, you will be able to manage the inventory of companions who are not in your active party without having to recruit them first - all from one single UI.

Wild Shapes that do not have weapons will now benefit from having the Tavern Brawler feat.

Ohohoho

[grave prism]

fancy

the boss thing sounds sick as fuck

i found that the bosses where a bit lacking in oomf, due in part to how hard we could hit them when we got to some of the more serious ones

[soft tundra]

yeah, finally a reason to actually do silly minmaxing now

[grave prism]

a lot of bosses in act 3 where kinda trivial with how much damage potential we had

especially because it was bosses which we generally went all out for

[rich plover]

Fixed an issue with the Tavern Brawler feat where damage bonuses were being incorrectly applied multiple times while making a throwing attack
RIP

[soft tundra]

they gave the damage to owlbear wildshape now

[simple spire]

OHO!

[simple spire]

OHOHO!

[soft tundra]

Lots of good stuff in these notes

[simple spire]

Oh man, druid is so much sexier now

It wasn’t bad before but

Dang

[soft tundra]

yeah, owlbear leap and stuff like that was already Good and Cool, among other things like neat control spells and constant access to Speak w Animals stuff, but now you can dish out a lil more damage and thats always nice

[simple spire]

Owlbear even has 20 Str, so maximum Tavern Brawler benefit 😄

[grave prism]

sounds like big money

[safe jungle]

Ooh

Six month later epilogue

[clear kestrel]

Sounds like a great update

A guy I like reviews from said the one thing he wanted from the game was a harder mode

So he'll be happy

[rich plover]

I hope bosses getting legendary actions are a part of the custom difficulty, and not strictly part of honour mode. It'd be nice to have more optional difficulty to toggle on when things get too easy.

[clear kestrel]

Same

I'd like a tactician with honor mode bonuses

Just no perma death

I hope I still have old saves from my first playthough

[grave prism]

funnily enough

my group are still on our first playthrough

[rich plover]

Same. I'm being a bit optimistic about needing a harder hard mode since a bunch of mephits just kicked our butts on tactician

[grave prism]

we struggled a bit on a lof of earlier stuff but we're kinda coasting now that we've gotten to act 3

the bosses in particular have

not been a particular challenge

[simple spire]

In the forge?

[soft tundra]

Those early mud mephits have wiped me once or twice on tact

[rich plover]

nah, level 3 in the swamp.

I think we can beat them on our next try. We almost got off an ambush but everyone accidentally broke stealth for separate stupid reasons (I dug up a treasure chest 😅 )

[grave prism]

the only thing i think i want to do right now in BG3 is (Act 3 spoiler)||actually make use of my explosive blood||

||It would be so fucking funny to die, have an enemy get close to my corpse and have one of my friends ignite my blood to kill the enemy||

||or just fireball myself while standing in a puddle of my own blood||

[neon junco]

Larian cannot get rid of ||corpse explosion in one way or another||

[finite idol]

has anyone done the epilogue party? i'm not really getting how to start it properly

[soft tundra]

ill let you know when the download finishes in 4 hours

[severe robin]

I'm sorry

What?

[neon junco]

Noooooo potion of healing

[finite idol]

aight solved, for anyone needing it you need to get ||at the final choice, just after beating the netherbrain||

[soft tundra]

||is the 6mo later stuff before or after the withers cutscene||

[finite idol]

||oh nono, i'm talking like "destroy or become the absolute", that choice||

[soft tundra]

oh yeah i know

i should have phrased mine better, i guess im asking where the new stuff fits in as far as like....

||do you go dock -> new stuff -> withers, or is it dock -> withers - > new stuff||

[finite idol]

the first one

still have to check cause the game is giving me a lot of graphical bugs

aight mine is not triggering but i saw online and can confirm what i said

[dawn terrace]

Was the fun mandatory as advertised?

[dawn terrace]

OMG they changed how adding radials work, now you add one behind your selected one instead of just adding a new,one on top of the others!

[clear kestrel]

So I'm exploring this new ending thing and

They gave the fans what they wanted

It's just full of ||dye and clothing||

||For all the folks who want to play dress up||

[finite idol]

I'm honestly very bummed out cause I can't seem to get the epilogue to trigger, idk why
also, my last file of the playthrough seems, sort of corrupted like the textures are all jumbled, missing or straight up removed

not the best of feelings, getting the epilogue would be enough tho

[clear kestrel]

I ran the save from the ||final choice at the brain||

But sounds like your save may be corrupted

It's possible your hard disc was getting full at the time?

[finite idol]

i did the same, i could re-try the fight from the start but honestly idk

[clear kestrel]

Throw it on easy mode

[finite idol]

did a clean re-install just to be sure

the bugs are still there

[clear kestrel]

Reinstall wouldn't change it I think

[finite idol]

so it would be best to just, re-do the fight and see what it does

[clear kestrel]

It can get corrupted if, at the time the save was made, there wasn't enough hard disc space

[finite idol]

i see, that would explain the black textures and missing objects

so re-try it and hope the files work this time

[soft tundra]

lmaooo the new difficulty rules i love it

[severe robin]

Alfira no 😭

[neon junco]

New difficulty?!

[soft tundra]

new difficulty!

[frigid oxide]

I'm realizing what I can do with my Too Many Characters run

Custom tactician plus with all the funny bits added on and no revival mechanics allowed

Monosave with all autosave functions on

[soft tundra]

also i found a way to recruit laezel on the beach which rules

[neon junco]

No revival mechanics allowed? So permadeath?

Seems wild early levels

Gonna run through all the hirelings

[severe robin]

Seems wild at all levels tbh

[neon junco]

Idk I feel like latter levels you have tools to prevent death on tactician, usually by cc and murder

[soft tundra]

you can still use revivify scrolls but if you party wipe the files done

[severe robin]

Until that one enemy succeeds on all their saves and rolls a nat 20 on pushing you into the pit

Ah, that's fine

[neon junco]

Oh I aee

I feel like I've done playthroughs where there were no party wipes but I wont risk it cause traps early level have gotten close to wiping me out several times

[soft tundra]

the biggest part of Honour Mode is you cant reload saves at all, and you only get one

Yeah, im currently like... inching my way through the game to try to get as much easy/free exp as possible first, every point of HP and damage prevention counts here

im scared to hit one of the new boss tricks and get TPKd early LOL

[frigid oxide]

hell yeah

[neon junco]

I'd be worry about glitches, which while relatively rare in bg3 still prevents me from playing any ironman mode

[soft tundra]

so i did learn for that, if you close the game via task manager, it doesnt lock the save

[finite idol]

happened again so might as well ask here, any tips on what monstrosity this is

[frigid oxide]

Oh dear

I have no idea

[soft tundra]

what in tarnation

[finite idol]

it happened just at the last cutscenes
I suspect it's related to VRAM but well
file got corrupted in some way and this happened

[rich plover]

Might be worth throwing up a support ticket? If you're lucky they might be able to fix your files, or at least tell you what's breaking them

[limpid sigil]

i was reading though the letters you get at the epilogue and just had to make this for one of them

(obvious end of game spoilers here)

|| ah yes, that bhaalspawn that will totally come into existance one day... sureeee||

[frigid oxide]

lmao

[finite idol]

Luckily it was "just" a vram thing
Resetted the graphic options, closed the game, reopened it
Worked like a charm

Currently sobbing after the epilogue🥲

[frigid oxide]

Every time my friend speaks to Popper I must flee

[simple spire]

Say, does anyone know if something special happens if your druid approachs the owlbear den while in owlbear form?

[finite idol]

fun fact about it
before you take the ||raft ||to the || elder brain den|| there is an book an a table, near the docks
in that book there's a conversation between ||Gortash ||and the ||Emperor|| in which the latter says that's ||all part of the brain plan and everything he does goes to the benefit of said brain, he never rebelled||

[safe jungle]

How does ||destroying the brain aid the brain||

[white sleet]

||finally gets that one song out of its head||

[soft tundra]

||I think the endpoint of the plan is "now the nethercrown is Mine so i can Control All of You and no one can destroy me", but lmao we're too cool for that||

[silk dune]

||he has no morals and just sides with whoever he thinks gives him the best chance of surviving with control over the brain||

[finite idol]

||yep, just survial istinct of "side with the strongest||

[safe jungle]

Huh

In this epilogue ||withers might be hinting at a dlc plan||

[clear kestrel]

ooo

[safe jungle]

Judging by his ||”For thou mayest yet be needed again. Until we meet again.”||

[finite idol]

I won't be surprised if we get a lvl 12 to 15 dlc

[frigid oxide]

I want to go back to Neverwinter and Icewind Dale ;A;

[simple spire]

Personally I'd like to get afield from the Sword Coast and the Spine of the World

The most interesting place we've seen in FR games was BG2's Athkatla, and I don't really want to retread that

Oh, and I suppose Rashemen in MotB

The point is that FR has plenty of weird and interesting places that aren't just Standard Fantasy

If we're committed to the setting we should do some of those

[frigid oxide]

You're right

I just really like that region

[simple spire]

Honestly I'd love to see a D&D game in some other crystal sphere of interest

Do old-school Greyhawk

Gun paladins, sci-fi elements, the works

[frigid oxide]

Oh man the days of hex crawling your way through and finding like literally cavemen and crashed UFOs depending on how cool your GM is

[simple spire]

Exactly

I’m not heavy into Greyhawk but I know it’s weird as hell

[soft tundra]

4e's Points of Light seems like a good place for a big sprawling crawl that gives them leeway to make Whatever, but really now i just want a Spelljammer/Starfinder sort of deal

[simple spire]

I would love classic Spelljammer, the 5e version just makes me sad

[soft tundra]

i just think cool scifi crpg is something that Larian/Owlcat would knock out of the park

[simple spire]

Owlcat is working on Rogue Trader

[soft tundra]

Yeah but i dun like warhammer

[simple spire]

Fair enough

[safe jungle]

I’m just happy to see Karlach and Tav ||pursuing another lead to fix her heart in avernus||

[soft tundra]

yeeee

Astarion Good Ending epilogue really got me in the feels

[white sleet]

Give larian an eberron game

[soft tundra]

now we're talking

i want a wizard duel on a train

[frigid oxide]

Love eberron

Love me living golem boys

[neon junco]

Warforged my beloved

[charred niche]

Lightning Trains, more than one lore-and-theme having city.. warforged, Eberron's great

[simple spire]

Call it Five Kingdoms, make it a continent-trotting epic that ends in Sharn

[frigid oxide]

Eberron even has it's own version of the Zone

Speaking of is the pronunciation of Cyre still intentionally ambiguous

[soft tundra]

I am 3 failed Honour Mode runs in, but i can feel it. This one is the one.

Jarnathan Tiptoes the Durge Rogue will succeed.

[severe robin]

I believe in you Jarnathan!!

[soft tundra]

also i was checking out some of the honour mode fixes and

(Honour mode) Pact of the Blade no longer stacks with Extra Attack

they killed the million attack warlock

[clear kestrel]

Neat its only on honor mode though

[simple spire]

I appreciate that they didn't fix it more generally

[soft tundra]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/187sh88/psa_lots_of_unlisted_combat_changes_have_been/?share_id=8iFi0kUPCkBov5ey0Gj08&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 the full list of changes is kind of neat

[zealous shale]

act 3 spoilers ||just did house of hope. that was honestly one of the best parts of the game so far, I love that Raphael has his own Disney Villain song||

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo7ugWudCA||

love that shit

[soft tundra]

Its so funny

[severe robin]

I have two questions for the people here

The first question is did you know that you can wield Salami as a weapon?

And the second question is does anybody know how to mod weapons because I need to make a Salami of Storm Giant Strength

[finite idol]

One, yes, people did a challenge run with a salami paladin
Two, idk about salami but i saw a mod that added a chancla do the game

[severe robin]

Chancla?

[finite idol]

https://twitter.com/North0fNowhere/status/1728868142670372901?t=ducJDo05Vn9Hjq9c6bWkeg&s=33

[finite idol]

A slipper

[severe robin]

Ah

[charred niche]

Does anyone else struggle to make new characters/attempts at this game? I haven't seen or done nearly everything but the main storyline kind of burns me right out

[silk dune]

yes

It's a giant 20-30 hour game for a single playthrough, replays are hard

Also it eats my disk space so I try not to keep it on unless I'm actively playing

[charred niche]

Guess it doesn't help that its a much longer game because I lollygag and meander around

[silk dune]

also NGL the start is not interesting outside of a first playthrough

I wish there was like a "skip the nautiloid" option if you already finished the game once

[clear kestrel]

More than 20-30 tbh

Closer to 60

I'm on second playthough thou and looking to a third

[charred niche]

I just.. I feel like I enjoy myself less as I progress, I dunno

[soft tundra]

I've finished 8 full runs, not including failed ones

i think it helps that outside of wanting to see new dialogue/reactions or things that have been patched, you can learn what you want to skip or not, and spacebar through a lot of dialogue

[charred niche]

just gotta spacebar through the whole shadowlands part, don't know the secret code for that'n

[soft tundra]

If you want to speed that one up, best advice I can give you is to just
||- rush to the last light inn, get the blessing of selune do the big fight, then go directly to the ambush to get the moonlanturn and free/keep it, then go straight to the shar temple

• or side with minthara/nere, get the spider lyre, get escorted to moonrise tower, get the lanturn/way to use it from balth's office, then bumrush the shar temple again||

[simple spire]

Or just free the pixie immediately upon entering the shadowlands, and never worry about the shadow mechanic ever again

[charred niche]

It's really not even the shadow mechanics, that's just where things start feeling rocky for me / I begin second guessing every decision and begin the Alt Feelings

[soft tundra]

yeah thats what i said :P

Are you second guessing the big decisions, or is it all the micro ones getting to you?

[clear kestrel]

Alt feelings?

[soft tundra]

The game has a ton of micro decisions.

[charred niche]

"This has been nice, but what if I was a dwarven bardadin"

And it's the micro ye, there's just so much to remember in the moment

[clear kestrel]

Ah I see

Well you can respec, but not race I guess

[charred niche]

I'm weird about respec, it's more about the "character"/roleplay of it and there'll be some cryptic magic item I already threw away I'll second guess

But like I do feel like the first third/half is the strongest part of the game?

But might be bias due to living in it more now

[white sleet]

The first act is very hard for me to get through personally. There's a lot to do and parts of it feels very slow

also there's no merchants close enough to a warp point for it to be truly convenient

[soft tundra]

ive had to get used to the druid warp->arron run

[charred niche]

Underdark's got two right there

[soft tundra]

thats mid-act 1 at best

[charred niche]

i thought we were discussing act 1 ;-;

[soft tundra]

we are!

But the underdark merchants arent the most accessible

[charred niche]

arron is a real schlep i'll admit

[soft tundra]

by the time you get to them, youre almost done with act 1

[severe robin]

Eh, if you know what you're doing you can get them really fast

You can get to them only doing the first Bulette fight in the Underdark, I think

Run to Blighted Village and do the stuff there, go through the spider cave and there's some web you can break, and if you've got Feather Fall it'll take you to the minotaurs, but not actually in the fight, you can sneak away if you're quick

Pick up Phalar Aluve along the way,

And then I don't think there's any other encounters from there to the Myconids?

[soft tundra]

Less feasible on higher diffs but thats a good path to go if youre just needing a merchant

[severe robin]

I've only played on uh, middle one

Even then, you can easily do the Underdark stuff leading up to there at like, level 3

[frigid oxide]

Ye once you're comfy with Act 1 you can do some really funny stuff with it

[soft tundra]

Level 3 underdark is 2spooky5me

But i recently did a level 2 ethel so anything is possible

[frigid oxide]

I will hand it to Larian they made it really hard to make skipping around feel like sequence breaking

[severe robin]

Geez

[soft tundra]

Yeah theres so many solutions

[severe robin]

If you can do a level 2 Ethel you can absolutely run to the Myconids

[soft tundra]

That was very specific cheese, but on Tact/and now Honour I didn't even bother going to the village for the spider until nearly level 4

[frigid oxide]

I'm still finding new stuff for A1 too

I have an idea to solo as an assassin (at least thematically) and see how much of the game I can complete in total stealth.

[soft tundra]

Honour Mode has been a really nice change as far as really forcing me to take my time and maximize my items

[frigid oxide]

Bring the lads in when I can't but just see how much of it can be Hitman'd through

[soft tundra]

The full skyrim stealth experience gets better if you have a good way to flee combat too, like misty step

[severe robin]

Wild, it's one of the first things I've done in my past few playthroughs, specifically for the Myconid colony

[soft tundra]

All those extra attacks in Tact really add up in the underdark 😭

[severe robin]

I am gonna figure out the Salami of Storm Giant Strength like, tomorrow or somethin

Does anybody know if increasing Strength that high would even be supported by the game?

(Storm Giant Strength is 29 STR)

[dawn terrace]

Everything seems to be hill giant but i'm sure you can go higher with mods

[soft tundra]

I know there's an item that gets you to 23!

[dawn terrace]

That would be the gauntlets of hill giant's strength.

[soft tundra]

Ye, so at the very least you can get 23 if it doesn't allow you to change the values

[frigid oxide]

Would it do +1d4 fire if the salami is spicy

[severe robin]

Can you look at companion's inventories while they are in camp?

[clear kestrel]

I think you can now?

[severe robin]

Does anybody know how?

[clear kestrel]

Gimme a sec I'll have a look

[severe robin]

ty

[simple spire]

There's a button on the left side of the screen at camp

It pulls up non-companion inventories

It's a little cumbersome but acceptable

[clear kestrel]

Minor act 3 spoilers

Yup, bottom left button

[neon junco]

https://vxtwitter.com/baldursgate3/status/1732092070464995576?s=46&t=Dte_Xt0FPFCUmUaRfdx4Lg

That's a lot of cheesewheels and completed games

I'm surprised berserker is in the tops considering the top 3 classes were the CHA ones

[clear kestrel]

https://youtu.be/mMLWGnA6qPM?si=ODvefyNLcqzVzgqD

Spoilers for durge and act 3

[charred niche]

I still want to see how much 'well, there's no paladin in the starting lineup' influenced the numbers but the survey would be impossible

Gale #1 is a surprise

[frigid oxide]

🤔 You can reset every companion NPC's class yeah

[clear kestrel]

Tbf when starting the game you dont know that

[frigid oxide]

Oh I don't mean that

I am contemplating oops all barbarians

[clear kestrel]

Oh I see

[frigid oxide]

Funny meme run

[safe jungle]

gale tehe barbarian

[frigid oxide]

Mostly sad that I can't get the mod that adds a bunch of 5e races to work, assuming its out of date

Goliath would be fun ;-;

[neon junco]

I'm surprised no Aasimar

There's literally one in the game

[clear kestrel]

If they are doing a dlc expansion / remastered version

I wouldn't think it impossible they add some more races

Especially since dialogue wise it doesn't often come up

More so if you're the only one

[neon junco]

You know what race id love to see? Goblin that'd be so interesting in act 1

2nd choice is kobold cause you'd be megahated by the goblins in act 1

[clear kestrel]

I think there's a good few that can be crossed off from happening

Kenku for example

[white sleet]

do something solely for me specifically and make shardminds from 4e playable

[soft tundra]

Shardmind are so fuckin cool

[soft tundra]

Honour Ethel is fun

[tired nova]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIBpuC4pXk

He earned it

[echo trail]

We've started playing this recently, and we just got to the night where you party after ||helping save the tieflings at the grove at the beginning of the first act; talking to Lae'zel, only to have her immediately go "I will never fuck you" was certainly a surprise.||

[grave prism]

Lae'Zel is certainly a character

[clear kestrel]

She doesn't want to have sex, she wants to... check notes

Lick the sweat from our brow

[snow shadow]

Laezel is one of the gith of all time

[dawn terrace]

Lae'Zel doesn't have sex, she fucks.

[echo trail]

Oh gods. They actually made a scene where Volo lobotomizes you.

[grave prism]

Yes

You can get brain damage in at least two scenes i know of

[grave prism]

we win these

[neon junco]

I sort of already knew the games award would be dominated by Baldurs gate 3

Best FPS: Baldurs gate 3

[grave prism]

truly

[frigid oxide]

What other game lets me abuse dialog cutscenes to push enemies off ledges while my friend interacts with their monolog

[white sleet]

You can probably do that in dwarf fortress /j

[frigid oxide]

The number of conversations that have ended with the sneaky half orc throwing them off a cliff mid sentence

Truly awe inspiring

||Nere took a swim in lava|| but somehow we got the loot

[grave prism]

big

me and the lads murdering our way through every situation on accident after attempting to be good and heroic

the fact that our Paladin still has his oath with the sheer amount of creatures we have senselessly killed is astounding

[frigid oxide]

We have a system. Her cute half elf pretends to be a bad guy sympathizer while I play Hitman with the environment

My barbarian is very good at being a rogue despite having no levels in it

[grave prism]

as a Warlock i was uh, very good at shooting eldritch blast i guess?

incredibly charismatic /j

honestly probably the least helpful person in the party cause i kept acting like a lunatic

[frigid oxide]

My experience with warlock is very similar to my experience with 5e warlock: I remake Elric of Melniboné

Diseased little man with a fucked up magic sword

[grave prism]

my Warlock basically does not do morality and instead works on like a rep system

you are nice to her, plus rep

you are annoying, all your rep goes away and she starts to plot your demise

praying on the downfall of half the world cause they mildly inconvenienced her

[frigid oxide]

My half orc tiger barbarian with all the items that let him cosplay a low level necromancer and the sneaky drow hood creeping around is somehow

Somehow

[grave prism]

actually just impossible to reason with because as soon as she gets annoyed or bored all negotiations break posthaste

[frigid oxide]

On par with Halsin and Wyll in terms of "unquestionably a good person"

[grave prism]

it's a good thing we had a morally questionable Paladin and Cleric to keep her in line

and our morally righteous Rogue

[frigid oxide]

Running joke is that I've adopted several of the kids we've met over the course of the game

[grave prism]

our Rogue kinda did that too

[frigid oxide]

I am killing villains to pay for this family I've collected

[grave prism]

our Paladin and Cleric are on the Virgil DMC grind

our Rogue is actually just like, a credit to the neighborhood type beat

[frigid oxide]

I'm very close to being a whole ass squid also

[grave prism]

and i the Warlock am a menace to society

[grave prism]

funnily enough, only our Cleric and Paladin dove deep in that pool

our Rogue i don't think has used tadpoles at all and i've only used the normal ones

[frigid oxide]

Listen you cannot offer me brain blast powers

I will not hesitate

[grave prism]

so our holy men and women are the most like, fucked up in the party

it's honestly kinda hilarious

[frigid oxide]

"the worm can let us control others' minds"
"Forget that watch this" teleporting and summoning black holes

[grave prism]

true

i am theoretically capable of being resistant to like, any damage also

[frigid oxide]

I love zipping around and forcing enemies to move around with blasts and pulls

[grave prism]

i have two resistances i can pick, one is elementals only but the other one can allow me to resist any type of damage and i can switch it once per long rest which is funny

[severe robin]

What's the elemental resist from?

[grave prism]

funny weapon i found

[winged vapor]

Hey I’m doing my first dark urge play through, which class would fit the story (no spoilers pls) but also “feel powerful” I’m leaning cleric or wizard. I want that imposing battlefield control vibe

[sonic pollen]

what about paladin

[winged vapor]

Just finished a Paladin run

I’d like to leave the field with more destruction

[simple spire]

It's hard to strictly go wrong with divination wizard

You could also do a wacky multiclass, if you vibe with that

[winged vapor]

Maybe, I wish four elements scaled better there visuals are really nice

[soft tundra]

Honestly the default Sorc is really good.

I think for battlefield control Cleric, Druid, Wizard and Bard are good contenders; im a big fan of Bard Durge

[safe jungle]

I went with warlock

[simple spire]

Note that without shenanigans you miss Potent Robe with Durge

Which is very nice for warlocks

[frigid oxide]

I went for storm sorc but also had 5eSpells mod

So I had some funny options

[soft tundra]

I think, if you're trying to be a Good Durge, having proficiency in Wisdom Saving Throws is a good idea.

there is a feat for it thats nice, but getting it innately as a class helps

same w/ being able to... buff yourself in some way, with Guidance or Enhance Ability etc etc

[frigid oxide]

Clearly the answer is to be a bardbarian

[soft tundra]

bardbarian durge: oh no im out of spell slots
some guys: yeah get 'im!
bardbarian durge: :) what a shame im out of spell slots i cast Axe

im currently doing my honour mode run as a bard/rogue mc which is going nicely

i refuse to fail a skill check

[silk dune]

Guidance gate 3

[soft tundra]

guidance+enhance ability+expertise+20stat+i'm cool+ratio

[rich plover]

+respeccing a party member into a paladin? Not sure if that works for durge dialogues

[grave prism]

bruh

i'm gonna need to fucking reinstall Baldurs Gate 3

game still does not fucking launch through steam

[severe robin]

Have you tried verifying the files?

[grave prism]

no

[soft tundra]

Id try that first to see if it saves time

[severe robin]

^

[grave prism]

last time i had an error and tried that it did nothing but i will give it a try tomorrow before i reinstall it

[frigid oxide]

All oath breaker party

[clear kestrel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15wvft5/comment/k86adoz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Encase you still have trouble

[grave prism]

tried installing the x64 visual studio's version and it did not work

[clear kestrel]

Well I'd do the reinstall first etc

But wanted to throw out another possibility

[grave prism]

ok i guess i'll do it tomorrow

unless i need to uninstall all the other versions which i don't have the energy for

then this fix does not work for me

[clear kestrel]

shrug I tried

[grave prism]

thanks

honestly incredibly fucking annoyed that the game just stopped working through steam randomly

[proven forum]

I enjoyed wizard for this.

If you don’t want to do a caster, barbarian/fighter multi class can actually do good control and be absolutely devastating with the right items

[soft tundra]

battlemaster fighter saying "drop your weapon" helps in a ton of fights

[grave prism]

(Act 3 spoilers)||fighting some kind of grease hobo||

[soft tundra]

||Florida Sewerman||

Somehow, he has Interesting Lore

[grave prism]

||he died by running into an Insect Plague to escape Hunger of Hadar||

[safe jungle]

[winged vapor]

Hey quick question, if I have armour of Agathys up and I kill some one, will dark ones blessing over write my temp HP?

[neon junco]

Yes, only if it's higher than your current

[winged vapor]

And I’m assuming that will remove the Agathys damage ?

[neon junco]

No I don't believe so, it just stays until you run out of temp HP

[winged vapor]

That would be dope af lol

[neon junco]

Ope wait reddit says otherwise

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15ucncc/dark_blessing_overwrites_armour_of_agathys/

[winged vapor]

Okay but it will only override if it’s more temp HP

Thanks for the help

[grave prism]

lovely, verified BG3 and it work now

[clear kestrel]

yay

[snow shadow]

cleric is plain useful
I've been having a ball of a time playing a storm sorc lately

[fast smelt]

i found this

[frigid oxide]

Finally, an open mouth wojak I enjoy

[grave prism]

Sans Withers lmao

[severe robin]

Mother-

[dawn terrace]

I mean they're both seemingly inexplicably powerful skeletons that everyone is obsessed with.

[winged vapor]

So I randomly pulled out inflict wounds, in table top it was always mid but it seems pretty damn dope here

[neon junco]

Spells feel better when you aren't pressed to save them

Just never use cantrips unless you're a warlock

[winged vapor]

Is there a way to optimize for it with items I missed ? Nothing jumps out

[neon junco]

General spell stuff is like dual wielding staffs that give you +1 to spell attack rolls since they both stack

Also in ranged slot any passive stuffs that affect spells or attacks in general since equipped item effects are always active even if you're not holding them

[winged vapor]

Cool I’ll keep it in mind

[soft tundra]

for Inflict Wounds, Prone will give you advantage

Battlemaster Fighter Trip Attack+ ( someone who loves advantage for melee ) is an easy tried and true combo that works on damn near everything in game

[winged vapor]

That’s cool yeah

[sonic pollen]

This game is going to kill me. My heart cannot withstand this. [act 3 stuff]

||I just managed to kill Gortash and take his netherstone. I've had Karlach in my party for most of the game, and since Dammon got killed in Act 2 (he got corrupted by the Shadow Curse at the Last Light when Isobel got kidnapped) I haven't been able to find anyone to fix Karlach's heart. And holy fuck, her dialogue after the fight and seeing Gortash's corpse nearly broke me. She's gotten revenge on the person that caused all the shitty things that happened in her life, and she's still going to die. And there's nothing she can do about it. Despite all the shit she had to get through just to get here, she's still going to die.||

||I am going to cry||

[grave prism]

||At least you had the option of saving her, she's going to die in the game i'm playing despite the fact that Dammon is alive, and she didn't even get to help kill Gortash(we are 4 plsyers and NPC interactions dies an ignoble death in 4-player co-op)||

[sonic pollen]

||:(||

[grave prism]

||We literally cannot help her even though we have had all the materials and access necessary since like act 1||

[sonic pollen]

||this game is going to turn into depression simulator during the epilogue||

[grave prism]

||This is perhaps my biggest gripe with the entire game and something i think is genuinely just bad, which is that 4 player co-op loses out on all cool party npc interactions and quests||

[sonic pollen]

||aren't there mods that remove party size limits?||

[grave prism]

||literally everyone in our game except Lae'zel and maybe Halsin are going to have shitty endings||

||Astarion is dead, Karlach is going to die, Gale is probably dying, Shadowheart fucked off and is never escaping her indoctrination, etc||

||Halsin might get a happy enough ending and Lae'zel is in a relationship with our parties Paladin so she's doing pretty good and that's about it, everyoke else is going on the pain train or has already been||

[clear kestrel]

Yeah the 4 player coop stuff does seem like an after thought design wise

[grave prism]

||didn't exist when we started our playthrough||

It really really feels like it

Genuinely one of if not the biggest problem i have with the game

[clear kestrel]

Like they had to add the closet you can throw online party members in if you go without them

[grave prism]

Yeah

[clear kestrel]

I think it's probably best with 2

[sonic pollen]

probably, yeah

[clear kestrel]

Cos then you get companion banter + can bring them to their plot relevant stuff

[grave prism]

Going to use the extended party mod in our next playthrough

[clear kestrel]

There is another mod that counts all companions as being there for cutscenes etc but not combat

[grave prism]

So we can have a chance of interacting with the characters

[clear kestrel]

But I dunno if that works with multiplayer etc

[grave prism]

Yeah

[sonic pollen]

there'd just be 10 people in the custscene at once

might get a bit crowded

[clear kestrel]

Everyone is welcome to mine and Karlash's date

[grave prism]

Lmao

Also not being able to interact outside of camp makes relationships difficult

The only person in our party who managed one was our Paladin

Who somehow managed to almost start three

[clear kestrel]

Through the power of their god, all things are possible

[sonic pollen]

"Through Tyr's sword, I was granted the power of exceptional rizz"

[clear kestrel]

That reminds me, I hear you can ||knock out Minathra|| to get them to join you later

Without needing to ||kill the druid grove||

[grave prism]

His characters name is Duandrumec Tazdorim but we often call him Blundermec

Which is kinda unearned cause he pulls W's far more often than he fails

But it is funny

[sonic pollen]

now i want to do a multiplayer playthrough

[grave prism]

It's a lot of fun

[sonic pollen]

I just need to overcome the age-old enemy of all D&D players

scheduling

[simple spire]

Unless they've changed something, you need a mod to do that. But very possible they've changed something.

[clear kestrel]

Ye I think they made the change in patch 5

But not tried it out myself

You don't get that scene

But still

[sonic pollen]

gonna be honest, I had no idea they were a potential companion until people starting talking about it. I just killed her on sight

[clear kestrel]

Yup everyone does 😛

[simple spire]

On investigation, it seems like maybe you have to fight her without talking to her first?

[sonic pollen]

||"I think I can do anything if you're there. Even die." my fucking heart||

[clear kestrel]

Big sads 😦

[sonic pollen]

I almost don't want to finish the game so I don't have to see what happens in the epilogue

[soft tundra]

It works! Ive done it.

[clear kestrel]

Ah nice

[soft tundra]

You miss out on her Act 1 romance scenes, which is a shame, but you can recruit her as normal in Act 2.

well, clarity: you miss out on a really long sex scene which is whatever for most but the big thing is you miss some vulnerability and a nice, insightful conversation afterwards that i think paints her in an interesting light

[echo trail]

Finally getting to the end of the first Act, and we're still unsure if we should go through the Underdark or the mountain pass...

[severe robin]

Hm

Would you like my advice, not spoiling anything?

[echo trail]

Absolutely.

[severe robin]

Personally, I'd suggest going through the Underdark if it's your first time