Baldur's Gate 3

[severe robin]

I've been living vicariously through playing through the game with my friends' first playthroughs

[signal tendon]

Oh my god ranger is actually good

Started reading it for the first time

How is this better than the WOTC reworks lmao

[soft tundra]

heavy armor strength ranger is very silly

[signal tendon]

Ranger Durge lookin kinda silly

[soft tundra]

grabbing multiple elemental resists really helps

[signal tendon]

I don’t like playing the same class as a party member and I don’t like jaheira

So that works out

[soft tundra]

jaheira is a druid

[signal tendon]

…..

Huh

I

[severe robin]

Yeah

[signal tendon]

Don’t know why I thought she was a ranger

[soft tundra]

because a ranger is the closest you have to a druid/fighter mc

which she was

[severe robin]

She does dual-wield Scimitars, by default

[signal tendon]

Perhaps it’s the SWORDS

and the fact that halsin already exists

[soft tundra]

smh emily doesnt think dr00ds can sw0rdz

[severe robin]

(They have two droods but no bard?)

[soft tundra]

I get it in some ways from dev stuff, Halsin wasn't originally planned to be a recruit

[signal tendon]

Bard is a really good PC choice it just feels a little inappropriate for Durge

And also yeah people really liked him in EA

Is my understanding

[soft tundra]

he's very cool

He's a hugely buff elf with a friendly voice and seems like a capable leader and good quest npc

[severe robin]

He does seem quite cool, I really oughta use him sometime

[signal tendon]

Tbh minthara is kinda the only non-origin companion I fuck with

[severe robin]

He just seems kinda, chill and nice

Feels like a Solid Bloke

A Good Lad

Actually kinda gives me Reggie vibes now that I think about it

[signal tendon]

:0

[austere hinge]

I will continue providing my first playthrough confusion and "AHHHH" to the channel when it happens

[severe robin]

Please do, sorry about all the untagged spoilers

[austere hinge]

I know some things have been spoiled to me though

It happens

I am also enjoying being a bard

Is Minsc a ranger? I always felt he was a Ranger with Boo as his animal companion

[soft tundra]

he is!

[austere hinge]

Good, yes

[signal tendon]

Oh yeah!

Forgot that

[austere hinge]

Minsc is a GOOD ranger man

[signal tendon]

Since he’s supposed to be a fake Barbarian

[austere hinge]

love him very much

[signal tendon]

Before Barbarian was real

Did larian make beastmaster scale good!

?

[soft tundra]

I haven't tried it yet BUT having extra bodies is reeeeeally good in bg3

[austere hinge]

gonna get Minsc and Braum and I'm gonna rub them together

[signal tendon]

Cause I know Baseline 5e the animal companion is uh

Baby

[soft tundra]

mostly i just dont like having to take all the extra turns lmao

and Hunter Ranger is like... insane damage output with Volley in this game

[signal tendon]

Is melee ranger good too?

[simple spire]

Sure

[soft tundra]

yeah

[simple spire]

Hunter works as whatever

[soft tundra]

Ranger is genuinely good in bg3

[signal tendon]

Valid

Sick

[soft tundra]

There's like, no bad options in bg3

its neat

[signal tendon]

Other than being a gnome

Not for mechanical reasons

[simple spire]

I wouldn’t say none

[signal tendon]

It just makes u a bad person

[austere hinge]

My friend is looking forward to playing a wild sorcerer, anyone done that run?

[simple spire]

But the balance is pretty good

[soft tundra]

Yeah, wild sorc is great

esp if you like The Random Funnies

[signal tendon]

Wild Sorcerer effect called time travel

It opens Baldur’s Gate 1 on your PC

:3

[austere hinge]

Wonderful

[simple spire]

Oh man, I need to get back to my BG1 replay

I’ve solo’d BG1 a whole bunch of times but never completed it with a party

So I was finally doing it with a squad

[safe jungle]

wild sorcerer effect where you wake up as a prisoner on a cart scheduled for execution

[grave prism]

love Withers so much

[signal tendon]

Withers is an insanely funny addition to the game

Like he FEELS very much like a TTRPG character your GM introduces for some houserule shit

“Uhhhh yeah this skeleton walks up to your camp and says “for 300 gold I can respec your character”

[grave prism]

i love how he just

does not give a shit about like anything

refuses to answer questions in any kind of satisfying way

also just like

[soft tundra]

if you want a fun bit of dialogue, try to kill him

[grave prism]

knowing who he is after finishing the game

||that shit is so fucking wild to learn||

[signal tendon]

Epilogue spoilers:

||him kicking your ass if you try to hurt anyone is really funny to me. Just “CUT IT OUT. GO HOME.”||

[grave prism]

(ending scene spoilers) ||Withers trash talking the dead three and being just like, mildly annoyed at all the insane bullshit they caused is really funny||

[dusky bear]

;-;

||i killed the owlbear mother, i feel like I'm a monster now||

[grave prism]

||could be worse, me and my party killed the mom and the baby in both our playthroughs||

[sly flare]

||I went to pet the baby but she went aggro so I had to kill the baby first||

[grave prism]

||tbf, the second one was on accident, one of our summons decided to beeline the baby to kill it||

[dusky bear]

you making me want to reload the save

[grave prism]

||first time was intentional though||

[winged vapor]

I did feel like ranger was a bit too similar to Paladin

I wish it had more of its own thing

[safe jungle]

don't worry ||she was probably gonna eat her baby||

[dusky bear]

wtf

[safe jungle]

owlbears are cannibals y'know

[dusky bear]

i mean ||the baby did eat the mother's corpse but she was dead||

[safe jungle]

this is a spoiler but ||if you have speak with animal you can talk to the baby owlbear later on and he says he had a brother but that mother ate him||

[dusky bear]

.w.

oh

can i keep the baby?

[safe jungle]

you'll see him again at ||goblin camp||

and then ||if you free him there, by murdering all the goblins, you'll see him later at your camp||

[dusky bear]

time to shank

||i'll name him beakie||

[charred niche]

these two feel.. similar? i s'pose spell progression..

[winged vapor]

They will use very similar gear

[soft tundra]

you can also just buy him

Ranger and Paladin are the parallels to druid and cleric w/ fighter respectively

both are 1/3rd casters with a martial focus

though you cant really make an archer paladin w/out sacrificing a lot of goodies

[dusky bear]

i modded ma gam

[dusky bear]

i wanna punch her

talking smack about me god while i never really talked smack about hers

when i get cookies for everyone she wont get any

btw

at the goblin camp

if i kill everyone in a specific room

are they going to notice it?

[simple spire]

Not unless they ring the gong

Or beat the drums

[dusky bear]

good

[simple spire]

So if you are very quick you can prevent it

[dusky bear]

been breaking those drums

saw a ||treasure room|| i gotta get in there

[simple spire]

Without spoilers, keep following her character arc and show her compassion. You will be particularly interested in where it's going.

[dusky bear]

she's mean

[simple spire]

With (heavy Act 2) spoilers (seriously these are big don't click recklessly) ||if you play your cards right she will forsake Shar and turn to Selune at a climactic moment||

[austere hinge]

Oh i think if you kill the dude in that room, the big boss dude, the entire rest of the camp aggros

so maybe not best idea to try and kill him

I think

At least until others are dealt with

did you find the trick to the outside area btw? The booze tub

[dusky bear]

i did not

was looking for the owlbear

[safe jungle]

Oh the owl bear should be at the goblin party

[dusky bear]

oki

[safe jungle]

I wonder if the bunch of children we see or hear about in bg3 will return as playable chars in bg4 if they make it

Warlock Mol, Druid Arabella, and cleric/paladin Lily

That little necromancer girl at the cemetery

[severe robin]

Wouldn't Arabella be a Sorcerer?

[safe jungle]

Oh I guess

Honestly I don’t know what’s up with her

[severe robin]

Proximity to a powerful magic item (the Idol) rubbing off on her, from what I understand

[safe jungle]

Yeah but what kind of sorcerer is that

Wild magic?

[severe robin]

Possibly; Shadow Sorcerer from her time in the curse?

[safe jungle]

There could also be ||Githyanki child option for Lae’zel if you let her keep the egg||

[soft tundra]

Jaheira Is There Again

[safe jungle]

She’s too old

[soft tundra]

That didnt stop her in bg3

it wont stop her in bg4

[white sleet]

Jaheira

Jafara

[safe jungle]

Wonder if Astarion would show up in bg4

[white sleet]

Jawhereveryouarea

[safe jungle]

And if so would he be Batman or Cazador mk2

He better be Batman

Somehow sarevok returned

[dusky bear]

well

i'm killing all the goblins

kind of scared of the beeg lad outside tho

[safe jungle]

big ogre buddy?

He's a big fluffy

and no threat to anyone

which means he's easy to kill and you should totally kill him

i'm a dark urge who can be trusted around other people so you can trust me

[dusky bear]

wish he could be my buddy

imagine

going round with beeg ogre buddy

anyway time to think of a plan

[safe jungle]

I just went to the castle wall and rained death upon them

while putting down a cloud of dagger on the hole that goblins use to climb up the walls

there's probably more subtle solutions

and also less subtle solutions

[soft tundra]

Theres a ton of ways to do it!

When I'm going aggressive, I like to poison the booze

[safe jungle]

i poisoned the booze and told the goblins that they should ocnsider it an honor

I could have chosen to stab them instead

but they mercifully died choking and screaming on poison

[simple spire]

I just fought the entire camp head on

[severe robin]

They're a bunch of goblins, what're they going to do?

[dusky bear]

idk

but i do have a spell that can work for me in that way, not as damaging as the uuuhh

dagger thingy

but it should do the trick

[dusky bear]

that's not supposed to happen

[neon junco]

You can have ogre buddies once

By allying with the 3 ogres and getting their horn which only works in act 1

Best place to use it is outside the goblin camp or boss room

[severe robin]

It never seems to work when I try to use it in the boss room

It just doesn't work. Nothing

[neon junco]

Ah maybe it only works outside

I always forget anyways

[dusky bear]

well

too late for that heh

everyone is dead

they were like that when i got here

[neon junco]

I think there's something wrong with your game they're supposed to be alive 😉

[dusky bear]

are they going to be agressive inside the keep?

[dusky bear]

spoiled cause yeh spoilers early game, he stole my do >:c

[safe jungle]

raphael is way too fond of animal metaphors

[neon junco]

Just cause you're a devil and am embodiment of lawful evil doesn't mean you can't be an animal lover

[safe jungle]

but he hates animals

or well, he hates kittens anyways, which are the most important animals

[storm sinew]

Raphael furry confirmed

A fox, no doubt.

[austere hinge]

I do wish you could have some different buddies along the way

but that's what DLC is for

I want a goblin party member

or dwarf. Or halfling. or gnome.

I want a fellow smol

[dusky bear]

smol

[austere hinge]

There's already tieflings and elves and humans and half elves and gith

no smols

[dusky bear]

gith was one that surprised me

[austere hinge]

I like having Lae'zel in the party

she threatened to cut off my toes

[dusky bear]

[austere hinge]

to be fair I was making her read heresy at the time

what's your party look like Skully?

[dusky bear]

oh i have the gith, cleric lady and vampire fella

[austere hinge]

Oh dear oh dear

Shadowheart and Lae'zel do not often get on

are you romancing anyone?

[dusky bear]

not really

i was thinking on shadowsun but she started being real mean to me so i just

[austere hinge]

yeah Shadowheart... like she gets better apparently but she's pretty rough at the beginning

Have you met Karlach?

[dusky bear]

not yet

i'm working on clearing out the goblin fort

i want that treasure room

[storm sinew]

Shadowheart is pretty rough at the start, yeah. Lots of them are very terse and mean at the start

[austere hinge]

Fair fair, I found her before the goblin camp

[storm sinew]

but Shadowheart especially is like

"everyone hates me and you probably would too"

[austere hinge]

You might like Karlach the most

[storm sinew]

so you gotta work a little magic on her

Karlach does little fornite dances when she idles and I love her

[austere hinge]

yes

[dusky bear]

where can i find her? i'll go there once i clear this place out

[austere hinge]

I like Lae'zel because I have several problems that need to be professionally examined.

So you know the ruined town?

If you go right, there's a bridge you can jump

[dusky bear]

yeah

[austere hinge]

just keep going right and she's below an area called the toll house

[dusky bear]

ok ok

[austere hinge]

Also the toll house has some cool stuff in it if you get the basement key (and deal with the people inside, but that's something Karlach asks you about)

There's so much just extra stuff in the basement, cause you have to get the key, and then there's a puzzle, all stuff

What's your class?

[dusky bear]

cleric

i really really wanted to go twilight domain so i modded that in

[austere hinge]

oh yes I remember you saying

Powerful foks

No wonder Shadowheart's rude to you as well

I don't think she gets on with other gods

[dusky bear]

I'm getting me ass beat so i don't feel like im cheating either

specially mine

i picked the one that's a rival to hers

[austere hinge]

Hey have you had any cool Cleric dialogue options?

Bard gets quite a lot

[dusky bear]

i got some, yeah

mostly regarding religion and whatnot

which can be quite useful

[austere hinge]

Yeeee

Bard ones tend to be performance and persuasion. I got a really cool one where I remembered stories I'd heard about a place and it gave me advantage on the history roll.

What race did you go with?

[dusky bear]

dragonborn!

and is going nicely with the moonbeam for early game

[austere hinge]

Moonbeam very powarful

One thing with Karlach that I found hilarious is that she's so strong that she can grapple and throw smaller characters quite easily

I had her in the goblin area, I threw a goblin at another goblin

[dusky bear]

lmao

I'm just going to the high ground and moonbeam the one path to me while riddling it with grease and death from above

i hope the leaders don't solo me

[austere hinge]

They can be difficult

I know I convinced Priestess Gut to see me alone in a place and I ambushed and killed her

[dusky bear]

ooh

[austere hinge]

And I took out some of the ones around the drow lady before we began to fight because she's a little separate from others

[dusky bear]

i killed everyone who was asleep outside, could try something like that here

made friends with bear man

[austere hinge]

(the drow lady is also recruitable if you're being evil, and there is a way of dealing with that, but it's a bit tricky and I don't want to spoil if you don't want to)

Halsi is great yes

[dusky bear]

also "someone in the camp wishes to talk to you" how do i know who thay is?

[austere hinge]

The big guy who's asking the corpse questions is tougher, but I made his fight a bit of a joke by casting hideous laughter on him so he was out of the fight for a while, while I dealt with his allies then piled all on him

[storm sinew]

They usually have a little exclamation mark

[dusky bear]

don't see anyone with that, funny

[dusky bear]

right

oh found em

[austere hinge]

So what I did in his fight, which was dumb but really fun, is I climbed up to the rafters on the ladders in there, and I dropped a bomb on the group below to do some chunky damage, then we had a rafters fight!

It's not very good if people get pushed off of course

[storm sinew]

I positioned my archers up above in the rafters

and then savescummed a shot on the goblin mage to launch them down into the pit below with the spiders

[austere hinge]

ha

[storm sinew]

once they were down everyone else just kinda... fell to Lae'zel and the fiery greatsword from the first big devil guy you fight

that weapon is unreasonably hoss and I love it

[safe jungle]

You can also pick up a goblin and beat a goblin to death with it

Using improvised weapon attack

[dusky bear]

i think i'll pull something similar to what i did outside

i have minor illusion on the vamp fella

i'll lure em to a spot and grease them, then moon beam them, and arrow party

[winged vapor]

Moonbeam also for some reason doesn’t break sanctuary

Btw

[dusky bear]

funny

[winged vapor]

So you have ten rounds of dealing damage while no one can harm you

[austere hinge]

yeah so if you cast sanctuary on yourself you can just cast moonbeam and watch them fry

[winged vapor]

Though I don’t use that for my radiant build

I want to be attacked

Gotta trigger my cracked helmet lol

[austere hinge]

What might be fun is to go up into the rafters and grease areas that people have to walk on, and see if the people slip off the rafters

[winged vapor]

I wish one of the sneaky classes was more fun for melee stealth

I’ve tried it a lot of ways and it’s always kinda, just okay

[storm sinew]

It needs some support

doesn't stand well on its own

[austere hinge]

I wonder how sneaky monk would be

since they get movement bonuses and all

[dusky bear]

what feat should i give to vamp friend?

i'm using him for stealth kills most of the time so idk

[storm sinew]

If you're keeping him as arcane trickster, the one that reduces the number by which you have to crit is nice

but you can also just pump up his stats, I'm always a fan of that

stats up = good

[winged vapor]

The shadow monk is fine

I didn’t adore it

[charred niche]

I found Arcane Trickster doesn't quite have the kick in this, the spell list is so.. idk, and limited mage hand..

[dusky bear]

oh i can change his stuff then

can i also change the feat?

[simple spire]

Yes

Respec allows you to change everything other than race

[dusky bear]

good

[simple spire]

As a rule, Thief rogue is really strong

It gets an extra bonus action

If you do multiclassing, dipping it is widely beloved

[soft tundra]

Arcane Trickster gets a lot of mileage out of Shield

[dusky bear]

i'll say tho

minor illusion is helping a lot with setting up ambushes

[austere hinge]

That do be useful

I made them assassin and they're strong

Specially with sleeping enemies it just rios them apart

[grave prism]

i'm dipping 4 levels into it for my Way of Ascendant Dragon Monk!

[austere hinge]

There are some great items for arcane trickster, like a longbow that can steal first level spells on crit

[clear kestrel]

There's a ring that let's you cast illusion spells as a bonus action if you attacked

It's in Act ||3|| in ||the dinosaur land in the top right corner hidden on a platform with a skeleton||

[dusky bear]

throne room is bad for the rafters thingy...there are too many paths they can take also a lot of casters

i wonder if i can drag some of them to a corner and

[austere hinge]

Maybe

to be fair I dropped a bomb on them from the rafters as the opening fight

which helped with the whole casters thing

[winged vapor]

Is their mage hand still once a day ?

After the change

[charred niche]

Once/Short Rest

[charred niche]

I have Lae'zel as en Eldright Knight because team needed Int and do love a turn of 'fuck you, 25 AC'

[winged vapor]

Short rest isn’t so bad I suppose

Because tossing bombs is pretty strong

[dusky bear]

huh

turns out just spamming stealth attack fromm the rafters was enough to take out the lady that brands folk

[rich plover]

my multiplayer group accidentally triggered that fight by wandering into the pit below them. turns out, they have LOS through the floor.

the camera was not happy with our decisions

[dusky bear]

@austere hinge u there?

||dream person is telling me to absorb the parasite, should i?||

[austere hinge]

I have not finished this game

I am pretty much just a couple hours ahead of you

[dusky bear]

ooh

[austere hinge]

Personally, I have decided not to absorb more parasites

I do not trust things

But I may be wrong

[dusky bear]

i absorbed one dont think i'll get any more of these

dream person feels real suspicious

[austere hinge]

There are some around. I remember there was a bottle of them in Halsin's lab

I am just... unsure

The rafters are hilarious for doing some real damage to folk

[dusky bear]

oh yeah

i just stealth killed one of the goblin bosses

[charred niche]

Assassin Astarion and Wyvern's Poison does some funny stuff in Act 1

[winged vapor]

It’s a bummer Assassin doesn’t do anything against bosses, I feel like it’s where it should shine

[dusky bear]

it sort of did for me lol

if ya can even consider her a boss that is

[winged vapor]

Nah the bosses all start with cut scenes

She’s like, a mini boss

[austere hinge]

They get the intiative bonus at least

But yeah it's better when you surprise folk

[dusky bear]

i found a bomb

time to steal idea

[austere hinge]

It's not the greatest opener, but it sure is an opener

Not sure if it will get sneak attack bonuses if you use Astarian though

[rich plover]

normally I'd say "it's not an attack, so it can't get sneak attack", but I never know what things've changed for BG3.

[grave prism]

it's gonna be fun for me when i get to higher levels with my new monk character

lvl12 is going to be so fucking good

action, 2 bonus action, extra attacks, i'm going to be doing some real punching action during fights

[soft tundra]

it wont get sneak

[austere hinge]

Well, still a good boom

[soft tundra]

very much so

[dusky bear]

it killed both casters so we gucci

we also managed to clear out all of the other rooms before so

:c i've been scammed

[safe jungle]

Why

[dusky bear]

anyway everyone dead

anyway. ya know the ||treasure room|| in the goblin fort?

||it had way less gold than it seemed to have||

[soft tundra]

it has good magic items and a key item for later!

[austere hinge]

The iron gud yes

[austere hinge]

Oh skully did you get whipped?

By the nice man in the torture cells

[dusky bear]

no

he was tad too weird to me

[safe jungle]

This is religious discrimination

[severe robin]

I get whipped every playthrough

Must acquire all permanent bonuses

All of them

Except the strength potion

And the Scalp

[dusky bear]

that gives you bonuses?

[severe robin]

It gives you a status effect that does... Something

The whipping is a buff of some kind when you go down to like, under 1/3rd health?

[dusky bear]

where do i fiend Tiefling lady again?

[severe robin]

Karlach?

She is a bit north of the Druid Grove, but you have to go around since there's no path straight there

(There's some jumps you can do to shortcut there, but)

Do you have Wyll?

[safe jungle]

Balder gate

[severe robin]

She's in the area of his quest marker, if you picked that up

Like, around it

Not in the area, just that general location

[dusky bear]

what's Wyll?

[severe robin]

Another companion

[dusky bear]

[simple spire]

You can find him in the grove

[rich plover]

he jumped into your fight with the goblins outside the gates to the grove. he's hanging around in the grove...somewhere. Near where the tieflings are living, maybe?

[dusky bear]

oh

[rich plover]

(literally jumped, apparently in EA he'd die to fall damage a lot)

[dusky bear]

i'll go look for him now that all the goblins are

[severe robin]

He's training them to fight,

[dusky bear]

[severe robin]

Or, he was, no idea where he goes after you kill the goblins

[dusky bear]

so....i just loose him forever?

[severe robin]

Almost certainly not

[dusky bear]

oki oki

[severe robin]

Honestly, he might show up at the party going "Hey, you seem pretty good, let me join you"

[safe jungle]

I lost him forever when I killed the goblin camp without his presence

[rich plover]

According to the wiki he'll pop back up again: "If the Druid's Grove quest is completed, ||Wyll cannot be found within the Hollow anymore. He will instead appear after recruiting Karlach upon taking a long rest.||"

[safe jungle]

Ah that explains it

[austere hinge]

Also there is a halsin now

[soft tundra]

Wyll's really cool

He's one of my faves

[rich plover]

He's pretty neat, but having him whine about how he's a ||devil now|| to my tiefling makes me go <.<

[dusky bear]

must find ttiefling lady

must haver her as friend!

[soft tundra]

Well, it is different

Being a tiefling that is

[dusky bear]

i forgot where to find her

[soft tundra]

Go right of the Village

Or my route is to go right of the owlbear cave

You'll meet a dog, and theres a river you can jump

[dusky bear]

a deadly dog?

[austere hinge]

Basically go right as far as you can from the ruined village

No you can talk to the dog and calm it down

[dusky bear]

im stuck in a basement >:C

in the ruined village

[austere hinge]

The dog is next to a dead body all very sad

Ah yes that will happen

Spoders

You can get out I'm sure

[dusky bear]

i've been here a while aaa

[austere hinge]

Remember you can check your map for places you haven't been before and can help direct you

Also should have teleport options

[soft tundra]

yeah, you can almost always fast-travel

[dusky bear]

oh

there was a lever

right next to the door

[austere hinge]

Yeah no that happens to me too

[soft tundra]

left-alt hotkey is the best hotkey

[austere hinge]

Karlach and Wyll are good. Wyll can be a bit wet at times but he's decent.

I like having a team of Karlach Wyll and Lae'zel, two good beans, Lae'zel, and my tomfoolery

[soft tundra]

i have a few fave combos

shadowheart, laezel, astarion is hilarious; gale, minthara, astarion is very sassy

gale+laezel is also a very fun combo

[austere hinge]

Shart and Lae'zel needle at each other almost constantly, and I feel like everything I do to impress one annoys the other

[soft tundra]

After they have their... Act 1 Moment, it turns into begrudging respect, which is fun

[austere hinge]

I kinda want to just hit Gale with a stick, I'm the snarky fool in the party.

[soft tundra]

he just wants to give you trivia so your team can win quiz bowl!!

[austere hinge]

I'm the bard here

🗞️

🗞️

🗞️

Get your ass back to camp Gale

I'll probably do a run where I take him along and it's basically folk I haven't played with before. But I don't do too well with smug buggers so he and Astarion are almost always at camp. And SHeart

[soft tundra]

they'd make a very fun trio for a next run!

i rotate people constantly so ive never really had a set party outside a durge run where i... ran out of options lmao

[austere hinge]

I sometimes switch out Wyll but Karlach is too fun and I want to experience Lae'zel

[soft tundra]

lae'zel has so many good story moments i completely get you

[austere hinge]

Recently found that heresy disk in the arcane tower

she threatened to cut off my toes

I didn't know she did PDA's

[soft tundra]

the forbidden text!

[severe robin]

I still need to do a playthough with Shart tbh

[soft tundra]

Shadowheart and her romance have a soft spot in my heart

I think she's got a very sweet arc esp if youre supportive of her

[austere hinge]

I find it hilarious that Shadowheart is willing to do polymory with anyone EXCEPT Lae'zel

Which is unfortunately why she's in the camp

[simple spire]

AIUI it none of the origin companions are willing to share with each other

[austere hinge]

Some of them are fine with it at first then basically make you choose later, which I do believe is cowardice

Gale is a god damn hypocrit as well because he's strictly monogomous except not when he's ||diddling with Mystra himself|| so I continue to hit him with a shovel.

[simple spire]

This is why I mod

[austere hinge]

Poly mod, or just... add it to the game Larian you cowards

Wyll and karlach poly relationship

Locking horns

[neon junco]

I think my favorite is the mean girl team of Shart, Laezel, and Minthara

For an easily missable companion she is a really well written character with great lines

So poetic in an evil way

And her VA

[storm sinew]

My favorite banter in the game is Wyll striking out HARD with Shadowheart and Lae'zel

[soft tundra]

Her romance routes are nuts

So many cool variations and shes such a true homie

[neon junco]

Especially if you're a durge

She's a true durge ally

[dusky bear]

i saw the romance option with shadow lady

and honestly

not gonna go down that route it feels so weird with her, she's so mean to me(and i picked the god who's opposed to hes)

[soft tundra]

Funny enough that gives you a unique romance dialogue

[safe jungle]

Shadowheart ||got really annoyed that she was his second pick lmao||

Poor Wyll

[dusky bear]

i thought it might

[soft tundra]

|| "Kiss me like you hate me."
"Easily done. How will I ever explain this in my prayers?" ||

[safe jungle]

||As a servant of goddess of abandonment clearly abandoning her religiously indoctrinated animosity towards Seluniges by kissing them is the best way to serve her goddess||

Truly sharran devotion is the most oxymoronic of faiths

If you are truly devoted to Shar, you would not worship her.

For to be devoted is anathematic to the sphere of abandonment

[dusky bear]

oh shit

[austere hinge]

smooching hours

[neon junco]

It's cool they added a whole crpg to this dating sim

[signal tendon]

I wonder if they’re doing. Anything for Valentine’s Day

[clear kestrel]

I think the kissing update is coming out then

[soft tundra]

Yeeee

[dusky bear]

what's a crpg

[clear kestrel]

Computer Role Playing Game

[dusky bear]

oh

[simple spire]

Some people swear it’s Character Role Playing Game

(Those people are wrong :V)

[austere hinge]

Hey good news I am entirely sane don't worry about it

[frigid oxide]

It's actually Crunchy Reese's Peanutbutter Gup

[dusky bear]

short king

[dusky bear]

you guys said there would be a dog on the way to karlach

these are hyenas

wtf

[simple spire]

Hyenas are more closely related to cats

[dusky bear]

is this the right way?

[simple spire]

To the east, you'll find a crossing back to the grove/south side of the river. She's on the other side of that crossing

[clear kestrel]

There is also a dog outside the goblin camp

[dusky bear]

found her

the ||paladins|| kicked my ass

[austere hinge]

I cast tashas laughter on one just so I could beat on the other with a big stick

They are tough

But yes, karlach

Woo

There do be cool shit in that basement though

[soft tundra]

One of the ways to Karlach has a dog

[wise mango]

I threw several bombs at the ||paladins||

it worked quite well

[simple spire]

I killed them with violence

Stab stab

Whack

Thwam

[dusky bear]

i think i'll just pull a stealthy bastard again

[austere hinge]

we call that "tactics"

viowence

I had to try multiple tactics to fight ||the duegar|| because I got bodied so hard a few times

[grave prism]

I'd eldritch blast

[austere hinge]

A few ambushes clearing out side areas and playing hide and seek around a corner while the enemy had an adventure with grease bottles and cloud of daggers.

[grave prism]

I feel like the reason my party didn't have too much trouble even on tactician is cause two of us were power gamers

Our Paladin in particular had some nasty combos to drop on unsuspecting enemies

My warlock felt a bit underpowered but it might just have been the monotony of casting Eldritch Blast for every fight

[austere hinge]

I mean paladins are always gonna be stronk

[winged vapor]

I think they are more or less the strongest

Especially if you multiclass warlock

[grave prism]

He could drop 400-600 damage in like one turn if he was prepared

Hard to feel strong when your ally can just drop bosses at a moments notice

[austere hinge]

simply break their oath and run away

[grave prism]

He basically 1v1'd both (Act 2/3 spoilers) ||Avatar of Myrkul and Ansur||

We were on tactician so it was pretty dang impressive

[winged vapor]

The band of the scoundrel makes things crazy

[charred niche]

/seven hour rant about paladins and 5e balance

[austere hinge]

I'm a bard, so I'm the opposite. I'm here to unbalance the skill challenges

[grave prism]

i played Warlock in that first run so all i had was a railgun(eldritch blast) which made every problem look very much like a target

[austere hinge]

I'm wearing multiple rings of skill boosting, gloves of thievery, and I know the spell friends, speak with dead, detect thoughts and speak with animals.

Freyja with the hammer/nail problem, me with the multitool approach

[grave prism]

i also had a sick as necklace which let me turn into a dire raven

[grave prism]

my spell slots were usually otherwise occupied with Counterspell

[austere hinge]

That
is a sick ass necklace

[grave prism]

not only that it also gave me perma feather fall

so no fall damage

[austere hinge]

I mean all the spells I've listed are ritual spells so literally just free to cast all the time forever

[grave prism]

i just had my Eldritch blast

[austere hinge]

It's a VERY good spell, I've been enjoying it through Wyll

[grave prism]

tbf shooting a railgun powered by invocations and 22 charisma like 3 times every round is still pretty good

[rich plover]

I keep debating a dip in wizard just to memorize ALL the rituals spells

[austere hinge]

I also have a club of hill giant strength equipped because I don't melee stuff often so now my 8 strength halfling is one of the strongest party members, for when I need to pass strength checks and carry all the shit I'm looting

[grave prism]

i'd prolly dip a point in wizard on my monk but i don't have any space for a wizard level since i'm already dipping 4 levels into thief rogue

[rich plover]

...hm. but is this actually all the ritual spells? https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Ritual_spells 2/3 of them are Disguise Self's variants...

[austere hinge]

As a lore bard I just stole lightning bolt from wizard and that weapon summon from cleric

[grave prism]

i'm doing way of ascendant dragon monk so i wanted to grab that extra bonus action from thief rogue for maximum punch

[austere hinge]

Honestly those are more ritual spells than regular DnD gives you, at least without including spells that aren't worth the time and money to do them.

Like oh I can ritual spell identify I just need a 50 gold pearl first

Or you can just know what you picked up

[grave prism]

yeah lol

[rich plover]

I just think it's weird how there's a few spells that are rituals in tabletop, but not BG3. like, idk, Knock

[austere hinge]

Also I cast lightning bolt at my enemies and hit four Duegar at once, and Cutting Words'd the guy right in front of me so he failed his check and took the full damage.

[grave prism]

looking forward to having two bonus actions, an action, and extra attack on that

[austere hinge]

Okay so I was in ||Grymforge trying to figure out a good way to start the Duegar fight, and I noticed the two standing by the entrance of that hall are right by a ledge. So i thought I'd try and be smart and I shoved the main guy off the wall and onto the floor below... and he didn't aggro. He did get up and heal and go back up to his space though. So I move Karlach down there, shoved him off again, and for some reason that time everyone DID aggro, but karlach killed him, and the other dwarf I pushed down after him, just chunking them both while I threw a grease bottle at the direct door, then dropped a cloud of daggers so it became a slippery blender and that's when I stepped out and lightning bolted the four chumps gathered together.||

[soft tundra]

thats one way to do it!

||i like to use Diplomacy to turn it into a duergar vs duergar fight to help against or with Nere and then deal with the remnants in a few different ways depending on character||

[austere hinge]

Oh you can make them fight each other?

[safe jungle]

Yeah

You can make duergar slavers fight the absolute duergar cultists

[austere hinge]

||I mean they're all a bunch of slaver scum, even the nice dude who asks you for help with archeology So like... didn't feel too bad about it. I even took the chest full of weapons I sold the guy back and sold it to someone else for a ton of money.||

[safe jungle]

In exchange for selling your soul

[soft tundra]

nah

no need to do that last part

||If you talk to them one of them will prompt you about helping kill Nere, who you probably want dead anyways, so you can help him out, get them to help you kill half the duergar, and then either turn on him or tell him to fuck off and leave the gnomes free||

[austere hinge]

I've developed a habit, and it's a silly one but what I do is I get a chest, and whenever I kill someone in battle and their weapons are just normal chump weapons I give them all to Karlach and put them all in the chest Karlach is carrying. The weight is still there, but she's a strong lady. I then just sell the whole chest when I get to a merchant because it sells for everything inside it too.

[soft tundra]

i dont consider it evil so much as the path of least resistance

[austere hinge]

I took them all out then opened up the cave in and killed Nere myself.

[soft tundra]

just something to try for a future run!

doing so even gives you one of my fave lines of dialogue if youre a certain subclass

[austere hinge]

I don't think that's quite the 'hard way', I think the hard way is opening it up and having to fight them and Nere all at once, which is rough

Oh?

[soft tundra]

Oathbreaker Paladin: nere will tell you to help him and you give him a line along the lines of ||"I have already betrayed my oath, my faith, my word. Betraying you is nothing to me." ||

[austere hinge]

Ohhhh tasty

I do love my Bard lines I get occasionally

[soft tundra]

bard gets some very fun ones

[austere hinge]

I wish I'd seen more halfling ones more often

Maybe once I've got to Baldur's Gate

You can get Halfling ones when in the Tiefling camp talking to folk

One from the lady cooking, one from Autie Ethel, one from the guy who is scared shitless of Lae'zel, and one when you're breaking up the fight between the two guys immediately after the first goblin fight.

[soft tundra]

the main thing youll get there is all the holes you can fit in

[austere hinge]

True, I've stuck my hand in many a hole

[soft tundra]

have you crawled through any

[austere hinge]

Yes, but also there's a wall full of holes in the underdark that as a small race you can stick your arms into and I pulled out a really beautiful gem

I know there's even smaller holes though

Which I'm not sure what you have to do for those. Perhaps a Druid thing? or a spell? I'm sure I saw Duegar using reduce spells

[rich plover]

they don't work with familiars, but I'm pretty sure ||Gaseous Form|| works.

[austere hinge]

Ohhhh that's fair, yes yes

I saw a hole that could let you into the basement of the toll house if you couldn't find the key

Also I solved the little puzzle in there by accident

[austere hinge]

It feels weird with a club of hill giant strength, because it's so not worth using it on an actual fighter, because it like... maybe gives a +1 over their usual stats? And as a weapon it's kinda pants since it's a 1d4

But on my bard that stays at range and pings people in the face with a pair of hand crossbows it's an amazing carrying weight buff and jump distancer

[severe robin]

I'm currently having a great time using it with the Titanslayer longbow on Astarion

With Sharpshooter, he's regularly getting like, 40+ damage a turn

[soft tundra]

its really good as a "i dont need a weapon" weapon. finally, gale and wyll can Jump

[severe robin]

Every other combat he just instantly kills an enemy from full health

[austere hinge]

Jeebus

Astarion deletion

[severe robin]

The Astarion Railgun

[austere hinge]

Thing is I probably should have like a magical staff

I have a crone's staff

but it feels weird to have a magic staff as a bard

[soft tundra]

if you aint using the staff's stuff, just use Da Club

or offhand it for one-handed stuff

[austere hinge]

True, could keep it on the offhand

dual wield staves one handed and just be poppin the spells they got

[rich plover]

my group blocked ourselves off from that one we ||cut a deal with Rugan|| so we had to fight. (and then the buggy jerk ||started a fight when we untied him...||)

[severe robin]

Rip

[austere hinge]

This isn't to say I haven't panic swung the club of course, it still DOES damage, even got a kill with it

[severe robin]

Oh, the club's good on Monks, too

Cause it's a MA weapon so they use their weapon dice instead

[austere hinge]

Truuuuuu

I'm gonna be a monk second run through I think

.... or maybe go tavern brawler

I do love the idea of just being a stronk boy tavern brawling folk

[severe robin]

Tavern Brawler is very strong, I believe

Because they made it so it doubles your Strength modifier for attacks

[simple spire]

My preferred Tavern Brawler is Fighter 1/Open Hand Monk 8/Thief Rogue 3

[severe robin]

(Unarmed and Thrown attacks, that is)

[soft tundra]

tavern brawler monk with the club and open hand damage dice is funny, with additional stuff from items

i dont mc, just 12 monk, and it was doing 200+ damage in the end game

[severe robin]

Damage and Roll

[charred niche]

Truly someone had problems with STR being lame in 5e

[soft tundra]

later you get stuff like 23 str gauntlets and 18 dex gloves and stuff and you can just make the beefiest stat monk ever

[grave prism]

why fighter 1?

[charred niche]

it's so busted in BG3

[severe robin]

Heavy Armour Prof, I think

[simple spire]

Heavy armor, shields, defense fighting style

[grave prism]

ah ok

[simple spire]

Really solid 1-level dip

[grave prism]

i might do something like that as well

i wanted to go 4 thief rogue for the feat but it might be more worth it to have proficiencies

[simple spire]

I mean it just depends what you want to do

[soft tundra]

i just want all my monk feats on time haha

MCing just delays stuff aaaaaa

[simple spire]

Heavy armor and shields gives you great itemization

[grave prism]

yeah

[charred niche]

makes the monk animations look kinda silly

[grave prism]

i am doing a modded run with my friends so having armor profs gives a lot of potential

[simple spire]

I think they look fine with a shield personally

Captain America monk FTW

[grave prism]

still don't really need weapons since unarmed attack is kinda nice with monks but getting access to armor would be kinda good

[charred niche]

Yeah but an 85 pound chainskirt and a wall shield isn't captain america

[reef dew]

https://vxtwitter.com/pentaghasts/status/1757695957909864666

[grave prism]

i have pretty good unarmoured AC atm

[charred niche]

I don't know why they killed Monk Slow Fall though

[grave prism]

was thinking about going for The Graceful Cloth

[charred niche]

it's so easy to just get Featherfall Somehow why not just let monks have their thing

[grave prism]

but i might do that then when i get to later in the game where armor has better AC i might switch

[simple spire]

Also, and this is fun, give your monk a ranged weapon that gives them advantage against certain creature types — like the anti-monstrosity crossbow

It’ll apply to melee

It’s rad

[grave prism]

i'll need to keep an eye on that!

[charred niche]

Also just a real ton of monstrosities

[simple spire]

Yeah lots

[charred niche]

They didn't want creatures to be beasts because it'd make Rangers and Druids silly

but this bites 'em for it

[grave prism]

i have a few items planned out i want to grab

there's a 29 strength belt one of the mods adds in that i absolutely need

then the Gloves of Soul Catching cause they are super fucking good for monks

[simple spire]

That’ll take a lot of pressure off going for heavy armor, admittedly

[grave prism]

they are incredibly fucking good

potentially i might grab the Helldusk Armor as well if nobody else in my group would benefit more from it

otherwise i'm considering The graceful cloth

[severe robin]

I really don't get it, they made Featherfall a Ritual Spell that lasts for 10 turns but apparently Monks being able to not take fall damage by spending a reaction is too much?

[soft tundra]

I imagine, like many things in bg3, it wasnt a "this will make monks broken" and more "for one reason or another, monks being a late addition made this weird to code"

[grave prism]

this isn't like, the best item ever, but it could be quite good for getting my dex to 20 if i am not going to grab anything else for the slot

[simple spire]

There’s also a pair of feather fall boots that you can just put on as needed

[grave prism]

there is an amulet that gives you feather fall and lets you transform into a dire raven

sick as fuck

[soft tundra]

personally i think the auto-18 dex gloves on a monk are fun so you can put your points into con/wis instead

[severe robin]

You can, but then you need to get through like the hardest part of the game with low AC/Dex Save so maybe respec into that

[simple spire]

I don’t like putting stat-raising gloves on monks because then you can’t use monk gloves

[severe robin]

Also that, there's some really good monk gloves

[soft tundra]

true

and ofc respec, you should be respeccing stats constantly to use the cool item boosts

[grave prism]

they are good

[grave prism]

but not better than these

more damage, healing/advantage AND +2 con is too good

[severe robin]

Ok but those are like, mid-late Act 3, and you can get the dex gloves in Act 1

[austere hinge]

I'm loving the game so far and I am looking forward to future DLC's, because I highly suspect I will buy them

[grave prism]

fair

[soft tundra]

yeah what madeleine said

[grave prism]

i might grab the gloves to have for the earlier part of the game

[simple spire]

I’m a big fan of the lightning charge gloves

[grave prism]

though

if i use the gloves of dexterity

[simple spire]

But there are also just solid +1d4 damage gloves fairly early

[grave prism]

i will have no use for Graceful cloth

[severe robin]

Those only apply to thrown/improvised weapons, no?

[simple spire]

No

There are unarmed ones

[severe robin]

Which ones?

[simple spire]

Can’t remember the names offhand but there’s at least one pair that gives a bonus to weapons and a different bonus to unarmed

But I just use lightning charge gloves

Cause I like em

[severe robin]

There's the Flawed Helldusk gloves, but I wouldn't call those "early"

[simple spire]

I think there’s another pair that are sold by the lady outside the gith camp

[severe robin]

Ah, yeah I see those

[grave prism]

i think this might be good clothing for act 3

[severe robin]

Dunno if I'd call those early either, tbh

Oh it's real good

[simple spire]

Part of the reason I like the Heavy Armor Tavern Brawler build is because it can get 24 strength if you ask Astarion to bite the horrible woman, and then you get to use the fancy monk gloves of your choice on top of that

[severe robin]

Since if you go into the mountain pass before killing the goblins all the tieflings die

[simple spire]

So it the gravy just keeps getting more grave

[simple spire]

Yeah but they’re still earlier than the Dex gloves

[severe robin]

By like, 10 minutes

[simple spire]

Sure, about the same time

I will once again endorse the lightning gloves :D

[severe robin]

The lightning gloves are kickass

I think I used those from like, when I got them to when I got the soul catching

[simple spire]

That’s what I’m having Karlach do

[severe robin]

Honestly I think the only other gloves I was really interested in were the bracers of defense?

[simple spire]

Also also: if you do all this with Astarion and you don’t mind a little mass-murder

[severe robin]

The boots of Kushigo are amazing too

[simple spire]

||Astarion can get his bullshit unarmed damage bonus from being a vampire :D||

[grave prism]

oh boy, i do like the look of those kushigo boots

[simple spire]

Yeah the boots of Kushigo are rad

Come to think of it, with those, the ||Khalid amulet and the hag hair|| you could get Wis to 18 and Strength to 24, for … like +18 damage per hit? Before other stuff.

Obviously overkill

But I like overkill

There is no kill like overkill

[grave prism]

i'm already going with the 29 str belt so i might as well grab some Wis buffs

[pearl sky]

god 1d10 force damage unarmed attacks

I made Minsc a Monk (monsk??) and slapped these on him

[grave prism]

that's gonna be on top of all the radiant damage imma be doing

and also the extra damage from Tavern Brawler

[pearl sky]

had Minsc fuckin' people up left and right

[grave prism]

(i'm a Way of the Ascendant Dragon monk with a crystal dragon focus so my unarmed attacks do radiant damage)

[pearl sky]

throwing guys at other guys

oh that sounds like a mod

[grave prism]

it is

[dusky bear]

i'll attempt on killing an old lady any advice? u probably know what i mean

[soft tundra]

Have access to water

[rich plover]

thrown weapons like alchemists fire and acid do an a small amount of unavoidable damage in an area, even if enemies make their saves

[sly flare]

be fast

[severe robin]

Have fun!

[sly flare]

That's genuine advice, being able to get around the arena for the old woman is very useful

[austere hinge]

Throw water to put out fire, throw fire or acid to always do a little damage, helps with illusions, and good luck on violence. I hope you didn't let her lick you.

[dusky bear]

twilight cleric time

i didn't trust her from the start

a ||hag|| can't be that much better than a ||demon||

[austere hinge]

They pretty much are the same for Night ones

[dusky bear]

something funny i like to do in fights is

send in main character

cast sanctuary and moon beam

shenanigans for 9 turns

send in the rest of the party

[austere hinge]

It do be powerful

[dusky bear]

2-20 damage per turn is a lot of damage for 9 whole turns

[austere hinge]

Yee

Meanwhile I accidentally set off a... nasty surprise in the underdark, got paralysed and my head bitten, almost died in one hit

Bard hours

[dusky bear]

oh no

[safe jungle]

Did you Anakin skywalker the goblins

[dusky bear]

only the ones i could catch

but yes

[austere hinge]

I was about to make a very bad reference

but I went about the ones outside in an alternative way

[dusky bear]

WAIT

Can i summon the ogre buddies to kill the old lady

[severe robin]

Maybe?

I've had poor luck calling them in ever tbh

They just never show up

[dusky bear]

i have to kill them and eat their brains so i become as intelligent as their boss

[soft tundra]

you gotta make the deal with them and i think not kill the goblin camp to summon em iirc

[simple spire]

He’s wearing a headband of Intellect

If you fight them you can take it off of him

[dusky bear]

i got the horn after killing goblin camp

theyt didnt become agressive

can i still eat his brain?

[simple spire]

I mean if you like? I’m saying you can in fact become as smart as him :D

[austere hinge]

I mean... give it a try!

[soft tundra]

worst that can happen is you reload a save

[austere hinge]

Also I threw the dog's ball and summoned them and they got... well they only have 5hp

they're just like any summon right? It just takes a rest?

[dusky bear]

anyway time to show the old lady who's da boss

she must think i'm some kind of idiot

i mean i kind of am

[soft tundra]

yeah, and the dog has a good chance of finding shovel piles

[austere hinge]

Ahhh fair

Good boy

Probably better to keep them out of a fight honestly, or act as distraction or help

[dusky bear]

i found a way to cheese her sort of

lets hope i can summon the funny lads

[dusky bear]

wow she cheats

[austere hinge]

yee

she's a bad person

[safe jungle]

no she's good

she gives people free apples

and pies

and her lands are full of friendly sheep

and lovely frogs

[dusky bear]

i liked the sheep

i blocked the door so they couldn't join the party tho

i'll take them for myself

[neon junco]

It's funny if you can speak with animals them

[dusky bear]

EAT SHIT

why does she have 5 wooden barrels

[charred niche]

secret Donkey Kong platforming section

[dusky bear]

lmao

am i just free to explore now that i took her out?

i just made this so much easier on myself

[austere hinge]

It's not five wooden barrels that means a wooden barrel with five things inside

Oh did you kill her before going downstairs?

Impressive, I had to go hunt her down

[dusky bear]

i had a lightning bolt scroll, that came in handy

[austere hinge]

Is the reason you were having such difficulty with the fight because you were trying to kill her before she ran into her den?

Because all the suggestions we had was the idea you went through her den and fought her at the end like people usually do.

[dusky bear]

yeh yeh

i just felt challenged to do it there

[austere hinge]

Troo

I couldn't stop her from running off

[dusky bear]

i almost killed shadowheart with the lightning bolt

[austere hinge]

I just went through after her and whacked her dead

Oh dear

Also yeah you can look in the barrel

If it's a container in people's inventories then the number on them shows how much stuff is in the container

I use this method sometimes to trade a bunch of stuff all at once on Karlach. I have her carry a chest, then every time I pick up a mundane weapon I stuff it into that container. Then when I find a merchant I sell them the container and like a dozen daggers, leather armours and great swords all at once.

And if I wind up killing the merchant (like the goblin merchant in the goblin camp) then often they have the chest I sold them in their inventory. So I can just pick it up and sell it to someone else for another couple hundred gold

[dusky bear]

[austere hinge]

I have several thousand gold right now by doing this method, and I still buy every random magic item I want, and several I intended to feed to Gale

I had to buy some purple worm poison off a trader because she ran out of money to trade me for my items

And that stuff is NOT cheap

[dusky bear]

i do not want gale around

[dusky bear]

also i feel bad about rejecting people lmao

[austere hinge]

Saaaame

How are you finding karlach

[clear kestrel]

Looks like patch 6 is out

(ignore deleted messages 😛 old patch notes)
But patch 6 is out, 19gb update

He's making a duck

||If you romanced Lae'zel, grab a red dragon and saddle up - you can now join her in the rebellion against Vlaakith, even if you are not gith yourself.||

Act 3 Spoilers

But very cool

"Increased the number of valid methods of knocking Minthara out to recruit her." Good

[dusky bear]

hopefully it didnt break mods

it probably will do

dang

[clear kestrel]

It will do

It's gonna happen if you mod the game

There's not really anything they can do to stop that

I recommend turning off auto update on steam for BG3 if you're modding it

Same as any other game

[austere hinge]

I'm gonna do so much stuff with laezel

[dusky bear]

probably shouldn't touch the modded save till they update the mods huh

[austere hinge]

Could always load an old one to check if it still works

[dusky bear]

true!

i do save way too much...should delete some saves later

[severe robin]

Yippee!!!

[bleak wagon]

Does the dismissed companion still get pissy at you though?

[simple spire]

oh shiiiiiiiii

[stray basalt]

Warlock Pact Weapons carry over long rests, too

QoL! QoL!

[severe robin]

QoL! QoL!

[stray basalt]

QoL! QoL!

[austere hinge]

Whassat?

[stray basalt]

...well then the patch notes lied

[stray basalt]

"open camp inventory" button

[austere hinge]

Oh cool

I know I shouldn't but I like to send books there

Just have a giant library

[soft tundra]

reading is good

[austere hinge]

I stream the game and I pause to read each note and book

My favourite one is the book about eels

[soft tundra]

In Tactician Mode, Dror Ragzlin's Leadership Aura will now also debuff his enemies.

ah shit

The whole party's inventory is now present in the trade interface, which doesn't require you to switch characters to sell their items from their inventories anymore.

this is very nice

Added some extra Narrator lines for the Dark Urge when interacting with Gortash in his office.

:)

[storm sinew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClezDg8n6uw

[zealous shale]

fuck wulbren

[austere hinge]

I feel this is getting into spoilers territory

because I'm in act 1 and I helped the dude and he's talking about saving his friend and that's all I know

[safe jungle]

I don’t think that’s wulbren

The deep gnome you rescued is probably one Barcus

[austere hinge]

oh righto

[zealous shale]

Barcus is a cool guy

he just wants to help his friend/possibly boyfriend?

the issue is ||the boyfriend is a massive asshole. Barcus deserves so much better||

[safe jungle]

I'm not sure if ||his friend is capable of complex emotions such as love||

[austere hinge]

neat I cannot read what is being said

[white sleet]

Make your own opinions

The spoilers mean nothing

Here's a spoiler you can read if you want leika: ||you roll dice in this game||

[soft tundra]

i wish i could romance barcus

[neon junco]

Larian only had one romancable short character and said never again

Poor Beast

[soft tundra]

barcus is just so sad and pitiful and yet kind

[austere hinge]

We can't have a romancable halfling lady I think Karlach would have conniptions and just be on fire forever

[tacit sluice]

Hey so I started playing BG3 with mods and was wondering if there's a usual turnaround time for when mods get updated after the game updates, like if anyone here has any insight into that? I kinda left off the game with a full squad of 7 and don't want the game to get weird about me loading back in witht he limit back in place. Also item stacking.

[clear kestrel]

Has your game already updated?

Typically I'd give it a week

Although party size mod may have more work to do

Most mods often just need to tweak a few things assuming they were effected at all

But of course that assumes the modder is free to do those tweaks

[tacit sluice]

It updated a couple days ago

Tried playing with the mods on just in case and the game crashed before loading in

[clear kestrel]

For the future I'd disable auto update on steam on games you mod

The option will be something like "only update when I launch"

But if you launch in offline mode or with your Internet turned off for a second you can do it

[tacit sluice]

Does it let me know if an update is available for the game before I launch it?

[severe robin]

I have that option enabled. Steam still auto-updates my games

[clear kestrel]

Still worth doing it

[clear kestrel]

Can't recall, but you can check the games news for updates etc

[soft tundra]

i usually have a 0 of X for my downloads and if i want to update i can just do it then, which usually alerts me to if bg3 has an update

[vast crater]

"To Weynon Priory, then"

[dawn valley]

Is he dubbed by sean bean too?

[deft crypt]

that's a death sentence

[golden grotto]

https://fixupx.com/solidcyndaquil/status/1758957898086986008?s=46&t=fr1zz5HLk6wLBeuABTanpQ

[dusky bear]

feels like something he would hang in his living room