#Baldur's Gate
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Yes he is!, they all look so good! (I told them that too)
We are currenlty in line for her autograph, do you want me to tell her that
So I can tell you Jen's outfit comes from Lucy Yak, which is a shop that is apparently made for selling gay shit
Putting it under a spoiler so it doesn't violate any rules ||https://lucyandyak.com/en-us/collections/jumpsuits-boilersuits/products/ragan-jumpsuit-organic-cotton-digital-glitch||
I am 150000% putting it on my holiday wishlist
I love this for you!
@cyan shuttle Dave Jones is very glad that Halsin's post-credit scene almost made you cry, and very touched at how much he is loved!
BLESS YOU ALIX 😭 💕
I hope to meet them in person one day and say the same, but thank you ever so much for sharing on my behalf while I'm all the way across the world ❤️ you're the best!!!
(heads up im heading into a 2-3hr meeting, so if i go silent for a spell that is why!)
I need to show you all the amazing quote that came to my mind for Jen's autograph
Aw looks like you had fun!
I didn't get to chat to everyone, but am going back in tomorrow and Sunday!
Also that squirrell? expertly put there by Aliona
PRECIOUS!!!
Oh fuck I just realised I need to spoiler it 😅
Take #2
Here is the print with the quote
(||No, she did not make a mistake when writing it down
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once again I shall say PRECIOUS!!!
Love ittt!
I'm so glad you're having fun!! I miss being able to go to big cons, next time I'm able to travel I want to go across the pond, so we shall see if I get to attend something like this next year or something 👀
Crossing my fingers dor ya, Alia
Alia if you come to a con in the UK definitely let me know!!
You and Soph will be the first people I tell 🙌 🙌
I want to go to an overseas con but feel like they’ll feel too big compared to what I’m used to 😅. Maybe I’ll start with something in Aus some time
cries in scandinavian
cries in antipodean
Oh btw @marble summit I forgot to tell you, I did read out your message to Tracy Wiles verbatim! She put her hand on her heart at that 🥹 (she was so darn nice and chatty, they all are!)
I let him bite me in exchange for his outfit
I want you all to know what while I was waiting in line for Samantha Béart, I overheard Jennifer English talk about how they recently rewatched San Junipero (Black Mirror) and omg these two are so gay, couple goals
Aw, thank you 😭
You're the best
Got Shadowheart's first romance scene on my multiplayer with my bestie this morning at 3am last night ❤️
I love her
I spoke to her at camp the next morning after talking to Halsin and she was like ||So this is what people mean when they say they have butterflies in their stomach...|| and I was like [clutches chest]
Also my bestie is romancing Astarion for the first time and, fun fact, if you pick a strong body type ||Astarion leaps into your arms instead of Tav leaping into his arms||
Aww
We were watching it going "WHY IS ASTARION SUDDENLY TALLER THAN HER?" and then we realized he had to climb onto a rock in order to ||properly jump on her|| and we were fucking wheezing
I read that || Minthara|| gives you a stepping stool I'd you're one of the short races in her romance, I'm not sure if its true 
somebody test that
... I'm gonna play my evil dark urge as a gnome now
Hmmmmm am I making Eav a Duergar now 
Oooo!!
So I was just at a BG3 panel, and Dev and Jen came in wearing a giant "Our Get Along T-shirt"
Oh thats hilarious
I took photos but they're not on my phone, I'm sure you'll see them pop up on the internet!
To which Dev responded #nojusticeforbingbong 
When we were getting Jen's autograph yesterday we got interrupted by Dev yelling "Jen this is your fault! I've been asked to draw Bing Bong!"
The Bing Bong Beef
It's beautiful
I'm coming for that drussy
Beautiful
||Handlebars, cuz she's going to have to hold on for dear life
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Yeah, you just get it professor
I rearranged my romances once again because I had a fun idea.
I was always planning on re-running Jolene because now I know about things, bonuses, plot points, etc. that she missed, and I'm instead going to have her romance Karlach. Which means Astarion is open, so I'm switching my Durge Nimue to romance Astarion & Halsin, so Nimue's new polycule is All Elves (one in every flavor!)
Oops All Elves
I didn't entirely do it on purpose, but in addition to the main BG3 poster I'm trying to get signed by everybody, I have ended up with a separate print for all the ladies my _avs are gonna romance 😅
HEMK YEA
I can show them all to you when I get home tonight
Dark urge spoilers ||OH GOD NO WHAT||
||KEEP YOUR FILTHY FUCKING HANDS AWAY FROM SHADOWHEART YOU GRUBBY LITTLE IMP||
Aaaah yes
||That scared the shit out of me ||
||Also, Shadowheart is a lot more understanding than I'd thought she'd be||
||Everyone is being really nice about it
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I don't deserve them 😭
I love that scene SO MUCH
||Did Shadowheart get targeted as your LI or as your best friend?||
||Love interest||
||I was so scared she was gonna break up with me, but she's just mad I didn't tell her sooner.||
||which is fair honestly||
||Oh gosh riiiight you hid Alfira didn't you?
It was different for me then, since Dav came clean to everybody||
||Yeah I did, but I confessed to killing her when I warned Shadowheart||
||Damnnnn all the versions that scene can have!||
||Not to be horny on main but her saying that if I have the strength to flirt then I have the strength to resist after trying to bite her was kinda hot||
||I guess it helps that she had me tied up too
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||What really got to me was the "you convinced me to spare Nightsong, you can get through this" that gives you advantage on your first Wisdom save 🥹🥹||
||Yeah, that was really sweet 🥺 ||
Look at them, the _avs' wives! Blessed by their performers 🙌
Beautiful!
||Sheesh, the Ketheric and Apostle of Myrkul fights are something else on tactician
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... I got the Jaheira leaving bug and now I have to redo the whole damn thing
I hate everything
Okay, we're good I think
I just did Astarions big quest and ||IM SO PROUD OF MY BOI!||
||I think I got incredibly lucky in the Apostle of Myrkul fight! it kept missing all of its attacks! It probably helped that it kept trying to attack the 22AC hasted paladin that was whaling on it instead of the 17 AC Barbarian (that was...also whaling on it)||
Wow we are U-Hauling so hard in this playthrough. I haven't even ||murdered anyone in my sleep|| yet and she hasn't even told me she's a ||Cleric of Shar|| yet
Girl, we've known each other for four days 😆
This made me cackle (Act 2 spoilers)
||Orin when I catch you Orin, 🔪||
Ricky! Ricky, when I catch you Ricky--
B R U H
Ok Jeyl mentioned it before, but it must have completely slipped my mind that ||Gortash|| is voiced by Jason Isaacs
I was listening to the ACT 3 transition scene and ||when he yelled at Orin to calm her ditties|| I was like [Leo DiCaprio point meme]
IM SORRH WHAT
I had no idea that was him!
Which is even funnier, because the voice my paladin has in my head is based on him
Oh wow you didn't know? That's impressive
I can be remarkably dense ^.^'
Yeah, when shadowheart said that about Karlach I immediately went "oh we're gonna be best friends by the end of this, aren't we?"
I just said "same Shadowheart. same"
Listen, Tav's not the only one with worms in their brain, ok???????
I rolled a 1 on all of my Perception checks on him thus far xD;
His face looks familiar, but I didn't know either
Anyone else feel like the Creche dialogue is... railroaded? Like how every single dialogue option you pick with ||the head lady|| ends with her assuming you have the artifact--sometimes proceeded by enormous leaps in logic for her to make that assumption and accusation of the player--and you can't even deceive her once she accuses you out of the blue and say "no??? I dont???"
||Well, according to the scouting reports in the final room, they already knew that you had it, which is why I wonder why they let you in at all||
||Maybe they thought they could take you, maybe they thought the Zaith'isk would kill you and they could pick it from your corpse||
||A lot about the Creche doesnt make sense||
Except for ||drawing a moustache on that portrait||
I have a friend visiting for a few days (her name is also Allegra
) so can't scream about how awesome mcm comic con was just yet, but here is my crowning achievement 
Love the defacement of Mizora there lol
Karlach is not on the poster, so she needed to leave her mark 
The two actors whose characters have had to put up with Mizora's shit the most contributed:
Samantha Béart drew the glasses and moustache, Theo Solomon the horns.
Perfection
THE BEAR!!!!
The cast is so charming, I'm so glad you got to experience this Alix!
I'm having a hard time reading what Neil wrote, what does it say?
He was by far the most popular, so his queues were always massive, he was the last one to sign and wrote "You saved the best for last!" because that is 100% what Astarion would say 
I got everyone else on Friday and Saturday, and Sunday goals were very simple: 1) Critical Role panel, 2) get a couple of photo ops with a massive gay d20 I bought at the convention and some of the LGBTQ+ cast members because I wanted them to bless it 3) queue among the Astarion fangirls for hours to get Neil's autograph
They are truly all such lovely people!
Hopefully they get the work they deserve from here on. I remember Sam Béart did an interview where she said the success of BG3 meant she could quit her day job and fully pursue VA work
Which interview is that? Would love to watch it!
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@vague stone forgot to make it a reply ^.^'
Wait.... but I have watched this already, how did I miss that 
It's pretty early on, I think. You also might not have missed it but just didn't remember?
That might be what happened 
Omg @cyan shuttle turns out there's literally a Lucy & Yak shop in my town 
Time to buy some GAY SHIT
Should I tell them that BG3 lead me to their shop
YES, DO
So I'm playing Durge in Tactician mode at the moment and I'm having to be a bit more strategic in my battles. One of these battles resulted in my party with pretty low health and SH lying at Astarion's feet, dying. She was one roll away from possible death but Astarion also had pretty low health so instead of helping her, I told him to bite her
I got a big "Shadowheart Disapproves" out of that one. Then she died the next round 😅
I'd like to thank the "Trapped At the McDonalds Play Place" TikToks for making me laugh every time I start a new file and run past Shadowheart's pod
Karlach Origin is fun so far!!! I love her, she's so funny ❤️
||"Find allies who don't mind a friend who spends a lot of time talking to herself"|| Excuse me, Karlach, you are too damn relatable
I need to do a Karlach run, but I feel like it's gonna make me real sad
oooh doing Karlach origin! Damn I wanna do that! In the meantime, enjoying watching Sam Béart's
If only BG3 wasn't such a horny game. I would have loved to repurpose an old black wig and be casual Shadowheart at work 😔 As fun as being a Hex Maniac from Pokemon has been, I have the brain rot
Why is it being horny stopping you from doing that? 
Some parents are wild
Ooooooh I see
I think I've reached a point where I want to play BG3, but I've already completed the romance I was really looking forward to, so doing all of these other romances from here on out is like the home stretch of filling out your PokeDex. Gotta Kiss 'Em All 😅
I completed the romance of the character I'd been looking forward to smooching since 2021, it's hard to top that now
I'm still going to see every romance through to the end. I've only seen the end of ||non-ascended|| Astarion, Wyll, and Halsin's romances so far.
||Turning illithid to fight the elderbrain with Lae'zel romanced is an experience 🫠 ||
OH NO
Yeah I do worry that chaos playthrough is gonna have a very sad ending, because I think I want Chav to ||become Illithid|| 
‼️
Act 3 spoilers ||I might ask Karlach to sacrifice herself on my Lae'zel romance file. I can't ask Lae'zel to stay with him as an Illithid, nor can I turn her savior into an Illithid to save Durge's skin. Sorry Karlach 🥲 ||
I went home for lunch and because there was no traffic I was able to power up BG3 and see my Chaos Durge file's Tiefling party aftermath, specifically ||what happens if Arabella dies thanks to Kagha's snake||.
I'm tempted to redo the Tiefling party just so that I can see if the scene changes at all if you reveal Kagha to be in league with the Shadow Druids after ||Arabella dies||.
Like ||does she still beg for mercy from Arabella's parents, or does she accept how badly she fucked up and let Arabella's mom stab her to death? Does she still cruelly taunt them for what happened, or is she genuinely sorry and remorseful when they confront her?||
Will do o7
I'm having a recurring issue with reaching act 3 and then losing all motivation to continue the playthrough
Act 3 is a lot
There's so much shit to do, and its the largest area to load in, and it's a lot
I always slow down during Act 3. What motivates me is making a list of what to tackle next and looking forward to cute romance shit
Hm, I might try that
yeah Act 3 is all about the list of when/how to get shit done
Shadowhearts romance conclusion is still bugged apparently
So I might hold off on going too far until the next patch
oh how so? (other than the bugs I have mentioned already)
||The conversation to go "swimming" doesnt trigger for some people||
oh odd, it definitely did for me this time round!
I remember it didn't happen on my first playthrough
I've had some bad luck with bugs on my durge playthrough so I'm a little hesitant
Do we have an ETA on the next patch?
looks like it's coming soon-ish, people were talking about how Larian are back from taking a lil rest
I should mention, the ||Shadowheart Act 3 romance swim scene|| definitely triggered for me the first playthrough too. I feel like I've been far luckier than y'all with this game 😅 Like definitely have had a few bugs, but nothing too bad.
I was about to jump out the window when I got the ||Jaheira leaving|| bug
but I fixed it so we're good 🫠
One quick YouTube search and I have my answer.
Would you like me to link it to you Roh?
Yes please!
Under the tag in case the embeds spoil it for someone else ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXJ0oF0yto||
That's with the path that I wanted to try, where ||Arabella dies, you expose Kagha for being a Shadow Druid, Kagha repents, and Arabella's parents meet her at the party and Arabella's mother is not dissuaded from killing Kagha||
I can also find one where you don't expose Kagha that I can link, let me find one real quick
Here, this is if ||Arabella dies and you don't expose Kagha for being a Shadow Druid||:
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0cR3zm3qRU||
I meta-gamed and preemptively ||knocked out Alfira|| as Durge to avoid a certain event. I feel like it was harder than the first time I did it 😅 . I had to ||cast darkness around her and then wail on her in turned based mode until she collapsed and then run out of the cloud and act all innocent because suddenly a bunch of other tieflings showed up all "what's all this then?"||
||She never realised it was me doing it so I didn't take a reputation hit as far as I'm aware||
Question! Who....... do y'all think would be cute for Karlach to romance on my Karlach run?
I think Wyll's an interesting direction, but given how he is about romance and how Karlach is by comparison I don't think they're a romantic match. Maybe Astarion? Or Gale? I dread ||having her romance Lae'zel because Lae'zel can't follow her into Avernus to save her life and turning Karlach into a Mindflayer on her own run feels so very wrong and like an instant 'Lae'zel Disapproves'||
Hmmmmm, I mean I know you've already done it mutiple times but what about Halsin? Tolest couple ever.
OH! OH!! OH!!! Does Karlach ask their love interest on her date in an Origin run!?!
If she does I wanna see how Halsin handles ordering at a bistro so badly
Ahh I wish! but probably unlikely, though who knows...
I did it, I went to the Lucy & Yak shop, bought some snazzy new clothes and told them BG3 is what led me to their shop 
HELL YEAH!!!!!
I will when I get home! I'm not a jumpsuit fan (also they didn't have it), but got a very colourful top and a hoodie! Now I totally want to go to another convention at some point and show the hoodie to Jen and Aliona
YOU SHOULD!!! I'm sure they'd both be delighted, I know I would be!!
Thinkin bout my Shadowheart romance file
||On my Shadowheart romance file my Tav (Helena) is a Druid, so I'm imagining if they adopted children and their children wanted to undergo the Selunite rite Shadowheart would be flustered and anxious about it, but then after talking with Helena for a bit she'd remember that their kids would be better equipped for the rite than others because one mom knows how Selune & Shar's disciples operate and passes that knowledge on to their kids, and their other mom taught & raised them to respect nature and how to navigate the woods safely||
||Tbf, I imagine the rite is a bit more complex than it seems. I feel like the parents (or maybe even clerics or priests of Selûne in some cases) are hanging out of sight in case something really wrong happens. After all, the rite seems to be about trusting the light of the moon maiden to guide you home, not trusting it to keep you from getting mauled by a bear. But that's just my take on it, probably missed the point tbh.||
that's not going to be Shadowheart's worry
||Jenelle was supervised and her rite went extremely wrong. But Shadowheart & Helena (Tav) are accomplished heroes with lots of experience, so if anything ever did go wrong not only would they be able to spot Shar shenanigans, and they'd know how to get their kids out before an abduction could take place.||
(Dark urge spoilers) You know, that makes me think, ||I wonder if Dav underwent the rite, being a lil Bhaalspawn she probably spent a lot of time under Baldur's Gate just doin a murder. But like, the game allowed me to establish that she was born in Menzoberranzan, so she's also spent time in the Underdark.
Would certainly be interesting to make an attempt at figuring out what her past is, and how she can be 1) Bhaalspawn 2) Underdark-born Drow and 3) Selûnite, because like, she must be at least a good century and a half old, as a Drow.||
That's still young in Elf terms
Romanced Halsin even compares his giddiness to that of a 90 year old, so 150 for an Elf is still relatively young, I imagine
Yeah I could see her being closer to 200
If you figure out a timeline for your Drow lmk, since Nimue is probably in the same boat.
And we know that they are long lost sisters
150 is barely out of youth for an elf iirc. Astarion was only 200 when he was turned (and he frequently frames it that way, "only")
He was only 39 when he was turned
39?!
He spent 200 years enslaved to Cazador, and his official age is 239
Yup. He wasn't even considered an adult by Elf standards when he was turned ||and Cazador had him seduce prey||
It should be noted that Elves physically age as fast as Humans, so physically he was the same as an adult Human, but his mental age and by Elf standards Astarion was not a realized adult when Cazador turned him.
How the hell did I miss this -.-
also according to caches and Larian stuff, his full name is Astarion Ancunín.
Astarion didn't even get his adult name 😭
he's Ass-starin for ever
I AM SO DUMB
I was looking up ||Shadowheart's parents|| and her father is a ||werewolf????||
||I thought that when the camera panned in front of the wolf in the true flashback with Dame Aylin, it was implying that Sharrans had rewritten her own father as a wolf in her memories, but apparently they didn't need to change her memory like that because her father was a full on werewolf and was in wolf form trying to rescue his daughter when the Sharrans showed up, so Viconia didn't even need to change the memory very much, only erase dad and change the narrative of the memory||
Oh yeah! tbf I had a doubt about it until I ||convinced her to keep her parents on my second playthrough and I got to chat with her father about his lycanthropy||
OH WORM???
I've never had that option! I let her choose her own fate since it's so important and I don't think Tav should interfere, and she always chooses to ||set them free and be rid of Shar forever||
I hadn't realised the option was there and when I saw it I was like ||"hey let's explore what the arguments are for keeping her parents around, and that curse"||
Mind if I ask what the consequences are? ||In the one where Shadowheart lets them go she mourns at an abandoned statue of Selune in tears. She's free from Shar entirely, but she also has no-one. What happens when they live? Does Shadowheart's hand hurt forever?||
||If they live then they will all suffer from pain forever from what I gathered, but a nice argument for still doing that is that at least they are back together, and they can face it together. Also the pain doesn't seem to be constant. When she goes to the statue of Selûne, she does also start crying, and feels alone, but then her parents arrive and they have this massive group hug
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[unintelligible sobbing noises]
Dav is gonna ||convince her to keep her parents as well, just so I can watch how different the scene is with a romanced Shadowheart||
||When I first got the scene where you see her father I thought he was a druid ||
Me too! I do like the implications of a ||Selûnite lycanthrope||, great lore that!
Yeah, I agree
I have an idea about how Helena will face the issue.
In our multiplayer campaign, Helena & Rhys are siblings who lost everything (we wrote that they and some other kids snuck out at night to catch some fireflies and other bugs in the surrounding forest, which they frequently did, and one night invaders struck and destroyed everything, so they've been orphans and vagabonds since they were like 11 & 6 respectively). We both modeled our Guardians to look like our dead parents ||(so you can imagine how little they like the Emperor when it's revealed he probed their memories and found the two most important people in their lives and assumed their forms to manipulate them)||, and I have a strong feeling that Helena would encourage Shadowheart to ||hang on to them for as long as she can.||
Oooh yes! I like that
TURNING D&D CHARACTERS INTO BG3 PROTAGONISTS BECAUSE FINDING IRL CAMPAIGNS TO PLAY THEM IN IS HARD, YEEHAW
well, finding consistent campaigns
I'd love to DM but I really don't have the time right now
Alas, alack 😔
Once I catch up on school I might tho!
It wouldn't be anything intricate since it would be my first time DMing, but we could see where it leads
There are stat blocks for some of the gods, if we do want to square of with certain ones in the parking lot
I actually have been thinking of turning some of my BG3 characters into OCs, if I ever get the chance!
That'd be a lvl 20 endeavor though, and I don't feel confident doing that as my first session 🫠
yupp that is fair! 😅
It's ok Roh! DMing is intimidating, but I promise you can do it!!
@marble summit 
das you, flexin

I can put together a group chat once I have some things planned out and we can talk more about it
If you want, and we make a group chat, I miiiiight be convinced to start things off, warm us up with a lil one-shot, if it might help in any way
That would be cool!
Would be perfect to run in December, as it's Christmas-themed
I would love that!!!
I really wish there was a hug option in that scene 😭
they need to give us the option to hug our companions and romances. Like, sure, kisses are nice, but maybe my Tav wants to be held/hold her homies???
Yeah I am not romancing Karlach this time but I still want to hug her
I love that they still let us hug Karlach even if we're not romancing her. I would have FOUGHT someone if they didn't let us do that
Oh yeah they let us do it once don’t they? I wish we could do it again randomly
She seems like she would appreciate random hug time
I also kinda sorta wish we could hug the person who gets ||yoinked by Orin||, like just a lil bit you know.
||god knows Minthara needs it||
Mine was ||Lae’zel|| hahaha
It's what I did with my paladin (first character in the game. The fact I was able to do oath of ancients sold me lol)
So many moments need a hug option
My first character was basically my Druid from my D&D game
BG3 has really made me appreciate Clerics. I kind of want to play one next in tabletop. Not just because Sheart but because when you respec her she's pretty awesome.
Yeye
I'm trying her out as War Domain this time but Life Domain was pretty great esp in Act 2. I hear Light Domain can be real good too
As someone who's doing a light domain run to romance Sheart, it's pretty solid
Good balance between support and damage imo
I still have a Sheart origin run to do so maybe I'll Light her then
||and I'm very looking forward to summoning a sunbeam on cazador||
I think I did that 😆
I did make the mistake of having her use a powerful radiant attack on ||Raphael and I think again with Viconia|| practically had to scrape her off the floor
||"I don't speak to cattle"
"Welp, I tried" sunbeam||
Oh yeah, radiant attacks can really hit
||I had Sheart use her divine intervention during the fight with the sharrans (because drama) and the ones it didn't kill were basically barely hanging on||
I can tell ya, Tempest Cleric is pretty snazzy too, that juicy, juicy max damage channel divinity is 
Same, it was so good
For some reason I still had it after that
I want to try basically all of those domains (except Nature and Trickery)
I thought about doing a Tempest cleric of Selûne (cause navigation), but landed on light because my durge is a storm sorc
||Selûne: she can have an extra divine intervention, as a treat||
Maybe I should get Shadowheart to use Divine Intervention for ||house of grief|| this time around, I've never actually used it
At all?
nah, even when I was struggling like hell for this fight, I chose to rethink my strategy instead of just pushing the "kill all" button, basically
Yeah, fair
I have had ||Hope|| use it though
One of these days I'll be decent enough at this that I can use hers to get that mace and toss it to SHeart
How good is that mace? I already had a pretty good one on SHeart at that point
oh gosh I got her to make the mace and promptly forgot to get her to give it to anyone 😅
No clue, but brain goes "ooo, give ||Selûnes|| favorite princess the shiny deva mace" whenever I think about it
||even though I usually have her rock Selûnes spear of night because plot||
My brain is very hit or miss with its ideas
I've never felt confident during the big fight that I've had ||hope|| do her DI for anything other than the heal that has the effects of an LR
Yeah, it's cheap, but I guess if a cleric is going to use it, it's then
I honestly don't think anything can top Blood of Lathander for Shadowheart, Dav used the Spear of Night for a lil while but now has the snazzy staff you pick up from Lorroakan's tower
(Act 3 major Dark Urge spoilers) She actually bonked ||Orin|| to death in ||their duel with that staff||, which is pretty funny for someone with a strength of 8
She looks badass with that spear and a shield
Blood of Lathander was the best for me too yeah. Spear was neat and looked cool but I think the mace was the best at what it did
Has anyone given her the Deva Mace yet 👀
There's this amulet that I always get for Shart, and since you steal it from a holy place in Act 3, there's a consequence for taking it. Basically ||you go into the Stormshore Tabernacle basement and steal the Amulet of the Devout. When you steal it, you get Cursed. If you try to use Remove Curse, you are instantly accosted by a Deva. You can either use Command to force the Deva to drop its weapon, or kill it, go to camp, and come back and loot its corpse for the Deva Mace.||
The Deva Mace does regular Mace damage, plus an extra whopping 4d8 Radiant Damage per hit
I have seen that it is mad powerful!
gasp
Oh yeah ||that seemed like a pretty good amulet too||
I put the Amulet and the Mace on Shart. I like the spear of night but, like... it's kinda mid for Act 3 😅
I put the Amour of ||Ketheric Throm|| on Shart and she wore it the whole Act 3. It maybe didn't quite fit her ||new Selunite Cleric|| vibes but it looked badass
Lol I found a picture of the time I got Shart to disguise herself but kept her as a half-elf and she looked pretty much the same but large
hey, this is what Dav, a Selûnite cleric, looks like
It's a pretty snazzy armour!
(she's actually applied a dye to make it look prettier now)
I tried applying the blood red and white dye to it once and it looked very... visceral. I had to change back lol
Patch notes are out and THEY FIXED THE WAY TO GET THE INFERNAL ROBE AND STILL HAVE KARLACH, FUCK
Makes sense
I don't see anything about Sheepthara, but for all we know that's in the works as well
I opened TikTok and the first video was about Patch 4 and somebody was making Scratch play fetch with (Dark Urge Spoilers) ||Gale's severed hand||
I fucking wheezed
Haven't seen anything about sheepthara in the patch notes either, this did make me chuckle though
IM SORRY, you can PIN THE BLAME for (Dark Urge Spoilers) ||Alfira's murder|| on Astarion?!
fucking immaculate
gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
"For Lae'zel to decide to romance you, you no longer only need to gain high enough approval from her. You must also have proven yourself worthy through your actions." RIP sex% speedrunners
||"Hey, yanno who probably did this ritualistic murder that has blood sprayed literally everywhere? the vampire"||
||granted that might also be the easiest way for a vampire to get away with murder tbh.||
Now is it funnier for Eav (evil dark urge) or for Chav (chaotic gremlin dark urge) to blame it on ||Astarion|| 
I do like the idea of it being Chav ||"oh you bloodsucked me to death? Did I tell you I hold grudges for at least two centuries?"||
||I think you can also blame it on him while you're covered in her blood||
the real reason why Halsin waits until Act 3 to make a move
Found this design on etsy and felt the need to share (I believe they ship internationally, so I can dm the shop if anyone wants it)
OHHHHH MY GOD
Omg I want
Ok folks, who wants to read an absolute wall of text detailing my MCM Comic Con adventures and interactions with the BG3 cast
(learn a couple of things too!)
Boi I hope I don't go over the limit
😅😅 5000+ characters over the limit, lemme break this down
FRIDAY
- They were not in the place that was advertised, we wasted quite some time waiting in the wrong place oops
Photo op with full cast
- They were cheering for the fans every time the stewards ushered them forward for their turn, how fuckin wholesome
Jennifer English (+ Aliona)
- Aliona loved my LGBTQ+ lanyard, was jealous Jen and her didn't get one (the lanyard is mine, I bought it at the Royal Opera House)
- they were giving out gaycorn pins, and asked if I watched their streams (of course!)
- I talked about how I sometimes play while they stream and get so much more done in my game than they do in theirs, but in all fairness, they do have a very distracting mad chat of thousands of people, I mentioned it goes so fast and looks so damn overwhelming, I don't even dare contribute, and I don't know how they manage (they don't know either)
- asked about the onesie (aka the gay uniform), learned all about Lucy & Yak being the gay shop for artists also complimented Aliona's "I ❤️ my girlfriend" t-shirt (there's a video roaming around the internet of when she revealed it to Jen)
- Got interrupted by Dev yelling "Jen this is your fault! I've been asked to draw Bing Bong!"

- When she saw my name, Jen asked where I was from, then she told me a French phrase she loves saying "je suis crevée", it's an expression that means "I am exhausted", but there is no real English equivalent that truly conveys the feeling implied by the expression (literally it means "I am punctured", like a flat tyre)
- they found the quote I suggested for the Shadowheart print hilarious, I am still proud of it 😄
- Aliona stamped two excellent lil squirrels on the prints, no notes, 100/100, Corinna is the main character after all
- So darn friendly, I love them!
Emma Gregory
- Rambled about how much I love Minthara, her story, how deep of a character she is, how I am #1 Minthara apologist in my discord groups
- couldn't think of a quote, but since I had mentioned ||Orin abducting Minthara|| in my playthrough she suggested a quote about doing a big murder on that lil shit.
- I mentioned I am looking forward to seeing more of Minthara, she responded "I'm sure you will" and I am trying to not read too much into it 👀
Dave Jones
- transmitted Alia's message, he asked if it was "sad tears" or "happy tears", I didn't fully know but assumed they were happy tears, he was very glad, and happy people connected with Halsin so much
- was extra happy to find out Alia had been rooting to have Halsin as a full companion since early access
- Since the print to be signed didn't have Halsin I wondered if he might draw a little stick figure, he suggested drawing a bear, excellent idea!
- talked about my plan to get the poster print signed by everyone, he mentioned I could sell it for a lot of money... I really could, but only to someone else named Alix

Tracy Wiles
- we were the last people in her line for the con
- absolute delight, insisted on having the post-its with our names visible so that she could address us by our names (tbf basically all of them made sure to address me by my name!)
- transmitted Roh's message verbatim, she was touched

- talked about Scotland (Tracy is Scottish), and how it influenced my accent a little bit (I studied there)
- chatted a little bit about how darn cool Jaheira is when she spikes our wine
- apparently one of people's favourite Jaheira quotes is just her saying "hello" when she responds to Tav saying "I wish people just said hello"
- talked about prioritising the three actors that were only there on Friday, apparently they'd have been happy to come for more days, but were only invited for the Friday!
SATURDAY
Samantha Béart
- I was fully relaxed for basically everyone except them. Karlach is my absolute favourite and I adore Sam's performance so a sprinkling of nerves is probably allowed, as a treat. Does mean that I forgot to mention stuff I was hoping to talk about, oh well!
- I somehow ended up first in line, was pretty cool!
- they got massively delayed, so I got to just chill and watch Jen and Aliona interacting with other fans and talking about gay books and TV shows while I waited. May or may not have picked up a second gaycorn too 😇. I also interacted a bit with Amelia Tyler who was signing at the same table.
- asked why her last name is French, apparently their real last name is already taken by another artist, so she had to go back up her family history to find a name. Their family were originally in France and moved to Ireland a very long time ago. Funnily enough my family did the exact opposite (came to France from Ireland), Sam joked that we're basically all cousins.
- said Karlach is my absolute favourite, we talked about how fuckin amazing the ||post-killing Gortash|| scene is, how good the writing of it is and how much Sam was looking forward to doing it
- Karlach is not on the BG3 poster print, but Mizora is, and we don't like Mizora, so I asked Sam to add a little funny face on her, she drew goggles and a moustache. 100% something Karlach would do.
- Karlach is named after her mother Caerlack, both names are pronounced the same, Sam assumes her mother's name just had an older, archaic spelling.
Devora Wilde
- told her I watch her streams while working out but they are so darn funny and chaotic I sometimes have to mute them because I am laughing too much and can't complete my sets, and I thanked her for it, she was amused
- I mentioned I was planning a chaos playthrough, but will never be able to attain her level of chaos
- was I the only person who didn't mention Bing Bong to the poor woman? Maybe I was...
- when I couldn't think of a quote (this happened a lot), she asked me if I thought Lae'zel could consider me an Istik or a Kith'rak. As much as I wish it was the latter, let's be honest, Lae'zel thinks I am a weak istik for sure.
Theo Solomon
- told him how much I love Wyll, because he's such a good person and I wish everyone was like Wyll
- also mentioned that I really love his performance, the way he moves, and his enunciation when playing Wyll, very theatrical (I really love just watching Wyll talk), he looked really glad to hear it!
- asked him to complete the defacing of Mizora, since she is the bane of Wyll's existence, he was very amused, and added the horns before signing
Amelia Tyler
- talked about how tired we both were, but she insisted I had it worse since she got to sit all day while I had to move a lot, fair point!
- mentioned I am doing my Dark Urge playthrough, but that she was fighting her urge and ||succeeded in curing it||, can't remember if I said it out loud, but definitely tried to convey that I love the dark urge narration
- she talked about her Violet Dark Urge playthrough, and how she's afraid of the dice when making decisions
- I produced the Giant Gay Die and mentioned maybe she should roll that one, she picked it up and held it, and I am considering this her official Blessing of the Giant Gay Die
- I also mentioned that the dice she's rolling terrify me, how horrifying what happened to ||Gale's hand|| was and that I will not be able to handle it if anything happens to Karlach because of them!
Tim Downie
- poor man, it was past 6pm and I was fully crashing, I literally said to him "I usually try to come up with something witty and memorable to tell the artist, but my brain has literally stopped working", he could relate
- he also had pretty long queues and was second to last, I talked about my plan to get everybody's signature on the poster print, and that I was leaving the toughest people for last, we both fearfully glanced at Neil's endless queue
SUNDAY
Photo Ops
- those go really fast, so the interactions are very short!
- so I bought the Giant Gay Die on Saturday, and really wanted to get it blessed by some LGBTQ+ cast members, so got last minute Sunday photo ops with Sam Béart and Jennifer English
- Sam's op was 10 minutes after the end of the Critical Role panel, and literally happening on the other side of thr ExCel building. I have never power walked through a crowd of thousands of people so fast
- made it just in time! They remembered me from the previous day "I know you!" "YOU DO?" (I default to assuming artists won't remember me, because why would they? they meet thousands of people, and continue to be surprised when some of my favourite opera singers still remember my face after several years)
- Took an excellent back to back photo with the Big Gay Die, told them to "feel free to flex, you've got a good bicep"
- Jen's photo op was the last thing I did (even after Neil's autograph), she also remembered me!
- I produced the Giant Gay Die and mentioned it kinda looked like the Astral Prism (the Gaystral prism, if you will), she suggested we both hold it for the photo (excellent suggestion, and exactly what I had in mind!)
Neil Newborn
- he was the last one, and toughest one to get, the golden goostarion, if you will
- poor man had the longest queues and spent hours and hours signing, chatting, but always kept a smile on and was incredibly nice to everyone
- I thought it was a lost cause a few times, since they closed his queue, but I just chilled nearby (saw Ashley Johnson walking by to go to a photo op!) until they unexpectedly re-opened the queue!
- decided to make it quick and efficient for his benefit, thought of a quote for him to write in advance (for once!)
- it's not an Astarion quote, but it's what he would say "You left the best for last, darling!"
Aaaannd I'm done, good luck reading all that folks
Sounds like you were busy
Just a tad
I didn't summarise the panels in all that, hoping you can watch those on the internet at some point!
I'm glad Tracy was touched, I was a little concerned if my message was a little too much 
Oh no absolutely not!
Okay cool
I remember when you first meet Jaheira and Khalid in BG1 they say Gorion wanted them to take over as your guardians if anything ever happened to him... and then Khalid dying in BG2 and Jaheiras whole arc after
I don't think Tracy was the voice actor in the original 2 but she really nailed her preformance as Jaheira
... I should play BG 1 and 2 again
DO IT
Thank you for the recap Alix!!! It sounds like you had a freaking blast!!!--I'm so glad Sam, Jen & Aliona remembered you for photo ops 💕
I hope that one day we can collectively go to a con and all have a blast like that!
With all that talk of the Big Gay Die, I haven't shared a photo of it here...or have I?
YOU HAVE NOT!!!!
I'm probably gonna make a insta post with the die and my photos with Sam and Jen, happy to DM some people my handle so you can have a looksie 👀
I'd love to see!
Same same!
gosh darnit my kid can turn into a displacer beast now!
@cyan shuttle ||https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJEsWPpy/||
F F F F F F F --
the Shadowheart Stuck In The McDonalds Play Place edits are killing me
uh oh, TikTok showed me the new kissing scenes from Patch 4.
I gotta fire up Elisbet & Aria's files YET AGAIN to get Wyll & Halsin's new kiss scenes, respectively
The horror
oh no
smoochin the boys yet again
woe is me
The new kissing scenes really have me

I haven't fully watched them, but man, I am itching to romance Karlach again!
I did also see a very interesting new dialogue that seems to have been introduced in the patch, but not fully implemented yet, and may be a sign of things to come! It's || post-saving Thaniel Halsin saying he refuses to travel with you if Minthara joins your crew, whereas she's "bruh, enemy of my enemy and whatnot"||
oh dip
I gotta go smooch Shadowheart and Lae'zel
||You can have Hlasin come with you if you attack the grove?
||
I feel like BG3 is calling me out sometimes.
My two favorite characters to smooch, who fluster me the most, are:
- tall, muscular, sweet, good people, protective but not possessive, like physical touch, and are a lil bit horny
Karlach & Halsin are trees, and I must climb them
I'm pretty sure if you approach SHeart about being poly with Halsin she straight up says "if you've got the chance to climb Mt. Halsin, go for it"
So, yanno, Larian knows their audience
Having 3 years of Early Access got them a lot of feedback to use for his romance 😅
That'll do it
I think it might be the other way around? ||Like they're implementing a possibility to keep Minthara alive if you defend it? He seems to specifically complain about her having wanted to slaughter the grove||
I'll try and find the relevant screenshot
👀
Found it!
I want there to be a party with ||Halsin & Minthara. Minthara making fun of Gale is already fantastic, Halsin & Minthara fighting on the same party would be just
||
Halsin: ||You almost slaughtered innocent people||
Minthara: ||I was a thrall of the absolute||
Halsin: ||Yet you still revel in violence||
Minthara: ||Of course I do! Many out there deserve a swift end||
||Man, sucks that you have to chose but its also understandable||
I could see that. ||Iirc she mentions not really hearing the absolute when you're around, so it might be a chance to reason with them? Or maybe they'll let you knock them out or something? I dunno, I'm just hoping I can have a good-ish minthara run without missing so much content one day||
||I'm kinda torn, because on one hand I love the fact that Minthara is a character you can just never know is a companion, a named baddie who's name you forget sometime in the middle of act 2 (like she mentions), and if you want to experience this character you've got to commit. On the other, I feel like they weighed the scale a bit too heavily, so it barely feels like a choice most of the time.||
||Do I want to give Karlach her upgrades, recruit Halsin, have a bunch of fun and emotional moments with the tieflings, and get some rad armor from Dammon in act 3 or do I want Minthara? I feel like most runs are going to go with option 1, it's just so much :/ ||
||Yeah, Minthara is a wonderful character but you lose out on so much by recruiting her||
||I'm not opposed to the idea of having to sacrifice for the character either, I just think they leaned in harder than they realized||
||I am so sad I lost the tieflings and Halsin, and Karlach still cannot touch everyone. It's such a steep price||
||Been watching her clips and she's amazing. She's got an odd emotional intelligence to her||
She is so good!
Oh yeah, definitly
She's also got some of the sickest burns this side of Avernus
She is very funny
I don't think Minthara got enough Early Access feedback that might have changed Larian's direction with her. Most people only wanted to sleep with Minthara in Early Access because TEEHEE EVIL RUN HOTTIE!! but because we didn't progress past Act 1 none of her non-controlled personality was showcased, so Larian made her Genocidal Actions Only! when full release came out, which is a shame
||the fact she approves of you telling her to tell the crowd the drider joke tho||
||I'm happy with the "fully committing to being evil" being the only way to get that steamy scene, which I think is probably what is gonna happen.||
That kinda works tbh
Because that's a fucken great scene
||the aftermath I mean. When you can look into her mind and see there's a bit more than the surface level Minthara||
So it still works as a sacrifice
I am both very eager to get that scene and dreading what I need to do to reach it when I do my Eav playthrough
Oh holy crap, I'm close to finishing my first durge run!
Just got ||Orin, the Iron throne, Gortash, and then I should be good for endgame.||
let me know when you have faced ||Orin!||
Will do! She's first up, I figure between the ||Kidnapping, the murderous doppelgangers she's got running around, and making his brain into mince meat, Veris (my Dav) would prioritize her over Gortash, who seems content to essentially sit and wait for me to collect his netherstone at my leisure||
Also, did the "are you versed in magic" convo with Gale while a wizard and it's way more endearing.
Y'all are making me want to respec my Gale romance Durge from PalaLock to some variety of Sorcerer
You can be braggadocious, you can downplay your knowledge, you can compare yourself to one of the greats ||he asks if you're well read and you can say "I'm no Kelben Blackstaff" to which Gale scoffs and tells you not to compare yourself to him, because you don't spend nearly as much time dying as he does||
Sorc is interesting
he's a lil bit snippy with Warlocks
I kinda feel like Gale doesn't necessarily have as much respect for other casters as he does fellow wizards
in a "I earned it, you bought it" kind of way
Oh when did you get that? Since Dav is now both a wizard and a sorcerer, I wonder what dialogue option she'd get!
Which is a gross oversimplification Gale
It's when you first meet him. If you ||pull him out of the hole and talk to him shortly after he'll either confirm you're not versed in magic (i.e. not a wizard) or geek out with you for a bit about wizard stuff||
https://vxtwitter.com/andrywhodraws/status/1720140297139581123?t=UmSCEh3ndRrMhcmqzQ6HJQ&s=19
very important!!!
Oooh right right, welp makes sense I, a full cleric at the time, got something a bit different!
Anything other than wiz gets ||"oh, I'm sorry, I meant are you studied in magic? Namely, are you a wizard...which you are not."||
Tbh, my early Gale experience made me like him a bit less lol
I have a mighty need!
I really want an Us plushie, I love them so much!
Oh good, I'm not the only one who loves the brain baby
Spaghoot, we have very similar tastes don't we 
i would love having a smol Karlach to hug
they have little pawprints on their hands
They fixed the adamantine armor bug!
Woot woot
Poor Lae'zel won't have to run around in tights anymore
Would y'all be willing to take a look at these builds and let me know which you think works best?
If I do switch my Paladin from a PalaLock(Cleric) to a PalaSorc(Cleric) I don't want to nerf her in the process. I've only taken 1 level in Warlock so far, and I have enough gold to respec with Withers if Sorc looks better
(I'll remove the embeds if they pop up so I don't clog up the space)
PalaSorCleric --> https://eip.gg/bg3/build-planner/?buildId=cloivubrc05scd4xxzl91cs8v
PaLoCleric --> https://eip.gg/bg3/build-planner/?buildId=clo4pcavg02jqd4xxg13a5y1k
I'll have a looksie when I get home from work!
(and don't mind the stats, this is the calculator that doesn't have all of the items and free bonuses added just yet. Her final stats, regardless of the build, will be Str 23, Dex 16, Con 23, Int 17, Wis 14, Cha 20)
I am terrible with builds, unfortunately, so I won't be much help ^.^'
you can use soap to clean up!
Finally! I can have my important party convos without being covered in blood! (||kinda changed the mood during Karlachs dinner date||)
Now where the fuck do I find soap
That is the main question
||I've seen people say the house of healing, Mattis, and Dammon||
But I can't confirm
Currently trying to avoid ||failing grandpapa Sarevoks vibe check||
I sure hope there is a ||non-currently-dead-Tiefling (
) option for me||
So about these builds, are you planning to mainly bonk people with a sprinkling of spellcasting?
I gotta say, the PalaSorCleric looks mighty strong, you can both dish out 3 attacks per turn and fireball an enemy before flying away
Primarily bonking, but 6 Pala/5 Sorc/1 Cleric isn't as good as 5 Pala/6 Sorc/1 Cleric
Final Stats: Str 23, Dex 16, Con 23, Int 17, Wis 14, Cha 20
ASIs: Great Weapon Master, Savage Attacker
Free Boosts: ||Ethel’s Hair (Cha), Volo's Ersatz Eye, Mirror of Loss (Cha)||
Tadpoles: ||Favorable Beginnings, Luck of the Far Realms, Transfuse Health, Perilous Stakes, Astral Tadpole||
Final Gear: ||Warped Headband of Intellect, Cindermoth Cloak, Luminous Armor, Gloves of Frost Giant Strength, Boots of Persistence, Amulet of Greater Health, True Love's Embrace (or Callous Glow Ring), Strange Conduit Ring, Hellbeard Halberd, and The Dead Shot||
i saw it on Twitter earlier and it is very precious
she's so darn tender
||The way you hold her arm, the forehead touch! Ach, my heart!||
DAMNNNNNN do I fire up Bav just so I can see it? No, the wait will only make it sweeter when I finally properly see it
Karlach's been deprived of a love language for 10 years, THE YEARNING--
Dammit Larian ||I'm still trying to cope over here Q.Q||
They communicate it so well
Give me a couple of months and I'll be screaming when I see the kiss that is if I manage to avoid the spoilers
We must fight anyone who attempts to spoil you
Just got Karlachs ||post-Gortash scene|| and I am feeling E M O T I O N S ™️
||I understand why we can't hug her there, but tbh, I'd take the burns||
||GAME! Can you please play something other than 'I want to live' right now?! Q.Q||
That scene is always gonna destroy me 🥲
can't wait to get to it in my Karlach origin run
I saw a TikTok about (dark urge spoilers) ||Gortash x Durge and this person being completely delulu writing about how "the first time they (durge) probably experienced love was with him" and I'm just like 1) gross, 2) 🤢🤮 , 3) I highly fucking doubt it bucko||
Oh boi yeah, getting bits of that on tumblr too 😑😑
Like there was something between them, but it was certainly not the ||"they were deeply madly in love, your honor!"|| kind of relationship that people seem to be latching on to
Gosh no, can't have been anything healthy
I can envision Durge being ||attracted to Gortash's wickedness|| and vice-versa, but for it to evolve into ||anything sweet or loving is implausible IMHO. Flirtatious? Maybe. Physical? Potentially. Loving? Hard no.||
I'm reading up the banter pages from companions, and now I have two reasons to fire up Elisbet's file yet again
- I gotta see the new Wyll kiss in action
- I gotta have all of my companions and run around until I trigger banter discussing ||Wyll's engagement to Elisbet|| as per the flow of their romance
(Act 3 Shadowheart quest spoilers) Welp.... I should have expected this 😅
the question now is.....do I savescum
I BELIEVE IN YOUUUUUUU
I need the lowest die to be a 18 and to roll a 4 on guidance. oh boi.
DAMN I had double 18s, but then only got a 2 on guidance
GAAAAAAA--
you know what, I gave it to best girl Karlach instead, as a treat
I may also have remembered way too late that enhance ability would have cancelled out the disadvantage
||Shadowheart's dad just called me her "fine paramour"||
🥹
Mah hart!
Thinking of doing a ranger/rogue run but unsure of which class I should start as
Planning on 3 Rogue/9 Ranger
they both give you some pretty snazzy stuff at level 1, it's expertise vs one of the ranger perks (i.e. ability to cast find familiar)
I did character creation for Eav today since I was feeling inspired and omg this reason for advantage is so funny 
some of the advantage text is great
SPLIT-SPLATTER!
Omg FOLKS they may be introducing hugs soon???
PLS
||It feels so bad for shadowheart to be crying her eyes out after she loses her parents and you're just standing there awkwardly||
We love a game company that listens
Looks like maybe we’d get friend hugs too going by the datamined content. We can only hope
Let me be the party (moral) support
I'm cackling
I guess the fastest speedrunner will now hold that record forever
It might split into 2 categories, pre patch 4 and post patch 4
How picky is the launcher for previous versions?
I haven't had the expereince of shifting to a previous version of a game before
Question about the tadpoles: ||does using them lock you out of not turning into an illithid? I'm considering playing a character that uses them up until the emperor reveal, when they realize they probably shouldn't have trusted that ish||
As far as my Warlock playthrough is concerned, ||I do not believe using tadpoles locks you in as a mindflayer. If it did, than many companions who also take the tadpole upgrades would be in the same boat and you'd have multiple mindflayer companions.||
Fair ||I imagine going illithid is more determined by the Astral tadpole, but wanted to be sure||
||It does not lock you into being a mindflayer, but it does make it harder to refuse. You have to pass a DC 21 wisdom check to avoid it||
||Good thing I was thinking of making them a ranger lol||
If you're ever debating becoming a tempest cleric/storm sorcerer, look at the might of Dav's Nova Attack
Step 1: Create Water to make them vulnerable to lightning; Step 2: Quicken Spell; Step 3: Chain Lightning; Step 4: Channel divinity to maximise damage; Step 4: profit
Tempest/Storm Sorc is so incredible
Big big ending spoilers:
||In the end, my DUrge couldn't let Orpheus turn himself into a mindflayer. He was needed, while Veris (my DUrge) was just a newly unbhaaled bhaalspawn, with few ties to the world. His friends would go about their lives, their duties, and he would have to exist in a world he had carved a great gash into in his past, and, likely, without the woman who'd kept him on the ground when his father tried to pull him off the edge. He ultimately decided if anyone should make such a sacrifice, it should be the one with the least to lose...himself. (No shade or judgement if anyone let Orpheus or Karlach turn btw. This is just how I envision my character thinking about it, and I felt like I'd share. for some reason?)||
Sorry for the text wall btw
Larian, why you make me cry
The ending (while marked by kinda frustrating fights) was goddamn fantastic, and I'm already working on that Ranger so I can have a...happier...run
||Yeah, Veris got a grim ending.||
The ending of games is often the point where I get a tad selfish, ||"sure my character would sacrifice themselves, but I don't want them to"||
Mad respect to you for going ahead and still doing what Veris would do!
Thanks! It's kinda hard to fully say what someone would do without being them, and I've probably fudged it other times. But it felt right for him, even if it was a really sad story
||Ansur|| on Tactician, not the easiest! Doesn't help that he is fully immune to Dav's Nova attack 😅
Thank LAWD for life clerics (and globe of invulnerability)
I can't remember how I won that one but I remember it going very badly before it went well
I'm pretty sure Life Cleric Shadowheart carried it
yupp, that she did!
She's been very handy in battles before but that was the one where she really shone hahaha
I really should have taken Minthara along so she could smite him into smithereens, but Wyll got the last spot in the party for ✨story reasons ✨ and I didn't want to dismiss Karlach
but it's all goood we made it
Wyll came along for story reasons ||and then spent most of the battle lying down||
I usually make Shadowheart a light cleric in for that sweet fireball
Raphael appeared to my character literally while she was in initiative order in the Goblin Camp.
Sir.
Sir.
Sir.
Perhaps another time--
spoilered because you can see his HP when selected, but please go away sir, we are mid-battle
Raphael has appeared in the same spot every time for me so I'm always surprised where other people find him
Last time he showed up in a weird place we literally dug him out of a hole in the ground -- one of those Survial Checks for patches of dirt to dig. We dug there and he fucking popped out of the chest when we clicked on it.
He always appears at the ||harper stash|| for me
So I tried to wipe out the ||Steelwatch foundry before the Iron Throne....all the Gondians in the lower level are hostile||???
it's cuz ||they think if they don't fight with Gortash their families will die||
If you do The Thing first they're on your side because The Leverage is safe
yeah that makes sense, but so all the people who told me ||I should do this before the Iron throne and it makes it much easier to save all the Gondians|| lied to me
||Did you talk to the blind gondian and start La Revolución?||
yeah of course
Huh...that's super weird
||I mean la revolución didn't start yet, given I still need to do the Iron Throne, but like he said the same thing he usually does. Oddest thing is that last time Iwent in 100% stealthy, and the many times initialive was rolled in the lower levels (I kept reloading), the gondians remained neutral (and even ran away)||
Ohhh
Yeah okay that makes sense
||You need to actually get the families from the throne first. Then la revolución starts up and the gondians you encounter turn friendly (albeit squishy)||
Yes yes, this is what I've done every time, but I was told that ||I could just do that first and the Iron Throne later, to avoid the Gondians joining into the battle and getting destroyed because they are lil dumdums||
clearly 😅 and I mean, it makes sense!
Yeah, it's 100% in line with what's going on story wise
Yeah I did ||Iron Throne first and got the Gondians on my side at the Steel Watch Foundry but in the lower level they just got absolutely slaughtered||
Help, I still have BG3 brain worms and I'm trying to do work
I haven't gotten this into a game since Skyrim. There are plenty of games I've really liked but not ones that took up all of my RAM. It's doing to my brain what Chrome does to my work laptop
Yeah, same. Game has me in a chokehold (and I'm totally fine with it)
"It's an addiction I can stop at any time... but I don't want to stop"
I should've seen this coming when I played it in Early Access a couple of years ago but I didn't
I just thought "Oh this is fun". Then I picked it up again at full release and it ate my life
Getting a new PC and then a horrible sinus infection really helped with getting fully into it too because I was like "I can't go outside and I have this new PC. What else to do but play BG3 for hours on end?"
I even kept playing when the sinus infection spread to my eyes and gave me a bastard case of pinkeye probably against Dr's recommendation 😆
Managed to complete the ||Steelwatch foundry and only lost one Gondian this time! Stupid dumdum decided to cast thunderwave on Minthara? Sure she doesn't particularly look like she's the nicest person ever, but she was literally completely demolishing Banites and steel watchers right in front of you my man (he got killed by the steel watcher). Truly she was an absolute menace in that fight: hasted + elixir of bloodlust + great weapon master + being a fuckin paladin = approx 50 damage per attack, and she had up to 7 attacks per round
.||
||I read that Patch 4 made the gondians a bit smarter, and I think it kinda did, but one of them still misty stepped into the blast radius of a steel watcher, thankfully, with a well placed Gust, Dav was able to get them out 🙌 ||
||Also after the pain of fighting Ansur, a sweet sweet double call lighning on the Steel watch big boss from Dav was so beautiful 🥹 took out 2/3rds of its health in a single turn||
(Btw this is my new PC)
It plays BG3 very well. I have barely tested it with anything else lol
Ooo
love the case!
Yeah it is. It's a Fractal Design case
I love it!
I thought it went well with the rest of my room with all its green stuff
You have GOT to tell me where you go thtat keyboard!!!
It’s this one with the Olive PBT keycaps
I also bought some extra rubber rings for them to make the keys-press a bit softer and may have even added different switches. It was a lockdown thing I did haha
The mouse is also the same brand
I can DM you a close up pic of the keyboard with Olive keys if you’re interested
Thank you so much, yes please 😄
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(Act 3) So last weekend I got ||the Emperor to reveal to me that Stelmane was his thrall and man that was a chilling scene!||
||Yeah, I never belived his whole "I had the good fortune to meet duke stelmane and she liked me so much that she let me lead the knights of the shield" The Emperor is a punk ass bitch||
||For some reason I still expected him to genuinely seek friendship and connection, but when the mask falls and you see the pure cold calculating manipulation, damn!
I can see an argument for him having been at least a bit genuine though, and he just gets very angry when you challenge him which is why he reacts that way.||
||Yeah, it could def be a lie just to spite you, he does seem genuine at times. I guess he's a reflection of how you treat him, he becomes what you belive he is.||
||I think he at least believes he's genuine, but he also seems like a very paranoid person (albeit somewhat understandably, given what he is) and I'm not really convinced that he wouldn't thrall you immediately if it suited him.||
Feels like we need to create a spoiler thread with all these gray blocks!
||He needs our cooperation, and that's the only reason why he doesn't instantly try to dominate us.||
||I wish we had a timeline of how long after killing Ansur it took for BaldurBITCH to take Stelmane as a thrall. I can't tell if killing Ansur was the final nail in Balduran's coffin or if Balduran ceased to be the second he was transformed||
||I also wonder whether he is unable to do it, given Orpheus's power?||
||I think The Emperor could if he wanted to, but he recognizes that he is limited by himself. He can manipulate Orpheus' power while Orpheus is still contained, but that requires him to be inside of the prism most of the time.||
Oh, here's one I'm curious about. Has anyone modded their game yet?
I haven't really felt much need to explore that tbh
Still contemplating myself.
I've stalled on my Warlock run so I'm taking it a bit easy.
Who knows? What I want might actually be what Larian is working on next.
I do know my Dad would prefer WASD controls over 'overhead' camera controls
We were WoW players for 15 years. >.<
Yeah, that would be nice
Haven't modded myself, I want to get all the achivements first
but there's some nice apperance and armor mods i'd love to try
and since all the mods break every patch I might want to wait until they're done with patches too
Or at least wait until they come less frequently
Yeah, that too
Yeah same Roh, achievements and a few more patches, then we mod the game into oblivion (not into TES IV: Oblivion... though I'm sure some people are tempted to do that
)
Oblivions Baldur 3
I saw a girl on tiktok who had like 60 mods for BG3 and I was like 
Skyrim's Gate 3
I don't think I have ever modded a game that was still receiving updates (yeah... I tend to discover games years, and even decades after they come out 😅)
I think I modded DA:O before awakening but people were pretty quick to adjust on that
Same tbh
Helps that the mod tool for DA:O was made by the devs
Ooo
Oh wait, I did mod Skyrim before Dragonborn DLC, but like... it's Skyrim
I only got into pc gaming in ernest fairly recently
I'm not a huge modder
Me too tbf, well 5 years ago, but that still feels recent.
It was literally Kassandra being gay in an AC Odyssey promo that got me back into gaming
I usually only change visual stuff or something that adds some QoL without changing the game too much
If there's an inventory management mod for BG3 I'll probably use that
I would never do gameplay overhaul mods, or things that make the game (especially combat) not play as intended by the devs, I mostly go for aesthetic
Though do like to sprinkle in occasional story mods if there is datamined content for it
Yeah, the no combat mod and skip the fade mod for DA:O irks me a little
Once we have that mod integration through Steam like Larian said they'll do no power in the verse will stop me
I am very much looking forward to new face/ new hair / body mods
Or a mod (unless Larian hopefully implements it) that keeps helmets hidden on companions that are not in the active party 😤
Yeah, the fact that that setting resets after each long rest pisses me off
||I saved Lae'zel from Orin and she looked stupid as hell with her helmet on ||
Oh nauuuur
Last playthrough I had to watch Karlach's ||devastating post Gortash scene|| twice because she leaves the party at the end and I did not want Bav to go to her at camp and for them to talk about how sad it is and how much they love each other while Karlach's stupid helmet was hiding her face 
Second time I made sure to get her to unequip it first.
Yeah it kinda kills the scenes mood
Had Shart in my party in the House of Healing, and my Durge ||succeeded her Religion check on Shar's teachings, told Malus he's doing it wrong, successfully got his nurses to kill one another, then succeeded to make him kill himself|| and Shart got an inspiration called "I Did MY Homework" 🤣
I've never gotten that inspiration before, I think that specific chain of events needs to happen to trigger it. I snorted.
I just had another potential idea for Chaos playthrough... can one of you just name two companions for me?
Astarion & Wyll
welp
I am gonna swap their classes
this is gonna be very interesting for Wyll 😅
"Patron? what patron? I am a ROGUE"
Perfect
I was actually thinking if Mizora hadn't gotten her claws into him Wyll would've made a damn fine ranger
I picture Wyll as a Bard! He loves stories, fancy titles, is a romantic, likes to dance, and always adds a little flair to his words and actions
Bard behavior
oh yeah bard suits him very well!
Halsin casting Longstrider looks like he's patting someone's head semi-aggressively
Like how those cool pre-K & Elementary teachers give their students a high five before class, only it's a Boop/Head Pat
I didn't want Volo to ||relieve my Durge of her eye|| this time but I still wanted it so I voluntold Sheart to ||take an ice pick to the face|| sorry, not sorry 😅
Withers pls.... I just walked up to him as Karlach to get her respecced, and he calls her maidenless? she can't touch anyone! how DARETH 
Withers is projecting
Omg as a cleric you can ||pray with Karlach to help her deal with the immediate aftermath of killing Gortash||? It was so wholesome!

||My fucking heart!|| 😭
I kind of want to play Cleric which I'll probably do as Shart but I'm conflicted because I also want to play a Cleric of Selune for all that Shart drama bahaha
I have literally had this dilemma and the solution has been: cleric of Selûne playthrough to romance Shadowheart (i.e., Dav), then at some point Shadowheart playthrough 
(She will woo Karlach of course)
I'm already playing Durge and romancing Sheart but I guess I could romance her twice... I don't see much of a problem with that tbh 😅
I already romanced Karlach so I was thinking of going with Lae'zel as Sheart but she is so clearly into Karlach when you recruit her it's like hmm
I am gonna romance all these ladies so. Many. Times. 😅
If I do a Selune Cleric and romance Sheart, I'll make her big and beefy. That was a missed opportunity with my Durge considering Sheart clearly has a type lol
So many ladies, so little time
Maybe one day Halsin can join in, as a treat
Had my Act 2 romance flag with Astarion on my Durge file and my brain, for some ungodly reason, went full Rolf from Ed Edd & Eddy and when we got back to camp I started going "Hello, Elf-boy!"
"Do not burn a candle from both ends, for it leads to the life of crit fail on checks"
"Unlife has many doors, yes Elf boy?"
"Hello hello! Can I scrub you?"
Doing a four elements monk durge run romancing Lae'zel. Not super far in, but I'm loving it!
Despite stating she doesn't care about you, she really knows what to say to make ya feel special
Bae'zel is best frog gf
fr, I was kicking my feet and giggling the whole time
Karlach still has my whole heart (She's just too fucking sweet) but I fully get the Bae'zel love now
Close second on the romance chart, at least for me
well hurry up and give it to her, you know what's at stake~
If we had access to Level 9 spells my Wizard would have abso-fucking-lutely been using her Wish spell to instantly remove the Infernal Engine and restore Karlach's original heart in healthy, working condition
My Wizard pulling Elminster aside like "Hey, before you leave, do me this one favor--"
I know I've already said it but ||goDAMNIT LARIAN WHY CAN'T THE GONDIANS FIX HER ENGINE||
Tbh I'm surprised you can't have a cleric use divine intervention
It'd be an interesting point if you played a cleric and kept it til the end ||and they allowed you to utter a desperate prayer to spend it and save Karlach||
What was the purpose of|| the enriched infernal iron if|| we can't use it for Karlach
||Gondions|| fix my hot friend as a thank you. I don't even want your help in the final battle, nor the Ironhands, just fix my friend.
||The steel watchers even recognise her as one of them, her heart was the prototype for their engines, the setup is right there||
Maybe they didn't have enough time
Roh I was literally writing what you just wrote
you are SO DAMN RIGHT
Same brain
All of us @ ||Gortass||
"If I could revive you over and over just to kill you again and again, not only would I kill you repeatedly, I'd find new, interesting ways to do it"
Whats the forgotten realms god of vengance, I'm their cleric
Hoar, I'm a cleric of Hoar
"Boo you Hoar" - Roh's enemies
Should I make my christmas nickname Ho-ho-Hoardas? 
YEAH!
beautiful
Done
The season is truly upon us now
Taking the oath of vengeance purely to eternally dunk on ||Gortass||
I think I missed something
I'm doing ghe end of ACT 2 on my Durge and I realized... 1) I didnt ||kill Isobel||, but I also never got the alternative prompt from ||S Fel?|| does that happen... after the Act 2 finale, or did I somehow fuck up?? 2) the game isn't treating me like a Durge anymore. I don't have any special dialogue anywhere. I'm so confused.
Oh, nevermind! All good :]
Happened to me after the Act 2 finale too 
Who did ||Sceleritas target||? 👀
Asstarion uwu
Gosh I love that scene! Kinda hoping I get it with Minthara on my next playthrough but I doubt it. It'll probably be with Shadowheart again since she's usually my bestie.
||I'm kinda considering making a dark urge that romances Astarion bc I feel like he really gets what its like to have that kind of monster inside you ||
it's sweet, and from what I've seen he's the most chill in that scene
||He's kind of like "[boop] no biting! That's my job"||
||He's also super moved by the fact that Durge targets him because they care about him so much||
Shadowheart is like ||"I am flattered and alarmed" 😅||
From what TikTok has shown me, Gale's is like ||"Um... that's... nice... now don't kill me"||
||If you hide Alfiras body she's madder about you not telling her earlier than you trying to kill her ||
Oooh interesting!
Thats how I interpreted it anyway
but then again after everything we've been through up until act 2 I can understand her 
||Murder curse? We just fought the god of death! ||
I saw her responding to the ||biting attempt like she was scolding a bitey puppy||
Scratch, what did you do?!
oooh Dav ||passed her wisdom checks to control herself so I never got to see that||!
His name is Scratch because every so often he needs to scratch that itch*
*||the itch is murder||
Scratch is the goodest boy and anybody who says otherwise must be punished
He is the best boi in the realms
The best boi can have ||a ritualistic murder, as a treat||
As a treat
I wish there was more BG3 merch out there. I have a feeling it'll come though
I was hoping to buy some BG3 merch at comic con, but alas, there was none 
Got some snazzy prints though!
Prints are always nice!
Very upset that Larian won't let me thrown ungodly amounts of money at them for T-shirts and tiny figures
I want all of the T-shirts, the art prints, the statues. I would throw money at them
Pity I don't still have a functioning resin 3d printer because there are some good STL's out there. It's just so much work and so messy to print something with resin
Maybe I'll buy a model off Etsy and then I only have to do the painting. I do have one of Aloy half painted
It's probably more cost effective in the long run to just buy a print off Etsy than to print it myself anyway
Especially since all my resin is probably expired and the LEDs need replacing
Oh, yeah, that's not cheap ^.^'
I was looking into re-tooling my paladin as a dark urge run (cause the story is that good), but I couldn't think of a way to justify it plot wise...||come to find out that it's kind of already worked into the plot. If you break the oath as the dark urge (after finding out you're a Bhaalspawn) you can ask the OBK if you've met before (Basically just asking if you've broken your oath) and he confirms that you have broken your oath on multiple occasions, but you just keep coming back to it. Which is a story i like. Im imagining someone who wanted desperately to fight the urges, became a paladin and tried and tried to keep the oath but couldnt manage it, so they eventually just gave in and became the Dark Urge. But, now that all their past failures are wiped from their mind, they're starting the path anew.||
I have a new character idea
A frog who was polymorphed into a humanoid (likely a Githyanki) by an "evil" (well meaning, ignorant to the consequences) wizard and desperately yearns to become one with the mud once again, but she's got an intelligence of, like, 2, so she makes all kinds of bad deals and trades in an attempt to be a frog once more. Such terrible choices include:
Allowing the the hag to take her eye (not Volo), letting another "evil" wizard (Gale) die and then taking his body to some random place in Act 1 where it will blow up and possibly end the run if I don't make it to Act 2 in time, making a deal with Raphael, etc.
beautiful! Is she gonna be a druid, doing her best to wildshape back into a frog?
I was thinking either a Ranger or a Fighter/Barbarian. She wants to be a Druid because they can Wildshape, and in her little brain that means she gets to be in the mud once more, but she A) hates magic, B) is terrible at it. I think Ranger would be interesting because she's got survival instincts, can call upon other creatures for aid, etc. but Fighter & Barbarian are kind of funny too because when I think of angry frogs all I can think of is screaming frogs, so screaming and leaping into battle just makes sense to me
Berserker Frog 
I could also go Bard because Crazy Frog & Singing Frogs, but Bards are still primarily casters and froggie hates magic
Also she's 100% using the tadpoles, they're just worms and she's hungee
You know what? I'm gonna make her a monk. Why use weapons when slapping things has worked so well in the past?
I love it!
So your character would be this?
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You know, I've grown really attached to Dav. Despite having such ||a violent past|| and having made terrible mistakes that cost the lives of many people ||(Halsin, Tiefling refugees, Thaniel)||, now that she's (Act 3 dark urge spoilers) ||free from Bhaal|| she's genuinely the nicest of my _avs? Like a super sweet bean, I'm not even tempted to pick the sarcastic options in a lot of her dialogues 🥹
We love to see that character growth 
Can't have a redemption arc without doing some bad stuff
Selûne must be so proud she swooped in after Dav got ||Orin brain destroyed|| and started her third now fourth favourite child down a better path
I'm still unsure if my palalock durge made their pact with the great old one before ||Orin making smash burgers out of my brain||
||Maybe they managed to commune and make a pact with them while they were catatonic in the hands of the necromancers||
||Maybe they were a warlock all along ||
Back when my PalaSorCleric was a PaLoCleric, I imagined that in the mental darkness they experienced while they were being ||experimented on by whats-her-face from the end of Act 2||, a figure, recognizing Durge's blood, reached out to them from that darkness and took advantage of their addled state to form a pact.
interesting
Am I totally stealing this idea for Eav who is a warlock? Yes, yes I am
by all means!
Meanwhile on Durge Nimue (who is still part Warlock) I imagine that her Archfey patron came to her before ||Orin put woims in her brain|| because she was such A Chaos Gremlin™️, and with her patron's added power I can absolutely see Nimue, in little moments of twisted fuckery, reciting sweet little rhymes to her victims giddily before going slash/stab/what-have-you
Also, fun tidbit, Nimue is based off of a D&D character of mine who is a Hexblade Warlock & a Swashbuckler Rogue, and in my D&D game her patron is one of ||Bhaal's enemies|| lol.
Oh that's spicy!
Boi.... I need to figure out Chav's backstory
||Bhaal|| sneezed when ||he created her|| and it's been downhill chaos ever since
....... my brain is horrible and cursed
||[bango twang] "you ever sneezed mid-nut and the resulting child is weirder than you ever imagined they could be? that's what it's like to drive a ford f-150||
Canon chavnon this is her origin.
Also how she (probably) ended up in the astral sea
Whoa. Anyone catch Samantha Béart's (Karlach) new mouse pad?
Yuppp! I want the same
Hoooooooooly shit I just ||fought Raphael, Paralysed him with Karabasan's Gift (thank u Dolor for providing and Karlach for throwing) and added a few extra bonuses to Lae'zel's attacks, she was hasted+bloodlust potion+action surge+great weapon master and got her 13 attacks. Downed Raphael in one turn and dealt a total of 922 damage|| 
BAE'ZEL!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna do something similar on Origin Karlach's file- she's going to be missing 2 attacks because she's 8 Berserker/4 Fighter, but she's going to have Tavern Brawler, Savage Attacker, and have a Str of 24 entering his house. With Bloodlust, Haste from Wyll, Great Weapon Master, and Action Surge she's gonna slay
Savage Attacker is so good!
aaah beautiful! pls count up all the damage she deals, oh also I was using Balduran's Giantslayer and Lae'zel was also enlarged
A Giant Woman ~
In the glee of the demolishing, I may have forgotten to check for a bald spot, alas
Thought popped into my empty head: half evil run. Basically a durge who's completely down with the urge until around act 2. By then, they fully realize how little control they actually have over the urge, and seeing Minthara in such a bad way despite her devotion kinda trips a few memories ||specifically of Orins betrayal. They dont know everything, but the situation feels more familiar than theyd like.|| which kinda makes him realize there aren't really many ways for this to end positively ||while theyre under the sway of Bhaal (especially since his end goal is the death of all things)|| In the end they're still going to be a self-centered asshat, but they're more capable of good than they were at the start and might be on their way to some actual heroics.
Probably not much sense there, but yeah, that's my brain in a nutshell
Ooh I like that! Very good story!
I'm having to figure out how my evil _avs are gonna justify the fact that I, Alix, the puppetmaster, do not want them to ||hurt the moon lesbians because
||, so I find that a sudden pang of conscience hitting them during Act 2 will be the explanation. But then in Act 3 she'll be like ||"Oh DIP I am Bhaal's favourite child! Hell yeah let's break the world!"||
Astarion: could you trust me a little further? to drink your blood?
Dark Urge: only if i can drink yours
Astarion: wh- why would you need t-
Dark Urge: oh this isn't a safe space suddenly
I love Wyll so much, he's such a bro 😭
He is most excellent bean
If we don't have an updated Wyll kiss like Astarion, Karlach, and Halsin do, I will scream
I wouldn't be against an updated Shadowheart one too, at the moment they both get up to their toes for the kiss even though they're the exact same height 😅
Poor communication; they were both going for the forehead kiss and wound up meeting in the middle
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- It features a rare moment of Karlach singing.
- When Karlach is shown playing the drums, Prizzaa uses the best piece of music to go along with it.
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(Major Endgame spoilers) ||OMG these were my 3 rolls when attempting to dominate the brain (used 2 inspirations), first one is hard to read, but was also a Nat1||
||Hm, Voss won't move to the taproom in act 3, he's just standing there, telling me to follow him to the taproom
||
Okay, I managed to move him bit by bit with minor illusion
I feel so smart
ah yeah I've seen other people mention that bug, and suggesting what you did to try and get around it
||Shadowhearts beach episode finally worked
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||Her hair was black in the cutscene though, which was funny
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||My durge is a tiefling and I didn't realise Tieflings were so uh... spiky||
||yeah, I really like that they added more details to the body that keep them from just being spicy humans||
Yeah, I agree
As Wyll describes it: ||bumps and ridges where there shouldn't be|| 
No, you can stay, we all thought it XD

You said what we were all thinking
I'm glad
I did hear that ||Sheart's hair colour is somehow linked to her underwear so it goes back to black when she's naked||. I guess that's not fixed yet 😆
I keep trying to play other games but I find my eyes are too tired for fast-paced first person games so I just keep coming back to my Durge Tactician run. I just fought ||Auntie Ethel||. Didn't actually find it any more difficult than Regular difficulty but I guess at this point I'm also more familiar with the game and the mechanics of certain boss fights
I always take lots of books and rocks etc. with me || to throw at the poison vents in her lair and plug them up||
||Tied to her underwear? ||I'd love to see the code that made that happen 
||something something pube joke something something||
I deeply apologize for that one
The things I learn from this chat
Completed my Tactician run!
Like Gravitas said, it may be because I'm familiar with the game and mechanics, but yeah, that difficulty wasn't too bad
I also respecced Karlach into the mega damage dealing Barbarian 4/Monk 8 build before the end and thank fuck, she and Minthara absolutely ||obliterated the brain||
The clerics were just standing there looking pretty and probably making out Also ||Orpheus was there I guess||
||Orpheus is always kinda just there lol||
Ooh Barb + Monk sounds interesting
I might have to try that with my Karlach this run through
I'm thinking of making Sheart a Pally maybe in the latter half of the game and seeing how that goes. Not sure what to do in my hypothetical Sheart origin run but I'm also thinking if if I do a Lae'zel origin run, I'll try out monk
Also Re: Shadowheart romance endgame ||Saving her parents is probably the best ending she can get! She'll sadly still feel pain at times, but she's got her family and Dav with her to help her deal with it, and it's the biggest fuck you to Shar to be like "Sure fam, I'll take your pain and live with it, I'll endure it and be happy with my loved ones."||
True ||Shar basically doesn't get any victory there. SHeart taking the pain and keeping her parents, being happy and fulfilled in spite of Shars torment is basically Sisyphus smiling as he watches the Boulder roll down the hill||
exactly!
I think I'll do that on my Light domain cleric run now tbh. Good call
||Her parents became moon motes in my first run. It was good she was no longer under Shar's curse but, wow, she was so sad that she couldn't hug her parents and then her voice when she said she had to look up how to spell her own name... 😭 ||
Yeah I had that in my first playthrough, it's so sad 
Lol I just saw this from a Lae’zel origin run
Shadowheart really went from trying to stab her to death to getting all flustered and embarrassed around her after one night.
That’s some gay panic right there 😂
Well, my naming conventions are very predictable
You probably don't want my advice 😅
I called my Durge, Dolores. Not entirely sure why
Might’ve been a Westworld thing
Go full WASP white people names! Maeyleiynn, Beeatreez, Poluh, MaryAnneLizaBelle
CVIIILYN
Oh boi 😅
Meet Eav. She is a lil shit. She already killed ||Nettie|| (tbf it was in self-defence), she is gonna do so many bad things. I worry for my soul.
I do also like how her and Wyll are twinsies, same outfit, same weapon their friendship will not last
nop! that's the warlock starting outfit!
Ooh I see
Also I just realised..... Eav is a Lolth-Sworn Drow (another elf? shocker I know) Dark Urge. Did I just create another character with ||two gods fighting over her soul||? 😅 Three powerful entities in total, if you count her patron!
Tbh, I only ever really play Tieflings, so I feel ya lol
I feel a bit weird giving my light domain cleric ||lathanders mace. I mean, the guy is a cleric of Selûne, and Selûnite clerics are famous for using maces (mostly because Selûne uses a huge mace herself) but it's also a relic of another god, and I feel like Lathanders people might feel a bit ticked about it||
||They'd probably rather you have it than the githyanki ||
Yanno what, fair point lol
Plus I can just headcanon that Joranth (the cleric) turns it over to ||The stormshore tabernacle who will (hopefully) contact whoever/whatever the appropriate authority would be for the reclamation of relics, and have it displayed somewhere. Or hidden away, the thing seemed to fuel a death-ray, so it may not be the best idea to have it lying around ^.^'||
Welp, Dav never used a mace, that's probably why she's only Selûne's fourth favourite child. (But also she did so much damage spamming 3 chain lightnings per fight, 2 with max damage, with the staff that gives you Kereska's favour can you blame her?)
how do I build a cleric? I wanna run Shadowheart in the party also cause I’m romancing her
Do you want to build a cleric in addition to shadowheart, or are you asking how to build shadowheart?
in addition to Shadowheart but also how do I build Shadowheart
Ok so I can tell you how I had them both built in my Dav playthrough.
Shadowheart: buff/control cleric, got respecced into Life Cleric, maxed out her wisdom and gave her the resilient (constitution) feat, war caster works too.
Blood of Lathander + always at least one piece of (heavy) armour/shield that prevent crits on her and she had an AC of like 22.
She was mostly here to heal and control the battlefield, always packing buffs (Aid, freedom of movement, death ward, heroes' feast, sanctuary) and crowd control/disabling spells (command my beloved, hold person, glyph of warding, insect plague, daylight, planar binding). The few pure damage spells she used were spirit guardians (my beloved) guardian of faith, sunbeam (from blood of lathander) and the occasional sacred flame. Almost never used weapon attacks.
Dav: fuck shit up, deal a fuckton of damage tempest cleric 6/ storm sorcerer 5/wizard 1
Perks from tempest cleric 6: channel divinity for max lightning/thunder damage twice per short rest, healing, heavy armour + shield proficiency, high Wis, lightning/thunder damage pushes enemies back, best spells: command, hold person, create water, thunderwave, shatter, call lightning, spirit guardians
Perks from storm sorcerer 5: free flight as a bonus action, sorcery points (quickened spell my beloved), high Cha, best spells: shield, counterspell my most beloved, chromatic orb, magic missile
Perks from Wizard 1: can write spells higher than lvl 3 into my spellbook
, feather fall is a ritual spell, you cast it? Free flying from storm sorcery without consuming a spell slot! High Int (from headband of intellect)
Best spells from it: chain lightning (cast it twice in the ||Cazador|| fight via quickened spell, dealt about 850 damage), haste, knock, honestly all spells from scrolls!
Final stats: Str 8, Dex 10, Con 23(amulet)/14, Int 17(headband)/8, Wis 20, Cha 18
Her equipment included the super awesome staff with Kereska's favour (always on lightning settings), a shield and a cloak that each boost spellsave DC to make up for the non-maxed Int and Cha.
thank you!
I should mention too I have never dismissed Shadowheart, so she is permanently there, supporting the party.
just had to tell the girl I have a date with that some people (myself included) abbreviate shadowheart to shart
I still refuse to do that 😅
tell the girl you have a date with or abbreviate it or both
the latter, I have no dates at the moment
I will spend the extra 2 seconds and risk the minefield of typos I am prone to making to fully write out Shadowheart
(Have updated my wall of text with Dav's build)
I just write SHeart. I figure people will just autocomplete it as "shadowheart"
I built my Shadowheart as a light cleric, always have her lvl2 bless the party and then throw fireballs/scorching ray/heal as needed
Spiritual guardians were a godsend in act 2
she was a radiant dmg beyblade
I have yet to play light cleric in BG3, but love playing one myself in my Curse of Strahd campaign.
Maybe that's what I'll respec Shadowheart into this time around 
I usually keep her as trickster until act 3 and then respec her for story reasons
I, too, build Shadowheart as a Life cleric!
That would make a lot of sense (Act 2 respec), but that also means spending most of Act 2 without the Optimal Light Cleric Shadowheart ™️
||Seeing as she was sent on the mission to retrive the prism as a healer, life cleric makes sense from the start too!||
Honestly, she's helping a lot with just bless and the ocasional heal/guiding bolt
What I do is I give her the Armor of Persistence, Boots of Persistence, and the Reviving Hands. Then for a helmet I usually give her the Holy Lance Helm or Grymskull Helm, and for accessories she gets teh Amulet of the Devout, The Whispering Promise, and the Ring of Salving. Then I give her the Deva Mace (because holy shit that thing is more powerful than some of the legendary weapons!) a spoilery shield ||Viconia's Walking Fortress|| and just so that she has some kind of weapon attack that's long range in case she needs to reserve her spell slots I give her a Hand or Light Crossbow
Thats a badass build right there
I also usually give her Str 14, Dex 8, Con 14 (becomes 16), Int 12, Wis 17 (becomes 20) and Cha 10, then for AS+ I go Sentinel Feat, Resilient Feat (Constitution), Wis +1 & Con +1, then I use the ||Mirror of Loss|| to get Shart to Wis 20. I was doing Shart to Wis 22, but I realized she didn't really gain as much as I would have liked from it, and since most of her utility in battle doesn't require a Saving Throw from an enemy (since she's normally on heal/buff/controller duty), instead I wanted to keep her survivability up and increase her HP, so I swapped out Wis +2 for Resilient to allow her to keep concentration on spells for her allies.
Oh yeah and for cloaks I give her the Vivacious Cloak because it's really the only thing that really synergizes with a Controler Cleric. You could slap the Cloak of Protection on her if you like, or give her the Crusader's Mantle. I go wtih Vivacious because I get more use out of it, and Shart likes free HP
For Act 1 i give Shart the Adamantine Splint Armor (heavy armor) and the Adamantine Shield, which she wears all the way until Act 3
Waiiiit you used ||mirror of loss|| on Shadowheart? Didn't you get the ||disadvantage for being a filthy Selûnite|| at this point?
You can also give Shart the Luminous Armor if you have plans to use the Adamantine on someone else
Disadvantage, yes, but here's the thing.
I have no other hobbies rn so reloading is juuuuust fine 🥲
How many attempts did it take? I basically accepted my fate and gave it to best girl Karlach who made good use of it
Pre patch 4 I could walk around HER BIG THING and go to the mirror before she talked to them.
It depends, really. Soemtimes my luck is phenomenal, sometimes it sucks. The longest I spent on her one time was 30 mins
Luck is quite something! Still can't quite believe the Nat1, Nat1, Nat20 I got on_that_ roll
I may also have rolled a double Nat1 with advantage to disable a trap in the ||House of Hope|| a couple of days earlier 😅
Do y'all pair up Companions that your Tav/Durge isn't actively romancing?
Not counting whoever my Tav js romancing, I imagine the party branching off into Shart x Lae'zel, Gale x Astarion, and Karlach x Wyll.
I don't but I am intrigued
I wasnt aware you could
It's not a game thing, Roh, its how I imagine it in my brainspace
Shart x Lae'zel because enemies to lovers is 
Astarion x Gale because Bloodweave is 
Karlach x Wyll because come on!!!! 
I do feel like Karlach and Wyll would be good together
I mean ||Wyll goes to the Hells! for Karlach||!! Love that!!!
Yeah, exactly
Halsin & Minsc
And my friend is streaming BG3 with Origin Astarion and I high key love the Bloodweave thing she's got going on her run
It all begins with Arm-wrestling
Waiiiit I've seen someone stream BG3 as astarion origin romancing Gale! Who's your friend (if it's OK to ask)?
She streams on YT, not Twitch
Also I settled on Wyll for my Karlach Origin and my heart goes doki doki, Karlach deserves so much love and tenderness 😭
Mama K deserves the world 🥹
Ok......... I am getting the strangest bug
I had the dancing scene with Wyll on this save file, and I went to go talk to him the next day and ||The Emperor|| spawned into camp. Like WHAT?! So I reloaded, thought I was in the clear, went to go talk to Wyll again and TADA ||the fucking Emperor appeared AGAIN!!!||
um... sir... please leave...
||He|| wants to be your third
omg and like....this is before ||the Emperor reveals himself isn't it??||

||Balduran does not approve of the ship||
Barrelmancy really do be like:
[Adventurers run into room, closing the door behind them]
Urgh, strangers. Thinking they can just go wherever they like-
[Enormous kaboom]
... what was that?
[Door opens, adenturers smelling suspiciously of gunpowder run out]
... anyway, those darn strangers-
my question is how the hell barrelmancers lug all those barrels around
those things are heavy
I had Karlach carrying a few of them
Sent them to camp as I I picked them up, and the one time I blew up ||Dror Ragzlin|| via barrelmancy I just had Karlach go back and forth between camp and his room, took quite a few round trips!
Continuing my sneaky Barrelmancy like
🎶 That's me in the corner
🎶 That's me with the glock
🎶 Makin a new decision-
She's a Paladin, I have smite and worms to improve smite, but barrelmancy is so much more fun
My Dark Urge Paladin in Act 2 with ||Art Cullagh||:
Everyone: "wow! Your Lute playing woke him!"
My Durge, probably: "Thanks! I learned to play from ||a girl I murdered||!"
ALERT ALERT ALERT! The ||Tieflings and Scratch will interact at the grove party!||
Current runs:
- Durge Nimue, BardRogueLock, smooching Astarion & Halsin, currently in Act 3
- Durge Selayna, PalaSorCleric, smooching Gale, currently in Act 2 (just got Gale's romance scene)
- Durge Jheihloh, FighterSorc, smooching Lae'zel, still in Act 1 but post Goblin Camp
- Karlach Origin, BarbFighter, no romance yet, not yet done Goblin Camp
Hehe Dark urge supremacy!
Currently in Act 1 with my horrible child Eav. She's a Great Old One Warlock, and I am very tempted to multiclass her into fighter. Battlemaster is of course super cool, but with the great Old one ability, Champion fighter might also be quite interesting, for its crit farming ability 
I mean I've done 3 Tavs, I figure it's time to do 3 Durges now :]
I've thought a lil bit more about Eav's build, I think I could give her a juicy 20-25% crit chance 👀, with 3-4 attack rolls per round, that's a whole lotta possible crits 
and with Luck of the Far Realms and the Killer's Sweetheart Ring, if she ever misses a crit she gets two free ones per short rest 👀
I have fully failed to find killer's sweetheart in my Bav and Dav playthroughs I really gotta remember where it is at some point 😅
It's in ||Shar's Gauntlet, in the room where ya gotta kill your double||
||In the top area by the brazier where Tav's double is stationed||
Omg thank you 🙌
It's hard to spot with the naked eye, so holding left Alt while you're up there should show you where it is
I love doing the doubles room. I cheese it every time with sneak and radiant nonsense ❤️
I've always had at least one person absolutely one-shot destroy their double. The toughest one is always Shadowheart because she doesn't usually deal damage 😅
"Ha! We shall test your skill in combat! Your enemy is the one who knows you best of all... YOURSEL--"
[Tav & party leaping out of sneak and OHKOing their respective doubles with Crits, Radiant DMG, and sneak bonuses]
I have her do upcast Spirit Guardians. It hits them once, and if that doesn't kill her double instantly, once it's her double's turn she automatically gets hit a second time and she gets immediately done in thanks to the Radiant weakness
.......how have I never thought to use spirit guardians 😑
I like to default to my usual favourites command/hold person and always get caught offguard by how the doubles are immune to it 😅
For Halsin I have him cast Moonbeam, and normally Moonbeam doesn't do much damage, but with their weakness to Radiant damage I just make him cast it at it's lowest level and it's the same deal as Spirit Guardians on Shadowheart: if it doesn't kill them on the initial casting, by the double's next turn they're out
thanks discord
WOW
Well I ain't getting Halsin this time round (don't worry beautiful bear man, Chav will save you), but a paladin can 100% one-hit smite her double to smithereens 
I may have crit smited myself to death in ||the gauntlet of shar|| since the enemies have radiant retort
smited? Smote?
smut
wuh oh!
somebody take this game away from me, I have a grand total of twelve planned characters now
Exccccellent
Runs I've already completed: TempestStorm Jolene, RogueMonk Elisbet, Wizard Aria
Runs that have been created but are not yet finished: Karlach Origin, 3 Durge runs, and my multiplayer D&D import
Runs that I plan on making: 2 evil-leaning Durges (one is super evil, other is less so), Shadowheart Origin, and now I have one Tav that I want to make whose class I haven't even figured out yet--I'm still bouncing plans around
are you not planning on doing c h a o s every single class?
I just don't want to plan these builds and eventually make gameplay stale because I've played the game too many times. If that makes sense.
oh yeah that makes sense
I think you gotta force yourself to take a lil break, or at least add plenty of variation in the storyline of your playthroughs, to keep it fresh (it's what I've been doing my best to do, and why Dav made bad decisions)
Gotta Un-Hyperfocus to keep it Fresh™️
Easily done right?.........right?

Will my hyperfixation last long enough to allow me to smooch every character? That is the true question
Also everyone I know is sending me Halsin art and funnies, so the true-est question is whether I can actually do my Minthara run given how much of an established fan of one Beef Druid I am
You did pick the one person as a favourite that makes it a bit harder to romance everyone didn't you
If it helps, I am not getting my beloved Karlach for Eav's playthrough either, the things we do for that drussy
home of phobic that I can't have Halsin & Minthara in my party somehow
Like, let them bicker! Let Halsin & Minthara side eye one another for Minthara's ||tadpole possession||, I think it'd be fun as hell! That I can't have one without committing A Genocide™️ is so homophobic
And Sheepthara only works so well 😔
They would have such good banter!
Let them hate each other but also bond over how much they hate The Absolute
Halsin: "Fuck you"
Minthara: "Fuck you more!"
The Absolute: "Hey guys-"
H&M: "FUCK YOU MOST"
Im imagining Minthara's head doesn't even exit the shirt because Halsin is that much taller
probably 
I ordered an autograph from Samantha Béart a while ago (in terrible with timing, it was like a week before the big convention lol) and it got here a few days ago, but I've honestly been too depressed to open the envelope. I finally got the energy for it and I'm so glad I did, it actually genuinely cheered me up a bit. (Context for the personalization: in the box I just put "I don't really have any specific requests, I'm just excited to have the autograph!", because I'm terrible at coming up with that kind of thing.)
Awww that's so cool! Love the print too! I'm glad it cheered you up 
I'm actually gonna finish my current playthrough for once but then I'm def romancing Karlach! I keep seeing yall love her so I need to know
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Join the Mama K side
MAMA K DESERVES THE LOVE
I honestly love all the ladies in this game 😅

It's hard not to
How dare Larian give us so many amazing choices in women™️
