Baldur's Gate

[tame thistle]

Im trying to free the ||gnome slaves in the underdark|| but i haven't figured out how

[heavy hound]

I did ||murder all the slavers, that did help at the time||

[night oracle]

||murder|| is generally the answer

[tame thistle]

||I keep dying to them||

[heavy hound]

My playthrough was very funny, because the game tries really hard to tell you to ||infiltrate the cult, but I was roleplaying a barbarian with very little concept of subtlety, so my approach was generally "Oh these are the cult people, I'll just tell them i hate them and procede to murder them"||

[sweet moat]

I still love how literally everyone who has played the game has had troubles with ||the fight at the Last Light Inn, when I was able to accidentally stumble into it and beat it without losing a single NPC and without having Isobel harmed at all on my first try, while still having not long-rested at the time, lol.||

[desert dove]

You might be a bit underleveled. I had that same issue the first time.

[night oracle]

Isn't around level 5 the first big power spike?

"Level 5" :

[sweet moat]

Yeah, levels 1-4 are kinda your "starting phase", and once you hit level 5, that's when things get REAL fun, because that's when your classes and subclasses start hitting their stride.

Also, I think fighters in D&D (not Baldur's Gate) can, at level 20, attack enemies 4 times with the attack action, lol. Eight times if you take the Echo Knight subclass and use Unleash Incarnation to attack the same enemy (your echo will also attack along with you). You can do this as many times as your constitution modifier allows, and it recharges to full when you take a long rest. This means that in a single battle, if you have a +5 CON modifier, you can attack 40 times in five turns if you wanted to. By that level you'd be fighting gods and world-eaters so you're gonna need a busted move like that.

[night oracle]

With the right monk build you can still attack a stupid amount of times, with big hits

[quick bobcat]

I managed to beat everyone with my party.. Except that ||the entire tavern was murdered. Including jaheira. And Isobel got taken.|| apparently I missed out on so much because of that =\

[sweet moat]

Yeah, you got the worst ending to that sequence. RIP.

[quick bobcat]

Missed out on ||Having Jaheira and her quests, Minsc, The Isobel business, The entire Tiefling arc, and also the entire Barcus and the dwarves thing||

And that's only the stuff I know about

There's likely even more I missed lol

[sweet moat]

Yeah, whatever the outcome is of that sequence determines an absolutely massive amount of the game. It literally changes everything.

It's BG3's Duel of the Fates.

[quick bobcat]

I didn't even know it was so important

And it was so sudden too

Like the heck..

I actually thought everyone was meant to die because it was so hard to get through that fight

[sweet moat]

But like, it really...isn't? Heck, I found both the ||fight with the golem at the forge and the rescuing of the gnomes at the forge much harder than the Last Light Inn fight.||

[night oracle]

||I actually think I had no problem with it? Or I don't remember losing people ||

[tame thistle]

What lvl should i be? I think im lvl 5

[quick bobcat]

Well I'm not sure. Maybe because I was playing on tactician? Or because I had bad builds? I don't think I was underleveled, but I don't remember that well. I'm pretty sure I made my way to the inn first thing after entering act 2 so didn't have time to level up. But I did did everything there was to do in act 1

[tame thistle]

i freed the gnomes

also why did ||Karlach disapprove of me fighting Nere||

[desert dove]

Might've been one of your dialogue choices.

[light mist]

is it just me or is monk busted for act 1 conversations there's been so many instances where i could just go "peace and love on the planet earth, balance, yadayada" and it works like a charm i dunno if other classes have this many check-passbys, its just funny to me

[night oracle]

Monk has the best conversation in act 3. That's all I'll say.

[sweet moat]

Bard has some excellent conversations too. Loads of zingers and snark and chaos gremlin energy.

[night oracle]

I mean, that's an entire attack :X

[desert dove]

I still need to do a playthrough where I swap Astarion to Bard just for vicious mockery

[sweet moat]

That's him 24/7 anyway

[tame thistle]

My character is a bard. I like the bard dialogue options, also i constantly forget that vicious mockery and bardic inspiration are a thing

Im not very good at being a bard apparently

[heavy hound]

Barbarians there are so many conversations in which you can just go "Kid, please, you either go or you'll be all over this room"
For some of them you don't even have to roll, they just cry and go away, others give you advantage for the intimidation roll.

[tame thistle]

||Excalibur???||

[desert dove]

No, even cooler

[tame thistle]

Good thing i picked it up then

[light mist]

"lae'zel, throw me!"
"what"
"im short as fuck but i really wann get up this cliff, throw me!!"
"very well. yeets in gith"
"hahaha, yes! ow"

[heavy hound]

Speaking of which, berserker barbarians can throw other characters and use them as improvised weapons

Use this knowledge for evil

[night oracle]

gets flashbacks of the four gnome barbarian videos

[night oracle]

Same, Shadowheart. Same.

[sweet moat]

Also same

[craggy skiff]

https://bsky.app/profile/niziolek.bsky.social/post/3l7b3kllafw26

[sweet moat]

That's actually two jokes in one, since female spiders kill their mates. So the Drider probably did just web up her man.

[sweet moat]

Evil playthroughs in a nutshell:

[sweet moat]

Polycule <3

[sweet moat]

Wait, I'm confused. Who's the person in the middle holding all the strings? Tav?

[quick bobcat]

probably Tav

[night oracle]

Think so, yes

[sweet moat]

Oh, also, happy birthday Tcher!

[night oracle]

[tame thistle]

I beat ||Grym in the adamantine forge||

[tame thistle]

||GANDALF??||

[night oracle]

Basically~

[desert dove]

More like Gary Sue.

[wild arch]

the wizard demands cheese

[tame thistle]

Im at the fight at the ||last light inn|| how tf are you supposed to do this!

I beat it

I love using fireball in small rooms❤️

[heavy hound]

Did ||his majesty|| survive?
I need to know

[tame thistle]

Yup

[tame thistle]

I just met ||Ketheric Thorm||. That was insane

[tame thistle]

Are they still planning on adding crossplay to bg3?

[craggy skiff]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/astarion-has-breached-the-vatican-baldurs-gate-3-has-sold-2-copies-in-vatican-city-says-larians-director-of-publishing/

[sweet moat]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. It's probably two guards, but I'm genuinely hoping that one of them is the Pope.

[kindred talon]

The pope is actually a massive gamer

[quick bobcat]

His favorite game - DOOM

[weak cedar]

New update https://x.com/baldursgate3/status/1861823843041481138?

Baldur's Gate 3 (@baldursgate3) on X

Discover what’s coming to Baldur’s Gate 3 next year with Community Update #30:

🎮 Cross-Play
📸 Photo Mode
💫 12 New Subclasses
🪱 Continued Bug Fixing
🔜 Patch 8 Stress Test - January 2025

Read more: https://t.co/HuVZ4buBuD

Twitter · Nov 27, 2024, 5:26 PM

[tame thistle]

Crossplay

[heavy hound]

12 new subclasses?

Ok arcane archer and shadow sorcerer, also swashbucker are the ones I like to see

I was hoping for zealot

[desert dove]

Fingers crossed for Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.

Nope, "Shadow Magic". Huh.

[sweet moat]

[tame thistle]

I have successfully saved all the Tieflings and Gnomes from Moon rise Tower in act 2

[desert dove]

Ah, the fastball special

[sweet moat]

Double points if this not only knocks the enemy prone (which physics demands that it does), but also the impact will shatter some bones on both the enemy and the rogue, and the rogue can also get off an attack of opportunity, which will also be a sneak attack since the enemy is prone (melee gets advantage).

[tame thistle]

Im 30 hours into BG3 and i just realized Halsin can be in your party

[night oracle]

I somehow missed Astarion for most of act 1

[tame thistle]

Never once did it occur to me that he could be in my party, so he was just sitting in my camp the whole time😭

[heavy hound]

Sadly my strat didn't involve druids, having the speak with animals already filled by my eagle barbarian, and divine magic by Shadowheart

So I didn't use him much either

[sweet moat]

I love how Larian went through all the effort of making him a full-blown party member due to his popularity in the beta, even scrapping a werewolf halfling companion in favor of him, and then when the game releases, nobody uses him.

[tame thistle]

I wish you could make your character a werewolf or a vampire. That'd be neat

Theres probably a mod for it

[sweet moat]

Oh there definitely is

A lot of the code for the werewolf character is still buried within the game files for that very reason, I would imagine

Hell, there's even code for other races too, like Autognomes and Warforged.

[desert dove]

Still annoyed we can't play Warforged or Tabaxi.

[sweet moat]

Oh man, Tabaxi with all their mobility traits from tabletop would be OP in this game.

It'd unlock so many more possibilities on top of the already nearly unlimited possibilities we have already.

[tame thistle]

||i freed the nightsong, but i had to fight Shadow Heart ||

act 2 spoilers

[night oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6_34Sqk21w

[tame thistle]

Holy shit i have to fight ||Myrkul||

act 2 spoilers

[tame thistle]

I finished act 2

[night oracle]

https://i.imgur.com/yQSswHe.mp4

[alpine pawn]

have any of you guys played on Steam Deck ? what are the best graphics settings ?

[night oracle]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/782037674453106724 keep scrolling~

[tame thistle]

I freed most of the prisoners from the Iron Throne. I wasn't able to free ||Wyll's father|| tho

I also bought a statue of myself

[night oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bkBTuI9PGM absolute perfection

[desert dove]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/baldur-s-gate/the-ultimate-baldurs-gate-experience-baldurs-gate-3-patch-8-is-huge-and-has-48-pages-of-patch-notes/

[sweet moat]

Huzzah! It's finally here! And now that it is and I have my new computer with all this game space, I can finally actually play the game again without worrying about running out of room. :)

[tame thistle]

Wait Patch 8 is out?

[desert dove]

I don't think it's actually out yet, but it's due shortly.

[tame thistle]

Oh ok

Oh ok

[sweet moat]

Oh, tomorrow

[desert dove]

https://baldursgate3.game/news/the-final-patch-new-subclasses-photo-mode-and-cross-play_138

https://youtu.be/CwCyTt8fSAU?si=6P959Lqe2pW7s20k

[desert dove]

Reminded Minthara that 'knocked out' does not mean 'dead', so she'll more reliably appear in Moonrise Towers.

[wild arch]

oh fug they added the blade wizard

and swarm druid

https://tenor.com/view/bees-dr-bees-harry-partridge-gif-18802390

finally I can add bees to the encounters

[tame thistle]

there are sooooo many poses in photo mode holy shit

[craggy skiff]

Karlach abs

[desert dove]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1k09ij4/and_they_were_roomates_by_cymk_8/

[desert dove]

https://youtu.be/VTl5OZmdZLY?si=s_pTYAHwAU4u9jYe

[sweet moat]

Oh cool, you watch Mortismal Gaming too! Love that guy, he's introduced me to so many good RPGs.

[desert dove]

I've been checking out his BG3 stuff off and on.

[night oracle]

[night oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01R6tVk2u0&

[hallow badger]

Been playing bg3 with some friends and lowkey reminds me of Grandpa Gruff

[tame thistle]

I really want to finish BG3, but I find it quite difficult don't want to potentially make something bad happen

I've just been kinda sitting on it wanting to play it, but not playing it

It's frustrating

[tame thistle]

I'm just really hoping I get a good ending

When i finish it

No idea when that'll be

Last time I played, I stopped right before ||Cazador's palace||

[tame thistle]

Maybe im just afraid to finish the game

[hallow badger]

My issue is i dont want to do bad things and lose karlach but i also like minthara

[hallow badger]

My first ending i lost shadowheart and gale

Forgot to feed gale

[tame thistle]

I lost Shadowheart in act 2

[night oracle]

I think I managed to not lose anyone

[polar seal]

Reminds me of Day9's playthrough where he hit "Randomize" on guardian creation and completely forgot that he did this. And so later on when he came upon this segment, he started going on about Larian's brave character design decisions, only for chat to remind him that he did this, and he broke into a laughing fit

[tame thistle]

I wish you could make the dream guardian a dragonborn

[polar seal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwtG6o7BAlg

[heavy hound]

Hahaha

I love Day 9 so fucking much

[wild arch]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1kv9uux/pf2_conversion_mod_for_bg3/

[night oracle]

Sounds like @sweet moat would be interested 😛

[sweet moat]

Tbh, not really. BG3 was made with the D&D 5e system in mind. Ripping out that system and replacing it with Pathfinder 2e is gonna be janky as shit no matter how much polish you put in. The game isn't balanced around it.

[light mist]

@heavy hound as requested; yesterday i got to the swamp and two thirds of my party died to a mud imp/tree giant encounter bc i fucked up surprise attack and the imps spawned more enemies. which, given im using difficulty adjustment mod to counterbalance the larger party size mod. means all enemies have larger health pools and an extra action. and they debuffed everyone with mud, and it was just a wholeass shebang.

and they also had the audacity to explode upon death so that was rude

so incredibly i had a much easier time with say, spider matriarch

[heavy hound]

Oh yeah, fuck that encounter, even in normal difficulty that was rough

[light mist]

(bc i murdered the eggs in advance)

[heavy hound]

Was it the mephits right?

[light mist]

ye those guys

[heavy hound]

Lava mephits? Smoke Mephits? I don't remember

[light mist]

mud

[heavy hound]

Oh yeah

[light mist]

movement n accuracy debuff

and well, explosion

[heavy hound]

I mean I like mephits in theory, sorta impy elementals that combine two elements is a neat concept, but fuck that encounter

I think all of the variants explode in some way

[light mist]

this implies theres more variants i didnt encounter yet and now i live in fear

[heavy hound]

D&D 5e released 11 years ago

There are a lot more monsters than the ones they put in BG3

[light mist]

ah i meant in game

[heavy hound]

(I actually don't remember if there are more mephits in BG3 actually)

[light mist]

but yeah im slowly makin my way thru act 1, but hey at least i already got further than last time

so ill just try reaaaaaalllllllllly hard to not get distracted by another game

last time it was ff14's patch fault

[heavy hound]

Ok so, Karlach...she is great isn't it?

[light mist]

i kept being on fence for ages whether im more interested in her romance or wyll they are both so funky in different directions

i figured if im ever doin resist durge imma go for my guy instead

but this run its tol n short combo

[heavy hound]

It's been literal years at this point but this is still the best description I saw of her.

[light mist]

i do appreciate that the first thing she does after we defeat paladins of tyr is go fucking ham on the place. as she deserves

my favorites scale™ rn goes karlach - wyll - lae'zel - shadowheart - astarion - gale. sorry i dont care about gale he's such a twilight sparkle

[heavy hound]

Gale has some great moments, but I'm more surprised you are not amused by Astarion.
He is an asshole in a very entertaining way

[light mist]

alas me and gale are besties bc he is easy to please. just feed him some shoes

[heavy hound]

not wrong

[light mist]

he just hasnt had that many fun zingers, and also he is, really rude about gnomes

from lae'zel at least thats fine she's rude to everyone, astarion however doesnt give me the courtesy of fake pleasantry he gives say, an elf

bitch im one meter tall leave me aloneeee

[heavy hound]

Which flavour of monk are you going for?

[light mist]

rn open hand, but i am eyeing that drunken master quite a bit. might respec for fun at some point. for now ive been collectin alcohol

[heavy hound]

Monk is fun in D&D, also in BG3 specifically is super strong because it's a bit on the weaker side on the Pen and Paper variant

So they made so many items in the game to compensate

[light mist]

and also tavern brawler

[heavy hound]

Yes

That feat is completely new for the game basically, and it definitely boosts the Monk a lot

[craggy skiff]

My first and only playthrough was monk 👊

[desert dove]

On the one hand, I really love monks. On the other, I really like swords.

[heavy hound]

Shortswords are monk weapons to be fair

In D&D at least, and in media

https://youtu.be/DzkhVVFRIIg?t=32

Also IDK if they modeled this in the game, but in the pen and paper

You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.
You do keep the stronger dice if you are using a monk weapon, not only for the unarmed strikes

So you do get to roll d10 shortswords eventually if you want to go that direction

That said it's probably not worth it in BG3 even if they keep this, because like, taven brawler is hilariously strong

[desert dove]

So I've heard.

[night oracle]

Also, monk has the most amazing interaction in act 3

[light mist]

progressin steadily thru act 1. added a furry tail mod to my great enjoyment, hehee hohoo killed ethel by accident while still in the teahouse which is no good so i reloaded fight proper tomorrow.

[desert dove]

Oh yeah, Ethel is a tricky one.

[sweet moat]

Ethel kicked my ass so hard the first and second times around. Then I realized that ||water spells existed so I could put out the cage that was on fire||, thus enabling me to focus on Ethel instead of being split apart.

[tame thistle]

Who tf is Ethel?

[sweet moat]

Just a kindly old lady, pay her no mind.

[tame thistle]

I never ran into her

[desert dove]

I missed her the first playthrough, but if you explore the first chapter a bit more, there's two places you can meet her.

[sweet moat]

Wait, two places?

I always met her in the swamp.

[tame thistle]

There's a swamp???

[sweet moat]

Yup

South of the beach in Act 1, if memory serves.

[tame thistle]

I didn't even know there was anything south in act 1

I also never went to the mountain pass

Well I'm going to be playing BG3 with my sister (hopefully) soon

[light mist]

things went well lookin forward to the grove fight, i wanna attempt ||the big battle rather than murdering the goblin leaders in their camp|| (sorry i dont care to ||save minthara this playthrough|| ) but we´ll see how things go because i do want the ||tiefling|| achievement and that might be really hard bc squishy . i might have to do some preemptive murder and then the ||battle itself||

figured i should spoiler, i assumed im so late to the party everyone is already mostly aware of the events™️ but i guess its better to respect the big happenings from now

[desert dove]

Yes. ||She's in the Grove after you defeat the goblins. She's tucked away on the left in a little shop down some stairs, underneath the overhead walkway.||

[light mist]

thats where you get hill giant potions, very very good to visit her for those alone

[light mist]

it went well by the way! i may have even overdone it with the barrels, but oh well

[heavy hound]

As if there is anything as overdoing it with explosive barrles.

[light mist]

stiiiiiill steadily progressin act 1. got grymforge, creche and some odd bits n bobs left. hopin to wrap act 1 up before wednesday, bc then i get my paycheck and i plan to pivot to deltarune before i get irreparably spoiled. ive been lucky so far and ill, try reallllllly hard to get back to act 2 afterwards. i am bein risky here bc i know what jumpin to another game mid any other game does to me, but im hopin itll work out

[night oracle]

[heavy hound]

Good luck

[sweet moat]

Trust me, if you think you've finished Act 1, chances are you're likely missing something still, lol.

They PACKED this game.

But I've heard Act 3 is even more packed with content.

So much so that I've seen some people calling Act 3 "Baldur's Gate 4".

[light mist]

no, im not really

im not playing blind

and im a chronic side contenter to boot. if there is a side quest it is getting done

[sweet moat]

Same, lol

I loooooove side quests in games. I don't know why people get mad at so many side quests in RPGs.

Like, you're playing an RPG, there are going to be a lot of side quests.

[light mist]

i wasnt aware people get mad about existence of side quests. usually its their quality that gets debated

well, i suppose existence of like, somewhat-repeating quests ala radiant stuff from fallout gets questioned, but i feel like thats a bit of fringe scenario

[desert dove]

Some people hate them because they feel like they have to 100% every game. They get especially mad if doing one quest locks out others for that playthrough.

[light mist]

ah, hm. i admit i like completing games, but its usually completing with an asterisk. not like, the "real" 100% most of the time. i, guess i can see that?

though the solution being "no sidequest" would be stupid as fuck

[sweet moat]

Hot take, but I actually like it when doing one side quest locks you out of doing another one. That feels like consequences, and gives the players a genuine choice to make that determines how their game will go.

What I don't like are side quests that force you into screwing yourself. Sacred 2 had a few like that, where you're playing a hero but can access a quest where you're hired to kill a bandit, only for you to accidentally kill your client's son-in-law (who the game all but states is a saint of a man who gives much of his fortune away to the weak and sick), so now your client refuses to give a reward and demands you apologize to his daughter, so you go off to apologize to her, and then her brother hears about it and attacks you in a murderous rage, forcing you to kill him too in self defense. The game treats this as a success for the quest, but the quest journal then states that your character now feels depressed and like a villain. There's no gameplay consequences for this, nothing changes and your reputation remains intact, but it left such a sour taste in my mouth that I reloaded to an earlier save. To this day it's one of the few side quests in any game that I refuse to complete.

[desert dove]

Ooof. Yeah, that's not a good quest structure.

[sweet moat]

Yeah, I don't like quests like that. The game itself is great, but that quest rubbed me the wrong way. In a way, I think it was done so intentionally, as more of a "so you seriously take any quest without reading the details first, huh?" sort of thing. A lot of players did, skipping past all the details and not realizing that they were actually committing an in-universe crime of double-murder, and simply went on their merry way after collecting the XP reward.

[light mist]

its those little multiplyin fuckers again but the ground is lava now also wheeeeeeeeee. my only luck this time is i didnt fuck up the ambush and theyre underleveled so surely, surely half of my party wont be dyin this time

aaand they explode i forgot about the explosions fuuuck

so i spawned more of them-

[night oracle]

What level are you?

[light mist]

6

oh okay it was a lot less scary this time

[sweet moat]

Ah, this fight.

Yup, this one requires a bit of planning.

Also, how are you using all of the characters?

A mod?

[light mist]

i guess the part where the other set of memphits was same level as me, i fucked up sneakin in and there were those treants made it worse

[night oracle]

Hax, HAX I SAY

[sweet moat]

Lol, haven't heard anyone say "hax" in a long time. Brings back funny memories.

[light mist]

yeah, pixellbytes' party limit adjustment mod. part of why i flunked out of bg3 last attempt was because i kept spending ridiculous amount of time swapping my party members around. i pair it with tactician enhanced by the same mod author to counterbalance the increased amount of characters runnin around

[sweet moat]

Barbarians, fighters, and paladins being able to hit enemies 2-4 times (depending on which one you chose) is one of the best things in fights.

[sweet moat]

Hmmm...I wonder if I should do the same thing when I eventually get started on a new playthrough.

[light mist]

i just want my six friends with me

[sweet moat]

How do you install mods for the game?

[light mist]

at all times

these two particular mods are in the in-game mod library (just open the mod tab in main menu, search it up and add it), otherwise its via bg3 mod manager

[sweet moat]

Oh that's cool!

I thought it was something convoluted like having to delve into the game files

[night oracle]

My Lae'zel became a beast once she could hit twice

[sweet moat]

Does the party limit adjustment mod also allow you to use all of the other party members, or just the main story ones?

[night oracle]

Of course, that was until I got the way of the fist build going on my monk, and then it was basically onetwothreeDEATH

[light mist]

these are the mods im currently running. are some of them broken, yes absolutely, but im having fun and with my track record keeping the game fun ensures i manage to stick with it until the end

[sweet moat]

Which ones are the broken ones?

OH

You mean broken as in OP

I thought you meant broken as in "no longer work properly"

[light mist]

oh right lmao thats fair interpretation but ye i meant op. specifically the pernament elixirs and feats on even level (i just wanna pick the fun feats and not spend eternity buyin hill giant potions over n over you understand)

[sweet moat]

Are all of these available in the actual in-game mod library?

[light mist]

most, aside from fluffy ears mod, tail-less tiefling mod which is prerequisite to furry tail mod, and the two bug fix mods at the top

(i may have furryfied my gnome. for them funsies)

[sweet moat]

Heh

[light mist]

oh ye i missed this question yesterday, the mod goes up to 16 party members if you so desire

[sweet moat]

Oh good, lots of party shenanigans then. :P

[light mist]

finished act 1! or well just about everythin i wanted. dont feel like deltarunin just yet so ill prolly start act 2 tomorrow. i have one (1) important observation and im usin my free bringi meme edit pass to explain

they even both go onto your neck..... poetic cinema

(i think my monk ghost laughed over it instead but i didnt take a screenshot so this is just image searched stiched together you get the point)

didnt sign up to get scooby doo'd in my fantasy game but the perks... oh the perks indeed

[sweet moat]

...Horrific necktie? Where'd you get that? I've never seen that before.

[light mist]

from disco elysium?

[sweet moat]

It sounds fun and funny

Oh, misread

Sentient amulet

[light mist]

ah, undedark. nearish grymforge. theres a lil island on lava off side of the ancient forge fast travel point. sameish general map area where you get moulds for the forge itself

[tame thistle]

I should search up a character build guide for my next playthorugh of BG3, cuz I have no idea how to build a character

[heavy hound]

Unless you play tactician you can very much not be super optimal and still be fine

As long as you read the tooltips of what you get, it's not a super convoluted system

[tame thistle]

I have had trouble with fights on the easiest difficulty, but I have made it to act 3

[tame thistle]

Why the hell is act 3 so damn hard, I feel like I cant win any fight

Idk how im going to beat the game at this point cuz of how hard its gotten

[heavy hound]

Maybe you are missing some foundamental mechanic.

Like, do you have your casters with the appropriate stat related to their cast at a decent level?

That influences both the hit chance of spells, or the spell save DC; it's really important

[tame thistle]

I honestly dont know

[heavy hound]

lol

Another thing you might haven't considered, is making sure all characters reach a decent Armor Class

In a lot of RPGs casters are supposed to be kind of squishy, in BG3 it's not that different but you can still reach pretty decent AC even on them

Like for example, with a human caster, that has at least 14 dex, you can easly cast mage armor for +3 and wear a shield and get to 17 Armor Class which is respectable

(i specify human because they get free shield proficency)

[night oracle]

Yeah, this sounds like you possibly have build issues with your characters, and/or not are equipping the right gear for their class?

Like how was discussed earlier that monk is good with staff as well, but certain builds make fist only the best possible damage

[tame thistle]

This is why I said I needed a build guide, cuz I dont really know what im doing

[heavy hound]

One more thing you might want to considser, is making sure you get to even scores with your ability scores

Since the modifier changes at even intervals

14 and 15 is a +2 with an attribute, at 16 it becomes a +3

So you either want to be at 14 or at 16 ideally

And assign that extra +1 somewhere else where it can make a difference

[night oracle]

Google is your friend! There were plenty of guilds near launch day and they can only be better now. Find what you like playing with with that character and then look for builds 🙂

[light mist]

you cant just do that to me out of the blue!

[heavy hound]

It's really funny that other games started referencing that too

You can never be safe

[night oracle]

I forget what this is about

[light mist]

mumbling thru hands in my face as im doubled over award winning expansion Heavensward of The Critically Acclaimed MMORPG yada yada its the anime game of tears

oh the bg3 moment u mean lol

promisin alfira to save abductees in moonrise

[night oracle]

ah

[alpine pawn]

gonna try out BG3 again

[alpine pawn]

why does the game start with eye stuff 😭

[sweet moat]

Because that's literally the only way the tadpoles get in. Don't blame Larian or the game, blame D&D itself.

[alpine pawn]

i guess any orifice would be bad

im weirdly sensitive to stuff happening to eyes though

[sweet moat]

Same

If there's even one scene in a movie or show with eye gore in it, I usually stop watching and do something else.

[heavy hound]

Which character did you make?

[alpine pawn]

i made Bilbo Baggins because i have no original ideas

so halfling rogue

[tame thistle]

[sweet moat]

Tbh, Bilbo is more of a rogue/bard multiclass.

Frodo is druid, Sam would be fighter, Pippin would be bard, and Merry would be a rogue.

[tame thistle]

Well you can't multi class right away

[sweet moat]

And might as well go down the others:

Legolas is a ranger/fighter multiclass, Aragorn is a ranger (obviously), Boromir is a fighter, Gimli is a barbarian/fighter multiclass (emphasis on barbarian), and Gandalf is obviously a wizard.

[tame thistle]

But I do agree with the rogue/bard

[sweet moat]

*Rogue

Sorry, pet peeve

[tame thistle]

I started a new playthrough. I just kinda wanted a break from act 3. I'm building a way of the open hand monk for it

Also I got the trophy for defeating commander Zhalk in the Nautiloid

I would like to get all the achievements, but there is no way in hell I'm beating honour mode

[alpine pawn]

wouldn't Gandalf be more of a sorcerer or warlock since he gets his power from Eru Illuvitar

[sweet moat]

Hmmm...true, but he is literally the poster boy for wizards, soooo...homebrew?

[alpine pawn]

i guess lol

[heavy hound]

Definitely closer to favoured soul sorcerer IMO

(sadly no favoured soul in BG3)

(Oh actuall it's called Divine Soul in 5e apparently)

[heavy hound]

Unless you have a goddamn book you aren't a real wizard in my head

[alpine pawn]

this brain is kind of cute

[alpine pawn]

i hate how these doors are called sphincters

man idk

im kind of bored

[sweet moat]

I mean, didn't we pretty much determine that CRPGs just aren't your thing? Because I guarantee you, there is a TON of stuff to do in this game, but you have to explore. You can't just expect the game to throw it at you, you have to look around, mouse over things, and discover the world.

[alpine pawn]

i enjoyed what i played of Disco Elysium

[sweet moat]

Disco Elysium is an outlier even among CRPGs.

Much more heavy emphasis on character writing than pretty much anything else.

[alpine pawn]

true

i should get back into that game

[light mist]

tehee, carnage

[night oracle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1ljejhg/halsin_stuck_as_a_bear/

[sweet moat]

This game, man...

Keeps on giving

[light mist]

oooooh i done fucked up i was ||planning to kill yurgir and accidentally murdered his contract reason before ever meeting him||, thus not getting the option of murder. now astarions pissed

lets see does reloading and attacking outright fix that? or do i break the flow completely

[light mist]

just about wrapping up act 2, and ||shadowheart finally added white hair to her trauma||. also same laezel, same. i too am ||completely blind whenever ppl do new hair stuff||

[light mist]

also was anyone gonna tell me the camp music has absolutely fire lyrics, or was i supposed to stumble upon that discovery on a random cliff edge?

[light mist]

"well i was asked to build an army...."

[light mist]

aaaand theres the first game breaking bug

ough i see so like game game breaking

so karlach decided gortash sucks so bad she's gonna get stuck in the red map "area hostile" state, even when there is no combat, no hostile npcs and everyone else in the party is fine? running to different area doesnt help, enter-leave turn base doesnt work, murder and ressurection doesnt help, she rose again in the hecking camp and yet tells me she cant get to camp while we are actively standing in it- babe i need those long rests back, actually. save and load also doesnt work?

[light mist]

okayyyyy so that state has been happening fooooor. seven saves. going all the way back before i got stuck in it "fixes" it but welp thats pretty much all of my progress today

wahoo.

[sweet moat]

RIP

[desert dove]

https://larian.com/support/faqs/steam-deck-native-version_121

Native Steam Deck version!

[tame thistle]

I beat ||Cazador, but I didn't help astarion ascend, son now he's not in my party anymore|| Act 3 major spoilers

[tame thistle]

I ain't ever beating the freak allegations now😭

[sweet moat]

Nobody who played this game is beating those allegations, lol

Speaking of which, I need to restart it again. My game couldn't handle Act 3 on my first run and was crashing too much.

I'm thinking of doing a good-hearted Dark Urge run as a paladin.

[tame thistle]

If Divinity isn't as freaky as BG3, then I ain't playing it/j

[craggy skiff]

Did you not watch the trailer?

[sweet moat]

Oh please, Divinity OS 2 can have you literally having sex with a talking skeleton. Larian has some true believers in their midst, lol

[craggy skiff]

I'd say its moreso~

[tame thistle]

Yeah, I did. I was just being silly

I should do a new playthrough of Divinity OS 2 once I finish Baldur's Gate 3

[sweet moat]

From morimorikei https://bsky.app/profile/morimorikei.bsky.social/post/3mcpcfpsl7s2h

[desert dove]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1sn84n4/introducing_dungeon_masters_a_new_actual_play/

The table:

• Jasmine Bhullar, Dungeon Master
• Mayanna Berrin as Wesley, a Drow Grave Domain Cleric
• Christian Navarro as Eloin Emberleaf, a Dhampir Winter Walker Ranger
• Neil Newbon as Crem, a Gnome Reanimator Artificer
• Devora Wilde as Zora, a Hexblood Shadow Sorcerer

Astarion and Lae'zel's VAs are in this!

[desert dove]

https://bsky.app/profile/tkingfisher.com/post/3mkawdu6bms2d

Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com)

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[desert dove]

SCENE: A getting-to-know-you Zoom call among the editors, WOTC rep, me and my agent
REP: Do you have any questions for us?
ME: Vampire spawn canonically have Spider Climb in 5e. Does Astarion?
REP: Uh…
ME: I figured it would have broken the game engine, I just wanted to check.
REP: …
EDITOR: muffled laughter
ME: Next up, am I allowed to reference the Spellplague or the Time of Troubles?
REP: Oh my god. Most of the people in the office have never even heard of the Spellplague…
ME: holds up two pages of questions double-spaced
AGENT: starts laughing
EDITOR: Maybe just email those?
ME: Will do!

On at least one occasion, I had a question for which there is no canonical answer and was told to pick something and it would become canon

[night oracle]

That is too much power for one person!

[desert dove]

T. Kingfisher is an amazing author and total D&D nerd, so this is going to be amazing.

[heavy hound]

Oh wow, I don't know if I want to read that