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Shadowbaby

>>555527359
trvth nvke

I really want to play BG3 but I have issues with failing rolls and stuff. How often do you guys reset saves on every failed roll, be it dialogue, combat, perception checks when walking by stuff etc?
I don't like missing content so I always find myself reloading. How do I convince myself to just not. Do you guys have exceptions for when you might reload?

>>555528080
just imagine you're at the table and Swen is your very railroady GM

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>>555528080
just roll with the failure, you'll hardly ever be locked out of anything important, at most you might avoid a combat encounter.

>>555528080
even the devs savescum don't feel bad about it

>>555528080
Your RPG character is a mortal that makes mistakes. Failing is immersive. Also if you roleplay your background correctly you will be swimming in inspirations to reroll the really important checks.

>>555528080
If this game was shorter I'd say it's just fuel for another playthrough but it's not so savescum away

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>>555515330
If I had to name a culprit, it would probably be the parasite. You know, the kind of worthless yet persistent vermin that only comes here to shit on the game, its writing, its companions, its waifus. The kind that creates threads with an ugly, off-topic picture (>>555156769). The kind that only comes here to talk about Larian's Next Game (>>555344769). The kind that abhors beauty and prefers posting ugly, off-topic lizards (>>555447497). The kind that shares Swen's whiny, off-topic tweets (>>555408660, >>555522647). The kind that deliberately and maliciously brings the kind of low-effort shitposting it no doubt learned from its home general. When you enable the parasite and foster such an environment, valuable anons (including waifufags) are less inclined to stay. But sure, let's blame it on the namefag who posts maybe once a day. Baldur's Gate 3.

>>555528080
I don't savescum but I also think the whole mentality of not wanting to "miss" content defeats the point of RPGs and most games in general. Reloading to retry a failed roll or because I triggered a trap or got ambushed or something bothers me way more than failing the roll in the first place.

>>555528298
quasits have an INT score of 7
literal apes have an INT score of 6

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>>555529085

Minthara is canonically 150
Minthara is canonically bisexual
I collect barrels and throw them at every boss including Minthara
If you romance Minthara you are evil
I ascended Astarion
I romanced ascended Astarion
I play with lots of mods on
I fucked Halsin and Shadowheart at the same time and loved it
Shadowheart is right not to use her birthname
I play sorcerer
I camp cast
I sympathized with Ketheric
I love dragonborns, halflings, gnomes and dwarves

>>555529861
idk
true
based
true
cool
cool
based
based
true
based
me too
cringe
based

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>>555529945
This is game is how we know Laezel is 22

Lae'zel is canonically a zoomer in a party of old boomers

>>555530673
basically me browsing /bgg/

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>even uses words like istik, k'chaki phrases that boomers don't understand
at last i truly see

I'm still pissed from my first run of the game where I made the cutest tiefling girl and it turned out to be a mollusk catfishing me.

>>555530582
iconic /v/ moment

>>555528723
I can't help but note the subtle tension here - if failure is indeed immersive, then why do you need Inspiration points to "reroll," say, a failed speech? It's akin to casting Shield after knowing that the arrow will indeed hit your squishy spellcaster, thus retroactively deflecting it in time. Caring about immersion is fine, but ultimately, it's still a video game. You have to find a balance.

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>>555530893
Your issue is that you literally designed your perfect dream girl without knowing anything about her values, her personality, and her worldview. In other words, you failed to think of three things you liked about her that were non-physical.

>>555532281
She's a dream, everything about her is non-physical.

>>555532445
>elf
>human
>half-elf
>tiefling
>drow
>githyanki
That's most races represented. NOBODY like the short races so they don't even really count. You're really only missing Half-Orc and Dragonborn.

>>555532835
nobody likes githyankis and laezel is still popular
nobody likes halsin & wyll and they represent the two most popular bg3 races
hmmmm

>>555532916
Doesn't matter how much you seethe about it no one will ever give a shit about halflings and gnomes.

>>555528298
>fatass Gale

I can tell this was drawn by the mentally ill.

>>555532916
>Wyll
>popular race
Heh

>>555531949
It's a reward that DMs give players for RPing.
Inspiration rerolls is a thing from the 2024 Player's Handbook. It used to just be used to give you advantage on a roll.
>>555532445
>why boobs
This argument might work for TES Argonians, but the Gith aren't naturally egg-laying frog-men. They were a race of normal humans from another world before the Illithids enslaved them and fucked their shit all up because mind flayers really like experimenting on their slave races.

>>555528298
rare Shovel drawing

>>555532445
We get it, you wanna fuck a gnome.

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>>555533086
>bg3 needed every single class from the PHB
>bg3 needed every single race from the PHB
>bg3 shouldn't have every single PHB race represented in its party
you guys are so boring and gay this is how we end up with trash like halsin & wyll
>>555533415
you offering?

>>555532916
>nobody likes githyankis
they've stuck around since the early 80s so that's clearly not true

>>555532704
Only because you failed to think of her beyond that. You chose a perfectly pretty doll of your own design over the beautiful and real female companions who could challenge your character. You do not have my sympathy.

>>555488715
>good-aligned guild of rogues.
That's precisely what the Harpers are except more decentralized and not restricted by classes. Majority of them in-game are Fighters and Rangers with Wizards as a very distant third. The companion I mentioned is a returning one from previous BG games, anybody who played them know she's a high-ranking member of the Harpers. Her quest involves two other organizations that fit some of your criteria. This is just to show that the game's world will able to accommodate your characters.

>hope that won't be a problem
The game is fully playable even solo. You obviously lose good chunk of contents by doing this but that comes with the territory.

>it seems like all demon-like creatures aren't necessarily evil.
The Blood War, an ageless conflict between fiends (inhabitants of the Lower Planes, devils are one of their subtype) and demons in the Nine Hells is a notable part of the lore. Karlach (and to an extent Wyll) could tell you a lot about it. Fiends in general are well represented in BG3 and play a part in the main story too. The same can't be said about demons, but the point is things are sometimes a bit more complicated.

>noble assassin who handles business for a wealthy house for the elf
In this game Rogue as a pure class is mediocre and Assassin is it's 2nd best subclass. The class is still fully viable for a playthrough, others just have more to offer. Assassin (and Thief) is the most desirable as a 3-4 level dip for multi-classing but I'd avoid that for your first run, or at least until you get the hang of how the game works.

>veteran tacticians rather than sneaky edgelords
This part screams Fighter/Battle Master, which is covered by a companion but otherwise a very strong and straightforward subclass. They're not Assassin-like in terms of playstyle and gear, but some special Medium Armor can allow you to ditch Heavy and 1H+Shield is just as viable as 2Hers.

>>555533510
I like githyankis just fine, I was talking about their playrate, they're some of least picked races in bg3

>>555530893
I mean, brilliant move of the mollusk’s part, making you design your own trap.

Holy shit why does no one ever talk about how busted horde-breaker is?

>>555533974
I don't even know what that is

>>555532916
laezel's 12% popularity from a romance poll

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>>555533275
>It's a reward that DMs give players for RPing.
Right. We're talking about BG3. If immersion is truly your concern, then you should roll once and accept the outcome, whatever it is. Realism doesn't allow a reroll or four because you are "inspired" after the fact. It's the same thing for Shield. Narratively, a character casts the spell in reaction to an arrow coming their way - not because the attack roll beat their AC, and now Shield suddenly sounds like a good idea.

>>555533463
ok I stand corrected tons of people want a halfling companion...........

>>555533561
You're a little wrong here. Fiend as a term encompasses all evil-aligned outsiders, including demons.
Devils were originally angels created in the early early times by the gods of law to kill the endlessly spawning chaotic demons. They eventually started becoming twisted and fucked up due to their war and, long story short, Asmodeus, who was the best of the best of them, did a lot of slimy lawyer shit and negotiated a pact with the gods to take the Nine Hells as the devils' own plane.
The Blood War is fiends having an ideological law vs chaos disagreement with law-aligned devils despising the destructive nature of the demons.
>The same can't be said about demons
Isn't Shovel the only demon in the game? It's all devils with one pet quasit.

>>555534545
I wouldn't call creatures like the parasite "people."

>>555535728
?

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I like halfling companions

>>555536856
Mazzy's ok but I hated that pathfinder bitch and how forced she was.

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>>555536856
based, linzi was annoying though

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How come Shart is the only companion you can give gifts to? Granted it's only two things (night orchids and the shar statue) but it's more than anybody else gets.

>>555537030
not nearly as annoying as the edgelord gnome from the second one

>>555538041
The same reason she's the only companion who says anything when you sit at her tent, and the only companion that interacts with Scratch and the owlbear cub.

>>555538041
she's swen's darling

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>>555538041
How come Karlach is the only companion you can go on a fancy date with? How come Lae'zel is the only companion you can have a romantic duel with? How come Minthara is the only companion thoughtful enough to poison her kisses? Isn't it good that each romance is a little different instead of following a template?

>>555538996
>minthara's such a dogshit character her main characterisation is found in a a banter line

manthara being ugly is her gimmick

BG3 needed every single class from the PHB.
BG3 needed every single race from the PHB.

>>555539891
>tfw no blood hunter

>>555539891
The 2014 PHB had:
>Dwarf
>Elf
>Halfling
>Human
>Dragonborn
>Gnome
>Half-Elf
>Half-Orc
>Tiefling
and
>Barbarian
>Bard
>Cleric
>Druid
>Fighter
>Monk
>Paladin
>Ranger
>Rogue
>Sorcerer
>Warlock
>Wizard

The 2024 one has:
>Aasimar
>Dragonborn
>Dwarf
>Elf
>Gnome
>Goliath
>Halfling
>Human
>Orc
>Tiefling
and the same dozen classes

What did Sven have for breakfast this morning?

Swen Vincke, the beast of the West.

>2026
>No Hope romance
>Not even a mod for a Hope romance
Unfinished game.

>>555544002
>why can't I romance the character that got raped and tortured for decades/centuries

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>>555544057
>who is ass
>who is shart

>>555544057
I can save her.

>Kill everyone in the jail
>Break the chains on the boat
>Break the wall behind the tieflings
>Attack the wall behind the gnomes
>A tiefling runs up to me and asks where to go and my options are "fuck off and die" (x2), "take the boat without me", and "ride along with me on the boat"
>Choose the last one since it sounds like they might wait for me to get into the boat
>They don't
>Custscene
>Quest update: the gnomes are dead, get fucked
Fuck this shit, the options are always so limited and so poorly conveyed by the text that you have to look up every interaction on the wiki beforehand or you'll lock yourself out of shit when your character decides to randomly do something other than what you said.

wyll ravengarde is dead

>>555545347
>Black character gets turned into a lemur
Why would Larian write such a racist story?

>>555538041
It's the same reason she has the artifact, she is the only one who comes to camp multiple times if you don't recruit them, and why act 2 becomes the Shadowheart show halfway through. Only 2 companions have camp visitors all for them, Wyll has Mizora and his father, but Shart gets two parents and two Selune fantatics, who have more scenes about them than Wyll's family. Comparing Karlach's companion questline journal entries to Shart's is a joke. When you really start looking, you realize how much Shart is favored. Lazy has a ton of stuff if you count Orpheus and the Creche as her story but no one comes close to Shart who takes over act 2 and her choice determines the finale of act 2 and who lives or dies. We can go on and on with more, from her camp stool that no one else has, to her quests in act 3 being just as much as any other character who has act 3 quests despite her taking over act 2, and on and on.

Which is the exact same reason Liara Tsoni has her own dlc all about her, is the only character to be in all 4 mass effect games, and has her own comic about her to tell the audience what she was up to between 2 and 3.

Developers have a tendency, whether it's conscious/intentional or not, to do this. Yennefer and Morrigan come to mind as well, half of the Witcher games is about finding Yennefer, and Morrigan is similar to Liara in that she is one of the only characters to be in every Dragon Age game and also has her own dlc all about her. Developers know who is going to be the popular waifu among normies so they put more development behind them. It's not a bad thing on it's own, but part of you does have to wonder which came first: the chicken or the egg. They got more development, so they're more popular, or they knew they were going to be popular so they got more development. In the case of bg3, it also has the fact the conventionally attractive white woman is going to beat the frog and the red devil and the one that most players just kill in act 1.

>>555546171
correct

>>555546171
>It's not a bad thing on it's own
yes it is

>>555546171
>Yennefer
Yennefer is Geralt's book canon soulmate

>>555546601
that didn't stop him from fucking anything that moves

>>555546367
I think blatantly unfair development time/effort distribution is a bad thing in a vacuum if it's arbitrary, but on the other hand, you do want to cater your product to the largest demographic. So making a series of decisions that further caters to who they know is going to be the popular one just makes sense from a practical standpoint. There's a thousand Shart lovers for every frog/Minth/Karl lover, so who can really say that it's incorrect to lean into that. I understand why they favored Shart so much, it wasn't random or arbitrary. But yes I would agree in theory that unfair distribution of effort is bad. So idk.

>>555546697
I didn't really ask for a reply I never fully read your posts

>>555546776
based

>>555546171
>conventionally attractive white woman
you say this while you only play as ugly blonde white women

and

you elusively go for the attractive white woman option until Shart mindbroke you, funny!

>>555546171
>>555546697
Nice to see you back posting discussion again. This place has been empty lately. I have nothing to add, everything you said is correct.

Does anyone have the webm of killing Grym by dropping a bunch of ice cubes on him?

For dialog is it better for my fighter to multi class into rogue for some feats, or do I just put some DEX points into CHA
If the former, when do I multiclass and do I still need any cha? Thanks

>>555547132
Imagine if Idira was a hot white woman

>>555547242
Either play a cha martial like paladin, swords bard, or hexblade, or fail all your dialogue checks. Trying to build a cha fighter is a waste of your time, but if you're really set on it you can just dump str and chug hill giants.

>>555547242
You don't really need the charisma skills for dialogue, there's a lot of other skill checks and class dialogues that come up and you can always have a party member cast enhance ability and guidance on you.

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>>555547154

>>555548529
I like the creativity but that must have took forever

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>get told that House of Cope has the best boss fight in the game combined with the best music
>corny ass Disney villain shit and had Yurgir fat ass stomping around killing my party with his AOE shotgun blast

Never listening to you retards again.

>>555550356
The pillars are a mechanic other than "kill it as fast as possible" like most bosses. And the singing is kino, Andrew Wincott won a bafta for it.

The best boss fight is arguably Aylin in Razimath's tower, because it's harder than most. Ansur calling down lightning and you have to hide from it was pretty neato too.

>>555529250
>literal apes have an INT score of 6
Minsc included

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When will they learn?

>>555550356
shit taste alert weeewOO

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>>555550356
Just get him to switch sides and he's controllable in the brain fight.

>>555552312
I helped him break his curse in the Temple of Shaar so he WAS on my side.

He just has dogshit AI and attacks everything in his vicinity.

>>555552531
He's only ever hit friendly summons with his AOE for me, I just figured those don't trigger any of the AI's friendly fire checks.

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>I don’t like people shitting on things others have created. Putting something out into the world makes you vulnerable, and that alone deserves respect, even if you dislike the creation. It’s easy to destroy things, it’s a lot harder to build them. The best critics understand this. Even when they’re being critical, they do their best not to be hurtful.

Take the Wyllpill

>>555552936
I will shit on Wyll for being a worthless companion

>>555552984
based
>>555553069
cringe

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>see mercenary yelling at a Thiefling child over a stolen locket
>take the kid's side, tell him to fuck off
>on the verge of bursting into tears, he seethes and stomps away
>go find the little Thiefling kid
>see the speech text "oooh i gotta find more pockets to pick" over his head
>mfw
>go talk to him to get to the bottom of this
>kid is rude, obnoxious and pretty niggardly so at this point I realize he really did steal it and try to get him to tell the truth
>he won't budge, obviously did it, but tells me to fuck off
>circle around to a treasure chest
>the locket is inside

Fuck man. I took the merc his locket back but man I embarrased that I let a Thiefling trick me like that. I want to kill all these little shits in this cave so bad. Larian prevents you from harming child NPC's though so I'll just take that L

>>555553193
You can learn the merc is from a family of thieves and his mom actually stole the locket so he does deserve to get bullied by the kids

>>555553545
so literally everyone in this is an asshole? That kind of makes me feel better

>>555552936
based swen is a wyllionaire

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>>555538996
>>555538041
Every character has their own little gimmick, it's not a matter of
>We created these mechanics for the game as minigames that you can play with any character you want
this is not Stardew valley, the gifts Shart receives are a narrative device to dig deeper into her past and get to know more about her, all while helping her rediscover some pretty important stuff about their lives

every major romantic interaction between origin characters and tav/durge is unique depending on the romance choice
I'd be upset if all the characters shared the
>give gift/go out on a date/watch sunrise together
this is clear to anyone experienced with RPGs, game design and well, not biased towards certain characters

>>555554814
>gale & shadowheart
>autistic
>wyll
>depressed
>astarion
>adhd
the person who made that diagram played bg3 through tiktok clips

can smokepowerd bombs kill child NPCs?

Asking for a friend.

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>>555555717

>>555555530
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1291

>>555556740
oh this is gonna be good

What is the point in being a fucking WIzard with 20 Int and carrying a lot of buffs? Rolan is hitting Lorroakan with more power than artistry of war and Laezel soloed an elemental with two hits.

>>555553193
I don't remember to >>555553545 but I can tell Monks have an exclusive dialogue option to calm down both sides, in which case the tiefling kid confesses that he only stole the locket as it reminded him to his (now deceased) mother and after hearing this the mercenary let's him keep it as the kid clearly needs it more.

>>555544938
The core issue is the tieflings not waiting for anybody. I can't tell if the gnomes act the same if you don't give Wulbren his hammer, but if he has the ability to break walls he frees the other prisoners too. This is why it has to be done in this order. As for the chains the reason you don't break them yourself is to ensure that everybody arrives to the boat in time. Gnomes move 1.5m less per turn than most humanoids, meaning it's usually Wulbren himself who gets there last. Breaking chains acts as a buffer to buy everyone time. IIRC once that's done there's a 3 round waiting period then the boat departs.

>>555548812
The ice cubes themselves matter little here. It's the massive falling damage that kills Grym. He could have used anything heavy enough.

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When you think about it, she's an elf who married a human lord, so she's eventually going to be the old lady herself, and for much longer than the mother in law.

>>555558209
the kid was lying actually to fool both you and the guy he stole it from.

>>555558209
You learn about the adventurer's mom stealing the locket if you return it to him and then pass the checks.

>>555556740
Wont this have negative impacts on arc 2 and 3 if you kill off all the Tiefling kids?

Like, how is the interactions with Mol supposed to work

>>555559624
If Rolan doesn't stay in the grove, all the kids except Mol die in the Shadow-cursed lands anyway. It's only Mol who isn't supposed to die unless the grove gets raided.

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>5th playthrough
>know exactly where to go for what I need to do
>only just discovered necromancy of thay
Well dont I feel like a fucking unexploring dunce

>>555546171
>but Shart gets two parents and two Selune fantatics
Isobel and Aylin have nothing to do with Shart in act 3 though. To be honest, I think they're in camp due to a scrapped Ketheric companion plotline.

>>555563513
I think Ketheric companion plotline was going to be a thing very early when the Nightsong wasn't Aylin. With the current lore Ketheric would get a restraining order instead of being in the same camp as Isobel and Aylin.

>>555563884
>I think Ketheric companion plotline was going to be a thing very early when the Nightsong wasn't Aylin.
Swen never said this. In the current game, you can sway him but then he randomly fights you at the last second

>>555564161
That's just to skip the first phase of his final fight, if it was supposed to be something more it wasn't changed very late since so little companion stuff about Ketheric exists in the files. Minthara and Halsin being able to go to the creche was changed later most likely.

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>>555564590
Dude, Swen literally said that was the moment you were supposed to recruit him. His recruitment, and a lot of other stuff, got cut since the game was getting too big.

Please consider downloading my mod

>>555565039
there's no way there weren't supposed to be an upper city if ketheric was supposed to join you once you dealt with orin & gortash

>>555565039
Yes, it happened during the big revamp of act 2 which included changes to Isobel and Nightsong arcs. You weren't supposed to have Ketheric, Aylin and Isobel in your camp at the same time.

>>555565209
Changes to Isobel and Nightsong were done VERY early in development. I datamined every version of EA and the major changes to Nightsong didn't take long. Ketheric's recruitment cut was done much later on. Even in the final version, you can see precisely where in the dialogue they awkwardly cut his recruitment and forced you to fight him instead.

>You weren't supposed to have Ketheric, Aylin and Isobel in your camp at the same time.
This is you talking out of your ass.

>>555565513
The cutoff point and start of the fight was made to be Aylin's appearence because you absolutely weren't supposed to have them in friendly terms. Which is why they were never going to be in your camp at the same time.

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RememberMattis? This is him now! Feel old yet?

>>555555530
I posted a log in the previous thread where NFK literally killed a kid who kept receiving damage afterwards. This how protected kids are.

>>555563513
I think they're in the camp because of ongoing Nightsong plotline with Lorroakan. Once he's defeated they only stay until the next Long Rest, don't they?

>companion ketheric
>halsin
>minthara
the most disfunctional party

>>555565730
He was supposed to have a character arc, my guy. If he betrayed the Absolute, then forgiveness could be on the table for Isobel. If companion Ketheric helped defend Aylin from Lorroakan, then they would be on decent terms after that. They could move on as a happy family.

How the fuck would Swen put a full "character arc" for him if Isobel wasn't even allowed to be in camp while he's recruited? Your posts don't make sense. It's like you're disagreeing just to disagree

What's the canon Tav class?

>>555565806
>Once he's defeated they only stay until the next Long Rest, don't they?
The Ketheric cut made that whole quest very awkward. Isobel and Aylin have no reason to stick around in your camp, but they do it anyway. Then they leave, just as randomly, once the Lorroakan quest is complete. If Ketheric were a companion, Isobel would have a reason to tag along as a camp follower

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>>555566948
Now that you mention they didn't even know about Lorroakan having a price on Aylin's head. So while it makes sense from a technical POV for them to stick around (you have a quest to finish that goes back all the way to the Act 1) their personal motivation is not necessarily there. Maybe they just treated it as a temporary thing until something more meaningful comes along. And to be fair there were some foreshadowing before their departure, even if that might have felt as an innocent remark at the time.

>>555533561
Thanks anon. I've been thinking myself about Battle Master so I think I'll settle on that. Pretty fun to have been stuck on a choice for a week to end up with human fighter.
I'll probably do this until the constant failing of dialogue checks tires me. Or not, we'll see. Thanks for indulging me

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Quick idea: celebrate Lorroakan's demise with only alcohol during the next Long Rest to get the Hungover condition, then when the final battle comes summon Dame Aylin as an ally and see if she has it!

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Wouldn't pic related (it's the Barbarian Juggernaut) be kinda amazing for a mostly Monk build? Resolute stance would have no downside since you'd be attacking unarmed.

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Only a moron would think characters should be defined by a "gimmick" or repost a memetic Venn diagram of the companions. There is a pattern.

>>555566419
Cute female high elf barbarian

>>555570195
>their personal motivation is not necessarily there
Aylin is committed to helping the player character because she's honorable and duty-bound, and stopping the Absolute is the right thing to do. Similarly, she helps Shadowheart out of gratitude, not personal gain. Isobel tags along because, obviously, she would accompany her lover. They're not in your camp just for sightseeing. The food is terrible, and the company is even worse.

>>555578283
you missed the point of their conversation anon

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Total High Elf Love

Which CHA class is the coolest and most fun to play?

>>555579390
name 5 things you like about her that are physical

Idea: A companion that's an albino dragonborn with murderous tendencies and that ends up having to choose between rejecting his dark urges or embracing them

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I don't know what is it with swen but he's getting way more vocal on twitter , last time he got this excited he leaked that gnomes were coming to BG3 and had to add their buggy race to the early access to not disappoint the fans, next game's marketing campaign will be spicy

So there's literally no incentive to raid the grove now right? Wish Larian didn't bend over backwards for crying redditors.

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>>555578751
I think I got the point. Anon is claiming a disconnect between the reason Aylin and Isobel stayed at camp before they even learned of Lorroakan and the scripted event that later requires their presence. My answer to that is simple - Aylin and Isobel have a narrative reason to stay, at least for a few nights, and narrative logic takes priority over the scripted events. Storytelling and scripting are not always going to match perfectly. We as players understand the scripting role of Yenna. Narratively, she's just a kid you took pity on.

>>555582748
Try roleplaying. From a pragmatic and evil perspective, massacring the grove is both easier and potentially gets you in the good graces of a high-ranking True Soul. If your only incentive before the change was drow pussy, then you were never evil to begin with. You were just a faker.

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>>555582885
>My answer to that is simple - Aylin and Isobel have a narrative reason to stay, at least for a few nights, and narrative logic takes priority over the scripted events.
dumb take, as always, stick to your shitty essays, look at minthara & halsin in your camp and tell me that it makes sense narratively, look at all the dialogues letting you tell yenna to fuck off and tell me that it makes sense narratively

I always sell Aylin now because that fight is fun and actually challenging.

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Why does the parasite feel the need to reply to each of my posts? Is it that desperate for attention when its shitposts get no attention? I don't expect a moron that spends its free time playing Street Fighter and scrolling through twitter to know the first thing about narrative, let alone elusive values such as "honor" and "duty." I think the parasite should stick to things that befit its lack of intelligence, like liking Swen because Swen is liked by everyone. That's an easy narrative to follow, for the mentally challenged.

Should I do a jack of all trades for my solo durge run or is that retarded?

sigh

>>555579390
Name three things you like about her that are non-physical.

How are the Evolved mods?

https://youtu.be/LJLUX64sNvA?si=j7oHZhGl6XlUxS2a
durge's VA is the best as always

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>*sniff sniff sniff*
>Um... Shadowheart... Sh-Shaddy...?
>Why do you um... smell like goodberry, you know, "down there"...?

>>555586171
halsin is jacked

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>Personally, I got my first threats of violence in 2009, all because I was trying to make something fun and failed in that person's opinion. There’s been a long list of things thrown at me since. It kind of sucks, especially given that I got into making games because I enjoy seeing people have fun with what I worked on. It took me quite some time to learn how to deal with that. These days, I still read the hurtful comments, but I focus mainly on the constructive opinions. They're the ones that helped shape BG3's success.
> They're the ones that helped shape BG3's success.
swen is yet again confirming that the early access feedback is why bg3 became such a hit I don't want any of you to shit on the idea of larian listening to the fans
>but halsin, ascended astarion being nicer, laezel fucking an illithid tav
halsin was a fluke and the team that changed astarion & laezel was a skeleton team whose job was to support bg3 while the team that actually made the game works on larian's two current projects

Godey Boney
Boney Godey

>>555587561
so true

>>555586171
>"it's my new soap Tav, don't worry about it just keep licking"

>>555586678
Who does this Vincke guy think he is?! EVERYTHING is politics, and so is games and they need to be used as a vessel to own all the right wing white chuds who enjoy them!

>>555588756
If this isn't bestiality...

>guy says that critics can say they don't like a game or that the game costs too much or whatever but maybe they shouldn't be dicks about it
>everyone loses their mind
I don't get it
it's like they just want to find any possible excuse to tear him down because BG3 was a big success

>>555590092
>it's like they just want to find any possible excuse to tear him down because BG3 was a big success
ding ding ding ding, a ceo telling people that most DLCs are a scam is very bad for some companies, now imagine their reaction when he's going after the biggest shills out there, the game reviewers

>>555589550
>>555590092
>>555590541
Off-topic garbage. /bgg/ is not for discussing Swen's Latest Twitter Drama. Fuck off.

>>555590690
the most pivotal development choices & interesting cut story bits were made during early access you dumbfuck it's on topic, I'll keep talking about it, suck a dick
>>555590871
^^^^^^

>>555590956
None of the posts I replied to were about Early Access or even tangentially about BG3. Fuck off, you worthless parasite.

>>555590871
>you can't talk about the developer of a game in the game's general
This is why your janitor application was denied.

>>555582296
>special snowflake race
>special snowflake color
>waaaa Imma murderer who can't help himself
>or maybe not ;)
shit idea. would not play/10.

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>>555591210
Correct. That's clearly off-topic garbage instigated by a parasite that wants to turn this general into a cesspool. What Swen had for breakfast, his life aspirations, his values, his latest twitter dispute - none of that is on topic. You're not talking about the VIDEO GAME when you ramble about Swen and politics and the ethics of very mean words in game reviews. Cry about the companions lacking diversity again. That's terribly dull, but it's at least on topic.

>>555591564
>special snowflake color
White dragons are a normal kind of dragon.

why.... why couldn't I be enough for You
why does your heart (and also "down there") have to belong to the druid
Shaddy...

>>555592643
Why not make a druid yourself?

it wouldn't change that she is hardcoded to be in love with (and in heat for)... him... H

would any of you have complained if halsin were a big titty milf instead?

>>555592884
Why not make a druid yourself and not ask Halsin?

Yes... Shaddy... I will do it
For You.
I will eat the goodberry pie

>>555592962
Hot. Now I kinda want to make a big milfy druid.

>>555591210
hes a janny, hes mintharafag

>>555593191
there aren't that many middle aged women as companions in CRPGs but they always seem to be high quality
>Wynn
>BG3 Jaheira
>Kreia

What I dont get about the Ketheric thing is that there is a point during the final parts of the Moonrise arc where he literally surrenders if you pass a few pers checks and then changes his mind last second.

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We love Karl here

Karlach, Shadowheart and Lae'zel are all my wives and mother of my children.

>>555596642
Astarion...

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>"n-no more g-- hurrgh... goodberry pie... too mmff much..."
>Shaddy: "Come on Tav, finish your goodberry pie"
>Tav: HURRRK
>Shaddy: (casts Command: Eat)
>Tav: mmrmfrrgghnm nurrffmm good yes goodberry good
>Halison: "Nature's bounty ;)"

>>555596539
>twink half elf
based and canon romance for Karlach

>>555596539
We?

>>555596539
I love her futa porn, sure

>>555579985
You can't go wrong with either. Bard might be the most different in terms of game mechanics and it also has ample amount of unique dialogues. Play one if you haven't already, especially if plan to recruit Wyll and Minthara!

>>555584956
Yes for the retarded part. Solo is it's own beast. Coming up with a build that's tailor-made for that is a big part of the fun! JoaT is more like a novelty experience when you're done with the usual runs already.

>>555594376
Special shoutout to Grieving Mother! An underrated piece of Avellone's body of work.

>>555597039
I love this

>>555597039
I hate this

Who's Halison

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Astarion stole the hearts of your wife, mother, and sister
even your dad, brother, and friends fell for him
at this point, even the statues in Baldur’s Gate probably have crushes on him

>>555602956
I can't see gay men being attracted to astarion he's way too cringe

>>555603158
I'd ravage his butt but I'd definitely ghost him afterwards.

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>>555603324

>>555603324
godey please leave

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>Why yes, I am a pointilist, how could you tell?

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Shadowsexo

>>555596539
She’s alright to look at. Listening to her speak makes me lament my sense of hearing.

>>555606737
I’m glad they went with a more dignified look.

Do you think it is possible to impregnate Karlach or will her infernal womb burn the sperm alive before it reaches her eggs?

Is it my mods or some game bug when the game does not show hit percentage when hovering over enemy in combat? I have to move mouse on and off the enemy for it to appear.

>>555603158
that’s part of his charm
his silliness makes him cute

>>555607981
From fancy gentleman adventurer wizard to nerd in a bathrobe. What a downgrade.

>>555607179
ok

>>555607981
they should have made a special coat for him

>>555607981
If the goal was to make Gale come off as confident, they failed miserably. Man is insecure as fuck.

>>555609346
he's a massive bitch in the full game, I like the sleazy gale from the early access better

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does anyone play male Tav or is this an AGP general?

>>555610452
>chav tav that definitely takes it up the ass
basically a girl

>>555610452
The only people who play male are fujoshis who want to have their boys bum and be bummed by Astarion.

>>555610452
I only play as male Tavs but manthyfag throws a hissy fit whenever he sees a man.

>>555602956
Embarrassing. I prefer the sister who just posts cute fanart. She doesn't treat Astarion like a boy toy to parade around.

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>>555612841
you look like pic related

>>555610452
>zoomer Tav
>Redditlach
>W*ll

>>555610452
Yes they all have AGP especially the Manthara and Toadfags

>>555610403
I don't get why they made her an aasimar and treated that like it's something special
aasimars are just the holy version of tieflings

>>555613403
she's not just an aasimar, she's the daughter of selune.

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>>555613596
the game calls her an aasimar several times

>>555613403
No one within the narrative or outside of it thinks that just being an aasimar is something special. Raphael is technically a cambion, though no one thinks of him that way.

>>555613849
Mintharafag is so cute

Do I make Karlach into a Giant Barbarian or into a Wildheart Barbarian? Far as I understand, the second is better for melee and the first is for throwing.

>>555613403
I took it as some sort of miscommunication between Larian and Wotc. She should be like a deva not a aasimar i think

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one of my favorite things about act 2 were the mini bosses, they really felt like DOS2 boss fights for some reason

>>555613596
yeah but even the description there from the artbook treats the aasimar part as being special calling them "celestial creatures"
aasimars are just guys who might have had an ancestor fuck an angel or unicorn or something
rare for sure but no more rare or special than tieflings
there'd realistically be at least a couple milling about in Baldur's Gate

iirc dnd has a whole race specifically for children of gods

>beat Aradin by letting the Nightsong do all the work
>the next morning Mizora wants the D
Coincidence? I don't think so!

>>555614519
>Oi, you! Shut your mouth and look at my wad!

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>>555610452
>male Tav
yes

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man look at these cool goblin faces meanwhile goblins ingame only have 2 or 3 different faces tops

>>555615485
for me, it's the one with the two front braids
she looks so fucking done with this shit

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locations look so fucking big and intimidating in the concept arts I wonder if they'll make them bigger in divinity and give you a run button to make traveling quicker, places like the underdark and the mountain pass should feel huge but can be crossed in a few minutes

>>555613596
I wonder who her father is.

>>555616052
a trip through the Underdark could realistically make for a whole act all on its own, but they had more stuff they needed to squeeze into the game
just look at the cut content already and imagine how much worse it might be if they tried to expand on the Underdark

>>555617058
fair

>>555614543
I think it's just some unfamiliarity with the naming conventions, Aylin can't be called demigoddess since those are part of the proper godly ranks, don't live on the mortal plane and are subject to Ao's restrictions. Aylin's immortality and permawings are much stronger than what the playable Aasimar race gets so the technical term would be half-celestial, but that's a broad category and includes descendants of random angels too.

>>555617579
Are Bhaalspawn technically demigods? They are (with the exception of Durge) the result of a god boinking a mortal.

The Dark Urge is Bhaalist Christ

>a virgin birth
>brought into the world to murder all beings (Bhaalist Rapture)
>Durge (the Son) forms a trinity with Bhaal (the Father) and Sceleritas (the Holy Spirit)
>teaches his followers to engage in cannibalism, a literal interpretation of Communion
>the ceremony to become an Unholy Assassin is a baptism in blood
>is betrayed by one of his apostles, Orin
>Judas Iscariot’s last name has been interpreted by some scholars as a mutation of the Latin “sicarius”; also could have come from an Aramaic word meaning “red”
>Bhaal’s arrival is heralded by an angelic choir and a church organ
>the Slayer form has stigmata

https://youtu.be/kbQQAg3IPM8?si=ANo5ejsUbvZwmqzk
pure edgekino

>>555620147
Best track in the game.

>>555619660
>emerging from the mind flayer pod = rising from the grave
>totally plausible that Orin smooched Durge as a distraction before driving the knife in

>>555620684
It's basic as fuck, but I like Down by the River best.
https://youtu.be/zSVRtM1x9wQ

>>555621180
Why not both?
https://youtu.be/9tWjWLK56X8?si=Srr7y3oO_8IBAbYE

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What's she thinking, /bgg/?

>>555623295
me pounding her virgin asshole

>>555623295
>Oh my Sylvanus, I LOVE murdering children. It turns me on like you wouldn't believe. That'll teach you to be younger than me you little shit.

>>555623295
>I can't believe my writer is a gay furry

Sex. I'm talking about sex. Intercourse. Fade to black with implied coitus. It's always about sex with you "people." Missionary sex with Astarion. On his grave. Altar sex with Minthara. Your obedience will make this more enjoyable for the both of you. Moonlit sex with Shadowheart. Selûne is watching, but you don't care. Sparring sex to establish dominance with Lae'zel. Submissive sex, too. Lower. Taste. Hot and passionate sex with Karlach. Until you see nothing but stars. Sex. Why can't you have sex with Jaheira? That's not fair. I'm sure she's still a cougar, if you know what I mean. And by that, I mean sex. Kagha should have been a companion. So you could have sex with her. The viper must strike... get it? The joke is sex. The punchline is sex. Mizora should have been your patron. So she could reward you with sex. Good pup. Sex. Remember to frequently long rest - not so you can rest your mind and body, but so you can have more sex, of course. Sex with Bex the sex. Awkward sex with Alfira. Sad sex with Inwe. Sex with the harpies, too. Sex, sex, sex! Pity sex with Florrick. She owes you as much for saving her. Do you think Vlaakith is a virgin? Sex with Baretha, Yy'rul, Therezzyn, Isobel, Aylin, Araj, Sloncha, Patty, Dalyria, Elin, and all these characters who exist only for sexual temptation. Forbidden sex with the Mother Superior. I wonder if Shar ever had sex. Lesbian sex. Incestuous sex. Twin sister sex. Shapeshifting sex with Orin - even if she murders you after. Worth it. Sex. Has it been about 2 minutes since you last thought of sex? Are there any mods that enhance sex scenes? Can't wait to turn on photo mode, or sex mode as I like to call it... you know what that means. Sex. Lots of it. Swearing an Oath of Devotion to sex. First tenet: Never miss an opportunity for sex. Oh, but if the writers even suggest that a companion might be interested in sex... then they're sex-obsessed. What can change the nature of a person? The answer must be sex.

>>555623683
this is what you'd hear if you use Detect Thoughts on my forest gnome bard (female w/ penis)

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>>555623295
I love her so much it's unreal

>>555623683
holy wordslop

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What is this spot and how do I get there?

>>555623683
You won me at "Sex" but lost me by "obedience".

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>>555623683

>>555623683
Class for this feel?

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>>555623683
You forgot the Mintharafag screenshot. You can't even do this right.

>>555616981
We're speaking of a goddess, not a mortal. Does it really make sense to think in mortal terms? I very much doubt there was sexual intercourse with an unspecified sperm donor, conception, pregnancy, birth, nursing, child-rearing, the whole works. I think that if Selûne wanted a daughter, she could materialize an adult one, and that's what happened.

>>555625729
Hypothetically, sure, but that’s not specified.

So I wonder who the father is.

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>>555623683
>>555624117

>>555624293
I wish we could trade Halsin for Kagha.

>>555624595
Which map or location? Zhentarim Hideout?

>>555626319
Lorgan. Obviously!

>>555625729
cant believe he played evil, hes such a good person!!!

>>555623683
What does it mean that Astarion is the only man in this

>>555626970
Shadowcursed Lands. Just after the elevator room. There's just a collapsed cliff there which is shown on the map, but it also indicates that it's somehow navigable land. I've tried light and darkness and shooting at it, but as far as I can tell there's nothing there, above or below.

>>555626319
The real question is if there ever was a father. The original Mystra was basically the daughter of Selune and Shar...

>>555627170
That's not Mintharafag's character - though irrelevant in this case, I feel compelled to be truthful. Playing an evil character doesn't make you an evil person in real life. Your in-game avatar isn't literally you. It's called roleplaying, sweetheart.

>>555627359
Astarion is the only male character who has been consistently sexualized since the inception of this general. He has "earned" his place in that pasta, thanks to the sisters.

>>555628767
you can see his gross icon in the bottom and the scene is happening so he was complicit in the murder of innocents

>>555628767
There must be a gay community of players who want sex with the squid or the bear somewhere.

>>555628213
Must have been the angriest divine lesbian sex the cosmos has ever seen.

>>555625729
>I very much doubt there was sexual intercourse
>One of the goddess Selûne's titles, Moonmaiden, has often been debated among the ecclesiastical. Common symbology certainly rejects the assumption of virginity.
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Sel%C3%BBne%27s_Spear_of_Night
While the flavor text is a bit silly in nature, it does imply that Selune is associated with having sex.
Wiki page also says that Selune controls reproductive cycles, ensures safety of birth and whatnot, so it does seem child rearing isn't something out of the ordinary for her.

>>555629506
Not gay but I've had sex with every character but Gale. Fuck you Gale, I don't want to see your damn magic trick.

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>>555630483
checks out

speaking of
missionary with Astarion

>>555630483
I figure Gale romance would be done sometimes by players who want their character to become a god.

>>555631182
Missionary with Astarion? You mean like praying together to your favorite deity

>>555632105
The only time Gale gets any ass is in origin playthroughs.

>>555632293
What's Astarion's favourite deity anyway? Myrkul because undead?