Any woman that can kill a gay elf wizard by breaking his fucking spine over her knee while screaming AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL is a 10/10 waifu and your opinions are nothing but excrement.
This scene unironically cured by dyke hatred towards nightsong.
this bitch is outright unhinged. killing her is the best outcome for everyone involved
She speaks like a warhammer character kek
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
A gay* Warhammer character, and even then they have more depth and characterization to them than being unhinged psycho's. Even Malus Darkblade and Queek edgy murderhobo's that they are, probably have more going on than just >I will SMASH enemy >Woe, I am the greatest >Now begone, I will sex wife
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>a dyke caveman
I dunno, sounds kinda based to me.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dyke Caveman is based because of Grug'ett factor, but Aylin spends too much time tooting her own horn for how often she jobs tbh
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>but Aylin spends too much time tooting her own horn for how often she jobs tbh
Fair.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>.t Dameless
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I know 🙁
>but Aylin spends too much time tooting her own horn for how often she jobs tbh
Fair.
My only honest complaint, if she was less smug and arrogant she'd be one of the better character's in the game. Or if she was more competent, like if she already Baned Lorroikan but it triggered a fuckhuge defense golem
I tried romancing Daeran but it got too gay too fast. You're gay too.
He's very homo but he's one of the few people that are actually nice to you and funny for no reason other than because they are, I think it's worth it. Certainly more than Sosiel, Cam cam, and Galfrey, Wenduag, and Lann
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Kill enemy >I'm cool >I'm gonna fuck my wife now
Literally gigastacy behavior
Khaga is busted, but I do love Aylin's phat thighs. Mizora is peak, though. I don't care who disapproves, I'm complimenting her when she first appears.
It's a shame the Dark Justiciar gear you get for killing her fucking blows
I'm not going orient Shart and/or my party around this really specific ability when I can just cast Spirit Guardians and dash through the press.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Also Selune Spear > Shar Spear.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's a shame the Dark Justiciar gear you get for killing her fucking blows
I'm not going orient Shart and/or my party around this really specific ability when I can just cast Spirit Guardians and dash through the press.
and selune jen is a better partner and looks hotter
shar is just trash overall
She's face down, naked, in a pool of her own blood in the Goblin base. Never said a word to her lmao. Her gear went to a good use though. Shadowbae looks good in her camp outfit ;^)
What's more fucked up is that I can replace any character in the game with another, yet I couldn't figure out ONE positive male character that I would find cool enough to spawn next to her for that joke except Durge,,,
>says 3 things with different phrasing >tiefling >stupid >only character trait is being a fangirl occasionally >least reactive character in the game >shortest and least interesting backstory >shortest and least interesting companion quest (find 2 infernal iron then she dies)
mental midget. you saw her boobs and decided you liked her. absolutely fucking HORRENDOUS "taste". Go play phone gacha games.
I seriously do not understand why people like Lae'zel. She's ugly and a bitch and if you reject her random advance she complain about it to your face and tells you how she's going to fuck Astarion as an act of revenge.
Because she has the strongesr connection to the main plot and a shitload of character development. She constantly improves as the game goes on, if you only give her a chance and push her in the right direction. Her big act 3 romance scene is waking you up to watch the sunrise together while holding hands and talking about the feelings between you. The tough as nails bitch admits she doesn't mind being vulnerable if it's with you. It's a slow, but rewarding change. With other girls, you improve their life and solve their problems. With Lea'zel, you also improve her as a person.
>make the ultimate sacrifice and turn into tentacleman for Lae'zel's people >she leaves you
I shall now spend the rest of my days in hiding plotting world domination.
>Turn Orpheus into tentacleman >Githyanki race doomed to follow a lineage of retarded bitch liches who have no love for their subjects and only use them as fuel.
>Turn yourself into tentacleman >Lae'zel leaves you
>Turn Orpheus into tentacleman >have Voss and Lae'zel as a newly knighted Dragon Rider return and start a rebellion to overthrow Vlaakith, Orpheus agrees to live long enough to see his people go free
Bitch
That shit is Campaign 2 material, obvious best choice.
who gives a flying fuck about the githianki exactly? >destroy the ilithid empire >fall for a random litch bitch that can't even kill people without using wish
Propositioning you for sex is not the same as making romantic advances on you. When she actually tries to get with you, she immediately accepts you explicitly saying no, says that she is hurt but will heal and all is okay and this'll never be a problem again. She's very respectful about it. Lae'zel needs time to open up and not be a grumpy bitch and that's fine, that's character growth. I prefer it over Karlach spending 200 hours pretending she is fine just to devolve into a wreck when the can she kept kicking down the road suddenly hits a wall. Not that Karlach isn't a great character and well written, it's just personal preference.
She grows on you. Gay vampire elf does too funny enough. It's actually so weird that the upfront assholes are the most likable characters while all the default friendly people are so dogshit. shadowheart is just a bitch 24/7
That's not what happens at all, I turned her down and she accepted it and it hasn't come up again. That's how it's happened so far for literally everyone, I politely turn them down one time and they've basically been asexual since then. I am almost done with Act 3.
Lae'zel is pretty reasonable evil.
The rejection scene I got from her was basically "your loss" with no ntr shit. Dunno if your scene as described even exists.
>Dunno if your scene as described even exists.
It does. You need to go talk to her during the grove celebration party, and if you rejected her she brings it up.
I dunno, but for me the idea of her forcing herself onto the very foppish Astarion is just hilarious to me. Plus her being a powerhouse in battle really sells her attitude so I enjoy it. She's a space frog nazi what's not to like?
I've fucked around in the goblin dungeon. I killed all the goblin leaders, but I think the druid is bugged, he's not there any more and not at the (empty) camp. Whole goblin camp is aggro'd now and haven't gone back there. Have gone through the underground areas some, I'm at the part that takes you to act 2 I think, but I didn't go on the elevator yet. Only level 4, going to do some more act 1 stuff first. MC is a ranger and I'm running with Shadowheart, Astarion, and Wyll.
The way this game has companions intricately integral and reactive to quests and the plot but also capable of just being unceremoniously killed off and forgotten or just undiscovered is honestly hilarious
I try to roleplay bit and touching some frozen magic explosion did not seem like a thing a person would do. I came back when I was more powerful and used to touching random magic shit.
He didn't find Lae'zel either. He didn't find the fucking risen road or the mountain pass either and had gotten to act 3 so he couldn't go back to check them out. Idk how people can play crpgs that way, I get fomo anxiety if I don't try to do everything.
I'm in act three and I have no idea what the risen road is other than I remember reading about it in a book held by the paladins who were trying to kill Karlach. I also never saw the creche, whatever that is. I'm planning to do the mountain pass on my second playthrough with laezel as one of my main party members
The area with the Paladins hunting Karlach is the Risen Road.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Oh - is there much more to it? I think all I did was kill the paladins then head back over the stream and then went towards the goblins
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
There's 2 or 3 other fights there and one setpiece where you save an NPC and get some exposition about the Duke being missing, that's about it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Wow, interesting. In not rushing the game at all, I'm in act three with 130 hours, but I do roleplay, meaning I don't act like a completionist. Some people do the underdark and mountain pass, but that makes absolutely no sense from an rp pov imo. I'm really keen to play another run. I also let Jaheira die and killed minthara, so there's a lot there to see a second time around.
the reason i didn't stake astarion is because when i blabbered to him that i have murderous urges he said "rock on, dude, i got your back", while the others said "lmao u so funny". So what's a little blood for my bro?
Someone explain to me why the girls I thought was the ugliest and never wanted to do anything with somehow won me over
Why am I in love with an autistic Kingon/Drax the Destroyer/Teal'c frog?
Fromnall companions, she is literally the most integrated to the main plot. Karlach is there, because she ran away from hell, she also used to know Gortash. Astarion got snatched and neither him nor his vampire master had anything to do with the main story till you personally involved them. Gale has a part of Krassus' magic in his chest, but it's just a coincidence and he's there by pure chance. Wyll was chasing Karlach and his dad is a VIP in BG. Shadowheart stole the artifact for her cultist friends, but it's barely a part of her story. Lea'zel hails from a race actively fighting mind flayers 24/7, her people owned the artifact, her true prince is imprisoned in it and a Githyanki creche is (seemingly) one of the most promising places to try to remove the tadpole.
She's cute, but the girl who plays the most innocent for most of the game ends up being the biggest hoe out of all of the girls. Even if it requires input on your part, she disapproves if you decline a fivesome with Halsin and the Drow twins.
> How is she a slut?
After EVERY single introduction to a new party member, she HEAVILY insinuates that she is down to fuck them. This is 100% on the writer of her character.
If you can not read through her (the writer's) context, then I am sorry senpai. You do not understand women.
Prove me wrong cuck.Characters are reflective of their authors.
Your waifu even wanted to fuck Gale. GALE, the horniest, most magic-addicted, sexually pathetic man ever written in an CRPG. Someone that had to be NERFED by the developers to not be so creepy.
Your girl, wanted to fuck him after the short-rest of you not-biting his hand off.
>.
It's also funlnny since the only one that actually gees out of their way to fuck the other male companions is Lae'zel. She tries to fuck most of them.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's because she wants you to notice her, senpai. Classic w*men behavior tbh.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
What? She only ever fucks Astarion in my playthrough.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
She'll also fuck Wyll and complain about how bad he is.
>After EVERY single introduction to a new party member, she HEAVILY insinuates that she is down to fuck them.
There is only one companion that actually fucks other party members and it isn't Shadowheart.
This is not true, not even a little bit.
Imagine listening to dedicated shitposters and not just playing the game...Karlach is a whore ingame, and Shadowheart is the only one who wants a long term relationship.
lel OK kid
Who's the one that turns down a incest threesome and calls you a degenerate and that she wants to take a bath in lye just thinking about it, and who's the one who is not only perfectly fine with it, but also constantly lusts after bear cock even after her supposed tradwife conversion?
i read somewhere that the song doesnt make sense anymore cuz they changed some shit in the story?
Your Dream Visitor used to be more styled as a love interest. Through the course of the story, they'd seduce you and at the end, you could be with them and they'd take you down to the river. Outside the dream your character turns into a Mind Flayer, but your mind gets a happy ending.
The most you get out of her for awhile is a kiss, everybody else is keen to jump your bones. Karlach even wakes you up saying how horny she is. Lae'zel fucks you before she even loves you, your dick mindbreaks her into wanting romance and love.
>Lae'zel fucks you before she even loves you
You're not even the only one. Almost any man in the camp would do. She just wants sex. She'll also fuck Astarion and Wyll.
>Raphael was the best villain in the game and needed even more involvement and an option for final boss based on your choices. >The Absolute should have been an actual person and not a brain. The brain should have been the Absolute's subservient moron. >The Dead Three should have actually been the Absolute's patsy's and not it's handler. >The Emperor was stupid. Should have kept Daisy as a manifestation of the tadpole trying to seduce you. >The Emperor should never have been a thing at all. >Fuck The Emperor, seriously. >The form you make for Daisy should have been the appearance of the Absolute. >Tav and Dark Urge should have been a singular character, just give players the option to not brutally murder Alfira or kick that squirrel. >You should have been able to collect a new heart from the Steelwatch facility fore Karlach along with some of the fancy Steelwatch infernal iron so Dammon could have forged her a new heart. >Jaheira should have been a full blown romance option. Let me plow that sexy old lady. I want to blow a load on her wrinkly yet strangely perky tits and ass. >The game needed some extra bosses with heavy lore implications but that were intentionally super difficult so you have something worth using all those legendary and broken very rare items on. Drizzt, Zariel, I don't care. >Kagha, Nere, Alfira, Volo, and the orc bitch from Moonrise should all be companion options.
>>The Emperor was stupid. Should have kept Daisy as a manifestation of the tadpole trying to seduce you. >>The Emperor should never have been a thing at all. >>Fuck The Emperor, seriously.
The Emperor is the best character and did nothing wrong
He did absolutely everything wrong and was a complete fucking moron for his entire existence.
I mean he HAS to be stupid to try and convince you that he actually is Balduran and not just a puppet in possession of his memories. If he's not outright lying to you, he is completely delusional and unaware of what he is.
He always was and is a scheming, manipulative, lying douchebag and him throwing a hissy-fit and leaving just to get immediately shmorged by the Absolute because I wouldn't let him eat Orpheus confirms that. Most satisfying kill of the game finally getting to cave his brain in as an unceremonious add in the finale.
He is literally Balduran, and never tries to convince you the dragon tells you he's Balduran himself.
He doesn't manipulate or lie about anything, he does exactly what he promised he'd do if you don't betray him for Orpheus. Choosing the Emperor over frogfag gives you the best ending because no one has to sacrifice themselves ot become a mindflayer.
Mindflayers don't have a soul. As confirmed by Withers. They don't have a conscience or will that isn't the colonies'. They possess intelligence and memories based off their host, yes, but a mindflayer is an entirely new and separate creature after Ceremorphosis.
The Emperor IS NOT Balduran. The Emperor POSESSES Balduran's memories and pieces of his personality. That is all.
And no, Emperor is not the best ending. Freeing Orpheus means planting the seeds to a civil war that overthrows Vlaakith and freeing the Githyanki, and it also removes The Emperor from mind-controlling and tadpoling his way across the Underworld of Baldur's Gate. It is objectively the right thing to kill him and deny him every bid to regain his former power.
You drank his kool-aid, you simply refuse to believe that he was in fact lying to and manipulating you the entire time.
>Mindflayers don't have a soul. As confirmed by Withers.
Omeluum is bro-tier and is definitely good aligned though, how could a soulless, power-hungry husk be that?
>Tav and Urge being merged
At first I agreed but an anon pointed out that making you have to be Urge makes your character some special dude while having the Tav option allows people roleplay some nobody who got swept up in a adventure. I think they made the right choice in the end.
are all the acts of equal length?
im still in act 1. loving it, but i kinda want to take a break between them if they're all going to be this long (that, and i don't think my pc will handle baldur's gate well. it was already chugging when all the tieflings were getting packed up to leave)
so tired of hearing the music in this game. it just endlessly loops the same tracks. wish this game would change up the music genre sometimes like FFXIV did.
> like FFXIV
It only makes sense to do that in a live service game where the game never ends and you have lots of unrelated or segmented stories, single player soundtracks are a lot more interconnected because the entire work tells a single story.
I get what you mean. I (and I think that anon as well) would have preferred a more 'out there' but still cohesive soundtrack like Uematsu's work.
Soundtrack is still pretty damn good though. I hope the popularity of the Raphael fight theme proves that more strange and less atmospheric music is the right choice
The bulk of FFXIV's soundtrack is done by Soken alone, same guy who did the entire soundtrack for FFXVI, a lot of Uematsu' FFXIV work is very conentional for the series where as Soken is more balls to the wall. For comparrison they both composed their own track for different phases of the same boss fight
I have no idea how Ganker does this where it somehow pastes the wrong thing when I post it.
Yeah I know. I meant more like Uematsu's work on FFIX or whatever; single player games whose soundtrack were not built for a live service. Because XIV has the largest soundtrack of any Final Fantasy, it has to be more out there to remain 'interesting'. My favorite is Soken's electronic work, he should do more stuff like Alexander more often.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
He should expanded more from his work on stormblood, shadowbringers was waaaaaaay to experimental with the electronic shit resulting in half the track being bangers and the other half being aids to listen to like the shadowbringers overworld battle theme.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Perhaps. Though in general I'm more able to appreciate something even its ass as long as it shows bravery and experimentation (I loved the Labyrinthos theme for example)
Stormblood was good but being too conservative can result in stuff like XVI, which while still good its more boring and you can tell that Soken was a lot more strained writing it.
The soundtrack is honestly one of the best I've ever heard and I've been shocked how thoroughly filtered people have been by it. Some of the fugues in act three are fucking incredible.
The combat music was backgroundy enough to handle the looping.
This always playing in the camp was annoying. Great song but not for background looping.
>some of the fugues
Fugues? As in more than one? That’s pretty based, wouldn’t have guessed there would be baroque music in the game. I’m still in act one, I like the music so far even if it’s standard fantasy by the numbers stuff
Yeah there's a few in act 3. I can send you yt links but I think you'd prefer to hear it yourself when you get there. It gets very baroque in act 3, which is fitting, considering the aesthetic of the grand renaissance style city. Act 1 is all harps, drums and singing, act 2 is spooky town and act 3 is pure baroque kino with impressive compositions.
>they call me an absolute madman for sneaking into the house of hope >everyone freaks out multiple times about how Raphael is gonna kill my ass soul >seriously he's gonna rip you a new one >he gets his own mega loud disney theme during his fight and fucking sings >i get pumped up >bro fails all his attacks and i had a harder time with his devil henchmen >doesnt even have a weapon
If you help Halsin from his incoming death, then yes. But if you left him to die, then no because the goblins will raid the grove and everybody will die, including the blacksmith.
Honestly, if you don't plan to romance Karlach or to get Potent Robe, i wouldn't even bother saving the Tieflings because Minthara is much more interesting than Halsin.
I killed all the druids, sent the goblins to the grove, told halsin I enjoyed killing the druids which led him to attack me, and then I killed all the goblins saving the tiefs when they showed up at the grove.
>Absolute leaders?
You mean the goblins leaders ? You can kill 2 of them, i guess. But one of them has to survive. If you killed Minthara, then she's dead for good, even if you didn't kill every the other two. If you kill them all and didn't go get Halsin, he will found his way back to the grove on his own. Him found his way back to the grove thing, i'm not entirely sure but i did it once, back in launch patch. I don't know if it's still a thing but you can try it out, i guess. I talked to the captured merc and he told me Halsin escaped during chaos and when you go to his cell, it's empty and your character will say something, i don't remember, but you'll see him again at the grove.
Yes but the druids, they have to die. Stole the idol to cause a civil war and then side with the tieflings. Just make sure to have your party protecting Dammon the blacksmith at all cause, if he dies, Karlach's quest is over. After you helped the tieflings wipe out the tree huggers, make your way to the goblins camp and kill them all or at least just the 3 leaders and kill Halsin, he need to die. If you don't kill him, he will kill you for wiping out his grove.
Shadow heart is the only one who wanted to get intimate with me after the tiefling party, well aside from gale but I'm pretty sure he just tries to fuck you no matter what. I kissed shadow heart but i wanted karlach. I got her pretty late in act one so I guess I hadn't built enough approval for her to like me but is it possible to romance her in act two or are you locked into shadow heart after the make out?
When I spoke to her at the party karlach was going on about wanting to get laid but when I told her I liked her she said she didn't want to complicate our relationship.
>>Down, down, down by the river...
Yeah, that thing got the axe, lmao.
Together with any negative consequences of spamming long rest and abusing shrimp powers.
And Daisy.
What does that mean for Astarion
Absolutely was a whore, whole-heartedly agrees to a four-some if you aren't romancing him but completely disassociates and becomes shell-shocked during it, and declines because it makes him uncomfortable if you are romancing him.
I'd say that counts.
can I make a cute goth girl for my character? how goth?
and also if I can, what should I choose for a beginner class? I don't know anything about DnD
>can I make a cute goth girl for my character?
Yes. >how goth?
Very. >and also if I can, what should I choose for a beginner class?
Monk is quite strong, give it a go.
The mods for the game let you make some kino goth women, pic related is some randoms Shart with the edit any character mod along with new hairstyles mod
excellent, thanks bros
i made a goth girl necromancer, fuckin love the vampiric and decay skin tones
now we're talking
I have no idea about class types, though, can I spec into it later on or should I start with a specific type of magic class?
you will be able to respec later for 100 gold, you get your subclass for wizard at level 2, just try something you think you'll like or suits the character and if you don't like it, you aren't stuck with it permanantly
What does that mean for Astarion
Absolutely was a whore, whole-heartedly agrees to a four-some if you aren't romancing him but completely disassociates and becomes shell-shocked during it, and declines because it makes him uncomfortable if you are romancing him.
The mods for the game let you make some kino goth women, pic related is some randoms Shart with the edit any character mod along with new hairstyles mod
I fucking hate the endings I got presented with wtf! >You can take control of the brain with the emperor but he will make a thrall out of all of you. >You can betray him but you will make a thrall out of all your companions like an asshole. >You turn into a semen slurping catfishing ilithid and make thralls out of your companions like an asshole.
OR >Be a good boi and destroy the brain even though you meant to control it from the begining
There is no fucking winning in the end is there?
That's what you get for trusting Squidface, idiot.
How many times does the game need to tell you >by the way, he wasn't "good friends" with Stelmane, he mindcontrolled her into a seizure-prone state
or >all those old friends Balduran had? Yeah, he fucking killed them because they stopped trusting "The Emperor"
before it sinks in that this guy is not your friend and simply using you to regain power over his order.
Mindflayers don't have a soul. As confirmed by Withers. They don't have a conscience or will that isn't the colonies'. They possess intelligence and memories based off their host, yes, but a mindflayer is an entirely new and separate creature after Ceremorphosis.
The Emperor IS NOT Balduran. The Emperor POSESSES Balduran's memories and pieces of his personality. That is all.
And no, Emperor is not the best ending. Freeing Orpheus means planting the seeds to a civil war that overthrows Vlaakith and freeing the Githyanki, and it also removes The Emperor from mind-controlling and tadpoling his way across the Underworld of Baldur's Gate. It is objectively the right thing to kill him and deny him every bid to regain his former power.
You drank his kool-aid, you simply refuse to believe that he was in fact lying to and manipulating you the entire time.
Imagine being this mindbroken by BaldurCHAD
He's based as hell and way better choice than the frog fuccboi
I know what he was from the beginning and meant to kill him right at the end but then all my companions asked me wtf I was doing and my char enslaved everyone.
There is no ending in which you rule with your companions intact, you always end up enslaving them.
You are correct, you get these endings because you, the fucking idiot, TRUSTED THE EMPEROR.
Had you disregarded him, worked against him, sought a different outcome than what he claims is the only way, you might've had a better choice.
You guys are focusing on the wrong fucking thing, I also had the hammer and could save orpheus, the problem is that the game won't let you command the brain and not be an assholes to your companions, I don't want to enslave them.
Minthara wants to control the cult so I have to obey.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Its what I ended up doing after I saw all the shit choices
What the fuck did you think "controlling the brain" meant, then?
Were you gonna put it in a nice maid outfit, clean your summer house, make it walk your dog?
What the fuck do you think it means to take control of an Elder Brain with its illithid collective?
It means you TAKE CONTROL OF THE ILLITHID COLLECTIVE, which, yes, includes your friends, who are all very vocal about how much they did not want to be part of an illithid collective.
Look at it this way, you aren't an asshole to your companions because they like and endorse everything *you* say now, anyways.
Astarion and Mynthara kept bugging me the whole run about taking control of the brain, what they failed to mention was that we would all become bitches to emperor and they would become my bitches, there is no good ending for them.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>there is no good ending for them
Yeah, exactly as you chose and intended.
Woe, consequences of your actions upon ye.
There is no other outcome. There is no "friend who is in charge with me :)".
If you thought there was any other way this could've worked out, you're a moron.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You are a special kind of fucking idiot aren't you?
This is not a actions and consequences kind of deal, this is not something with subtle clues that you could have seen coming, this is the result of cut content.
Obviously part of the "70 something endings" that we never got, the companions kept talking and made several remarks about us controlling the brain so it was part of the plan at some point.
I hate that you can't kill that gay squid sooner
God I hate that squid so much.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The companions were WRONG. You cannot control an ELDER BRAIN without controlling ITS COLLECTIVE.
This is a simple logic issue.
You want something THAT CANNOT HAPPEN BECAUSE IT ISN'T HOW THINGS WORK.
You should have known this. Yes, Astarion and Minthara didn't, they are stupid and blinded by opportunity, and so were you.
Literally you made your bed, lie in it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>ITS COLLECTIVE.
What collective? 3 morons with glowing legos were enough.
That leaves me, ASStarion and Minthra.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
What collective he asks.
What do you think every single tadpoled person on the Sword Coast is?
ESPECIALLY since you got rid of the only 2 people stopping the Brain from taking them over entirely?
There IS no Astarion. There IS no Minthara. With that kill you ensured that there is only the Absolute now, with you at the helm as you are the one with the stones who dominated her.
And no, splitting was not an option anymore, that is established when the brain becomes the Netherbrain.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
[...]
I have the 3 fucking stones and I decide who turns and who thralls, just like the 3 fags that had it before me, but somehow my char pulled and even evil-er move on the companions and THAT is the problem.
[...]
KEK
I'm just gonna repeat what I said earlier.
You let people with 8 int who had no fucking clue about how anything works try and make a decision on how they can use a 9th level spell to control a being beyond comprehension and are now upset that things didn't work like you and your idiot friends thought it did. Apparently you also have 8 int.
Again, your friends were gone the second you destroyed the Orphic Blessing. You are the only one left.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dude, if someone as retarded as Orin and Ketheric can control it then it can't be that hard, relax.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Neither Orin nor Ketheric had tadpoles.
Your friends did.
You are only save because you have all 3 stones and broke the brains will.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ok first off I'll have you know that I have 10 int not 8 and second
Neither Orin nor Ketheric had tadpoles.
Your friends did.
You are only save because you have all 3 stones and broke the brains will.
Ok fine!
Guess that leaves destroying the brain as the only decent ending then.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You have very clearly demonstrated in this exchange that you do not have average intelligence for a commoner, sorry to break it to you.
You were wrong about literally everything you wanted as an outcome here and then blamed it on cut content.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>you do not have average intelligence for a commoner,
Not that bro but what are you on? The average peasants should only have 6 on all stats, 8 int already 2 scores above the average masses.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Isn't 10 supposed to be an average humans score in DnD?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Human with classes maybe, but peasants and shit are literally classless and should only have 6 on all boards.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Pretty sure I read in one of the 5e handbooks that 10 is the baseline for the average human. A completely standard human with no nothing special about him should be all 10's.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The average peasants should only have 6 on all stats
What? Since when? Maybe that's a 5e thing since everything is dumber.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>5e is worse in every way
Please stop mindlessly parroting Reddit opinions
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It sure is worse than 3.5 and AD&D
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
5e is fun and everyone I know enjoys it, the goal of the game is to roleplay and 5e facilitates that better than 3.5. What's your main issue with 5e?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>5e is fun
Cute but has nothing to do with what I said.
It is dumbed down.
It is worse than 3.5 and ad&d. >What's your main issue with 5e?
It's simplicity and lack of variety.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fun has everything to do with what you said. Is your main goal with DnD to roleplay? If it is, 5e is superior BECAUSE of its simplicity. It maintains enough complexity while facilitating better rping.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Fun has everything to do with what you said.
I don't care about your fun or of some randoms. > Is your main goal with DnD to roleplay?
It's both to roleplay and play a game. > 5e is superior BECAUSE of its simplicity
lol. no
In other words, it's inferior BECAUSE of its simplicity.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>I don't care about your fun or of some randoms.
Then why are you playing DnD, you autistic freak? Your disposition makes sense considering your opinion, not very social, are you
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Then why are you playing DnD, you autistic freak?
I'm talking in the context of video games.
5e is babby compared to 3.5 and ad&d
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Simplicity isn't necessarily bad, and IMO classes end up becoming more distinct than in 3.5e, kind of similar to AD&D.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I don't like 3.5/Pathfinder and I think 5 is an overcorrection from them.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, they added a lot of very nice RP mechanics and quality of life changes but in exchange basically took away a lot of player freedoms in buildcrafting, peak DnD should be 3.5/PF mixed with 5e gimmicks and flavour
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You are a special kind of fucking idiot aren't you?
This is not a actions and consequences kind of deal, this is not something with subtle clues that you could have seen coming, this is the result of cut content.
Obviously part of the "70 something endings" that we never got, the companions kept talking and made several remarks about us controlling the brain so it was part of the plan at some point.
[...]
God I hate that squid so much.
reminder that Minthara has 8 int
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You are a special kind of fucking idiot aren't you?
This is not a actions and consequences kind of deal, this is not something with subtle clues that you could have seen coming, this is the result of cut content.
Obviously part of the "70 something endings" that we never got, the companions kept talking and made several remarks about us controlling the brain so it was part of the plan at some point.
[...]
God I hate that squid so much.
>one of my companions said it so it must be 100% true!
retard
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
But 25 Wis
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>ITS COLLECTIVE.
What collective? 3 morons with glowing legos were enough.
That leaves me, ASStarion and Minthra.
I have the 3 fucking stones and I decide who turns and who thralls, just like the 3 fags that had it before me, but somehow my char pulled and even evil-er move on the companions and THAT is the problem.
[...]
reminder that Minthara has 8 int
KEK
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i think the main difference between the stone wielders and you is that none of them have tadpoles, they're not bound to the absolute as servants, and the absolute can't just MC them if they allow it to be fully autonomous. i agree with the other anon, honestly, your party has an IDEA of what they want to do to the netherbrain because they love the idea of power, but have no clue how it actually works
What the fuck did you think "controlling the brain" meant, then?
Were you gonna put it in a nice maid outfit, clean your summer house, make it walk your dog?
What the fuck do you think it means to take control of an Elder Brain with its illithid collective?
It means you TAKE CONTROL OF THE ILLITHID COLLECTIVE, which, yes, includes your friends, who are all very vocal about how much they did not want to be part of an illithid collective.
Look at it this way, you aren't an asshole to your companions because they like and endorse everything *you* say now, anyways.
You are correct, you get these endings because you, the fucking idiot, TRUSTED THE EMPEROR.
Had you disregarded him, worked against him, sought a different outcome than what he claims is the only way, you might've had a better choice.
And instead you doom the Githyanki to serve Vlaakith and be consumed by her and The Emperor, who is a straight up villain, is free to mind-control his way across the underground of Baldur's Gate again.
Killer ending you got there, champ.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I don't give a fuck about the githyanki they're all cunts, the emperor saved me all game so I owe him one
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>emperor has been deceiving you the whole time, using illusions to get you to trust him >doesn't tell you he MC'd Stalemane and their relationship was one-sided unless you make it evident you distrust him, even then he shows you that and threatens you, telling you he could do the same to you >if you decide to free Orpheus, he instantly joins the brobrain, proving his ultimate goal since learning of the elder brain wasn't freedom, just being on the winning side >don't forget he tries to fuck you several times for no real reason other than wanting to keep luring you deeper into his schemes
fuck the emperor, fuck the ghaik, and fuck the moronbrain
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
also not to mention that illithid have no souls and the emperor simulates human sentimentality constantly, even Withers, who is a literal god, tells you the illithid have no souls. trusting the emperor is full retard behavior
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Who gives a fuck? He leaves you and your party alone in the end anyways, if your not a cunt to him he doesn't resort to threats or betrayal. He like you, wants to survive.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>emperor has been deceiving you the whole time, using illusions to get you to trust him
He tells you himself he had to use the illusion because no one would trust a mindflayer at first
't tell you he MC'd Stalemane and their relationship was one-sided unless you make it evident you distrust him, even then he shows you that and threatens you, telling you he could do the same to you
So fucking what if he mc'd stelmane? he was ultimately keeping baldur's gate in line and bringing order to the city, the game tells you stelmane was a crazy bitch anyway
And his threats are just a bluff, he never attempts to control you even though he has ample opportunity. he respects your free will to the very end >>if you decide to free Orpheus, he instantly joins the brobrain, proving his ultimate goal since learning of the elder brain wasn't freedom, just being on the winning side
Gee whiz, he wants to be on the winning side and survive like LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE GAME >>don't forget he tries to fuck you several times for no real reason other than wanting to keep luring you deeper into his schemes
He's horny and hasn't gotten laid in forever, plus all your companions try to fuck you too.
All the shit the emperor does is completely understandable and he's your genuine ally to the end, way more than the retarded frogpeople. You sound like you have an irrational hateboner for him when he does nothing offensive in the entire game unless you go out of your way to instigate him.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>He's horn
Weird since they're asexual
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>he respects your free will to the very end
A mindless thrall wouldn't be able to pull the stuff that Tav pulled, the moment he mind controls you, he cripples you. >All the shit the emperor does is completely understandable and he's your genuine ally to the end
Successfully gaslit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you played right into his tentacles, he courts your attention and "respect" because you just so happen to have come across the artifact that makes you immune to the netherbrain's control, you're just a conveniently useful tool for him. also >he respects your free will >joins the side that wants to kill you if you don't follow his retarded intergalactic domination plan
wew lad
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>his retarded intergalactic domination plan
His plan to destroy the brain is the correct one, Orpheus does it too if you choose him
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Wow it’s almost like he wants to survive at all costs and end up on top
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeah bro guess what, i'm gonna be on top, not some gay ass tentacle freak
Elder brains in general are kept in check by the same Gith power that protected you. Not resolving the Gith issue means the final solution or whatever it's called is inevitable.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>kept in check by the same Gith power that protected you
Emperor or you have the Gith power now since we absorbed Orpheus' brain so we're guuci.
Emperor route is clearly the best option if you're not a frogfucker.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
This means the power meant to keep the illithid in check is now in the hands of the illithid. Full squid dominance instead of allowing frogs their ecological niche.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I trust the Emperor over any frogfuck, Emperor is the reason I'm alive and was my ally to the end
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
He used you to enact the ancient master plan of the illithid race and you're happy about it, because you're easily manipulated.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>He used you to enact the ancient master plan of the illithid race
He literally worked with me to destroy the netherbrain and save the city. I guess I got manipulated into doing...exactly what I wanted to do from the start?
Lmao, you sound absolutely retarded.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You did what he wanted from the start.
He trapped you in the situation using a frog he also trapped. If the frog was free from the start all the problems you're thanking squid for solving wouldn't even exist.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>letting the power that be to check and balance itself
Have you not learned what would happen to this from modern governments?
>When she wakes you up in the middle of the night to tell you how good of a fighter you are, and how sexy that is. >Few nights later she wakes you up again to demand a duel in order to figure out her feelings towards you.
>turn Orpheus into a squid person >he begs laezel to continue his legacy and offers her two dragons she refuses >Orpheus says his cause is lost because laezel said no and he kills himself
Take Gale with you and agree to Orpheus that you will turn into a squid, once you approach the brain Gale will stop you and offer his services of an heroing. Boom. You got the best ending in the game. Orpheus rides with Lae'zel and Voss to kill Vlaakith. Gale dies but his soul will be saved by Mystra somehow. You have a happy ending with your love interest. The end.
I was on good terms with all of my companions in my camp, and Lae'zel as my lover. I turned myself into a tentacle man, defeated the brain, told Gale to find the crown and return it to Mystra, let Lae'zel go. Then finally went to fight demons in Avernus with Mama K, I suppose that is the best way to occupy mysef and besides... Mizora is a cocky shit and that needs to be fixed, referably with an axe through the skull.
>laezel: please stay with me when this is all over >Me: okay sure >I turn into a mindflayer to save her prince >laezel: fuck you im outta here now with my prince enjoy being forever alone
Gortash developed the altered tadpole tech you're trying to use to control the world. He knows this stuff better than you but still never had full control of the brain.
If there was an option to rule it would have had to have been through Gortash. The idea of controlling the world as a human with a tadpole in your head makes no sense. Becoming a full mindflayer is suicide.
When I freed Orpheus I had already accepted I was sacrificing my life, I read his mind and saw murderous hate toward me so I had no reason not to think he would attack and if he did I had to die.
Yes, when campaigns throw enemies at equal or greater power to your own they tend to get harder at higher levels, yes.
Can someone that actually played the game answer my question? Because tactician feels like it should be the easy mode, I can't imagine what actual easy mode is like.
there's maybe 1 fight that's challenging in act 3, but it's misleading to say that because whatever difficulty the game may have is flattened by how broken your builds can get, also how strong martial classes are late game
why not just go monk? githyanki are unironically pretty broken
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
cuz i wanted to play a wizard that could wear armor and swing giant swords around
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Are battlemages viable in 5e, how would you make one?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Eldritch Knight is good for actual 5e
But not for this game because Larian removed all blade cantrips.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Are battlemages viable in 5e, how would you make one?
yeah, just drink giant strength potions. gith automatically get proficiency with med armor and 2h swords
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
1 attack per turn unless you dedicate your one concentration spell to haste or dip a melee class. it's fucking shit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yes, but that necessitates playing a bard as it's the only full caster that gets more than one attack per round. Though in either case I don't really think the action economy works out too well and you're better off specializing.
The combat director for the game left during EA
So there's appropriate challenges and difficulty spikes in act 1, and then in act 2 onwards it's just nothing but fodder encounters.
Casters never do anything interesting, enemies never use items in a meaningful way, even story climax boss fights like Orin and Gortash literally just fucking wet noodle slap you.
The closest thing to Le'epic confrontation are Rafael, Netherbrain, and Mykrul's avatar. What a fucking shame that Bane doesn't got a spooky black bro and the Bhaalbitch just goes slayer mode while fucking Saverok is a level 16 gigachad
>Beat the game with 4 friends >One became Astarions bitch >One became Gale's Wife >One went to live on a farm with Shadowheart >Meanwhile pic related was my ending
God it felt good to be the MC of the story. Bar none my favorite ending to one of these types of RPGs
Speaking of which, can you just make Emperor fuck off the very first time he asked you to slave'd Orpheus? Even when I killed him, he just said that I "came to my senses" or someshit.
I enjoy how the theme replays as background music in certain areas or scenes. Found a music box that when played, played the theme. All of that just feels soulful for some reason.
>Halsin quest is one of the best sources of exp
The one where you protect the portal? Yeah I feel like I'm losing out on a ton of shit. They should've made Nere or Zrell a companion to balance it out seeing as how you lose out on 2 companions, and even potentially Gale too if you fail the check
Remember when people were memeing nonstop about Lae'zel being the cuck option? Only for it to turn out that's she's monogamous and loyal as fuck unlike a certain half elf?
Then you're good. I kill him in act 3 anyway because he's such a forced piece of shit character who was only added because reddit begged Larian to. The kicker is that they don't even like him now.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Kek yeah I only saved him because I was doing a good playthrough, and then saved him in Act 3 but goddamn he was basically just a deadweight extra mouth to feed in my game, added nothing. I really wish the game had a better selection of companions.
i don't care what shart does. she can take all the dick in baldur's gate, it's all the same to me. i'm gonna be doing some saucy handholding with astarion
I had shadowheart for my entire play through and used halsin as much as I could but I didnt even see him flirt with shadowheart at all which is why all this cuck shit confuses me. Mind you I did romance him and reject everyone so maybe that factors into something. Even when I went the brothel they didnt interact with each other at all.
Early access fags, what were the biggest changes to the companions in the launch version. I see people posting about Shadowheart and Wyll being more evil and an entire companion being cut but not anything specific.
Only Wyll had a huge notable overhaul, they redid his entire character and story arc. In EA he was an arrogant gloryhound being a hero for selfish reasons. Now he's genuinely a hero.
Wyll was actually a coward with hero complex, he gained his scars and losing an eye from goblins and made pact with Mizora to survive IIRC, starting to called himself Blade of the Frontier after the pact because the pact powers got into his head.
Oh kek I did see that scene, I actually had frog carry Gortash's corpse back to camp and just dropped the body infront of Karlach, I thought it might be a bit different if you actually killed him with her in your party.
Early on you have to go with whatever squid says since he's apparently the thing protecting you for whatever reason.
The deeper / pretentious side of that narrative is the idea of faith. Your existence depends on this entity so you pretty much have to have faith in it but then it's revealed he's basically a middle-man that doesn't let you talk to the source. Like a scammer priest of a real god. Squidbois got scammed by a slightly more advanced Boooal scam.
I seriously hope the next DnD game gives us subclasses from other resources besides the PHB, even better if they set the game in a different world like Eberron it's kinda malding that the only way to play fun subclasses like Swashbuckler, Hexblade, Armourer and Samurai is through a mass mod on Solasta.
Oh, I know. They've been trying to bury it for a very long time. I still think it's a really cool setting and it's a crime that we never got a classic CRPG using it though.
Wizards have proven time and time again they have awful taste by focusing on FR, hopefully if Larian or Owlkek decide for more DnD games we'll get more unique settings. Even FR isn't bad but outside of certain games you're never allowed to BE anyone special or have significant impact on the world
>Hexblade
Larian was so retarded about Hexblade, they don't want to include it because they knew people like to dip into Hexblade for the Hex Warrior but include the charisma modifier changer into Pact of the Blade anyway. Not to mention with how dead the whole talking to your patron is in this game, unless you're named Wyll, Hexblade would've been make better sense instead of the Great Old One or Archfey.
OGL is the reason why they didn't add Hexblade and modified Pact of the Blade, the ogl limits you to Phb races and materials only.
I don't think OGL matters for that, as they have Gith(weird race) and did significant reworks to some subclasses. I think it's more so the case that hexblade is an infamous munchkin dip and got nerfed to a 3-4 point investment minimum instead.
Lorewise though >Hexblade powers come primarily from the Ravenqueen
Don't blame them for wanting to not touch that mess of lore with a 10 foot pole while dealing with Shar and /ourdad/
Hexblade is more like a special OC subclass for a planescape esque op character
>Hexblade
Larian was so retarded about Hexblade, they don't want to include it because they knew people like to dip into Hexblade for the Hex Warrior but include the charisma modifier changer into Pact of the Blade anyway. Not to mention with how dead the whole talking to your patron is in this game, unless you're named Wyll, Hexblade would've been make better sense instead of the Great Old One or Archfey.
Mild spoilers for durge So, I killed shadowheart in my sleep. Slayer form sucks but it's pretty kino storywise. Can I still romance someone else from this point onward?
>character has 8 int or 8 cha >still can talk to people and isn't a retard
How is this justified? Low str, dex or con is reflected accurately through mechanics, gameplay and story sections but these two (wis is a tricky one but can still be applied here) are conveniently forgotten. Goes without saying the only videogame that got it right was Fallout
-1 int modifier wouldn't mean you're retarded just below average intelligence, you'd have to have a modifier of -2 to be a retard with a modifier of -3 being literal animal tier.
charisma modifiers are more about how convincing you are
Point buy doesn't allow you to make characters that are significantly below average. To make a real retard you need to roll for abilities and roll a 3 or 4 or something.
If you bind a 2 handed weapon without the thrown property, you could throw it and recall it, but it would only do 1d4+10 damage as an improvised throwing weapon i believe.
As far as I know, Returning Pike is the only throwing weapon that does full 2-hand weapon damage. Spears and tridents both do the 1-hand d6 damage, no different than javelins.
And it already returns on its own.
I will now make a great weapon fighting tavern brawler champion pike chucker
>you can replace it later with the legendary trident you get from the genie
How? I only ever got junk from him even after calling him out for cheating.
spin the wheel again but prevent him for cheating, he will then reee at you for cheating and teleport you to a jungle. Right next to the exit portal is a chest containing the spear.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
just remember to give the pike a second to return. if you end your turn too quick, it can just stay on the floor. actually, it might just be a toaster problem
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i have a pc with a 7800x3d and 4090 and it happens to me. it’s just game jank. also happen if you throw the weapon to enter a battle that’s already started
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
the returning pike is pretty good even in act 3 when you get the nyrulna because the nyrula has a huge aoe that often causes friendly fire. throwing builds can freely swap weapons in combat since you can throw anything from your inventory without needing to have it equipped
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i don’t think gwm works on thrown 2h weapons
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It should since it works on ranged weapons iirc
just remember to give the pike a second to return. if you end your turn too quick, it can just stay on the floor. actually, it might just be a toaster problem
it's not a toaster problem, the infernal spear is also similarly bugged but it's even worse because for some stupid reason it also gets a turn in combat for some reason if you throw it and leave it out and said turn can last up to a full minute
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i tested it, gwm does not work on returning pike thrown attacks. it’s only for melee. also it obviously doesn’t work on ranged weapons, it specifies melee weapons in the tooltip
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I thought you were talking about champion's critical role modifier
they’re all worse than the returning pike because they’re 1d6 while the pike is 1d10. and the pike can be used on a class that has better offensive bonuses than ek
>you can replace it later with the legendary trident you get from the genie
How? I only ever got junk from him even after calling him out for cheating.
pickpocket the magic ring from him, he will fail his cheats and send the party member that talks to him into a jungle full of dinosaurs. there’s a painted chest at the exit of the jungle, either lockpick it on the spot or send it to camp for your lockpicker to do it
I wish all the genders were swapped for the companions. >Wyllo the righteous demon GF >Gayle who licks god muff sucks mortal cock >Astaria needs cock correction >Karlach is "Gary the Big Man who's always at the pub" >If Shadowheart was a guy being a whore would have been based >Lad'Zel is for fans of domestic abuse
Shadowheart is such a dogshit character >release her from her mindflayer prison >don't bother her about her artifact >she repays this by letting a gay vampire hold you at knife point
Couldn't have said look out you fucking bitch?
Before I play this game any longer, please tell me there is a yes man style ending... please. I legitimately hate everyone and just want them to all die (while saving the world ofc because based heroicism)
I keep ignoring Lea'zel's demands and now she's getting really pissed off at me. I don't want her to leave because she's like my only good dps. Her stupid queen is ruining everything.
Cleric and Bard are the only "support" classes, everyone else is just a different flavor of damage, utility, and tank. Cleric and Bard actually have buffs to apply for other party members. Even then, it's mostly concentration so you'll just be blessing at the start of the fight while the rizzard casts haste on himself and spams firebolt/ball/ray
Don't fall for the cleric meme. Concentration ruins their versatility. Wizards get far more buffs with rituals, familiars that can assist and distract in combat, better crowd control by creating surfaces and clouds, and better variety of damage.
Define support. Gloomthief with dual hand xbows is basically trash and DPS support. Wizard, especially evocation, can basically just spam fireballs or what crazy shit you can learn, including decent trash mobs, skeletons or elementals. Sorcs and locks have haste to do epic gamer moment shit for themselves or your party's most beefy kill machine.
If you mean support as in healing and buffing, why? That shit is gay and it's just wasting actions you can spend killing. Better off just stacking potions and throwing them at people or having them drink themselves. Just as worthless heal output, imo.
Despite all the shitposting, even the wifus are good for a modern rpg.
All of the girls are cute and datable (some more than other).
Compare it to the shit we got in the pathfinder games, and it feels almost like a miracle.
Arue is better than any of the romances in BG3
Endings and choices in WotR are much more satisfying than anything in BG3
Music is consistently great instead of one or two standout tracks.
>Arue when Daeran is in the game
Arue's moeblob romance is more of a fantasy than an actual romance, fags aside everyone else feels like a more fleshed out romance, other than my good friend Cam Cam but what can you expect when you start hitting up Ted Bundy
Is there any reason not to just slaughter all of the goblins on sight? Is there anything to do with listening to Gut or making deals with them, if you aren't playing an evil route?
You can get some talk, lore, free stuff, and RP. Worth it for Loriander's blessing alone, very good for frontliner that soaks up damage often. Also the torture is fun
I wanted to play a dwarf cleric of Moradin. The suggested domain for Moradin is Knowledge.
Are Knowledge Domain clerics any good? Looks like they get some wizard crowd control spells and can channel their divinity to get bonuses on certain skill checks (Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion)
If BG3 used actual tabletop rulesets, you would have no chance against any of the dragons and the new Karlach ending would have an epic level demon stomp you both into a gore smear
They're all level 20 or higher with legendary resistances that let them do OP actions/spells and automatically succeed saving throws a certain number of times per day, and most if not all of their stats are 20s, minimum. Raphael is a chump compared to just one, and there's billions of them in Avernus alone.
>No Min
Into the trash.
Stop tryharding, sweetie. No one is impressed.
Kagha, Aylin, and Mizora are the hottest women in the game and I am tired of pretending otherwise.
aylin isn't hot bro, she looks like a cracked ceramic cup
>Aylin
I don't want you on my board.
>ROAR, I'M A DYKE
Jesus, never seen such an off-putting character.
She is very attractive regardless of her being gay dumbass
>She is very attractive
Absolutely 0 femininity and face like The Nameless One.
You're a virgin, bro. You're no authority. Lmao.
Ok fag
>looks like a linebacker
>attractive
you are gay
Stacy Aylin putting Virgin Anon in his place
Any woman that can kill a gay elf wizard by breaking his fucking spine over her knee while screaming AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL is a 10/10 waifu and your opinions are nothing but excrement.
She speaks like a warhammer character kek
A gay* Warhammer character, and even then they have more depth and characterization to them than being unhinged psycho's. Even Malus Darkblade and Queek edgy murderhobo's that they are, probably have more going on than just
>I will SMASH enemy
>Woe, I am the greatest
>Now begone, I will sex wife
>a dyke caveman
I dunno, sounds kinda based to me.
Dyke Caveman is based because of Grug'ett factor, but Aylin spends too much time tooting her own horn for how often she jobs tbh
>but Aylin spends too much time tooting her own horn for how often she jobs tbh
Fair.
>.t Dameless
I know 🙁
My only honest complaint, if she was less smug and arrogant she'd be one of the better character's in the game. Or if she was more competent, like if she already Baned Lorroikan but it triggered a fuckhuge defense golem
He's very homo but he's one of the few people that are actually nice to you and funny for no reason other than because they are, I think it's worth it. Certainly more than Sosiel, Cam cam, and Galfrey, Wenduag, and Lann
>Kill enemy
>I'm cool
>I'm gonna fuck my wife now
Literally gigastacy behavior
You on the bottom
This scene unironically cured by dyke hatred towards nightsong.
this bitch is outright unhinged. killing her is the best outcome for everyone involved
>Put out a worldwide manhunt for someone
>Be surprised when she shows up and snaps your spine
WOOOOOOW NOTHING I COULD DO
So true
Khaga is busted, but I do love Aylin's phat thighs. Mizora is peak, though. I don't care who disapproves, I'm complimenting her when she first appears.
Aylin is the worst waifu - no, the worst character in the entire game. You're an unironic cuckold.
It's a shame the Dark Justiciar gear you get for killing her fucking blows
I'm not going orient Shart and/or my party around this really specific ability when I can just cast Spirit Guardians and dash through the press.
Also Selune Spear > Shar Spear.
and selune jen is a better partner and looks hotter
shar is just trash overall
>the worst character in the entire game
Die chud
>at act 3
>a smite attack that only does 25dmg total
love me dice roll combat
>divine smite "deals additional damage to fiends"
>attack does deal additional damage
lulz
you like the rug muncher, you are the chud
Doesn't make her any less attractive, only chuds would get mad at hot lesbians.
join the 41% cuck
cope
She's face down, naked, in a pool of her own blood in the Goblin base. Never said a word to her lmao. Her gear went to a good use though. Shadowbae looks good in her camp outfit ;^)
>No Kagha
Into the bin.
>>No Kagha
Maybe for thee, but not for me.
Don't you dare touch her scalie fag
Don't worry, I won't.
What's more fucked up is that I can replace any character in the game with another, yet I couldn't figure out ONE positive male character that I would find cool enough to spawn next to her for that joke except Durge,,,
Karlach > Lae'zel > Shadowslut
That's the proper ranking
karlach has the worst lines in the game by far
Well if that was true, she wouldn't be the best girl. But she's CLEARLY the best girl, so you're plain wrong buddy
Retard
Karlach is trash. Worst companion in the game by far
Absolute dogshit taste.
>says 3 things with different phrasing
>tiefling
>stupid
>only character trait is being a fangirl occasionally
>least reactive character in the game
>shortest and least interesting backstory
>shortest and least interesting companion quest (find 2 infernal iron then she dies)
mental midget. you saw her boobs and decided you liked her. absolutely fucking HORRENDOUS "taste". Go play phone gacha games.
I regret romancing Shadowheart before I found Karlach's location now I'm in too deep and don't want to break her heart,
Pretty sure you can date both and shadowheart won't get mad.
Can I have sex with all three in a same run?
I think so
No, because shart only puts out in Act 3 and you have to confirm an exclusive romance in Act 2.
You can bang Karlach beforehand.
I seriously do not understand why people like Lae'zel. She's ugly and a bitch and if you reject her random advance she complain about it to your face and tells you how she's going to fuck Astarion as an act of revenge.
>Shartowslutfag cope
You know it's bad when you don't have an actual argument that's not "but Shadowheart"
Because she's retarded, better, she is aggressively retarded and needs rape correction. That's basically the only reason.
>Filtered by her initial bitch exterior
Go back.
>s-she's just a tsundere!
westerners can't even do tsunderes right.
You will never be Japanese, sweaty.
Because she has the strongesr connection to the main plot and a shitload of character development. She constantly improves as the game goes on, if you only give her a chance and push her in the right direction. Her big act 3 romance scene is waking you up to watch the sunrise together while holding hands and talking about the feelings between you. The tough as nails bitch admits she doesn't mind being vulnerable if it's with you. It's a slow, but rewarding change. With other girls, you improve their life and solve their problems. With Lea'zel, you also improve her as a person.
>make the ultimate sacrifice and turn into tentacleman for Lae'zel's people
>she leaves you
I shall now spend the rest of my days in hiding plotting world domination.
>Turn Orpheus into tentacleman
>Githyanki race doomed to follow a lineage of retarded bitch liches who have no love for their subjects and only use them as fuel.
>Turn yourself into tentacleman
>Lae'zel leaves you
No happy ending.
Sacrifice karlach or gale for the best ending
>Turn Orpheus into tentacleman
>have Voss and Lae'zel as a newly knighted Dragon Rider return and start a rebellion to overthrow Vlaakith, Orpheus agrees to live long enough to see his people go free
Bitch
That shit is Campaign 2 material, obvious best choice.
who gives a flying fuck about the githianki exactly?
>destroy the ilithid empire
>fall for a random litch bitch that can't even kill people without using wish
>Not wanting a girl who verbally abuses you so you see it as a back and forth challenge that makes the chase more exciting
What are you, someone who had a normal childhood or something?
Because they thought they would get a trad wife but instead got a tard wife and are just coping
Propositioning you for sex is not the same as making romantic advances on you. When she actually tries to get with you, she immediately accepts you explicitly saying no, says that she is hurt but will heal and all is okay and this'll never be a problem again. She's very respectful about it. Lae'zel needs time to open up and not be a grumpy bitch and that's fine, that's character growth. I prefer it over Karlach spending 200 hours pretending she is fine just to devolve into a wreck when the can she kept kicking down the road suddenly hits a wall. Not that Karlach isn't a great character and well written, it's just personal preference.
>Propositioning you for sex is not the same as making romantic advances on you.
Maybe for burgeroids.
Because she is crazy
True, this frog mogs her
I'd let her dissect me.
Tom Riddle looking ass bitch
Is not liking laezel a sign of being a low test beta?
She grows on you. Gay vampire elf does too funny enough. It's actually so weird that the upfront assholes are the most likable characters while all the default friendly people are so dogshit. shadowheart is just a bitch 24/7
astarion is immediately hilarious and only grows more endearing though
That's not what happens at all, I turned her down and she accepted it and it hasn't come up again. That's how it's happened so far for literally everyone, I politely turn them down one time and they've basically been asexual since then. I am almost done with Act 3.
>That's not what happens at all
Yes it is. She can rub it in your face during the camp party.
Lae'zel is pretty reasonable evil.
The rejection scene I got from her was basically "your loss" with no ntr shit. Dunno if your scene as described even exists.
>Dunno if your scene as described even exists.
It does. You need to go talk to her during the grove celebration party, and if you rejected her she brings it up.
I dunno, but for me the idea of her forcing herself onto the very foppish Astarion is just hilarious to me. Plus her being a powerhouse in battle really sells her attitude so I enjoy it. She's a space frog nazi what's not to like?
>what's not to like?
nose
you couldn't handle her at her worst and you don't deserve her at her best
she's the best romance in the game, followed by shadowheart, then astarion, then everyone else
She has an off-putting face but everything else about her is cool so it works out in the end.
>Reddit: The Character
>Woman Moment: The Character
>Biological male into cuckoldry
male into cuckoldry
Please stop inserting your fetishes into everything
>t. malding and sexually frustrated after being cucked by a literal bear
kek
Nope. I'm a Drussy bro. I just don't appreciate your NTR discord derailing every BG3 thread.
fuck karlach marry shart kill frog
more like MANthara am i right?
you're way too far gone with your brainrot
Men players got cucked in this game, romanceable characters are all shit. Female players were blessed tho.
that song is fucking annoying. the whole ost sucks ass. so did d:os osts
>hearing this faggy song on repeat as I spend 5 hours in the character creator
>so did d:os osts
take it back fag
I like The Harpy Song
>didn't rescue Gale because I thought it was a trap
>fucked up recruiting Karlach
>got all the Tieflings and druids killed
My first BG3 run
that's fucking hilarious, i'd love to have watched you play through that run
I'm only in act 1 so it's still going. I'm glad the game is like this though. I only load when I wipe.
what else have you done so far in act 1?
I've fucked around in the goblin dungeon. I killed all the goblin leaders, but I think the druid is bugged, he's not there any more and not at the (empty) camp. Whole goblin camp is aggro'd now and haven't gone back there. Have gone through the underground areas some, I'm at the part that takes you to act 2 I think, but I didn't go on the elevator yet. Only level 4, going to do some more act 1 stuff first. MC is a ranger and I'm running with Shadowheart, Astarion, and Wyll.
personally act 2 is my favourite part of the game, i didn't like it at first, but it grew on me the further into it i went.
>>didn't rescue Gale because I thought it was a trap
I left him there on purpose.
Literally me.
The way this game has companions intricately integral and reactive to quests and the plot but also capable of just being unceremoniously killed off and forgotten or just undiscovered is honestly hilarious
>didn't rescue Gale because I thought it was a trap
It was
>didn't rescue Gale because I thought it was a trap
well you saved yourself from getting gay raped.
I try to roleplay bit and touching some frozen magic explosion did not seem like a thing a person would do. I came back when I was more powerful and used to touching random magic shit.
All excellent outcomes tbh you got lucky
He didn't get Karlach, though.
>redditlach
Didn't even know you could miss Gale. Glad I didn't cus his AOE spells are carrying me through the game on tactician
>be me, trying to RP
>"this portal seems unstable"
>Oh well no way my 18 int character is touching that, moving on
And that's how I missed gayle.
My buddy's first playthrough was Tav, Gale, Shadowheart and a hireling because he staked Astarion and didn't find any other companions all game
how the fuck do you not find wyll? he's practically rammed down your throat.
very based regardless
He didn't find Lae'zel either. He didn't find the fucking risen road or the mountain pass either and had gotten to act 3 so he couldn't go back to check them out. Idk how people can play crpgs that way, I get fomo anxiety if I don't try to do everything.
I'm in act three and I have no idea what the risen road is other than I remember reading about it in a book held by the paladins who were trying to kill Karlach. I also never saw the creche, whatever that is. I'm planning to do the mountain pass on my second playthrough with laezel as one of my main party members
The area with the Paladins hunting Karlach is the Risen Road.
Oh - is there much more to it? I think all I did was kill the paladins then head back over the stream and then went towards the goblins
There's 2 or 3 other fights there and one setpiece where you save an NPC and get some exposition about the Duke being missing, that's about it.
Wow, interesting. In not rushing the game at all, I'm in act three with 130 hours, but I do roleplay, meaning I don't act like a completionist. Some people do the underdark and mountain pass, but that makes absolutely no sense from an rp pov imo. I'm really keen to play another run. I also let Jaheira die and killed minthara, so there's a lot there to see a second time around.
doesn't the game force you to go through Lae'zel's cage at the start of act 1?
No. You can miss it entirely
I still haven't found her and I just finished the tiefling party.
I missed her on my first EA run, there's a number of ways through that area and it's not that hard to never go by there.
no
the reason i didn't stake astarion is because when i blabbered to him that i have murderous urges he said "rock on, dude, i got your back", while the others said "lmao u so funny". So what's a little blood for my bro?
This is the best way to play the game. Accidentally fucking shit up is what makes this game so fun.
i respect not reloading after such comical
fuck ups
You can at least get Minthara, unless you fucked up and killed her too.
>tfw found the Moonrise jail too late in the quest and so I never found all the Tieflings and the Gnome leader
Frog won
Someone explain to me why the girls I thought was the ugliest and never wanted to do anything with somehow won me over
Why am I in love with an autistic Kingon/Drax the Destroyer/Teal'c frog?
Fromnall companions, she is literally the most integrated to the main plot. Karlach is there, because she ran away from hell, she also used to know Gortash. Astarion got snatched and neither him nor his vampire master had anything to do with the main story till you personally involved them. Gale has a part of Krassus' magic in his chest, but it's just a coincidence and he's there by pure chance. Wyll was chasing Karlach and his dad is a VIP in BG. Shadowheart stole the artifact for her cultist friends, but it's barely a part of her story. Lea'zel hails from a race actively fighting mind flayers 24/7, her people owned the artifact, her true prince is imprisoned in it and a Githyanki creche is (seemingly) one of the most promising places to try to remove the tadpole.
She's well-written and loyal to you. You also 'fix' her, so to speak.
But they can cast WISH? Of course not, so to the garbage they go.
>lol you're not a real god
>oh yeah bitch? 'literally orders your entire party to die'
Kino
>will wish you away if you say the wrong shit
>throws a hissy fit and just leaves if you tell her you side with Orpheus
Makes no fucking sense.
What's the matter, writing not good enough for you??
It totally makes sense, it's classic Esau gambit: it doesn't matter if you side with her or with Orpheus as long as you serve the Githyanki.
I love my wife Shadowheart.
Everyone loves your wife Shadowheart
She's cute, but the girl who plays the most innocent for most of the game ends up being the biggest hoe out of all of the girls. Even if it requires input on your part, she disapproves if you decline a fivesome with Halsin and the Drow twins.
Shadowheart doesn't play innocent at all. What makes people this this?
>cutest girl is the filthiest slut
>butch musclewoman is the most monogamous and pure
what the fuck
That's actually fairly true to life
How is she a slut?
> How is she a slut?
After EVERY single introduction to a new party member, she HEAVILY insinuates that she is down to fuck them. This is 100% on the writer of her character.
If you can not read through her (the writer's) context, then I am sorry senpai. You do not understand women.
>literally lying on the internet
I don't know what you're getting out of this, but it's schizophrenic and retarded.
Prove me wrong cuck.Characters are reflective of their authors.
Your waifu even wanted to fuck Gale. GALE, the horniest, most magic-addicted, sexually pathetic man ever written in an CRPG. Someone that had to be NERFED by the developers to not be so creepy.
Your girl, wanted to fuck him after the short-rest of you not-biting his hand off.
Gale.
>.
It's also funlnny since the only one that actually gees out of their way to fuck the other male companions is Lae'zel. She tries to fuck most of them.
It's because she wants you to notice her, senpai. Classic w*men behavior tbh.
What? She only ever fucks Astarion in my playthrough.
She'll also fuck Wyll and complain about how bad he is.
Never seen anything like that at all.
Man you morons arent even trying with your lies anymore
i remember she did when in your party when you get that devil companion with a machine in her chest.
screenshot of it is in pic related
>ESL image
Cringe, also isn't the "half dress" a blacksmith thing?
>using cringe
zozzle
>After EVERY single introduction to a new party member, she HEAVILY insinuates that she is down to fuck them.
There is only one companion that actually fucks other party members and it isn't Shadowheart.
This is not true, not even a little bit.
Imagine listening to dedicated shitposters and not just playing the game...Karlach is a whore ingame, and Shadowheart is the only one who wants a long term relationship.
lel OK kid
Who's the one that turns down a incest threesome and calls you a degenerate and that she wants to take a bath in lye just thinking about it, and who's the one who is not only perfectly fine with it, but also constantly lusts after bear cock even after her supposed tradwife conversion?
>the person who physically hasn't been able to touch someone in a decade is the whore actually
retard
sexo goddess
> "We all had her but anon romanced her."
that male drow is cute. Would do missionary with handholding with him
I love your wife too, anon.
Sorry I didn't pull out last night.
>main theme is literally about a cut plotpoint
What do you mean? I figured it was just generic fantasy sounding lyrics.
google cut content
Your Dream Visitor used to be more styled as a love interest. Through the course of the story, they'd seduce you and at the end, you could be with them and they'd take you down to the river. Outside the dream your character turns into a Mind Flayer, but your mind gets a happy ending.
I didn't talk to Wyll right away and now he's gone, is he hanging out somewhere else in the grove or did he fuck off?
If you recruit Karlach, he ambushes you at your camp to try and kill her.
lel.
Lol I'm seriously impressed at how much money garden gnomes are spending trying to get this game over
aloe handjobs from mommy
>aloe handjobs from granny
I unironically wish they didn't cut her romance. It would've been nice.
If you romanced her in BG2 and BG3 are you cucking yourself
I liked Aerie in BG2, so it works for me... I think?
The most you get out of her for awhile is a kiss, everybody else is keen to jump your bones. Karlach even wakes you up saying how horny she is. Lae'zel fucks you before she even loves you, your dick mindbreaks her into wanting romance and love.
>Lae'zel fucks you before she even loves you
You're not even the only one. Almost any man in the camp would do. She just wants sex. She'll also fuck Astarion and Wyll.
Khalid is dead. Stop using the word cuck if you have no idea what it means.
>runs into a mob of enemies
>dies
Now she's a good harper
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>Raphael was the best villain in the game and needed even more involvement and an option for final boss based on your choices.
>The Absolute should have been an actual person and not a brain. The brain should have been the Absolute's subservient moron.
>The Dead Three should have actually been the Absolute's patsy's and not it's handler.
>The Emperor was stupid. Should have kept Daisy as a manifestation of the tadpole trying to seduce you.
>The Emperor should never have been a thing at all.
>Fuck The Emperor, seriously.
>The form you make for Daisy should have been the appearance of the Absolute.
>Tav and Dark Urge should have been a singular character, just give players the option to not brutally murder Alfira or kick that squirrel.
>You should have been able to collect a new heart from the Steelwatch facility fore Karlach along with some of the fancy Steelwatch infernal iron so Dammon could have forged her a new heart.
>Jaheira should have been a full blown romance option. Let me plow that sexy old lady. I want to blow a load on her wrinkly yet strangely perky tits and ass.
>The game needed some extra bosses with heavy lore implications but that were intentionally super difficult so you have something worth using all those legendary and broken very rare items on. Drizzt, Zariel, I don't care.
>Kagha, Nere, Alfira, Volo, and the orc bitch from Moonrise should all be companion options.
>the orc bitch from Moonrise
sex
>Kagha, Nere, Alfira, Volo, and the orc bitch from Moonrise should all be companion options.
Add in Zevlor as well.
>>The Emperor was stupid. Should have kept Daisy as a manifestation of the tadpole trying to seduce you.
>>The Emperor should never have been a thing at all.
>>Fuck The Emperor, seriously.
The Emperor is the best character and did nothing wrong
He did absolutely everything wrong and was a complete fucking moron for his entire existence.
I mean he HAS to be stupid to try and convince you that he actually is Balduran and not just a puppet in possession of his memories. If he's not outright lying to you, he is completely delusional and unaware of what he is.
He always was and is a scheming, manipulative, lying douchebag and him throwing a hissy-fit and leaving just to get immediately shmorged by the Absolute because I wouldn't let him eat Orpheus confirms that. Most satisfying kill of the game finally getting to cave his brain in as an unceremonious add in the finale.
He is literally Balduran, and never tries to convince you the dragon tells you he's Balduran himself.
He doesn't manipulate or lie about anything, he does exactly what he promised he'd do if you don't betray him for Orpheus. Choosing the Emperor over frogfag gives you the best ending because no one has to sacrifice themselves ot become a mindflayer.
Mindflayers don't have a soul. As confirmed by Withers. They don't have a conscience or will that isn't the colonies'. They possess intelligence and memories based off their host, yes, but a mindflayer is an entirely new and separate creature after Ceremorphosis.
The Emperor IS NOT Balduran. The Emperor POSESSES Balduran's memories and pieces of his personality. That is all.
And no, Emperor is not the best ending. Freeing Orpheus means planting the seeds to a civil war that overthrows Vlaakith and freeing the Githyanki, and it also removes The Emperor from mind-controlling and tadpoling his way across the Underworld of Baldur's Gate. It is objectively the right thing to kill him and deny him every bid to regain his former power.
You drank his kool-aid, you simply refuse to believe that he was in fact lying to and manipulating you the entire time.
Vlaakith Is actually based and prevents the gith from fulfilling their grand design of world conquest.
He did nothing wrong.
>Mindflayers don't have a soul. As confirmed by Withers.
Omeluum is bro-tier and is definitely good aligned though, how could a soulless, power-hungry husk be that?
disgusting
>Tav and Urge being merged
At first I agreed but an anon pointed out that making you have to be Urge makes your character some special dude while having the Tav option allows people roleplay some nobody who got swept up in a adventure. I think they made the right choice in the end.
How did you research this?
Gortash collects nudes of all characters in the game and are in his hideout
Goontash
Now do feet
>we want the gay audience
>The Emperor not fragrant/gourmet
it's shit.
Butt why?
>emperor
>loose
from dragon dick, I presume?
I thought mindflayers didn’t have genitalia or anything at all down there
An anus isn't genitals.
They eat brains, you telling me they don't shit out a bad idea from time to time?
>astarion
>tight
he's got the highest body count, aside from halsin
He’s a vampire, his body regenerates to pristine condition after a good sucking
he was eating nothing but rotten rats. i wouldn't call that good sucking
TORtanic 2.0
>No Daisy
Not kino.
>mogs your lore, final boss fight, party, and sound track
heh, nothing personnel, fool
what is gortash boss theme?
>Raphael has his own them song
>he sings in it
I can't think of anything more Kino. He was the Gaunter O'Dimm of Baldur's gate, a perfect villain.
>Down, down, down by the river...
Shame the main theme song of the game makes no sense anymore due to the rewrite.
If only they'd kept Daisy so that whole motif of the soundtrack made sense...
i read somewhere that the song doesnt make sense anymore cuz they changed some shit in the story?
Vague enough so it doesn't matter.
>Romance happens down by the river. Trust and stuff. Something about ink.. uh..
Do people actually play videogames without blasting their own music
I give the game one chance to have good music, if it's not good within the first few hours I put on my own
>pointy nails
sex
are all the acts of equal length?
im still in act 1. loving it, but i kinda want to take a break between them if they're all going to be this long (that, and i don't think my pc will handle baldur's gate well. it was already chugging when all the tieflings were getting packed up to leave)
your pc will be fine in act 2, it's act 3 people are stalling on for better optimisation updates
turn down your settings and play on vulkan
Jesus that one in the middle is hideous
virgin down by the river
chad DOS2 main theme
based
ENTER
No.
S O U L
Cyseal market music better tho, honestly though the homestead music is my favorite
>market music
but anon it's a quiet day on the market.
CYSEAL CYSEAL SHIVER ME TIMBERS AND SLITHER ME EELS
>kino combat starts
so tired of hearing the music in this game. it just endlessly loops the same tracks. wish this game would change up the music genre sometimes like FFXIV did.
> like FFXIV
It only makes sense to do that in a live service game where the game never ends and you have lots of unrelated or segmented stories, single player soundtracks are a lot more interconnected because the entire work tells a single story.
I get what you mean. I (and I think that anon as well) would have preferred a more 'out there' but still cohesive soundtrack like Uematsu's work.
Soundtrack is still pretty damn good though. I hope the popularity of the Raphael fight theme proves that more strange and less atmospheric music is the right choice
The bulk of FFXIV's soundtrack is done by Soken alone, same guy who did the entire soundtrack for FFXVI, a lot of Uematsu' FFXIV work is very conentional for the series where as Soken is more balls to the wall. For comparrison they both composed their own track for different phases of the same boss fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCbbxnjosSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCbbxnjosSA
I have no idea how Ganker does this where it somehow pastes the wrong thing when I post it.
Yeah I know. I meant more like Uematsu's work on FFIX or whatever; single player games whose soundtrack were not built for a live service. Because XIV has the largest soundtrack of any Final Fantasy, it has to be more out there to remain 'interesting'. My favorite is Soken's electronic work, he should do more stuff like Alexander more often.
He should expanded more from his work on stormblood, shadowbringers was waaaaaaay to experimental with the electronic shit resulting in half the track being bangers and the other half being aids to listen to like the shadowbringers overworld battle theme.
Perhaps. Though in general I'm more able to appreciate something even its ass as long as it shows bravery and experimentation (I loved the Labyrinthos theme for example)
Stormblood was good but being too conservative can result in stuff like XVI, which while still good its more boring and you can tell that Soken was a lot more strained writing it.
The soundtrack is honestly one of the best I've ever heard and I've been shocked how thoroughly filtered people have been by it. Some of the fugues in act three are fucking incredible.
its not bad it just gets tedious hearing it over and over the same few tracks especially for combat.
The combat music was backgroundy enough to handle the looping.
This always playing in the camp was annoying. Great song but not for background looping.
You have never heard Kirill's work, shit is kino. Rest In Power Kirill
>some of the fugues
Fugues? As in more than one? That’s pretty based, wouldn’t have guessed there would be baroque music in the game. I’m still in act one, I like the music so far even if it’s standard fantasy by the numbers stuff
Yeah there's a few in act 3. I can send you yt links but I think you'd prefer to hear it yourself when you get there. It gets very baroque in act 3, which is fitting, considering the aesthetic of the grand renaissance style city. Act 1 is all harps, drums and singing, act 2 is spooky town and act 3 is pure baroque kino with impressive compositions.
Wait til the Rapheal fight
It honestly feels like the driven evil by power Gale should be the canon route for him, but it doesn't even exists if you don't play his origin.
>they call me an absolute madman for sneaking into the house of hope
>everyone freaks out multiple times about how Raphael is gonna kill my ass soul
>seriously he's gonna rip you a new one
>he gets his own mega loud disney theme during his fight and fucking sings
>i get pumped up
>bro fails all his attacks and i had a harder time with his devil henchmen
>doesnt even have a weapon
Shadowheart is the cutest....
Is that armor and dye in the vanilla game?
Yes. The armor called Breastplate, it's a medium armor. There's an unique version of it called Luminous Armour.
So if I turn the Tieflings against the Druids, I can get Wyll, Karlach, and Minthara all at once, but can I still do Karlach and Alfira's quests?
If you help Halsin from his incoming death, then yes. But if you left him to die, then no because the goblins will raid the grove and everybody will die, including the blacksmith.
Honestly, if you don't plan to romance Karlach or to get Potent Robe, i wouldn't even bother saving the Tieflings because Minthara is much more interesting than Halsin.
>But if you left him to die
Really? You can't just let him die then kill all the
Absolute leaders?
I killed all the druids, sent the goblins to the grove, told halsin I enjoyed killing the druids which led him to attack me, and then I killed all the goblins saving the tiefs when they showed up at the grove.
>Absolute leaders?
You mean the goblins leaders ? You can kill 2 of them, i guess. But one of them has to survive. If you killed Minthara, then she's dead for good, even if you didn't kill every the other two. If you kill them all and didn't go get Halsin, he will found his way back to the grove on his own. Him found his way back to the grove thing, i'm not entirely sure but i did it once, back in launch patch. I don't know if it's still a thing but you can try it out, i guess. I talked to the captured merc and he told me Halsin escaped during chaos and when you go to his cell, it's empty and your character will say something, i don't remember, but you'll see him again at the grove.
No I'm asking can you kill Halsin and still side with the grove? I don't care about Minthara.
Yes but the druids, they have to die. Stole the idol to cause a civil war and then side with the tieflings. Just make sure to have your party protecting Dammon the blacksmith at all cause, if he dies, Karlach's quest is over. After you helped the tieflings wipe out the tree huggers, make your way to the goblins camp and kill them all or at least just the 3 leaders and kill Halsin, he need to die. If you don't kill him, he will kill you for wiping out his grove.
Who do I lose if I go for the drow?
I want to do an evil playthrough
karlach, wyll, halsin
Also Gale, if you don't pass a dice roll.
If you do it the direct way, Wyll, Karlach, and Halsin.
If the indirect way, just Halsin.
>No option to romance mommy Elder Brain
Shadow heart is the only one who wanted to get intimate with me after the tiefling party, well aside from gale but I'm pretty sure he just tries to fuck you no matter what. I kissed shadow heart but i wanted karlach. I got her pretty late in act one so I guess I hadn't built enough approval for her to like me but is it possible to romance her in act two or are you locked into shadow heart after the make out?
When I spoke to her at the party karlach was going on about wanting to get laid but when I told her I liked her she said she didn't want to complicate our relationship.
>>Down, down, down by the river...
Yeah, that thing got the axe, lmao.
Together with any negative consequences of spamming long rest and abusing shrimp powers.
And Daisy.
Am I the only one who hears "Kon-ya ga Yamada" when the notes play?
As a wise anon said in another thread. If your romance option doesn't pass the drow hooker test, they are a canonically a whore.
My romance option told me she'll cut me, is that passing?
Yes.
I'd say that counts.
>can I make a cute goth girl for my character?
Yes.
>how goth?
Very.
>and also if I can, what should I choose for a beginner class?
Monk is quite strong, give it a go.
excellent, thanks bros
now we're talking
I have no idea about class types, though, can I spec into it later on or should I start with a specific type of magic class?
you will be able to respec later for 100 gold, you get your subclass for wizard at level 2, just try something you think you'll like or suits the character and if you don't like it, you aren't stuck with it permanantly
a drow will never pass
What does that mean for Astarion
Absolutely was a whore, whole-heartedly agrees to a four-some if you aren't romancing him but completely disassociates and becomes shell-shocked during it, and declines because it makes him uncomfortable if you are romancing him.
Cazador used to whore him to get victims… it’s pretty cruel to force him into any kind of that shit tbqh
If your romance option goes around camp asking the men there to fuck her, they are also canonically a whore.
can I make a cute goth girl for my character? how goth?
and also if I can, what should I choose for a beginner class? I don't know anything about DnD
The mods for the game let you make some kino goth women, pic related is some randoms Shart with the edit any character mod along with new hairstyles mod
it doesn't even look like her anymore I'm disgusted
this one at least looks more like her just with her hair down
holy fuck my dick, what an upgrade
shame about the voice though
Link mods please.
This one to edit all characters
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/899
Then probably one of the hair mods for that hair style, idk which one.
Thanks anon!
i made a goth girl necromancer, fuckin love the vampiric and decay skin tones
Your reaction?
I jump forward and lick Orin's pitties.
Why is Gortash the girlboss when Orin is literally right there?
Subverted your expectations, hmm? 😉
Way more accurate in terms of personality.
to think durge used to be on the left there
I fucking hate the endings I got presented with wtf!
>You can take control of the brain with the emperor but he will make a thrall out of all of you.
>You can betray him but you will make a thrall out of all your companions like an asshole.
>You turn into a semen slurping catfishing ilithid and make thralls out of your companions like an asshole.
OR
>Be a good boi and destroy the brain even though you meant to control it from the begining
There is no fucking winning in the end is there?
That's what you get for trusting Squidface, idiot.
How many times does the game need to tell you
>by the way, he wasn't "good friends" with Stelmane, he mindcontrolled her into a seizure-prone state
or
>all those old friends Balduran had? Yeah, he fucking killed them because they stopped trusting "The Emperor"
before it sinks in that this guy is not your friend and simply using you to regain power over his order.
Imagine being this mindbroken by BaldurCHAD
He's based as hell and way better choice than the frog fuccboi
I know what he was from the beginning and meant to kill him right at the end but then all my companions asked me wtf I was doing and my char enslaved everyone.
There is no ending in which you rule with your companions intact, you always end up enslaving them.
Why did you let him kill Orpheus anyway??
You guys are focusing on the wrong fucking thing, I also had the hammer and could save orpheus, the problem is that the game won't let you command the brain and not be an assholes to your companions, I don't want to enslave them.
>command the brain
kill that bitch
Minthara wants to control the cult so I have to obey.
Its what I ended up doing after I saw all the shit choices
Astarion and Mynthara kept bugging me the whole run about taking control of the brain, what they failed to mention was that we would all become bitches to emperor and they would become my bitches, there is no good ending for them.
>there is no good ending for them
Yeah, exactly as you chose and intended.
Woe, consequences of your actions upon ye.
There is no other outcome. There is no "friend who is in charge with me :)".
If you thought there was any other way this could've worked out, you're a moron.
You are a special kind of fucking idiot aren't you?
This is not a actions and consequences kind of deal, this is not something with subtle clues that you could have seen coming, this is the result of cut content.
Obviously part of the "70 something endings" that we never got, the companions kept talking and made several remarks about us controlling the brain so it was part of the plan at some point.
God I hate that squid so much.
The companions were WRONG. You cannot control an ELDER BRAIN without controlling ITS COLLECTIVE.
This is a simple logic issue.
You want something THAT CANNOT HAPPEN BECAUSE IT ISN'T HOW THINGS WORK.
You should have known this. Yes, Astarion and Minthara didn't, they are stupid and blinded by opportunity, and so were you.
Literally you made your bed, lie in it.
>ITS COLLECTIVE.
What collective? 3 morons with glowing legos were enough.
That leaves me, ASStarion and Minthra.
What collective he asks.
What do you think every single tadpoled person on the Sword Coast is?
ESPECIALLY since you got rid of the only 2 people stopping the Brain from taking them over entirely?
There IS no Astarion. There IS no Minthara. With that kill you ensured that there is only the Absolute now, with you at the helm as you are the one with the stones who dominated her.
And no, splitting was not an option anymore, that is established when the brain becomes the Netherbrain.
I'm just gonna repeat what I said earlier.
You let people with 8 int who had no fucking clue about how anything works try and make a decision on how they can use a 9th level spell to control a being beyond comprehension and are now upset that things didn't work like you and your idiot friends thought it did. Apparently you also have 8 int.
Again, your friends were gone the second you destroyed the Orphic Blessing. You are the only one left.
Dude, if someone as retarded as Orin and Ketheric can control it then it can't be that hard, relax.
Neither Orin nor Ketheric had tadpoles.
Your friends did.
You are only save because you have all 3 stones and broke the brains will.
Ok first off I'll have you know that I have 10 int not 8 and second
Ok fine!
Guess that leaves destroying the brain as the only decent ending then.
You have very clearly demonstrated in this exchange that you do not have average intelligence for a commoner, sorry to break it to you.
You were wrong about literally everything you wanted as an outcome here and then blamed it on cut content.
>you do not have average intelligence for a commoner,
Not that bro but what are you on? The average peasants should only have 6 on all stats, 8 int already 2 scores above the average masses.
Isn't 10 supposed to be an average humans score in DnD?
Human with classes maybe, but peasants and shit are literally classless and should only have 6 on all boards.
Pretty sure I read in one of the 5e handbooks that 10 is the baseline for the average human. A completely standard human with no nothing special about him should be all 10's.
>The average peasants should only have 6 on all stats
What? Since when? Maybe that's a 5e thing since everything is dumber.
>5e is worse in every way
Please stop mindlessly parroting Reddit opinions
It sure is worse than 3.5 and AD&D
5e is fun and everyone I know enjoys it, the goal of the game is to roleplay and 5e facilitates that better than 3.5. What's your main issue with 5e?
>5e is fun
Cute but has nothing to do with what I said.
It is dumbed down.
It is worse than 3.5 and ad&d.
>What's your main issue with 5e?
It's simplicity and lack of variety.
Fun has everything to do with what you said. Is your main goal with DnD to roleplay? If it is, 5e is superior BECAUSE of its simplicity. It maintains enough complexity while facilitating better rping.
>Fun has everything to do with what you said.
I don't care about your fun or of some randoms.
> Is your main goal with DnD to roleplay?
It's both to roleplay and play a game.
> 5e is superior BECAUSE of its simplicity
lol. no
In other words, it's inferior BECAUSE of its simplicity.
>I don't care about your fun or of some randoms.
Then why are you playing DnD, you autistic freak? Your disposition makes sense considering your opinion, not very social, are you
>Then why are you playing DnD, you autistic freak?
I'm talking in the context of video games.
5e is babby compared to 3.5 and ad&d
Simplicity isn't necessarily bad, and IMO classes end up becoming more distinct than in 3.5e, kind of similar to AD&D.
I don't like 3.5/Pathfinder and I think 5 is an overcorrection from them.
Yeah, they added a lot of very nice RP mechanics and quality of life changes but in exchange basically took away a lot of player freedoms in buildcrafting, peak DnD should be 3.5/PF mixed with 5e gimmicks and flavour
reminder that Minthara has 8 int
>one of my companions said it so it must be 100% true!
retard
But 25 Wis
I have the 3 fucking stones and I decide who turns and who thralls, just like the 3 fags that had it before me, but somehow my char pulled and even evil-er move on the companions and THAT is the problem.
KEK
i think the main difference between the stone wielders and you is that none of them have tadpoles, they're not bound to the absolute as servants, and the absolute can't just MC them if they allow it to be fully autonomous. i agree with the other anon, honestly, your party has an IDEA of what they want to do to the netherbrain because they love the idea of power, but have no clue how it actually works
I hate that you can't kill that gay squid sooner
What the fuck did you think "controlling the brain" meant, then?
Were you gonna put it in a nice maid outfit, clean your summer house, make it walk your dog?
What the fuck do you think it means to take control of an Elder Brain with its illithid collective?
It means you TAKE CONTROL OF THE ILLITHID COLLECTIVE, which, yes, includes your friends, who are all very vocal about how much they did not want to be part of an illithid collective.
Look at it this way, you aren't an asshole to your companions because they like and endorse everything *you* say now, anyways.
You are correct, you get these endings because you, the fucking idiot, TRUSTED THE EMPEROR.
Had you disregarded him, worked against him, sought a different outcome than what he claims is the only way, you might've had a better choice.
EMperor's ending is better because no one has to become a mindflayer
And instead you doom the Githyanki to serve Vlaakith and be consumed by her and The Emperor, who is a straight up villain, is free to mind-control his way across the underground of Baldur's Gate again.
Killer ending you got there, champ.
I don't give a fuck about the githyanki they're all cunts, the emperor saved me all game so I owe him one
>emperor has been deceiving you the whole time, using illusions to get you to trust him
>doesn't tell you he MC'd Stalemane and their relationship was one-sided unless you make it evident you distrust him, even then he shows you that and threatens you, telling you he could do the same to you
>if you decide to free Orpheus, he instantly joins the brobrain, proving his ultimate goal since learning of the elder brain wasn't freedom, just being on the winning side
>don't forget he tries to fuck you several times for no real reason other than wanting to keep luring you deeper into his schemes
fuck the emperor, fuck the ghaik, and fuck the moronbrain
also not to mention that
illithid have no souls and the emperor simulates human sentimentality constantly, even Withers, who is a literal god, tells you the illithid have no souls. trusting the emperor is full retard behavior
Who gives a fuck? He leaves you and your party alone in the end anyways, if your not a cunt to him he doesn't resort to threats or betrayal. He like you, wants to survive.
>emperor has been deceiving you the whole time, using illusions to get you to trust him
He tells you himself he had to use the illusion because no one would trust a mindflayer at first
't tell you he MC'd Stalemane and their relationship was one-sided unless you make it evident you distrust him, even then he shows you that and threatens you, telling you he could do the same to you
So fucking what if he mc'd stelmane? he was ultimately keeping baldur's gate in line and bringing order to the city, the game tells you stelmane was a crazy bitch anyway
And his threats are just a bluff, he never attempts to control you even though he has ample opportunity. he respects your free will to the very end
>>if you decide to free Orpheus, he instantly joins the brobrain, proving his ultimate goal since learning of the elder brain wasn't freedom, just being on the winning side
Gee whiz, he wants to be on the winning side and survive like LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE GAME
>>don't forget he tries to fuck you several times for no real reason other than wanting to keep luring you deeper into his schemes
He's horny and hasn't gotten laid in forever, plus all your companions try to fuck you too.
All the shit the emperor does is completely understandable and he's your genuine ally to the end, way more than the retarded frogpeople. You sound like you have an irrational hateboner for him when he does nothing offensive in the entire game unless you go out of your way to instigate him.
>He's horn
Weird since they're asexual
>he respects your free will to the very end
A mindless thrall wouldn't be able to pull the stuff that Tav pulled, the moment he mind controls you, he cripples you.
>All the shit the emperor does is completely understandable and he's your genuine ally to the end
Successfully gaslit
you played right into his tentacles, he courts your attention and "respect" because you just so happen to have come across the artifact that makes you immune to the netherbrain's control, you're just a conveniently useful tool for him. also
>he respects your free will
>joins the side that wants to kill you if you don't follow his retarded intergalactic domination plan
wew lad
>his retarded intergalactic domination plan
His plan to destroy the brain is the correct one, Orpheus does it too if you choose him
Wow it’s almost like he wants to survive at all costs and end up on top
yeah bro guess what, i'm gonna be on top, not some gay ass tentacle freak
Elder brains in general are kept in check by the same Gith power that protected you. Not resolving the Gith issue means the final solution or whatever it's called is inevitable.
>kept in check by the same Gith power that protected you
Emperor or you have the Gith power now since we absorbed Orpheus' brain so we're guuci.
Emperor route is clearly the best option if you're not a frogfucker.
This means the power meant to keep the illithid in check is now in the hands of the illithid. Full squid dominance instead of allowing frogs their ecological niche.
I trust the Emperor over any frogfuck, Emperor is the reason I'm alive and was my ally to the end
He used you to enact the ancient master plan of the illithid race and you're happy about it, because you're easily manipulated.
>He used you to enact the ancient master plan of the illithid race
He literally worked with me to destroy the netherbrain and save the city. I guess I got manipulated into doing...exactly what I wanted to do from the start?
Lmao, you sound absolutely retarded.
You did what he wanted from the start.
He trapped you in the situation using a frog he also trapped. If the frog was free from the start all the problems you're thanking squid for solving wouldn't even exist.
>letting the power that be to check and balance itself
Have you not learned what would happen to this from modern governments?
SHE WON
>When she wakes you up in the middle of the night to tell you how good of a fighter you are, and how sexy that is.
>Few nights later she wakes you up again to demand a duel in order to figure out her feelings towards you.
>daisy got cut because of le sexual assault
shit sucks man
>because le sexual assault
What did they mean by this?
Especially considering the emperor is a literal groomer
I didn't even give a fuck about the brain, I just wanted the Crown of Karsus...
>turn Orpheus into a squid person
>he begs laezel to continue his legacy and offers her two dragons she refuses
>Orpheus says his cause is lost because laezel said no and he kills himself
wtf
Take Gale with you and agree to Orpheus that you will turn into a squid, once you approach the brain Gale will stop you and offer his services of an heroing. Boom. You got the best ending in the game. Orpheus rides with Lae'zel and Voss to kill Vlaakith. Gale dies but his soul will be saved by Mystra somehow. You have a happy ending with your love interest. The end.
I was on good terms with all of my companions in my camp, and Lae'zel as my lover. I turned myself into a tentacle man, defeated the brain, told Gale to find the crown and return it to Mystra, let Lae'zel go. Then finally went to fight demons in Avernus with Mama K, I suppose that is the best way to occupy mysef and besides... Mizora is a cocky shit and that needs to be fixed, referably with an axe through the skull.
>Anon thinks he can survive Avernus with a mediocre fighter that was literally treated like a pet by Zariel
Oh no no no no
>laezel: please stay with me when this is all over
>Me: okay sure
>I turn into a mindflayer to save her prince
>laezel: fuck you im outta here now with my prince enjoy being forever alone
I achieved the cuck ending
At least you're not wyll
>fuck mizora
>wyll disapproves >:(
Wyll doesn't actually have a relationship with that harlot, he just disapproves of you fucking a demon whore like her
Gortash developed the altered tadpole tech you're trying to use to control the world. He knows this stuff better than you but still never had full control of the brain.
If there was an option to rule it would have had to have been through Gortash. The idea of controlling the world as a human with a tadpole in your head makes no sense. Becoming a full mindflayer is suicide.
When I freed Orpheus I had already accepted I was sacrificing my life, I read his mind and saw murderous hate toward me so I had no reason not to think he would attack and if he did I had to die.
Fuck shadowheart
Marry shadowheart
Kill Karlach
Kill Lae'zel
Kill drow bitch
This game is too easy even on Tactician. Does it get harder later in the game?
>D&D
>harder at higher levels
lol
Yes, when campaigns throw enemies at equal or greater power to your own they tend to get harder at higher levels, yes.
Can someone that actually played the game answer my question? Because tactician feels like it should be the easy mode, I can't imagine what actual easy mode is like.
there's maybe 1 fight that's challenging in act 3, but it's misleading to say that because whatever difficulty the game may have is flattened by how broken your builds can get, also how strong martial classes are late game
>also how strong martial classes are late game
I made a gith wizard.
why not just go monk? githyanki are unironically pretty broken
cuz i wanted to play a wizard that could wear armor and swing giant swords around
Are battlemages viable in 5e, how would you make one?
Eldritch Knight is good for actual 5e
But not for this game because Larian removed all blade cantrips.
>Are battlemages viable in 5e, how would you make one?
yeah, just drink giant strength potions. gith automatically get proficiency with med armor and 2h swords
1 attack per turn unless you dedicate your one concentration spell to haste or dip a melee class. it's fucking shit
Yes, but that necessitates playing a bard as it's the only full caster that gets more than one attack per round. Though in either case I don't really think the action economy works out too well and you're better off specializing.
I find the game hard. It gets especially hard in act three. At level 8-9 they're throwing massive rooms filled with LVL 11 enemies at you
The combat director for the game left during EA
So there's appropriate challenges and difficulty spikes in act 1, and then in act 2 onwards it's just nothing but fodder encounters.
Casters never do anything interesting, enemies never use items in a meaningful way, even story climax boss fights like Orin and Gortash literally just fucking wet noodle slap you.
The closest thing to Le'epic confrontation are Rafael, Netherbrain, and Mykrul's avatar. What a fucking shame that Bane doesn't got a spooky black bro and the Bhaalbitch just goes slayer mode while fucking Saverok is a level 16 gigachad
No it actually gets much much easier the farther you get, difficulty slowly evaporates once you hit level 5
No, you can easily one-round pretty much every boss monster.
>Tfw you go to hell with your Demon wafiu
>Beat the game with 4 friends
>One became Astarions bitch
>One became Gale's Wife
>One went to live on a farm with Shadowheart
>Meanwhile pic related was my ending
God it felt good to be the MC of the story. Bar none my favorite ending to one of these types of RPGs
Speaking of which, can you just make Emperor fuck off the very first time he asked you to slave'd Orpheus? Even when I killed him, he just said that I "came to my senses" or someshit.
>can't make them into a harem of sister-wives
VAN VAN VAN, BY THE RIVER
rip Chris Farley
I enjoy how the theme replays as background music in certain areas or scenes. Found a music box that when played, played the theme. All of that just feels soulful for some reason.
What is a fun build to do for my 2nd playthrough?
the opposite of your first run's build, duh
Swashbuck-
Uuuh, College of Sword Bard then.
I am doing persuasion lore bard or Strength Monk with these difficulty mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1835
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1465
Does anyone have the pic where you massage Minthara's ear during sex?
Which of them are actually monogamous though
Every girl except Shart and every guy except Gale maybe
Lae'zel and Minthara.
can you does them lesbian harem???
you can't have harem at all in this game. except with halsin
>try the evil route
>finally hit level 5 at the ruins on the ebonlake
I feel so underleveled, this route really cucks you out of exp
You ain't seeing nothing yet, Halsin quest is one of the best sources of exp in the game and evil route just doesn't get anything equivalent.
>Halsin quest is one of the best sources of exp
The one where you protect the portal? Yeah I feel like I'm losing out on a ton of shit. They should've made Nere or Zrell a companion to balance it out seeing as how you lose out on 2 companions, and even potentially Gale too if you fail the check
Remember when people were memeing nonstop about Lae'zel being the cuck option? Only for it to turn out that's she's monogamous and loyal as fuck unlike a certain half elf?
She and Mama K are the patrician choices by far.
Dumb song, shitty companions
I'm trying to do a playthrough without adding any followers to the camp, but Halsin kind of forced his way in there.
Do you have to accept Halsin or did I mess up? Without killing him.
Kill him or else Shadowheart will constantly flirt with him.
She never flirted with him in my playthrough, but I used her from lvl1 and never had her affinity drop once due to choices.
your affinity doesn't matter
Do you mean if you have them both in your party? In camp they're on opposite sides of the map and I never saw them interact.
Then you're good. I kill him in act 3 anyway because he's such a forced piece of shit character who was only added because reddit begged Larian to. The kicker is that they don't even like him now.
Kek yeah I only saved him because I was doing a good playthrough, and then saved him in Act 3 but goddamn he was basically just a deadweight extra mouth to feed in my game, added nothing. I really wish the game had a better selection of companions.
i don't care what shart does. she can take all the dick in baldur's gate, it's all the same to me. i'm gonna be doing some saucy handholding with astarion
I don't have Shadowheart in my camp, like I said I'm trying to not pick up any companions in my playthrough
I had shadowheart for my entire play through and used halsin as much as I could but I didnt even see him flirt with shadowheart at all which is why all this cuck shit confuses me.
Mind you I did romance him and reject everyone so maybe that factors into something. Even when I went the brothel they didnt interact with each other at all.
Yes anybody with a brain knows this Halsin shit with Shadowheart is insanely overblown
It's mostly the same few schizos spamming it in every thread
Congrats! You are now the proud *parent of a litter of half-elf druids.
Cute. He saw how cute you were and followed you.
Early access fags, what were the biggest changes to the companions in the launch version. I see people posting about Shadowheart and Wyll being more evil and an entire companion being cut but not anything specific.
Only Wyll had a huge notable overhaul, they redid his entire character and story arc. In EA he was an arrogant gloryhound being a hero for selfish reasons. Now he's genuinely a hero.
Wyll was actually a coward with hero complex, he gained his scars and losing an eye from goblins and made pact with Mizora to survive IIRC, starting to called himself Blade of the Frontier after the pact because the pact powers got into his head.
The only truly memorable scene in this game is Shadowheart rejecting Shar and saving the Nightsong, and then this music plays...
House of Hope tops that. Also really liked Karlachs breakdown after killing Gortash
House of hope was just kino, no feels involved. Karlach was too reddit lesbian for my liking so I deprived her of Gortash kill.
Its a great scene
Oh kek I did see that scene, I actually had frog carry Gortash's corpse back to camp and just dropped the body infront of Karlach, I thought it might be a bit different if you actually killed him with her in your party.
Early on you have to go with whatever squid says since he's apparently the thing protecting you for whatever reason.
The deeper / pretentious side of that narrative is the idea of faith. Your existence depends on this entity so you pretty much have to have faith in it but then it's revealed he's basically a middle-man that doesn't let you talk to the source. Like a scammer priest of a real god. Squidbois got scammed by a slightly more advanced Boooal scam.
I seriously hope the next DnD game gives us subclasses from other resources besides the PHB, even better if they set the game in a different world like Eberron it's kinda malding that the only way to play fun subclasses like Swashbuckler, Hexblade, Armourer and Samurai is through a mass mod on Solasta.
I want a Dark Sun game that plays like BG 1 and 2.
Wizards flat out stated Dark Sun is too problematic to ever touch again
Oh, I know. They've been trying to bury it for a very long time. I still think it's a really cool setting and it's a crime that we never got a classic CRPG using it though.
>we never got a classic CRPG using it though
The SSI Dark Sun games are underrated.
>we never got a classic CRPG
There are literally two (2) of them.
Wizards have proven time and time again they have awful taste by focusing on FR, hopefully if Larian or Owlkek decide for more DnD games we'll get more unique settings. Even FR isn't bad but outside of certain games you're never allowed to BE anyone special or have significant impact on the world
I don't think OGL matters for that, as they have Gith(weird race) and did significant reworks to some subclasses. I think it's more so the case that hexblade is an infamous munchkin dip and got nerfed to a 3-4 point investment minimum instead.
Lorewise though
>Hexblade powers come primarily from the Ravenqueen
Don't blame them for wanting to not touch that mess of lore with a 10 foot pole while dealing with Shar and /ourdad/
Hexblade is more like a special OC subclass for a planescape esque op character
>Hexblade
Larian was so retarded about Hexblade, they don't want to include it because they knew people like to dip into Hexblade for the Hex Warrior but include the charisma modifier changer into Pact of the Blade anyway. Not to mention with how dead the whole talking to your patron is in this game, unless you're named Wyll, Hexblade would've been make better sense instead of the Great Old One or Archfey.
OGL is the reason why they didn't add Hexblade and modified Pact of the Blade, the ogl limits you to Phb races and materials only.
>fuck me down by the river
I fucking hate that song
Mild spoilers for durge
So, I killed shadowheart in my sleep. Slayer form sucks but it's pretty kino storywise. Can I still romance someone else from this point onward?
anyone?
Devilish sexy time.
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Okay, this song with your tav/durge in their final decision in act 3. Yayy or Nay?
SNK fags are subhumans
A simple Nay would've sufficed anon, why you gotta call me out like this
What would you do if you had a million spell slots?
>Two haste spells at the same time, man
That's retarded. Better be 250k each for Haste, Divine Smite, Freedom of Movement, and Misty Step.
My laptop is so ass the ending cutscenes to BG3 look like some Roblox shit.
If you follow Karlach back to hell, how well does your character's class do?
>oathbreaker paladin
>character has 8 int or 8 cha
>still can talk to people and isn't a retard
How is this justified? Low str, dex or con is reflected accurately through mechanics, gameplay and story sections but these two (wis is a tricky one but can still be applied here) are conveniently forgotten. Goes without saying the only videogame that got it right was Fallout
Karlach only has 8 INT and she sure acts like it
npc's use Speak with Animals to understand tard grunts
-1 int modifier wouldn't mean you're retarded just below average intelligence, you'd have to have a modifier of -2 to be a retard with a modifier of -3 being literal animal tier.
charisma modifiers are more about how convincing you are
Point buy doesn't allow you to make characters that are significantly below average. To make a real retard you need to roll for abilities and roll a 3 or 4 or something.
Gonna start a new character, what's the most fun melee/mage hybrid between oathbreaker and eldritch knight?
If you're playing Eldritch Knight just get a spear and tavern brawler, become the ultimate spear chucker.
rule of cool dictates you have to use a big 2h sword whenever you play a fighter
2h weapons don't normally have the throw modifier and since you aren't binding them they don't auto return when thrown.
you can't bind 2h weapons?
I meant spears thrown from inventory
If you bind a 2 handed weapon without the thrown property, you could throw it and recall it, but it would only do 1d4+10 damage as an improvised throwing weapon i believe.
As far as I know, Returning Pike is the only throwing weapon that does full 2-hand weapon damage. Spears and tridents both do the 1-hand d6 damage, no different than javelins.
And it already returns on its own.
I will now make a great weapon fighting tavern brawler champion pike chucker
spin the wheel again but prevent him for cheating, he will then reee at you for cheating and teleport you to a jungle. Right next to the exit portal is a chest containing the spear.
just remember to give the pike a second to return. if you end your turn too quick, it can just stay on the floor. actually, it might just be a toaster problem
i have a pc with a 7800x3d and 4090 and it happens to me. it’s just game jank. also happen if you throw the weapon to enter a battle that’s already started
the returning pike is pretty good even in act 3 when you get the nyrulna because the nyrula has a huge aoe that often causes friendly fire. throwing builds can freely swap weapons in combat since you can throw anything from your inventory without needing to have it equipped
i don’t think gwm works on thrown 2h weapons
It should since it works on ranged weapons iirc
it's not a toaster problem, the infernal spear is also similarly bugged but it's even worse because for some stupid reason it also gets a turn in combat for some reason if you throw it and leave it out and said turn can last up to a full minute
i tested it, gwm does not work on returning pike thrown attacks. it’s only for melee. also it obviously doesn’t work on ranged weapons, it specifies melee weapons in the tooltip
I thought you were talking about champion's critical role modifier
there aren’t any good spears to throw
Every spear is good for throwing, you can replace it later with the legendary trident you get from the genie
they’re all worse than the returning pike because they’re 1d6 while the pike is 1d10. and the pike can be used on a class that has better offensive bonuses than ek
There are pikes with the throw modifier?
the returning pike has it yes
>you can replace it later with the legendary trident you get from the genie
How? I only ever got junk from him even after calling him out for cheating.
pickpocket the magic ring from him, he will fail his cheats and send the party member that talks to him into a jungle full of dinosaurs. there’s a painted chest at the exit of the jungle, either lockpick it on the spot or send it to camp for your lockpicker to do it
paladin by far. eldritch knight's spellbook is too gutted
paladin doesn’t cast any spells they just use their spellslots to melee harder
ek only has utility spells like shield
they also get bless and command, the best divine spells
Shadowpubes
If you think that's kino
Don't listen to it if you haven't finished act 3 of Raphael's quest.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo7ugWudCA&ab_channel=BorislavSlavov
I wish all the genders were swapped for the companions.
>Wyllo the righteous demon GF
>Gayle who licks god muff sucks mortal cock
>Astaria needs cock correction
>Karlach is "Gary the Big Man who's always at the pub"
>If Shadowheart was a guy being a whore would have been based
>Lad'Zel is for fans of domestic abuse
I wish karlach was a man. Himbos are the best. girl astarion would work this board into a frenzy
>I wish karlach was a man.
Fuck you gay bitch
>girl astarion would work this board into a frenzy
DESU, wouldn't mind that. Actually, every single companion should've been a girl.
i wish they didn’t remove the rebound battleaxe, it’s literally the one reason to take ek as a thrower
Shadowheart is such a dogshit character
>release her from her mindflayer prison
>don't bother her about her artifact
>she repays this by letting a gay vampire hold you at knife point
Couldn't have said look out you fucking bitch?
>Zevlor unceremoniously during the raid on the grove fight
>The NPCs are still asking me to find Zevlor in Moonrise towers
What the fug
Before I play this game any longer, please tell me there is a yes man style ending... please. I legitimately hate everyone and just want them to all die (while saving the world ofc because based heroicism)
I keep ignoring Lea'zel's demands and now she's getting really pissed off at me. I don't want her to leave because she's like my only good dps. Her stupid queen is ruining everything.
Just replace her with a hireling.
Just kill the whore and be done with her. Replace her with a hireling or reclass and respec Karlach.
How do I make a support character?
Reclass Shadowheart into a life or tempest cleric.
The best support is more offense
Cleric and Bard are the only "support" classes, everyone else is just a different flavor of damage, utility, and tank. Cleric and Bard actually have buffs to apply for other party members. Even then, it's mostly concentration so you'll just be blessing at the start of the fight while the rizzard casts haste on himself and spams firebolt/ball/ray
Don't fall for the cleric meme. Concentration ruins their versatility. Wizards get far more buffs with rituals, familiars that can assist and distract in combat, better crowd control by creating surfaces and clouds, and better variety of damage.
Define support. Gloomthief with dual hand xbows is basically trash and DPS support. Wizard, especially evocation, can basically just spam fireballs or what crazy shit you can learn, including decent trash mobs, skeletons or elementals. Sorcs and locks have haste to do epic gamer moment shit for themselves or your party's most beefy kill machine.
If you mean support as in healing and buffing, why? That shit is gay and it's just wasting actions you can spend killing. Better off just stacking potions and throwing them at people or having them drink themselves. Just as worthless heal output, imo.
Despite all the shitposting, even the wifus are good for a modern rpg.
All of the girls are cute and datable (some more than other).
Compare it to the shit we got in the pathfinder games, and it feels almost like a miracle.
>even the wifus are good
Not to me.
Arue is better than any of the romances in BG3
Endings and choices in WotR are much more satisfying than anything in BG3
Music is consistently great instead of one or two standout tracks.
>Arue when Daeran is in the game
Arue's moeblob romance is more of a fantasy than an actual romance, fags aside everyone else feels like a more fleshed out romance, other than my good friend Cam Cam but what can you expect when you start hitting up Ted Bundy
Based fellow Daeranlover.
He really is the best, even when you don't romance him
>tfw he asks you to marry
That's the one good part of her character, she's also too incompetent to do it alone so you had to do it for her
I tried romancing Daeran but it got too gay too fast. You're gay too.
Is there any reason not to just slaughter all of the goblins on sight? Is there anything to do with listening to Gut or making deals with them, if you aren't playing an evil route?
You can get some talk, lore, free stuff, and RP. Worth it for Loriander's blessing alone, very good for frontliner that soaks up damage often. Also the torture is fun
they're pretty funny. otherwise no
I dunno what it is about middle girl but I am drawn to her face. I find her attractive.
I wanted to play a dwarf cleric of Moradin. The suggested domain for Moradin is Knowledge.
Are Knowledge Domain clerics any good? Looks like they get some wizard crowd control spells and can channel their divinity to get bonuses on certain skill checks (Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion)
They get free expertise in bg3, already pretty good there. They have alright features, and clerics are already pretty strong as it is
mother of god, starfield has some of those worse written vidya romances i ever had the pleasure of first hand experience and second hand embarrassment
ansur is way too weak for a lv17 enemy
If BG3 used actual tabletop rulesets, you would have no chance against any of the dragons and the new Karlach ending would have an epic level demon stomp you both into a gore smear
what makes them so much stronger?
They're all level 20 or higher with legendary resistances that let them do OP actions/spells and automatically succeed saving throws a certain number of times per day, and most if not all of their stats are 20s, minimum. Raphael is a chump compared to just one, and there's billions of them in Avernus alone.
but what would a lv17 boss like ansur look like in tt
>Metallic Dragon old enough to be around in Balduran's time
Probably level 25
he’s level 17 because he’s dead
I dunno about that, if anything he should've kept his level and spam free action channel negative energy every turn.
He's level 17 because of the AIDS debuff, same reason Balduran de-leveled into 12. The fact that Balduran ends up a lower level means he's the bottom
As a Berserker Barbarian, Lae'zel is the only fitting choice.