Yes, but I would warn against killing the wizard Gale. Should you do so, within three days of in game time passing. The area will explode resulting in a game over.
Spoilers ahead. He holds a Netherese orb inside of his chest that is at risk of exploding unless he "feeds" it magical artifacts. The explosion could level a city. He got that within him after getting his hands on a magical tome with which he tried to win the favor back of an old lover, the goddess Mystra.
That particular version of Mystra's dead. The current Mystra was Kelemvor and Cyric's adventuring pal Midnight during the Time of Troubles, who was whorish in her youth before she really delved into magic. Not a surprise that she'd dabble in fricking her followers as a goddess.
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Shouldn't Mystra be very strict because the last goddess of magic died after that wizard cast that 13th level spell Avatar, fricking up magic for everyone?
I mean that's the reason we have spell slots, i can't picture a goddess that usually says "nooo don't cast too many hecking spellerinos!!!" and acts like a rule lawyer have a tryst with a random level 1 wizard.
Midnight got bullied into taking over the portfolio, but she's probably more pissed off at Shar who had her killed off by Cyric and started the Spellplague. Enforcing the ban is probably just a legacy duty.
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>That particular version of Mystra's dead.
Not a shocker; I have bowed out of Faerun these last 20 years or whatever and the current state of it doesn't exactly make me want to return outside of this game.
At least Krynn hasn't met a similar fate although I suppose with Hasbro it's just a matter of time
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I mean Krynn was a fricking awful mess from the get go.
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Frick no, a ghost making a b***h annoying character his eternal wienersleeve was amazing yeah she was freed eventually and dude went to Ravenloft, but still
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I mean more like the whole thing with the gods being actual fricking dumbass b***hes and their actions (or rather lack thereof) leading to the Cataclysm and their reasons for it.
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I actually really like the Gods being basically fantasy Greek Gods. They're petty, vindictive, butthole morons and that's what made Raistlin so endearing to me despite being a dick. His plan was great
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>I actually really like the Gods being basically fantasy Greek Gods.
I was just going to say that. It's also amusing to think of Bhaal shapeshifting into all sorts of degenerate forms to spread his seed as much as possible.
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It just doesn't gel well when gods that are supposedly "good" are clearly, provably, anything but. Atleast in something like Warhammer Fantasy the setting and the creator doesn't pretend the gods are anything but enormous buttholes and very definitely all Evil with a capital E.
Paladine at least kinda sorta ends up redeeming himself, but even then Imma go ahead and say too little, too late.
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>even the goddesses have taken miles of wiener
it's over
As far as the rest of the companions go, you are free to kill them if you wish. With Gale on the other hand if you do so, you will get a game over because of his predicament. If you aren't interested in taking him with you simply don't recruit him.
God Mystra is a bawd. Didn't get enough of Elminster wiener?
Shouldn't Mystra be very strict because the last goddess of magic died after that wizard cast that 13th level spell Avatar, fricking up magic for everyone?
I mean that's the reason we have spell slots, i can't picture a goddess that usually says "nooo don't cast too many hecking spellerinos!!!" and acts like a rule lawyer have a tryst with a random level 1 wizard.
There is absolutely zero reason why Larian couldn't have raised the level cap to 20. 5e is probably the second weakest edition when it comes to player character powerlevels. You morons are all praising larian buy paying for a full price game only to experience half of a fricking class.
Levels are merely abstraction. If you can casually slay dragons or other powerful foes, you've reached the tail end of where your campaign realistically. It doesn't matter if that's level 10, 20 or 80.
You will attack only twice
You will cast only 2 level 5 spells
You will sleep after every encounter, possibly in a wooden magical pod
And you will be happy
I remember D&D nerds saying that level 20s in 5e are basically more powerful than gods and can do a bunch of shit that is basically out of the scope of regular video game play. They probably want to keep their characters somewhat grounded.
Are PCs really this weak now? I haven't played since 3.5 (or 2nd, really), but back then a wizard could leave the room, kill you in person in another peart of town, and return to the room he left from before anyone even noticed anything was happening.
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Lmao no a Wizard can't do that in 5e.
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they don't even have timestop or contingency or simulacra or whatever?
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Casters got fricked hard in 5e. Like 80% of all spells with a duration require concentration, including ones like Barkskin and Stoneskin which makes zero sense. There are only a few save-or-die spells and not too many save-or-suck spells. Upcasting is shit and every caster operates as a spontaneous caster now too.
Well it might be the case or things might have changed. But datamining seems to suggest that Zevlor is actually a member of the Absolute cult, I don't know how considering we didn't sense him when we first met him. There is also an MTG card that features him with a bunch of tendrils surrounding him. Facing his sword outwards in direction of the viewer.
Whatever the case it'd be nice to have him as a party member. Still it'll be cool hopefully having him show up later in the story.
they don't even have timestop or contingency or simulacra or whatever?
IIRC Time Stop absolutely sucks, Contingency is good and can help you in a pinch, Simulacrum is busted but obviously not to 3.5's standards.
The game system doesn't fall apart so much as the game is poorly balanced so creatures in the bestiary doesn't scale worth a shit because the math is poor. This is a non issue because you can just raise the numbers in a video game
Male
Human
Barb
Evil/I do it for the money
I'll rotate out it doesn't really matter
Hell no, they are all insufferable
dual wielding axes.
Something about solving puzzles using grug smash tactics tickles something in my brain. It's like an ancient wizard trying to trap you in an inter-dimensional demon rift and you take him and stuff his arcane ass in the school lockers like the nerd he is.
Even better. It'd be cool if he was later revealed as some conniving Dispater-descendant tiefling. It would make sense considering how outwardly good he is but maybe has dark secrets or intentions.
Well it might be the case or things might have changed. But datamining seems to suggest that Zevlor is actually a member of the Absolute cult, I don't know how considering we didn't sense him when we first met him. There is also an MTG card that features him with a bunch of tendrils surrounding him. Facing his sword outwards in direction of the viewer.
>Sex
F >Race
half-orc >Class
fighter, frick magic >Alignment
neutral good >Party
waiting until all companions are revealed >Romance
see above >favorite weapon
poleaxe irl, but since there's like three games in existence that have the balls to accurately represent how powerful it is and bg3 isn't one of them i will probably go for 1h spear + shield
Actually, the Polearm Master feat is pretty broken in 5e tabletop, specially if you pair it with Sentinel.
Not sure if both of those will be in BG3 or if they'll function the same way, but keep an eye out for it.
>Half-Orc Male with a Black human father >Eldritch Knight Fighter >LN as always >Shadowheart, Astarion, ??? >romance
What Non evil romance even exists besides Shadowheart? I can't commit genocide for Drow pussy regardless of how much i wanna >enormous sword
Better have interesting weapons in this game.
For god's sake, please tell me Variant Human is in. Picking a feat at lvl 1 is so much better for roleplaying or a specific build you have in mind than "+1 to all stats", I don't wanna wait 'till lvl 4 to grab Magic Initiate so I can be a Druid with a raven familiar.
It's gonna be pozzed as frick but people are ignoring the fact that pretty much all CRPGS are notoriously pozzed, with stems by DnD and role playing games in general. At this point you just have to put up with it if you want to enjoy the genre, this is hardly anything new.
Without spoiling anything the custom characters will have a more personal tie-in with the events of past games.
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Yeah, there's some frickery going on there with the mind flayers and the Absolute.
In the opening scene when the nautiloid crashes and it shows Minthara and Dror Ragzlin looking towards it Minthara is smirking which makes me think they were expecting it.
Then there's the fact that in the opening cinematic where they show you and Lae'zel getting tadpole'd when the mind flayer that did it leaevs the room he walks past a dead/unconscious mind flayer so he might've been working for for the Absolute.
The tadpole that they infect you with is special in that it's woven with Nethereese magic which is puzzling.
Then there's Shadowheart's puzzlebox that both the Absolute and the Githyanki want desperately. There was some datamined stuff I've read a bit of (before stopping any more spoiling) related to that box and it's quite intriguing.
Larian said it's imperative that your party is in possession of this box for plot reasons and they mentioned how it cause them some headaches to make that happen in all the different scenarios since you can just completely avoid Shadoheart every chance you get.
I suspect the main thing is the box, you getting tadpole'd is more of a "wrong place, wrong time" type of situation that you have to deal with as the plot progresses.
>Without spoiling anything the custom characters will have a more personal tie-in with the events of past games.
Wait, really? Maybe I should really play BG1 and 2 before release then. I just don't want to experience burnout
While I do recommend playing them regardless (if you can deal with some of the jank) you can probably just watch a story summary of the BG1, 2 and Throne of Bhaal and still understand the significance of Tav's (the custom character from BG3) bloodline.
I guess.
BG1 is fairly straightforward in terms of plot and twists/reveals.
Still, I enjoyed it. You should have enough time to play through all 3 (1, 2 and ToB) before BG3 drops. Start with 1, if you're not really feeling it, watch a summary and move on to 2.
Siege of Dragonspear you can skip. Regardless of whether you'd like it or not (lots of old fans don't) it doesn't really bring anything significant to the table.
>Siege of Dragonspear
Is that the Beamdog campaign? Is it canon?
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>Beamdog >Is it canon?
11 months ago
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According to WOTC, yes it is. Unfortunately.
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>Is that the Beamdog campaign?
Yes. >Is it canon?
I think so...? It's been a while sine I played it but I think it retcons some things from the original BG1 which is another reason why people dislike it.
You're not really missing out on much by skipping it. It explains the events between the ending of BG1 and the start of BG2 but you can just read a short plot summary for it and move to BG2.
>Shadow monks are stealth ninjas who teleport to and from the shadows, a skill that allows them to stealthily strike enemies then return to the safety of darkness
This isn't clear, but it makes it sound like you might be able to teleport twice in one turn here. They didn't explicitly say that, but it's worded in a weird way. Typically, you'd want to teleport TO an enemy and then attack, because this gives you advantage. After that, you can move, but you can't teleport back. Here they suggest attacking and then teleporting to get away. Just sounds inelegant. >And finally, Monks from the Four Elements subclass are casters who unleash Monk variants of spells followed up with a rapid bonus action punch
This means they get the feature added later on, Ki-Fueled Attack, which allows you to use your "spell" and then throw out a bonus attack. >You'll also soon find new magic items throughout the world designed to further support the Monk's playstyle
This is one of those things every DM does, but WotC refuses to. I also want to go back to this: >In combat, they combine light, quick unarmed attacks with weapon attacks - producing beautifully distinctive and stylised combat animations. >And we've got to say, the animation, VFX and SFX for this class are on a whole other level. We've pulled inspiration from the rulebook to create a stunning audio visual experience which lives up to Kung-Fu cinema classics.
This makes me wonder exactly what they're doing. It makes sense that your attacks will be more flashy than just slugging the enemy to death like a gorilla, since it's supposed to be Martial Arts, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like you plan out all your attacks first and this creates one single animation that unleashes them all in sequence. Am I interpreting that correctly?
I think they just mean that they'll have their own animations and effects for when they cast their spells similar to how bards use their instruments when casting spells (something I really really like).
Minthara is so fricking hot. Lariangods pls let me do the needful and redeem her
No fricking way that's happening since you have to do some pretty evil shit if you want to frick her.
That's fine. It took me like 70 hours to do a single act 1 playtrough. I am not memeing.
Same here, my first playthrough was around the 60h mark so I'd imagine if you're thorough with the full Act 1 you'll probably not finish it in 3 days as a new player.
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>No fricking way that's happening since you have to do some pretty evil shit if you want to frick her.
I'm glad she is a full companion and everything but most people are just not going to see any of her because as you said you have to commit to an evil path and that probably locks you out of all the Good companions. So it becomes a choice of Jaheira/Halsin, Karlach, Helia?; etc. vs Drow pussy.
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Wyll leaves the party and Halsin tries kill you and you're forced to kill him.
You have to pass a speech check to keep Gale or he leaves as well.
Shadoheart is obviously not happy with the events either but doesn't raise a stink.
Lae'zel and Astarion don't react negatively to it.
I'd imagine Karlach wouldn't be happy either especially since she's a tiefling. Larian said she's a good aligned character. ("a heart of gold" which is pretty ironic given what she has inside her). She too might tell you to frick off and leave you.
I think Helia is also a good or at the least not evil character but don't quote me on that.
I'm a bit bummed out because you kinda have to be evil for the sake of being evil in order to side with the goblins. Not even a serious motive that's self serving at least to help you out of your predicament with the tadpole.
I unironically think Grinch waifu looks more attractive than orange swimsuit model caked in makeup #349.
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She seems to be modeled after an extremely attractive woman and they then they threw the frog features on top. She's not that bad looking all things considered.
While I do recommend playing them regardless (if you can deal with some of the jank) you can probably just watch a story summary of the BG1, 2 and Throne of Bhaal and still understand the significance of Tav's (the custom character from BG3) bloodline.
BG2 should absolutely be experienced on its own rather than through some story recap.
BG1 can filter quite some people, it's nearing 25 years after all, and it's low-level DnD. Give it a try and if you don't like it you can jump to BG2 without losing too much.
BG1 can filter quite some people, it's nearing 25 years after all, and it's low-level DnD. Give it a try and if you don't like it you can jump to BG2 without losing too much.
said you may get filtered by the early game if you don't kite enemies with ranged attacks, but the main villain actually has a non-moronic scheme and you'll appreciate elements of BGII more for having played I.
>That particular version of Mystra's dead.
Not a shocker; I have bowed out of Faerun these last 20 years or whatever and the current state of it doesn't exactly make me want to return outside of this game.
At least Krynn hasn't met a similar fate although I suppose with Hasbro it's just a matter of time
There's been a lot of dross in the last couple of decades, but this particular bit of lore is at least fairly old given that Midnight was actually the Mystra in BGI&II. It happened like 10 years after her apotheosis. No one enjoyed the Spellplague though.
>I just don't want to experience burnout
I doubt that's going to be a problem, unless you burn out by playing games in general. BG1 and 2 are nothing like BG3, but being familiar with them probably adds to the experience. Hecking game even has multiple characters straight out of those games.
BG1 is the superior one (unpopular opinion), it's a comfy exploration game, and the story is actually pretty decent and weirdly proactive (you're investigating stuff, rather than anyone ordering you around).
BG2 is more flashy and has much more fleshed out companions/npcs, and high level gameplay which feels good. It's a great game but it's very much a continuation of BG1, hell you're even supposed to import your BG1 character and your stats and some items carry over. Playing BG2 in a vacuum sounds like a terrible idea.
TOB is awful, but it caps off the Bhaalspawn Saga and it's short, so if you get through the other games you should play it as well. Some of the High Level Abilities are very cool.
>How pozzed is this game
Picrel >does it have any redeeming qualities if so?
Combat is pretty good.
It's basically Dos3 and this time we even got something resembling rpg in terms of character progression. It's still 5e so meh.
Characters dialogue and all that stuff is just awful. I already bought it unfortunately.
>Monks are masters of manipulating the field of combat - pushing, pulling, and stunning enemies across the battleground
This comment says Monks move enemies with their attacks. >We also did a lot of work house-ruling this class, re-balancing Monks >we're introducing brand new actions to play with
Here they say they've changed some stuff around and even added new features. >Monks of the Open Hand excel at close combat, using special unarmed techniques to manipulate the enemies at hand.
And this is what's to be expected. However, the reason I've brought all of these things up is because pushing enemies with your attacks is something Open Hand Monks do, it's not a base Monk feature. There's also no "pulling" Monk attack. This makes me wonder if some Open Hand features were moved to the base Monk as they continue on: >At mid levels, this subclass can charge their attacks with Psychic, Necrotic or Radiant damage (representing mind, body and soul). At higher levels, we give them Ki Resonating Blast, which infuses punched targets with Ki and can create a chain reaction of explosions across all in-range targets who have also been touched by Ki.
This is not what Open Hand Monks get in tabletop. Their 6th level feature is a self-heal and their 11th level feature is self-Sanctuary after a long rest, which means enemies' attacks against you will hit someone else instead if you haven't attacked yet. That last one kinda' sucks but they could've buffed it. And the self-heal was nice. I honestly wasn't expecting any of this because Open Hand generally isn't considered that bad. The subclass is meant to invoke Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, so I'm wondering what fans of that series think about these changes, and I wonder if the self-heal or even self-Sanctuary have been moved to the base class. It is worth noting that a later book also gave the base Monk a self-heal, but it's expensive and weak.
Monks are dogshit in the tabletop, so it's a good thing they are being changed. I actually hope they get a full overhaul. They're by far the worst class in every edition.
I'm glad, too, I'm just afraid of the changes being boring. "More ki" is a very common fix to Monks, but it isn't very interesting and doesn't actually change their biggest problems.
I personally prefer buffing the subclasses over the base class, because half the subclasses (anti-weebs avert thine eyes) are very obviously inspired by anime, but you actually get very little out of them. The Stand subclass lets you summon one, but all it does is sit on you and throw punches. A 20th level Monk made in reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is capable of doing less than Stand users are shown to be able to do in the very first chapter they appear in. It's like they saw the scene of Star Platinum catching the bullet, stopped the episode and said, "Got it, we're done here."
>Shadow monks are stealth ninjas who teleport to and from the shadows, a skill that allows them to stealthily strike enemies then return to the safety of darkness
This isn't clear, but it makes it sound like you might be able to teleport twice in one turn here. They didn't explicitly say that, but it's worded in a weird way. Typically, you'd want to teleport TO an enemy and then attack, because this gives you advantage. After that, you can move, but you can't teleport back. Here they suggest attacking and then teleporting to get away. Just sounds inelegant. >And finally, Monks from the Four Elements subclass are casters who unleash Monk variants of spells followed up with a rapid bonus action punch
This means they get the feature added later on, Ki-Fueled Attack, which allows you to use your "spell" and then throw out a bonus attack. >You'll also soon find new magic items throughout the world designed to further support the Monk's playstyle
This is one of those things every DM does, but WotC refuses to. I also want to go back to this: >In combat, they combine light, quick unarmed attacks with weapon attacks - producing beautifully distinctive and stylised combat animations. >And we've got to say, the animation, VFX and SFX for this class are on a whole other level. We've pulled inspiration from the rulebook to create a stunning audio visual experience which lives up to Kung-Fu cinema classics.
This makes me wonder exactly what they're doing. It makes sense that your attacks will be more flashy than just slugging the enemy to death like a gorilla, since it's supposed to be Martial Arts, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like you plan out all your attacks first and this creates one single animation that unleashes them all in sequence. Am I interpreting that correctly?
Druid and Warlock can cast Conjure Fey at level 11 which allows them to summon a fey creature for up to an hour. There are two problems with this, however: the DM decides what gets summoned, not you, and you can summon lots of creatures way, way stronger than a pixie so it's kind of a waste of a precious high level spell slot.
Alternatively, Druid, Warlock and Wizard at level 5, Ranger at level 9, and Arcane Trickster Rogue and Eldritch Knight Fighter at level 13 can get Summon Fey, which summons a much weaker fey creature and you can choose which fey creature it looks like. The problem here is "looks like." It wouldn't literally be a pixie, it's a Fey Spirit that's taken its form. I'll also add there's a Ranger subclass called Fey Wanderer that gets the ability to cast this spell once a day for free (at 11), so your Fey Spirit can be like a companion almost.
Pretty sure the spell you're referring to is from one of the later books. For BG3 they're sticking mostly or entirely to the PHB so I wouldn't expect to see those spells.
Summon Fey is "new," but Conjure Fey isn't. I don't know if pixies will look like that illustration in BG3, though. Some monsters look like the Monster Manual artwork, some don't.
So...
I didn't even say that game was bad. I was just pointing out that Larian are cucks which is objective truth.
Like, sure story and characters suck but there's nothing to play anyway.
We get like 2 rpg games a year so I don't see the point in this debate.
Does anyone know what happens to companions near end of act 1? Is it like DOS where the 3 you choose are locked for the rest of the game or can you swap em out later?
Do you have to have a character in your active party to romance or can you romance a camp only companion?
Most subclasses are completely novel ideas sprung from nowhere. Cleric's and Wizard's subclasses are not. Cleric subclasses refer to the different domains in which gods rule over while Wizard subclasses refer to the different schools of magic that exist. If they only got two or three, it would be pretty fricking awkward.
>Sex
All the time anytime >Race
Yes, pedal to the medal >Class
Of course, remove those without any class >Alignment
Horizontal >Party
Every night >Romance
Is for fools >favorite weapon
Glass Shank
>How pozzed >pozzed
Think about that question, anon, while thinking of the origin of this word. To be "pozzed" means to have an STD. Would you ask a person with an STD how "pozzed" they were? No, because it doesn't matter as you won't have sex with them as you don't want an STD. So, it makes no sense to ask "how pozzed" when you don't want to even interact with pozz.
Hope this helped.
I still haven't narrowed down what I'm going to do. Definitely something with a magical flavour at least >1Cleric/11Wiz/Sorc >2Cleric depending on the domain (like Tempest + Storm Sorcery or Draconic Lightning) >2Fighter/10Warlock/Sorc >3-4Oathbreaker/9-8Warlock or the reverse >2Warlock/10Sorc (maybe 9Sorc and sneak a Fighter level in for heavy armour or go moderately armored) >Pure Warlock and use feats for armour, you can get +2 Cha from act 1 items anyway
Yeah that's why you have to know what you're getting out of it before bothering. For full casters you can really only tolerate 2-3 levels in another class and after that you're probably not actually playing a full caster anymore.
A cleric/wiz combo is a bit different though because full casters share spell slot progression so a 1Cleric/4Wizard will actually have 3rd level spell slots, they just won't have any 3rd level cleric or wizard spells to put into them.
You get more out of your starting class too so if you go into a class later you won't get the proficiencies you would have gotten otherwise. Like Sorcerer has CON proficiency but Warlock gets WIS instead so which one you start with depends on which one you want. Most people tend to prefer CON due to how Concentration works.
And of course there's getting Extra Attack at class lv 5 but that's more of a martial thing
Is Shadowheart a virgin?
It has been fricking decades until I played an RPG in a medieval fantasy world where the love interest is a virgin, it is more common in fricking sci-fi than in fantasy, for whatever fricking reason.
>How pozzed is this game
Supremely so, it's made by Larian, a studio headed by a homosexual so deep in his homosexualry bubble that discovering that women barely play his games mindbroke him >And does it have any redeeming qualities if so?
They're mechanically competent if you like Turn Based combat
Also my wife
>Character creation screen >Semi bestial race that gives you tard strength with almost no downsides even in dialogue because writers are afraid of hardcore racism >class that let's you gank with swords or other basic weapon while using a wee bit of magic >Do this for Owlcat games , Mass Effect, TES and BG3
Never failed me not even once. Wrath of The Righteous was the best experience as an Inquisitor - Sanctified Slayer
We do, but even ModDB and LL are full of homosexuals
Nexus is fricking egregious though
I hate when platforms do this. They get popular, then start with increasingly draconian rules and biases and when you complain the owners say you're wrong and they're right because the platform is so popular, as if it didn't have nothing to do with their bullshit
The obsession with romanceable virgins in WRPGs is annoying because it doesn't even make any sense. Everyone you interact with is old as shit. The only sin of gamedevs is when they force awareness of the character's bodycount for some insane reason.
In JRPGs everyone is a child. This is why you have virgin waifus.
It's not an obsession, it's people wanting literally one option that fits that mold and every developer refusing to give them that because they are obsessed with making sure the players know that all of their female characters are strong empowered feminists who have taken miles of wiener before you got there.
What's weird is that you aren't giving nerds a swirlie by making all of their romanceable women bawds. Normie men are the drivers of bodycount discourse. It's all tactless dudes who get a completely normal amount of sex that don't want their gfs to have had any sex before them.
It's not non stop suffering, it's just a 38yo women having relationships before you. In some idyllic picture of pre enlightenment times you still aren't going to find virgin women in their thirties unless they're married to God.
In order to have a pure virgin romanceable option they'd have to essentially make it a core aspect of her chaarcter just because it's strange unless she's younger than 22 which no one ever is in these game. You all want immortal witches and elves and half elves who stayed sexually pure for 1000 years without making a big deal of it.
I don't think anyone knows what they want. People's favourite companion is always Morrigan or some succubus and never the normie human woman who's 25 and probably never had a bf.
Tbf I wouldn't be surprised if Morrigan was a virgin.
She's younger than she looks, and she lives in a dangerous, isolated and sparsely populated swamp, I doubt there'd be a lot of quality men >oh but she talks about how much she fricks
Yeah, she also says she has no designs over your independence, how she totally hates when you treat her sweetly and hoe completely not in love she is with you, baka
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Anonymous
She turns into an animal to get fricked by animals.
What is strange is that you and the other people who think like this are oddly fixated in THIS point of realism. 1000 old witches are realistic? No. Middle-aged virgin women are realistic? No. But the first is fine and the second isn't. For some reason, the sexual side HAS to be realistic. Why?
See, you have no argument. You want THIS part to be realistic simply because you do. You WANT this stuff in. That's why people call you cucks.
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Anonymous
It's still a weird thing to be fixated on. Adventurers/companions and especially origin characters are typically people who are extraordinary in many ways and well-travelled including some good life experience, because otherwise they would be quite boring. It would just break verisimilitude for them to never have had any experience on that regard. I guess it can work in some instances, like with Galfrey, although she has very clear reasons for being celibate.
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Anonymous
>but adventurers are meant to be bawds!
You say this every thread and I don't fricking get it. Aerie joins your party in BG2 and proceeds to go on adventures with you. She literally proves all your cuckold fantasy theories wrong by existing.
11 months ago
Anonymous
It's the first post I make about this. Also Aerie is literally a teenager.
11 months ago
Anonymous
It's not the first post you've made about this, you were in the past couple of threads saying the exact same shit with the exact same posting style. Just because you're anonymous doesn't mean people don't recognize you, you can't play off your obvious cuckold fantasies by pretending to be multiple people.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>"An adult has had sex at least once" = "complete bawd"
You're weird, man.
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Anonymous
So to you, life experience = sexual relationships? It has to be like that otherwise somehow the person is still immature?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>life experience = sexual relationships?
It's obviously part of it, yes. Unless there is some very specific philosophy or religious guideline forbidding that. >It has to be like that otherwise somehow the person is still immature?
It would be weird without the person following some kind of code, yeah.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Having sex with more than one person in your life isn't an accolade, it's a failing, as evidenced by people being less satisfied with sex the more partners they've had. Our society is collapsing so modern people can't accept that anyone couldn't have made the mistake of sleeping with the wrong person at least once before adulthood. They consider their own degeneracy normal and it is now. Having sex with the wrong person when you're young is just what people do, you know, like trying drugs and TPing houses.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>moron with no argument says "HURR U HAF NO ARGAMEN"
moron
Suspension of disbelief. You expect the trapping of fantasy, but you also expect people to act like people, since the story conditions you to expect this. The same pressures and social engagements that exist IRL also seem to exist in this world, so while a 1000 year old witch is easily accepted, the other thing is not.
I'm forgetting the particular reference, but there are games where it's narratively essential that a character be ugly, monstrously ugly, and yet the character model, due to you being able to create the character, or the limitations of technology, is clearly not ugly at all. It's just dissonant.
You suspend your disbelief that a person being 1000 years old can easily interact with people who are no more than children to her, that she can keep an interest in a world that she's seen changing so much, on people whose lives appear as a eye blink to her, but a woman not having been in a relationship before is too much for you.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Which character in this game did you expect not to have ever been in a relationship or had sex? Please tell us.
No? Naive and young characters aren't all boring There's Aerie and Imoen for example in BG
Alistair in Dragon Age.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Imoen is literally in the game for being your sister. Aerie is pretty much like Ember in many ways and a lot of people find her dull and boring anyway. Alistair was comic relief in the entire game.
It's not the first post you've made about this, you were in the past couple of threads saying the exact same shit with the exact same posting style. Just because you're anonymous doesn't mean people don't recognize you, you can't play off your obvious cuckold fantasies by pretending to be multiple people.
You're an actual schizo.
11 months ago
Anonymous
You just called me a schizo but two threads ago you (yes you, mr redditor who doesn't realize that anonymity doesn't mean every post on the board is by a unique person) said the exact same thing about how Aerie is boring and her storyline and writing is boring and you didn't like it anyway so it's good that everyone female is Viconia now. Aerie proves your shit fanfic theories about all of this wrong just by existing, I don't give a shit if you personally don't like her.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Again, you're a fricking schizo. Aerie being a boring character is hardly a novel opinion.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Doesn't stop you from repeating it every thread as if it's some sort of epic win own.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Imoen is literally in the game for being your sister
Not in 1 >Aerie is pretty much like Ember in many ways and a lot of people find her dull and boring anyway.
"A lot of people find X" is a horrible argument >Alistair was comic relief in the entire game.
So? He was still young, naive and optimistic. Also a virgin
Young characters are perfectly feasible as companions and romances, and they have been present in rpgs before.
Other anon is right, it's weird they've been phased out
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Imoen
Please say sike.
11 months ago
Anonymous
You have 3 seconds to say who has spoiled my beautiful, pure, non blood related, little sister
They can. But then you get Characters like Ember, which are only pure because they are children. And they don't let you romance her. I sort of hate Owlcat a little bit
Why is there always this one guy in these threads that is just absolutely intent on telling everyone that they're wrong for wanting a virgin waifu companion character in a fantasy game instead of just admitting the obvious that most wrpg devs are cuckolds that get off on making their players cuckolds too. It has nothing to do with "realism", "verisimilitude" or le epic reddit Toyota Tacoma meme, it's just that wrpg devs are cucks. There is room in these games for one character to fit the Aerie archetype and I don't care if you come up with some cope about how "b-but it's not interesting, not like my hot wife getting plowed by orcs and telling me every detail about it".
I've never done this until now. It's just a very stupid thing to complain about because it's not them trying to cuck you, although sometimes it is a little bit them trying to cuck you, but it's simply a natural consequence of the character?
No one cares that the male companions are more likely to boast about their conquests.
The only time this felt intentional is for Arue, but then it was funny. Because it felt like the devs intentionally despised the player for trying to make a wholesome romance with a literal prostitute from hell. Unnecisary, and I get the complaints, but a little funny. But people will b***h about this in every single game. It's moronic.
>The only sin of gamedevs is when they force awareness of the character's bodycount for some insane reason.
Which is a thing Owlcat does a lot >lol this reminds me when I got spit roasted by 3 orcs on top of a tavern table, tee hee
To be completely fair, it makes perfect sense for someone vulgar as Wenduag to go around saying that, and Arue is a fricking succubus so it's entirely expected that she had a promiscuous past. Also Galfrey is an actual virgin even if she is 10294 years old.
It doesn't stop there though there's the threesome couple and that other chick too.
Even if they were all in-story justified to do it, there's clearly an uncomfortable pattern here
I was unaware this was an obsession let alone something people actually cared for. Total pipedream for all but the most devout and frigid of nuns. Getting cucked in real time - IN A VIDEO GAME is a complete joke though. I genuinely have no idea what they were thinking with adding that in. >inb4 cuck squad >inb4 muh realistic relationships
Why is there always this one guy in these threads that is just absolutely intent on telling everyone that they're wrong for wanting a virgin waifu companion character in a fantasy game instead of just admitting the obvious that most wrpg devs are cuckolds that get off on making their players cuckolds too. It has nothing to do with "realism", "verisimilitude" or le epic reddit Toyota Tacoma meme, it's just that wrpg devs are cucks. There is room in these games for one character to fit the Aerie archetype and I don't care if you come up with some cope about how "b-but it's not interesting, not like my hot wife getting plowed by orcs and telling me every detail about it".
>NOOOOOOO! EVERY CHARACTER HAS TO BE A VICONIA, AERIE DOESN'T EXIST, STOP MENTIONING HER EVEN THOUGH SHE PROVES ALL OF MY POSTS WRONG, VICONIA VICONIA VICONIA
You cucks are fricking deranged.
Read their posts and it's clear they WANT the women to be experienced, to them it's just not realistic for a women not to have several sexual partners before and while she's with you. I don't know how a person turns out like this but here they are.
>several sexual partners
I never said anything about SEVERAL sexual partners. You're talking about virginity, that encompasses anything from one to a million or more.
Are you mentally challenged? I never said it's impossible, I just said it seems unlikely. I literally listed examples of how virginity could be the case in a reasonable way as well as characters that are written with it in a good way that isn't just "she's a teenager lol". Jesus fricking Christ, dude.
Then what's your deal? It's fantasy, me as an author can think of any reason why she didn't date any dudes in these 1000 years. Maybe she was lesbian, maybe she went on a bad date. Thing is I'm pretty sure you'd still be upset because being honest I think you'd hate it on principle.
Unironically yes. There are probably to this day a not insignificant amount of women who are late 20s or older that have only fricked one dude. IF you meet a fantasy concubine and discover she's only been with one man, no further questioning is even needed unless you wanna know how the homie died.
still not sure; why don't you shit post for 4 hours a day for the next month, like the last 12, so I can really make up my mind? I need more convincing
>this unironic SEXUAL LIBERATION cuckold hippie in every bg3 thread trying his damned hardest to convince everyone that virginity is bad and worthless and totally unrealistic in a fantasy game where people have several gods, virtues, cultures and races different from our own and we're all expected to believe that not a single one of them can have virginity be something that isn't rushed through by a pack of Black folk in the local tavern because specific Earth religions that value chastity don't exist in the forgotten realms
Really makes me think. Unironic Larian shill hours doing damage control for a game full of used up harpies.
I literally mentioned multiple times that it makes sense when they follow some philosophy or religious code. But that's not even what you've asked for, you just want Aerie 2.0. I don't know why you're flipping your shit so hard over this.
Then what's your deal? It's fantasy, me as an author can think of any reason why she didn't date any dudes in these 1000 years. Maybe she was lesbian, maybe she went on a bad date. Thing is I'm pretty sure you'd still be upset because being honest I think you'd hate it on principle.
>it's fantasy anything works durr derp
That's not how fantasy works, characters still need to be remotely believable.
>Virginity is unbelievable, how can I get immersed if a character is a virgin
You showed your hand again, cuckold. Just because it is unbelievable to you doesn't mean it doesn't fit in the setting. Stop posting about this cuckold fantasy of yours that every woman in the world has taken wiener before you've set eyes on her, you moronic apologist.
your life is low effort, moron. This is why you're a forever alone KHV kvetching about magical virgins in fricking Baldur's Gate like you're a towelhead idiot who is going to Allah Akbar himself
>one (obvious) cuckold anon going on about how everyone else has an obsession with female virginity
Seems to be that it's more likely that this one guy is obsessed with female non-virginity, to the point where he tries to convince everyon else that virginal women wouldn't exist at all in the forgotten realms at all and are equivalent to finding a modern day real life car there. He's either an honest to god cuck (possibly a troony to boot) or it's an actual woman that will forever be bitter that she gave up her virginity for free to some guy that didn't call her back the next day, so she copes by telling everyone that girls having virginity beyond the age of 20 is lore breaking and verisimilitude-destroying in a fantasy setting. What a strange place Ganker can be at times.
>mad that the entire discussion died with basically nobody agreeing with him
Nobody's a cuck except the people that willingly wifed a former succubus. I do not care about games with virgins, I just think it's ridiculous for the characters you all love.
When Starfield comes out, there will be two romanceable women, one is obviously like 40, and the other seems to be in her early 20s(new model, old model looked 40 as well). The MILF will be by far the most popular character, but if there is any line of dialogue that even suggests past relationship (completely banal, like saying some gross ayylium looks like an ex), we will get this moronic discussion all over again.
I wouldn't stake my life on it either way. There only being 4 is strange anyhow. Nobody goes to Bethesda for Bioware style romances, and if you're going to crib that, then 4 options is insanely low. Even if it isn't Noel, it's unlikely to be anyone that excites people.
Yeah, it's weird that they're going with such a low number. I'm not sure what they're planning. Maybe they want to create a demand for companions to sell with the CC.
Cuck, did you even read the thread? Nobody is agreeing with YOU. Samegayging with the same opinion about Aerie being boring and virgins being as unrealistic as Toyota Tacoma does not count as people agreeing with you. Stop talking to yourself.
Being so obsessed with non-virginity only has one logical conclusion, that the person in question is a cuckold that gets off on women being non-virgins.
The problem isn't that you date experienced women irl, is that when presented with a fantasy of having a perfect partner you still choose the experienced one, and according to you on the basis that she was experienced.
It's one thing not to care about virginity it's another to be put off by it , what am I suppose to think when you tell me that you find a girl boring because she hasn't fricked another guy before she met you?
I wonder if cuckold-anon realizes that for a woman to be a non-virgin there has to have been a man that takes her virginity. How exactly is virginity unrealistic and lorebreaking if someone has to encounter the virginity in order to take it from them? What's to stop that person from being the player with a single specific companion? I don't think anyone actually expects every female companion to be a virgin but the cuckold fanfiction about how anyone who would be willing to be the player's companion by default has to be a non-virgin is extremely autistic and doesn't give me much confidence that you aren't in-fact a cuck if you continue to push this idea.
The best selling crpg of all time. Now bump the thread for free cuckschizos. I command you.
My second wife Shadowheart is so cute
Can you kill the warlock and wizard as soon as you meet them?
Yes, but I would warn against killing the wizard Gale. Should you do so, within three days of in game time passing. The area will explode resulting in a game over.
what
Spoilers ahead. He holds a Netherese orb inside of his chest that is at risk of exploding unless he "feeds" it magical artifacts. The explosion could level a city. He got that within him after getting his hands on a magical tome with which he tried to win the favor back of an old lover, the goddess Mystra.
God Mystra is a bawd. Didn't get enough of Elminster wiener?
That particular version of Mystra's dead. The current Mystra was Kelemvor and Cyric's adventuring pal Midnight during the Time of Troubles, who was whorish in her youth before she really delved into magic. Not a surprise that she'd dabble in fricking her followers as a goddess.
Midnight got bullied into taking over the portfolio, but she's probably more pissed off at Shar who had her killed off by Cyric and started the Spellplague. Enforcing the ban is probably just a legacy duty.
>That particular version of Mystra's dead.
Not a shocker; I have bowed out of Faerun these last 20 years or whatever and the current state of it doesn't exactly make me want to return outside of this game.
At least Krynn hasn't met a similar fate although I suppose with Hasbro it's just a matter of time
I mean Krynn was a fricking awful mess from the get go.
Frick no, a ghost making a b***h annoying character his eternal wienersleeve was amazing
yeah she was freed eventually and dude went to Ravenloft, but still
I mean more like the whole thing with the gods being actual fricking dumbass b***hes and their actions (or rather lack thereof) leading to the Cataclysm and their reasons for it.
I actually really like the Gods being basically fantasy Greek Gods. They're petty, vindictive, butthole morons and that's what made Raistlin so endearing to me despite being a dick. His plan was great
>I actually really like the Gods being basically fantasy Greek Gods.
I was just going to say that. It's also amusing to think of Bhaal shapeshifting into all sorts of degenerate forms to spread his seed as much as possible.
It just doesn't gel well when gods that are supposedly "good" are clearly, provably, anything but. Atleast in something like Warhammer Fantasy the setting and the creator doesn't pretend the gods are anything but enormous buttholes and very definitely all Evil with a capital E.
Paladine at least kinda sorta ends up redeeming himself, but even then Imma go ahead and say too little, too late.
>even the goddesses have taken miles of wiener
it's over
again, what
So i'm stuck being basically taxed or... die? the frick is this game
As far as the rest of the companions go, you are free to kill them if you wish. With Gale on the other hand if you do so, you will get a game over because of his predicament. If you aren't interested in taking him with you simply don't recruit him.
Shouldn't Mystra be very strict because the last goddess of magic died after that wizard cast that 13th level spell Avatar, fricking up magic for everyone?
I mean that's the reason we have spell slots, i can't picture a goddess that usually says "nooo don't cast too many hecking spellerinos!!!" and acts like a rule lawyer have a tryst with a random level 1 wizard.
Create a general at /vg/. This isn't a board for generals.
YWNBAJ
Okay, enjoy all the shitposts and lack of actual discussion about the game.
OH NO not the status quo!
I second this notion after July 7th and the last origin is revealed
There is absolutely zero reason why Larian couldn't have raised the level cap to 20. 5e is probably the second weakest edition when it comes to player character powerlevels. You morons are all praising larian buy paying for a full price game only to experience half of a fricking class.
It's to sell a DLC after, duh.
They will probably be releasing expansions and other content to make use of extra levels.
Levels are merely abstraction. If you can casually slay dragons or other powerful foes, you've reached the tail end of where your campaign realistically. It doesn't matter if that's level 10, 20 or 80.
It's not about that dumbass. It's about being able to play a class with all its class features and full spell list.
You will attack only twice
You will cast only 2 level 5 spells
You will sleep after every encounter, possibly in a wooden magical pod
And you will be happy
>5e is probably the second weakest edition when it comes to player character powerlevels
But.../tg/ says characters in 5e are OP.
Compared to the weak ass math/cr of 5e encounters but they are weak as frick compared to 3.5p player characters
I remember D&D nerds saying that level 20s in 5e are basically more powerful than gods and can do a bunch of shit that is basically out of the scope of regular video game play. They probably want to keep their characters somewhat grounded.
Yeah nah. 5e PCs are hot garbage compared to every previous edition.
That isn't remotely true
When do they become godlike? That's the answer I kept hearing as to why the level cap is 12. Before then it was going to be 10.
You can never become God-like in 5e. This meme comes from no game playing morons on /tg/ there is no lvl 20 5e PC that can beat Spider-Man in a fight
Are PCs really this weak now? I haven't played since 3.5 (or 2nd, really), but back then a wizard could leave the room, kill you in person in another peart of town, and return to the room he left from before anyone even noticed anything was happening.
Lmao no a Wizard can't do that in 5e.
they don't even have timestop or contingency or simulacra or whatever?
Casters got fricked hard in 5e. Like 80% of all spells with a duration require concentration, including ones like Barkskin and Stoneskin which makes zero sense. There are only a few save-or-die spells and not too many save-or-suck spells. Upcasting is shit and every caster operates as a spontaneous caster now too.
Whatever the case it'd be nice to have him as a party member. Still it'll be cool hopefully having him show up later in the story.
IIRC Time Stop absolutely sucks, Contingency is good and can help you in a pinch, Simulacrum is busted but obviously not to 3.5's standards.
It's not that they become godlike, it's that the game system falls apart
The game system doesn't fall apart so much as the game is poorly balanced so creatures in the bestiary doesn't scale worth a shit because the math is poor. This is a non issue because you can just raise the numbers in a video game
Powerscaling in D&D is stupid. At 13, you can teleport. At 15, you can speak telepathically. At 17, you can wish for anything.
>you can wish for anything
No you can wish for anything that the DM allows
Judging from the previous games I think Larian will either increase the level cap with subsequent DLC or make a sequel.
>Human Male Two Handed Fighter SI
>Shadowheart
>Minthara
>Normal Diff
>Saving all items
Yeah. I'm thinking it's peak kino
Disregard the trannies seething at BG3.
Post:
>Sex
>Race
>Class
>Alignment
>Party
>Romance
>favorite weapon
>Sex
Yes
>Race
White
>Class
First
>Alignment
The good guys
>Party
Every night
>Romance
Every day
>Favorite weapon
My tool
Male
Tiefling
Bard
Neutral Good
Gale, Shadowheart, Astarion
Gale
Rapier
Yes
Skyrim protag
Yes
LE
Minthara Shadowheart La'zael
Swen
dunno
>Female
>Human
>Rogue
>Chaotic Neutral
>Astarion and me
>Astarion
>none, I don't condone violence
It's Bella Swan time.
Female
Drow, Dwarf, or Tiefling
I can't decide
Probably neutral
Whatever my friends make
Tiefling pussy or Shadowcute
idk
>>Sex
Hell muthafrickin yeah
>>Race
Black man
Rouge(Thief)
Chaotic Neutral
Elf b***hes
Elf b***hes
weapon
Glock 19
>Sex
Male
>Race
Human
>Class
Fighter
>Alignment
Lawful Neutral
>Party
Gale, Halsin, Minsc
>Romance
None
>Favorite weapon
Sword & Board
>How can I make this heroic fantasy game as dull and lifeless as possible?
Honestly the companion selection is solid and entertaining.
Quota is lifeless though.
Aren't you fulfilling a quota of your own?
>this image made larian shit and piss their pants in seething rage
>Sex
Female
>Race
Drow Half-Elf
>Class
Gloom Stalker Ranger
>Alignment
Evil
>Party
Shadowheart, Bae'Zel,K Karlach
>Romance
Shadowsex
>Favorite weapon
Bow
>Party
>Shadowheart, Bae'Zel,K Karlach
>evil
Uhh... I'm not sure that you'll be able to keep Karlach in your party if you're evil.
>Sex
Male
>Race
Human
>Class
Oath of Devotion Paladin
>Alignment
Neutral Good
>Party
Halsin
Shadowheart
???
>Romance
Shadowheart
>favorite weapon
Greatsword
>larps Palading
>plays the game
>breaks his oath
>comes to Ganker to REEEEEE
Many such cases.
You pray for my downfall but I forgive you.
Male
Human
Barb
Evil/I do it for the money
I'll rotate out it doesn't really matter
Hell no, they are all insufferable
dual wielding axes.
Something about solving puzzles using grug smash tactics tickles something in my brain. It's like an ancient wizard trying to trap you in an inter-dimensional demon rift and you take him and stuff his arcane ass in the school lockers like the nerd he is.
>
Zevlor would've been an awesome companion.
I'm hoping that he becomes one eventually despite the leaks.
Apparently there's more to Zevlor than we realize. Something sinister.
Whatever it is, i can fix him
Well for your sake, I hope you can. I wish the best for both our endeavors. It would be a shame for me if Gale were to fall once more.
Even better. It'd be cool if he was later revealed as some conniving Dispater-descendant tiefling. It would make sense considering how outwardly good he is but maybe has dark secrets or intentions.
How about this then?
That's better. They look young or maybe half human, though, but whatever.
Well it might be the case or things might have changed. But datamining seems to suggest that Zevlor is actually a member of the Absolute cult, I don't know how considering we didn't sense him when we first met him. There is also an MTG card that features him with a bunch of tendrils surrounding him. Facing his sword outwards in direction of the viewer.
>drow
>brown
This isn't Japan, little boy.
>Sex
F
>Race
half-orc
>Class
fighter, frick magic
>Alignment
neutral good
>Party
waiting until all companions are revealed
>Romance
see above
>favorite weapon
poleaxe irl, but since there's like three games in existence that have the balls to accurately represent how powerful it is and bg3 isn't one of them i will probably go for 1h spear + shield
Actually, the Polearm Master feat is pretty broken in 5e tabletop, specially if you pair it with Sentinel.
Not sure if both of those will be in BG3 or if they'll function the same way, but keep an eye out for it.
nice, thanks anon
>Half-Orc Male with a Black human father
>Eldritch Knight Fighter
>LN as always
>Shadowheart, Astarion, ???
>romance
What Non evil romance even exists besides Shadowheart? I can't commit genocide for Drow pussy regardless of how much i wanna
>enormous sword
Better have interesting weapons in this game.
>What Non evil romance even exists besides Shadowheart?
Well for the ladies there's Karlach. And for the males there's Wyll, Gale, and Halsin.
Female
Halfling
Oath of Devotion Paladin
Lawful Good
Jaheira, Minsc, Gale
None
Shortbow
For god's sake, please tell me Variant Human is in. Picking a feat at lvl 1 is so much better for roleplaying or a specific build you have in mind than "+1 to all stats", I don't wanna wait 'till lvl 4 to grab Magic Initiate so I can be a Druid with a raven familiar.
>>Sex
Male
>>Race
Human
Paladin of Devotion
Lawful Good
Shadowheart. IDK who the rest will be because I didn't play Early Acess. I just know Shadowheart is going in my party because she's hot.
Shadowheart
weapon
Sword and Shield or a Two Handed Sword. I'm undecided on which style I want to go with.
How are the loading times? I plan to savescum every skill check roll.
Game is very easy to run just get a NVME SSD and it will load fast. Its super optimized
Californian homosexual level pozzed. No redeeming qualities at all.
>Californian homosexual level pozzed
So not very at all? Good to know; buying the game now. Thanks lad!
It's gonna be pozzed as frick but people are ignoring the fact that pretty much all CRPGS are notoriously pozzed, with stems by DnD and role playing games in general. At this point you just have to put up with it if you want to enjoy the genre, this is hardly anything new.
I'm gonna make a goodie-two shoes young male human paladin and romance Karlach. And he VILL make her happy.
she will pegg him
>innocent young pally helping her let go of revenge and deal with baggage from Blood War
Wholesome
>does it have any redeeming qualities if so?
it's free
Really?
Must suck going through life being terrified of everything
handholding and hugging with shadowheart
Who are you going to frick/marry/kill?
>Frick
Shadowheart
>Marry
Shadowheart
>Kill
Chuds
Any of your party members wanting to enslave you this time around?
>Frick
Shadowheart
>Marry
Shadowheart
>Kill
Shadowheart
Frick Halsin
Marry Zevlor
Kill Wyll
(reposting from the last thread)
Without spoiling anything the custom characters will have a more personal tie-in with the events of past games.
Yeah, there's some frickery going on there with the mind flayers and the Absolute.
In the opening scene when the nautiloid crashes and it shows Minthara and Dror Ragzlin looking towards it Minthara is smirking which makes me think they were expecting it.
Then there's the fact that in the opening cinematic where they show you and Lae'zel getting tadpole'd when the mind flayer that did it leaevs the room he walks past a dead/unconscious mind flayer so he might've been working for for the Absolute.
The tadpole that they infect you with is special in that it's woven with Nethereese magic which is puzzling.
Then there's Shadowheart's puzzlebox that both the Absolute and the Githyanki want desperately. There was some datamined stuff I've read a bit of (before stopping any more spoiling) related to that box and it's quite intriguing.
Larian said it's imperative that your party is in possession of this box for plot reasons and they mentioned how it cause them some headaches to make that happen in all the different scenarios since you can just completely avoid Shadoheart every chance you get.
I suspect the main thing is the box, you getting tadpole'd is more of a "wrong place, wrong time" type of situation that you have to deal with as the plot progresses.
>Without spoiling anything the custom characters will have a more personal tie-in with the events of past games.
Wait, really? Maybe I should really play BG1 and 2 before release then. I just don't want to experience burnout
While I do recommend playing them regardless (if you can deal with some of the jank) you can probably just watch a story summary of the BG1, 2 and Throne of Bhaal and still understand the significance of Tav's (the custom character from BG3) bloodline.
>boomers came buckets to this
And so have I.
something something glass houses
I guess.
BG1 is fairly straightforward in terms of plot and twists/reveals.
Still, I enjoyed it. You should have enough time to play through all 3 (1, 2 and ToB) before BG3 drops. Start with 1, if you're not really feeling it, watch a summary and move on to 2.
Siege of Dragonspear you can skip. Regardless of whether you'd like it or not (lots of old fans don't) it doesn't really bring anything significant to the table.
>Siege of Dragonspear
Is that the Beamdog campaign? Is it canon?
>Beamdog
>Is it canon?
According to WOTC, yes it is. Unfortunately.
>Is that the Beamdog campaign?
Yes.
>Is it canon?
I think so...? It's been a while sine I played it but I think it retcons some things from the original BG1 which is another reason why people dislike it.
You're not really missing out on much by skipping it. It explains the events between the ending of BG1 and the start of BG2 but you can just read a short plot summary for it and move to BG2.
I think they just mean that they'll have their own animations and effects for when they cast their spells similar to how bards use their instruments when casting spells (something I really really like).
No fricking way that's happening since you have to do some pretty evil shit if you want to frick her.
Same here, my first playthrough was around the 60h mark so I'd imagine if you're thorough with the full Act 1 you'll probably not finish it in 3 days as a new player.
>No fricking way that's happening since you have to do some pretty evil shit if you want to frick her.
I'm glad she is a full companion and everything but most people are just not going to see any of her because as you said you have to commit to an evil path and that probably locks you out of all the Good companions. So it becomes a choice of Jaheira/Halsin, Karlach, Helia?; etc. vs Drow pussy.
Wyll leaves the party and Halsin tries kill you and you're forced to kill him.
You have to pass a speech check to keep Gale or he leaves as well.
Shadoheart is obviously not happy with the events either but doesn't raise a stink.
Lae'zel and Astarion don't react negatively to it.
I'd imagine Karlach wouldn't be happy either especially since she's a tiefling. Larian said she's a good aligned character. ("a heart of gold" which is pretty ironic given what she has inside her). She too might tell you to frick off and leave you.
I think Helia is also a good or at the least not evil character but don't quote me on that.
I'm a bit bummed out because you kinda have to be evil for the sake of being evil in order to side with the goblins. Not even a serious motive that's self serving at least to help you out of your predicament with the tadpole.
I unironically think Grinch waifu looks more attractive than orange swimsuit model caked in makeup #349.
She seems to be modeled after an extremely attractive woman and they then they threw the frog features on top. She's not that bad looking all things considered.
BG2 should absolutely be experienced on its own rather than through some story recap.
Should I just recap BG1 then?
its very short. you can speedrun it if you want
BG1 can filter quite some people, it's nearing 25 years after all, and it's low-level DnD. Give it a try and if you don't like it you can jump to BG2 without losing too much.
You should play it anyway, because it's fun. As
said you may get filtered by the early game if you don't kite enemies with ranged attacks, but the main villain actually has a non-moronic scheme and you'll appreciate elements of BGII more for having played I.
There's been a lot of dross in the last couple of decades, but this particular bit of lore is at least fairly old given that Midnight was actually the Mystra in BGI&II. It happened like 10 years after her apotheosis. No one enjoyed the Spellplague though.
>I just don't want to experience burnout
I doubt that's going to be a problem, unless you burn out by playing games in general. BG1 and 2 are nothing like BG3, but being familiar with them probably adds to the experience. Hecking game even has multiple characters straight out of those games.
BG1 is the superior one (unpopular opinion), it's a comfy exploration game, and the story is actually pretty decent and weirdly proactive (you're investigating stuff, rather than anyone ordering you around).
BG2 is more flashy and has much more fleshed out companions/npcs, and high level gameplay which feels good. It's a great game but it's very much a continuation of BG1, hell you're even supposed to import your BG1 character and your stats and some items carry over. Playing BG2 in a vacuum sounds like a terrible idea.
TOB is awful, but it caps off the Bhaalspawn Saga and it's short, so if you get through the other games you should play it as well. Some of the High Level Abilities are very cool.
>still $60 for an unfinished game
Maybe it's time for another DoS2 replay while I wait for release
You better pre-order if you want to play it 5 days early.
I will be just waiting for the movie myself, had a lot of fun with FF16 on youtube
It’s on gog. For free
>How pozzed is this game
Picrel
>does it have any redeeming qualities if so?
Combat is pretty good.
It's basically Dos3 and this time we even got something resembling rpg in terms of character progression. It's still 5e so meh.
Characters dialogue and all that stuff is just awful. I already bought it unfortunately.
Hey, you're back.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/bbBbnnCwJoCkgllqfZW5NQ/
vgh.... larians biggest supporter on Ganker, bumping every thread
Anon it's hard not to post a image of designer bragging about being a cuck on twitter instead of working on a game.
>You should always be working
Then why are you posting on Ganker instead of working you fricking cuck?
>you fricking cuck
I'm not involved in BG3 development, you've got something wrong.
Uh I'm not paying you to post on Ganker. Get back to work.
looks to me like he's mocking some rpgcodex grognards and you always love to see that. nothing is as fun as watching codex have melties all day
i might've gotten this in early access if they didn't charge full price during early access period
>xbox series s cant run coop
its over
It all rests on how mercenaries work on this game for me. If i can kill all origin characters and design my own party i`ll play this...
>Monks are masters of manipulating the field of combat - pushing, pulling, and stunning enemies across the battleground
This comment says Monks move enemies with their attacks.
>We also did a lot of work house-ruling this class, re-balancing Monks
>we're introducing brand new actions to play with
Here they say they've changed some stuff around and even added new features.
>Monks of the Open Hand excel at close combat, using special unarmed techniques to manipulate the enemies at hand.
And this is what's to be expected. However, the reason I've brought all of these things up is because pushing enemies with your attacks is something Open Hand Monks do, it's not a base Monk feature. There's also no "pulling" Monk attack. This makes me wonder if some Open Hand features were moved to the base Monk as they continue on:
>At mid levels, this subclass can charge their attacks with Psychic, Necrotic or Radiant damage (representing mind, body and soul). At higher levels, we give them Ki Resonating Blast, which infuses punched targets with Ki and can create a chain reaction of explosions across all in-range targets who have also been touched by Ki.
This is not what Open Hand Monks get in tabletop. Their 6th level feature is a self-heal and their 11th level feature is self-Sanctuary after a long rest, which means enemies' attacks against you will hit someone else instead if you haven't attacked yet. That last one kinda' sucks but they could've buffed it. And the self-heal was nice. I honestly wasn't expecting any of this because Open Hand generally isn't considered that bad. The subclass is meant to invoke Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, so I'm wondering what fans of that series think about these changes, and I wonder if the self-heal or even self-Sanctuary have been moved to the base class. It is worth noting that a later book also gave the base Monk a self-heal, but it's expensive and weak.
Monks are dogshit in the tabletop, so it's a good thing they are being changed. I actually hope they get a full overhaul. They're by far the worst class in every edition.
I'm glad, too, I'm just afraid of the changes being boring. "More ki" is a very common fix to Monks, but it isn't very interesting and doesn't actually change their biggest problems.
I personally prefer buffing the subclasses over the base class, because half the subclasses (anti-weebs avert thine eyes) are very obviously inspired by anime, but you actually get very little out of them. The Stand subclass lets you summon one, but all it does is sit on you and throw punches. A 20th level Monk made in reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is capable of doing less than Stand users are shown to be able to do in the very first chapter they appear in. It's like they saw the scene of Star Platinum catching the bullet, stopped the episode and said, "Got it, we're done here."
>Shadow monks are stealth ninjas who teleport to and from the shadows, a skill that allows them to stealthily strike enemies then return to the safety of darkness
This isn't clear, but it makes it sound like you might be able to teleport twice in one turn here. They didn't explicitly say that, but it's worded in a weird way. Typically, you'd want to teleport TO an enemy and then attack, because this gives you advantage. After that, you can move, but you can't teleport back. Here they suggest attacking and then teleporting to get away. Just sounds inelegant.
>And finally, Monks from the Four Elements subclass are casters who unleash Monk variants of spells followed up with a rapid bonus action punch
This means they get the feature added later on, Ki-Fueled Attack, which allows you to use your "spell" and then throw out a bonus attack.
>You'll also soon find new magic items throughout the world designed to further support the Monk's playstyle
This is one of those things every DM does, but WotC refuses to. I also want to go back to this:
>In combat, they combine light, quick unarmed attacks with weapon attacks - producing beautifully distinctive and stylised combat animations.
>And we've got to say, the animation, VFX and SFX for this class are on a whole other level. We've pulled inspiration from the rulebook to create a stunning audio visual experience which lives up to Kung-Fu cinema classics.
This makes me wonder exactly what they're doing. It makes sense that your attacks will be more flashy than just slugging the enemy to death like a gorilla, since it's supposed to be Martial Arts, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like you plan out all your attacks first and this creates one single animation that unleashes them all in sequence. Am I interpreting that correctly?
>that pixie
Holy sexo. Tell me a class can summon one.
Druid and Warlock can cast Conjure Fey at level 11 which allows them to summon a fey creature for up to an hour. There are two problems with this, however: the DM decides what gets summoned, not you, and you can summon lots of creatures way, way stronger than a pixie so it's kind of a waste of a precious high level spell slot.
Alternatively, Druid, Warlock and Wizard at level 5, Ranger at level 9, and Arcane Trickster Rogue and Eldritch Knight Fighter at level 13 can get Summon Fey, which summons a much weaker fey creature and you can choose which fey creature it looks like. The problem here is "looks like." It wouldn't literally be a pixie, it's a Fey Spirit that's taken its form. I'll also add there's a Ranger subclass called Fey Wanderer that gets the ability to cast this spell once a day for free (at 11), so your Fey Spirit can be like a companion almost.
Pretty sure the spell you're referring to is from one of the later books. For BG3 they're sticking mostly or entirely to the PHB so I wouldn't expect to see those spells.
Summon Fey is "new," but Conjure Fey isn't. I don't know if pixies will look like that illustration in BG3, though. Some monsters look like the Monster Manual artwork, some don't.
So...
I didn't even say that game was bad. I was just pointing out that Larian are cucks which is objective truth.
Like, sure story and characters suck but there's nothing to play anyway.
We get like 2 rpg games a year so I don't see the point in this debate.
It's the best written CRPG of all time, unironically.
So...
Nobody fricking cares what you think /misc/tard.
Does anyone know what happens to companions near end of act 1? Is it like DOS where the 3 you choose are locked for the rest of the game or can you swap em out later?
Do you have to have a character in your active party to romance or can you romance a camp only companion?
siege of dragonspear was fine
>72hr early access is locked to act 1
That's fine. It took me like 70 hours to do a single act 1 playtrough. I am not memeing.
Was that confirmed? I don't really mind to be honest so long as we get to continue the save after release.
lol no
act 1 is 15 hours at best if you take your time
That's the current act 1, not the full act 1.
then they better have four big ass areas on standby
Minthara is so fricking hot. Lariangods pls let me do the needful and redeem her
The only bad part about the game is the companions and that is a huge black eye but everything else is very solid. Would recommend.
Why do clerics and wizards get so many subclasses? Also would another cleric PC overlap too much with SH?
>Why do clerics and wizards get so many subclasses?
Because they only have tiny variations and it just gives the illusion of more choice.
It's like Dragonborn getting a billion subraces, it's just a small change between them.
Is this your first time playing a post 3.5e D&D?
Most subclasses are completely novel ideas sprung from nowhere. Cleric's and Wizard's subclasses are not. Cleric subclasses refer to the different domains in which gods rule over while Wizard subclasses refer to the different schools of magic that exist. If they only got two or three, it would be pretty fricking awkward.
>Sex
All the time anytime
>Race
Yes, pedal to the medal
>Class
Of course, remove those without any class
>Alignment
Horizontal
>Party
Every night
>Romance
Is for fools
>favorite weapon
Glass Shank
>How pozzed
>pozzed
Think about that question, anon, while thinking of the origin of this word. To be "pozzed" means to have an STD. Would you ask a person with an STD how "pozzed" they were? No, because it doesn't matter as you won't have sex with them as you don't want an STD. So, it makes no sense to ask "how pozzed" when you don't want to even interact with pozz.
Hope this helped.
He's asking how gay the game is, anon.
I still haven't narrowed down what I'm going to do. Definitely something with a magical flavour at least
>1Cleric/11Wiz/Sorc
>2Cleric depending on the domain (like Tempest + Storm Sorcery or Draconic Lightning)
>2Fighter/10Warlock/Sorc
>3-4Oathbreaker/9-8Warlock or the reverse
>2Warlock/10Sorc (maybe 9Sorc and sneak a Fighter level in for heavy armour or go moderately armored)
>Pure Warlock and use feats for armour, you can get +2 Cha from act 1 items anyway
When do I multiclass in 5e? Doesn't that affect spell progression?
Yeah that's why you have to know what you're getting out of it before bothering. For full casters you can really only tolerate 2-3 levels in another class and after that you're probably not actually playing a full caster anymore.
A cleric/wiz combo is a bit different though because full casters share spell slot progression so a 1Cleric/4Wizard will actually have 3rd level spell slots, they just won't have any 3rd level cleric or wizard spells to put into them.
You get more out of your starting class too so if you go into a class later you won't get the proficiencies you would have gotten otherwise. Like Sorcerer has CON proficiency but Warlock gets WIS instead so which one you start with depends on which one you want. Most people tend to prefer CON due to how Concentration works.
And of course there's getting Extra Attack at class lv 5 but that's more of a martial thing
Is Shadowheart a virgin?
It has been fricking decades until I played an RPG in a medieval fantasy world where the love interest is a virgin, it is more common in fricking sci-fi than in fantasy, for whatever fricking reason.
No, she's fricked other women
I sincerely doubt it given who's making the game.
>How pozzed is this game
Supremely so, it's made by Larian, a studio headed by a homosexual so deep in his homosexualry bubble that discovering that women barely play his games mindbroke him
>And does it have any redeeming qualities if so?
They're mechanically competent if you like Turn Based combat
Also my wife
Halsin.
Are we posting elves?
>sex
It's gender, little boy
Gender is a term with no medical meaning made up by a pedophile
Don't know what race,class,alignment, etc. I'll go.
Only thing I know is that the homosexual vampire is dying asap
>Character creation screen
>Semi bestial race that gives you tard strength with almost no downsides even in dialogue because writers are afraid of hardcore racism
>class that let's you gank with swords or other basic weapon while using a wee bit of magic
>Do this for Owlcat games , Mass Effect, TES and BG3
Never failed me not even once. Wrath of The Righteous was the best experience as an Inquisitor - Sanctified Slayer
>Semi bestial race that gives you tard strength with almost no downsides even in dialogue because writers are afraid of hardcore racism
I miss fallout 2 kino 1 int runs
In 1, low int had pretty big downsides
That wasn't the case with 2?
You get moron dialogue in both 1 and 2 if you're low int, that's the kino he's referring to.
Can we mod the cuckshit out?
Yes, but then all you're left with is the title screen
I joke, you likely can, but not mod hosting site will allow it
Oh well, there are other games to play. Thanks for replying.
>not mod hosting site will allow it
We desperately need an alternative to the Nexus
We do, but even ModDB and LL are full of homosexuals
Nexus is fricking egregious though
I hate when platforms do this. They get popular, then start with increasingly draconian rules and biases and when you complain the owners say you're wrong and they're right because the platform is so popular, as if it didn't have nothing to do with their bullshit
Written and voiced dialogue, no.
What cuckshit, where do you get cucked?
They are just making stuff up.
The obsession with romanceable virgins in WRPGs is annoying because it doesn't even make any sense. Everyone you interact with is old as shit. The only sin of gamedevs is when they force awareness of the character's bodycount for some insane reason.
In JRPGs everyone is a child. This is why you have virgin waifus.
It's not an obsession, it's people wanting literally one option that fits that mold and every developer refusing to give them that because they are obsessed with making sure the players know that all of their female characters are strong empowered feminists who have taken miles of wiener before you got there.
What's weird is that you aren't giving nerds a swirlie by making all of their romanceable women bawds. Normie men are the drivers of bodycount discourse. It's all tactless dudes who get a completely normal amount of sex that don't want their gfs to have had any sex before them.
What the frick are you babbling on about, schizo making up imagined enemies of the feminist state.
Called fantasy for a reason. If I wanted gritty shitty nonstop suffering and misery I'd just watch the news.
It's not non stop suffering, it's just a 38yo women having relationships before you. In some idyllic picture of pre enlightenment times you still aren't going to find virgin women in their thirties unless they're married to God.
In order to have a pure virgin romanceable option they'd have to essentially make it a core aspect of her chaarcter just because it's strange unless she's younger than 22 which no one ever is in these game. You all want immortal witches and elves and half elves who stayed sexually pure for 1000 years without making a big deal of it.
Yeah, so what?
I don't think anyone knows what they want. People's favourite companion is always Morrigan or some succubus and never the normie human woman who's 25 and probably never had a bf.
Speak for yourself. Tali and Liara for me.
Tbf I wouldn't be surprised if Morrigan was a virgin.
She's younger than she looks, and she lives in a dangerous, isolated and sparsely populated swamp, I doubt there'd be a lot of quality men
>oh but she talks about how much she fricks
Yeah, she also says she has no designs over your independence, how she totally hates when you treat her sweetly and hoe completely not in love she is with you, baka
She turns into an animal to get fricked by animals.
go play VNs then, tardo
Yuzusoft is right up your alley
What is strange is that you and the other people who think like this are oddly fixated in THIS point of realism. 1000 old witches are realistic? No. Middle-aged virgin women are realistic? No. But the first is fine and the second isn't. For some reason, the sexual side HAS to be realistic. Why?
>why can't there be a Toyota Tacoma in the setting, huh? Why is that where you draw the line?
moron
See, you have no argument. You want THIS part to be realistic simply because you do. You WANT this stuff in. That's why people call you cucks.
It's still a weird thing to be fixated on. Adventurers/companions and especially origin characters are typically people who are extraordinary in many ways and well-travelled including some good life experience, because otherwise they would be quite boring. It would just break verisimilitude for them to never have had any experience on that regard. I guess it can work in some instances, like with Galfrey, although she has very clear reasons for being celibate.
>but adventurers are meant to be bawds!
You say this every thread and I don't fricking get it. Aerie joins your party in BG2 and proceeds to go on adventures with you. She literally proves all your cuckold fantasy theories wrong by existing.
It's the first post I make about this. Also Aerie is literally a teenager.
It's not the first post you've made about this, you were in the past couple of threads saying the exact same shit with the exact same posting style. Just because you're anonymous doesn't mean people don't recognize you, you can't play off your obvious cuckold fantasies by pretending to be multiple people.
>"An adult has had sex at least once" = "complete bawd"
You're weird, man.
So to you, life experience = sexual relationships? It has to be like that otherwise somehow the person is still immature?
>life experience = sexual relationships?
It's obviously part of it, yes. Unless there is some very specific philosophy or religious guideline forbidding that.
>It has to be like that otherwise somehow the person is still immature?
It would be weird without the person following some kind of code, yeah.
Having sex with more than one person in your life isn't an accolade, it's a failing, as evidenced by people being less satisfied with sex the more partners they've had. Our society is collapsing so modern people can't accept that anyone couldn't have made the mistake of sleeping with the wrong person at least once before adulthood. They consider their own degeneracy normal and it is now. Having sex with the wrong person when you're young is just what people do, you know, like trying drugs and TPing houses.
>moron with no argument says "HURR U HAF NO ARGAMEN"
moron
Suspension of disbelief. You expect the trapping of fantasy, but you also expect people to act like people, since the story conditions you to expect this. The same pressures and social engagements that exist IRL also seem to exist in this world, so while a 1000 year old witch is easily accepted, the other thing is not.
I'm forgetting the particular reference, but there are games where it's narratively essential that a character be ugly, monstrously ugly, and yet the character model, due to you being able to create the character, or the limitations of technology, is clearly not ugly at all. It's just dissonant.
You suspend your disbelief that a person being 1000 years old can easily interact with people who are no more than children to her, that she can keep an interest in a world that she's seen changing so much, on people whose lives appear as a eye blink to her, but a woman not having been in a relationship before is too much for you.
Which character in this game did you expect not to have ever been in a relationship or had sex? Please tell us.
>unless she's younger than 22 which no one ever is in these game.
Can't they just made some virginal young girl then?
That would probably be the most boring character imaginable, but sure I guess.
No? Naive and young characters aren't all boring There's Aerie and Imoen for example in BG
Alistair in Dragon Age.
Imoen is literally in the game for being your sister. Aerie is pretty much like Ember in many ways and a lot of people find her dull and boring anyway. Alistair was comic relief in the entire game.
You're an actual schizo.
You just called me a schizo but two threads ago you (yes you, mr redditor who doesn't realize that anonymity doesn't mean every post on the board is by a unique person) said the exact same thing about how Aerie is boring and her storyline and writing is boring and you didn't like it anyway so it's good that everyone female is Viconia now. Aerie proves your shit fanfic theories about all of this wrong just by existing, I don't give a shit if you personally don't like her.
Again, you're a fricking schizo. Aerie being a boring character is hardly a novel opinion.
Doesn't stop you from repeating it every thread as if it's some sort of epic win own.
>Imoen is literally in the game for being your sister
Not in 1
>Aerie is pretty much like Ember in many ways and a lot of people find her dull and boring anyway.
"A lot of people find X" is a horrible argument
>Alistair was comic relief in the entire game.
So? He was still young, naive and optimistic. Also a virgin
Young characters are perfectly feasible as companions and romances, and they have been present in rpgs before.
Other anon is right, it's weird they've been phased out
>Imoen
Please say sike.
You have 3 seconds to say who has spoiled my beautiful, pure, non blood related, little sister
They can. But then you get Characters like Ember, which are only pure because they are children. And they don't let you romance her. I sort of hate Owlcat a little bit
I've never done this until now. It's just a very stupid thing to complain about because it's not them trying to cuck you, although sometimes it is a little bit them trying to cuck you, but it's simply a natural consequence of the character?
No one cares that the male companions are more likely to boast about their conquests.
The only time this felt intentional is for Arue, but then it was funny. Because it felt like the devs intentionally despised the player for trying to make a wholesome romance with a literal prostitute from hell. Unnecisary, and I get the complaints, but a little funny. But people will b***h about this in every single game. It's moronic.
>The only sin of gamedevs is when they force awareness of the character's bodycount for some insane reason.
Which is a thing Owlcat does a lot
>lol this reminds me when I got spit roasted by 3 orcs on top of a tavern table, tee hee
To be completely fair, it makes perfect sense for someone vulgar as Wenduag to go around saying that, and Arue is a fricking succubus so it's entirely expected that she had a promiscuous past. Also Galfrey is an actual virgin even if she is 10294 years old.
It doesn't stop there though there's the threesome couple and that other chick too.
Even if they were all in-story justified to do it, there's clearly an uncomfortable pattern here
I was unaware this was an obsession let alone something people actually cared for. Total pipedream for all but the most devout and frigid of nuns. Getting cucked in real time - IN A VIDEO GAME is a complete joke though. I genuinely have no idea what they were thinking with adding that in.
>inb4 cuck squad
>inb4 muh realistic relationships
A lot of RPG players just want to get jerked off.
Isn't this the game where you are forced to be a homosexual?
HUH?
>durrrrr it pozzzed!!?!??!
Take your meds moron.
Why is there always this one guy in these threads that is just absolutely intent on telling everyone that they're wrong for wanting a virgin waifu companion character in a fantasy game instead of just admitting the obvious that most wrpg devs are cuckolds that get off on making their players cuckolds too. It has nothing to do with "realism", "verisimilitude" or le epic reddit Toyota Tacoma meme, it's just that wrpg devs are cucks. There is room in these games for one character to fit the Aerie archetype and I don't care if you come up with some cope about how "b-but it's not interesting, not like my hot wife getting plowed by orcs and telling me every detail about it".
yes
We need more kissing and tongue playing in porn
>NOOOOOOO! EVERY CHARACTER HAS TO BE A VICONIA, AERIE DOESN'T EXIST, STOP MENTIONING HER EVEN THOUGH SHE PROVES ALL OF MY POSTS WRONG, VICONIA VICONIA VICONIA
You cucks are fricking deranged.
Read their posts and it's clear they WANT the women to be experienced, to them it's just not realistic for a women not to have several sexual partners before and while she's with you. I don't know how a person turns out like this but here they are.
Nobody said that you weirdo.
If you're this hung up on fricking a digital virgin just go play Sengoku Rance.
And if you're that hung up on interacting with experienced women just go to bar
>several sexual partners
I never said anything about SEVERAL sexual partners. You're talking about virginity, that encompasses anything from one to a million or more.
So one is fine but zero is literally impossible?
Are you mentally challenged? I never said it's impossible, I just said it seems unlikely. I literally listed examples of how virginity could be the case in a reasonable way as well as characters that are written with it in a good way that isn't just "she's a teenager lol". Jesus fricking Christ, dude.
Then what's your deal? It's fantasy, me as an author can think of any reason why she didn't date any dudes in these 1000 years. Maybe she was lesbian, maybe she went on a bad date. Thing is I'm pretty sure you'd still be upset because being honest I think you'd hate it on principle.
Unironically yes. There are probably to this day a not insignificant amount of women who are late 20s or older that have only fricked one dude. IF you meet a fantasy concubine and discover she's only been with one man, no further questioning is even needed unless you wanna know how the homie died.
It’s Larian so it’s turbowoke, poorly written and built around savescumming. If that sounds good to you, have at it.
still not sure; why don't you shit post for 4 hours a day for the next month, like the last 12, so I can really make up my mind? I need more convincing
>poorly written and built around savescumming.
So it's a Baldur's Gate game.
Black person just admit you’ve never played Baldurs Gate before 1 or 2 and then frick off back to r*ddit.
>pozzed is this game
Very
>does it have any redeeming qualities
No
>all girls are ugly
It's pozzed
>62 posters
>this unironic SEXUAL LIBERATION cuckold hippie in every bg3 thread trying his damned hardest to convince everyone that virginity is bad and worthless and totally unrealistic in a fantasy game where people have several gods, virtues, cultures and races different from our own and we're all expected to believe that not a single one of them can have virginity be something that isn't rushed through by a pack of Black folk in the local tavern because specific Earth religions that value chastity don't exist in the forgotten realms
Really makes me think. Unironic Larian shill hours doing damage control for a game full of used up harpies.
I literally mentioned multiple times that it makes sense when they follow some philosophy or religious code. But that's not even what you've asked for, you just want Aerie 2.0. I don't know why you're flipping your shit so hard over this.
>it's fantasy anything works durr derp
That's not how fantasy works, characters still need to be remotely believable.
>Virginity is unbelievable, how can I get immersed if a character is a virgin
You showed your hand again, cuckold. Just because it is unbelievable to you doesn't mean it doesn't fit in the setting. Stop posting about this cuckold fantasy of yours that every woman in the world has taken wiener before you've set eyes on her, you moronic apologist.
Yes, yes, I understand that believable to you is sexually experienced women, you won't like it any other way. We'll just start arguing in circles now.
>MUH TRAD WIFE IN FAERUN
you morons can't even win in fantasy lmao
>resorting to low effort shitposting like this after getting thoroughly btfo
I accept your concession.
>schizo moron imagines everyone laughing at him is the same person
I guess that's one way to cope with it
your life is low effort, moron. This is why you're a forever alone KHV kvetching about magical virgins in fricking Baldur's Gate like you're a towelhead idiot who is going to Allah Akbar himself
>a virgin woman is now more fantastical and unrealistic than literal magic and witches
Tough times.
>one (obvious) cuckold anon going on about how everyone else has an obsession with female virginity
Seems to be that it's more likely that this one guy is obsessed with female non-virginity, to the point where he tries to convince everyon else that virginal women wouldn't exist at all in the forgotten realms at all and are equivalent to finding a modern day real life car there. He's either an honest to god cuck (possibly a troony to boot) or it's an actual woman that will forever be bitter that she gave up her virginity for free to some guy that didn't call her back the next day, so she copes by telling everyone that girls having virginity beyond the age of 20 is lore breaking and verisimilitude-destroying in a fantasy setting. What a strange place Ganker can be at times.
>mad that the entire discussion died with basically nobody agreeing with him
Nobody's a cuck except the people that willingly wifed a former succubus. I do not care about games with virgins, I just think it's ridiculous for the characters you all love.
When Starfield comes out, there will be two romanceable women, one is obviously like 40, and the other seems to be in her early 20s(new model, old model looked 40 as well). The MILF will be by far the most popular character, but if there is any line of dialogue that even suggests past relationship (completely banal, like saying some gross ayylium looks like an ex), we will get this moronic discussion all over again.
Noel likely won't be the full companion in Starfield.
I wouldn't stake my life on it either way. There only being 4 is strange anyhow. Nobody goes to Bethesda for Bioware style romances, and if you're going to crib that, then 4 options is insanely low. Even if it isn't Noel, it's unlikely to be anyone that excites people.
Yeah, it's weird that they're going with such a low number. I'm not sure what they're planning. Maybe they want to create a demand for companions to sell with the CC.
Cuck, did you even read the thread? Nobody is agreeing with YOU. Samegayging with the same opinion about Aerie being boring and virgins being as unrealistic as Toyota Tacoma does not count as people agreeing with you. Stop talking to yourself.
>if you're into any woman who isn't a virgin you must be a cuck fetishist
Weird rationale, but ok.
Being so obsessed with non-virginity only has one logical conclusion, that the person in question is a cuckold that gets off on women being non-virgins.
The problem isn't that you date experienced women irl, is that when presented with a fantasy of having a perfect partner you still choose the experienced one, and according to you on the basis that she was experienced.
>7 man cuck squad trying their hardest to make people not want to buy their game
a million seller 2 years before it even came out. Time to play in traffic for you I guess
My PC is a toaster.
How easy is this to run on lesser hardware?
>desperately waiting for worthwhile GPUs at reasonable prices for BG3 and Starfield
>Larion cuts a month off my remaining time
I'm at the point where I might be forced to buy BG3 on PS5.
It's one thing not to care about virginity it's another to be put off by it , what am I suppose to think when you tell me that you find a girl boring because she hasn't fricked another guy before she met you?
It's one troony/roastie in the midst of their own personal copioid crisis, just try to pay it no mind.
I wonder if cuckold-anon realizes that for a woman to be a non-virgin there has to have been a man that takes her virginity. How exactly is virginity unrealistic and lorebreaking if someone has to encounter the virginity in order to take it from them? What's to stop that person from being the player with a single specific companion? I don't think anyone actually expects every female companion to be a virgin but the cuckold fanfiction about how anyone who would be willing to be the player's companion by default has to be a non-virgin is extremely autistic and doesn't give me much confidence that you aren't in-fact a cuck if you continue to push this idea.