You WILL consume the tadpoles.
You WILL turn into a mindflayer.
You WILL have tentacle sex.
You WILL consume the tadpoles. You WILL turn into a mindflayer. You WILL have tentacle sex.
You WILL consume the tadpoles.
You WILL turn into a mindflayer.
You WILL have tentacle sex.
i already did all of those things
As a good cuck does. Very well done, cucky.
Tonight you're allowed to clean your bulls wiener and your wife's c**t.
>eat all the tadpoles
>no consequences
>free Orpheus despite eating all the tadpoles
Great game design
I tried the tadpoles once, got an animation of it literally eating my brain and that was consequence enough for me. Reloaded and never looked back.
Cut content again. There used to be huge consequences of using tadpole powers.
They even said in interviews that there was. I legit just beat it and never used a tadpole because of this reveal by Sven / WolfheartFPS.
There is not one drawback? I didn't get anything for NOT using them..
It's not a RPG, it's a living nightmare.
>Daisy died for this
Frick Larian
cope she was also most likely a mindflayer too
I mean duh, Daisy was just straight up evil, Emperor has some shades of gray to him even if they are pretty badly presented.
Daisy was the Absolute tricking the player into giving in
The absolute are incompetent my gigachad character would never fall for their tricks
Daisy was either your tadpole who didn't want either of you to die, with a possibility of not even knowing they are the tadpole, or a character similar to but distinctly different than The Emperor.
>literally no point at all to Down By the River anymore
Bravo Larian
Emperor is better than Daisy, which is just an evil worm.
Problem is lack of endings, but his figure gets you to question a lot of stuff early in Act 3.
He being who we are told he is by the dragon is overreaching tho
I didn't use any tadpoles and freed orpheus. Shame we couldn't work together baulderin you were pretty based aside from your squid mlm.
Yes sir.
I think you should side with the Emperor. He's still Balduran, and Balduran was a great hero. You can trust him completely.
>filtered MILLIONS with that chess puzzle
I say based
No one honestly thought that was difficult right? It was the easiest puzzle in the world right.
>They nerfed the Selune puzzle
...How dumb are these people?
Am I crazy or was the solution lightning? I examine everything instantly and so I blasted it with witch bolt and blew it up instantly.
Lightning is a bypass, not a solution
The solution was to get Gale to solve the puzzle if you are a brainlet.
Don't you just take a single piece with the queen? I forgot what the board looked like but it was stupidly easy.
The solution is that your Ferz is taking the enemy pawn, and the other pawn cannot move because of the uncovered Elephant check in that case. Then you take the other pawn with your Ferz.
yea anon, I completed it no problem, why are you using the made up ingame chess terms instead of just saying you take a pawn with the queen?
Queen is made up by moronic Europeans who did not know the concept of Prime Minister, Warmaster or High Counsellor and just though "A big strong man at the top does everything, so this other piece must be his wife".
Im awfull at chess and did it first try without even noticing.
I mean, it´s obvious given queen is there, it´s gonna involve somekind of diagonal frickery with her, so randomly move stuff in that area (not the horse obviously), which leads to moving the tower.
Rest of the tabletop has no relevant pieces or not close enough, so i´ts kinda railroaded.
I get browns not being able to do so, but humans should 1+1
Do you find out what he did to Duke Stelmane somewhere I remember hearing she acted odd after dealing with him
You can find medical reports that she suddenly turned very ill and borderline catatonic after meeting with a mysterious stranger. The Emperor was lying to you all along.
In my game I found the medical reports and called the emperor gross when he tried to have gay sex with me and he showed me a cutscene where its obvious he mindflayed Stelmane and was using her as a literal hand up the ass puppet the entire time and it was never ever a partnership, he just literally was using her body as a husk and then he threatened to do the same to me, so now I need to get a hammer and free that frog homosexual
He still had her portrait in his room and mentions that the last person who hugged him was she.
he has been a lying piece of shit the whole time. I bet he is just trying to free the elder brain so he could have complete control over everything again. frick mind flayers, frick green skins and frick frogs
>takes off his shirt
>haha you're so cute anon, we should frick
>btw don't forget to take the tadpole teehee
Manipulative squidmonster
>MC's mindflayer form is explicitly more femine than your usual mindflayer
Now that the dust has settled, was it grooming?
>old partner was stelmane
>turned her into a thrall and date raped her to death
>tries to seduce you
>wants you to become a femboy mindflayer and his new stelmane
Yeah, I'm thinking it was grooming
>this is better than daisy being down by the river with you forever
Wtf
>throws away a literal 10/10 ending
what was larian thinking
Are there any videos of the Daisy content? How does it different from the release Guardian stuff? I never played the early access so didn't get to see it.
Just google on yt "baldurs gate 3 early access dream"
Who the frick is Daisy?
My wife
Your tadpole wife in EA before it got rewritten to be the emperor.
>date raped her to death
Never happened, the red manlet killed her
There's all those books you find about her having strokes and shit. Plus Murder in Baldur's Gate (a tabletop module) says this:
>"Sometime prior to the Year of the Ageless One, 1479 DR, Duke Stelmane suffered a debilitating stroke brought on by the assault of a mind flayer. She was left in a coma for several days while she and the aberration engaged in a psychic battle for control of her mind. Though was was able to conduct business for the Knights of the Shield for some time, she had to continue the struggle to merely control her body and mind for over a decade, well into the Year of Three Ships Sailing, 1492 DR."
I guess the dwarf actually killed her though. She was on the murder list, right?
Yeah
I'm not sure how to feel about it, but in the old games they said he might've become a wolfwere, so I guess turning into a mindflayer is just another monster end for him.
Yeah, she was poisoned first too, and her hand is in the manlet's bag of hands. The emperor just mindbroke her into a veggie.
Doesn't really mean it was the Emperor, brain could have just killed her to frick with him.
her into a thrall and date raped her to death
When is this revealed? I was an butthole to him so i guess he didn't confess? or you find out some other way?
he showed me it in the cutscene right after he tried to frick me and I called him disgusting and said he had no soul
I wanna be Empdaddy's femflayer.
Just as nature intended
is this cut content?
Nope, it's in game.
Checked the flag though. There's a line for BIG PLANS in Jergal's post-end summary, which is bugged/cutcontent at this moment.
The Emperor. It hath been busy, it seems.
And it doth not act alone.
The patriars regroup. The Knights of the Shield grow strong again, as strong as they ever were under the familiar mind that did guide them.
Nay, stronger. For the Emperor hath an illithid ally now, whose mind - it is said - outstrips even its own.
END_BrainBattle_State_AlliedWithEmperor, END_BrainBattle_State_MindFlayersWithBigPlans
>you can eat the emperor
lmfao that's based as frick, he thought he could manipulate you but you frick him instead KEK
It's funny as frick, basically you go full *teleports behind you* NOTHIN PERSONNEL KID
>femboy mindflayers
I will now be buying this game
>Start new game
>the Mindflayer that puts the tadpole in your eye is wearing the Emperors robe
>No other mindflayer in the game is presented wearing that robe
Its grooming
What if you're a durge
jumping down a chasm
Pretty sure that was the squid you meet at crash site
There's also a book in Enver's room up on top of the fort about the emperor being sent to get the device, so I always assumed the emperor decided to make you his sleeper agent then. He had gotten my sympathies for the longest time, I was really torn up about the thought of him or orpheus (Until I started to learn how act 3 is scuffed and lost interest). But then I realized how rapey as shit his attempt to shove the astral-worm was on you, and at the time I assumed it would have ramifications so it pissed me off.
that mindflayer didn't have blue eyes
I think it's just because you're a newborn. As you mature you'll look more like him.
Also why aren't there any ulitharid in the game?
We've seen a newborn illithid on the mill and it looks like a full-grown one. Same for that brothel girl.
Yeah but those were mooks and you're special.
Very unique, very beautiful, very perfect.
t. emperor
U kno it bby
You would look so cute if you ate that tadpole haha
Sucks you grew up without a dad
t. emperor
>tfw no squid gf
Anon... p-please... consume that tadpole I beg you...
>reducing fricking Balduran out of all things to this
I don't understand. I really don't.
>reducing
I waited until release to refund the game.
Orpheus Morpheus Dorpheus
>Orpheus turns into a mindflayer
>laezel refuses his dragons to stay with me
>orpheus cries saying the githyanki are doomed and uses psychic powers to kill himself
damn
Should've let her go anon.
My Laezel killed that traitor mindflayer piece of shit. Long live Vlaakith.
t. Vlaakith
t. ghaik
>he didn't pass the perception/insight checks when talking to vlaakith
>he doesn't know githyanki/vlaakith lore about what happens to lvl 12 githyanki
oh no no
>based Vlakakith ensure Gith Black folk never survive past level 12
Why do we hate her again?
>Karlach can't have a good ending because they literally didn't finish it, cut it out, and just shipped the game anyways
I feel bad for all the incels that got duped into playing this game.
Unironically sexier on paper than the usual gay shit from these kind of western rpgs, these games are made for a femoid audience not actual gays and it shows just like you can spot a trannoid from a mile away
What gay shit from western RPGs was made for gay dudes except Iron Bull from Dragon Age Inquisition.
Holding the emperors hand
That is fricking sick and wrong
How can it be wrong when it feels so right.
>uncensored h*ndh*lding
Anon this is a blue board
wtf think of the advertisers anon
>karlach offers to turn into a mind flayer since she's gonna die anyway
>gale reminds me for the 100th time about his magic suicide nuke
>trying to convince my blind, branded, cursed chad of a dwarf who is too chill for his own health and is down to take or do whatever is offered to him NOT to take the squidpill
my party's well being just happened to coincide with being terminally Down For Whatever
>karlach offers to turn into a mind flayer since she's gonna die anyway
Becoming a mind flayer is objectively worse than just dying though.
Karlach is ready to die, she just want safe many lives as possible
Is it? What happens to your soul, don't you just pass on in DnD universe for whatever god you worship or does becomign a mindflayer completely destroy the soul?
no thanks, im planning to betray this manipulating frick
>have to wait the entire game to be able to kill the squid because otherwise you'd get an instant game over
Truly a game of many choices and possibilities.
>otherwise you'd get an instant game over
do you
Yeah, the Absolute brain instantly finds you and you get a game over screen.
But can't you choose to serve the absolute? Im pretty sure thats an option.
You can. Kill the Emperor, you'll get to serve the absolute. The game ends though because you're a mindless thrall for it now.
No. Even if you try to side with Gortash he dies like a chump against the elder brain.
You do if you kill him when fighting Orpheus's honor guard
>is a manipulative frick for (you) if you don't trust him
>is a total bro if you do
Don't bully the squid
>it's okay, I fell
>his blood sugar was just low
>he's nice if you get to know him
Bully the abusive squid boyfriend
This. He just leaves you alone in the end anyways.
Emperor explicitly says he'll do anything to survive and it's in his nature, and even if he manipulates you he never backstabs you if you work with him.
I will give him credit that if you let him handle the Absolute he DOES give it the command to commit die and not do a heel turn on you. Still not trusting him beyond that because the mindflayer influence on Balduran clearly is there and made him a unhinged survivor, but yeah.
This motherfricker has no ulterior motives. This motherfricker is reasonable every step of the way. He's in complete control, and you can't convince him to take alternative action because he believes he's always fricking correct, and that's because he is. His entire character is: I'm a monster, but trust me bro. At most you can say he's manipulative, but his manipulation has good intentions that could hardly be considered selfish.
No depth whatsoever. I fricking hate him.
Yeah, as much as he's a shady mindflayer now, he's right that you need him to survive and his plan works.
He did nothing wrong and you hate him for that, simple as.
I guess Mindflayers who aren't linked to the Elderbrain do in fact keep their souls according the the dnd wiki so hey I guess its not so bad after all.
But your soul will also be a mindlfayer. You don't go back to regular after death like if you were crippled or something.
It's really iffy on that front. They keep flip flopping on the mindflayer soul thing with even Jergal saying they have no souls one moment and then another saying they do
Jergal isn't infallible. He was a human that became a god and he is really only 1/3rd of a god.
>He was a human that became a god and he is really only 1/3rd of a god.
No, Jergal was the original god of strife, death and the dead. He was one of the gods that popped off of Shar/Selune during their cosmological primordial frickfight.
When are Shar and Selune just gonna frick?
They hatefrick every day and live together.
The game even tells you that everything that Shar has can be claimed by Selune and vice versa.
Jergal was the OG god of death who passed the job on to the three fricktards because he wanted to retire / take on an advisory role
I only hate the shitty writers that couldn't have actually made him be your friend until the end because they wanted an epic Marvel subversion.
this dumb motherfricker could have had me if he kept pretending to be my dream girl
No I just consumed all the tadpoles, freed Orpheus, then killed this homosexual.
>lmao okay bro
>get to giant brain
>Shank his b***h ass
>All mind flayers lay a clutch of tadpoles a bunch of times yearly not unlike woman period
>Rogue mind flayers are a thing
Is this guy shitting tadpoles on the astral plane like the place was a latrine?
>B-but timeless plane
Shut up
>Play EA and have wife
>Play release and have guardian
your "wife" is a giant mind dominating brain
Very nice my wife borat
>has femine voice
>admits you're kinda her daddy if you're durge
tfw no big brain gf
I want to free orpheus but i dont want to kill the squidbro.
>can't persuade them to work together for the greater good
What's the point even
See, that would be a decent one, lock it behind big charisma checks and having played to the tune of both (No tadpoles consumed, but also not pissed off Emps.)
This is a job for the bard.
>No tadpoles consumed
Make consumed tadpoles increase DC by 5 each.
>Not pissed off Emps
Make every negative conversation increase DC by 5 each.
There you are, now there are consequences, but you are not hardlocked.
Good thinking.
Honestly I'd be fine with the Emperor if he simply went "frick this shit I'm out" and teleported away when I made it clear Orpheus was getting freed. It's him turning on a dime and joining the Elder Brain despite spending the entire game searching for a way to escape its grasp and keep his independence that makes me think he's poorly written.
I agree, it's a bad narrative decision. But then again, the whole act 3 is a bad narrative decision, I'm not sure what were they thinking, especially with the ending.
That's what you get when you have scrap all your work and asspull something else because game is now releasing a year earlier than it should have.
He joins the elder brain because if you free Orpheus that's his only chance for survival, because Orpheus WILL kill him, no ifs ands or buts.
>omg le heckin cthulu guys!!!
DND has always been cringe, hope you all were bullied
>You WILL consume the tadpoles.
You can do this in BG3?
Yeah
You can, but mechanically it's not even worth it, barring two or three abilities, illithid powers are fricking shit.
Can you straight up eat people's brains to gain intelligence, like in NetHack?
>>>
powers are fricking shit.
>took 3lvls of thief multiclass for this to be even more OP
This might be the first modern Larian game where explosive barrels aren't the most broken and powerful thing, kek.
Why the frick would I use squicky magic casters in my party when I can throw barrels full of explosive shit at enemies across the screen with fighters and those barrels do more damage than fireballs in the early game? And in the lategame illithid powers surpass barrels. It's not like game locks you out of different endings if you use them, fricking Larian cucks couldn't commit and made that route exclusive for evil endings cuz it would create fomo for Reddit players
Where the frick are you guys getting a these infinite op barrels from? I saw maybe like 5 the whole game
This is from the creche, right? Can you do the creche before/after going to the underdark?
It really felt like an either/or situation.
>but mechanically it's not even worth it
>can fly
>free speech cheek wins
>free spells
>black hole
>force push
Playing a wizard with black hole as a bonus action is the most broken shit imaginable.
Eat the fricking bugs, they make the game so much more fun.
Only if daddy emperor himself ask me to
>You WILL have tentacle sex
This part I can agree on for my female character.
>Didn't eat a single tadpole
>literally stealthed and spared a mindflayer because he said to kill it and take its power even though I fricking hate mindflayers
>wear the ring to shield my mind as soon as I got it
>convinced Gale and Wyll to take the tadpoles without taking one myself because Gale is a homosexual and Wyll is black
Will he take care of me better than evil Astarion ?
I thought it was stupid that consuming the tadpoles didn't have repercussions but turns out that's exactly the emperor's trick, he gives you free powers and shit and conveniently makes you forget that mind flayers have no soul, which means the original body and person is truly lost
hell there's even a study made by who the emperor used to be in HIS HIDEOUT that explicitly tells you to NOT TRUST THEM no matter what they promise unless you want the same exact thing they want from you, and if you dont react positively to the emperor he even drops the act and calls you his puppet, it's not even subtle.
whoever defends the mind flayer is completely groomed into a submissive boy toy
Laezel dumps you for being a mind flayer after I sacrificed myself for her people. Shallow as hell I should’ve stuck with shadowheart
Gay astarion does the same, he also pitty saying you are imune to his slave control now that you are a midflayer hinting that you are no longer yourself
>hinting that you are no longer yourself
Is it not stated outright that in the case of ceremorphosis nothing of the host remains other than some memories that the tadpole gets when it replaces the hosts brain?
That's the point Emperor tries to convice you that you still have some bits of yourself, and with Astarion you become his spawn your soul becomes tied to his due to vampire bullshit and since he states he can't control you it means you no longer have a soul
So what happens to a mind flayer soul?
Mind flayers don't have souls due to being aberrations(I think that's their creature type), what happens to the original host's soul is not stated.
mind flayers are not "born" and so they have no soul, their reproduction is entirely asexual and parasitic
He's obviously asking what happens to the host's soul. Is it completely obliterated, the closest thing to true death in this universe, or do you simply die and go to your respective after life?
>side with splatoon man
>frick splatoon man
>always agree with splatoon man
>NOOOO DONT RELEASE ORPEHUS I WANNA GET THE CROWN
>"no shut the frick up he will listen and won't be hostile"
>NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ARE BETAYING ME I WILL NOW GO AID THE MOTHER BRAIN BYE
god the writing takes a sharp nosedive right at the end, it's funny because orpheus can even forgive you fricking a ghaik so long as your intentions are to stop the brain, emperor was full of shit
Did you not read the book in Emperor's basement about defending against mindflayers? Mindflayers are selfish pricks and always looking out for number 1 first and foremost. The rules of the book:
1. Mindflayer words mean jack shit as they are all manipulative pricks and what they actually do means a lot more
2. Strengthen your bonds with others when a mindflayer is about trying to rope you into its plot
3. Mindflayers also have wants and desires and the only time in which a relationship with one would be beneficial to you is if you both want the exact same thing (which in this case you do). However once you have outlived your usefulness to them they will ditch your ass and frick you over.
The Emperor is the bad guy, he's the groomer of this game
Go read some of the books in the act 3 bank vault, they literally tell you about how the emperor was in leagues with Gortash. The Emperor is a character built on catfishing and stockholm syndrome.
Would it have made sense to have both daisy and the emperor in the game?
If i recall Emperor was called "Agent" in EA files
some anon can correct me or provide more info on this
I’m pretty sure at the end of act 1 it was planned that the emperor kills daisy
>daisy gets killed end of act 1
>of course she couldn't be trusted but don't worry I saved you just listen to me
also would have been okay with this
Yes. Emperor could still be your Guardian who warns you of Daisy, and Daisy could have been the conscience that warns you of the Guardian.
Imagine the mindfrick that would have created.
KINOOO
Daisy could have been the tadpole and the emperor could have been the same character he is in the game
Larian Black folk replaced Daisy with this shit. I only wanted to have sex in my head with my handmade perfect waifu, but instead I got gay tentacle shit, frick you homosexuals!
>You WILL consume the tadpoles.
yes
>You WILL turn into a mindflayer.
no
>You WILL have tentacle sex.
uh-uh
Hello Zeus Anon.
wow im fricking moronic
Good evening, anon
why does this moron swap sides to the enemy we've been fighting for the last 90 hours of gameplay in the last 20 minutes of the game if you decide you dont want to be a mindflayer or let him eat morbius
he doesn't swap sides. fricker is a mindflayer. He was lying the whole god damn time and was only protecting you to free the brain
moronic skipper. There's one thing he never lied about - all he ever wanted was freedom, same as you.
I don't believe a god damn word out of a mindflayer's mouth, you fricking troony
>give him stones
>refuse turning into mind flayer
>he still kills elder brain
>he doesn’t betray you
>he leaves peacefully
>good ending
Based ending/object permanence moron
>do the evil ending just to see how it is
>its a 20 second long silent awkwarldy animated cutscene with no narration, no follower dialogue or further choices and then it fades to black
>reload and do the good ending for real this time
>its like 15 minutes long with companion dialogue, narration, and some player choices
>shadowheart still didnt say a thing to me despite me literally changing her life
you'd think larian would give some semblance of a frick about the ending of the game they spent years on
It’s bugged you have to let karlach explode to see your romance with shadowheart
sasuga larian
>You WILL consume the tadpoles.
No.
>You WILL turn into a mindflayer.
No.
>You WILL have tentacle sex.
Yes.
>This made woman and gays cream themselves
He's not wrong.
>You are my puppet
>Make no mistake
>Without me, you have no value
>Your life has is NOTHING.
>You serve ZERO purpose.
>You should have a nice day NOW.
>And give somebody else a piece of that oxygen, in ozone layer, that’s covered up so that we can breathe inside this blue trapped bubble.
>Because what are you here for? To worship me?
>have a nice day! I mean that with a hundred percent with a thousand percent.
Alright I’m becoming a mindflayer now for him :3
>Pissing off the potential murder schizo when your task will most definitely preoccupy you with them in stabbing distance
Unnggggff
>daisy died for this
Daisy was that in drag
Nah, Daisy was clearly a tadpole itself.
>squidfrickers are the sole reason Larian removed the tulpa gf
I blame his deep voice.
Is it the same VA that voices Balduran's statues?
her, she's a grill
>he reveals himself to me and friend
>decide we will fight with him but friend really doesn't like him
>give the emperor haste as a show of good will since he should be super strong
>mind blasts the entire team for one gith
does getting a character to max approval early lock them out of some dialogue you can have with them?
>The Knights of the Shield were a group of information dealers and political manipulators that operated within the Sword Coast, Lands of Intrigue and, to a lesser extent the North, for over a thousand years, dating back before Dale Reckoning.[1]
>While on the surface they appeared to be a secret society of merchants and nobles who were interested in the mercantile and civic matters of their respective lands,[2][3] their high leadership were in fact guardians of a secret in service to the archdevil-turned-deity, Gargauth. This was a secret to the citizens of Faerûn who knew of their existence, as well as most of their membership.[4]
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Knights_of_the_Shield
>their high leadership were in fact guardians of a secret in service to the archdevil-turned-deity, Gargauth.
Surely the Emperor wasn't involved with this, right squidbros?
Larian retconned a bunch of stuff. Like Balduran got werewolf'd in "canon", yet here we are.
witness how squid man is helpless against me reloading a save where i stab him repeatedly
He’s the only reason why you’re not a mindflayer show some respect
>You WILL turn into a mindflayer
Ganker has still provided me ZERO reasons to not do that
>muh sovl
You become a femboy homosexual mindflayer rather than one of the cool ones.
well that fricking sucks. death to tadpoles, i guess
Cope it’s better that way
what, which way?
>not being emperor's wifu
all the gods in this game state that mindflayers have no souls, mindflayers are just echoing the memories and personalities of the vessels they're occupying, you are essentially dead and gone and don't get to enjoy the illithid pros.
to be honest, i think i am already dead and gone. and by extension, this whole universe is too
It’s proven mindflayers retain their old bodies mind so there’s no downside to being one.I became one and married him and that’s the best ending.
>speed reader
Mindflayers have no soul, they're just basically copies of whoever they were with their memories
Soul is a meme.
Not in the setting or in real life, but that's another topic
>said the guy with triple the no soul
I willed those digits, do not question me.
Sure thing /x/
Beautiful digits, surely not a coincidence?
>shitty frickwad gods wont toy with my soul in the after life, or better yet, wont stick me in the wall of the faithless for eternal torment
and the downside is...?
mom will be sad
downside is it isn't you, it's a new being. no continuity of consciousness
but youre ugly now.
Ok, but what if mindflayer is female?
If this is what the mindflayers looked like I would willingly become one
who the frick is daisy
A dev name for tulpa gf from early access. Mentioned in the artbook, too
BGgays Stella.
you are, bendover
>stopped showing up in others' dreams once you accepted it as it is
My squidfu can't be this cute
For someone who skipped early access, Daisy seems like something out of a creepypasta. Down by the River sounds a lot different now.
It felt different, too. You see, in EA it was a custom waifu only for you. For others, they've been visited by their respective tormentors and desires. Vlaakith for Laezel, a special someone for Sh, Cazador nightmares for Astarion, Mystra for Gale, and Wyll's dreams were blocked by Mizora. There was a certain sense of urgency, and a lot of uncomfortable shit going on, making you questing the tadpole's powers much harder than it is now.
>the best archer is... the fighter class
>highest damage output
>can literally disarm/incapacitate 6 people in one turn
>crazy high life and AC
ranger and roguebros... how did this happen?
WotC is incompetent more news at 11
How is it different from DnD? Let me copy-paste the official description:
>Fighters share an unparalleled mastery with weapons and armor, and a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat. They are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.
http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/fighter
>unparalleled mastery with weapons and armor
No other class should be better than them at swinging steel or shooting bolts without using some magical gimmicks.
>>the best archer is... the fighter class
That's exactly what DnD means by the Fighter class.
Rangers have other skills that are OP in tabletop settings, but not in CRPG.
I want him to manipulate me into becoming a mindflayer
The game is a bit inconsistent in that when it comes to the Emperor, the player character or Karlach transformed into a mindflayer it basically hammers it home that they're no longer a person and just the soulless tadpole using those memories.
But then there's Omeluum who's a total bro and insists you save Ravenguard and leave him behind to die because there's no time.
I will free the githyanki prince for my wife Laezel and then I will kill every mind flayer including you disgusting freak
The Emperor's actually a sweet, caring guy once you get to know him. If he was an butthole to you then it was your fault for starting it by being rude to him.
How much does the emperor actually care about the player?
While its true that he helps you and wasnt wrong about things he blatantly tells you he was manipulating you to gain your trust and when you get him mad he shows you he has puppeted people before and could have done the same to you. But then why didnt he? He went out of his way to seduce you and still doesnt force you into things and gives you a choice.
I don't think he can control you permanently and tell the brain to frick off at the same time. Or else when you release the frog prince he'd just do it.
He's a big simp and also kinda lonely
Because he was looking for a new mindflayer wife
>savescum for 20 minutes to get 21
>it's fricking pointless lol
WOOOOOOOOOWWW
>coolest member of the trio
>dies first
I convinced Gale to take it instead of me. told him "he was the only one I trusted to get that kind of power".
felt so fricking good to gaslight the homosexual who tried to gaslight me into gay sex from day one
now he's my illithid powerhouse lololol
>Gale takes ilithid tadpole
>Gets crown
>Becomes ilithid god
>You mysteriously and abruptly turn gay
You played yourself.
>finished the game twice
>learning about all the cut content
>me slowly realizing that we're still playing an extended EA version
see y'all for the definitive edition i guess?
Based on OS2, def edition is just more bug fixes. I barely noticed anything changed much in chapter 3. I think it's just fixing bugged quest or dialog triggers.
homie what? They changed 150k+ lines and added new encounters
I doubt it, since they don't really have an incentive to finish it any further. Would make me do another run of the game. Maybe dark urge.
I hate subversive writing.
Why couldn't the Guardian be just a genuinely good person protecting you from the tadpole and caring about you?
anyone know how to break Oath of Devotion in act 3?
>no option to ask him to go back to the Guardian form
i miss my fricking manlet protector
I have not consumed a single tadpole. I have avoided using any mindflayer abilities. I get by on sheer charisma, mind-reading, inspiration, and save-scumming.
Bard?
So, given Larian has done this character type multiple times, which ones takes the cake?
>Lucian the Divine trying to lock away Source entirely, manipulating many in the process, getting his biological son killed, let alone causing long before all that his adoptive to embrace being the Antichrist.
>The Gods of Rivellon out of greed banishing their own race to become void abominations, acting as source vampires feasting on the races and manipulating the godwoken.
>The Emperor overall meaning well in taking out the brain, but also having controlled the Sword Coast from the shadows through a puppet and wanting to do it again.
None of them. They all are shit and Larian is too obsessed with being subversive.
Still, Dragon Knight Saga is possibly their best game.
Honestly this.
I find this type of subversive archetype tedious. Just let your bad guys be bad guys (not saying you shouldn't give them realistic, justifiable motives, but this excessive focus on trying to make 'grey' characters Larian has is annoying).
well its funny because you say they have these grey characters but thats mostly the big bads, every other baddie in this game is obviously fairy-tale levels of evil.
I mean, look at Ethel, lmao
That doesn't really make it any better, it just makes the story and themes feel wildly inconsistent.
You can either tell a story where it's never so simple as 'good and evil' (your grey morality theme) or you can have clearly established moral lessons in your stories (well technically you could also go for an 'it's all subjective, make up your own mind' type of theme to your writing, but that's completely absent from Larian's writing so I didn't mention it).
You gotta pick one and commit to it. Consistency is key in writing a coherent world.
I think it is very clear Larian doesn't think about that and just goes for what feels good in the moment
The moronic 'all games are political' lady literally asked what the themes of the game were and they just went 'have fun lol'
No.
I'm not gonna let some magic Cuttlefish boss me around.
>desecrate Shar's shrine and kill its guardians
>Shadowheart says nothing
You know, one thing that Bioware did really well back then was have every companion actually react to the shit you did.
It's either lacking here or Larian's dialog triggers are broken.
>have every companion actually react to the shit you did.
That what the approve-disapprove system is for, just use your imagination : ).
Arent sharrans in that shrine just spirits/husks that were previously killed by the demon trapped in with them?
no
no
yes
And I freed orpheus.
>You WILL consume the tadpoles.
Aren't they inserted?
>You WILL turn into a mindflayer.
If its anything like an ascended sleeper I'm ok with that.
>You WILL have tentacle sex.
I don't even have regular sex, what makes you think having testicles would fix that?
What are the actual consequences of turning into a mind flayer? I don't plan on playing this game so spoil away.
i was THIS CLOSE to uninstalling this trash game since the moonrise towers burned me out, but The Emperor asking me to frick im in the ass during our SECOND CONVERSATION was what tipped the scale, i alt+f4'd and uninstalled this motherfricking shit.
i honestly feel ashamed for playing it for long as i did.
i really feel gigantic shame for indulging in this trash for so long as i did.
i reinstalled Baldurs Gate 2 and made a new character to wash the shame away.
>i honestly feel ashamed for playing it for long as i did.
>i really feel gigantic shame for indulging in this trash for so long as i did.
you should have a nice day you might feel better
i can kill you, it will make me feel even better.
same here, twink.
watch ur bed tonight 🙂
>triggered the troony
>i was THIS CLOSE to uninstalling this trash game since the moonrise towers burned me out, but The Emperor asking me to frick im in the ass during our SECOND CONVERSATION was what tipped the scale, i alt+f4'd and uninstalled this motherfricking shit.
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>i honestly feel ashamed for playing it for long as i did.
>i really feel gigantic shame for indulging in this trash for so long as i did.
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>i reinstalled Baldurs Gate 2 and made a new character to wash the shame away.
Based off of this image I know it is bait try harder next time
I never played any Baldur's Gate before.
Can I turn into something cool like a lich?
Everyone talks about this dude debating mindflayer morality when there is an ACTUAL mindflayer bro in the game who genuinely helps you
New patch dropped.
>Undergoing partial ceremorphosis will now partially rot your teeth!
Huh? I already had it 2 days ago in my worm run