Slice of Life Anime Edition

>News:
Patch 8: https://baldursgate3.game/news/the-final-patch-new-subclasses-photo-mode-and-cross-play_138
Patch 7: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-7-now-live_121
Patch 6: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-6-now-live_108
Patch 5: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-5-now-live_99

>Wiki:
https://bg3.wiki

>Mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/

>FAQ:
>Q: How often should I long rest?
>A: Many companion and romance interactions occur when long resting. Some early lower priority camp scenes can also be missed if higher priority ones are queued. To advance companion quests or romances, make sure to long rest often.
>Q: Can I recruit Minthara without going down the evil path?
>A: If you knock her out in Act 1, yes. You do miss out on the sex scene, but otherwise the romance remains the same.
>Q: Underdark or Mountain Pass?
>A: Either, or both. It's recommended to clear both on higher difficulties for the experience and loot. Both connect to the same Act 2 map.
>Q: Is The Dark Urge essentially "Tav+"?
>A: Yes. You get additional content, BUT there are points where, if you've chosen to resist the Urge and/or don't complete quests the "right" way, you'll have to pass additional checks to avoid losing companions.
>Q: Are there any consequences to consuming tadpoles?
>A: No, for the most part. However if you've consumed any tadpoles, there will later be a DC 21 Wisdom check to reject the Astral-Touched Tadpole, which affects your appearance if consumed.
>Q: Should I enable Karmic Dice?
>A: Karmic Dice will avoid streaks of low rolls, both for you and the enemy. It is recommended to disable it if you're specializing.

>Polls:
>Romance: https://strawpoll.com/NMnQ5kJXYn6
>Race: https://strawpoll.com/kjn18WPzeyQ
>Class: https://strawpoll.com/eNg69DKKjnA
>Companions: https://strawpoll.com/bVg8o8l3VnY

OP pasta: https://rentry.org/bggpasta

Previous thread: >>533895829

Lae'zel and Karlach would definitely be into anime and K-pop.

>>534263105 (OP)
Isobel what the fuck

Missionary with Astarion

Missionary with Astarion

gith are krogans of far realms

krogans were the coolest race in ME tho

Killing Alfira and Quil.
Killing Isobel.
Hugging Shadowheart.

space bg3 with space astarion but no space wyll

making space dhampirs via space missionary with space astarion

goty

Frontliner
>Fighter
>Barbarian
>Paladin
DPS
>Warlock
>Sorcerer
>Wizard
Support
>Bard
>Druid
>Cleric
Special
>Rogue
>Ranger
>Monk

I hate multi-classing and off-role faggotry so much. Arcane Archer is SHIT. SHIIIIIIIIIIT. It has no skills, it has pitiful damage, and the fighter cant fuckin soak up damage and protect the back line anymore!!!! its a meme subclass for parties of more than 4 players!!!

>guaranteed hit arrow that applies advantage
>perfect for lae'zel GWM

>on my 4th playthrough
>first time seeing the mansion in the free the artist quest on a ghost infested shit
i might be misremembering shit, but i swear whenever i come here its like an art galore with many socializing rich people.
the only difference i did this time is that i spared the zentarim guys (where the painter was captured in act 1).
did they change this shit?
like, in patch 5 or some shit, you get a different painting and not of yourself as the final reward

>>534270174
Arcane Archer is a fighter that can use consumable arrows and titanstring bow so it's good. It gets an obscene amount of arcane shots per short rest that grant it extra damage and huge crowd control potential including a fucking spammable banishing arrow that recharges on short rest and is available as early as level 3. It's good.

>>534270174
This isn't an MMO or a MOBA, so your rough classification is completely off. For example, a Cleric is well-suited for the front line. They are proficient with medium armor and shields, have access to plenty of self-buffing and healing, and can cast spells like Spirit Guardians for crowd control. Regardless, BG3 is not an optimization puzzle. An all-ranged team is completely viable, as is an all-melee one.

>>534270174
>cleric
>support
hehe

My name is Aquarius, and I'm a white draconic bloodline Mephistopheles Tiefling sorcerer that also uses water spells.

>>534271809
>post-blind playthroughs
Man, nobody cares what do you once you pick up the strategy guide
>>534273609
>your rough classification is completely off
These are time-proven roles that have existed since the mid-70's before you and I were even born. There's a reason why the first four origin characters you meet are the canon perfect group comp: Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue.
>>534274078
Yes. They are force multipliers that improve their teammates' efficacy far above and beyond what they can accomplish by themselves.

>>534274687
>Equipping the titanstring bow to your ranged weapon character means it's a post-blind playthrough or you're reading a strategy guide

>>534274687
>he can't figure out how to use Arcane Archer without a strategy guide
Holy midwit

>>534274363
Based

>>534274854
I'm willing to wager 500 gold coins that <2% of the playerbase bothered to pick it up. It's completely unassuming and nobody would know how strong it is due to its unclear interactions with how stat modifiers work.
>>534275053
t. posted with hindsight

>>534270174
>not misty stepping like a motherfucker with upcasted spirit guardians up and deleting 4 undead every turn
>not playing the fucking game and bitching on 4chin

>>534274687
>There's a reason why the first four origin characters you meet are the canon perfect group comp: Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue.
The reason is to ease new players into a natural, well-rounded party. That doesn't contradict what I said. Among these classes, the Rogue (or Rogue-adjacent) role is not at all essential, which immediately disproves the notion that a rigid team composition is necessary. Every class can use scrolls, which helps bridge the gap between martials and spellcasters that usually exists in D&D. You could play four Champions and completely steamroll the game, even on Honor difficulty.

>>534275648
radiantly cute frog

>>534275703
I love cute frogs

>>534275053
He is an mmo player his iq is 90 max.

>>534275648
>misty stepping
>upcasted spirit guardians
>every turn
Hmm...

>>534275267
>t. posted with hindsight
No its just 5e is so simple even a retard can figure it out. If you want to play something you actually need a build guide for play Wrath of the righteous on unfair.

>>534276116
you dash after the first turn but you can get the necklace and get 2 so it's pretty hoppy

>login
>see this
>ah yes

There was a point in time where I thought a cooled down Karlach would be the best fuck of all the BG3 girls.

>>534277574
She definitely gives you the most intense orgasm. Prostate orgasms are insane.

>attempt to intimate Kahga to let the kid go
>fail, druids attack tieflings
>kill kanga, steal idol and flee grove
>kill wyll, put him in my pockets
>go tell minthara that the grove is pretty much already destroyed. She leaves
>free halsin, tell him the grove is destroyed, and that he'll have to fix it on his own
>long rest, talk to Minthara in grove next day
>begin goblin party

>Wyll is somehow alive again
>Halsin just chilling in the goblin party
>sleep with minthara, get spider lute
>halsin still wants to travel with me.

Not sure, but I bet if I had Karlach in the party with me I could kill them both, pick them both up, and keep them both while still romancing Minthara.

>>534271809
>Arcane Archer is a fighter that can use consumable arrows
Can't anyone do that?

>>534280912
My point was that consumable arrows existing, titanstring bow existing, and fighter's core features means Arcane Archer is good no matter what. It could get no subclass features at all and it would still shit out damage with 3 attacks per turn, action surge, strength mod to damage, and special arrows.

>>534280696
noblefrog

Any mods that add some flavor to custom companions?

after talking to the bomb vendor in act 3, I want to run around as a dwarf cleric named "Short Father" and bless people

>>534263105 (OP)
What are your thoughts on this homebrew class? Anyone used it?
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/5876

>>534280251
Wyll and karlach dump you upon entering the camp when the party starts. Here's an even better one. Tell Minthara about it, go to the mountain pass, come back and she will be gone and the goblins will make the grove their new home. You might need to long rest during this I'm not sure.

>>534263105 (OP)
>FAQ
>Long Rests
Is there any downside to long-resting too frequently?
I'm new to the game and I am worried that by "ending the day" the world will progress without me and I will miss content.

Hey I'm new to crpgs (I've only played fallout 1), and was wondering how viable is a dex fighter because I want to romance lae'zel and don't want to have two fighters doing the same thing.
What would compliment her well on the battlefield?
Pic rel is me and my frog wife

>>534290286
it's perfectly viable, you can either go a bow build with the sharpshooter feat or a regular melee build with a dex weapon, the former build does way more damage than the latter, make sure to have shadowheart in your party to cast bless on you and laezel to be more likely to hit your enemies

>>534288698
beautiful, until you get down below and see that she's hairy

>>534290286
> dex fighter
It's okay, but ideally any fighter build will want strength anyway. Keep in mind there are elixirs that set your strength to 21 and last until long rest. So those can be substitute for normal strength.
>don't want to have two fighters doing the same thing
Just get different subclasses. Like Battlemaster for PC and Eldritch Knight for Laezel.

>>534290774
filtered

Do you think that the Emperor or Raphael ever lose their hope after seeing just how retarded the player behaves?

>>534292531
The way squidman speaks to you when you try to use detect thoughts on him makes me think so

crazy to think the game is two years old now, so basically three years of early access and then two years of unofficial early access, and still it doesn't work and is missing most content even five years AFTER they started taking people's money

makes one wonder what the space game will be like. will there even be space? maybe it'll end up like the upper city.

>>534290570
>>534291486
Yeah I was thinking either dex Eldritch Knight or go all in on ranged as a Arcane Archer but I've heard AA falls off late-game or just say fuck it and respec to warlock.
I also don't wanna min-max shit and just have fun so idk, what do you guys think?

>>534292760
works on my machine

>>534292531
characters reacting to player's retardation is pretty amusing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hzhy4b78OE

>>534292870
oh it does? cool, take a screenshot of the upper city from your machine, let us know how the plot is on your machine since its broken and a piece of shit on everyone else's, can you upload some video fo actual baldur's gate combat on your machine since all we have is taking turns

>>534292957
sure just sent it to you

>>534293008
I bet it'll get here right around the time liarian releases a game that works

>>534293072
no i just sent it should be there already

>>534292901
Doesn't Korilla or what's her name also pull you out of a dungeon if you get trapped by the goblins? man, Tav is high effort

>>534292760
why would larian work overtime for a game that that they don't even own?

>>534293158
Yeah if you fall for Gut's trick and drink her sleeping potion and get trapped and make no effort to escape she has to come bail you out of that

>>534289882
There are a few time-sensitive quests that will fail if you take too long to complete them - this can range from a single long rest to several. When you come across a quest where time is of the essence, it'll generally be pretty obvious. Aside from that, you can rest as often as you like, and the world will only progress when you reach important checkpoints.

>>534293297
some people would feel shame at selling a broken, dog shit scam "game"

>>534293412
She deserves a raise.

>>534289882
There's an area in the first act of the game where some buildings are on fire. If you discover that place and go back to camp with your entire party (not even long resting) time will progress and anyone caught in the fires will die. I think that's the only part of the game where that happens, other places are time-sensitive for rescues. The game will warn you when a story beat will lock you out of any quests you can still do

>>534293572
it has a 95% approval on steam and 70K people are playing it right now including me how about you go tongue Wyll's anus niggerfaggot?

>>534292760
>>534292957
>>534293072
lol meltie

did yall know that last light has a prison next to its dock and inside this prison there's a wall that can be destroyed and through that wall there's a cavern in which you can find a ring that buffs radian retort? and next to that cavern there's a selune shrine full of unique enemies that can only be found here? I'm on my 8th playthrough and I'm still finding stuff what the fuck lmao

Anons I'm in the Underdark and about to free Nere from the rumble. I have arranged with the duergar pair nearby to kill him, I've found the explosives, etc. But when I blow the debris and Nere gets out battle starts and everyone gang up on me (Nere AND all the duergar). Aren't some of them supposed to help me fight Nere due to our arrangement or something?
What's been happening here?

Cause as it is, I should just secretly kill every duergar I see before the boom boom. Otherwise it's very difficult due to high numbers and equal levels.

>>534292767
>dex Eldritch Knight
That would not be great. EK doesn't give benefits for bows, so we're using melee.
Your option 1 would be building around booming blade -> attack spam. For this you would want Great Weapon Master feat which only works for weapon that can be two-handed. And finesse weapon (i.e. the ones that scales from dex) are usually one-handed. There are a couple of exceptions, but your pool of viable weapons would be tiny.
Option 2 would be building around throwing your weapon. For this you'd want Tavern Brawler feat and it scales from strength.
>Arcane Archer
This one is fine. But it would also need str, because the most damaging bow scales from both dex and str. Also you would need int so your special arrow effects would not get resisted. Meaning you will have to compensate a lot of stats with equipment and elixirs.
>I also don't wanna min-max shit
Then going warlock is 100% the best choice. This is a very easy class to build.

>>534294662
Why should I help someone who uses such a stupid reaction picture?

>>534294662
some of them side with nere no matter what, try iniiating the fight once you're level five and get to shoot fireballs, cast haste and spirit guardian

>>534294606
pretty cool, mane

>>534294662
>from the rumble

>>534294662
Sergeant Thrinn might be walking into fiery ground left behind by whatever explosives you are using and making them hostile before Nere has a chance to initiate his cutscene. I've gotten around this by putting water bottles on the ground near the explosives which put out the fire after the blast

>>534294393
imagine believing bought reviews

>>534294606
You have the patience for eight playthroughs, but you can't read a note that points you to that location?

>>534295315
Yeah they bought my review by giving me frog sex in the game

>>534295315
>imagine believing bought reviews

>>534294708
Alright then I'll go warlock, thanks for the help.

>>534295379
there isn't a single bg3 note worth reading aside of the epilogue letters

>>534295519
Wrong. You need to read every single note, every single letter, every single book, and every single food description. You are not playing the game correctly, even on your eighth run.

>>534295401

>>534295519
Bg3 isn't even worth playing

>>534297894
>>534295409

>>534295519
kys illiterate nigger
every book and note related to kethric is peak fiction

>>534295401
based frog enjoyer

This conversation is awkward when both their son and her new paramour are laying dead on the ground in the foundry. You can't say that though, which is lame, but it does make it funny that she breaks up with her husband before finding out the person she's going with is already dead.

Minthara X Dror Razlin toxic yaoi

>>534289491
Wyll is still tooling around with me the next day.

>>534292748
i never understood the outrage
just because hes speaking into your mind doesnt mean hes projecting every minute thought directly to you as it comes up

Based Barcus

>>534301006
I'm just going to knock Tamia and the kid out this run, they can still run away together but only the dad will have a job and money when this is over.

So many permanent buffs....

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Permanent_bonuses

>Slayer Form - gain the ability to transform into the Slayer once per long rest.

>Unstable Blood - the player character's blood is now highly flammable; if bleeding and creating a blood surface, it will explode on contact with fire.

Fuck you and your bhaalspawn abuse dad, guess you should have made Strangler Luke the leader of the cult.

>>534306936
Be careful of the unstable blood one. The blood counts as you attacking, and I happen to just had this happen.

My favorite is getting the statue for whoever you are romancing.

bg3 is a finished game and no amount of crying will ever change that
>but muh upper city
not all concepts make it into the full game as imagined

I can't tell whether the TES-tier crime system adds to the charm of BG3 or if it's too immersion-breaking. Random citizens will confront you and your gang of armored weirdos if you grab an apple you didn't pay for, and they're willing to die over it. Trusted allies will become mortal enemies if you inadvertently startle the dog at camp. It gets a little silly.

I have this weird bug where if I dont recruit Astarion or Wyll for my party my gameplay improves dramatically.

>>534309010
It's more annoying that a massive explosion inside a townhouse won't trigger the town guards outside but they can hear you picking up an item in an empty house through a brick wall.

>>534309010
Mayrina defending Ethel's stuff in her teahouse after Ethel attacked her, and Aylin fighting to the death because I threw a potion at a party member to heal them are two highlights for me.

It's not perfect, but I do believe faction and reputation and affinity systems like this are very important to rpg's so having them is better than not. It'll get better with each iteration.

>>534309515
this but with laezel shadowheart and karlach

>>534308969

>>534311653
Ramazith's tower and Cazador's palace are technically upper city.

the finale of the game takes place in the upper city

>>534312145
you can't explore it
>>534311874
and cazardor's palace can for some reason not be seen from the outside and you get teleported to the upper city when visiting Razamith's tower really makes you think, the game is objectively finished but they 100% cut the upper city to release the game faster because they were afraid of...............................starfield

>>534312646
there are multiple paths to the brain what do you call that

>>534312806
not exploring that's for sure, roaming maybe?

>>534270174
>Cleric
>Support
My stupid subhuman friend you can glass entire groups of enemies with a bottle of water and a lightning bolt, Fighters could never.

What's the strongest build except fire acuity sorc lock tism?

>>534288698
Welcome back, mwah

>>534316763
Sword bard acuity tism
EK archer consumable tism

>>534263105 (OP)
Love and devotion it's a shame the game doesn't differentiate moon elves and sun elves

>>534317274
Is meele ek worth it? Wb booming blade tism desu?

>>534317631
Melee EK is very good, yes. Archer just goes above and beyond because ranged is generally superior to melee, titanstring bow exists, consumable arrows are busted, and piercing damage benefits from bhaalist armor in act 3. Even without any of that melee EK is still a martial with 3 attacks, action surge, booming blade, low level wizard spells for utility (shield, longstrider, hold person, etc.) and the ability to use and abuse scrolls for higher level spells. You can easily get arcane synergy for Int mod to damage and arcane acuity, too.

>>534275996
who doesn't?

>>534305218
t. 8 INT

>>534318158
Now I feel bad and need to restart my durge run. Thanks anon.

>>534318721
Why restart when you can just respec? Unless you've used ethel hair on a wrong stat?

teacher'zel

Evil ass sociopath with sneaky links in the big city.

>>534318284
explain the issue with casting detect thoughts then
even if he could tell im reading his thoughts i should be allowed to do it and i still maintain that speaking into someones mind =/= thought reading

>>534329307
Are those buttplugs in his waist.

>>534329523
One for himself and one for Sebastian (gift from Godey).

It's pretty crazy that Mizora publicly attempts to murder a grand duke and no one says anything. She faces no repercussions at all.

It was also a very unlawful thing to do. You're supposed to nickle and dime mortals with the fine print that they sign, you're not supposed to just shoot from the hip murdering people for no reason other than your warlock actually got out of his pact with you so you murder his father out of spite.

Mizora is legitimately a terrible devil. At least Raphael follows the devil rules of conduct, for the most part.

>Raphael simply offers to trade the hammer for the crown
>you break into his house and murder him
>Mizora does several despicable things to you and your families
>nothing, not even sent back to the hells, she just laughs and smiles and then does a new despicable thing next chapter

Mizora you arsehole

I think she's a good person.

tara is cool

>>534312646
Act 3 should have been a post base game expansion pack.

If it's alright for Astarion to be a frill-wearing fop who calls you "darling," then it's alright for Minthara to be a handsome lady - dignified, even striking.

If it's alright for Shadowheart to be a bland bisexual goth girl, then it's alright for Lae'zel to be a cute frog - proud, regal even.

uh wyll is alright i guess

>>534329523
Drow Poison is a butt plug, yes.

>>534337512
no its not okay for the animal to exist or the drow
as evil races i kill both of them on sight

so shart is more evil because she CHOSE to be a member of an evil deathcult

Wait. If you kill your companions do you get their tadpoles?

Shart is evil because she dreams of Halsin instead of her elven paladin blonde girlfriend

>>534294606
bro thats not even that hard to notice.
you just mouse hover on the walls and you can check that they have hp
>jpeg
>top
on my 3rd run, i realized theres a random fucking ass store in the city and has an underground tunnel (all pretty shit loots tho)
>bottom pics
i also recently realized there are two fucking secrets room in the sundries, no hp wall shit, but legit just invisible and only appears when youre next to it (i fucking hate this shit, cus you have to manually check every wall, no perception check, no clues at all)
so yea i missed some good loots on my other runs, and one room even have an actual jinn room with lots of loots and the best exploration summoner.
(not sure if this is new, probably not, since the last time ive played was like patch 6) but im really discovering new summoner scrolls. the angel guy, the brain Us etc. and now i have 3 quasit which is just great

>>534338250
shar heart was brainwashed and showering her in approval has her innately choose to overcome her sharran brainwashing
on the other hand the drow and the gith retain their evil alignment no matter what you do

>>534338528
don't make me post that mintharafag explaination that she should have killed herself

>>534338613
all namefags are mentally ill so go ahead i could use a laugh

>>534338528
she's been a sharran since she was a little girl, remove that and you have a 50-something year old with the personality of a little girl

>>534338613
Mintharatranny hates Shart for shallow reasons

>>534338848
handsome

>>534338250
If you don't collect any Nightsong points, her default decision is to murder aylin and become a justiciar. So she is evil under the dnd rulebook. She would blip on a paladin's Detect Evil sonar, and they would smite her, and the Smite Evil spell would gain it's extra damage dice. For all mechanical purposes, she is evil, because of her default desire to become a justiciar and serve Shar.

However, she does seem happier when the player does intervene to stop her, so I like to think she's not really evil on the inside. The cult went through a lot of effort to make her think she wanted to be a justiciar. So it's more complicated than just her being evil. In other words, if the player makes her touch grass, she actually breaks out of her evil bullshit, but without them, she chooses to be evil. So it's up to you to decide what that means.

>shallow

SUMMONED

>>534339490
Post more so we can be spared from walls of text

>>534339287
thanks for the actual answer. I think I will romance her

What background would be good for a lolthsworn drow death cleric/beastmaster? Acolyte? Noble?

>>534342960
noble

what kind of retard thinks shart chose to be a sharran
she was indoctrinated do you not know what that means
you might as well say people choose their sexuality

>>534342960
Damn, Drow look like THAT?

please do the honours mintharafag. give the retard the level 6 TRVTH SMITE

>>534342960
idk but I like her panties.Where can I buy them?

its becoming particularly difficult to sort what i want to sell and keep, im losing it

>>534344225
Laezel not using a 2 handed melee weapon might be a criminal offence to be quite fair

>>534344225
Your camp chest exists for a reason.

>>534344225
>shield'zel

how hard is it to get into bg3 modding? i want to make the kuo-toas in the game to spam this everytime they do something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZBJKWJ9eI

>>534343794
That's the webby girlboss Lelth herself.

>>534344225
>Shields
NGMI. Larian hates shieldfags, that's why they've nerfed the feat.

>>534345017
>goddess doesn't have huge tits
Why don't more goddesses have huge racks.

>>534344326
>>534344462
pls she loves it pls dont bully

>>534345365
cute frog

>>534345365
lae'zel blink twice if you're using a shield against your will

>>534338279
iirc only minthara drops a tadpole

>>534347000
I hope there's a mod to fix that.

>>534318215
only the biggest of gay[/spo[iler]

>>534345365
entertaining frog

>>534345294
A large bosom is unbecoming. The female form is defined by graceful and modest curves.

>>534348225
mm delicious cambion

I forgot to say that I hate the fact that the Towers is full of TADPOLED TRUE SOULS and yet the vast majority of cultists yield no usable tadpoles. If I had my way every single True Soul would drop a tadpole. It pisses me off from a lore perspective that none of them drop tadpoles even though I never consume any tadpoles because if I do the Emperor rapes me by forcing the Astral worm on me.

Mizora's classmates laughing at her behind her back because she doesn't need a bra... Mizora eating her lunch alone because she doesn't have any friends...

>>534348225
>he hasn't seen the Nightsinger statue in the Gauntlet

>>534344225
>dedicated wiz scroll
>rogue guy (with arrows and traps
>main with quest items, keys and msc shit
>last one for the carry random shit with heavy stuffs
anything else send to camp (old quest shit, no used gears, shit gimmicky bombs

>>534349685
I don't believe that shape approaches the proportions of a - forgive me for repeating a heathen's words - "huge rack." Compare that statue to the Venus de Milo.

>>534348998
me scooping up late bloomer Mizora and making her feel like the most beautiful devil in hell
she is

>play origin Lae'zel
>get through crèche, betrayed by Vlaakith
>crash out hard since everything she knows is a lie, start eating all the tadpoles, respec into a GOO bladelock
>become half-illithid, dominate brain, kill your own God.

Should I?

>>534353591
>raised mormon
>realize everything you know is a lie
>get addicted to heroin and become neopagan instead

>>534346773

>>534354497

>your first level is in Sorc then any abilities granted by items or Illithid powers will use Charisma. If you then level into Cleric, all items and Illithid powers will now use Wisdom. If you now level back into Sorc, all items and Illithid powers will still use Wisdom. Items and Illithid power use the spellcasting ability of the last new class you leveled into
fuck larian
is there a way around this?

>>534356794
Respec after every level up, let your last multiclass be the spellcasting class. Sucks if you wanted Sorc saving throw proficiencies.

>>534357218
would lose Persuasion proficiency as well. impossible

Every day, I think on the cut content and wonder what could have been.

>>534359165
Take a level of Warlock or Bard (or Paladin??) to switch your casting back to charisma if you want to start as Sorc, I guess. Sadly that's the only workaround I have. If there's a mod to fix this insanity I haven't found it.

why is there no option to decide what stat to use
you can even just make it the last class you leveled and thatd be better than what we have now jesus fuck

>>534344225
If you aren't already using at least 5 elixirs, 10 potions, and 15 scrolls per day just sell all your consumables now because you clearly won't ever use them at all.

>>534347000
Sucking the blood off Shadowheart's toes after she's done killing the frog

>>534361451
They did it just to fuck with retarded multiclass autists like you. Should've just gone pure storm sorc instead of being seduced by the perverted allure of tempest cleric's channel divnity. You can already quicken create water you don't need anything more.

>frog bros think this is cute

>>534348225
>graceful and modest curves
BIG, FAT, and BOUNCY modest curves

>>534362997
based

>>534362997
The only party members starving for content are the ones no one cares about.

>>534362281
>licking off toad blood
gross

>>534362997
i love the contrarian seething kek
desu larian should have spent all their effort on astarion and shadowheart

>>534362997
me when I don't understand capitalism

>>534364501
if we go by merch sales they should only care about astarion and maybe karlach

I'm starting to think some people here are using waifu debates as an excuse to post images that appeal to their own fat fetishes

Wyll wouldn't be able to sell any merch because his fans are poor because they're

>>534364043
opening blender, turning red, can’t look lower than his torso, staring into his eyes isn’t much better, making incomprehensible noises

>nothing for the others
>especially wyll
what

which race for a BT3 futa girl?

>>534366142
redmanletaskingwho.jpg

>>534270174
barbarians stand wherever and use weapon throw though?

>>534295519
underage b&

>>534366142
>especially wyll
gale, shart, and lae'zel didn't get anything either

>>534367538
yeah but ESPECIALLY wyll

help. am retard.
smite bard smites 4 things a turn
how?
is that actually better than just being paladin in first place anyway?
it is on this list of supposedly incredible gamebreaking builds but i haven't seen it in combat and don't know what it is doing better than a paladin

has anyone done a post mortem on why the game had such hype despite being unfinished and not particularly good at anything, and then all the hype disappeared the moment the advertising stopped? I don't know just feels like something for someone like Jason Schreier to look at.

>>534371396
are you in the right thread

>>534371396
>'hype'
>not understanding hype
idiot retard

>>534371601
I'm in the thread for a "game" that was in early access for three official years and two more unofficial years, has a swiss cheese plot, plodding board game combat, unlikeable characters, a forgettable soundtrack, and xbox 360 graphics, and takes up over a hundred gigs of space on customer hard drives. There was an unnatural wave of hype and praise for this during the initial and mysteriously rushed release window, where (presumably real) people gushed over something that wasn't really worth it, and then it all just stopped overnight. It just seems strange to me.

>>534372016
No one shares your autistic take.
Please just fuck off.

>>534372224
Seems like a lot of people do given how starkly the internet has turned against Swendler and his crunch shop and his unfinished game that wears Baldurs Gate like a skin suit. Where is everyone, huh? Why did interest seem to dry up immediately and over night? How did this game go from "game of the decade" to a cautionary tale that people use as an example of what not to do?

>>534371259
If you're a charisma class a 2 level dip in Paladin is all you need. The 6 levels total for the Aura is a plus but you don't NEED it, you just need 2 levels for Divine Smite and more levels in a full caster (Bard, Wizard, Sorcerer, Druid, Cleric) for better spell slots for stronger smites.
What you do is you go into the reactions menu and toggle on smite on hit and smite on critical hit for all spell slot levels. Then you use a flourish and can choose to smite on it which is better than casting Divine Smite in all scenarios. At least that's how I assume it works because I've never tried Smite Bard despite having done a half dozen playthroughs already.

>>534372016
this game stands almost unique in its player retention for a largely single player, linear game experience from 2 years ago, lacking any typical player retention gimmicks or a live service model lol

now you can dislike it and there would be at least 1 other person that agrees with one to all of your complaints however i don't think we need to get conspiratorial about its success. most people liked it and they liked it enough to play it even this long after launch

>>534372428
>consensus cracking
nice try ghaik

>>534372695
>trying to reason with it
just look up liarian in the archive and see this retard is just fishing for replies

>>534366142
Wow it's almost like nobody cares about Wyll.

>>534372695
It barely has a few thousand players, there are nearly a billion users just on Steam. That isn't exactly a grand success.

>>534372880
oh my bad lol

>>534372880
>hey this one has noticed that everyone started calling them liarian because they lied constantly about the game and continued to lie constantly and we can't address the point so that means they're fishing!
Comical. Remember that time they pretended Minthara's content was bugged, and it would be fixed, and then it turned out they were lying and she didn't actually have content, she was just a trans voiced hollowed out pay follower with a coomer scene? Remember that time they promised an Upper City then tried to pretend they meant something else? That time they pretended all their companions were unlikeable because they introduced the evil ones first, but then the "game" came out and it was all the companions they had? You could go on all day. He's belgish Peter Molyneux but without Black and White.

no actually not at all you're crying about made up situations in your head

>Second honor mode run
>Grymforge
>Get to the gnome with the smokepowder barrel
>Flub the persuasion check, all out of inspiration after flubbing several other checks earlier
>Crazy bitch actually blows herself up
>Survive only because half-orc
>Later
>About to fight nere, done everything to get half the duergar on my side
>For some fucking reason the bombs left some fire on the ground, one of the gnomes walks through the fire patch, everyone hostile

Fuck me that was some bullshit. Good thing it's my second honor mode run and I can just reload an earlier save now.

All I'm doing is speaking the truth. If there are tears, they're coming out of that ass you call a face because you want to white knight for one of the worst scammers in gaming. Say what you want about Todd Howard, they're still patching Starfield to this day. I guess over in Belgium they just take the money and run whether the job they got paid to do is done or not.

>>534373872
>second
Here's some knowledge about that gnome bomb you can use for future playthroughs: If you detach a party member before meeting her, they won't be dragged into conversation and you can stealth your way to the barrel and steal it mid conversation. If they try to suicide then it just fails. If you do this and pass the conversation checks you can get both the barrel and the vial.

>>534373872
yeah gay shit like this is why I'm not messing with honor. I saw a guy pop slow fall to zero-gem gauntlet of shar, and die in the shadowfell because the buff didn't re-apply once he got inside. no ty big gay

>Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian Liarian
Baldur's Gate 3 WARPED you. The crying started BEFORE the release of the game, by the way.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/text/liarian/order/asc/
>Belgish
Dear Mintharafag, there is no language barrier.

>>534374241
I look up "larian lies" and I get nothing but hit after hit after hit, the prevailing narrative among real gaming communities is they lied repeatedly and hijacked an IP they didn't build to make DOS3 but actually garner interest in it this time. They say on early access funds developing at a snail's pace for years until they creditors forced the release so they could start recouping their losses, so they slammed together a broken fanfic tier "game" that is still a broken piece of shit today, and used bots to foment the impression of hype and interest that we can NOW see was hollowed out and actually amounted to a few thousand players global. And yes I'm aware they used crunch labor all over the world to do most of the lift for them, including sending Russia workers to Thailand even during a ban on doing business with Russia which is illegal, but they're still a Belgish studio, hiring temps in India to shill your game and temps in Russia to make it doesn't relocate the studio.

>>534372428
meds

yeah I like this game. I've seen very little bugs compared to other games I've played in the last ten years, and it's really fun.

meltiefags are lulz

>>534374785
oh cool there's a pill that makes baldurs gate 3 mechanically similar to baldurs gate 1 and 2 and not mechanically similar to some totally different set of games? is there a cough syrup you can drink to make the companions likeable, the story sensible, to at least get the most basic ass details of the lore right like how mindflayers do and do not work? damn that's crazy, is it over the counter?

dumbass

>[unintelligible ESL schizobabble]
Anyway, here's Orianna in BG3. She's really pretty.

>>534375230
trashfu

>>534375141
why would I want to play a boomer game

bg1 and 2 were shit by virtue of not being turn based when dnd is turn based

>>534375426
I'm sure you'd rather suck dicks, but for everyone normal the whole reason they named it Baldurs Gate 3 was because those "boomer games" were well liked and popular and they wanted to trade on that with a bait and switch, people buy Baldurs Gate 3 and they get Divine Divinity 3 instead, not a single mechanic in common, not a plot thread in common, nothing.

>>534375230
redmanletaskingwho.jpg

>>534375678
>I'm sure you'd rather suck dicks
you're so right

I'd do anything to suck Astarion's cock rn

>>534372319
gortash was based

>>534376083
i don't feel like he was proportionately evil to how he looked

he looks like a total motherfucker but he seems to lean into the law side of evil

>>534376350
...like lawful evil?

>>534376615
yes that was what i was getting at, but out of the two lawful dominates

>>534376761
That's literally how Banites function.

>>534375678
No, it's a game based on the Forgotten Realms. That 1 and 2 happen to be different to 3 doesn't make 3 any less of a valid entry. If you can't understand that then you're too far gone for help.

>lae'zel on mods

sounds like you just wanted another bioware game rather than a new baldurs gate

>>534375926
Orianna is a bruxa (a type of vampire) in The Witcher 3, Mattis. I think you would like her. She drank from children, true... but never so much as to kill.

sex with mattis

>>534377985
>such a forgettable character i have no recollection of it
well no great loss i guess

>>534377585
well it is good that he was written well enough to intuit that while not knowing about banites

>>534378098
>almost double the play time on bg3
wow i guess W3 really was overrated

>>534378213
Bane learned through trial and error that a rigid authoritarian structure is the best way for his followers to follow his tenants of hate, tyranny, and fear. That's why they seem so lawful on the alignment spectrum, since law just means strict adherence to structure, rules, dogma, whatever you call it.

things are moving a bit fast.... i may have to cut the frog loose :/

>>534359954
Is this also how it works on regular DND campaigns?

>>534380272
cute braided frog

Lae'zel is love.
Lae'zel is life.
Lae'zel a miracle of the universe.
Lae'zel might've done some things wrong, but she's still a beautiful person inside and out.

oh no they captured Shadowheart and tied her up what will you do can you help her

i am annoyed that i don't have the achievements but also don't want to do them

>>534382006

>>534366142
what's a wyll?

>>534381208
No, because campaigns are not run by inflexible machines. For magic items if it's not predetermined you choose what you use, assuming the DM hasn't decided to rule otherwise.

Mol making a devil's deal with this dude is always funny
Based off what Larian's implied about Raphael, she's lucky she didn't get instantly teleported to the House of Hope for 500 years of 'correction'

>>534387590
Diddyphael

>go to Moonrise first
>free the prisoners
>end up at Last Light Inn for the first time ever
>entire conversation between Rolan and I assumes I went there first and met him and saved him from drunkenly wandering into the Shadow Curse
This game really breaks its' narrative if you do evil things

>>534377739
I refuse to play without my 68 (including dependencies) mods installed.

Waifus. Husbandos
Love! Harmony?

>he made shadowheart barefoot
>again

>>534388451
She's wearing Lae'zel's sandals.
Not so smug now, eh?

As they entered the dining hall, Astarion took stock of the scene before him. A large table dominated the center of the room, laden with various dishes. Several people sat around it, engaged in animated conversation. Among them, he recognized Wyll's wife, Lae'zel, and a couple of children.

I didn't expect that

>>534263105 (OP)
Finally finished the game and man, the are lot of retarded decisions in this game after Act 2.

You go from Ketheric to A FUCKING CIRCUS! Where is the real sense of urgency of Act 2?????? Nine Fingers and the pirates should be in Act 1, Cazador and Viconia should be in Act 2 and before Ketheric. Minsc appears way too late and Baldu's Gate should be destroyed by Sarevok and Gortash.

>>534388928
Nothing forced you to go to the Circus
>Where is the real sense of urgency of Act 2??????
If you had explored at all, you would understand what's actually happening in Act 3.
The "Army of the Absolute" is a false flag attack on the city, designed to give Gortash supreme power because his Steel Watch fends them off.
The urgency is you understanding that the entire city is coming under complete control of the Dead Three and killing Ketheric didn't actually stop anything

>>534388928
Gortash's dictarorship is so soft and ridiculous compared to Ketheric empire. Sarevok, being lvl 20 hiding himself in underground is ridiculous too

Reminder that
THE SWORD OF LIFESTEALING
is locked to Good-aligned choices.

>>534387590
I mean, a lot of the characters that this fandom considers evil like Raphael or Emperor are not actually that evil and are basically the PG-13 version of evil.

Most of the actually evil iterations of these character archetypes are floating around in scifi or in horror and aren't in fantasy.

>>534389371
Yes, we've been killing bad guys all the time, as the good guys, during most of the game.
Your point?

>>534388451
all girls barefoot in camp. that is the rule

>>534389378
Raphael is a rapist who tortures the physical manifestation of hope with the nightmares of children
What's an "actually evil" iteration of the devil look like to you, anon

>>534389857
>with the nightmares of children
uh?

>>534389857
Swen Vincke

>>534389857
He's not even a rapist bruh... If you want evil characters, the furthest you can go for fantasy is basically Prince of Nothing.

>>534390453
Is Cazador not evil enough for you? or, dare I say, Godey?

>>534390662
I prefer grey/grey morality but the characters that are described in this story aren't as evil as they are presented by the fandom as they have had the most troublesome stuff shaved off.

>>534390201
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Taming_Hope:_Part_Two
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Taming_Hope:_Part_Three
>>534390453
>He's not even a rapist bruh
>Tav: "Have you ever been in [Raphael's Boudoir]?"
>Hope: "Not by choice."

>>534391349
>As Raphael and I left, I chose to linger and listen at my sister's closed door. She was alone with the dreamcatcher. I heard her breathing grow heavier. Then sharp, frozen silence. Then Hope began to scream.

>>534391349
>Raphael: I...
>Hope: I-I-I... You'll what, Raphael?
Holy based, thanks for sharing this

>>534391903
yes this is pretty kino
larian writers cooked here

>>534270174
I'd put Bard in Special too as they can do virtually everything and sometimes actually better than the dedicated classes

>>534274687
Clerics are extremely versatile and most domains are DPS rather than support, that you use them only as heal and buff bots it's on you, my shart zaps everything she touches as a tempest cleric

>>534388928
The acts should have been swapped in my opinion

It makes no sense the enemies in act 2 are lesser leveled than some bandit jobbers in act 3

>>534376083
You know the craziest thing about it? I genuinely believe Gortash truly believes he did something good for Karlach

I wanna make a pure fabulous warrior of the light and take all radiant spells in the game which I believe are Guiding Bolt, Sacred Flame, Moonbeam, Divine Smite and Sunbeam (if I'm missing something plz mention), any ideas for a build?

>>534392821
Of course he does. In the same vein that Cazador thinks he did right by Astarion.
Gortash himself was sold to the Hells, and his cope is that it made him strong. So he inflicts the same thing on his bodyguard, going "ah well she'll be stronger when she gets out"

>>534275996
I tried to date her once and she refused it because I already got with astarion and karlach

>no lady shar, i don't need spear, i'll eat the dame

>>534393152
EZ. 12 levels of light cleric

>Technically, it would be impossible for Godey to have sexually abused Astarion, Godey being in fact a skeleton and lacking any necessary organs.
Not a subhuman, by the way.

>>534393682
Most light cleric spells are fire rather than radiant, it's so dumb

>>534390453
>He's not even a rapist bruh
come on

>>534393152
You forgot Spirit Guardians, the best Radiant spell in the game
>I want to be viable
Oath of Crown 9/Stars Druid 3, wielding the Blood of Lathander for Sunbeam. 3 Druid is for Moonbeam, 9 Crown is for Spirit Guardians (radiant) - crown exclusive
>I want to be support viable
Oath of Ancients 10, Stars Druid 2
>I want all radiant damage sources
Ancients Paladin 6/Light Cleric 6
You get everything but Sunbeam unless you wield the Blood of Lathander
There is no build that gives you 6th level Sunbeam + all of the other radiant damage sources.

>>534394016
The last one sounds pretty kino, but pretty demanding AS wise

>>534394260
I'm afraid the build you're looking for
>i want every radiant spell
>including sixth level spells
>AND SMITE
simply doesn't exist while being SAD

>>534390662

>>534394569
I was thinking of ignoring CHA and getting Paladin for the Smites and every other radiant spell from either cleric or druid (I'd use WIS to cast them) but it's probably not possible

Wanna dip barbarian for Durge because flavor as a precursor to slayer but its annoying that barb is built around raging at all times instead of it being an anime desperation play

>>534394718
Smite requires 2 levels in Paladin
You only get 6th level spells at Cleric 11/Druid 11
It's simply not possible.
The class distributions I mentioned is the best bet at it. You have to pick and chose.

>>534395118
Will do, thanks man

>>534394617
ouch
right in the bones

>>534388715

I'm making Minthara a wizard.

>>534400061
>Astral Knowledge is strictly better version of Human Versatility
>better weapon and armor proficiencies
>handy free spells
She's not wrong. Githyanki are superior.

after yet another playthrough Act 2 is still my favorite act

>>534391349
That doesn't mean his raping her. You know a story is grimdark when the character is forced to fuck on screen, neither them nor the person they are fucking are willingly doing it and the person forcing them to fuck is also a prisoner because boot on the face etcetera and the manipulator is the one behind that whole situation and all their resulting children for the sequel series are still under his thumb and the sequels all end with that guy winning and the only decent person in the whole universe being hanged.

Orin just made me eat a cat. Is this a subtle way for her to tell me she wants me to eat her pussy?

>>534411175
She wants to be loved but if she acts on those impulses Bhaal will mindfuck her and make her fight to the death.

>>534411175
for this very reason, I am actually going to recruit gale and minmommy next playthrough instead of just nice frog+hirelings. poor yenna doesn't deserve to go through this shit after losing her mom :<

has this slur always had this fucking grenade

>>534412343
It's ok I'll avenge Yenna's cat by telling Orin her grandpa is also her dad

>>534401137
I gave 2 Paladin 10 swords bard to her and she kicks ass with level 5 smites

>>534413058
That's what you get for running away like a coward.

>>534414143
o7

>>534402520
Is kinda funny how this massive orthon is actually a stealth archer

>>534415078
I want to reclass her out of paladin since my durge already is one. Might just make her a hexblade or bladesinger with shadowblade+belm since she's dual wielding and wearing light armor in act 1.

>>534415539
yeah I had her be my hadar slut as hexblade once, and it was bretty gud.

Why does the frightened status tick down on the start of a creature's turn even though the condition has the "ticktype endturn" flag?

>>534416081
90% of the game was developed in a rush by contracted crunch labor after they squandered the majority of the early access period taking money but not doing much work. tempura expectations.

>>534421370
Makes mod creation a bitch and a half, that's for sure.

Larian promised to release even better mod tools why do yall dislike them?

all these years later and still no mod to put dragonborn tails on humanoids...

>>534424769
>tails on humanoids
Just play a tiefling.

>>534424250
scroll up. there's been some faggoty schizo crying about larianbad lol

>>534424250
They lie, engage in scummy business and labor practices, and hijack beloved franchises to wear as a skin suit to help sell their dogshit divinity games.

>>534425756
>he wouldn't rape a boomer franchise for 250 millions bucks and social media clout

If we want to talk about lies, the schizo contrarian said "a few thousand" when in reality bg3 still peaks at well over 100,000 players, sometimes reaching 160,000+.

Bg3's player numbers are absolutely wild for a crpg, and for them to still be reaching 160,000+ two years later is amazing. Anyone who says the game doesn't have staying power, or isn't naturally popular among players, is simply delusional, lying, or ignorant.

Still Overwhelmingly Positive on steam, still won every single goty award from every major outlet, and still won awards that normally don't even go to videogames but other award ceremonies wanted to celebrate it.

Normies who don't play videogames love it, professional reviewers loved it, the nebulous and fickle steam userbase love it, and oldschool grognards who have been playing crpg and ttrpg for 20+ years like myself love it. It's one of the few universally acclaimed games from all angles.

But you know, it only has "a few thousand" players, and Swen is the devil.

>>534426042
It's called having character, you wouldn't understand Dontavius Greene.

>>534425756
>>534426884
lol eat shit you pathetic schizo virgin

>>534426880
he's saying the same sort of shit in /crpgg/ right now including the blatant lies. it's classic attention seeking behavior from a contrarian

>>534427401
I'm not, but glad to know you're seeing the consensus and developing schizophrenia over it and attributing broad popular opinion to the work of a single villain.

>>534427683
>"iM nOt ScHiZo YoU aRe!!1!1one"
lol

>>534427825
>"iM nOt ScHiZo YoU aRe!!1!1one"
lol

>>534427683
bro this lie isn't even convincing when you use the exact same phrases and word choice. you are the worst type of troll, where you just say retarded shit and count it as a win when people literally just call you retarded and tell you to fuck off

>>534427683
>>534427173

kek
The frequent banter and drama that shart and frog have makes them almost obligatory to include in your regular team at every playthrough. If only shart was a rogue so that I didn't have to include the elf fuccboi.

>>534428075
Not me, though you clearly wish it was. Your tirade is very revealing of the sort of moron that still stumps for this "game" after the shill bux dried up and the call center Indians moved on.

if you wanted to do an "aoe" or multitarget melee build would you do sword bard or tiger barbarian?

>no hair physics
>but penis physics

>>534425237
Nyo

>>534428696
Ranger does lots of aoe melee (and ranged) as well for another option.

>>534428728
Some braids do swing around, but long loose hair enjoyers are fucked.

Death Domain or Oathbreaker? Or Necromancer wizard?

>>534429126
death domain and necromancer wizard are fundamentally the same thing

>>534428696
Hunter Ranger with STR in order to make 2h weapons good.
Hordebreaker is an okayish way to together another conditional attack and once you hit 11, you can spin to win.

>>534429290
Then why did everyone want Death Domain so badly?

>>534429126
Oathbreaker because paladin is just generally better than those caster nerds.

>>534429454
they didn't

>>534429454
Shar and the Dead Three are a major factor in BG3 story, so people wanted an Evil Domain that suits those without being complete ass.

>>534429126
Spore Druid going full on necro spells.

I'm in moonrise towers at 8,5 lvl. Do you really get 11 before baldure gate 3 city itself

>>534431693
no esl-chan

>>534432747
Sir, don't be so angry. Redeem

>>534431693
yeah

>>534432981
I'm sir re deem thy nuts ready for thine taking.

>>534433041
Using dnd5.5phb , extra encounters and uncapped lvl what level can you achieve?

>>534390201
I love how easy it is to tell if someone has or hasn't read the books in the game.

if you use extra encounters you should be using the mod that raises level up xp requirements or else your just cheating

>>534433602
Which one?

why doesn't long resting require blood if you have astarion in camp?

Thread still doesn't have officially approved mod list. WTF?

>>534433793
He said that he hunts animals near camp. Read dialogue, don't skip them

>>534433840
>tell me how to play I am retard >.<
no

>>534434146
Tskwa

>Pick Death Domain because I think it's like a mini oathbreaker with more spell than sword
>Fighting with weapons is instantly rendered completely pointless in the face of my souped-up cantrips
well that was the fastest i've been wrong
why do clerics pretend to be part martials with their weapon and armor proficiencies anyway?

>>534433840
Really Shadowheart

>>534434567
Multiclass bait.

>>534435051
Do we have mods for other companions opening their dialogs and other features like this mod for shart?

>>534435341
Cringe

>>534435432
there are mods that restore astarion scenes here and there but nothing that's as complex as really shadowheart

>>534435341
But aren't Clerics one of the classes that want to get to their higher levels the most?

>>534435820
We need complete overhaul mod for bg3 restoring all cut content

>>534436276
it was cut for a reason

>>534436521
>more dialogues and scene is hecking bad
>why???
>IT JUST IS OK????

>>534426880
>and oldschool grognards who have been playing crpg and ttrpg for 20+ years like myself love it
Lmao, I dunno what kind of CRPG's you've been playing but that's absurd.
>almost every character is a fag for obvious reasons of "muh representation"
>every character is player-sexual, because actual character writing is hard and also someone might feel "invalid" if they don't get to romance any character they want on their they/them gnome character
>there's not really any divergent or interesting paths to take through the story, its pretty much railroad central (compare to something like WOTR and its just fucking comical)
>the balance and ruleset is so streamlined and simplified it actually saps the fun and classical RPG power progression feeling out of the game
I wouldn't argue against the fact that its popular, but its only real appeal is to normies and the people who get off on subverting or destroying anything fun or beautiful about video games.

>>534435867
That's the beauty of DnD, many of the classes work as a dip and as a full focus. War and Tempest are good examples in BG3.

>>534436885
again
you dont really love crpgs you just want another bioware game
go cry about it on /v/

Bg3 is short. We despitely need restored content and new one in our game.

>>534437125
War is trash thoughbeit

>>534437590
>despitely

I think everything about the oathbreaker knight from the concept and implementation is absolutely stupid and the only reason people give it a pass without laughing at it is that he looks cool.

Cis white human fighter
Cis white human cleric
Cis white human wizard
Cis white human rogue

>>534437661
It's a dip to get an extra main hand attack at the cost of a bonus action, which is nice if you aren't using your bonus action. The fact the charges are per long rest is pretty bad though.

Cis white half elf paladin
Cis white human warlock
Cis white half elf sorcerer
Cis white half elf bard

>>534438440
no white men allowed. white women are allowed but only if they're snowbunnies.

>>534438598
>human warlock
I MESSED IT UP

>>534438670
that's going in the top 10 worst pea posts

>>534438736
I missed you too.

Gale seems so sad when El minister came. Is it canon that he helped Gale to become archmage?

>>534438048
I give him a pass because his accent turns me on.

should I buy a shadowheart fumo from gamestop

>>534438916
Personally I'd say no because material possessions can never bring true happiness and that money might be better saved for an emergency.

>>534438870
I think the otherworldly shadow knight who comes in the night to collect tax money from naughty paladins and then follow them around permanently being scottish is retarded, myself.

I like chemistry between wizard and shadowheat

>>534438870
>>534439079
I've broken my oath so little that in my head I thought he had a japanese accent. i think i've only talked to the guy like twice.

If Shart is the main character of the game why is her microphone audibly worse than everyone elses?

>>534439483
Gale is. But she is his canon love interest

>>534439483
Wyll is bg3's protagonist

>>534438440
>rogue
cringe post brown box class

I wonder if the reason why Duke Stelmane was controlled by the Emperor was because they were genuinely good friends until he tried to convince her to eat tadpoles.

She had a stroke.. so it makes me think she's predisposed to ill health. When she reacts badly he accidentally vegetables her and he regrets that.

So when it comes to the player he remembers the past failure to win Stelmane over and tries to coax the player more gently, shows himself as a hero to try and get do gooders to help him, shows vulnerability to try and get the player to protect him, he shows himself as the just side. Sex to try and tie the player to him as well. It's all very calculated.

If controlling other people is so easy, why doesn't he do it and instead goes to all that effort? I think the simplest answer is that he is lonely and sees his past self in the player which is why he takes the player as a protege and tries to tempt with the squid path. Also, having other squids around who have chosen to help you is bound to be safer than just being alone because they are very strong.

I think the reason why he's called Emperor is because he really is a queen bee. He thinks that he is independent and free but acts just like an illithid and a person would. A queen bee who is NOT LIKE OTHER ILITHIDS trying to start a new hive of followers just like other ilithids. A lonely person who wants friends and company and loves so called free thinkers but is a huge hypocrite who wants everyone to freely think just like him and can't tolerate opinions that he sees threatens him.

>>534439483
she isn't, by act 2 she's clinging for relevancy (unless you want to kill aylin) and her presence in act 3 is her shitty house

>>534435051
Is it applicable midgame? Doing 1st vanilla playthrough and going after Shadowheart.

>>534440723
It's cause he's ghaik scum and that's just how they operate. When you meet Raphael in the brothel he is spot on word for word. You are literally a mule that he is using to deliver him to the elder brain, the emperor even says this himself if you tell him flat out you're aware of his manipulation tactics

>>534439483
Her powerful vocal cords in her giant neck peak the mic.

Durge being so pidgeonholed into physical murder knives and weapons and physically sifting your hands through entrails and such makes playing it as any magic class feel wrong and I dont like it.

>>534440994
I think Raphael is completely wrong. I think what the emperor really wants is a pack of loyal illithids - his own mindflayer colony - to protect him. The Emperor spends all his time hiding and scheming. No way does he want to be delivered by a pack animal that can't think for itself.

>>534441365
Necromancers are literally out there making zombies out of 800 corpses with surgery of all sorts and you're saying it's unrealistic they can do that because they don't know how to use a sword? Neighbour please

>>534440723
Her stroke was after, the game implies it was partially due to her fighting him all the time in her mind.
He goes on and on about how they were partners, but that was only at first, and he omits the part where eventually he just mind controls her. It's one of his lies by omission that he leaves out when he says he never lies.

But it is the reason why he tries to trick you, instead of just mind controlling you. He already had that not work, and if you had a stroke, or fought off his control and turned against him for it, he would be in trouble. So he did the most logical thing, which was the smoke and mirrors sympathy game.

>>534440923
I think so yeah you can download it in the ingame manager so it's probably safe

>>534441647
>I think Raphael is completely wrong. I think what the emperor really wants is a pack of loyal illithids - his own mindflayer colony - to protect him. The Emperor spends all his time hiding and scheming. No way does he want to be delivered by a pack animal that can't think for itself.
That is exactly how he treats you thoughever. Have you ever tried going to the githyanki creche in the mountain pass? Any time the player starts to exercise any agency of their own he tries to tell them to stop

>>534441365
bhaalists love paralysis though. most of them use wacky potions to do it but durge can just hold person and then cut them slow. i think it makes sense that he has big spells for when he needs to cut down rooms of people but he takes it slow when he has the time wants to enjoy it.

bhaal cares not for beauty. bhaal cares only for death. Death in numbers, death in droves.

>>534440723
>If controlling other people is so easy, why doesn't he do it and instead goes to all that effort?
My guess is that the Emperor is actually not capable of controlling you, either because it takes away too much focus from siphoning off Orpheus or ironically can not do it because Orpheus' power also prevents him, as a squid, from mind controlling people.

He couldn't control Orpheus' honorguard, what makes you think he could control you?
My guess is that it's mostly an empty threat on his part, as in
>don't piss off the hand that protects you
And hopes you don't call his bluff.
>>534440994
>When you meet Raphael in the brothel he is spot on word for word.
Eh, Raphael implies the Emperor wants to take control of the Brain, which is untrue because you need to convince the Emperor to take control off the brain.
His initial plan is also that he consumes Orpheus, not that you become a squid, he only offers that once you signal that you do not trust him with the stones.

Emperor wants you to become a squid but Raphael's assumption that the only way to get out of this without becoming ghaik unless you free Orpheus is incorrect.

I don't think the emperor is a good guy but I get why he acts the way he does.

>>534441669
>>534442021
yeah but if i wanna be like a pyromaniac sorcerer or something i'm still gonna be having every narration telling me about how much i want to shove my dick into intestines and be golden showered by blood more than anything else
i guess it would work for like, a druid specifically.

>>534442314
they*

>>534442316
>sorcerer
Not straight class

>>534441848
The Emperor also doesn't suffer idiots. I really strongly think that what he wants is independently thinking illithids who are made in his mould. Everything he does is trying to push the player into certain decisions, decisions that he probably once made to become the person that he became.

If he has a mule, he might survive this encounter. But if he builds his own hive, he can counter other threats and even invites the player if they turn an ilithid. In that case, there's now multiple ilithids out there and he can spread his influence. It seems that he wants the company of more squids and is not just content with this small box that he has.

The archdruid Halsin dismounts, revealing Shadowheart's damp and sticky Grove, dripping with goodberry.
They both look to Tav, who dutifully begins to clean up yet again.
>"mmfmfmfnnfhg good mmmm goodberry good"
"Nature's bounty" he says to her, rubbing her shoulders. They laugh and she smiles up at him.

>>534442482
t. gay wizard

Why do women love Gale so much, I find him so awful and hateable.

>>534439801
And that thicc hunk of an elf Halsin is his love interest.

>>534442093
I think that Raph is a narcissist who only values what others have to offer him to increase his own value. Whilst the Emperor categorises others with regards to how useful they are to facilitate his ends

>>534443178
he has an adorable cat

>>534443178
I like him on the surface, he has funny quips. But the moment you get to know him he's just an absolutely pathetic, repellant creature.
He's like Allistar but way worse. Their voices even sound similar now that I think about it.

>>534443280
Canon
>>534443178
it's either him or astarion and the latter definitely has several STDs

>>534443478
Vampirism is just a socially acceptable bugchasing fantasy after all

kek you can switch to bow to avoid enemies disarming

Why do people love Gortash?

>>534443471
Yes yes yes he's literally mage Alistair, even on the annoying goody two shoeness

>>534443178
t.Average tav sissy
Gale is the most good looking origins and litteraly built for be picked as mc.

>>534444307
he has cool shoes

>>534424769
>tails on humanoids
Just play teethlings

>>534444334
>Allistar does a bit
>Go along with the bit
>Allistar finishes the bit
>Allistar disapproves (-7)

to be real ime gale is appealing because idc that much about the guy i’m just sensitive to how i’m treated
his concerns are real and he’s willing to sacrifice himself for you without a second thought, it’s actually you that turns him from this path and your reasoning is objectively selfish, you risk damnation because you don’t want to let him go. his “bad ending” is only “bad” because you manipulate him into relishing your misbehavior but that’s hot to me

>>534444459
I don't wanna play as le generic white human male THO

Sorry but you're a chud if you pick these races:

Elf
Helf
Human

Pick Paladin class on top of that and you have literally pol the character

>>534445206
white supremacists love dwarves and will also gladly point out that they're based on jews

>>534444961
Cuz you're not white human male
Ahahahhah

>>534445467
Yes I'm a brown latinx with arab ancestry

>>534442973
thank you for letting everyone know about your nasty fetish

>>534445380
Ngl I literally never see anyone playing short races

I swear even dragonborn and gith are more popular

Missionary with Astarion

>>534446342
Astarion never feels anything for you

He uses you the entire game

>>534443945
>>534443704
>>534442751
>>534394617
Hot

>>534446443
that's ok I only use him for lockpicking

>>534446443
goodberry

>>534426880
The /crpgg/ schizo is just an attention whore - no different from the swine. Both take refuge in crass stupidity, because to express a genuine opinion would risk it being challenged, and their pathetic egos can't handle that. Instead of slop ("BG3 is the Lord of the Rings movies of video games"), the /crpgg/ schizo's weapon is shallow contrarianism ("BG3 is the worst RPG ever made"). Both amount to the same attention-seeking behavior. You almost feel sorry for the creature when it starts defending WotR's "gameplay."

>>534445875
theres no cool dwarven armor rp material
there is the thrower but the thrower is a shit weapon relative to the hellfire missile bullshit aoe thing

>>534443178
He's polite, wellspoken, handsome and accomplished. Not exactly a surprise is it

Why TF does taking the egg break my oath but crushing it doesn't?

>>534447752
Gale never feels anything for you

He uses you the entire game

>>534448664
Gale is pixels and data bro i don't expect them to do that

>>534446686
yummy

>>534448628
Wait which oath are you? kek

>>534448989
Lawful cuck (crown).

>>534449096
Killing the egg is what the Githyanki would do by their own law and customs, stealing it is gonna make them outlaw you... I guess?

>>534449202
Yea but I thought crown pallys only obeyed a certain set of laws not all of them. Like this dialogue option.

Is there no advantage at all to having a free hand outside of Duelist?

>>534449409
Maybe ridding the temple of the githyanki invaders is a lawful use of your powers then

>>534449426
pretty much
the advantages in real life are similarly negligible outside of stretch examples of "grappling" which only make sense on paper

shadowheart is so plain, she shouldn't have such power over my dick whenever i look at her.

>>534449998
I hate the convenience of video game characters being able to punch with a shield/sword in their hand and shoot a fireball from their knuckles instead of having to use a free hand or focus to channel magic.

>>534450283
channeling magic is fair, but who is punching while armed? monk's unarmed attack has them doing a kick at least, and getting hit with a shield would still hurt

>>534450461
nigga i fucking mean casting firebolt with both hands being taken up by a weapon and a shield

>>534450614
why mention "being able to punch" then

What class should I play as a mc char based?

would let him do anything to me desu

>>534451012
what is a mc char based

>>534451221
Main character charisma based. My bad, fucked up the order.

>>534450825
You're so fucking stupid dude

Thrusting missionary with Astarion

>>534439483
there are certain lines that were rerecorded in a home studio or something

>>534444307
Handsome, younger man

>>534451394
bard's the most versatile and I had fun as a lore bard but ymmv
haven't done paladin and it's suggested often but personally it seems like it'd get old smiting all the time

so utterly alien looking and yet so goddamned cute
HOW

>>534451638
so where's the issue with this exactly?
what is the problem with being able to shoot fire from your knuckles as opposed to your palms

>>534451745
with the intent of procreation

>would let him do anything to me desu
>Thrusting missionary with Astarion

The quality of the fans tells you the quality of the game, and the fans of this game are mostly HRT addicts trying to catch AIDS from rubber halloween mask Lestat. Something to think about.

i love sharting

>tattoos
yuck

>foid accountability

>>534453901
halsin and karlach's tattoos look good shart should have had tattoos lke that one early access concept art she looks boring without them just a regular white woman with eyeshadow

>>534453735
>when she's 45 and ready to settle down

>>534454171
Who can be held responsible for anything in the female dominated drow society?

>>534453735
is that what they call getting cucked now?

>>534454171
Would she approve or disapprove if I said "TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU" really loudly

>>534454584
I mean...

>>534454987
All that bullshit and none of them kill the nightsong and her parents like she wants to do

>figured I'd spare Viconia
>she burns to death on a spill of my Araj-enhanced blood amidst the fighting
Guess it was her destiny

>>534452828
>>534453296
based

cute retard

It's interesting how installing spyware is tolerable if it comes in the form of a computer game.

>>534457039
are you retarded

>>534457039
people fall over themselves to justify lying and fraud because it's a game too

>>534457039
It's DRM free so who cares and i'm sure you can turn off analytics on the legit version.

>>534457279
The funny thing is that you can't. There's no option to unless you go entirely offline.

>>534457479
Yikes. Glad i'm a not a buyfag.

>>534457039
that's not what spyware means

>>534457039
>Turn gale the wizard with a rivalry against sorcerers into a sorcerer that requires a specific background
galefags are truly the worst

>>534457779
You can still turn of the connection even with a legit copy though.
>launch game through the .exe found in bin instead of through steam
>make sure steam, gog galaxy, or whatever program you got the game through is not running
>set up rules in the firewall to block outgoing connections
>>534458106
Sure it is.
>program on computer
>program collects your data and sends it to someone else over the internet who sells it or uses it for something else
Pretty much the only way Larian has any of this information it posts on its community updates is because BG3 comes with spyware.

>>534458352
Steam's loaded up with spyware too bro. Shit tracks my achievements and shit??? Gabe N gonna deduce my age and address of that shit fr fr

give me 1 reason why bladesong is not peak

>>534458949
W*zard

>>534463025
Dr*w

>play Assassin
>buy and use Invis potions
>every single fight starts with the enemy losing their entire first turn while the Rogue instakills two enemies
>everyone else just runs in during surprise round and kills the rest
>”rogue is bad”
Turns out /bgg/ has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about

>>534463482
which merchants had potions of invis in act 1

>>534463595
Ethel
The guy from the grove sometimes
The Zhent vendor
Bonecloak

>>534463482
>invisibility abuse

>>534463482
I'm playing with 50% more HP on all enemies and Rogue feels much more balanced in that I am still not one rounding any enemies.

>>534463595
The Zhentarim vendor has 2-3 every restock.

whats a good charisma main tav that is not range caster bullshit like rogue-archer, wizard-sorc bullshit magic missile, or eldritch blast shitter.
i just want to play close in combat but at the same time i want to be the guy on the cutscene proc-ing all those dialogue choices.
magic missle and eldritch builds are just so fucking boringly repetitive. i tend to go with rogue archer build but whenever a combat ends my tav is just so fucking far away that the npc just instantly talks to the nearest companion who has the most dogshit int or cha stat.

>>534463713
>>534464110
is this on story mode difficulty? i don't remember invis potions for sale

>>534464226
Honour mode.

>>534464226
Honor mode, but nice try
They’re everywhere. With 0 rest spam cheese, I’ve had 3+ Invis potions on hand at all times

>>534464217
Paladin? Literally the most popular and generic and lame class of this game

>>534464217
Hexblade
Don’t learn Eldritch Blast

we have finally made it to baldurs gate 3

>>534458347
Wizards suck compared to sorcerers, that's your answer. Though I'd expect most people would go with bladesinger because it's new and cool.

>pickpocketing
>DC shows 17
>roll 16
>PICKPOCKETING SUCCESSFUL!
Can they fix this shit already, how does pickpocketing even work

>>534464217
Blade bard 10, paladin 2.
You'll get full spell slots progression for upcasting smites, you can get banishing smite, you get blade bard flourishes. Also if you start as an elf you can also get booming blade.

>>534466145
Paladin first for heavy armor proficiency

>>534463482
Play duergar retard

>>534468207
>play a midget

Fuck no

>>534468450
They're medium size but keep wasting money

>>534465265
Divine wizard is strongest and most versatile in DND and BG3

Where's the Orin romance?

>>534468802
Sarevok already started the route so you get locked out of it at the start of the game

>>534458553
Usage statistics being "spyware" is the funniest thing I've seen today.
First it was 160,000+ people being "a few thousand" and now it's "usage statistics are spyware". Didn't expect comedy central in /bgg/ today.

>>534464217
paladin

>>534465265
In some ways yeah, but scribing Artistry of War, Dethrone, and Sights of the Seelie is pretty legit and unique strength.