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>Thread Question
Favorite fantasy race?

>>538336404 (OP)
Drow, since they're the most coomer

>>538336404 (OP)
>Favorite fantasy race?
elves or tieflings

>>538336404 (OP)
Dunmer

>>538336404 (OP)
>Favorite fantasy race?
Dunmer if TES
Tiefling if dndslop because demon girls are sexy

>>538336404 (OP)
hobbits I mean halflings because I'm short and lazy irl

Should I start with Kingmaker or Wrath of the Righteous first? I've played BG3 and DoS1/2.

>>538337303
WOTR is much more polished than Kingmaker, so that

>>538337436
Any general pointers?

>>538337739
Do real time for trash mob. Turn based for tougher enemies

>>538337303
KM if you want low fantasy
WOTR is you want epic fantasy

Not low fantasy, nor epic fantasy, but secret third thing

>>538338584
Final fantasy

>>538337303
Kingmaker is a more classic adventure.
Wrath leans way more heavily into the power fantasy. It also has far more things to consider in character creation so it can be overwhelming if you don't have experience in the system which you can get form playing Kingmaker.

Which CRPG protagonist after their respective game?

>>538338956
Charname after the end of ToB

>>538338584
Sword & Sorcery?

>>538338956
The Necromancer's tale, literally so

Owlcat is definitely gonna add the female Tau romance companion we want. What are your hopes for her companion quest?
> Made for MPC (Male Psyker Cock) btw

>>538338956
Gorion's Ward when he realizes he's in the timeline where the Imoen mod isn't installed

>>538339112
>female Tau romance
Nobody wants this
Not even you, you're just pretending

>>538339112
There is a book about a couple who enjoy defacing pictures of Mao, I hope something like that

>>538339112
She'll be a reverse Yrliet in the sense that you'll pledge to stay with her for the rest of her short life
Tau live fifty standard years, max

>>538339112
I hope she looks lore accurate so I get to witness you retards cry

>>538339342
BASED
> Corrupt tomboy Tau and make her your loving wife even though she still appreciates certain aspects of her culture
> Faced with the girth, width and pulsating warp mana from your cock she can´t overlook the average male psykers cock prowess and dominance over her contemporaries.

What happened to purge the xenos

>>538339112
It's extremely unlikely in either game. Other than the fact that the Tau empire is on the exact opposite end of the galaxy from the Calixis Sector, the jericho-maw warp gate is one of the most heavily defended points in the sector.

>>538339469
Anon you don´t have to sell me the dlc, I´m already going to buy it.

>>538339602
you don't live me

>>538339602
Anon the fanarts will fix that.

>>538339869
You don't always have to computer roleplay as the inquisition. There are entire source books for alien races.

>>538339602
If they stretched navigator appearance to make Cassia not nightmare fuel, I don't see why they wouldn't do the same here

>>538340309
Cassia is actually hideous, especially her model.
It's the voice that makes you think she's a moeblob.
Likewise Yrliet looks awful

>>538336404 (OP)
>Low quality posts about romances or 'waifus' should be ignored and reported.
Already lost

>>538340426
Yrliet's model is a beautiful British woman from the isles

>>538339112
>>538339925

>>538337303
Another consideration is that it will be harder to go from WotR -> KM, due to the QoL things introduced in WotR. So, if you're confident you'll want to play both, I'd start with KM just for that reason.

>>538337739
Play on Normal, even customize the difficulty easier if you need to. You can adjust it at any time even in combat (same with TB vs RTwP)
Don't be overwhelmed with the options, just pick what you think seems cool. Decide what role you want to play and stick to a lane: ranged archer, blaster wizard, martial, whatever.

There's a few things that aren't necessarily clear to new players, just randomly a few:
- There's a -4 penalty for shooting (or casting ranged touch attack) into combat, this requires Precise Shot to get rid of, which itself requires Point Blank Shot. So, decide early if you want to be shooting into combat or not. A debuffing wizard won't need to, for instance. Ranged attack absolutely wants this of course, and wizards using ranged touch attack spells.
- There's AC, Touch AC, and Flat-Footed. Touch AC is for touch attacks of course, and is much lower than AC itself. Flat-Footed is for surprise rounds or if someone's held or whatever.
- Getting up from prone procs an Attack of Opportunity. Casting a spell in melee range *might* but there's a "defensive casting" roll.

Honestly there's tons of little tips and tricks and gotchas, but you can play on Normal and unless you're being a major dum-dum you don't need to think about it really, or you'll pick it up as you go.

tldr: Play on Normal, pick and do what you think is cool, but try to have characters pick a lane and stay in it for the most part.

>>538339112
Even a male Tau companion would be really interesting.

I just wanna see him/her in their iconic armors.

>>538340736
Imagine the CRYING if the tau is male

>>538340984
Or if Larry and her get together

>>538340736
>>538339112

>>538341038
Do the space elves like the tau, im not into the series

>>538340984
Male Tau would just turn into the number 1 companion I bet.

He would turn into a Garrus type I´m sure.

>>538337739
>>538340692
>you'll pick it up as you go
and actually the biggest tip is to hover on the rolls in the status window to see what contributed, this will teach a lot about why something hit/missed.
Right-clicking the statusbar or the enemy info if you have Inspect on (you should) will make it a window you can look at a bit easier.

>>538341163
Eldar used to like Tau, because Tau were a secret uplift project of the Eldar, intended as a client race to use against the mon-keigh.
But then the Tau turned out to dislike the Eldar intensely, regarding them as a race of interfering nuisances who talked in riddles and acted arrogantly.
Offended, the Eldar turned away from the Tau and pretend they don't exist.

>>538341163
Naive children making the same mistakes as everyone else despite the warnings. Eldrad made a comment on being hopeful of them in 3rd edition.

>>538337739
You're kind of just fucked. The pathfinder system has so much bullshit in it and as a new player you have no idea what items, permanent buffs, and enemies exist.

If I had to give one piece of advice though it's to stack as many buffs with unique adjectives as possible. You'll see shit like enhancement, morale, insight, etc. and as long as the adjective is unique it stacks. If two buffs have the same adjective then only the highest counts.

i hope the additions are an ork and tau
i'm sick of more dogmatic humans in a rogue trader group of all things
save that shit for dh

Thanks for the tips everyone, think I'd like to play both so I'll start with Kingmaker for now.

Bloodlines 2 is going to be the cyberpunk of fantasy games.

>>538342918
Dogma human is easiest to add for them. Blame them for being lazy

>>538342918
If WOTR is any indication, DH won't have a bunch of dogmatics eager to serve but a bunch of heretics forced to work with you through contrivances

>>538340538
A true celtic thistle

>>538342918
>dogmatic humans in a rogue trader group of all things
Yeah what the hell was that shit
>inquisitor
>lawman
>sister of battle
>death cultist
Are we running a spaceship or a hive city police squad?

>>538341846
Based Muscle Mommy Tau Enjoyer

Idea for rogue trader 2, make an actual rogue trader game where i have a retinue of aliens,criminals and unsactioned psykers.

>Walk into an elven village as part of my investigation
>Immediately get accused by some random hysterical woman that I'm there to 'mix genes' with the locals and that I should leave
I'm surprised more games don't poke fun at that

>rouge trader 2
One barley made its money back not happening.

Idea for Dark Heresy, make a game where i have a retinue of aliens, criminals, unsactioned psykers, radical techpriests, and other suspicious characters, and instead of investigating crime on a hive world we fly around in a spaceship exploring strange new worlds.

Don't worry guys the rogue trader game will be a rogue trader game after the 8th dlc.

Why are rogue traders even a thing still? The emperor should just declare the program over.

Idea for a kingdom founding game: you're joined by a hopeful writer, a former paladin, a deva in disguise, a genocidal hunter and a cleric obsessed with the end times
idea for a crusading game: you're joined by a little girl, a party-loving noble, a petty thief, a zesty cleric and some bored lady

Rogue Trader is only getting 4 DLCs.

>>538343367
Why is her spirit stone on the side, instead of in the middle of her chest?
Female elves wear it in the middle
Unless...

>>538336404 (OP)
G O B L I N S

>>538344048
40gayfags hate all of those and would execute them all

>>538345504
That's the first Season pass, there will be another.

>>538347282
season pass 1 ended with Lex RBTs

Season pass 1 is Lex Imperialis and Void Shadows.
Season pass 2 is Treyzn and the starship graveyard dlc's.
We don't know if there will be a season pass 3 at the moment, but there was for Wotr and they said if they continue to sell they will make more and VS/LI both have good sales numbers and review scores so there's no reason to assume they won't. But it doesn't matter since Dark Heresy will be out by the time we're looking at a potential season 3 so we'll be playing that.

>>538342927
Have fun
there's some janky shit here and there but overall I have fond memories of playing it for the most part

The only tip I have off the top of my head is that everyone will basically need to have Blind Fight at some point, maybe by around level 6 or so.
That's not a "metastrategy" thing, more like you will just be completely fucked without it when the time comes due to the way they implemented a certain mechanic.

>>538337739
I didn't read the other responses, but CC (Crowd Control) is your friend. The high damage spells may look appealing, but they're not that good. Spells that look kind of boring or simple, like Grease and Hold Person, are notoriously strong and you should be using them, even at high levels. Also, in general, casters are much stronger than martials (fighters, rogues, etc.). You still want martials (think auto-attackers), because they do most of the damage. But your casters will control the battlefield immensely, and amplify your martials through buffs, summons, CC, and debuffs on the enemy that act as very effective force multipliers. In general, buffs are VERY good too. Having +4 Strength may not seem very attractive or flashy, but often equates to a +10% chance to hit and +2 damage for your dudes, which is quite good.

>>538343569
Look at how hard 40kfags sperg out about us having two xenos and a psyker because muh heresy
That’s why

Need some clarification with Rogue Trader and Cassia. Just started the game last week. I had the full intention of trying to romance Argenta, so I did not choose any flirty dialogue with Cassia. I come to find out that you cannot romance Argenta. Am I locked out of Cassia's romance permanently now?

>>538350497
You get a couple of chances. Talking to her on the bridge and it's something like
>my feelings for your are more than mere admiration, Lady Cassia
or some shit like that. Try talking to her on the bridge and see what comes up.
How far have you proceeded in the game? If you've missed it, you could always mess around with toybox to manually activate her romance. You could just look up the etude (script) name for her romance and turn it on.

>>538350497
Anon...

>>538350497
time to settle for Jae you're both fuck-ups it will all work out

>>538350497
If you're pretty early on you'll get a second chance
If not, open toybox (default is control-f10) and go Search 'n Pick -> Etdues -> All and search for Cassia Romance Active
Then hit Start, and remember to press Save, then Close in the bottom left.
I haven't tried this for Cassia's romance specifically, but this is generally how you use toybox and it should work.
If you haven't installed Toybox, I highly recommend it
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kroguetrader/mods/1

>>538350497
>It's too bad you fumbled the three-eyed mon-keigh who sees into Sha'eil, Elantach
>Maybe I could be your girlfriend instead?

>>538350497
Romance everything that moves.
They don't make you pick one until the end of chapter 4.

>>538341575
Nice fanfic

>>538352954
Be careful not to romance Solomorne though, or it will turn you gay.

>>538336404 (OP)
Just started Solomorne's questline. Why is every dialogue option so flirty?

>>538353069
Why did Owlcat force me to pick every option to fuck him? I'm shaking right now.

>>538353069
instructions unclear I'm something called a "dog dad" now

>>538351087
I just completed Janus. I didn't choose the dialogue option when I first recruited her and found her in the study. And I didn't choose it again when I asked her about her eye. I assume I'm just locked out forever now?

>>538351174
no...

>>538351787
She's not that bad. Still wished the game had let me know it would lock it out permanently.

>>538351961
I think I've blown it completely. I guess I'll have to use Toybox or just save it for another playthrough.

>>538353571
Yeah I think you've missed the fishboat.
Could try toybox and see what happens. If it works, you won't immediately notice any change, but shortly after she should come into your office being cute.
Her romance is fairly substantial, but so are the others.

Tau girls have two pussies.

>>538351787
This one is actually fine. You do a lot of stuff with her that you miss out on without the romance.
>>538353571
Whatever you do, one bit of advice I'll give you is to bring your gf with you on the first mission of Act 3. You'll know it when you see it. All the waifus get extra content for that bit.

But you have to believe the second one is there...

>>538353842
No that's misinfo.
The Y-shaped thing on the head is the pussy

owlslopper plays an rpg challenge (impossible)

What dialogue do I need to choose to romance frogposter?

Guys, I was in Irenicus' dungeon in BG2 and Jaheira started flirting with me almost immediately. I shut her down because I'm planning to romance Imoen but I just found out that she gets captured for most of the game?
Is it too late to restart the romance with Jaheira

>>538355347
imoen doesn't have a romance. also don't post-humoursly cuck your bro khalid like that

>Be polite
>He immediately assume that i want to fuck him deeply and passionately

I wonder if Sosiel browses 4chan

>>538355330
Just use toybox (anal probe) to activate his romance flag (prostate)

>>538350497
I can see why you assumed you could romance the sister.
Her early dialogue does read that way, somehow.

Almost every other post is about romance.
Really, this is actual mental illness.

>>538356125
saying "Oh," before another dude's name is gay anon there's no avoiding it

>>538356648
No it's not. I say that all the time when talking to my friends and I'm not gay at all haha

Romancefags make me not like romance

>>538336404 (OP)
Svirfneblin

>>538356913
>I say that all the time
Nigga you gay

I wanna smooch her.

>>538339925
I was reading about T'au lore and didn't know that they only live for 40 years. If you did have a T'au wife, it'd only be for a decade at most. And she probably wouldn't even live to see her children graduate high school. The even weirder thing is that there's a sizable portion of the Human Allies in the T'au Empire that are older than every living T'au(especially when the humans aren't dying young because of poor living conditions in the Imperium).

Do Owlcat games have VA in languages other than english?

>>538358642
No they only speak English so they only VA there games in english

>>538358882
That's a pity. Argenta and Yrliet would both be hotter in Russian.

>>538358396
>If you did have a T'au wife, it'd only be for a decade at most
Do they mature at thirty or something?

>>538358642
>>538359364
they must have Russian VO because there are some minor NPCs in the English version that still speak Russian

>>538358396
I like it because it puts humans in an unusual role
>Members of a long-lived, impossibly ancient race whose empire was once mighty but is falling into decay

>>538359513
Those are just people from Irrisen

>>538353185
It's to make it obvious to paypigs how to start the romance.It quits down after the first mission

>>538345504
>only getting extra content for like 3+ years
I pity the 'I only play when it's done' people. At least they can finally play Wrath

I think I can name every plot and plot intersection in AoD at this point.

I've never played Rogue Trader but I know all the characters and their personalities

>>538361515
I never did the Assassin and Thief storylines. Loremaster last when knowing the common piitfalls was very fun

>Low quality posts about romances or 'waifus' should be ignored and reported.
Stop vandalizing the OP with your meme

>>538362243
Me too. For example:
Abelard
>Kindly old butler
Jimmy
>Stern casanova
Yrliet
>Clumsy space elf
Idira
>Alcoholic witch
Marzipan
>Stewie Griffin in space
No need to play the game

>>538364701
Abelard
>>Kindly old butler
>>Jimmy
>>Stern casanova
>Yrliet
>>Clumsy space elf
>Idira
>>Alcoholic witch
>>Marzipan
>>Stewie Griffin in space
>No need to play the game
I don't actually believe this because it is hilariously off base if you do the idira one is accurate but she's a wine aunt specifically

>>538364154
>Loremaster
Not really a storyline and more of just knowing lore.

>>538365141
It's all true. I am only going by osmosis from this general
Sister Argenta
>Cheerful sister of battle with very little brain
Pasqal
>Chud techpriest who owns the heretics with Facts and Logic
Jae
>Space gypsy who keeps making your gold reserves go down
Kibellah
>Goth waifu (no personality)
Cassia
>Sweetie who is kind to everyone but is easily upset
Can't think of anyone else

That is kind of hot

Holly shitte dudes, multimillion dollar CRPG idea.
WotR/Kingmaker style crpg with a home base but you send out multiple separate parties of characters + mercs to go out in the open world rather than just taking 5 out of your 25 possible companions with you, or using shitty "cards" and "armies" to solve problems. Obviously story-dependant acts like WotR Act 4 and story/companion-relevant locations like Ivory Sanctum stay the same.

>>538365917
If you don't delete your saves and go visit the nice dudes down at the base of the hill in this zone after this fight, without resting, you're a chicken. Cheep cheep cheep! Chicken!

>>538366004
We could even do one where you're in kind of a modern setting and have to send out "squads" to fight an enemy. Possibly even aliens?

I was going for the "It Itches" achievement, but the rash was actually cured like any other injury when I returned to the bridge lol. I think that's a bug because other playthroughs I've had to go to the chapel and pray to remove it. But when I'm actually trying to keep it, it is cured by accident/a bug. Classic owlcat.

I also don't have the "kill 3 people with rend vision" achievement despite doing that several times this playthrough and my previous playthrough, with both the player character and Cassia, so that one is also bugged.

I also don't have the "be self sufficient in the blood investigation" despite doing every stage myself and never skipping any of the stages by delegating it to Jocasta. I've done the dlc three times now without delegating anything and not getting the achievement, which leads me to believe you can't let any one do literally anything. So you can't let Pasqal convince the tech priest to give you access to the computer, you can't let the enforcer conduct the autopsy, you can't let Jocasta kill the cultist, etc. I think you have to do literally everything, even dialogue, yourself.

One other achievement that has been elusive is to visit every optional location. I've played the game 4 times and I've gone to all the secret locations I know of like Incendia's stasis pod and the drukhari stash on the ice turret planet and the halo device noble and a ton of others. I really am at a loss for what I'm missing, I suppose I'll have to look that up online.

I really don't want to get the two chaos achievements. There's one for beating the game as conviction chaos and one for surrendering Euphrates to chaos. A whole playthrough of being a retard just for some achievements.

Biting 7 people in one turn with the mastiff will also take some figuring out. I've only bit like 4 people before running out of ap so there must be a trick to it.

I'm so close, I'm excited to 100% this game.

>>538367860
>you're in kind of a modern setting
EWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

>>538368217
Well if you don't like that we could always compromise and try the same thing with something more fantastical like super heroes.

>>538368217
What about a 19th century setting

>>538368462
19th century Europe-like setting is underused for crpgs. It's an age of revolutions and social upheavals, various factions and conflicts write themselves.

I just want WotR but a bit different.

TACTICAL ADVENTURES I CALL UPON YOU TACTICAL ADVENTURES!!! SOLASTA SOLASTA SOLASTA!!!! I NEED SOLASTA 2 TO DROP NOW!!! THE EA SHOULD BE OUT BY NOW I NEED IT!!! PLEASE I WILL DO ANYTHING JUST GIVE ME SOLASTA 2!!! BLOOD AND SOULS TACTICAL ADVENTURES AS MUCH BLOOD AND SOULS AS YOU WANT!!! TACTICAL ADVENTURES TACTICAL ADVENTURES BLOOD AND SOULS FOR MY LORD TACTICAL ADVENTURES!!!

Insane CRPG idea.
What if we take WotR, make it first person, introduce guns, and then set it in WW2.

>>538369007
Don't worry star finder is coming out late 2026

>>538368770
it is also the apex of White European supremacy and that's problematic sweaty

>>538369164
Is there anything more unsatisfying than a gun in an rpg? You either hit and kill someone or you don't, people in real life aren't bullet sponges with 3000 hp and each bullet is 100 hp

>>538369978
... anon remarked after his warrior just took a third lightning bolt to the face.

>>538369978
Is there anything more unsatisfying than a sword in an rpg? You either hit and kill someone or you don't, people in real life aren't stab sponges with 3000 hp and each stab is 100 hp

>>538370287
He could do that because of the fantasy of the siegfriedian faustian nietzschean overman warrior who defies the gods and stands victorious.
But the entire concept of guns is that they're the great equalizer. A lightning bolt won't kill the warrior superman, but a gun will. Unless it's retarded capeshit.

Solasta is probably my second favorite combat fag game of all time, if they used any other system than 5e it would probably be my favorite combat fag game of all time. I hope after Solasta 2 the developers do a game with there own system or something else.

>>538369978
>people in real life aren't bullet sponges with 3000 hp
Speak for yourself, kid

>>538370630
You're about to OD on huffing your own farts, Mr. Peterson.

>>538371009
>missing the point because of the language used

>>538370630
>But the entire concept of guns is that they're the great equalizer.
Literally only americans think like this.

*casts protection from normal missiles*

>>538371164
Well europeans think that guns are this impossibly deadly scary violent murder weapon instead. Ask anybody what they think is scarier, the sound of thunder or the sound of a gunshot.

Wasteland has fun gun combat, I really liked the wierd science guns especially the sniper rifle that liquefies things.

>>538370630
In the real world people survive gunshot wounds all the time. They're no more lethal than crossbows.

Sniper CHADS and rpg BVLLS>pistol betas and rifle cucks

>>538371946
6 INT comment

O block the crpg, written by trap lore ross.

>>538371946
We're not talking about the real world, faggot

No one but Americans take guns seriously.

>>538372520
>people in real life aren't bullet sponges

small caliber might not immediately drop a larger person (adrenaline is a hell of a drug) but that doesn't mean they can "tank" bullets like in an rpg

>>538372759
Explain 50 cent

>>538372759
It will take a surprising amount of small caliber bullets to kill someone though.

>>538336404 (OP)
>TQ
Catgirls, but unfortunately western devs and writers aren't big on them (and if they were it'd be some Lovecraftian monstrosity that obsessed about pronouns).

>>538372954
+20 to small arms resistance due to racial background

>>538372759
there are multiple stories of people being shot over 20 times and surviving, the amount of punishment the human can eat is more than it should, most of the human body is not lethal spot as long as you avoid an artery, liver, heart, brain, and both lungs, going into shock has a higher chance of killing you

>>538373236
kek

>dude can tank 15 shots from a gun and survive but being pierced by an arrow is an instant death
I hate this game trope so much

>>538373291
That's more because of how wonky bullets work. I know this sounds like complete bullshit but it was a common story in one of the world wars that a man would be shot in the head in front of his comrades and stand back up. Wanna know why? The bullet bounced off part of the skull back out where it came.

In comparison, if you get stabbed in the throat or any of your vital organs, you're just fucked.

>>538373369
you know what i hate more, arrows doing anything against hard armor, or crossbows being effective
>>538373382
>stabbed in the throat or any of your vital organs
i literally said that, you stupid retard

>>538373512
>i literally said that, you stupid retard
anon, read my post in full

>>538373291
>I know a guy who made his saving throw against Finger of Death, that spell is basically worthless

>>538373590
maybe you should, because nothing you said addresses anything

It's a good thing the human body can take 20 to 30 stabs before death

>>538373901
if you're faggot roman senator that doesn't know where to stab, sure

>>538373512
>you know what i hate more, arrows doing anything against hard armor, or crossbows being effective
Longbows can penetrate plate armor thoughever.

>>538373512
Do you want to volunteer for getting shot by a crossbow?

>>538373291
Wow amazing
Have you ever heard of someone being shot by a bullet and dying immediately?

>>538374040
Longbows are a special case where the people who learned to fire them have deformed their fucking body to.
I am not joking

>>538374040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE
in hollywood maybe, but reality says no beyond 30 ft, the most you could do is against mail on gambeson and even then its a minor injury

My higher ethics and morality can easily stop a bullet.

>>538374380
God, that is a big fucking dent. Goddamn. It would hurt like a bitch regardless.

That warrior won't be so cocky after I pull out my 7th flintlock pistol

>>538374574
old guns really did suck

Okay since bg3 was a smash hit what is the next dnd game wizards will release? Spelljammer? Dragonlance? Oriental adventures? Ebberon? Council of Wyrms Mystara? Al-qadim?

>>538336404 (OP)
Dunmer because they're pretty much the only race that was ever given an interesting backstory (Chimer, War of the First Council), interesting politics (Great Houses inspired by Israeli tribes, settler/nomadic Ashlander split), interesting religion (Daedra/Tribunal), interesting culture/customs (slavery, Morag Tong), a distinct voice (until it was retconned) and aren't manlets. They're the closest any RPG race ever got from breaking with Tolkeinesque tropes and archetypes without being outright silly (like the Argonians & Khajiit).

>>538374524
not really because youre wearing gambeson or arming doublet underneath, that absorbs the leftover energy

>>538372759
Okay, but the exact same is true about bladed weapons and primitive muscle-propelled projectile weapons. Realistically a d20 warrior should not be able to shrug off getting hit with a sword, but the way hit points work a high-level human could get stabbed tens of times and be completely fine.

>>538374380
That's enough of an impact to knock a rider from his horse, breaking his neck in the process or allowing him to be mobbed by peasant infantry. Remember the flower of French nobility were slain in their armour by longbowmen at Agincourt.

>>538374882
There is no better way to do it while still relying on dice rolls. I haven't played it but I understand Dark Heresy is a particularly lethal system and that's one of the reasons it didn't get a wider following.

They updated Expeditions war minigame and it still doesn't make any sense

>>538375067
The dice rolls should represent dodging or your armor absorbing the blow. Any actual contact means death.

>>538374040
.45 ACP cannot
Gunfags BTFO

>>538374937
no, they werent knocking over a 250 lb man with an arrow. the mud is what killed the french

>>538374882
You shouldn't take any of these combat systems so literally. Just like how AC can be anything from a dodge to a glancing blow HP damage doesn't actually have to represent you taking serious damage unless the game has an actual wounds system.

>>538374937
>Remember the flower of French nobility were slain in their armour by longbowmen at Agincourt.
This stupid myth again
People confuse the fictional Agincourt from Shakespeare's Henry V with the irl Agincourt.
The longbowmen forced the knights to dismount and struggle through mud, under constant physical impact from arrow strikes. This caused them to tire and fall easily to pikemen. Few knights were killed directly by an arrow penetrating their armor.
>>538374524
>It would hurt like a bitch regardless.
Yes and that's why the French knights at Agincourt lost, getting beaten up by arrow strikes.

>>538375223
Okay, let's play that game. Fall damage in Pathfinder caps out at 20d6. If you have more than 60 hit points (average for an 8th level fighter with 14 CON), you will survive a fall at terminal velocity so long as the damage roll is average.
If your GM lets you take the max HP roll at every level, then at 10th level that fighter with 14 CON has 120 HP, meaning that he cannot die from fall damage, unless the GM rules that the ground rolled 20 sixes in a row. Even then, he'd only be unconscious at 0 hit points
So what literal situation is the combat system representing here? Is the fighter actually dodging the ground? Was it only a glancing fall?

>>538375801
You gain 1 inch of fat with each level. His fat cushioned the impact.

>>538375801
Why did you say that you were going to play that game and then proceeded to not only not play that game but get even more autistic about it

>>538375258
That makes more sense.

Lol, this random NPC has the same haircut as Kibellah

>>538375258
Everyone knows that when you get hit really hard and it doesn't penetrate your armor you feel nothing.

>>538375801
Abstraction is moot at this point and the Fighter breaks every bone in his body and becomes a chunky puddle

>>538375067
The better way is to make wounds incredibly dangerous, but also make characters easy to replace.
Like Liberal Crime Squad. Sure, losing your entire party in a single firefight with the cops isn't even uncommon. Which is why you ensure you have a spare party before you get into a firefight.

>>538374786
BG4.

>>538376173
Not according to the rules he doesn't. He's prone after the fall, but not in any way incapacitated. He spends one move action getting up and then walks away on his own two feet.
And then he stubs his toe and instantly dies, because he only had one hitpoint left.

>>538376241
>The better way is to make wounds incredibly dangerous, but also make characters easy to replace.
That's more-or-less XCOM. I enjoy XCOM a lot but it's not a roleplaying game. You can't roleplay in a satisfying way if you're constantly churning through characters. There needs to be a credible threat of death but a decent average life expectancy for party members. This goes doubly so for CRPGs because without a player roleplaying a party member, you have to write the character ahead of time. How many extra characters are you going to write to serve as replacements in your incredibly lethal system?

>>538376280
i like the way AoD did it
you can still be an absolute killing machine with enough training and unironic "i'm sure to win because my speed is superior"

>>538376280
It's not about realism, it's about fun. Permadeath makes combat fun by raising the stakes, but it's unsatisfying in general due to the way these games are written - unless you don't care at all about the story companions and are happy to play with interchangeable mercenaries/hirelings/etc.

I don't think there's a happy medium between the traditional CRPG approach, in which death is just another temporary status effect and anything less than a total party wipe is just an inconvenience, and the XCOM approach where you're expected to lose significant numbers of characters throughout the game and permadeath is a core part of the design.

>>538376632
Just change the names in romance dialogue depending on which disposable mook you're talking to, it'll be fine.

I will not roleplay
You can't make me

whoever told me to play iron tower games, i hope you get cancer
i could've spent that time doing anything else those games are shit

>>538377548
What's wrong with age of decadence?

>>538377548
You've probably put hundreds of hours into playing owlslop. Don't pretend your time has value.

>>538377548
Based and true, not that I ever played them though.

>>538377623
>post apocalypse
BAD
>romans
BAD
>sci-fi and interdimensional aliens
THREE STRIKES YOU ARE OUT

>>538377548
how much time

>>538377842
wut

Fighter/mage multiclass is still the best feeling gish with the smoothest levelling curve in any crpg

Why are so many companion NPCs in Owlcat games just so unlikeable?
I'm 20 hours into Kingmaker and I've kicked every party member out that I could except Jaethal to make my own mercenaries.
Its annoying I can't kick out Linzi and Tristian at all, too.

>>538378695
It feels extremely overpowered if you solo it in BG1.

crpg but it's a modern setting where roman empire didn't collapse
roman legions instead of marine corps
romans launching Mars guided missiles on mudhuts

>>538378835
Age of decadence 2?

>>538378746
most people are annoying and unlikeable so it's realistic

>>538377842
>I intentionally played a game about post-apocalyptic Romans and interdimensional sci-fi aliens even though I hate all those things! How could this be happening to me!?

>>538378931
You're not wrong, however in past CRPGs I felt it was more common to like most companions with the unlikeable ones being an exception.

>>538378695
no
>>538378765
eww

Why does no one point out the Romans in AoD are Arabs for some reason and the invading barbarians were Mexicans?

>>538379249
Post anything that beats it

>>538379369
Romans were the original muttoids

>>538379369
Their leader is literally called the khan and they look like this, you might be face blind and historically illiterate.

>>538379659
Anon, I'm talking about the Qantari, not the Ordu.

>>538379471
Kensai -> Mage dual class

>>538379737
Yes they are Aztecs, Vince believes in the ancient aliens built the pyramids theory.

>>538379887
kek

>>538379369
Considering Arabs conquered a lot of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Visigoths settled in Spain, which then on went to colonize Mexico...

>>538379867
>dual class levelling bullshit
>kensai
No

>>538379369
It mentions they came from across the sea, aztec aliens gods gave mexicans 1950's ship technology to beat the romans.

>>538380064
cope

>>538379369
> the invading barbarians were Mexicans?
You need to get to the end of Dungeon Rats or open that one door in Al Akia to learn that out.

I hope the bronze age game they are making is a prequel to AOD because there is so much crazy lore shit that needs to be explained.

>>538380401
Not really?
>4th dimensional beings fucked shit up
>empire fell apart because everything was nuked to shit fighting them
>technology and infrastructure deteriorates as the magi are woefully in short supply to maintain and teach literal interdimensional mechanics
>Noble Houses too focused on killing each other over who gets what's left to unite the empire
>Imperial Guard is simultaneously too pussy to take matters into their own hands and too retarded for the Nobles to negotiate with
>People get ever more ignorant as they are separated from one another and just flat out don't have the same frame of mind as their ancestors, manuscripts forced to rewrite ions as aeon to try and get them to understand some alternate reality nuclear reactor mechanics

>>538380773
We are still missing alot of details unless I missed something for example why the fuck do the aliens even give a shit about us in the first place? They are willing to nuke eachother to death over us so we must be important for something?

>>538380982
>Vietnam must be really important for both the US and the USSR to be fighting over it

>>538380982
Balzaar has a compulsive desire to control everything and has all the other gods piss scared of it. Agathoth realized where he and the others were nobodies in the void, they can be something in our reality.
>>538381121
pretty much this

>>538378746
I like half of them and really dislike 2-3 per game, so dunno

So has this general finally stopped being contrarian and acknowledged that bg3 is a good crpg?

I hope the inevitable hyborian age crpg includes lots of rape and slavery

>>538382727
I never played it so it must be bad.

>>538376641
Age of Decadence felt more like a puzzle than a crpg.
There was one optimal path of skill allocation and dialogue choice that allowed you to reach the necessary skills required to pass the meaningful checks.
You spam new runs until you figure it out and then you're able to progress.

Even if you go full combat-tard the only thing you're really changing is what weapon you're using. You still need to know when to upgrade secondary skills and at what time in order to branch off of the default storylines into the higher tier ones.

>>538382727
Its a great crpg if you're a normie.

>>538382727
I'm not a huge fan of it but it still mogs owlslop.

>>538382727
Take away the production value - the VA, the high-fidelity graphics, and the combat sound & visual effects - and you're left with a bad game.

Its best qualities are the environmental reactivity in combat and the open-endedness of acts 1 and 3.

>>538382727
It suffers from your typical scummy Larian scummy practice, extremely front loaded ACT 1 and then everything just start to fall apart near the end

Also that game's romances are so so so so so very shit

Bg3 should have taken some lessons from sawyer and made wyll a woman.

>>538383281
>normie

>>538383737
Sorry, trannies also love it, I forgot.

>>538383796
Newfag

You know you've made a truly good CRPG when the entire core audience is alienated and the people celebrating your game don't even play it or any other CRPG's.

>>538383962
Bg3 has literally caused a second crpg Renaissance similarly to what pillars did.

Speaking of Pillar, how is pic related? I will never play it because of the first person perspective shooter shit but is the plot atleast decent?

>>538384053
>crpg Renaissance
What? Where?

>>538384053
A renaissance of fags and trannies, yeah, its great.

>tell him he's a tyrant
>"I will kill you, demon, and return Drezen to its rightful masters!"
>tell him his village's anti-demon runestones are fake
>"I agree to let my guards go an investigate your accusation. Well done for luring them away. Nevertheless, attack!"
I don't think I've ever seen a more inexplicably braindead encounter. This is worse than Bethesda dialogue. What were they thinking?

>>538384283
You weren't born yet when pillars came out, don't worry about it

nobody would give a shit about arueshalae if she didn't have her irresistible sexy wings and she's well aware of this

>>538384912
I only care about her hands.

Kibellah's voice is not "cold" or "raspy"

>>538378746
It's not all on Owlcat's shoulders, it feels more like all RPG devs feel the need to fill the party with quirky or snowflake characters as if they think people can't connect to them if they were Joe the human fighter or Dave the alcoholic dwarf. It's been going on since Baldur's Gate 2, at least. And then there are devs who I think aim for the maximum fan engagement and go overboard with the cast of snowflakes (looking at Baldur's Gate 3 here) or intentionally want to go against the grain... and go overboard with the cast of snowflakes (KOTOR 2, Pillars of Eternity, Mask of the Betrayer, etc.)

Did people also seethe about BG2 making rpgs more accessible

>>538387283
Not really, they just enjoyed how much more personality the characters had

>>538376241
At that point, why not just play proper wargames?

>>538386479
I do see there's annoying quirkiness in BG2's cast, but it isn't just quirkiness that I'm getting at, I think, since I still find Minsc tolerable.

It isn't really that they're snowflakes either. Its that they seem to be written obnoxiously. I just got to encountering Jubilost for instance and he's incredibly offputting. I know these games lately let you attack some of these party members outright at least, and I could remove Jubilost from the party after recruiting him, but I feel as though the game would've been better without the character in the first place as it doesn't fit my character's roleplay to just attack everything written obnoxiously.


>KOTOR 2...Mask of the Betrayer
I don't remember feeling that way about KotOR 2 and Mask though its been some time since I played them, I might have to go through them again to see if its my tastes that changed.

In Pillars however I didn't feel this way but I did feel bored by the characters outside of Aloth, Eder and Grieving Mother, instead of completely put off or irritated like I do with later crpgs.

>>538384198
skyrim is better apparently

>>538389190
It's a bit silly how in Kotor 2 literally everyone becomes a jedi, except HK-47

>>538384198
I just find it really unpleasant to look at. It looks like a funky ENB made by someone with brain damage.

I don't think I'll ever understand mercenaryfags

>>538386479
Companions in Mask fit quite well with the narrative thobeit

>>538389897
Replacing the party with mercenaries is to do with still getting some fun out of building my own party ala IWD because the default game companions were too unlikeable to enjoy the experience with.

Its not ideal because it loses a lot of companion quests and companion commentary but if the companions are irritating then I'd rather not have those things than have them and be annoyed. But I do like those things, were they done well.

>>538389190
I don't have a problem with Minsc either, since he's the comedic relief character, but comparing the recruitable people in BG1 and BG2, the cast turning quirkier is easy to spot. How many people remember people like Ajantis, Kivan, Branwen or Yeslick (ISO standard paladin, angry ranger, cleric you had to know how to recruit in the first place, the most milquetoast dwarf priest in Faerun), for example? In 2, it seems that everyone has a personality quirk that's blown out of proportions. The druid is a werewolf, Jan is a gnome who keeps banging on about turnips and his family, Aerie is the rarest sort of elf from across the world and is all about her wings, Haer'dalis is an urban fantasy stereotype from another plane, etc. Even the characters I like have this laser-like fixation on something and they won't stop: Keldorn and his duty, Nalia and her CG ways of trying to make things better, Mazzy and her dead fiancee (all right I can give her that because that sort of shit would suck).

When it comes to KOTOR 2, I mean that every party member was so completely aimed at turning the normal, KOTOR 1 style party (your Han, Chewie, R2, etc.) on its head. There's Kreia - basically a mouthpiece for Avellon to voice what he think sucks in SW - for a first, the galaxy's worst Sith ever (Visas), the Han is now an edgy ex-assassin, a droid crime boss, etc.

Imagine relying on companions that are already premade for you. Grow a spine and build your own party.

>>538386479
crpg devs realized that giving you a variety of different companions that represent different parts of the lore or have some connection to the plot is a better way to do exposition and get you invested in the story than dry info dumps

>>538382727
Good is a fair assessment. Worth playing once you've exhausted all the other options.
It has a ton of flaws though.

>>538385059
wtf how powerful are succuhands?

>>538389897
I'm old, I've been playing these games since they were about making 6 people and dumping them butt naked on the pier in the harbour of Phlan. The best way I can explain why I like the create your own party style of playing is that doing that gives me the feeling of playing *my* characters, not people someone else has already written for me. It's why I loved Solasta's "you can't believe the bullshit that happened to me on the way here" opening, current tech actually can give yourdudes some more personality instead of having to hunt for Elmore or Caldwell art for the next Icewind Dale party.

>>538390776
I can see your point, Haer'dalis and Aerie especially, as well as the trope subversion in KotOR 2.

I think it just didn't cross my threshold for irritation so I still liked those even though it was creeping in since then, as you point out. Until we get to present day where it feels every new character is blown out like the writers got all their material from literal RP chatrooms and VTT campaigns instead of fleshing things out more professionally, at least with Owlcat.

>>538391946
On the other hand, everyone was pretty normal in RT

>>538368010
>Biting 7 people in one turn with the mastiff will also take some figuring out.
I did this one on that planet with the infinitely respawning Necrons. Basically what I did was have Biomancer Idira give an extra turn with metabolic overcharge to Solomorne, since her psy rating was in the 20's he got 20 something AP, in order to avoid the self damage I had Solomorne end his turn by using Entrench, this stores your current AP until you use Run N' Gun. Finally when Solomorne's actual turn came I used Run N' Gun and had like 30 AP to order the dog around. The it was just a matter of biting 7 Necrons and that was it.

Imagine attacking 7 times in a single turn.

>>538392640
I get 3-4 attacks with both Yrliet and Jae but not more than that usually

I fucking hate Dark Eldar
Since they love pain so much, I think giving a bunch of them to Slaanesh was doing them a favor.

>>538393068
I saved Marazhai this playthrough and he's surprisingly dull. Doesn't react too much to things that should interest him like meeting Tervantias again or that frozen planet with the deldar

>>538392019
On the contrary, I found Jae, Idira, and Marazhai completely offputting as well as a many of the non-companion/lesser-NPC writing in various scenes.
Ulfar almost crossed the threshold for me too. I found Pasqal boring though felt he had potential. I didn't like that genestealer engineer either. The late chapter optional companions I felt should've been fleshed out better but that's maybe a different topic.

I would say they did better with Rogue Trader by comparison to their pathfinder games but its still present, its more half and half there. I haven't tried the new arbites dlc though I'm not too into arbites as a faction so I'm not very inclined to get it.

>>538393330
The Arbites DLC has a cool ship boarding section and medieval planet but the companion is pretty dull

>>538393330
I found the Footfall crew to be incredibly annoying. Like OC that the authors expected us to find fascinating.
>Octaviana
>Ryzza
>Vladaym
>Jae's gang
They insisted upon themselves.

>>538393185
Only thing he really seems to have going for him is his VA. I just did his quests for him and didn't really bring him along much at all past Act 3.

>>538393563
I think 'insisting on themselves' is an apt description for the problem with a lot of these characters.

>>538393330
>Ulfar almost crossed the threshold
I benched that windbag

>>538393984
Its easy to avoid picking him up entirely at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wU3T21HapI
Any game you're looking forward to (not you Solasta 2 anon)?

>>538394252
Swordhaven and solasta 2

>>538336404 (OP)
>Favorite fantasy race?
virgin females

>>538393730
Embarrassing

>>538394557
So basically Aerie and no one else.

It honestly annoys me how Skald is just a better bard 99% of the time. Bard has only 2 advantages: competence bonus for ranged attackers and fascinate. Both are much better in Kingmaker than they are in Wrath, too. Especially with Best Jokes now working. Skald even has a better character model.

>>538395308
I will try Skald when I finally get around to Wrath of the Righteous. Linzi was invaluable in Kingmaker from beginning to end.

>>538387572
For some reason proper wargames never let you have sex with your units.

Would you say the CRPGs are your favourite genre of video games?

>>538395450
She was so useful that when I replayed the game I made my MC as a bard.
If you want your MC to be a Skald in Wrath, I'd recommend one of the mythic paths that Synergize with it, which are Azata and Demon.
Otherwise, you can hire a merc or use a respect mod to make Daeran or Arue a Bard or Skald.

>>538382727
The only one ITT who can run bg3 is froggy and he hates it.

>>538390776
I use Branwen pretty much every time I play. I would also use Kivan if he didn't have the annoying timed quest.

>>538397358
I have a very nice pc that I use to play 20 year old games

You know, i realized that even though the theme of sex is touched upon alot, this is the first time i saw "fuck" in WOTR

>>538393330
Ulfar was fucked by nu-40k Space Wolves fluff. Unfortunately they're about the only chapter you could have him belong to and also be part of a Rogue Trader's retinue for any length of time. So Owlcat's hands were tied there and I don't blame them for leaning fully into the characterisation that was essentially dictated to them. What's particularly stupid is that Dark Heresy includes rules for a Grey Knight, so they could have ditched the Space Marine for RT and included another heretical/xenos character.

Jae is a nothingburger and a disappointment considering all the possibilities the setting offers. Keeping Idira around is realistically unconscionable after the first warp event. Marazhai is highly optional and if we were in a pre-internet age I bet most players would still kill him at the first opportunity without even realising he can be recruited.

I dont like this faggot but he is really dangerously based

Marazhai is very questionable as a companion. Heretical but not chaos aligned. What sort of person would keep him around? I guess a deviant or psychopath.

>>538399013
>Keeping Idira around is realistically unconscionable after the first warp event.
You get fucking demonic summonings within your ship every 3 warp jumps, and the Void Shadows dlc includes you willingly ripping open the barrier between the warp and real space within one of the most critical chambers in your ship.

>>538399195
>What sort of person would keep him around?
A Rogue Trader who cares about nothing but showing off to others that they've got a xenos pet.
Rogue Traders are supposed to be vain like that.

>>538399173
>these problems can be rectified, of course, but to do that, we will nee to drive the blacks
Was that really necessary Paralictor?

And also, while this is metagaming, RP is the only reason to recruit him, as Marazhai is the only character that is legitimately useless. His entire build philosophy does not work in the game's combat system. He does nothing.

>>538399173
Any time you start to feel Regill has a point and maybe he knows how to run things better, remember the Hellknights were and still are during the game the most ineffective of all the forces fighting in the Crusades, that need your help not just to get anything done but even to survive, and that his entire questline AND Sosiel's questline is exclusively about the Hellknights inconveniencing you or failing to pull their weight.

>>538399195
Devs planned dialogues for 3 convictions and an unaligned conman trader. You meet him at the end of the game.

>>538399195
A rogue trader

>>538399945
>commander, we need reinforcements, should we hire mercenaries or increase the draft?
>Regill: ARM THE WAR ORPHANS
Their nation is built on devil worship so they choose the most comically evil route every time.

>>538399215
Yes, all based on my decisions as the Lord Captain pertaining to insight expenditure and quest choices. An unstable psyker losing her marbles during one of the first warp jumps of my captaincy gets the flamer or the airlock.

>>538399762
there is no RP reason to ever take marazhai
it requires actual mental gymnastics

>>538384053
It's been 2 years since bg3 and no big crpgs were released or announced in that time aside from rogue trader that was in development since wotr.

>>538401235
It makes sense to pick him while you're still trapped in Commorragh, because having a local, and a Dracon on top of that, on your side is a big asset. But after that you're supposed to kick him out of an airlock or feed him to Jimmy.

>>538384053
>BG3 clones: 0
>DE clones: a gorillion

>>538384283
Look at all the fools getting excited for Solasta 2 just because it's based on 5E

>>538401413
>having a local, and a Dracon on top of that, on your side is a big asset.
literally how?
just shoot them
why are you trying to make friends in assrape city
you might as well just let Slaanesh in at that point

>>538399945
Damn, you are playing a different game than me then.

>>538401648
I'm trying to think in-character here, not what happens in-game. You're trapped in hostile territory with no outside help. A local who previously held a very high position of power finds himself trapped in a very similar situation to your own and is willing to form a temporary alliance. Having a local on your side is a great asset because they can help you understand the territory and the culture, you could also have them act as a diplomat of sorts, should the need arise.

>>538401995
>diplomat in Commorragh
idk famiglia sounds like some kind of cuckold mental gymnastics to me

>>538338956
Mine in bg3 after seeing all the gay shit

>>538402282
Curb your dogmatard tendencies for a second. I'm not even saying you should *always* recruit Marazhai if you're all about purging the xenos for the emprah 100% of the time. But rather that a temporary alliance until you escape Commoragh makes sense in-character if you're playing a pragmatist or an Iconoclast. Beyond that I agree with you and there is almost no reason to keep Marazhai alive beyond just wanting to see all his content.

>>538336404 (OP)
Degenerates will look at this thing with its hairy feet and go AWOOOGA PLEASE LET HER BE ROMANCEABLE

>>538402809
And you're the one who typed that out and started the discussion.

thinking of replaying underrail for like the 10th time

Give me a fun build

>>538403073
Chem pistols warcrimes.

>>538403072
I've seen it happen too many times before sorry

>>538402809
Yes, and?

>>538403141
that is actually my favourite and most used build

>>538402783
'Precarious co-operation' between Eldar and humanity is an old trope of 40k, so Yrliet make sense. Eldar are supposed to have mysterious and enigmatic aims which may occasionally align with the Imperium's, particularly against Chaos.

But a Dark Eldar is a step too far, unless GW have nuked the fluff again since I wasn't looking. It was a dumb choice. They should have had the Dark Heresy Kroot, or a Tau, or a Lacrymole or some other underused non-faction Xenos race. They should haveg given RT all the Xenos companions and saved the SoB and the Space Marine for Dark Heresy.

Skitarii GF confirmed again.

>>538402809
feetfags deserve the rope

>>538403735
>still no Daemonhost
Literally what are they doing

>>538403785
And midgetfags don't?

Halflings are for chilling and drinking beer and eating with, not for lewd.

Yes, as a matter of fact I did sneakily shoot all of her eggs with Astarion before the combat even started so that her legendary action would become useless.

>>538403934
>chilling and drinking beer
Heroic activities for sure, get the fuck out of my party/game

>>538403735
I'm sorry but how are we supposed to know if we want to romance this?

>>538403934
As Larian's statistics showed, nobody wants to play as a gnome or a halfling. They should be non-playable and non-party characters. Dwarves just about get a pass because high-test angry underground super-craftsmen, etc.

>>538404325
Kung-Fu Grip

>>538404502
Larian fucked up their proportions and they've always had shit stats in D&D

>>538365917
There are people that want to save and help minagho because they feel bad for her.

>>538404124
Kek, and you even get the cheevio for killing her before she hatches the eggs lmao

>>538404124
praying for your failure so you get humbled but you'll probably google each legendary action so you're never at risk like the cheater you are

Do people really hate Jae? Why?

>instant latrineslurper melty
lol

>thinking his kiddieshit game poses any challenge to a trve veteran of the genre
lmao

>>538405248
because most of this site is terrified of brown people, women, and shameless sluts
she checks the meltdown trigger checkboxes

>namecalling
we must be better men

>>538405379
>brown
>woman
>shameless slut
We love Isabela though?

>>538405565
She'll be treated worse if she came out in let's be honest.

shameless sluts > sluts getting mad when called out > holier than thou sluts pretending to be pure

>>538405565
sorry to say it but those of us that played through DA2 have different standards

>>538405248
>middle aged
>slut
>liar
>thief
>weird portrait
pick one

>>538384053
A shitty weg not even on the level of honiepop cannot cause a "crpg Renaissance", kid.

>>538405248
I just hate gypsies

the success of BG3 made Owlcat switch to fully voiced games
yw Owlbabs

>>538406262
>"forced" them to go into being fully voiced
>every other RTWP crpg embarrassingly bent the knee and added Turn Based even if it doesn't make sense

>>538406262
thanks for bloating the filesize for a bunch of agonizingly slow voiceovers I'll skip anyways lariantards

>>538405248
The game kind of presents a bad picture of what a Rogue Trader's crew is like by throwing a bunch of loyalists at you in act 1 so a criminal that helps you make trade deals with the different factions feels like the outlier. Also her situation when you recruit her should be made more clear to the player so you know it's just dick measuring within a gang on Footfall and everyone is a criminal including the guards that come to arrest her at the end.

Shoulda had something like Octavia let you ask about the situation from a third party's perspective and flatly spell out that everyone is in the same criminal org and after Jae lost support from her last patron (Mercy) one of her rivals (Falco) got the go ahead from Vlad to steal all her shit.

Whoever put mandatory stealth missions in Rogue Trader, fuck you.

>>538406471
like I said, yw BITCH

Bg3 won so hard they are adding a turn based mode to pillars 1.

>>538406683
I heard they might even go back and make a BG1 and 2 as prequels. twice

No, Astarion, you're not getting the Skeleton Baking Manual. I'm the dedicated Necromancer this time around.

Why did they give him such a punchable face? He looks like a mix between a "Badass Chef" and a upper class punk star, and a bit of Thor from the MCU.

They just had to copy and paste William Wallace.

>>538409053
It is the mouth. Also i woulda prefer them giving him a dad bod / dwarf like proportion. Not this gay lean muscled shit

>>538409053
All they had to do was not have the side of his head be shaved.

>>538403735
>>538403823
Pretty good odds that the Skitarii is female. Only 2 more male companion slots and I assume one is reserved for a Space Marine. Bet the other one is reserved for a daemonhost too since they seem to be mostly depicted as male.

>>538409053
>>538409435
>>538409451
You spend a lot of time thinking about men and how they should be more fuckable, don't you?

Daemonhost makes more sense as a "secret" companion no??

>>538409053
I always thought he was a big bara dude, but looking at his portrait he's very lean and athletic. If you imagine his face without a beard he also has fairly sharp and somewhat feminine features. Interesting.

>>538409569
https://tenor.com/view/boner-binoculars-computer-gif-21314357

>>538409774
Depends on if it's properly bound. Tyrantine Cabal has a bunch of Radicals in it because they are looking to prevent the Tyrant Star prophecy by any means.

>>538405248
Goes too hard on her arabian nights shtick.

>>538405565
That game didn't give you much choice for straight romance.

>>538411801
>A choice between a whore and an autistic 13 year old (elf)
Thanks Bioware

>>538403735
>>538409569
Wait you're telling me I finally get to romance Khepra???

>>538411801
I think you're conflating the availability of choices with how a choice is appealing on its own. Isabela would be fine even if she were the only romance.

All romancefags can do is whine

>>538412172
>autistic 13 year old (elf)
seems like a no brainer choice really

I just got my Slayer to level 3 and now he is double sneaking attacking whenever he attacks. What a champ.

non-romancefags talk about the portraits of men and how they would be more sexy without the side shave

>>538412743
Well what we know so far is that a bunch of Skitarii are gonna show up and there's an Admech companion with a romance.

>sneak attacking
REAL MEN FIGHT HEAD ON
ANNOUNCE YOUR PRESENCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD
ROAR LIKE A MIGHTY LION
after prebuffing of course

>>538413815
No that’s waifufags still mad that Ulbrig is a “homo” instead of a waifu

>>538414092
ok faglord

What alignment is homosexuality?

>>538414161
Still mad about Solormone too I take it

>>538414479
Lawful evil

>>538414479
Chaotic Neutral.

>>538413814
so much for an extremely situational bonus that goes away eventually

>>538414479
CE if they're men, CG if they're women

>>538414479
gayotic gleeful

>>538401593
I think most people who are actually excited about Solasta 2 are so because they liked 1, not because BG3 introduced the wonders of DnD 5th edition

>>538415564
I think you're wrong

>>538339112
my hope is for a cute water caste diplomat

>>538415851
I really think I am right.
The things that excite casual faggots in BG3 are larianisms and extensive environmental manipulation that Solasta does not entertain as much

>>538414983
In Pathfinder you just need to be flanking to activate sneak attacks. It seems really powerful.

Does a pyro psyker make sense for a dogmatic playthrough or would something else fit better? I was thinking of making a melee pyro rather than a pure caster.

>>538416361
Aside from maybe Criminal origin background, I feel you could make every other homeworld, origin and class fit Dogmatic.
Same for most alignment paths. Even a Priest can fall to Chaos or whatever.

>>538416008
>casual faggots
You just described the target audience of 5E. A child could pick it up. You think the people who watch CR and have a passing knowledge of the rules are hardcore gamers?

anyone has a better screenshot of Kibbles wearing this armor?

>>538414029
Remembering how in WotR your fighter types could be so roided with buffs that their character portraits were covered with those little symbols and how their supersized, stony form could be seen radiating magic from the orbit, this rings true.

>>538396928
I play them the most

>>538416723
DnD has been picked up by dozens millions regardless, it was never really as hardcore as we'd like to think, especially when we crossed the millenium.

But returning to the vidya context, Solasta will not have companions to get bear sex on with, so that is another thing that will not attract casuals.
I have seriously not seen any indication that BG3 has led to a resurgence of people appreciating DnD ruleset for vidya and wanting more of that specifically, instead of nearly everything else BG3 actually offers

>>538336773
based Heem poster

This is what a true warrior looks like.

>>538417479
What emotion is this?

>>538417060
>Local Anon is "Fucking invincible!!!"

Romance Jae

what if the golden ending of The Infinite Museion is breaking the Loyalist Fulgrim clone out of prison/display case?

>>538417554
fury/desperation

>>538417554
Russian meth addict

>>538417579
I've heard people complain about pre-buffing in Baldur's Gate, but, honestly, you can just not bother most of the time.

>>538403934
The Priest of Sheela Peryroyl looks like she fucks

>>538418067
It depends on which BG. In ToB you'll probably want to pre-buff a lot.

desu I love prebuffing but I hate wasting spell slots on buffs and hate the short duration of those buffs even more
by the time I achieve my super saiyan form the other buffs are either already gone or about to be gone

>>538417579
>haste
>improved haste
this stacks?

>>538417774
>Jae
this is actually one of my biggest concerns for the upcoming dark heresy game nlg: theres not enough freaky women. In RT Jae was the most normal woman in the party and even SHE was a cyborg scam artist. But the only woman we've seen so far is some boring doctor chick

>>538419202
Jae and Idira are womanlets.

>>538419202
This is inaccurate.
Cassia and Kibellah should be towering over everyone else and Yrliet should be slightly taller than even that.

>>538419202
Give the doctor chick a chance, it kinda looks like half her face is burned off and she's an inquisitorial surgeon.

My pet dog is more useful than my Druid.

>>538419202
You have seen two women, one being a Kroot.
Calm your tits

>>538420698
>two swings
>two misses
>in a game where we only get 10 companions with half of them being guys
Grim portents.

>>538421330
I can’t coom to men it’s over

>>538421330
In what universe does a kroot not qualify as freaky by default?
Not to mention that the chirurgeon may end up weird/freaky anyway

>>538422636
When Daemonculaba is vanilla.

>>538403073
I want to like Underrail, but it seems like such a lonely game to play. Not even a dog to accompany you. No companion to banter with.

There's not a single attractive companion in Dark Heresy. Owlkeks have betrayed their incel audience just as they have betrayed the fluffy tail connoisseurs.

>>538409053
That's one zesty man.

>>538421430
weak, step up your coom game

Is it worth getting 5 levels into fighter just to replace a light-weapon off hand with a one-handed off-hand? Like, the difference between a scimitar and a handaxe is basically just the crit range.

>>538420698
>>538422636
the cannibalism part is promising but the images we've seen so far dont inspire Wenduag energy baka

1d8 average of 4.5, 1d6 average of 3.5, unless the 1d8 weapon has better enchantments than the 1d6 it barely matters at al. Power attack bonus is halved regardless of weapon weight type, too.

>>538424682
Crit range is one of the very few weapon characteristics that matters (because getting around it via keen doesn't let you get mythic improved crit).
Why do you need 5 levels in fighter, though? You can take weapon proficiencies as feats with anyone.

>>538422891
>There's not a single attractive companion in Dark Heresy.
Lore accurate 40k, all the attractive ones did in the whorus heresy

>>538425824
Effortless dual wield.

>>538422636
Two misses. There's no room for discussion here.

>>538424706
Well yeah, she does not look like a retard and may actually behave more liek a hunter

Is Dark Heresy Radical alignment gonna be "path to hell is paved with good intentions" or delusional chaos worshiper ?

>>538426643
Wait for the game to come out.

>>538426643
Spectrum of Radical/Puritan.

As for game implementation, reactivity to specific choices, and how far you lean into either or don't, determines reactions , is my guess

Iconoclast for most choices and Dogmatic for a few big choices.

>>538426132
Oh, I see what you are saying. The hit penalty is worth taking in order to have a high crit range waepons that both benefit from your feat improvements. It is only -2 with the mythic. Though actually using two weapons before getting mythic two weapon fighting may not be a great idea on hard. Dual scimitars or rapiers is the way to go.

>>538426643
The idea of a Radical inquisitor is just a fleshing out of the old Buckminster Fuller quote: "Those who play with the Devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword." There's endless ways to make a corruption story compelling, if the writers are up to the task. The presence of Black Science Lady and yet-another-fucking-Eldar unfortunately indicates that they are, however, not.

Alternatively you could write a compelling path in which a radical does in fact resist the temptations of Chaos effectively and achieves some great deed his puritan counterparts could not, albeit making some enormous personal sacrifice in the process perhaps.

>>538426643
If it's anything like the tabletop game, there's going to be a spectrum on how mad you are ranging from "slightly" to "Oblationist".

>>538427016
>It is only -2 with the mythic.
Yeah but idk a character wouldn't wield an off-hand one-handed weapon if he didn't know how to do it properly, in universe

>>538427414
>the presence of Black Science Lady
How does the presence of a tech human in the retinue affect that?

>get to ship combat
>quit game
Why has every fucking side mechanic they've added gotten worse? I don't want to play your shitty get chased around simulator whilst being unable to attack.

How do people build characters around the exotic weapons in WotR? I'm most of the way through the game now and I swear I have never seen some of the weapon types.

>>538427650
Ship combat is the best though

>>538427650
Naval combat is better than crusade mode

>>538427669
Well, as the only mundane characteristic that matters is critical range, this means that you either take Exotic Weapon Proficiency Kukri or Fauchard at level 1 or 2 depending on how you are getting it. Then you play your dual wield or two handed character as normal.

>>538427669
Dueling Sword (Drezen Paladin) + Estoc (Arueshalae Quest Hag) dual wield faggots represent

>>538427763
>>538427854
You could just use Setsuna and ignore the entire mechanic. This is way worse since you're forced to engage with it.

>>538427872
What I mean is there are so many different weapon types you can pick feats for, but half of those weapons don't actually seem appear in the game.

>>538427669
Drezen merchants alone cover a fuck lot.
I just made a mental note first run over a few cool items, like some monk sais/quartestaffs, cuved elven blade, fauchard etc.
Plus finnean is always there

Why didn't they make the crusade mini game a heros of might and magic clone? Aren't they slavs they should be able to do that in their sleep.

>>538427650
Agree ship combat is terrible. I wouldn't mind it if they would just give us the ability to skip it like they do with the Pathfinder minigames.

>>538427990
Even with a mage general, you need to bother with stacks for some bigger armies especially if you do not ywant to waste months trung to rest to restore MP plus covering the capital from invading army. It's still a hassle.

And ship combat is actually good, not just discount HoMM 5 against 95% inferno enemeis with your progress resseting.

>>538428028
Finnean can only be transformed into a minority of the weapon types

>>538428109
The people at owlcat are fake slavs.

Why not rename this general into /ocg/ since 90% of the discussion is about WotR+RT? honest question

>>538428210
He transforms into whatever profs the wielder has, IIRC

I liked the ship combat and some of the battles are actually challenging. What's worthless is the silly colony management system which effectively plays itself.

>>538428320
So if you want to talk about other games instead of just whinging or shitposting, you are free to do so

>>538428356
Colony was a bit more interesting when you had limited slots for projects (aka, you could not them all barring ones that exclude otehrs) and keeping up stats was harder to qualify.
Now, it's just a waiting game and choosing your universal bonuses/rewards

Arueshalae is my girlfriend. MINE!

>>538428731
Go to bed, Dimalchio

>>538428320
Because once solasta 2 comes out it will be 90% solasta discussion and when the next iron tower game that they have been teasing comes out 90% of the general will be talking about that, also I've seen a few anons metion secret of the weepstone and it seems like it will be similar to skald (small inde using retro mechanics with a cool looking aesthetic) so I imagine it will get a decent buzz when it comes out.

nobody gives a shit about solasta dude

Wheres the anon who was mad at Solasta for being ugly

>>538429047
I do. For the user campaigns, 1 had a few cool ones

>>538429047
Solasta is in the op for a reason, its probably the second best combat fag crpg right after knights of the chalice.

There's no one here excited for a new iron tower game. Nobody played colony ship and nobody is going to play whatever their new game is.

>>538428915
Speaking of Skald, I absolutely loved it. Made me think of the days of playing Nahlakh.

>>538428915
>Because once solasta 2 comes out it will be 90% solasta discussion
It won't. You'll get like three people talking about it and one posting about their progress.
>Iron Tower
Same thing. You overestimate what games people here play.

>>538429297
We have even had blogposting about Colony ship runs though

Iron tower GODS made age of decadence which moggs every single owlcrap game into oblivion btw.

>>538429067
the UI looks so fucking ugly and lazy??? like some intern just copied some mobile game and didn't bother making it "fantasy" like

>>538429530
the game is like 4 hours long

>>538429535
who the fuck cares you noob what matters is the gameplay loop de hoop schoop the coop!

>>538429479
yes I remember but it quickly went away and people switched back to talking about Owlcat. There's just no way their new game is going to have staying power here beyond the first week or so of it's release.

We are ALL playing underrail infusion when it comes out

>>538429535
>Trying to copy how it feels to do pnp
>Make the UI 0 effort gray boxes
At least add some paper texture on it fucking hell.
>>538429686
What ever happened to taste?

Trying TTT and expanded content for the first time.
How shit is Silver Champion? Paladin with a drake sounds badass. Gonna play on hard.

>>538429789
explain in 100 words or less why I should give a fuck about your game if your team can't give enough of a fuck to design a proper UI

>>538430061
fucking midget

>>538430061
Solasta UI is a proper UI its extremely easy to understand and use.

>>538429942
You give up casts, smites and mercies IIRC.
I guess it's not so bad since there are fewer evil enemies in Kingmaker and pets are obviously potent

>>538429297
>>538429530
I think both of them had the same issue.
The only way to play optimally is to know in advance what skill checks you need and what order to do quests so that you can get the xp to pass those skill checks.

Playing blind always boiled down to the same thing.
>oh wow a new quest
>oh I don't have X in Y skill
>I guess I can't do that quest
>oh I guess that quest is unavailable now because I progressed too far
>oh I over leveled Z skill, I guess I'll remember that for next time

I think the point is to encourage replayability, but as a consequence it makes the first run really unsatisfying and subsequent runs like going through the paces for the optimal outcome.

>>538430061
click the enemy and damage happens is peak combat and the only thing you should care about

>>538430186
I went through both games blind on my first playthrough I just got one of the mid tier endings both times.

this technically counts as an RPG because i like it
are you as true of a roman as i am?

>>538430061
zoomers can't even process this level of kino

>>538430346
come to think of it, why aren't you awarded a grass crown in expeditions for saving what's-his-name in act 1?

>>538430186
Yes I agree. I kept having to restart in AoD because my build didn't have the correct skill checks to continue the main story and I just got sick of it and stopped playing, like somehow the game just expected me to know which skills were important and which ones are garbage.

>>538430186
pretty much
>>538430660
4-5 for teron, 5-7 for Maadoran, 8-9 for Ganezarr are good guidelines

It's not gay, it's called optimization, and I needed a quick set of non-armor clothes.

Obsidian is to Bethesda what Spiders is to Bioware

>>538431715
The Leather-Clad Centurion

Is it gae to take Expertise and Improved Expertise as my first two feats in NWN tho?

what does that even mean

>>538431924
don't worry about it
whatever you pick will be gay

>>538432129
*bites lip*

Guys, I really enjoy looking at numbers. What about you?

>>538432402
Cammers...

>>538431715
Just go naked. There's no difference between that and a 10 AC outfit.

>>538399945
>the most ineffective of all the forces fighting in the Crusades
Try to beat march to Drezen without that Cavarly unit.
I dare you

>>538432645
>The only time they manage to accomplish anything at all is when they just act as a beatstick with no voice or opinions completely under your command.
Wow!

>>538432645
Huh? That's not so hard, don't even need a mage.

>>538399945
touch grass

I fell back in love with DOS2 a few days ago. I found an ancient temple and it was so awesome blowing up the wall in order to access it. Is this the best modern CRPG, or are there some better games, because this was the one that clicked the most with me.

>>538433470
Nice to hear that you are having fun with it.
I really need to play the Divinity games at some point. I did pick up the first one a little while ago.

>>538430176
>gives up smites
Damn this was for WOTR

Six billion humans? Ridiculousss

Oh, do some of you guys play with mods on your CRPGs? I never even considered that.

>>538434690
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person here who plays PF games without Toybox.

Why is the autosave in RT so shit?

>>538434960
I mean, it isn't necessary to enjoy the game. Bubblebuffs is though.

>>538415564
This describes me and my interested in Solasta 2

>>538415851
>>538401593
More accurate to say that I'm excited for it despite it being 5e
Even more accurately, it's orthogonal, I have no strong feelings about the system in and of itself. It was shit in BG3 and pretty good in Solasta.

>>538434960
The only mods I've used on the PF games is a full respec mod for WotR.

>>538435250
>Bubblebuffs
No need on Core and lower, barely an inconvenience on Hard if you've played through once or twice and know what you're doing.

Not really sure what should be added to Pathfinder 3.

>>538436139
housing

>>538436139
Actual girlfriends that show up to your tabletop session and roleplay as redeemed succubi/ cannibalistic psychopaths / eternally young queens / sexy mommy sexo / sexy holy goddesss sseexxxo
SEX

Banquet for Fools will save /crpgg/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_Q6SJdh_I

>>538436575
If it ends up sucking I will blame you personally

>>538436432
based

>>538436432
Average anon post

>>538436432
Sorry bro we've got theater kid faggots and hostile feminist bitches galore for your hobby though.

Oath of Sex

Oath of Hand-holding

Oath of Usury

Oathmeal

Hey, maybe Owlcat will introduce a normal human female for the PC to have a classic storybook romance with.

Hey, maybe anon will grow out of kissing dollies.

If only the angry romancefag could learn how to write

She's out there now, alone. In your special place. Waiting for you...

Yrlietsisters how you doing?

>>538438136
Im glad Argentafags are finally getting content!!!

>>538438136
Why are PCs such whores?

>>538438136
If Raszard did Yuri art, the people would love him, he's punished because he is a straight white man and proud of it

>>538438136
Even the most obsessed waifu fag is just like a swarm of locusts, ready to move on to the next meal once they've gorged themselves on their previous one. Disgusting creatures.

I hope that the next big CRPG has no women or romance.
CRPGs are about:
Managing your equipment
Selecting appropriate spells and abilities
Inspecting the strengths and weaknesses of your opponents

>>538438751
His style is bad enough that you could probably fool people by saying his OC is an RT on chemo

Looked up Aletheia: Return of Odysseus to see how progress is going and noticed they have another game listed, Aletheia: Prophecy of Perseus

>Planned Release Date: Dec 31, 2099
>This game plans to unlock in approximately 74 years
ok

>>538438782
Not true I love Miranda, Shadowheart, Morrigan and Arueshalae equally
Although only Shadowheart has showed me her pussy so I fap to her more

>>538439515
Where would you say that your life went wrong, anon?

>>538434960
No, I play without mods too. For now. I might change my mind if it means being able to keep both Lann and Wenduag in my party.

Sometimes I feel like a mortal gnat, snapping its jaws at the Lord of Locusts....

>Behold, Iomedae...
>Behold these flowers and chocolates I have bought for you

He used a hard R.

>>538440753
get out

>>538418364
I would be fine with prebuffing if I could just make party members like cam and sosiel buffbots that I just leave in Drezen after I've buffed while I go places. But you can only do that in Act 4 unless you REALLY splooge on teleport circles.

Starting my first BG1 campaign. Anything to know going into it?

>>538442010
The owls are not what they seem

>>538442010
When you arrive in Baldur's Gate the city and an event occurs that indicates a time limit, there is, in fact, a time limit.

>>538442203
>>538442362
Is there a specific alignment that opens up more lore/reactivity than others? Is it obvious which companions are more fleshed out than others?

>>538438136
Yrliet was distraught when she found out
She tried sleeping with Marazhai as revenge but he wasn't interested

If I got to act 2 in Rogue Trader and my build feels like shit should I just restart? I'm not really having that much fun and feel like I bricked most of my companions. My friend told me act 3 was a huge difficulty spike and I'm struggling with those AVN incendiary cunts

>>538360813
>obvious to paypigs

>>538442203
I just an hour ago ran into the Hog Lady in JA3 who told me her barrel-hog sculpture "saw something that night"

>>538442010
- You can up your reputation if you need to by donating to temples but it's really fucky and you should look up how much to donate if you need to do that for some reason
- If you agree to help companions but then don't, after some time they'll warn you, and after more time they'll rightfully fuck off never to be seen again
- level 1 you WILL get your face eaten off by wolves, do a lot of ranged and kiting early on. Stray crits in heavy armor can even fuck you up badly in early levels... But this is part of the entire zero-to-FUCKING GODHOOD arc.
- Sleep is really powerful
- if THAC0 or AC confuses you just put on different armor/weapons to see how the number changes, it should be pretty obvious what's better.
- Most stats won't matter outside your class stat, but dumping/minmaxing is soulless and the game isn't that hard for the most part, so it's better to play with RP in mind
- There's like 20 companions so again with RP/story in mind, imo best way to play is not savescum unless you hit TPK or something basically impossible (but even then it can feel really kino to for instance be the only survivor and have to build up another party but that's just me)
- Temples can resurrect for a fee, it's not too bad but it does scale and can be expensive if it keeps happening

Final one is important: trap detection is on a 6s cycle, so even if you're really good at spotting them, move slowly and deliberately if you think there could be traps around

>>538443561
Just rebuild
Talk to Janris Danrok on the bridge and say you want "training"
The game is designed around rebuilding
>struggling with those AVN incendiary cunts
This is about the toughest fight in the game. You get stronger soon. There are some tough bosses but by the time you meet them you'll be able to handle them
So yeah, respec, and remember that if you're building multiple levels you can go back and change your choices by clicking on the previous levels

>>538443561
Unless you picked operative, just respec

>>538443279
>Is there a specific alignment that opens up more lore/reactivity than others?
There is essentially none of this. There is a minor thing that I don't want to spoiler, but it's really nothing, and like "X" if you're good, "Y" if you're evil, but they're about equal in power.

>Is it obvious which companions are more fleshed out than others?
There's very little fleshing out at all. Most companions have one objective they want to do, and besides/after that they have very little to say. If you want fleshing out and more bants, and you can handle a bit of fanfic-tier writing, use the NPC Project mod.

There are a couple other mods that I'd even recommend for a new player, but vanilla is perfectly fine too. But basically, expect almost no companion/reactivity type stuff. 25 year old game.
There's a bit of reactivity with certain decisions you make but not very much. You'll want to headcanon/RP a lot of it.

>>538444753
>expect almost no companion/reactivity type stuff
Yeah this. BG2 was innovative with how much personality the guys had compared to BG1

>>538444501
>>538444559
I went soldier but I don't deal much damage have no way to deal with the burning debuff. I decided to go Iconoclast on a whim but I'm not really enjoying it either and feel more inclined to dogmatic. I'm not averse to a fresh run with a new build as time isn't really a problem. I got used to restarting bricked builds when I started playing dominating in Underrail.

>>538443561
Yes restart. In long crpgs it's perfectly normal to get through the starter zone and restart now that you know the mechanics.

Just be aware that the game's difficulty kind of falls off a cliff in act 2 as builds start to come online and everyone just goes infinite. Act 3 is NOT a huge difficulty spike. Ask anyone here and they'll tell you that by act 3 they're clearing every encounter in 1 round unless they deliberately nerf themselves with significantly weaker builds.

The most balanced gameplay is actually playing unfair in act 1.

>>538445547
Soldier is a pretty good foundation. Officer is a good one too if you like giving extra turns to the other guys. Make sure to level characteristics occasionally during leveling using the Characteristic Training talent- Strength and Toughness for a soldier
Burning damage is tough to deal with early but becomes a minor nuisance later.
The real problem with that fight is getting stunned by that big hammer. I think Toughness is the characteristic that affects saves against that? Abelard is well suited there.
For that particular fight, try to pull back around the corner
If you do restart, remember that some classes actually need to take Field Medic or Basic Skill: Medicae when levelling before they can even use medkits, regardless of their actual Medicae stat. Took me a while to work this out.

Raw man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZT5JlAP48

Have sex with Mizora and Lohse right now.

what alignment are women

>>538445547
With your alignment just go with whatever you like . You don't have to stick to one type of action the whole game, you won't run out of points

>>538446532
Whatever alignment their husband has

>>538446532
Lawful evil

>>538446289
Mizora is the only good character from BG3.

>>538446532
Most are >>538446695
Some are lawful good.
The rest are true chaotic.

>>538447241
correct. Coincidentally, Malady is the only good character in Kiddinity 2: Unoriginal Shit.

I think the narrator from BG3 voiced Malady.

>Mizora's VA said that she reckons they'll definitely expand on all the sex scenes because the fans love them
>Mizora's VA was super disappointed with her sex scene and wanted it to be more explicit and sexual. She begged Swen to add more Devil sex into BG3 but he said no. She feels bad that the fans didn't get more
Never fucking forget what Swen took from you

>>538447942
Based Swen
SILENCE WOMEN

Haven't they completely finished development on Baldur's Gate 3? I thought it had already received its final update.

>>538448147
FUCK YOU

Faster than Chiktikka Fastpaws!

>>538448835
t. Aerie describing how long it took Jaheira to get over Khalid

Why was Gorion's Ward only attracted to elves?
>Aerie
>Jaheira
>Viconia
>Phaere

Why was Gorion's Ward only based and redpilled?

So what's the next crpg coming out?

>>538450238
Imoen was the only human woman he wanted

>>538450561
What so it's not cheating if it's with an elf?

>>538382727
> stopped being contrarian
Never was like that.
> that bg3 is a good crpg?
BG3 is not a good CRPG by any means.
It’s both a bad CRPG and a bad game overall.
The gameplay is poor with its clunky combat and simplistic build-crafting. The story is terrible, full of plot holes and filler elements, and it’s incredibly linear. The companions are awful, written by California zoomers. There’s no atmosphere because everyone talks and acts like typical Californians.
BG3 belongs in the same category as porn games made in RPG Maker; it has far more in common with them than with proper CRPGs.
Despite their budget constraints, Rogue Trader and Wrath of the Righteous are objectively superior to BG3 in absolutely EVERYTHING, except for graphics and the amount of voice acting.
I simply cannot imagine someone who has played anything other than BG3 calling it a worthy game. It’s absurd and trolling with stupidity.

>>538450341
>Shadow of the Road (TBA)
>Rue Valley (TBA)
>Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy (TBA)
>Critical Shift (TBA)
My only answer is Soon™

mutton mongering riff raff

>>538450804
Not at all
Elves are the femboys of Faerun

>Replies to an 11 hour post to post the same seethe for the 283rd time now
Holy kek

What’s the best gooner CRPG? What CRPG has the best waifus?

Poor, stupid Willas.

>>538451604
Necromancer's Tale has the best waifus
Not ab RPG though

>BG3 companions
>written by California zoomers

>Valerie completely surrounded
>Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss
>Next round
>Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss
Has there ever been a greater dissonance between "great gameplay companion" and "shit RP companion"?

>>538452586
Valerie is great to have around for her autism/interjections.
She is not a libeable person and her quest is doodoo, but that is a different issue

>>538452393
do you think their writers are all old Belgian men or something
its a bunch of bong and burger women that worked as community managers and some dude that wrote IGN articles

>>538454905
I thought BG stood for Belgium

>>538455079
BurGer. BonG
You have been deceived.

ITS A BUNCH OF BONGs AND BURGERs I JUST KNOW IT

Awooga
AWOOGA

>>538458804
And she even creates actually worthwhile items.

>>538452393
You know the writer of bg1/2 is the same guy who wrote Sera

>>538452343
>fuck your father's sidepiece
damn. i didn't expect that

Wood Elves? Sex!
High Elves? Sex!
Dark Elves? Sex!

It's a shame we never got Expeditions Crusader.

Attractive women? Sex.

The concept of "high" elves puzzles me

>he would sex a w*man
what are you gay?

>>538460893
Imagine being a low elf, couldn't be me

>>538460893
high af in the light of the two trees

>>538405248
Can't stand her accent, her VA was terrible.
But its not just the VA, its also how her dialogue is written (which probably feeds into the VA). She's an obnoxious character to have around and the devs make it so she gives you lots of rewards right out of the box just for recruiting her like they knew she'd be disliked.

I dislike Idira for the same reasons, just annoyingly written, annoyingly voiced, and forced to take her in the intro. Giving her to Heinrix or kicking her out or whatever else doesn't really fix that she shouldn't have been written in there in the first place.

Elves from the Middle-earth should be called mid elves

>>538409774
>>538410196
Secret companions are usually pretty half-baked. I can see Owlcat making the host a full companion Marazhai style to flesh it out more. Easy way to justify it for all alignments, is that you end up with a daemonhost some other inquisitor created.

Elves were made for my human cock

>>538418536
Not as far as I'm aware. Though back in 2e haste would age a character a year every time it was cast, something that wasn't included in the video games and later dropped in 3e onwards. But I think it gave the spell a good side effect for how potent it was.

>wrath gives you a ton of different mythic paths
>rogue trader gives you iconoclast,dogmatic and heratic routes
>dark heresy just let's you choose between puritan and radical
It's amazing how owlcat games keep getting worse with easier combat and less options but they keep getting more and more popular. They really are this generation bioware they just keep failing upwards.

Any ultima inspired games similar to skald you can recommend?

Sex with redheads too

WE are romancing the black science girl with big dick sucking lips. I don't give a flying FUCK about the generic blond barbie or the autistic yrliet clone.

who the fuck is "we" white boy

>>538438751
I wish he'd apply himself to improving, he's been stuck at the same shitty note-book doodle quality for so long I wonder if he's an aspie

>>538430913
>>538416852
thanks anon its great, now can i also ask you (or anyone else willing to) for a frontal screenshot like this concept art?

>>538463561
>wonder if he's an aspie
If he wasn't autistic id be surprised

>>538463583
like not necessarily the pose the angle/pov is the important thing

Lets be real, no one cares about the expanse

Sometimes the facial expressions in this meme game hit just right.

shitpants is not a crpg

>>538463009
don't forget how we have devolved back into Batvision puzzle gameplay

>>538463958
>smug Asian wizard tav
She definitely owes me sex btw.

>>538463862
I'd like it more if it had proper aliens, there's a few settings I've read with humans spreading across the solar system and then interacting with the larger Galactic community and they are usually pretty entertaining. More within the story though I wish ther Belters had somehow gotten comeuppance for fucking with the Mormons. People that can afford to build the largest ship in the history of mankind and aren't pacifists should've gotten their revenge.

>>538463862
I like the setting, I hate the characters. The eskimo lady is also really very overhyped, like they saw she was a strong female character that people enjoyed so now she's everywhere.

>sci fi without aliens
wtf is the point

>>538463583
Kibbles had such great VA I hope the actress they picked for her gets more work in CRPGs, her voice is pure sex

>>538464325
To explore the human condition in relation to the advancement of technology

>>538464251
Mormon hands typed this post

>>538464883
Guy who recently rewatched Hell on Wheels typed this.

>>538464256
>eskimo lady
what

>>538465010
Camina Drummer?

>>538465245
She’s just them merging a bunch of book characters together.

>>538462786
They don't. Improved Haste is replacing the effect.
The AD&D 1e video games DO age you when you cast it, because they actually track your character's age.

>>538461281
Objectively wrong
>Jae
>Idira
>Marazhai
These are the best voice acted characters.
The really annoying ones to listen to are Ulfar and Yrliet.

>>538466143
At least Ulfar will never get more lines.