>create a wizard MC>gale is just cooler and better than you at everything>also he has unique pets, unique interacions with certain NPCs and his own unique questlineShould i just play as Gale instead if i want to be a wizard? I feel like a side character in my own game.
>>736480304No, you play dark urge AKA the actual protagonist of the game
>>736480334Dark Urge is just a regular Tav with some extra edgy lines here and there.
>>736480304Poor guy's been suffering recently
>>736480304lol sorcerer MC. hear about this faggot since release. grab my hand. fail. fail the recovery roll. heh. down 1 retarded npc and continue having fun in my game.
>>736480387I could say the same of every origin character, using this logic. Durge is the real protag, a Bhaalspawn, as it should be
>>736480387Dark Urge is the reason the entire game even happens to begin with.
>>736480387Once the game hits act2, Durge really becomes the Main Guy(tm).TECHNICALLY that's true for every origin, but the Durge is the only one you can't get as a companion otherwise. So people started treating it as the canon protagonist story. It also has a thematic tie to previous games since the protag was also a Bhaalspawn.Larian has this weird quirk of making the origin choices the "right" way to experience the story and the tabula rasa character being just a filler for headcanon.
>>736480610Dark Urge and Gortash simply steal the Crown of Karsus from Mephistopheles using a portal made by a random sorceress. Under his nose.I swear, the story gets so shit when you reach Baldur's Gate proper it really kills any motivation to keep playing.Not to mention Raphael, an incompetent Cambion, conveniently has the deus ex machine hammer to free Orpheus. And you can do the same: invade his home, steal everything and kill him, too.
>>736480772Welcome to the Forgotten Realsm, enjoy your stay.
>>736480304>Should i just play as Gale instead if i want to be a wizard?Not on your first playtrough. I suggest on your first playtrough to play a class that none of your companions, have.>sorcerrer>monk>bardYou cover all other classes with companions. Monk is my personal favorite. Bard is overtuned in D&D 5E. Sorcerrer is good but not as funny as monk.
>>736480772This actually sounds pretty well devised for the amount of other shit that also has to be in the game and all the variations that must be there.>by a random sorceressThis is always the best option. If you're going to be fucking with the hells you need some random smuck to throw under the buss, you don't want to open the portal yourself in case someone tries to track you down.
>>736480304I like Larian's games. But the whole Origin shit was always poorly executed and made playing as OCs of your own making unsatisfying.
>>736481514That sucks. Wizards have always been a favorite of mine.
>>736480304Thi dude is bg3's Fane aka the main character you supposed to play to fully experience game
Wizard in 3.5e is vastly superior to 5e
Sorcerer dark urge is far cooler than Gale will ever be.
>want to play necromancer wizard>look inside>con save spells
>>736482143You can do 11 sorc 1 wizard. This gives you a flexible wizard spell slot at no power loss. Several wizard spell slots if you invest into int.
The real question is, fire sorcerer or ice sorcerer?
>>736481514Why does it matter who your character is? You can just change everyone's role anyway
>>736481947I wish instead of complete characters Origin system would just provide you with a set of unique backgrounds for your MC in Dark Urge style.This would fix the situation where it feels like your party consists of seven protagonists instead of one protagonist and six side characters. And it would make replays more fun.
>>736483624The only one that feels like the devs liked them a little bit too much is shadow heart. I see no issue with companions being fully fleshed out and having interesting backgrounds.
>>736480387Tav is Dark Urge without Baldur's Gate.
>>736480387Dark Urge gets entirely different story beats, cutscenes, abilities, and multiple "he's literally him" moments that Tav does not
>>736483453Electric > Fire >>> Ice
>>736483807>multiple "he's literally him" momentsIn English doc.
>>736483858Remember when Goku goes Super Saiyan on Namek? Like that
>Spend point to level up Cleric>Got to level 11 and you get a free weapon>Take that weapon and then respect into something else
>>736483858He's him is a zoomzoom expression, it means he's cool
>be friendly to a male party member>they start giving you weird looks and the game tries to steer the conversation into gay romanceFor fucks sake.
>>736484165Why respec? Just have a hireling cleric cast that spell for you.
>>736484165Isnt level 11 end game?Wont you have plenty of weapons by then ?
>>736480387Tav is one of the worst protagonists to any game ever made, he has zero relevance to anything that is going on, it's like a test mode that someone forgot to remove from the game.
>>736483396necromancy sucks, anything minion/summonining related sucks major dick in dnd for some reason, all minions are timed and weak in relation to other stuff
>>736483858Aura farming moments
>>736480304No. You should kill gale at the first opportunity. The same goes for all of the other writer self insert NPCs. As much as I hate the game, it gets due credit for letting me kill it's shitty NPCs.
Same thing happens to Wyll and Shadowheart.Any character whos personal story is deeply related to their class is going to outshine your Tav.My first Tav was a Warlock and i remmeber watching Wyll interact with his patron and wonder "why the fuck isnt this happening to me instead"
>>736489167why didn't you [lay as Wyll then, anon?
Do we love Gale professor or Gale god here more here?
>>736489517I dont want to be black.
Wyll is based
easy class to play for a first time player? and no i haven't played games like BG3 before.
>>736490429Wizard divination You literally can control randomness
>>736489709Isn't it possible to change his appearance so that he isn't a nigger, like with Durge?
>>736490647it's crazy how unbalanced dnd is, some subclasses get literally nothing and divination gets this
>>736480387>With some extra linesHorrible understatement considering the only origin character with more unique dialogue is Lae'zel.
>>736488360to punish you for being an asshole whose turns take twice as long as everyone else
>>736490647>>736492383given how fucked the rng gen is in the game divination wizard is the biggest enjoyment grease
>>736480304they dropped the ball hard on not giving you the option to customise the origin characters the same way you can Durge. Sure, racelock Laezel, Karlach and Shart, that makes sense, but there's no reason Astarion, Wyll and Gale can't be any other race. But for all, they should have unlucked all further customisations.
>>736491259nope, only with mods
>>736480304>I feel like a side character in my own game.My number 1 complaint with larian writing. Either youre in it for the characters or the gameplay
>>736490429Eldritch Blast man.>>736493360You can disable the rng fuckery.
>>736493683karmic dice or no having multiple strings of nat1s while never even getting a double 20 just makes be biased against the dice engine
>>736480772>Go to Cania in Hotu >First thing you see is a pit fiend manager losing his marbles because the ice mining operation isn't meeting the quota >Go check it out>It's a fucking imp being a lazy retard Anon Mephistopheles is not Xanatos. In fact hes pretty fucking lazy for the N2 of hell. I mean he fucking moonlighted as a Knight commander's gay fairy bf that one time ffs
>>736488243>It's a dangerous fucking woman spreads her legs episode My dick is going to be the end of me
>>736488243yeah
>>736480304I respec'd him into an Arcane Cleric
>>736493994if you're talking about WotR, Pathfinder Meph is a completely different beast from Forgotten Realms MephHe actually earns his position as the second greatest devil
