Astral Beauty Edition>News:Patch 8: https://baldursgate3.game/news/the-final-patch-new-subclasses-photo-mode-and-cross-play_138Patch 7: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-7-now-live_121Patch 6: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-6-now-live_108Patch 5: https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-5-now-live_99>Wiki:https://bg3.wiki>Mods:https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/>FAQ:>Q: How often should I long rest?>A: Many companion and romance interactions occur when long resting. Some early lower priority camp scenes can also be missed if higher priority ones are queued. To advance companion quests or romances, make sure to long rest often.>Q: Can I recruit Minthara without going down the evil path?>A: If you knock her out in Act 1, yes. You do miss out on the sex scene, but otherwise the romance remains the same.>Q: Underdark or Mountain Pass?>A: Either, or both. It's recommended to clear both on higher difficulties for the experience and loot. Both connect to the same Act 2 map.>Q: Is The Dark Urge essentially "Tav+"?>A: Yes. You get additional content, BUT there are points where, if you've chosen to resist the Urge and/or don't complete quests the "right" way, you'll have to pass additional checks to avoid losing companions.>Q: Are there any consequences to consuming tadpoles?>A: No, for the most part. However if you've consumed any tadpoles, there will later be a DC 21 Wisdom check to reject the Astral-Touched Tadpole, which affects your appearance if consumed.>Q: Should I enable Karmic Dice?>A: Karmic Dice will avoid streaks of low rolls, both for you and the enemy. It is recommended to disable it if you're specializing.>Polls:>Romance: https://strawpoll.com/NMnQ5kJXYn6>Race: https://strawpoll.com/kjn18WPzeyQ>Class: https://strawpoll.com/eNg69DKKjnA>Companions: https://strawpoll.com/bVg8o8l3VnYOP pasta: https://rentry.org/bggpastaPrevious thread: >>566540076
>>566793935she cute
I want to stick my face directly into Shadowheart's butt crack, preferably on a hot summer's day, and shake my head vigorously between her cheeks while making motor sounds.
It is time to romance shadowheart.
>>566793983is this game fune
>>566794184i'm not the anon playing whatever this is. i just cropped and added the subtitles
Gorion's Ward once said:I am excited for DivinityIdle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is an official Dungeons & Dragons tm game.Minthara is canonically 150 years old, pansexual and neutral evilI collect barrels and throw them at every boss including MintharaMinthara did not watch Viconia leave in her childhoodMinthara is the throat goatI respect all women but MintharaIf you romance Minthara you are a horrible personIf you romance Astarion you are a great personI ascended AstarionI romanced ascended AstarionI enjoy all the male companionsI play with LOTS of mods onI love editing the character's appearances with modsI fucked Halsin and Shadowheart at the same time and loved itShadowheart is right not to use her birthnameShadowheart is not chaotic evilShar is neutral evilGale was groomed by MystraI play sorcererI camp castYou cannot find Mayrina's brothers' corpsesKarlach is okay for using soul coinsWyll is a real characterI sympathized with KethericI play male TavI love using summonsI love dragonborns, halflings, gnomes and dwarves
>>566794695The Blade.
This general is on it's last leg. I recommend we don't make a new thread after this one.
Is "Jaheira" supposed to invoke "Bagheera"? I've been wondering about this since I first saw her shapeshift into a panther. Did she also do that in the original games?
>>566779793not a fani don't like how you're actually just a chunk of bhaalflesh turned into a guy and you have a couple edgy moments but are otherwise just a tav with a fucky butleri appreciate that the option's there though7/10
>>566795964>rebrand as Larian general>get flood of fresh people whenever Divinity news goes live
>>566793818>Jaheira and Minsc were pretty much destroyed by this too. Misc for the CR voice acting.But Minsc's voice acting is great. He's one of the characters whose dialogue I never skip. What don't you like about it?
>>566796462he doesnt like that its a male character obviously
I just want to say that I love my wife.
>>566795883Mystra.
>>566795883our guy
>>566793818(I just realized that the post you replied to should have read "prequels" instead of "sequels.") I don't know if Larian is to blame for the inclusion of returning characters. WotC had previously licensed BG2 characters to appear in comics, adventure modules, and whatnot. ("Heroes of Baldur's Gate" depicted a redheaded Jaheira, among other puzzling choices.) That commercial intent predates BG3 by years. Of course, Larian is still responsible for the final portrayal of these characters, good or bad. But if they were already mandated to return by WotC, then Larian's hands were effectively tied. This doesn't excuse character assassination, but gives context. I have mixed feelings about the return of these characters because I still like the Jaheira of BG3. She feels like a natural continuation of who she was in BG2.
>>566795964No worries, there are still worthless tweets to share and more crying about the namefag to be done. How many posts were wasted on that in the previous thread? Fifty? More?
>>566798821and yet this post was more worthless than all of those combined
Best girl Aerie was untarnished
>>566798821You reported me for a harmless post in the other place lmoa
/lgg/ - Larian Games General>News:Divinity is expected to launch to early access in 2027.Nameposters, Mintharafag, and Frog Schizo have been banished to Tartarus.>Wikis:https://divinity.fandom.com/wiki/Divinity_Wikihttps://bg3.wiki>Mods:https://www.nexusmods.com/games/divinityoriginalsin2https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3>FAQ:>Q: What happened to /bgg/?>A: Due to extreme autism and lack of interest in the game, it was merged into a better, combined general (you are here now).>Q: What's a good entry point into Larian Games?>A: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, and Divinity: Original Sin are considered "old" and therefor bad. It's highly recommended to start the series at Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 respectively.
smug frog
>Zhent prick thinks he can leave me to the knolls and then come out all buddy buddy after I do all the work
>>566802462Indeed.
>>566802462smug and powerful
>>566801967good start but could use less shitting on past games
>>566801967This is brazen trolling and should be reported. I doubt that posters who are interested in BG3 would be willing to accept coexistence in a catch-all Larian general where they would be relegated to second-class citizens - let alone after a months-long campaign from your kind to shit on BG3 and anyone who might like the waifus. /tesg/, /fog/, and /stag/ are separate generals for a reason, despite the games sharing a common developer. Just because Larian is sure to leverage their reputation as the developer of BG3 to market their next game doesn't mean we have to blindly follow. And by the way, /lgg/ is already taken.
>>566806061this is the real troll post
>>566808808laezels reaction to any of her simps in this thread
>party of Monk, Warlock, and Glamour BardI really need a tank type who can take hits, my guys go down easily when they get love tapped.
>>566806061troon
>>566806061good post
>>566813319replying to yourself makes you look pathetic
>>566813319said no one ever
I love teifling women! I fuckin love them!
>>566802462I actually like Lae'Zel and how direct she is. Same with Minthara. Both are blunt and pragmatic, and their approach to relationships is stimulating, they push you to do better, to be better, if you want to earn their respect. They trash talk you? Trash talk them back, they can take it. And if Lae'zel at "Chtk!", you know you've won.There is no stupid mindgame, they are both brutal bitches, as opposed to sneakey smug bitches like Shadowheart for instance, that tries to manipulate your thoughts by playing a game she is, at the end of the game, not really good at. That's something I enjoyed with Taarie in Skyrim too. That brutal honesty that doesn't beat around the bush.
>"Ta ta!"
>>566817518Sex with Zora
>>566815974God I wish tieflings normally looked like this.
>>566815974not very Christian of you
>>566801967Based
Question of the day: Would you consider bg3 an indie game and if yes, do you think it's part of the game's success?
Shadowheart is a masterclass in character writing because her layers of snark and mystery make every moment of trust feel earned. It's rare to find a companion who feels this human and real.
>>566823038>evil manthyfag be like
>>566823038
>>566822421>do you think it's part of the game's success?No. Normies don't know shit about that kind of stuff, nor care about it. The same way they didn't know shit about D&D but still bought the game. Same thing with Clair Obscur. About that, I appreciate that both games are successful because it shows that turn-based games are absolutely not dead, and not everything has been real time A-RPG
>>566824339I absolutely despise the RPG shift to real-time action games. I really like traditional turn based gameplay, which is why I don't ever see myself playing Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 unless they get a remake turning them into turn based games.
>swen in armor appears on the game awards wikipedia pagelarian studios are iconic
Ah yes, the famous belgian knights...
Is ceremorphosis actually based?
>>566826601eeeh
>>566826601
>>566826601Depends how you look at it. If all your character desires is unlimited power and essentially immortality then yeah. You do lose your original "self" but then again which magical transformation doesn't do that?
>>566829262>and essentially immortality then yeah.urhmm illithids got a lifespan of around 120 years aksually, emperor is way older than that because he's a terribly written character
>>566829262the real question is not the worms but if getting the shadow cursed is based.
>>566829751They're all magically gifted, no? I reckon that you could easily explain they expand their lifespan by alchemy and magic or whatever.
>>566831318Ketheric, Myrkul, Kelemvor and Jergal speak of this
>>566832850Does Myrkul's and Shar's undead types don't seem to get along very well.
>>566835384Shar doesn't get along with anyone, not even her own followers
>>566826601If you can retain your mind like a special snowflake illithid Tav? Yes. Otherwise, no
>>566831408No, they're psionically gifted. Alhoons are a path illithids can take, but illithid society frowns on magic. They think refining their psionics is the right way to go. Illithids seeking to become liches or undead are outcasts and hunted down by their own kind. Probably because it makes their brains useless for an elder brain to devour
>>566835384Shar is the edgiest of edgy bitches and the ultimate nihilist. She doesn't get along with anyone. She is the worst because she actively wants everything to disappear
>>566835818Some of the shadow cursed seem to like it
Why would you want to become an undead when you know the afterlife exists in this setting
>>566836771Some people just don't want to die for different reasons, like hunger for knowledge and power. That's why liches are a thing
>>566836771The way shadow curse is described here >>566831318 doesn't really make it seem different from promised sharran afterlife. Although shadow curse is not the typical method used to create undead by necromancers. Necromancers or liches generally don't worship Shar at all.
Imagine worshiping Shar when Selûne exists
I thought evil spellcasters liked Shar because of the shadow weave
Wyll is garbage, we wanted korilla in the party
>>566837578*Mizora
>Try to pickpocket for the first time>Says I need an 18 to mafch the target>Okay, simple enough, Astarion is at +12 on Sleight of Hand rolls>Does literally nothing but critically fail even after reloading>Game log says it's actually DC30 with disadvantageWhat the fuck
Naaber put a big smile on my face. As someone who put in way more hours into bg1 than bg2, I love how this game keeps referencing bg1.
>>566837351Woe unto any who throws their lot in with Selûne! Four ways she has of pulling the wool over one's eyes.First — she can make you think your husband is a werewolf when he's only forgotten to shave.Second — she's always changing, making it difficult for slow painters to capture her likeness.Third — tides. Absolutely bugger the tides.Fourth — people keep associating the moon with femininity and frankly we're fed up reading the same poetry over and over, and it's all that celestial bint Selûne's fault.
Sharrans are even stupider than Bhaalists
this gotta be the weirdest bg3 ship you've seen today
>>566839276Bhaal actually rewards his followers by making them cum when they kill, explains why a NEET chud like Dolor would so eagerly hop in.
>https://youtu.be/drqFrfh9V6I?si=LT2_eXDrLqzLdZsiOh, what could have been...better luck next game *sigh*
https://youtube.com/shorts/SAWhQ_9hK0g?si=e4wr9SO9y5DvY32a
>>566843239Hey boy!
>>566843239>There are autists that never rest and miss out on act 1 content because "Your transformation is special and has been delayed" is something that can't sink into their head and they play with false urgency
>>566843665how is that the player's fault and not the devs?
>>566843665You need to talk with Nettie, Omeluum or the dream visitor to find that out, I did minimum long rest on my first playthrough too.
>>566844712You should be able to intuit that after one or two long rests and not becoming a mind flayer
>>566837729Cast cat's grace on him or have him wear the cat's grace robes. Absolutely necessary to reduce fail chance to 0.25% instead of the 5% it normally is. Also 50% chance to succeed becomes 75% as the basic reference. Cat's grace for all but the worst odds is equivalent to something like +3 to +5 to your skill check.Cast guide on him either with silver pendant or casterMake sure he has disguise self on and all other party members are as far away as possible so you can just run away and then go back for a second attemptAt around level 5 with that equipment and 18 base dex it should be>+4 base dex>+1 from robe dex bonus>+3 proficiency>+1 happy>+1d 4 guidence>+2 smuggler's ring>+1 glovesFor13-16 or if you got the ring early 14-20. You can have him eat a couple of tadpoles for the +4 bonus from favorable beginnings to get that up to 17-20 on the first attempt. With favorable beginnings you need to prioritize the hardest check and then the easier attempts>>18 to mafch the targThe game doesn't communicate this well. In the pickpocket window it's telling you the roll you need to suceed. Not the DC. With guide + favorable beginnings you should only require a 12 to succeed on the check. 45% chance to succeed which is a 69.75% chance with advantage supposing that you got only a +1 from the guide roll. Most of the time it's higher for guide. And then if you got the shapeshifter ring earlier you should almost be guaranteed to succeed.
>>566845065aren't you the cutest
>>566843665Perhaps locking a lot of moments behind long rests while also putting a sense of emergency onto the players was fuckin retarded?
>>566845261Game gives you 1000s of camp supplies 10 minutes into the game. I think it's fairly reasonable to use them. >>566845465This isn't dead rising, if you were on a time limit the game would've goalposted that for you.
find someone that defends you as hard as /bgg/ defends bad larian decisions
>>566845686You're just mad you missed content and I didn't because I savored the game.
>Shar this>Shar thatFuckin hells woman, shut the fuck up! Next run she stays in the illithid pod
>>566845793I dont mind missing content, I just think that the whole tadpole infection plot was a whole load of nothing
>two knife-eared druids including a sex pest>can't recruit AlfiraGay ass devs
What if Mizora was a bard?
>>566846761mizora would have been a good companion unlike wyll smith
>>566845793He's right. Larian started the game with a false sense of urgency with the tadpoles being something that should be cured like it being your goal to get the anti-sorcery necklace removed in their previous game. But they doubled down and turned it into a game long plot element rather than something that should be removed in Act 1 and as this game's version of sorcery powers. It's a sense of urgency which following should have been rewarded in some way rather than turned into something irrelevant that you ignore as part of gameplay and only comes up in a few cutscenes. Yeah sure perhaps the storyline falls apart in the way since one source of motivation is gone. But then again they could have gone a different direction or simply just offered a potential reward for pursuing the cult after the tadpole is removed if they wanted to continue with that plotline. If we refer to alignment good characters would be motivated by defeating an evil, neutral and evil characters perhaps revenge since the cult could be presented as behind this and a threat that if you don't deal with will ruin everything for you. Evil characters can be promised with the prospects of power perhaps in taking over the cult later. All sorts of other motivations can be thought of without having to have the tadpoles there past Act 1.
>>566846043Tadpoles have consequences like making you ugly.And if you try the control ending you can get a surprise
>>566847029The looks are only one option tadpole in act 3. And who cares about the surprise? The game is already over. It doesn't affect the game in any way.
>>566847029you can get ugly whether you slurp tadpoles or not, all you have to do is fail the check I feel like ceramorphosis was underused both gameplay wise & plot wise
>>566847341The astral tadpole is needed if you want to optimize tadpole powers
kot
>>566847554You don't get the check if you haven't used any tadpoles before act 3
Let my wife live on your next playthrough, will ya?
>>566847623>optimizeMost of those powers are worthless of many builds. There are really only a few of them that are worth grabbing for most builds. It's cool to have the free fly. But who cares? You get it with potions. The free cast only matters for dedicated casters though they can just use the spell battery items anyways. The rest are not even necessary to beat the game. They're practically just roleplaying flavor abilities that are arguably weaker than what you get from the classes themselves for specific party builds.
>>566845993>looks into the distance lost in thought, talking to herself >Lady of sorrows guide us. Did you want something?
tfw no mindflayer companion
>>566845993the ball gag was shart's idea in the first place
>>566848920but chuds kept telling me that astarion was gay...
>>566849039He's a spawncel with hypersexual fantasies.
>>566847842Nuisances and threats to the realms like Goblin raiders and Githyanki parasites all die in every playthrough
>>566849626BASED
goblins are much more likely to be chill than drows, illithids & giths
https://youtu.be/azgxr2IsH_I?si=BFsLsj6AmCf3e4Asit's up
>>566850062Regardless of how "chill" they are, they're eating BBQ'd dwarves at their camp. They've forefeited their lives.
>>566850321>they're eating BBQ'd dwarves at their camp.karlach & durge ate dwarf too
>>566849626don't worry, i'll keep her "nuisances" in check
>>566850520I've never held a fondness for Karl and I consider her a hypocrite with selective morals
>>566850062Giths include githzerai and evil drow can have kino eilistraeean redemption arcs.
>>566850636yum
>>566850725based
After Mother Gith freed us from our illithid bonds, Mother Gith traversed the planes, discovering civilisations thriving among the stars. She conquered, she colonised, she controlled. And all the while, Zerthimon questioned.He and his disciples struck with words. He claimed that because the gith had been born anew, we did not know ourselves. That in building an empire, we proved ourselves no better than our former slavers. Gith retaliated with silver. So began the War for the One Sky.Upon his inevitable defeat in the Blasted Plains, Zerthimon's faithful retreated to limbo. And there they remain, languishing in the lethargy they craved, free of inner fire, free of purpose.They call themselves the githzerai - those who spurn Mother Gith. We call them hshar'laki - the unforgiveable.
>>566795883HEY WTF???!THOSE ARE MY SHOES?!
>>566851156read all this in lae'zel's storytime voice
Githzerai culture is certainly superior. They master themselves. That's how you become stronger, not culling kids. Meanwhile, yankis borrow unearned power from Tiamat's red dragons. Tiamat will break the pact one day and the yankis will be fucked.
>>566851324Devora for narrator in Divinity.
What's with the gith cocksucking again. Do you fags even play Gith or just love Laezel
