DIRE CONSEQUENCES 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: >>567340002
first for the summer jeff fest & wyll ravengard dancing in that order
minty is cute!
>>567709681maybe on planet retard
>>567709890mad
you guys need to shut the fuck up and wait for joon fiff
>received a bag with Gale's stuff in itOH SHIT. I forgot I killed Elminster's simulacrum for XP, and I never brought Gale to Moonrise Towers so that alleged Elminster failsafe never triggered. Rest in peace, Gale. Rest in pieces.
>>567699498I'm at the long rest before the githyanki attack you. Sad news, Shart has disappeared. Her tent is gone, and her beautiful golden boobs have been taken away from me. Basically, the same end result as the guy who stuffed her body in a camp chest and then resurrected it later.For the first time in this entire playthrough, I feel..... Loss. Second time, really. I love Minthara's conversations with Gale but seeing as I couldn't use either, I feel more pain over the loss of those beautiful Shadowtits.
>>567711057my man lost a golden elf
new blade just dropped
So I was finishing a multiplayer playthrough with someone, and we both agreed to finish the game with the Durge ending.Except I decided to finish my Ceremorphosis and evolve myself further.The side effect of this was that although I was player 2, the game treated me as the main character now, and I didn't get any options for the Durge ending. Even if player 1 landed the last blow on the Netherbrain. So instead player 1 got the failed Durge ending where he's a pissing retard and gibbering lunatic that can only think about blood and murder and can't control their body anymore.
Would you have hot steamy sex with the drag queen owner of the circus?
>start my first karlach origin save>astarion somehow doesn't get burnt to a crisp grabbing her>dis gon be gud
>>567719248
so hold onif you play karlach origin and you cant have sex until act iihow do the romances play out?
RRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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 dwarvesAlfira and many other npcs would make good companions
>>567722573https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Karlach/Romance#As_Origin_Karlach>Like her Companion counterpart, Origin Karlach's infernal engine presents a challenge to pursuing romance, and her personal story progression affects when and if specific romantic interactions are available with different characters. Before her second upgrade, Karlach is not able to touch her love interest, and romance dialogue adjusts to reflect this.
>>567719610>>567728995lol goty
>In his Act One romance scene, instead of initiating sex, Astarion becomes frustrated and confused that he cannot touch Karlach. It is possible to suggest they just lay near each other and talk instead, which is a novel concept for him.What a roundabout way of calling him a whore.
>>567728995i just mean if there is no sexdoes this mean you can max mid the romances to max? like wyll and gale will no longer give you sex option after 5 long rests
>>567729791can't tell if cute or hilarious
>>567729791it sounds cute
>>567729791https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HeuomFaSW0a lot more talking
>>567727146Yup yup yup
question of the day: what do you like more about bg3: its roleplay opportunities or the complexity of its companions?
>>567733416Companions and builds. There is not much roleplaying because there is no opportunistic or evil routes in the game. You either be a good guy and experience the whole package or be retardedly evil and lose 60% of the game's content.
>>567735404the lack of evil rewards doesn't mean that the evil options aren't there imo, I feel like you get to be a dick or a sociopath in 85% of dialogues
Waifus, HusbandosLove & Harmony
>It's fairly easy, see: when Cazador sent Astarion to the kennel to punish him, do you think Godey boned him?>It's a silly double entendre, as "boned" usually refers to a sexual act, but since Godey is a skeleton and when know he has beaten Astarion, the joke becomes a textbook example of absurdism.Subhuman.
>>567735804Being evil should either open up new quests or give you immediate big rewards. In bg3, it does neither. Just removes content.
>>567733416I love a lot of things about it, but most of all, I think it's the agency you have in the world. How your spells and actions have utility and impact in and out of combat. You could cast Light on a coin and toss it into a dark room; you could reduce someone's size and throw them across a gap. Or throw water on someone to wash off blood and dirt.It feels like a CRPG/Immersive sim hybrid, and there's really nothing else like it.
>>567737031Aside from a few specific routes and the entire Durge run, the game and plot follow a classic narrative: a major threat arises, and relatively ordinary people are called to action to save the day. Sure, wanting to remove the tadpole might change the mind of even the most stoic villain, but it's still a story about saving people; inherently, it's about good deeds. You might experience it as an anti-hero like Durge, or morally ambiguous for personal gain like Astarion and Minthara, but when it comes to making important choices, you need to act morally right to succeed.It's no surprise to me that the greatest rewards lie behind these choices.>>567733416The companions are great. But like the other anon said, the level of reactivity is what makes the play want to play another game, and then eventually learn about how complex the companions and characters are. But this is a videogame, and the "game" part has been done so well.
https://youtu.be/ykWEo-G5W9Q?si=Hi9tR_prw7_YX4y8
man I'm telling you shadowheart looks sooooo much better with her edgy sharran tattoos from her concept art,her design got way more personality that waylooking forward to what kind of companions they're cooking up for divinity
>>567739690ugly duckling
>>567739319
>>567737031>Being evil should [...] give you immediate big rewardsIt does. In fact, some of the best rewards in the game are locked behind evil choices. Ethel's +1 is locked behind sparing her - an evil choice. Shar's Spear of Evening is locked behind killing the Nightsong - an evil choice. The Bhaalist Armor is locked behind becoming an Unholy Assassin - an evil choice. Ascendant Astarion's powers are locked behind completing the infernal ritual - an evil choice. And obviously, there is the tangible reward of experience (and loot) from being able to kill indiscriminately. The rewards exclusive to the good path, such as Alfira's robe or Dammon's inventory, don't actually stack up if you're being objective. I have no idea why this misconception that the evil path is devoid of material rewards is repeated so often, including above by the stupid swine. We can all agree that the evil path is underdeveloped and lacking in alternative content, but the idea that it also deprives you of material rewards is plainly incorrect.
does that clown think anyone reads his garbage?
>>567740519wow very informative
>>567741870>pit hairsniff
>>567735404While the evil routes do have less content and are under baked compared to the others I don't think it's correct to dismiss them completely. t. Rvil route player
>>567742091I would have not have posted the fanart if I noticed that it's a major ick
I don't get it, was she trying to groom Wyll into the archduke so she could rule Baldur's Gate via manipulation?
>>567743245>I don't get it,nobody does, wyll's story is awful
truth nuke: halsin got a better story than wyll & minthara
>>567744862I never cared about Halsin since im not a foid or a fag. Once I got him in my party I promptly ignored him basically until the end of the game
minthara doesn't have a story to begin with lol
enough of a story to live rent free in y'all's heads
>>5677453238INT post
>>567709536Do we think they will show a glimpses of companions during Divinity showcase?I hope so.
>>567740519Not to mention Shadowheart's Dark Justiciar gear and free use of mirror of loss (which is completely unusable to her in a non-evil route).
>>567709536>leave laezel in the camp after freeing her>... >did creche>go back to laezel>get the same Laezel questioning Vlaakith and accepting her rebellion quest pathDidn't expect that.
>>567743329they should have elf sex
>>567747396I'd say 80% if we look at the way they marketed bg3, they started by a CGI reveal trailer like divinity and then showed a gameplay reveal that featured swen playing as astarion & interacting with shadowheart & laezel I believe? They might skip revealing the gameplay during a livestream since everybody knows them now and skip straight up to something like https://youtu.be/iWtEDCuc4s4?si=3aCaEhgObIzYoB-c, minus the jank & the early access release date obviously
>>567748049ooh wyll and his swaggy CUT outfit spotted
>>567740519>Ethel's +1 is locked behind sparing her - an evil choice.She literally tells you you cant kill her and she will come back. Also you can both save the girl AND get the +1.> Shar's Spear of Evening is locked behind killing the Nightsong - an evil choicebeing good gets you Selüne stuff. At that point items doesnt matter you are invincible either way.>The Bhaalist Armor is locked behind becoming an Unholy Assassin - an evil choiceSame as above>Ascendant Astarion's powersI'll give you that one.>tangible reward of experience (and loot) from being able to kill indiscriminately.Not even comparable to good guy mission xp>Alfira's robe or Dammon's inventory, don't actually stack up if you're being objective.Blantant lie. Alfira's robes are the best armour in the game for cha characters -which is 60% of the playerbase-, Even Wyll's good guy route gives you a better unique reward.>but the idea that it also deprives you of material rewards is plainly incorrect.lmao
Wyll as hexblade kicks ass early game
>>567749696his weapon damage scales with charisma instead of strength or dexterity and he can crit more often
>>567743245she needed some wyll BBC
>>567749964
Sex with femlizard companion in Divinity.
>>567751187Swen's vision...
>>567750267Tubular frog!
>>567747396I JUST WANT TO SEE GAMEPLAY SWEN!!!
If you speak with the dead cultist killed by the gith at the monastery, you'll learn where halflings probably come from.
>>567752547The shire?
>>567735404this. mostly builds>>567744862oh, 'the dead bear in the goblin dungeon' lol>>567738528yeah those look good. she looks way better with a hairstyle change too
Larian failed wyll fans.WOTC failed wyll fans.BG3 fans hate wyll fans.It's just not easy being a wyllionaire.
>>567748049damn early kagha was ugly >>567756901Warlock is fun to play as, Wyllam is just boring!
>>567756901audiences just don't like his kind!
How the hell does this game have a general?BG3 literally doesn't even have replayability. The combat mechanics are so easy to abuse since every fight plays the same way and the dialogue is all railroaded.
>>567760538good for you, anon
>>567760538>BG3 literally doesn't even have replayability.I have 1100 hours played
>>567760538Cute pretty princess durgette
>>567759541you're obnoxious
that's just the free market, when given the choice audiences just do not buy games with his kind in them!
>believing in the free market past 18you're a dork bro and wyll clearly has a fanbase
that's the beauty of it, you don't have to believe in it for it to be true!
Will there be any negative consequences for keeping the Drow in my good aligned party? Do evil characters get fed up if you pick the good choices?
>>567762851
>>567764090you're right that's wyll!
>>567763441Evil character leave you once your reputation is too high. They also whine a bit before that.
>>567764154wyll's smarter than half of the party and more people hit on him than laezel & minthara
BG3 is fun and all but it seems like any potential for interesting characters and a story died immediately when they started writing. Concept art for someone like Shart (with the Sharran tattoos and facepaint) would have made me suspect someone more savage and ruthless who wears her zealotry on her sleeve. Instead you get just this plain girl who just says edgy things sometimes. Instead of someone interesting story of possible redemption arc or doubling down on her nature as she pushes the main character to corrupt him or anything like that we just get a neutral character who you either push to NG or NE. And you have to actively push her to NE otherwise she just goes to NG on her own accord. I would have liked something more like a Viconia from BG2 where she is clearly evil and you have to actively push to redeem her. No kidnapping/grooming stuff. No "save my parents" and chosen by Selune or Shar nonsense. That shit's boring. Perhaps a different voice actress would have served her better as well much like the original voice actor for Wyll. Johnny English or whatever her name is is a boring voice actress. Shart is boring. And speaking of Wyll, they really shouldn't have gone down that son of the Duke plotline. They should have kept the more evil and selfish nature. That was much more interesting. Instead his act I from EA was canned in favor of the boring special snowflake character. If anything they should have written him to be more an ambitious foreigner to the Sword Coast perhaps from Chult or one of the Swarthy lands to the south. Maybe stop trying to force everything to be multicultural so we can have more interesting interactions as would be found from good writers rather than just pretending everyone is the same. You'd have to can his familiarity with the region but that would introduce more interesting interactions with him. Swapping his voice actor who was fairly passionate and energetic for the boring one in final release was retarded.
>>567765152I love bg3 but it kinda turns into a parody of itself in act 3 it's really hard to take the plot & some dialogues seriously
Lae'zel is interesting at times. Though would have benefited greatly from the writers actually delving into Gith culture like the caste system and alluding to it with her behavior or outlook or their hyper-individuality instead of just destroying the Gith by turning them all into just the stereo-typical warrior culture. Nothing regarding Gith art an poetry. Just the hyperfocus on a tiny sliver of the Gith. It's not entirely just Lae'zel but the lack of consideration of the Gith outside of this narrow aspect rubs off on the character. Astarion is fine considering him as a dandy and is probably one of the better written characters though they made him far too hypersexual which is extremely annoying and often pointless. When the playersexuality is ignored he seems to have more going for him as far as writing than any other character. I found quite a few moments with him funny like when he encounters the Gur hunter in Act 1 both before and after you find out he's a vampire spawn, especially with the "what do you think about this Astarion?" line and he just goes along with it. He's an elf, but he feels like he should be human. Most elves in game could very well just be made human as they're practically just pointy eared humans. Tieflings too. They could have djust made them all human and no one would have noticed anything but the different character models as they just act like humans but with horns and red skin. They made Astarion an Elf and there's nothing about his character or personality that requires him to be an Elf.Halsin is just boring. But this is expected given that he shares a writer with Shart and Shart is boring. Bearly a character.Minthara does have some potential as the Drow are generally interesting as side characters if you have one. Especially if they doubled down on the Drow's sexism in her interactions with other Characters. I though she was one of the more interesting companions though she narratively goes nowhere. A missed opportunity.
>>567764883Damn that sucks, he's been pretty useful so far.
Gale is just boring. Gale should have been deleted from the game. His plot gimmick is retarded and boring. I would have preferred an eccentric Thayan wizard like an Edwin or something else along those lines. Someone who was truly unhinged in some sense like you should expect of the type of person who become a wizard. Nothing really very interesting about him at all. His player-sexuality was a mistake. Like all playersexuality it's boring especially with someone who is canonically heterosexual like Gale. I can understand if the Flamboyant Dandy is bisexual or the Drow matriarch is bisexual as this is quite common in Drow society. But Gale? No. Jaheira is fine though they made her old when half-elves don't age like humans. They age like elves which is barely at all. Especially with a half elf who in game is something like at most 2/3 of the average half-elf lifespan in age. Given that she's active and likely has access to good food she should be more energetic. Tempered by experience but still more energetic in a lot of cases. Minsc is a joke. Always was. They shouldn't have brought him back and left him in the past. Dead of old age. A very annoying character. I would rather had Zevlor. Karlach is boring. Karlach is a last minute addition jammed in so they could have barbarian companion and it shows. Her plot line is retarded and boring. All you do is recruit her, find some suspiciously place pieces of metal everywhere and then you fix her mcguffin which ends up having little if any real effects in gameplay even if you use it. She seems more like a joke side character from the dumb and dumber remake in the early 2000's than a real character. Again, other than backstory, nothing about her would be noticeably different if she was made into a human. Hell even her backstory would work if human with only a few minor modifications and yet she's a Tiefling?
>>567765343
Now lets get to the slop which is the McGuffin tadpoles. Boring shit. I can understand that Larian wanted to mindlessly ape as much as possible from DOS2 and decided to somehow turn tadpoles into the sorcery powers. But it's kinda retarded to have this plot line. On top of that it creates a false sense of urgency until you get the cutscenes that tell you that everyone is lying about it. It would have been better if they just played into the urgency to encourage players to play the game in a more aggressive fashion and then rewarded them for playing that way with a cure and then some way to justify the player getting his character involved in the plot line rather than this boring retardation that is often just more of a nuisance than anything interesting to engage with. People would have complained about a timer but timers are fun if they're done well. We already have game over for choosing the wrong dialogue options in some cases. This is no different for a game over from not getting one of the options for a cure fast enough. . If they wanted to keep the sorcery powers they could have done something like a limited amount of residual psionic powers as a side effect of the infection which you can harness and learn how to use rather than something that's just getting you to go through the sword coast finding and eating tadpoles. At the end of the day this is what it is and lets face it most of us have never used more than a select few of the powers. Other than the free fly, the free crit, the free bonus, the free debuff from an attack, and the free cast I really didn't find the powers any more useful than just playing the classes and using their abilities. Just maybe a selection of interesting abilities and you pick at most 2-3 of them for your character to keep. Maybe you only get one if you choose the free fly for instance.
The Dead three and the toxiplasmosis gondii cult? As it's done it's boring and retarded. Especially as it's implemented in game. The cultists are all controlled by a nether brain. Well the Elder brain should know what's going on with all these cultists as it is directly controlling all of them (even if it is dominated). However you can go to Moonrise tower, enter, then head back outside and kill the door guards, walk back inside and interact as if you never attacked any members of the cult. The setup doesn't even work with gameplay. It's a fail in ever sense. A plot twist that make no sense whatsoever. And on top of that it should know who you are and all the infected people should be acting like that which is generally not the case. You get choices, but coherent consequences for many of your actions especially in this case. Only a few characters infect really know who you are and react like this. The only one I remember is that guard who turns into a mindflayer in the Nymph's room.. It would have been better and more directly thematic if this was just a mindflayer invasion rather than trying to jam in these plot twists that do nothing and aren't used for anything and made the game about fighting against this mindflayer invasion with options for good, evil, and neutral characters. But no... The writers wan their tentacle monster fetish insert (even bestiality fetish) and they're going to be as annoying with it as possible.
Well that's as much as I want to type about right now. Thank you for reading my blogposts.
>>567765693Back again. I went outside to put some bottles in my recycling bin and it just occurred to me that it could be an option for some playthrough to become a mindflayer early in the game and even play an alternate route centered around being a mindflayer. It would be a game in itself but the nature of such an optional playthrough could be linear enough that it would be a sort of purely combat centric sub-game. They wouldn't really require much C&C because there would be not much reason to do anything else but eat brains and kill enemies.
>>567765373>Damn that sucksYes very. Good news the game is easy to edit including alignments. Having a drow is a automatic -2 to your reputation, its quite funny.
holy jewgle ai overview batman
retard^
mucho texto, spamming faggot
15 days left before the summer game fest, does /bgg/ still want to react to it live on the general?
>>567765373It's at 19 or 20 reputation for evil characters to leave. 1 or 2 reputation for good characters to leave. Reputation > 10 gives you the good dream abilities. <10 gives you the evil ones. The good ones are better than the evil ones.
>>567765593W-what's going to happen if I answer it?
>>567772202
pic's so cringe I'm spoiling itbeware
>>567772276
>>567772276>redditNot surprised.
>>567771657Good to know, I'm at 18 right now
>>567772276this nigga gay y'all
>>567775020>I'm not gay sexualities are just complicated is all
>>567763441>Beamdog NPCDon't pollute your game with their shitty fanfic: https://argent77.github.io/A7-NoEENPCs/index.html
>>567762851the irony in you saying this is so rich precisely because you dont see how it describes you to a T
>>567776629I recruited him because I liked his dialogue, lol. These NPCs are the same level of quality (if not higher) as the rest of the game, I didn't even realize they weren't in the original until now. Maybe I'll try their DLC now knowing that.
If you're a man, having sex with Wyll isn't gay. It's based and Wyllpilled.
>tell Yenna to fuck off>my two party members, who are good aligned, instantly disapproveIt's tough being an evil character in a group of goodies.
>>567747396>>567748049>>567751187>>567752235Stop spamming worthless off-topic garbage like a worthless parasite.
take the wyllpill
Divinity
>>567779424but in Divinity
>realistic size mod makes Popper absolutely tinyAre Kobolds supposed to be this small?
we love dragonborns & lizards & orcs & dwarves & gnomes & halflings & divinity & wyll & minthara
I love cute frogs!
Bugbears owe me their CUM IN MY MOUTH
>>567781145>t.
>>567780550same!
I've played Tavern Brawler Monk, Gloomstalker Assassin and Storm Sorcerer. What should I do next?
>>567782743A paladin warlock multiclass after 6 levels of paladin
>>567782743Armorer artificer
>>567782743knowledge cleric
>>567781145Minthara said this
>>567784131you are a monster
>>567784621drows would fuck anything
>>567784782>Swen expected people to play evil for this
>>567784745I’m a real knowledge cleric truther but it really got shafted compared to shit like life in terms of its divinity chargesAt least it has cool domain spells
>>567782743Good old bardadin, or EB spammer sorlock
I love all races.Except for the githyanki
>>567781882
>>567782743illusion wizard. aww yeah
>>567772276>anon finds out he's gay with a preference for bears
>>567788885I invited him.
emperor forcing me to enter his pocket dimension and waiting for me half naked because I was nice to him when I thought that he was an adventurer was the exact moment I stopped taking bg3's plot seriously
>>567789529gross
https://youtu.be/CVa4HJzHb_o?si=V7V6XPOSoF_JZotSit's up
>>567789928why are you afraid of beauty?
>>567789837I got more invested and felt compassion for him. I could see he was no monster. His lair was secret, he was trying to impress no one. He loved his dog, treasured his mother's silverware, and liked fish head soup.
>>567790636you know he was lying about everything in that room right
>>567790748Like I said, he had no one to lie to in his private lair. If he was some husk he would've thrown everything away, not have keepsakes
>>567790636...
serial killers have keepsakes my 3INT friend
Serial killers have keepsakes from their victims. A butter knife isn't a grim trophy.
>>567787230This but only because I prefer their infinitely cooler sister race, the githzerai.
H'shaklu'khalima!!!! GHAIK SHIELD
Yeah I know this is a toadcel general because everyone else has been driven off. Still enjoy the Emperor.
>>567791643>enjoy the Emperor.there's nothing enjoyable about this character imo
https://youtu.be/2la0t2mtnD8?si=QmvdQd_zVoD1sGz8
>>567791643So you're ghayk. Have you considered kys?
>>567791643Yeah, I don't voice it because of the frogs, but I'm also okay with the Emperor. I wouldn't say I love him, but I don't hate him either.
>you can't pickpocket creatures that are size Small or lowerI learned something new today.
>>567795378But you can pickpocket Kobolds and they are small
Why couldn't I have a kobold companion instead of Elf #3
>>567796412Then either immersive heights or the 5.5e mod must have changed something because I can't pickpocket Boney or Popper in the Circus of the Last Days. The only thing I could think of is that they are both small creatures.
>>567796808I pickpocketed the severed clown hand frorm him easily though. Could be some kind of issue with the mod
boney heh
Astarion got boned by Godey
Godey BONED Astarion.
hag love
>>567798558would suck her penis
>>567798043pretty grams
>>567782743Ah, just remembered my Storm Sorcerer playthrough. So fun.I'm doing Arcane Archer now and really enjoying it. Would recommend.
>>567796808dafuq, mane? popper is best boy forever and ever
Sweet, finally a magic two-handed sword that isn't cursed. I must have had at least five of the regular ones break.
>>567797038It was Immersive Races. I disabled the mod and could pickpocket the two small guys like normal. >>567801780He sells some quality stuff.... which is why I hit his stall every so often.
I think I see the issue. They update the size without actually updating the size information in the examine window. The mod actually reduced Popper's size from small to tiny. So what I learned today >>567795378 is that you cannot pickpocket TINY creatures.
>>567803458The mod is neat in concept but I had to disable it because it really fucked with mob pathing and stuff, especially around stairs. Also makes smol creatures like rats really difficult to target, and it was jarring when Lae'zel would shrink back to her original size during the kissing animation (the mod makes Gith much taller).
>>567803920>when Lae'zel would shrink back to her original size during the kissing animationthat sounds hilarious
>>567803226No Imoen? You have my respect
>>567805432cute frog!!
>>567805432autistic frog
>>567800810yeah arcane archer's pretty cool. I should play it more. pure ranged battlemaster is also better than I thought it would be
>>567805432Big shopping day for frogwife.
trying out a karlach origin (with a modded face. yikes) and it's pretty fun so far. got her + the girls + pookie spec'd as monks and just beating the shit out of everyone
>>567803920My party is an up-close-and-personal group of melees and support so I don't really experience pathing issues. Sucks that it messes with your romance scenes though. They did mention that cinematics and game models run off different frameworks so that's probably why the mod doesn't change during dialogue type scenes.
Does anyone play bard? Is it fun?
Nettie, my beloved
I feel like some classes should be race exclusive, like Druids, for example should only be elves.
>>567813628Swords Bard is fun with Arcane Acuity helm and Mystic Scoundrel band. >2 many target arrows can get you to 10 stacks in one turn>can use your bonus action for high spell save DC spells like Hypnotic Pattern, Hold Person/Monster, Command, and other Enchantment/Illusion spells
>old man party member trying to fit in with the youngunskind of wish we got zevlor after all
>>567816436I was hoping Elminster could join.I imagined his camp clothes would be something like pic related
>can freely fly when I change my fist damage type from bludgeoning to an elementTime to get Create & Destroy Water on one of my party members.
damn. karlach still has a meltie on inanimate objects after you roll the fake paladins as origin. I was like 'slowwww down' but she kicked the shit out of a box with her ENERGY LEGS
>>567816436>3 elves over 100 and 200 years old, vampire elf over 300>youngunsMinsc is also old even without accounting for the years he spent as a statue. This is a grandpa and grandma party.
>>567817481Was it a cutscene or did they take control from you?
>>567814171based
>>567817768both. you get an inner monologue, so I'm like 'cool it bb' and it just continues like 'wouldn't it send a message to zariel? yeah' then she just goes on autopilot beating shit up. gonna see if I saved before that and try something else. probably before the fight
she's a monk so she just whips out a crossbow lol. not very threatening. I'll redo the fight for science brb
alright here are the options.A) lose control of char -> meltieB) lose control of char -> meltieC) I assume the same as A and B. fucking illusion of choice
Anon was right. 20,000 gold. This might be the most expensive payment in the entire game.
>>567821098>saying no to the bribe and leaving creates a quest (Find a way into Wyrm's Rock Fortress) that gave me 65 XP for my progress so farI only just learned about this.>>567819018>number 1 doesn't let you keep calmThank you Larian, very cool.
>>567821420yeah I popped a soul coin for the gnolls, and now she's just like "LA LA LA" calm as fuck despite being on fire
>>567819018awful graphics + not Karlach
>lost out on the Voss storyline because Lae'zel didn't want to believe we weren't becoming illithidsHahaha, this sucks man.
Guess the character's level.Hint: "Con is my dump stat."
>>567831581who's the blond guy
Partially through Act 3 with a Neutral Evil Wyll run, Minthara, Shar Shadowheart, gonna ascend Astarion.Sexed 'Zel, then gave her up to Boooal.
Soon...
>>567831581that puzzle on the bottom left isn't hard at all
it's cute how the girls kneel down to kiss you if you play as a dwarf or another short race, though it sucks that there's only one animation for it
I just finished my 5th playthrough. Am I seriously about to start a 6th?
>>567851678you could play dos2 or dragon age origins instead, they both got major bg3 vibes
>>567851678Yeah play as a halfling barbarian and dual wield greatswords.
Karl-ACK t. Frogbro
>>567851971Not op but same basic questionThe biggest hurdle for me switching to something else has been combatI found Dragon Age's start-stop combat really awkward and unfunI'd prefer something turn-based (or not turn based, but at least not Dragon Age's weird middle ground)
Astarion's romance is the cringiest in the game change my mind
>>567856794shit taste alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone played the old great one warlock? I just hear its shit
>>567860554Works well if you wanna stack crits and frightened/reverb but it feels gimmicky compared to other warlock options imo. Also competes with a lot of builds for BiS items.
Swen thinks that the dnd ruleset is not made for videogames
>>567862152He is right. Fuck rolling dice for literally anything. If my stat beats the dc i do it, simple.
Does enlarge / colossus elixir make me able to throw heavier enemies
>>567862152he's right, long rests are stupid, spell slots are stupid and i hate rogue in dnd, they can keep the reactions though, that mechanic is awesome and makes bg3 way more dynamic on god
Going through this dungeon without a thief to disarm any of the gorillion traps is breaking me, man. But I didn't know what I was getting into and I'm too deep to quit now. My Dynaheir has the Knock spell to open containers, but I had to just tank the damage from the traps and rest to heal over and over. If it turns out that my party isn't strong enough to beat the final boss of this thing I might cry.
>>567862152Then I suggest he hurry up and show us one that is.
>>567867536let them cook, the bg3 devs are respecting the waterfall right now
>>567868551NO, I WANT IT NOW!!!
>astarion>shadowheart>gale>laezelthe waterfall was respected>the restthe waterfall was ignored
>>567864567strength is what lets you throw heavier enemies
ok what the fuck is going on, first hasbro(the guys that own wotc aka the dnd guys) cancels two dnd games and now they pull 1 billion out of their ass to make a bg3-like, these guys really think that the dnd brand is enough to make money after bg3
>>567876193they're scrambling, bg3 is successful because of larian and not DnD and they either don't understand or want to understand
>>567876843Pretty much.
Just did a playthrough maining glaives with Polearm Master, and now I need tips on how to go back to playing without it.
>>567881595nice shade of blue on that cute frog
>>567876146damnguess it's just tavern brawler + bloodlust
How are my favorite larian fans doing?
>>567867448By the nine hells, I made it to the end at last.>You have been the foolish maid service that cleaned it of traps for meLol, lmao even
>>567867448>>567889085How do you rate the game overall?
>>567889085I like Durlag's Tower because it leveled me quite a bit
>>567889265I'm not one to rate things but it's very good, especially considering its age. Once it got going I got addicted to the point it made me forego sleep which is a tell-tale sign of a great game.
>>567826718>"AKSHULLY it's not that hideous man-model so it doesn't count!!!"faggot+gay
>>567860636hotfrog>>567876395this
>>567889085>>567771657Also, I've been at 20 reputation for a long time now but the Drow still hangs with me. Not sure if bugged or if he's some exception to the rule.
>>567862152>>567866181>>567868551The parasite loves to reply to itself and pretend this is an organic "discussion." I can't imagine why some posters would grow weary of coming to /bgg/ - Baldur's Gate General only to read posts that are anything but Baldur's Gate. This kind of pervasive off-topic shitposting, normalized and condoned, kills generals faster than schizospam, by the way.>>567876395This is an oft-repeated oversimplification that attributes the success of the game solely to the developer while dismissing the importance of all the other factors. D&D was already known and enjoyed by tens of millions prior to BG3. Larian, on the other hand, was a relatively obscure developer that had made only one noteworthy CRPG at that point. Experience was not the defining factor here. History is rife with examples of household names churning out formulaic crap and (relatively) unknown newcomers releasing games of the year such as Clair Obscur. We can agree that a future "BG3-like" game is most likely going to be a designed-by-committee disappointment, but not because Larian is an irreplaceable studio with structure and talent head and shoulders above the rest. They were just a good fit, in the right place at the right time.
nobody hates larian as much as the schizo lol what a clown
>>567892975
>>567894068*smooch*
giving Shadowheart what she deserves
Trying honour mode run again. Aggro'd the entire goblin camp again by accident. God damn it.
>>567803226There's a +3 in Durlag's tower. You should go get it. >>567892529He's a beamdog companion so maybe it's something different. I don't really use those companions when I play. I just use convenient npcs to remove them from the game.
>>567894360a big warm hug?
>>567819018who the hell is that
idk why we're pretending that larian studios aren't faaaar better than every single western rpg devs, they're nnovating and pushing the genre forward with each releaselet's list some facts shall we?>dos1 was the first ever fully multiplayer crpgs that even allows you to play on the couch with split screens, SPLIT SCREENS>dos2 was the first ever fully voiced crpg>bg3 was the first ever fully animated crpg, first crpg to win game of the year, first crpg with fully animated uncensored sex scenes, 3rd game(not rpg) with the most awards after elden ring & clair obscure expedition 33 like hello? I don't think you guys realize how crazy this studio is, and by the looks of it, divinity will try to make the game's physics & movement more dynamic, EVERY SINGLE GAME gets deeper & cooler & more complex and better written and more adult, like nobody does that no one in the WRPG space no one nuh huh, only larian could have made bg3 and reached these heights and divinity will be even better 100%swen vincke is a madman whose goal is to make the best rpg ever , EVER and he's still not satisfied with the upcoming game to call it ''the big one'', that's how ambitious larian is and this is why they're the best rpg studiobg3 is a success because of larian's engine whose sole and ENTIRE purpose is to make crpgs as complex as possible for the player and as simple as possible for the devs, the N+1 system allows you to challenge the game and never ever EVER get stuck somewhere because you killed X at Z so Y couldn't happenBG3 is the best crpg on the planet and larian will make divinity even better. And then they'll make an even better game. Meanwhile hasbro is throwing billions tasking BUMS to develop a bg3-like ordering their codeMONKEYS to copy bg3's formula, without the engine, without the writers, without swen's direction, without larian's experience or the talent their recruitedanyhow, bg3 is a success because of larian and we're hyped for divinity, bg4 will flop
>>567832642Some loser who's part of a garbage quest in Act 3.
>>567856228I approve of this t. Lizard bro
>>567881595Just drink potions to keep up the broodmother's revenge damage bonus up every turn and remember that you just don't get the free attack as your reaction.
>>567894417Aggroing the entire camp is actually more fun than messing around with the goblin nonsense. That's what I exclusively did when I played EA. I just fought my way in and killed everyone.
the karlach hate is so forced
>>567896048modded karlach, durr
>>567892975>We can agree
>>567896907its the toadcels
>>567893618Except I don't hate Larian. After all, they made BG3, the game of the decade. I'm only skeptical of studio tribalism because it often involves foregoing one's critical thinking to become a mindless fanboy - or, in this case, a worthless parasite that likes Swen "because Swen is liked by everyone." One might wonder why Larian's previous CRPG system is rarely discussed, if it is supposedly so much better than the D&D framework that constrained Larian's creativity so much in BG3. Perhaps it is because D&D's action economy is, by design, meant to keep things straightforward, and Larian trying to reinvent the wheel with an awkward AP system traded balance for alleged "strategic depth." Perhaps it is because class identity - what players expect of a Paladin or a Sorcerer or a Cleric - is actually valuable, and Larian trying to reinvent the wheel with a classless system traded immersion for specious "you can be anything" freedom.
>>567897653
I love karlach, I just don't like the hideous bulldyke model they used so I installed a mod to change it. - t. frogposter
just admit that karlach being taller than you makes you insecure you manlets yall aren't ready for the female divinity elves & lizards
>>567897721
low-quality b8. try again
>>567898201I don't mind that she's taller, it's just that her massive infernal cock is scaring me a bit.
>>567898546>it's just that her massive infernal cock is scaring me a bit.
>>567896203>>dos1 was the first ever fully multiplayer crpgs that even allows you to play on the couch with split screens, SPLIT SCREENSCRPGs were traditional developed for computers in which multiplayer could be done without split screens. Split screens is only necessary for consoles with a single screen.This doesn't even matter. When they were made for console they usually just developed to be entirely single player games. No split screen required.>>dos2 was the first ever fully voiced crpgThe beginning of the end for this genre. Adds nothing to the game yet attracts more normalfags. If I remember correctly though the Dragon Age games already had full VA at least for the NPCs/companions. If I remember correctly KOTOR had full VA as well. That being said's it's kinda a waste considering how much generic npc cutscenes we have in BG3 where a good portion of the npcs are just a close up on them and them saying one line before the cutscene ends kinda like what KOTOR did. >>bg3 was the first ever fully animated crpg, first crpg to win game of the year, first crpg with fully animated uncensored sex scenes, 3rd game(not rpg) with the most awards after elden ring & clair obscure expedition 33 E33 is slop. I'm not going to pretend it's good. Elden Ring was boring and just some ultra-repetitive DS3 asset-flip. BG3 is a better game than both. >without the writersNot really a loss. Most of the writing and the plot isn't very good. The reason anyone really likes BG3 is for the gameplay. It does have pretty enjoyable gameplay before Act 3. Anyone with any sort of standards views the writing as passable most of the time but not good. The reason the writers ever got awards is because it's the new game everyone likes so rewards will go to it. It did deserve it's awards that year but when all the other games are flops like Starfield or non-games and other trash, BG3 was the only game that should have gotten any attention. In a world of 5/10's, a 7/10 seems like a 10/10.
>>567899002>The reason anyone really likes BG3 is for the gameplay.are we for real lol?
>Adds nothing to the gamelol owlcat is now fully voicing their game because of larian
>>567894360A transformation into a cat?
>>567899096There are people who will waifufag over much worse and much less than what's in BG3. Waifufags are also generally mentally ill.
>>567899460I know a ton of people that play the game on easy and couldn't care less about the combat, I feel like most people play bg3 for the depth of its roleplay & character customization
Cattoheart's soft paws....
>>567899959Minthara....
>>567899959shablowheart...
>>567899959best post in this thread
I like BG3's DnD combat though...
I like the combat. I also like some of the playable characters, and the package as a whole. I like visible dice rolls. I use the no-alphabets mod so I see less faggots in my dnd fantasy game, and I would use the other one that race-swaps the 3289048024898 dwarves in the game because dwarves are shit, but it is glitchy as fuck and doesn't work most of the time. I throw bombs at gimmicky-ass bosses on honor mode, and the approval of some autistic faggot on 4chin is worthless. most of all, I like this very cute frog. fuck you and your gay shit
> I use the no-alphabets modlegit stopped reading there
>>567896203Based. Can't wait for Divinity to make haters seethe again.
>>567896203>dos2 was the first ever fully voiced crpgwizardry 8 was fully-voiced in 2001, retard. nice b8
>>567900749average toadcel
>>567901236yuck
>>567901418shitty graphics don't make it non-voiced over a decade earlier
all the companions are bi no amount of modding will change that
>>567902189Actually, modding will make them not bisexual. It won't be canon, but some amount of modding will in fact change the companions from being bisexual.
>>567902189and they are somehow magically straight and will never do gay shit if we play opposite-gendered characters. wowee
You'd have to be a faggot to let a woman like Lae'Zel screech and nag at you, instead of putting her in her place
>>567876843>quiere ser 'variety gamer' pero BG3 no lo deja
>>567902491nuhuh they're factually written as bi or pan or whatever the fuck you call that nowadays
>>567899959I downloaded a bugbear loincloth mod for my black bvll barb
>>567902703lul yeah. she likes being dunked on too>>567903125
>>567899002>Adds nothing to the game yet attracts more normalfags.I disagree, but you are entertaining a parasite that believes Larian came up with the concept of full voice acting. That is the kind of profoundly stupid claim that only a profoundly stupid creature could make. A focus on full voice acting or cinematic presentation is a budget-driven choice, not a bold creative decision to push the envelope that no one had ever considered before. This is why one should avoid studio tribalism. It can lead to the intellectual abyss of claiming that Bioware invented romance or that Larian invented cinematography. We love BG3 because it's a great game - not because it invented lesbians.
>>567903287looks solid, son
>>567896203>dos2 was the first ever fully voiced crpgbut dos1 is fully voiced too...
>>567903893the narrator isn't
nooooooo, Astarion, don’t cheat!we need to see you shirtless
>>567904309halsin's flabby ass made me laugh
>>567903840this 100% correct point could've been made in two sentences, you ledditor fuck. whaddyadoin
>>567906668nobody reads his slop
>>567906668you are replying to a guy who generates his posts via chatgpt
>>567907378>>567908072ahh roger that
>>567798558You really love red heads, don't you?
>>567912598larian does too
>>567912598
>>567897721>foregoing*forgoing. Proofreading matters.>>567906668What fat would you trim? I think every sentence there matters. First, we should not entertain a profoundly stupid parasite claiming that BG3 invented production value. There can be no "discussion" or exchange of ideas with it. Second, how much one values full voice acting is not particularly relevant. It helps reach a wider audience, but does not determine on its own whether a CRPG is worth playing. More to the point, the idea that BG3 was only successful because it catered to normalfags with full voice acting and a cinematic presentation is misguided, if not disingenuous. It suggests a "purity" of the genre, which supposedly existed back when voice acting was only partial, if at all present, and was then irreversibly tainted by the likes of Bioware. This framing is unfair to good games and characters. People don't like Lae'zel, Shadowheart, and Astarion only because of Wilde, English, and Newbon, though these obviously did a great job. Voice acting can elevate a character but is not a substitute for characterization. I would hope that these characters would have been just as well received in a game with a lesser budget. I would hope that players did not wait for Dragon Age: Origins and its fully-voiced companions to realize that games can have memorable companions.
>>567913527 https://youtu.be/RAA1xgTTw9w?si=qBLBWfV0wGj5ZuQz
Shadowbaby. 13 days left btw
>>567915018that gimmick sucks too!
I can also post beautiful women if reading is boring. Thoughts on my human warlock?>>567915130Posting beauty is not a gimmick.
>>567915310all your posts suck!
>>567915310tranny
>>567895913Yep I got the sword. Took a lot of attempts, but I finally killed this bitch without anyone dying and without using the mirror. Wouldn't want to leave any of the loot behind from this absolute gauntlet of a dungeon. It was tough to time it correctly with him reapplying his magic resistance, given that he wipes my party in 5 or 10 seconds, but I used Spell Thrust followed by a Hold Monster spell to get him down in time.
>>567915310almost every post in every thread that this general has that mentions the world 'beauty' is from youit is a gimmick
>>567915310Normally I like redheads, but I'll have to pass. It's not your fault, but I assume you don't use cosmetic mods and all the default hairs are either ugly or boring.
>>567915310Your wife is really pretty
>>567915521Now that I look at this screenshot it seems like he did immediately get magic resistance again after the spell thrust. I guess I just got lucky with the Hold.
Just convinced my coworker to buy BG3 and play multiplayer with me how do i stop him from romancing Shadowheart? My heart wouldn't be able to handle it
>>567915310>>567915992pathetic samefag lmao
>>567915541So the mere mention of "beauty" or any derived word is enough to dismiss Untitledanon's beautiful screenshot? I don't think that's fair. I think you should find a better gimmick than crying about the alleged gimmick of using a common word.
>hes even pretending its not himthis is just sad
>>567916168Look at this beauty >>567916082
>>567916086>samefagCome on pal, I just think Mizora looks good
I'm about to eat some fried chicken, who's my favorite companion
>>567916853minsc
>>567916853laezel
>>567916853Astarion
Halsin Silverbough is the most iconic bg3 character
>>567917776he has a last name?
>>567917858his writer revealed it on twitter I believe
>>567912598>brown hair>red headthis nigga blind yall>>567913527I ain't reading all of that
my bhaalspawn wife
I just wanted to say that I love my wife.
>>567919938drow aren't worth it
>>567919938Name three things you like about her that are non-physical.
>>567920505Um. Uh. Look, over there!!
>>567919938Limeleech is a cute name
>>567920407Tell that to my dick, bucko!
>>567919938For me, it's a High Elf.
>>567920983Added to the harem. Thanks!
>>567921093Those are illegal, anon.
i love frog
>>567922460We love frog
>hatchingthis is why they arent considered people anymoreaberration looking ass
>>567922559everyone loves frog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrOLTHu-ew
>>567927394Nice.
endless eternal passionate sex with the frog
>>567927994true
NOBODY GETS INZEVLOR'S ORDERSSHIT
>>567931184
>>567927994Hmm, hard to argue with this.
Did you actually get to see Boo talk in BG1 and BG2?
Lae'zel is love.Lae'zel is life.Lae'zel a miracle of the universe.Lae'zel might've done some things wrong, but she's still a beautiful person inside and out.
I have a Monk, a Warlock, and a Bard. Someone pick a 4th class for me, please. Thank you in advance.
>>567936669Every melee is going to feel shit compared to monk.
>>567934320In BG1 he's just an item in your inventory. You can't move or remove him so he's basically just a minor debuff in the form of -1 to quick item slots. He makes a little squeak if you click on him in the inventory window. Judging from what I've seen so far, it seems like Minsc was initially conceptualized as a straight-up nutcase talking to a regular hamster, and the sort of whimsical ambiguity about Boo actually being a telepathic space hamster must have been added later on.
>>567936849I have choice paralysis so I just need some help picking. Anything works. Plus I'm using the 5.5e mod so while monk is good it's not stupidly broken because Tavern Brawler has been balanced.
>>567937196
>>567937196>>567937694>google it>space hamsters introduced in adnd 2e>aka same edition as the old baldurs gamesits entirely possible that boo wasnt his schizo delusion and intended to be real even back then
*cough*ahem.I also love cute frog. thank you.
>>567936669A-anyone?
>>567936669Cleric, divine spells are too nice not to have.
>>567939797Will do, thanks for the help anon.
>>567915521>>567916000The Demon Knight's magic resistance is innate, not granted by any spell. Spell Thrust does not effect it in any way. What you're seeing in the combat log there is him resisting his own Fireball. Get used to this and pay attention to spells that ignore magic resistance or actually lower it (Lower Resistance, Pierce Magic, etc.) because you're going to see it a lot more often in BG2.
>>567940061No way to know that without cheating by looking it up on the wiki, or is there?
>>567940959If you're seeing an enemy resisting your spells due to Magic Resistance in the combat log you can safely chalk it up to innate resistance. You also gotta learn what certain spell protections (spells that protect against other spells, like Spell Turning or Minor Globe of Invulnerability) look like and you should also be able to see in the combat log if an enemy put these protections up on themselves. A lot of enemies, especially enemy mages in BG2, will start combat with a spell trigger that applies several buffs to themselves but you'll see it listed in the combat log. You also get a lot more tools to deal with this stuff in BG2. There are spells that directly lower an enemy's MR, several spells that strip spell protection buffs (like the Spell Thrust you used), even more spells that strip combat protections (spells that protect against non-spell attacks, like Stoneskin) though the Breach spell will be enough to deal with those 9 times out of 10. And then the last thing to keep in mind is that a couple of rarely encountered enemies (Liches, Demiliches, Raksasha) are just innately immune to all spells of certain levels. Liches are immune to spells levels 1-5, and so are one of the few creatures you can't rely on Breach for.
>>567941686>>567940959As an example you'll see shit like this in the combat log when combat starts against enemy spellcasters, so as long as you learn what each spell does you should be able to figure out what they are protected against and how to deal with it.
>>567941686Thanks for the info. Meanwhile I've been getting absolutely obliterated by this faggot, I think I'll have to come back to this once I level up some more. Time to finally step foot in Baldur's Gate
>>567919938>>567919870Based>>567941686In 5e wizard prep time stuff like that is basically consolidated into the Contingency spell, a shame they didn't include that in BG3 though.
wake up /bgg/ it's time for the question of the day: how do we feel about companions romancing each other when the player doesn't initiate their romance in act 1 and should larian push these subplots deeper in their next games
I'm giving those anti-woke mods a try and for the most part I think these NPC changes are pretty good. Definitely some weird unnecessary ones, though.
>>567955456Its understandable and pretty realistic but i still dont like it. Shit leads to h*lsin and Shart situation where writers just project their fetishes into characters. Never played failshit but i saw people complain that they feel like a cuck in certain romances.
>>567958308>I'm giving those anti-woke mods a trymight as well uninstall bg3
>>567958619I like bg3 well enough it's just got too many black and asian faced elves and tieflings for me.
one of my favorite thing about bg3 is how detailed the models are and the art style in general, they took a lot time making the giths & tieflings bodies look as unique as possible, it's a shame that orcs didn't get a unique body type though, I'm really looking forward to see how crazy the divinity elves, lizards & undead will look like
>>567959629Was thinking this just yesterday when I saw a snippet of the Divinity trailer. Look how freaky tall and long-fingered the elf is here.
>>567966539Love it! Freaky looking fantasy races are my jam
Hi,I was told to visit /vg/ for frog pics and discussions. Is this the right thread?
>>567971868You were mislead, this is the Gribbo general.
>>567971868no>>567972741YES!
>>567944136That boys is trivialized by having 5 guys with boys, killing the cultists and then kiting him around with a guy wearing paws of the cheetah. Hell even Sarevok is trivialized by the same method. The strongest party in BG1 is 6 guys with composite boys btw.
>>567934320You get to eat him
>>567977989Someone has boys on the brain.
>>567978489You never used composite boys before? Strongest weapons in the game.
>>567903840Voice acting is wasted effort for a game. It's mostly just me reading and going to the next line because I can read it faster than the voice actor speaks it. Cinematography always looks terrible especially since it generally reveals the jankiness of animations and the weird shit like how the facial animations work. They still don't look any good in spite of mocap. It's never looked good and it's best if all that stuff is kept at a distance so it's obscured by that distance.
>>567971868hell yeah brother
>>567979439
>>567981879>Watching her sneak out in the middle of the night to Big H's tent
>>567979439>Cinematography always looks terrible especially since it generally reveals the jankiness of animations and the weird shit like how the facial animations work.depends on the scene, some scenes are very well choreographed and animated like the fight between emperor and the giths or myrkul's reveal keep in mind that most of the cinematics were mocapped & animated during covid and larian had a lot of trouble establishing a productive workflow between the animation team and the writers, all of these issues have been fixed for their upcoming game, divinity, and it'll look way more smooth in general, I feel like they're heading towards the right direction when it comes to pimping CRPG's flair to please the greater audience
>>567981879She's like a shining pearl surrounded by frog-colored shit. It makes her beauty stand out all the more
>>567981972can you stop making cuck fanfics and just admit that you miss shadowheart it'd be way healthier
"yes. 39 dwarves to kill in this area alone"
>>567982923half-orc stacies owe me sex
>>567983382gale...
>>567983016eagle eyed tactician frog
>>567982378wtf cute what is this from
>>567986486seriousfrog
>>567988229you get this scene once you give enough soul coins to karlach
>>567971868drippy frog
>>567989146Oh I never give her any, cool detail
>>567983016Race-based targeting is a war crime, anon.
question of the evening: would default dark urge have made an interesting companion?
>>567709536Quick, help Minthara finish her line! What is she saying?>"In Menzoberranzan..."
>>567997038we let our most most promising clerics get raped by demons
>>567996098I doubt it.First you have another amnesiac in your party, next to Shadowheart, so that's already a minus.The next issue is that having a murderhobo as companion that acts out and wants to murder people doesn't make a great companion, imagine if Larian would copy paste Durge's origin into a companion story>find Alfira murdered>he lunges after Isobel without input>tries to murder you / another companion while you sleep>their personal quest fails unless you let them 1v1 Orin>If Durge accepts Bhaal's blessing, they will attempt to hijack the brain and force you into the bad endingMost people would just murder / not recruit Durge because the game turns into a tardwrangling simulator.
>>567997038"it is considered polite to let your mate eat the biggest mushroom in the basket first"
>>567997373They think it's an honor though at first
>>567997038We don't hunt foxes. We hunt jackals.
>>567997869I'd agree if it were any other game but the game already has laezel & astarion who both try to kill you early on + astarion is a vampire and everybody is chill with him
>>567998339new Minthara drawing? Or maybe I just missed it. Either way that's super cute anon.>>567996098If it's a 1:1 experience , and he Acts just like when we the players control him, yeah then this anon is right>>567997869Even more so since only Durge realizes he's not just a random schizo, but he's actually a Bhaalspwan and this is all a Dead Three scheme, so his role is pretty central and important since you could argue hes the actual protagonist of this story.With a few changes and less "main character" material, sure why not. We already discussed a lot about why we should have people like Astarion, Minthara and Lae'zel in our party, Durge could fit right in.>>567998708....Liquid Minthy?!
He's coming...I can feel it in the air...oak father preserve us all.
>>567998772They don't force you into certain choices like that anon mentioned, Lae'zel would see a lot less party time if she always told the gith patrol about the tadpoles etc.
thoughts on shadowheart?
>>567999709Dirty.
The moronic swine that wishes Shadowheart had been a werewolf. The lizard fetishist parasite that wishes default Dark Urge had been a companion. There is a pattern.>>567997869I'll never understand why you choose to entertain the parasite or the attention-seeking swine. These creatures are not looking for actual discussion or to be convinced, and to them you're just another pretext to post more slop.
Yeah, the pattern is like actually discussing the game you buffoon
>>568000648The obnoxious manthytranny shitposter that wishes Gale and Astarion were female. I see it.
>>568000860
>>568000860NOOO YOU CAN'T SAY THAT
>>567999709made for hugs and kisses
>>567999709sex
>>568000826Here is the attention whore "discussing" Shadowheart:>I kinda wish the Helia subplot and character development hadn't taken away from Shart the subplotline of her being a werewolf like her father, at least ideally. It would have justified her gentle nature and passion for animals, and it would have been cool to see a sort of "big reveal" with Selunite Shart, who, after regaining her memory, remembers having this power.Wishing Shadowheart had another secret furry identity culminating in a "big reveal," like that climactic scene in a capeshit movie, is definitely thought-provoking. Discussing what could have been is an endless exercise in futility, but also a good pretext to post more pigslop. (Minthara and Astarion are already covered. Who's next?) Question of the day - are characters nothing more than bags of tropes that can be added, subtracted, and repurposed until the desired ratio is reached?
>>568001564I'm seeing double!
idk why he's having a meltdown when both werewolf shadowheart & companion durge were scrapped ideas by larian
>>568002504Yeah I somehow agree with that post.
>>567999054yeah man. whoever drew it did a great job! they brought out Minty's inner cute
uh oh melty paragraphs
which bg3 character makes you go pic related whenever they appear on the screen?
>>568003453
>>568003561based
>>568002504>>568000648Werewolf companion for Divinity. Godey Manthara explosion
>>568003873>Godey Manthara explosionthis made me laugh out loud /bgg/ is so silly>Werewolf companion for Divinity.I hope so!
bg3 feet tier list1. Shadowheart2. Orin3. Minthara4. Mizora5. Isobel6. Dame Aylin7. Jaheira8. Karlach9. Lae'zel
>>567979439I've already addressed that above. I can repeat the relevant part.>More to the point, the idea that BG3 was only successful because it catered to normalfags with full voice acting and a cinematic presentation is misguided, if not disingenuous. It suggests a "purity" of the genre, which supposedly existed back when voice acting was only partial, if at all present, and was then irreversibly tainted by the likes of Bioware.Your clarification here damages your already tenuous credibility. Voiced dialogue is not merely text delivered at a speaking speed by more or less competent actors. The implicit opposition - "wasted" voice acting as a substitute for slow-witted normalfags accustomed to passive media consumption, "pure" text needing no more than the words themselves for literate, time-conscious players - is absurd, even at face value. The argument reduces pacing, tone, emotion, and uncertainty to information that is supposedly conveyable through narration, anon said matter-of-factly. It ignores that a statement as simple as "You can trust me" might be intentionally open to interpretation - and that narration might become intrusive when it resolves ambiguity, anon said after a brief pause. Ironically, this aspect of communication I'm describing is already encoded in D&D's Charisma-based roleplaying. A [Deception] or [Persuasion] check might fail or succeed based on the exact same words. The delivery from the player character, thankfully absent in BG3, is no less critical because it is only implied.
>yeah just let me grab a post from hours ago so I can paragraphslop a litle more
>>567999709>>568000046goonbait and thats good
bg3 needed a funny midget companion
>>568005426>he doesnt even write any of it >its all ai generated>maybe he cleans it up a bit after its been made for him>he doesnt own the game, cant post proof of him playing the game that cant be spoofed like achievementshe is the parasite leeching this general to death
>>568001564>made for hugs and kissesbut only one of them
>>568005426I'm replying to a poster who took seventeen hours to get back to me. I'm merely reciprocating the courtesy. Feel free to hide the scary posts with many scary words not addressed to you. Unlike the parasite’s tired gimmick of polling the thread with worthless "questions of the day," your input is not requested or required here, anon said dispassionately.
>>568006998post your steam achievements as proof you actually play the gameif not then shut the fuck up and leave us alone
>>568007152he can't
>>568003896cute frog!
>>568006998So you do know how to hide the posts, after all. Curious
>https://youtu.be/rn6EDxFxlZM?si=ljWFXpDAyEDL785ZDown souf hoes, up at late night workin'Ten toes down and they won't stop twerkin'Southside niggas on ten, they lurkin'Lookin' at my friends like virgins
I feel your breath upon my neckA soft caress as cold as death
'pls respond >.<': the post
fuck kiss marry killgoblindragonbornorcdwarf
>>568015810kill goblinfuck dragonbornmarry orckiss dwarf
>>568015810kiss goblin fuck dwarfmarry orckill dragonborn
>>568015810kill orcmarry dragonbornkiss dwarffuck goblin
we will never get another game featuring Shadowheart ever again how do you cope
>>568017779We are, its called bg4 where she's still a Sharran.
>>568017779who cares the last thing I want is astarion & shadowheart 2.0, shadowheart's story got a beginning, a half and a satisfying ending, idk why some people want MORE of her & astarion, let divinity bring new themes & archetypes and stuff
>>568018037>implyingif you keep her in your party (naturally accruing approval) but do absolutely nothing to influence her her default action is to become a selunite
>>568015810fuck goblinkiss orcmarry dwarfkill dragonborn
>>568018230They keep the characters static so I am expecting it
>>568018426>no character growth allowedwhy are companies like this
>>568015810fuck goblinmarry orckiss dragonbornkill dwarf
>>568018496Easier for marketing and they don't have to break the status quo.
>>568015810fuck Astarionkiss Astarionmarry Astarionkill goblin dragonborn orc dwarfeveryone above is a slut, I’m not even surprised
>>568020840>everyone above is a slutbut enough about astarion
>>568020840wtf
ASStarion
>>568022945ass too woke7/10won't even pre order divinity
>>568023197shadowheart's blender model is so uncanny for some reason
>>568023069he’s got a very slappable assI approve!
>afraid of wolves>dad is a werewolf#JustLarianThings
>level 14 Monk gets proficiency in ALL saving throwsIt's a shame campaigns cap at 12 in BG3.
>>568025603keep in mind that the level cap was supposed to be 10 for the longest time
>>568027958unblur the frog please
>>568027958their relationship & rivalry would have been so peak if they kept bickering after early act 1
>>568027958the sex they have with each other is absolutely wild
>>568027958cute blurredfrog
>playing as karlach origin>w*ll shows up at camp>tell him to get the fuck out of here>see pic related>talk to everyone in camp>see pic related again
>>568003453Ralphie, Alfira & Mizora
God do I love the verticality in this game. Casting Enhance Leap on a strong character and jumping halfway across the screen is exhilarating.
>>568032257We love Wyll Ravengard in this general.
https://youtu.be/hcOhXThqh_0?si=FPA1FMwiEJX5LRA6
>>568035765Any playthrough where Bex and Danis aren't reunited is canonically a failed run.
I like Wyll more than Lae'Zel. You would hate Lae'Zel if she was a man, and I want nothing with a psycho that's killed someone by age 10
>>568035765
game didn't have enough goth girls
>>568036671I don't know what the thing you posted is but that is definitely not a goth girl
>>568036769>black hair>heavy black makeup>piercingsI don't know what goth is then
>>568036934yeah you clearly don't
>>568035765Can't remember ever seeing this whore in my playthrough
>>568036671ugly
>>568036671Wait is this the chud mod. Isn't her name Zenovia Dawg
bg3's lead writer thinks that bg3's main issue writing wise was the lack of interaction between the companions & other major characters would you agree with him? I definitely think that it's a major missed opportunity but bg3's writing definitely jumps the shark in act 3 and that's a bigger issue than companions treating each other like strangers or orin & gortash not reacting to each other's moves that much, the plot is way too messy, tries to do way too much things at once and handwaves major & interesting characters(gortash & Orin, the tieflings,Aylin & isobel, arguably raphael) to give the spotlight to characters I just don't care about(orpheus, the brain(can't even call it a character LMAO & emperor), the climax was ASS, the final fight was boring both mechanically & story wise>big ass red dragon shows up while you're getting spammed by magic missiles wowZzzzzzthoughts? hopes?
>>568036343Filtered.
>>568038419default durge my beloved, one of my favorite playthroughs
>>568038380I think Larian should stop with forced dilemmas and let the player side with Orpheus and the Emperor at the same time. Like telling the Emperor that after the Netherbrain said it can predict him, that it would never predict him working with Orpheus
>>568038380>, tries to do way too much things at once and handwaves major & interesting characters(gortash & Orin, the tieflings,Aylin & isobel, arguably raphael)oh shit how could I forget WYLL RAVENGARD and KARLACH who both get next to nothing but hey at least emperor gets to talk to his ex who's literally an undead dragon
>>568038380>diversity of companions Not just 50 elves right
>>568036934ignore him he can only think in stereotypes
>>568038603>Like telling the Emperor that after the Netherbrain said it can predict him, that it would never predict him working with Orpheusoooh I like that, you should lock it behind a hard check for good measure, you could still allow the player to choose one of them by making them fight once the brain dies for one final boss fight>>568038786I hope so, writing so many elves in bg3 gotta have been boring
>>568023197
>finish the game on Honor mode>save file mostly gone>salty that i now can't reload the game to see what my character, builds, items and etc were
>no you don't get it only a mindflayer can control the elderbrain because we're just that smartI love the idea of the cult of the absolute but it kinda leads to nowhere once you smoke orin & gortash and the brain turns the army into drones it's just so anticlimactic
>>568040714ive never seen the naked body of an adult woman in my life
Finally beat this game with my mom. I forgot how long it takes to finish a playthrough damn. Her companion ranking after beating the game:Gale > Astarion = Karlach > Shadowheart > Jaheira > Wyll > Lae'zel > Halsin > Minsc > MintharaShe ended up liking most of the companions. Her opinion on Astarion changed a lot after finishing his quest. She even liked Lae'zel even though she won't admit it. She didn't care much for Halsin, Minsc or Minthara though. Halsin didn't have much interesting dialogue, Minsc was just "dumb", and she never really warmed to Minthara at all. I think she thought Minthara was just too evil and power hungry without much to balance it. All in all, a fun run
>>568041007I'm sorry
>>568041118cute
>>568041118That's all good and wholesome, but she needs to be re-educated on Minthara.
>Iron Golems kick my ass forcing me to chug potions every encounter>Eldrith goes down in less than a minute to a dozen or so sword swingsWhat the fuck? That was anticlimactic. Should I not have used the Onyx Sword that the game told me to use?
>>568040714sexo
>>568041658>generate an image of her strung up by her big toesFucking footfags, man.
>>568041823
>>568027958
>>568041658>>568041982@mantharafag you love bondage and Shart
>>568041494I went through every companion's dialogue and didn't skip anything. My mom seemed to hate everything about Minthara. Her voice, demeanor, writing, just everything. That ended up taking all the heat off Lae'zel at least lmaoI do get it though. I don't think Minthara would be very popular with female players
>>568041118>>568042356Based mom loving Astarion and hating Minsc and Minthara
>>567710076>joon fiffFuck it's so close. I'm glad I don't usually watch it, last year I spent, like, three months counting down (actually went quickly until the last two or three weeks).I need an update on Swen's genAI stance. If he's gonna use it for absolutely anything, that game is as good as pirated.
>>568042356Leave her, anon. You can live with me.
One-player game where we play Wyll pre and post infection.
I like how characters get sweaty near heat sources.
>>568042645>If he's gonna use it for absolutely anything, that game is as good as pirated.they're still using AI for coding and squashing bugs, to see if branching paths are well implemented and use AI as placeholder assets, they no longer during mocap, they no longer use AI to look for references or do whatever the fuck companies do with ai these days, I hate that garbage
>>568042645Every company's using it now. They're just not telling you about it. I suggest you quit gaming to stay pure.
>>567876193>cancels two dnd gamesWhat did they cancel? And what are they making? I remember one game being announced at last year's Summer Fest, I think it was some goth bitch?
>>568041118>too dumbShe's from the older generation, she doesn't understand the appeal of a himbo.
