It's literally all about who gets to act first that wins. Initiative determines who wins.

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the true 'lach

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Shadowfrog

Gorion's Ward said:
Minthara is canonically 150
Minthara is canonically bisexual
Minthara sucked 100 goblin cocks
I collect barrels and throw them at every boss including Minthara
I respect all women but Minthara
If you romance Minthara you are a horrible person
If you romance Astarion you are a great person
I ascended Astarion
I romanced ascended Astarion
I play with lots of mods on
I fucked Halsin and Shadowheart at the same time and loved it
Shadowheart is right not to use her birthname
Gale was groomed by Mystra
I play sorcerer
I camp cast
Wyll is a character
I sympathized with Ketheric
I play male Tav
I love dragonborns, halflings, gnomes and dwarves

>>559012968
I'm glad they made her less black looking

>>559012968
Thanks, I hadn’t yet vomited today.

>>559013080
in a threesome romance ending with me!

Did Myrkul restore Isobel's virginity too?

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>can we keep it as a pet pleeeeeeaaaase

Lining up Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Karlach and Minthara to then lick their pussies one by one until they cum.

>>559014358
no, not even the gods can reverse the gaping from aylin's massive futa cock

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>>559013080
A lesson in not sticking too closely to early concept art.

>>559014794
She looks much better here

>>559014794
where are her boobs

>>559015157
Boobs are misogynistic myths, chud.

>>559015586
don't make me install the chud mod for /bgg/

who should they cast as astarion?

>>559015967
They shouldn’t do live action.

>>559016501
we needed a bg3 anime

>>559014794
>posts a much better shadowheart
I hate people being contrarian for attention

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>>559017056
>better

Yeah, no.

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why is she like this

>>559017938
because drow are evil

>>559017938
It’s fun to weird out the surfacers.

>>559018087
yes but there's evil
and butting in with random quotes about how much she suffered during childhood but that's actually wholesome because she's le hecking drowerino

>>559018216
don't recall this, but i haven't brought minty since patch3. who is she interacting with?

>>559018123
Trollthara.

>>559018564
>In Menzoberranzan, after a house has two sons, every subsequent male-born child is slaughtered at birth, as it is useless, even for breeding.

>In Menzoberranzan, romance is commonly a luxury enjoyed between women. Men are mostly present for propagation.

>Half the men of Menzoberranzan are pleasure-servants. Weaklings, whose beauty is their only redeeming quality.

>>559019068
>minty is uncposting
waow

>>559017850
trvke: sharran tattoos>gay ass mary sue scar

>>559019068
minthy is such a disaster bisexual

when's patch 9?

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swen hasn't been active on twitter lately, no posts about bg3 trivia or unfunny memes, that means that they're cooking something, I'm expecting a teaser this month or the next to prepare for the summer game fest we're literally a few months away from them revealing some of the companions how exciting
literally the best period to be a larian fan

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>>559014363
Maybe Ketheric should try being a Sharran again to forget those two.

>>559014794
Wait you were arguing that she looks better in game than in this art????

reply to this post with your mc

>>559021445
what happened to her tattoo?

>>559021445
Cute tiefling

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>>559022194
I like to occasionally change appearences a bit because of story events.
She got hit by a finger of death in the Ketheric fight which messed her face for a while, but the scarring and withering got healed with magic eventually.

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>>559021560
Obviously. Giving Shadowheart cult tattoos would have been heavy-handed, not to mention dubiously justified from a lore perspective. Worship of Shar, the goddess of darkness and secrecy, is not something you ink on your skin to display your faith to the world.

>>559023148
I just want you to know that you're extremely based for playing the game like that

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>>559022130
You can have a pic of my Guardian

>>559023303
I didn't even notice the tattoos, I just looked at her face...

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>>559022130
As you wish.

>>559023683
Damn gaslighting squid…

I hate what they did with the "dream guardian" and emperor plotline. Down By The River is the game's leitmotiff and the lyrics are all about how (in the early access) your brain worm was conjuring hallucinations to seduce you to come and "lay with it" .. down by the river in your dream. It was poignant and germane to the game's main plot and when you realize that after your first few goon dreams with her/him you go
>WOAH
>That's so cool!
...now it is completely devoid of meaning. It has no relevance to the story or characters at all, which makes it incredibly out of place given not only its status as leitmotiff, but the fact that the only other vocal tracks are a song sung by a bard for her dead mentor, and a narcissistic boss character singing a song about himself as the boss theme for his boss battle, etc.
Seriously, what in the fuck were they thinking? Was this another product of the "consultants" they brought on board in late 2022?

>>559021332
The parasite is relentless in posting off-topic garbage.

>>559024517
So if the dream visitor was just the tadpole luring you would you turn into a mind flayer if you sexed her?

On my first playthrough I didn't eat a single tadpole

Is the namefag behind the """"off topic"""" posts or is it another schizo?

>>559021445
I hate all of your characters

>>559024732
Yeah. The Emperor plotline always existed, he was just an independent character from your "daisy" worm wife.

haha what if Orin shapeshifted into Lae'zel and had sex with you haha lol that would craaaazy, unless?

>>559024271
ugly
>>559023683
mid
>>559024694
very ugly

>>559026327
You’re always such a joy.

>>559025784
Surprise incest if you’re playing Durge.

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>>559026430
>get to be anything in bg3
>decide to play as an ugly white woman
you deserve it

>>559026861
And what do you play?

>>559027035
haven't played bg3 in months teehee

>>559024421
He also pushes you into getting into the cult's good graces in act 2 and is angry in the dream scene if you made Moonrise hostile. If you follow that path you'll lose both shadowheart and last light

>>559024271
Pretty
>>559023683
Pretty
>>559021445
Pretty

>>559027859
yeah >>559021445 is actually pretty, the rest are fugly

>>559027435
Yeah, squiddy is an idiot.

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i went cartoon villain mode with a friend, killed every companion and made enemies of everyone. most fun run so far

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>3936 fucking expressions

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>>559028006
And one of the first things he says when revealed is "Don't look at me like that".
Interesting how both Emperor and Omeluum have spent a lot of time outside illithid society but decided to have completely different approach about pretending to have emotions.

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>>559029180
the modder ships halsin & shart, that's a first

>>559029497
If they have shapeshifted sex it could just be a furry thing.

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>>559029497

>>559029043
Omeluum is certainly better at it.

>>559029497
Fucking gross.

>>559031339
Omeluum doesn't prioritize his own survival in the Iron Throne which is hard to square with squid logic unless he genuinely believes Baldur's Gate is his society.

>>559032003
he was a wizard before getting tadpoled and he thinks that his innate magic messed with the illithid ''engineering''

>>559032003
It could be that he determined his most likely chance of survival in that situation was to act self-sacrificial, endearing himself more to his potential rescuers.

>>559031842
I still would have loved him

>>559032927
based

>>559032586
That kind of 5d chessing could work when the party isn't murderhobos, but IIRC he doesn't divulge his own location either unless pressed.

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>>559033197
I happen to be at the Iron Throne right now, and he wouldn't tell me at all.

>>559033197
It’s his only card to play. He’s not freeing himself, and if he insists the party prioritize his survival, they’ll just see him as another selfish Illithid. It has a slim chance of working, which is better than zero.

And judging from how the community typically speaks of Omeluum, it’s effective. The “pick me squid” strategy works.

emperor get off the computer

Reminder that unlike the illithids and devils, Ethel is not selfish and got wrongly maligned for giving people what they wanted.

you too ethel get off the computer

Don't type like you won't miss me petal.

>>559033728
>The “pick me squid” strategy works.
>people are more likely to help you if you're a good person
wow

>>559034278
It’s almost like social cohesion has a survival benefit or something.

total squid death

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I just wanted to say that I love my wife.

>>559034585
She looks a bit…different today.

>>559034585
Name three things you like about her that are non-physical.

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>>559034585
>ugly dyke haircut
let me fix this

Why can't you rape after using Hold Person?

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>>559035509

>>559035509
you lose concentration if you coom

>>559035683
That wouldn't matter as you're done with the raping after you cum
>>559035653
She would be second after Orin

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Holding out for a hero.

>>559036101
I'm on my way, queen

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i wish you could worship shar like shadowheart

Why can't you demand sex from Mizora in exchange for freeing her?

I don't like that poster

none of us do.

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>>559022130
>>559024271

>>559040132
>shart turned into an edgy jrpg protagonist
ick

>>559040351
..???
She's on the right side of anon's picture, and the only thing about her that looks different is that she's not wearing her starter armor. Maybe scale mail or justiciar or something? Hard to tell with the light bloom

>>559040509
didn't notice shart I thought you genderbended her

>>559040509
Its the Dark Justiciar armor. I'm playing with the loot randomizer mod and got it off of the tiefling you can save from the Bugbear.

>>559040132
lol

>Ring of Protection
>Most basic bitch of starting gear in dnd/pathfinder
>One of the best rings in the entire game
>Only 1 exists
>Locked behind an Evil and, most importantly, STUPID quest decision
bravo larian

>>559029497
>>559029676
looks like its gonna get zero downloads

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>>559029180
>>559029497
>>559041985
>

here we go again zzzz

>>559042856
But I thought you liked BEARED.com?

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Nearing the end. What just do it again? keep putting everyone in eyepatches?

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Man, act 1 is fucking boring on repeat playthroughs. The biggest risk isn't dying, it's enduring the boredom long enough to avoid just deleting the save file.

>>559047092
Act 1 is still my favorite part of the game personally. It's easily also the most polished.
Maybe I have EA stockholm syndrome but most of my runs start petering out sometime into Act 2.

>>559045076
That looks badass.

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My high-AC wife.

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BG2 Viconia or Shadowheart?

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>>559049598
BG3 Viconia

>>559049598
BG2 Viconia

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>>559049598
Of the Viconiaclones, Morrigan was my favorite.

>>559049965
Would.

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talented frog wife

>>559052276
Lae’zel is likely constantly augmenting herself with psionics during the game. Toril’s gravity is generally considered uncomfortable to Githyanki, and she grew up in an asteroid.

dude there are so many different builds holy shit you can play the game in a billion ways!
>90% of builds just use the same conditions and damage riders where the main damage source is just a different color of damage number
>the others just involve stacking acuity or abusing the AI into not attacking you via darkness or arcane ward/retarded high AC
alright i guess

>>559048625
Hell yeah thanks

>>559051372
I thought that was Lord Gortash!

>>559052568
>I do not think for myself and instead metaslave
>I have 0 self control if presented viable options but one is easier to do

Anyone else here play Tactician Plus? I ducked it when it first came out since it seemed obnoxious but gave the most recent version a try. It's actually really fun to use it with +100% enemy HP (up from+30% base tactician) and the new enemy mod to add their proficiency bonus to their rolls. Though, also, I play with 1d20 initiative instead of the game's 1d6 or 1d8 or whatever it is.

>>559054000
>trippies of trvkes
me though, i also use the additional encounters mod and no follower limit so it makes the game feel a little more like an rts sometimes but it does make the bigger battles feel exhilirating with the sense of scale, like being able to split your party into thirds to fight ragzlin, minthara and gut at the same time managing all three concurrent battles simultaneously across different parts of the map
or the siege on ketheric's tower actually feeling like a massive battle again with the ability to split your party up and have them fighting their way through the tower seperately, one above and one below

>>559054000
i understand that the game is too easy but inflating hp doesnt actually change anything

Imagine being gnome sized and casting enlarge person on laezel and letting her push out huge giant sized wet and thick farts into your face and holding the stinky gas deep in your lungs like a bong hit until you breathe involuntarily to stay alive

>>559054379
It makes a pretty big difference on whether it's worth it or not to use a spell slot to for example cast Hold Person or Command: Grovel vs just right clicking or going for an immediate damage spell or honestly even just a cantrip in many cases. Why bother using complex tactics or even just basic debuffs when you can just pour on a mountain of damage because the strongest enemies in the game rarely exceed 120 HP except a handful of standout lategame bosses that have HP in the ~600 range.
At the very start of the game Lae'zel can output 12-44 damage on the first turn. Unless you go out of your way to not long rest often you really have no reason not to be using your characters spell slots and special abilities. Enemies feel so fragile even in Tactician that before now I'd gimp myself by not using poisons or barrels or the terrain e.g. shooting down chandeliers or abusing surfaces because they'd die so fast.
tl;dr I wouldnt get on anyone's case for not using the HP boost but I do think the game would have hugely benefitted from having enemies have enough HP to survive at least a single turn so the player has a reason to consider doing anything other than directly dealing damage
>>559054365
I thought about that mod too, but I didn't like some of the screenshots I saw. Do the enemy placements make sense?

Missionary with Astarion

>>559034585
She looks like she would critisize my spending habits.

>>559057227
>Do the enemy placements make sense?
more or less. some of them feel kind of weird but most of them are kino. for example there's a minotaur on the bridge where the dead adventurers and goblins are , while astarion's boar was moved nearby in the woods. there's a bugbear + kobold encounter at the abandoned harper's camp and another bugbear + warg encounter where the roast with the dagger sticking out of it is. they fill out a lot of the empty areas with enemies that make great environmental storytelling. but like i said some of them are just still weird. there's a gang of kuo-toa on the reefs guarding the scuffed rock hiding the harpers map which are still technically fitting but i don't consider them on the same level as the others i already talked about

>build doesn't come online until act 3
I'm on my phone so I don't have any reaction images saved but imagine I posted something negative with a lean towards exasperation.

>>559040132
Made to be stripped, whipped, and converted to lolth worship

>>559058757
Who are you talking to

>>559058981
Not you because I'm a woman and no woman has ever spoken to you. Until now.

>>559058981
I'm just negative posting because I'm unhappy in life

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>>559059085
You're histrionic enough that I actually believe you have a vagina, my condolences for the period cramps

>>559024271
is this modded? why does it look so good even though it's only 1080p? i play on 4k ultra and this looks better...

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he looks disappointed

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>>559052568
This is an overgeneralization. The best part about BG3 being a relatively easy game is that a player can indeed express their creativity, as long as they have a basic understanding of mechanics. The tendency to abuse mechanics such as Arcane Acuity is only the concern of the min-maxer, and is far from necessary for the average player. An Eldritch Knight ice archer using Snowburst Ring to create ice surfaces is already plenty strong without resorting to any gimmicks, let alone abusing the AI behavior, which borders on cheating. Consider not relegating your Cleric to a Radiating Orb support role, and a world of possibilities opens.

>>559060930
all video games are easy, though. there's no video game that needs you to think seriously. so it's kind of meaningless to point out that bg3 is also just like every video game in this way.

>>559061264
Some would argue that other CRPGs require a higher degree of optimization at the highest difficulty, as if that's necessarily a good thing.

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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.

Lae'zel is ugly.
Lae'zel is stench.
Lae'zel a bore of the universe.
Lae'zel might've done some things right, but she's still a hideous, smelly, boring person inside and out.

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>>559061772
cute frog

>>559061514
i think that the optimization for those games is still easy. even though it's called optimizing, nobody is actually doing optimization, your result is not optimal in a measurable way. you read all the build options and pick a few in your head that work especially well together, they pretty much always work first try.

actually i think bg3 is one of the least easy games to "optimize" in this way, because you need some basic understanding of probability to compare advantage to bonuses. a ten year old probably couldn't explain when you should use advantage and when a +1d8 bonus. but a ten year old could produce a wotr build that can complete the highest difficulty.

>>559064394
Really stupid post

>>559062453
i'd rather fuck a frog than be a sexless incel shart simp

Voss may be a good guy but he rubbed me the wrong way in our first encounter so I kill him

>>559053243
90% of the game is either avoiding encounters so you can use your single use short/long rest abilities on fights for some semblance of self-imposed build variety, IE playing the game as a point and click adventure entirely devoid from builds, or just using the same cantrips over and over because short resting/long resting every single encounter is tedious and gay. if i wanted to play RTWP and spam rests every encounter id play nwn or iwd

>>559064594
NWN tempts me

>>559025075
Same here. Neither my companions. Even Lae'zel remained with Weakened mental capacity after the Zaith'isk incident!

>>559041380
I read somewhere that could game the system by accepting the quest, stopping the ritual by getting Halsin back then stealing the idol and giving it to Mol. Personally I've always turned her down, even when I fully supported them due to role-playing/Background reasons; so I can't tell if it indeed works. Mechanically it makes sense but this is the kind of "exploit" that's also easy to fix by a patch.

>>559047092
Try turning your preexisting knowledge about Act 1 to your advantage! Not in the sense to grab the best items ASAP but more like attempting to solve battles and quests in a more creative manner. Kind of pushing the boundaries of the systems!

>>559064394
The only thing that makes BG3 "less easy" is because:
1. "Builds" are almost entirely reliant on finding very specific and easily missable pieces of gear amongst a SEA of utter dogshit garbage
2. None of the back-end damage calcs are explained to you. Even if you understand tabletop rules and everything implicit with that the game doesn't tell you at all how shit like damage riders work
People hype this game up as having a shit ton of build variety when ultimately there are maybe like 10 extremely good pieces of gear that clearly synergize really well with each other, and then the rest of it is just misc bullshit that is only situationally useful like 1% of the time.

>>559064546
Laezel will be a netflix negress

>>559041380
>>559064971
??????
Am I missing something? Just expose Kagha and then take it.

>leveled any class to max
didnt beat the game
>equipped any piece of gear that uses a condition or that works well with another piece of gear
didnt beat the game
>used anything to prevent mobs from taking their turn
didnt beat the game
>multiclassed into literally anything that seems like it would work well together
didnt beat the game
>skipped literally 90% of the encounters through talk no jutsu
didnt beat the game

Smites feel so good but I run out of spell slots too fast

>>559060930
What do you think builds are? Some retarded mishmash of shit some new player comes up with because they didn't find any good gear in their playthrough that can barely do enough damage by act 3 because they thought barb/paladin was a cool multiclass is not fun to emulate.

in a lot of ways bg3 is the wire of fpgs

>>559041380
You can steal it after exposing Kagha, steal it back from Mol and put it back to its pedestal

>>559065145
Getting the idol after the ritual stops is a kind of a loophole. The Tiefling kids want it because that's their only way to stop the ritual and thus postpone (or even prevent) the sealing of the Grove from the outside world and thus their own expelling. You have multiple ways of achieving this (get Halsin back, expose/kill Kagha, mass-murder the druids etc.) but once it's done the side quest with Mol should be auto-cancelled, as the original motivation behind it ceased to exist. You can argue that the idol is still useful for Mol because of it's monetary value but unless this is explicitly stated in a dialogue I'm afraid this is an oversight by the developers. So this is a method that technically allows you to complete this quest and get the reward but you know this was clearly not the original intention behind it.

>>559065297
>pressed any key to continue after the first loading screen
didn't beat the game

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>>559065508
My point is that you'd have to be terribly inexperienced with CRPGs, or actively limit yourself with nonsensical multiclassing, to create a non-functional character in BG3. A Fighter is as basic as it gets - you get to attack 3 times per round at level 11 - and adding some flair in the form of an ice-themed Eldritch Knight creating ice surfaces and using Ray of Frost doesn't require esoteric knowledge. That is a build and it works reasonably well. It doesn't need to be fancy or abuse mechanics.

>>559066606
Mol says she wants to sell the idol for cash.

>>559064562
I did that once to see the loyalist Lae'zel playthrough. Then in the end I told her to do what she wanted, she said she liked Faerun so much that she refused ascension.

>>559065038
i'm sorry you feel that way, i hope you feel better soon

>>559065048
please no

>>559041380
>dnd/pathfinder
pathfinder fanboy detected
>evil quest decision
no evil in bg3. just people who are misunderstood

>>559064594
...????
so you refuse to engage with the game's mechanics in good faith and cheese it because you don't like going to camp to trigger camp events talk to your party members and restore your resources
then blame the game because you have 0 self control and apparently, ADD

>>559065456
Spellthief, my beloved
Warlock spell slots, my beloved

>>559066606
>it's a loophole
well, the game isn't reactive enough to account for that.
if we're talking about how things *aught* to be, you aught to be able to get the ring of protection just by killing the person who has it.

but since these things are scripted, isn't it only normal for anon to treat them as such?

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Rate my build:
Arcane archer (archery) with sharpshooter feat

Why is everyone acting like I killed Mayrina's brothers? I knocked them out non lethally but everyone is treating it like I murdered them

>>559070509
Eyewitnesses saw you kill them, don't try to deny it

>>559070509
Why would you kill them? What's wrong with you?

>>559070509
Unfinished game, people complained about this day one early access. You can't even really design your vagina in game, the types are just hair, literally zero labia control

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>>559067208
Then you have your answer. I don't have the transcript of what Arabella says after saving her but I remember the primary motivation was what I mentioned above. As I said above this "sell the idol for cash" works as a reason to be able to finish the quest even after putting a stop on the ritual but that's it. One could ask why it's not possible to initiate the quest after the ritual was abandoned (the idol is worth just as much cash then - why can't I stole for Mol once it's not being "used"?) but that would come off as hairsplitting.

>>559069664
Fair enough. Consistency tend to be an ever present issue in CRPGs anyways. We know what's the state of things in a technical sense, and everybody can decide how he wants to handle the given situation. If anon felt taking the idol after Kagha was exposed is okay then it's his game and fun. Scripting is not an issue here as any possible outcome could've been relatively easy to implement.

>>559070509
It's a known bug for years.

>>559071240
2/3rds of the sex scenes aren't animated why would you want more vagina options

>>559072067
So my characters can have a vagina that fits their personality and back story not just a shared vagina that everyone has

>>559060231
No, not modded.

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>*metal squeaking sound effect*

>>559069751
Archery anything is pretty top tier.

>>559072612
vagina shapes don't determine your personality

>>559076164
the only reason I want more wyll stuff is to get to side with mizora

wyll should have been a girl

karlach should have been a boy

i should have been born as shadowheart

minthara should have been a lesbian

gale should have been black

ok ok wait for it
a lizard companion... in a larian game with cinematics
think about it

>>559049598
Viconia is significantly better written it's not even close.

>>559080432
I like Viconia, but I wouldn't say she's better written than any BG3 companion aside from Minthara, Halsin, or Wyll.

I'd probably place Minthara above her too

who has the worse writing wyll or halsin?

>>559077183
Saying that is how I know you don't have one. It's not the end all be all but obviously it's a big deal.

Viconia X Wyll

Globe of Invulnerability is OP as fuck.

I genuinely struggle to ever find an opponent against which I actually would use GWM/SS. It seems it always goes
>Deactivating the passive: 90% chance to hit
>Activating the passive: 50% chance to hit
Like, I am losing WAY more damage by using the passive than by not using it. And the issue is that you'd then obviously use it for the ones that don't go that low, but I never ever find anyone who doesn't go that low, even if I equip + to hit equipment or use oils and shit.

>>559085568
bless + str elixir is usually enough to have a good hit percent chance in the early game for gwm. maybe add an oil of accuracy on top. that being said, savage attacker is better than gwm if you have a bunch of damage sources on hit, like a paladin using divine smite, or booming blade + caustic band + whatever else

>>559085568
The magic word is Prone. This is probably the easiest way to generate yourself Advantage against a target. There are multiple ways to overcome that -5 to attack rolls but this is the ultimate goal. The Risky Ring will solve this question once and for all but you also have other options (like the Glove that gives A. if you're surrounded by 2 or more enemies or the Undermountain King when used as a stat stick) in the meantime. Inflicting status effects that do the same is probably a more universal and versatile way though.

>>559083605
i know it because i've dated enough women to notice.
you "know" it because of sample size 1.

girls always say such stupid shit and then they wonder why everyone treats them like children.

>>559086671
>bless + str elixir is usually enough to have a good hit percent chance in the early game for gwm.
What if you don't have access to the elixir?

>>559085568
you at least use it if you are attacking with advantage.

>>559087069
literally no woman thinks your vagina shape is affected by your personality. you replied to a tranny

>>559079001
wasn't there a larian game like that?
>>559087235
why are there trannies here

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>Got a quest to find a mail letter that I sold hours and hours of gameplay ago.
I knew it. I fucking knew it. Every damn rpg. Every goddamn rpg with this fucking shit.

They always get you to get annoyed. They dump hundreds upon hundreds of books and letters on you. I even got an achievement for reading a 100 books the other day. Then they get you to relax. You're 50 hours into the game and not a single book or letter has actually been quest relevant, right? You're in the safe. You can just dump these hundreds of books and letters at the vendors who can pay for them and let go.

And then some fucking cunt goes all "Hey, can you get this one unmarked letter for me? It's lost around X area" and you remember you already looted a bunch of letter from there like 6 sidequests ago and can't even remember in which of the myriad merchants in the game you sold the damn thing.

FUCK. WHY DO DEVS KEEP DOING THIS.

>>559088336
What's the name of the quest or the letter you suppose to find? The only similar task I remember to is given by a postmaster at the early parts of Act 3 but that's as streamlined as it gets.

>>559088968
That's precisely the one.
I did the temple assassination quest first. Passed through the roof, met Gayle's not-a-cat during the investigation, got a bunch of letters from it.
Like, 6-7 hours of gameplay afterwards, I enter the damn post office. And now I can't for the life of me find out which merchant I dropped that letter to.

>>559089286
all you get from that quest is some gold, so it's not a big deal really.

>>559087069
It's not a sample size of 1, you probably weren't attentive enough to notice the vaginognomy of your partners, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

>>559087235
Not a tranny, and you have it backwards. Vaginal attributes influence and predict certain personality traits, obviously not the other way around.

>>559089467
It's still gonna sit there in my journal taunting me from now until the end of the game.

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>barbarian and monk get armor from not wearing armor
that means just wearing "normal clothes" without any ac attached, yes?

and how do i see how much damage my fists do?

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it must be the aura, because it can't be the writing.

>>559089749
why would a rogue try to punch a vampire lord.

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>>559089286
Fun fact: you can also hand the letter you found on Scratch's original owner to the postmaster. As a matter of fact he is the author himself! I only brought this up since we're talking about unmarked letters looted ages ago. Pretty cool little detail, huh?

>And now I can't for the life of me find out which merchant I dropped that letter to.
Are you still in Rivington? The area only has a few vendors (definitely more if you add Sharess' Caress too) but the point is they always keep whatever you sold to them. I know it's annoying but the item ("Bundle of Letters") shouldn't be that hard to find.

Besides I can only recommend to dedicate a unique container that you always carry with you for such purposes. Pic rel is my favorite for any books or paperwork that can still be relevant in the Act. It even has a one-of-a-kind book icon in the inventory!

>>559090446
>Fun fact: you can also hand the letter you found on Scratch's original owner to the postmaster. As a matter of fact he is the author himself! I only brought this up since we're talking about unmarked letters looted ages ago. Pretty cool little detail, huh?
Yeah I actually got that, because while looking for the letter, I bought back every piece of paper I've ever sold to Dammon and apparently he was the one I sold the Scratch delivery to.

>>559089519
i don't really care that you are a lesbian (male). first of all, that's disgusting, second of all it doesn't matter, your woman brain means you are not able to observe personalities accurately. there is a 100 to 1 chance you hallucinated some pattern after seeing two things and have just been trying to justify it to yourself ever since.

it's not even your fault, i don't hate you for it, but you should know what are your strengths and your weaknesses.

>/bgg/ talk about vagina determining your personality from agp porn addicts
l o l

>>559085568
GWM/Sharpshooter imposes a flat 25% penalty, so your numbers don't align. As for when a 90 - 25 = 65% chance to hit with GWM/Sharpshooter is preferable to a 90% chance to hit without, that is a simple inequality. Solving 0.65x + 10 > 0.90x gives a break-even point for x of 40. If you would deal less than 40 base damage in that scenario - effectively always - adding GWM/Sharpshooter is mathematically superior in the long run. The only exception is when an enemy is at death's door and GWM/Sharpshooter would impose an unnecessary hit chance penalty.

>>559089584
Yes, the category is called "Clothing". Anything with the "Light/Medium/ Heavy Armor" tag is out of question. Their base AC is always 10 but both Barbs and Monks have extra mechanisms (on top of the DEX bonus) that compensate them.

>and how do i see how much damage my fists do?
Hover over the fist icon on the action bar. That's a Weapon Action called "Unarmed Attack" which is the unarmed equivalent of the "Main Hand Attack". Or just open the inventory and hover over the "Damage" line below your char's weapon slots and AC value.

>>559090609
You see? It was this simple. Note that you can open the "Bundle of Letters" and read them despite the postmaster's instructions but there will be consequences. Maybe save the game, read them for some cool lore, then reload and finish the quest however you want it.

>>559089584
It means wearing only stuff not tagged light/medium/heavy armor. Or wearing nothing. On TT there's a limit of three good magic items you can wear because they demand attunement so a monk does really only need a necklace or staff and a pair of rings and can otherwise run naked.

>>559091313
>You see? It was this simple.
Well, no, because Dammon still didn't have the one he actually asked for. I've searched high and low for it and I have no idea where it ended up.
And I definitely already read them because I found them outside the quest and obviously I just open everything I find.

>>559079001
I thought about it now what?

>>559089749
>>559089958
this is why the game is cool, I was being punished for stumbling into the middle of the ritual. the cooler approach is to attack first.

>>559091173
>-5 to hit imposes a flat 25% penalty,
Have you heard of our god and savior Thomas Bayes?

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>>559091615
My bad, I misread the Dammon part of your post! In you broke the bundle it turned into "Anonymous letter", "Letter about Taxes" and "Postmaster Shipment Enquiry". Perhaps the last one is enough to complete the quest. Either way you didn't break anything with the postmaster but the outcome will be slightly different.

>>559089958
Look at this fucker! You wouldn't want to punch him in the face based on his looks alone?

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So, I'm shooting arrows at this dwarf, it's GREAT.

>>559093234
diddydor

>>559069523
>why yes i do actively enjoy tediously looting every single camp item in the entire game so i can long rest after every single encounter so i can refresh my level 1 spell slots so i can attempt to use hold person 7 times in a row again instead of just pressing attack 3 times

>>559069523
Cheesing the game is using cantrips as a consistent source of damage?

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>>559093234
I seem to have downloaded an asian redesign.

>cast feather fall in the grove defense
>zevlor jumps down into the middle of the army and dies a useless death
what a hero

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>>559089749

how do i make paladin more fun?

>>559094000
you're just not high iq enough to understand is all

Sell me on wizard
Both flavor and effectiveness wise it seems worse than sorc

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>>559096624
multiclass after hitting level 6, this is dnd 5e's greatest blunder, leveling up feels like shit most of the time

>>559096814
Flavor: Wizards are book nerds who study hard like fucking nerds. Sorcerers are those cunts who just naturally pick shit up and never seem like they have to work hard.

Mechanically: Larger spell pool to pull from and can freely switch out what spells you want access to without needing to replace them at the level-up screen.
Evocation lets you nuke enemies without needing to worry about where your party is.
Abjuration has some broken bullshit with Armor of Agathys iirc
Divination, while tedious, lets you effectivelly counter enemy actions by giving them a failing roll result.
Kinda doesn't matter though because most of the time you're just getting people wet and zapping them regardless of subclass.

>want to build an abjuration wizard high AC tank with aoa/storm cleric for reaction hits
>no enemies in the game will ever attack you
>while this allows you to basically operate freely, it kind of defeats the point of what i was hoping to achieve
>only way to actually do this is to abuse arcane ward stacks in a solo run rip your hair out whenever you fight anything with life drain or hold person
Well that's freaking gay

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expecting big crits from this nigga

>>559097739
nice hairline

>>559096814
basically a god in tabletop. creating an army of undead, sending your clones on adventures, parting the ocean, succubus familiars, golem crafting, planar binding demons...

but this isn't tabletop. in bg3 wizard has less blasting than a pure sorcerer but you have a much larger spellbook, allowing you to react to specific scenarios. you won't get any of the tabletop stuff that creates a power gap between wizard and the other, lesser, classes. and you wouldn't want to control an army of undead in bg3 anyway, it would be a massive pain.
personally i like bladesinger, it's a gish (mage/melee) that has less burst than swords bard but higher ac and much better spell availability, while fitting well with the artifact/elixir availability in the base game.

>fungal zombies dont scale based on your level so by as early as act 2 they are effectively completely useless for anything other than a way to get the enemy to waste a turn
>they will never hit anything and if they do it wont be a last hit and itll be for like 2% of somethings health
.

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lae'zel has been hanging out with minthara a little much i think

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>>559022130
why of course I love drow women, how could you tell

i'm starting a new game. does anyone want to play co-op?

>>559099538
too light skinned to be drows

>>559099847
two of them are actually half drow

>>559099921
based

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>how could you tell
It is in the swine's nature to seek attention. Newcomers to this general might remember when it started a run around Christmas with the specific goal of being an attention whore.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/550922510/#551087175
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/550922510/#551088770
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/550922510/#551122119
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/551544393/#551547326

>>559097384
>>559098592
I guess needing to actually study and/or find the magical knowledge is pretty cool, less neop baby vibes.
Shame crpgs in general always seem to fall short on really making use of the extra versatility wizard gets

>>559099240
You're using them wrong, they're not supposed to be super strong summons
they're cannon fodder to throw at the enemies and you should let them stand between you and the dudes you're fighting with

>>559097739
One day I should play a Half-Orc STR Monk who dumps DEX the same way it's customary with STR. He gets TB but no Giant elixirs. He uses Gloves of Dexterity to fix his Initiative and AC even if it prevents him from using all those elemental bracers. I'd also treat his WIS as a tertiary (so instead of DEX ≥ WIS > CON make it STR > CON > WIS) for the sake of variety. Could be interesting if one played Monk already. Maybe a Drunken Master run with all complementary equipment?

>>559100964
>It is in the swine's nature to seek attention.
...

>>559101545
Punch drunk bastard not being a monk weapon has deterred me from drunken master.

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>>559098592
>succubus familiars

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>want to play a pure spellcaster
>synergizing equipment is almost universally robes and quarterstaves
Not everyone wants to be Gandalf ffs

>>559104465
>MAAAAAAAAAHVUUUUULLL

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>>559104465
you can play a magic missile sorcerer/wizard or an eldrich blast warlock and use pic related to buff the spell's damage

>>559104465
You can play a caster druid or cleric re: armor. Rhapsody is pretty much the only dagger that gives direct caster buffs though.

Killing Mol because she's a criminal that asks me to steal.

>>559105323
That bitch is a straight up psychopath who is only nice to you because you do things for her. She belongs in prison at the very least.

Fucking Mol because she's a criminal that asks me to steal.

>>559105323
>>559105582
how dare you that's just part of her culture

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If only we saved her in time, she could've replaced Halsin.

>>559105783
the tentacle popping out of her mouth was legit the nastiest thing in the game

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love me some frogs

having sex with another female frog to make lae'zel jealous

The mol nonce never left /bgg/? Is it perhaps one of the schizo personalities of the namefag?

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>>559102140
Wasn't that an overreaction? This is a flavor build after all. Your primary motivation behind playing them is rarely rational, it's more about what's cool and spectacular in it's own way. Bare-knuckle fighting is a much better fit for a drunken brawler anyways.

>>559104465
How does the the last line of >>559098592 sound? That might be the compromise you're looking for.

>>559106201
>Lae'zel disapproves.

>>559089749
I cringe at that part. It’s so out of character for Astarion.

>>559105696
Thieflings living up to their namesake

>>559104465
gandalf used a sword tho?

Either Lae'zel and Shadoheart learn to share my cock or I'll take control of the brain and force them to share it. I will not be denied.

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>>559107643

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>>559107643
>back when first playing the game
>ignored the vampire twink because he's super gay
>kept shadowheart on team
>until i found out about her constant bitching and moaning
>ignore her and pick up the twink instead
and frog lady is hot

>game says it's important to have a mixed team
>be ready for everything
>oh nice, does that mean the game will pick the best character for me when rolling?
>lmao no fuck off and pick the right one yourself
come on

>>559107457
the witch king of angmar didn't break gandalf's sword and only used it to do a divine smite when he lost his staff. Saruman didn't pick up glamdring in orthanc, he grabbed his staff.

>>559108749
Yeah this is so retarded in BG3, no idea why party members don't also roll in dialogue or boost your stats for most skill checks. Some make sense like if you have to pass a mind reading skill check but if it's a knowledge check or an insight check then surely everyone in the party should roll/or boost your skill because you're connected through the tadpole and can literally communicate telepathically

>>559108749
This most bugs me with shopping. The discount (or increase) in price should take into account your whole party's CHA, not just the specific person talking. If the face is a CHA character and the other three have 8 CHA, then you shouldn't be getting a discount. If someone charismatic tried to sweet-talk me while surrounded by hardened criminals, I will not be endeared to them, I'll be suspicious and on guard.

i know that swen dislikes classes in his rpgs but getting unique fighter/wizard/barbarian dialogues is so much fun, there even unique race AND class dialogue sometimes like druid tiefling tavs in act 1, I wouldnt mind divinity having classes

is arcane trickster good?

>>559111443
as good as astarion's character (HE'S GAY)

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>>559111315
I also like the tags in dos2, backgrounds in bg3 don't have dialogues unfortunately, the dream would be to have unique dialogues for races,background, classes and maybe even feats
>>559111443
it's amazing ever since they added the booming blade spell

>>559111315
>swen dislikes classes
Wasn't classless DOS2 a stretch goal? Presumably the game would have had classes if they didn't reach that goal

>>559111443
No, Rogue is literally the worst class in the game. There's never any reason to go Rogue except as a multiclass to get the level 3 subclass and the feat at level 4. You should never go any higher than 4 in Rogue.

>>559112303
>Wasn't classless DOS2 a stretch goal?
I don't think so? I know that some schools of magics and romanceswere stretch goals, I don't know about it being classless being a stretch goal but then again I first played the game when the definitive edition was already out, I'm fine with both systems

>>559111315
>swen hates classes
>sawyer hates classes
Whats with crpg devs?

>>559111315
>>559111656
>>559112303
>>559112490
>>559112943
We get it - everything was better in Larian's Other Game, and BG3's design was a downgrade in comparison because it had to loosely follow D&D's ruleset. Fuck off now.

>>559112943
they really want to make their own systems and try to reinvent the wheel or maybe they just like the aesthetic of a melee wizard idk
>>559113426
literally nobody said that but ok