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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Planescape is the coolest setting, too bad it's been defunct for ages. dark sun rules too but they'r eboth a product of their time and it would take a really special effort to revisit them (not current wizards) btw planescape is getting a reboot for 5e and it's probably gonna be meh
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I loved how in Torment, somehow, BIS nailed the atmosphere of Sigil in an IE game. Just feeling weird and uneasy the entire time for nebulous-yet-well-founded reasons. Modern WOTC are no late-90s TSR or BIS.
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interplay in the mid-late 90s made so loving many good games
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Genesplicer posted:I like how he really Baldured that Gate. Really summed up the game for me. lmao
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I was really hoping there would be more spoilers for Baldurs gate 1 in this thread. If anyone asks me "Hey are there any interesting plot twists in the Baldurs gate 1 game?" like I'd have to just say I dunno, and then they'd probably never talk to me again!
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dr_rat posted:I was really hoping there would be more spoilers for Baldurs gate 1 in this thread. Baldur's Gate 1 is about a politician and war hero who uses a far ranging conspiracy of false flag tactics to commit genocide for extreme personal gain under the guise of a popular geopolitical conflict. You, the protagonist, having escaped one such an attack, find yourself beset on all angles by paid assassins. You take to freebooting across a conflict ladel countryside and end up discovering the truth: You are the child of an evil god who foresaw his own death. He devised a plan to have many children in hopes that the most powerful and ruthless of which would be his reincarnation, a literal avatar of murder itself. This is a clever inversion of the Christ myth. Ultimately the game presents you with a moral choice, expounded upon greatly in the sequel: Do you fufill the heretical prophecy as the new god of death, do you defy all odds and turn it to a force of good, or do you reject it all and walk your own path?
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wizard2 posted:Ultimately the game presents you with a moral choice, expounded upon greatly in the sequel: Do you fufill the heretical prophecy as the new god of death, do you defy all odds and turn it to a force of good, or do you reject it all and walk your own path? And that's not a trick question is it, as obviously the right answer is the become a god one. If you select one of the other two, does the game tell you, you suck than show the you lose the game screen?
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Cloudkill is ur char farting. nice, just brapppppapapapaping my way through the underdark
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dr_rat posted:Thanks! don’t worry they retconned it so nobody’s in game choices mattered iirc.
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dr_rat posted:Thanks! nah. all three major endings are pretty neat if not vague.
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Among other roleplaying reasons, you need to end as a mortal to see the romance conclusions. That also means you can "fix" the damaged goods elven waif with your true love, have a child with her (that she
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zedprime posted:Among other roleplaying reasons, you need to end as a mortal to see the romance conclusions. figurative and literal damaged goods! shes a winged elf but her wings have been cut off. can you teach her how to fly again? 
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One day the murderer of the Xvart village will be apprehended
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naem posted:I played divinity something turn based, something, and All the best characters are kind of jerks at first. I always feel glad when someone rejects a companion because they're too self important in the game to handle a little guff. That companion deserves better than a fuddy duddy
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i liked in torment when it finally started to dawn that you're the singular rear end in a top hat that ruined all these peoples' lives
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You can abbreviate the game as Baldur's G8.
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Blowdryer posted:You can abbreviate the game as Baldur's G8. no you cant. final warning
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Why did it have xvarts instead of like, goblins? What the gently caress is an xvart even? I just assumed they were dumbass blue goblins or something.
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Blowdryer posted:You can abbreviate the game as Baldur's G8. hot cocoa on the couch posted:no you cant. final warning Another great call by the GBS Moderator Team 🫡
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Ballers Gay
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sad question posted:One day the murderer of the Xvart village will be apprehended Mistakes were made
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Caesar Saladin posted:Why did it have xvarts instead of like, goblins? What the gently caress is an xvart even? I just assumed they were dumbass blue goblins or something. a xvart is, indeed, a dumbass blue goblin
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MrQwerty posted:i liked in torment when it finally started to dawn that you're the singular rear end in a top hat that ruined all these peoples' lives Not only that, you suck so bad that your own magically-separated mortality given physical form is going to do whatever it can to make sure it never has to be a part of you again
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MrQwerty posted:i liked in torment when it finally started to dawn that you're the singular rear end in a top hat that ruined all these peoples' lives Technically didn't Morte ruin his own life? I don't remember the details but I thought he was damned due to loving over TNO before he became immortal
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Jon Irenicus isn't in the first game, but you can loot a kickass spider sword from his jilted ex-girlfriend
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Deki posted:Technically didn't Morte ruin his own life? I don't remember the details but I thought he was damned due to loving over TNO before he became immortal I think Morte lied to a previous incarnation that Ravel could make him immortal which got TNO cursed into his current state with memory loss. Morte is a good guy so does feel guilty about it and gets more powerful if you forgive him.
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ElectricSheep posted:Not only that, you suck so bad that your own magically-separated mortality given physical form is going to do whatever it can to make sure it never has to be a part of you again Yeah, but that guy's an rear end in a top hat, too. Who cares what he wants? Ravel, IMO, did nothing wrong and didn't deserve that (except for all hose murders and tortures she did, I guess, but that's just night hag things).
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Extra Large Marge posted:Jon Irenicus isn't in the first game, but you can loot a kickass spider sword from his jilted ex-girlfriend this
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Extra Large Marge posted:Jon Irenicus isn't in the first game, but you can loot a kickass spider sword from his jilted ex-girlfriend You also get this dialogue option 
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Caesar Saladin posted:Why did it have xvarts instead of like, goblins? What the gently caress is an xvart even? I just assumed they were dumbass blue goblins or something. They're people who were exiled for their beliefs in the curative properties of colloidal silver.
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Caesar Saladin posted:Why did it have xvarts instead of like, goblins? What the gently caress is an xvart even? I just assumed they were dumbass blue goblins or something. Xvarts and Gibberlings are both featured in Fiend Folio, so the Bioware crew mightve gotten them from there for the tabletop D&D game that became the Baldurs Gate video game. I cant be sure but I vaguely feel like at one point there was some Beamdog stream where they were asked this, "Why Xvarts? Why the Xvart village?," and Oster and co. were evasive either to be silly or...? 🤷🏻
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Heya, it's-a me, Imoen!
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MrQwerty posted:There's hanging dong in BG3 op There's anti gravity dong if you take your pants off before the nautiloid crashes.
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MrQwerty posted:i liked in torment when it finally started to dawn that you're the singular rear end in a top hat that ruined all these peoples' lives No but video games should be different than real life!!!
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Xvarts are doing gang initiations in the woods.
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dr_rat posted:I was really hoping there would be more spoilers for Baldurs gate 1 in this thread. The first dungeon is full of traps, including a bunch around the chest containing the final boss’s loot and the entrance/exits to the different levels. They must be really annoying for the creatures that live there. It’s like setting a bear trap in front of your fridge and a swinging saw blade in the porch.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I think Morte lied to a previous incarnation that Ravel could make him immortal which got TNO cursed into his current state with memory loss. Morte is a good guy so does feel guilty about it and gets more powerful if you forgive him. I left Morte at the Pillar once and I really didn't like it, tbh.
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Dial A For Awesome posted:The first dungeon is full of traps, including a bunch around the chest containing the final boss’s loot and the entrance/exits to the different levels. They must be really annoying for the creatures that live there. It’s like setting a bear trap in front of your fridge and a swinging saw blade in the porch. Working in a dungeon as a monster must suck so much. So many OSHA hazards everywhere. There must just be work place injuries and deaths all the time. Monsters really need a better union. 
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