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Geekboy posted:Found some winged horrors in Moonrise you can have a whole interaction with all off on their own in a spot you can only sort of get to. 
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I found those guys too and the fact they don't really do anything and you have to go out of your way to interact with them at all makes them more memorable rather than less. It's really crazy the amount of stuff they put in when you consider it's all fully voice acted.jaete posted:Wait what? What gate? Rat him out to who? Summons what now? The first time you enter Last Light Jaheira jumps on your rear end as you know. If the tieflings are alive they vouch for you. If they aren't, Marcus swoops in, claims he's seen you before, and telepathically tells you to keep your mouth shut. You can go along with it... or you can rat him out to Jaheira, who tests him with her bottled tadpole and realizes you're telling the truth. At which point he drops the mask and you enter combat with him. What's normally supposed to happen is that everyone other than him, including you, is surprised, so on his turn he summons a shitload of trash mobs and disappears. However, if you have Alert you can't be surprised, and will get your turn before him. So if enough of your party has Alert and you have enough DPS, you can merk him before he disappears. The game doesn't really have anything specific to say about it afaik, but the attempt to kidnap Isobel just doesn't happen.
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Jan 29, 2024 12:13
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If you're super worried about losing Isobel at Last Light Inn on Honor Mode for whatever reason then you can simply not talk to her, the ambush will never happen and you can steal the drider's Moonlantern to get into Moonrise. Note that she and everyone at Last Light will only survive if you later choose to spare the Nightsong.
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Jan 29, 2024 12:54
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If I was playing Honor mode I’d do all of the mountain pass and the underdark/grymforge first before speaking to Isobel
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Jan 29, 2024 12:56
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There are so many things you can do to keep Isobel safe. I think people on honour mode are either laying down huge amounts of smack (how I did it) or know all the tricks to protect allies (I’m too stupid to do this).
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Jan 29, 2024 13:03
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Look I just want to spread the gospel that you can circumvent all the complaining about the artist if you just drink one of the 20 fly potions you've never used and go through the drat roof.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:14
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Between brain worms, classes that naturally learn the ability to fly, the at least 2 items that grant on demand flight; and the literal wizard/sorcerer spell you should have no trouble just flying wherever you want at that point in the game. The Santa Claus manoeuvre is OP in many situations.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:16
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Literally just don't even do that quest. Leave his dumb rear end with the Zhentarim
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Jan 29, 2024 13:22
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Oskar Fevras is toast on my current campaign because for some reason I had the Enemy of Justice debuff active in the Zhentarim hideout, causing them to aggro me across the cave upon zoning in, and you simply can't NOT throw an alchemical firebomb into that oil pit.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:45
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Here lies the artist, thought of firewine and exploded.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:46
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Frankly if he wants to reunite with his dead fling that badly he can have it
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Jan 29, 2024 13:48
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Biggest problem in the game right now is that enemies don't make Goofy noises when they slip on ice patches. https://i.imgur.com/BEjRoDy.mp4
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Jan 29, 2024 13:58
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exquisite tea posted:Biggest problem in the game right now is that enemies don't make Goofy noises when they slip on ice patches. I don't use mods, but I would make an exception for one that plays this sound when you shove/throw someone into the abyss.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:12
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I want to counter the OP in saying I ran into one consequence of worming up and that is when someone in a Tavern says my face is weird. But that's if I didn't have a certain companion in dialogue range, really disarmed the whole situation when I was expecting to start throwing chairs.
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The djinni at the circus told my wormed up Tav that he was ugly, but maybe he says that to all the guys.
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exquisite tea posted:Note that she and everyone at Last Light will only survive if you later choose to spare the Nightsong. Does this only happen if you don't talk to her, or will killing Aylin always doom the tavern? I want to see DJ Shart on this playthrough but I don't want to miss out on Dammon's act 3 wares.
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Further Reading posted:The djinni at the circus told my wormed up Tav that he was ugly, but maybe he says that to all the guys. Yeah pretty sure he says that regardless of worm level, I think he even said it to my super attractive Chad Tav (pictured here speaking to a poor glitched child:) 
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Dragonwagon posted:Does this only happen if you don't talk to her, or will killing Aylin always doom the tavern? I want to see DJ Shart on this playthrough but I don't want to miss out on Dammon's act 3 wares. I'm pretty sure (spoilers for the outcomes of Shadowheart's quest) if you kill Aylin through Shadowheart's ritual (and NOT by like grazing her with a stray aoe) Shar goes super saiyan and destroys Last Light in a special cutscene regardless of how you dealt with Isobel.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:51
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Dragonwagon posted:Does this only happen if you don't talk to her, or will killing Aylin always doom the tavern? I want to see DJ Shart on this playthrough but I don't want to miss out on Dammon's act 3 wares. Can’t have them both edit: Actually I don’t know if that’s true. I just woke up and it made sense at the time Trevor Hale fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 15:53
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Dragonwagon posted:Does this only happen if you don't talk to her, or will killing Aylin always doom the tavern? I want to see DJ Shart on this playthrough but I don't want to miss out on Dammon's act 3 wares. Honestly if you want to do DJ SH you should probably let last light fall or as durge kill isobel if only to iirc be able to recruit Jaheria.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:06
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Dragonwagon posted:Does this only happen if you don't talk to her, or will killing Aylin always doom the tavern? I want to see DJ Shart on this playthrough but I don't want to miss out on Dammon's act 3 wares. Always, and if you doom the tavern that way then Jaheira always dies too (she can live if the tavern dies due to Isobel kidnapping). You can then go to the doomed tavern and clear out all the zombies and giant creepers for an unbalanced amount of XP you wouldn't get otherwise. Funnily enough despite the shadow curse becoming extremely strong after killing Aylin (most areas are now fully obscured), it still clears completely when leaving act 2 if you did Halsin's quest beforehand.
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ChickenMedium posted:I don't use mods, but I would make an exception for one that plays this sound when you shove/throw someone into the abyss. There should be a chance that tossing someone into a chasm plays the Wilhelm scream
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Jan 29, 2024 16:37
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Entropic posted:Holy crap Ansur is kicking my rear end on Tactician mode. I'm back at camp trying to figure out how to best respec and reequip everyone because my party that was breezing through everything else in Act III (I barely had any trouble with Cazador) can't put damage on him fast enough to take him down before he goes full nuclear lightning mode. just have globe of invincibility up and stand inside it and shoot at it until it dies said globe negates everything he does including his lightning ult
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Jan 29, 2024 16:56
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I'm 110 hours into my current and first playthrough, somewhere middling in Act III. Still adore this game, keeps being awesome. That said, I found an old journal in a mausoleum that alluded to Withers being related to, or actually being, Jergal. Am I on the right track with that thinking?
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Found the hottest new pro gamer tip to avoid the lava mephit death explosions: drop create water on your party and have throwbarb Karlach launch three of them a turn while shouting PULL, apply eldritch blasts/crossbow bolts/rays of frost to taste.
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chaosapiant posted:I'm 110 hours into my current and first playthrough, somewhere middling in Act III. Still adore this game, keeps being awesome. That said, I found an old journal in a mausoleum that alluded to Withers being related to, or actually being, Jergal. Am I on the right track with that thinking? That's the commonly accepted belief, yeah. There are a bunch of youtube videos where people go deep on the lore of it all
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You don't have to accept it cos it's not actually in the game itself afaik but if you dive into the save files some of the database entries or whatever the gently caress explicitly call him Jergal
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chaosapiant posted:I'm 110 hours into my current and first playthrough, somewhere middling in Act III. Still adore this game, keeps being awesome. That said, I found an old journal in a mausoleum that alluded to Withers being related to, or actually being, Jergal. Am I on the right track with that thinking? It’s generally accepted that he’s Jergal, yes.
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Jan 29, 2024 18:46
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It's funny because it really contextualizes that last scene, but at the same time I was like talk all the poo poo you want, Jergal, these are your boys and you did this to yourself
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Ginette Reno posted:He's a dragon. Dragon's can and do polymorph into humanoid form a lot. Look at Quedenos. He does that when hanging out in cities with Voss. I had no idea this was a thing in D&D lore so those flashback cutscenes were very confusing.
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There’s a lot of stuff the game just expects you to know unfortunately, I think it’s one of the ways it fails narratively. It does such a poor job of explaining what happened to Elturel and why there’s even tiefling refugees.
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Maybe it would remove some of the mystique of encountering a new weird freaky guy but I sort of wish there was a bestiary. It would promote the Dungeons & Dragins setting and give some background without the need for tons of boring "explain this thing to me like I'm the most credulous person in Faerun" dialogue options, win win.
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Jan 29, 2024 19:14
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In the good old days a game like this would have all that stuff in 150 page paper manual that came in the box and it would be full of cool concept art and stuff.
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Entropic posted:I had no idea this was a thing in D&D lore so those flashback cutscenes were very confusing. Basically D&D dragons are very large, very smart cats and the older and smarter ones are also sorcerers. It's also convenient for like the three dragons in BG3 that are shown to use a dragonborn form so that they can hang out with normal size people while not being huge.
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Entropic posted:In the good old days a game like this would have all that stuff in 150 page paper manual that came in the box and it would be full of cool concept art and stuff. Yeah, god, the supplemental materials for BG1 and 2 were loving great. TBH if Larian put out a box of physical poo poo like that for 20 bucks a pop or something, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Some sort of parchment map that I could use for navigating, and turn off minimap and only use waypoints for fast travel. That you could make notes on as you go, rather than the game filling it in for you. And like a bigass book "by Volo" with hand drawn illustrations and a mini-monster manual (with his totally accurate knowledge of the subject, of course). drat that would own
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drat I’m gonna buy a Collector’s Edition and get owned like I did with Disco Elysium $200 Art book with concepts / sketches (actually cool) Cloth map (size of handkerchief, poor resolution) Plastic intellect devourer Stickers or some poo poo I’ll keep buying that garbage.
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah, god, the supplemental materials for BG1 and 2 were loving great. TBH if Larian put out a box of physical poo poo like that for 20 bucks a pop or something, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Some sort of parchment map that I could use for navigating, and turn off minimap and only use waypoints for fast travel. That you could make notes on as you go, rather than the game filling it in for you. I loved the original 6 slot CD case sleeve and thick manual for the first Baldur's Gate game. Complete with fold out map. It just tickles the imagination in such a way that game materials don't do any more. I still have my spiral-bound manual for Neverwinter Nights floating here somewhere.
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I'm about to do what I remember being the most annoying part of the game Grymforge. Pray for me.
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Thundarr posted:It's also convenient for like the three dragons in BG3 that are shown to use a dragonborn form so that they can hang out with normal size people while not being huge. Hmm, Ansur, Qudenos, the mind-controlled red dragon on top of the brain, Echo of Abazigal... yeah not sure if 3 or 4, the last one kinda depends maybe
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I meant the last one actually, I guess I phrased it a bit ambiguously. There's also a dragon that doesn't bother pretending to be small, like you said.
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