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Can anyone recommend a good gimmick build for our multiplayer game, ideally a healer type? I wanna do something silly and I'm joining while we're already well underway.
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5 Berserker Barb + 4 Transmutation Wiz + 3 Thief. Potion chucker!!
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Mar 12, 2024 22:22
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exquisite tea posted:5 Berserker Barb + 4 Transmutation Wiz + 3 Thief. Potion chucker!! This but you're also a vivid lettuce-green Duergar
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Mar 12, 2024 22:29
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exquisite tea posted:What are you talking about my man really did us a solid turning illithid within minutes of meeting us so that the rest of my party could continue their hot girl summer. How badly did I gently caress myself giving my main character a bunch of tadpole powers
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Mar 12, 2024 22:31
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Woolie Wool posted:How badly did I gently caress myself giving my main character a bunch of tadpole powers Youre fine, seemingly the only thing this game doesnt let you gently caress is yourself
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Mar 12, 2024 22:41
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Talorat posted:Can anyone recommend a good gimmick build for our multiplayer game, ideally a healer type? I wanna do something silly and I'm joining while we're already well underway. 17 con/16 wis 12 life cleric dual wielding phalar aluve/blood of lathander, wearing luminous armor, hellrider's pride, whispering promise and boots of genial striding. take war caster, dual wielder and resilient constitution, trigger bless+blade ward with preserve life on the party and dish out orbs on enemies with spirit guardians.
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Mar 12, 2024 22:42
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exquisite tea posted:5 Berserker Barb + 4 Transmutation Wiz + 3 Thief. Potion chucker!! I'm leaning towards this for the comedy aspect lol
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Mar 12, 2024 22:44
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Shard posted:I did it to karlach on my first run so she wouldn't blow up Ok that’s fair. I was cool with the outcome of invading hell side by side with my big red queen. Not sure what I’m gonna do about her on this playthrough since I’m doing Bae’zel romance Talorat posted:Can anyone recommend a good gimmick build for our multiplayer game, ideally a healer type? I wanna do something silly and I'm joining while we're already well underway. I really like the mental image of Gale as a high CHA and STR barb. This long hair nerd just all caps screaming to resolve every dialogue check like some roid raging karen. Woolie Wool posted:How badly did I gently caress myself giving my main character a bunch of tadpole powers somehow this doesn’t seem to matter AT ALL which I found pretty weird since the first half of the game is all about how apocalyptically awful the tadpole is. When in fact shoving as many tadpoles down your throat as possible is by far the optimal play
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Mar 12, 2024 22:51
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I went with Karlithid on my first playthrough and slept like a baby afterwards, I understand the concerns about her losing her... tieflingity and indeed she is a little spacey in the epilogue, but she hasn't actually become anyone she wouldn't want to be - that is, a bad person - so it's ok imo. I can't see how people consider it a worse outcome than going to actual literal Hell to fight and kill 24/7. It also bugs the hell out of me that letting Emp die at the end of Act 2 is an instant gg. We literally do not need that guy
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Mar 12, 2024 23:47
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Also also I don't think there should be downsides for eating worms so much as there should be equally strong incentives to not do it. But idk what they would be
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Mar 12, 2024 23:49
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I went with Karlithid on my first playthrough and slept like a baby afterwards, I understand the concerns about her losing her... tieflingity and indeed she is a little spacey in the epilogue, but she hasn't actually become anyone she wouldn't want to be - that is, a bad person - so it's ok imo. I can't see how people consider it a worse outcome than going to actual literal Hell to fight and kill 24/7. To be fair it does require her to have a convenient supply of terminally ill people who consent to having their minds eaten. Realistically you’ve got to expect a dry spell there eventually
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Mar 12, 2024 23:51
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Control Volume posted:Youre fine, seemingly the only thing this game doesnt let you gently caress is yourself given that it's an incredibly horny dnd game with doppelgangers as one enemy type seems a missed trick
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Mar 12, 2024 23:58
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Owlbear Camus posted:given that it's an incredibly horny dnd game with doppelgangers as one enemy type seems a missed trick if you gently caress harnassus in the house of hope, you should be able to ask him to gently caress you again with your own body afterward. while your party looks on in disgust btw the follow up you get to doing that is hilarious. everyone should gently caress a devil or two if they can
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Mar 13, 2024 00:03
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Also also I don't think there should be downsides for eating worms so much as there should be equally strong incentives to not do it. But idk what they would be My main unfair criticism for the Internets about BG3 is that it has issues bigtime with structure and pacing, and a big part of it is that Act 1 sets up a dire struggle of resisting the Illithid powers, but there's never any big reward for doing so. I really am going to take "you look really uggo in screenshots" as my malus when I take the Emp's deal tho, until they thighten it up someday maybe.
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Mar 13, 2024 00:09
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I am now an hour into the game and have head butted a vampire elf. He seems cool though  I quite enjoy this game. I still need to learn the mechanics more though. At the early game I don’t really know what tactics there are. I kind of just “start blasting” with my sorcerer spells and it is what it is.
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Mar 13, 2024 00:33
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wizard2 posted:My main unfair criticism for the Internets about BG3 is that it has issues bigtime with structure and pacing, and a big part of it is that Act 1 sets up a dire struggle of resisting the Illithid powers, but there's never any big reward for doing so. I really am going to take "you look really uggo in screenshots" as my malus when I take the Emp's deal tho, until they thighten it up someday maybe.
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Mar 13, 2024 00:38
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That's the thing, I took a bunch of tadpoles and my paladin is a vain idiot with low INT and WIS and I am going to have to savescum like mad to pass a wisdom check based on number of tadpoles because the hells if he's going to sacrifice his pretty boy face But maybe he can take that as his patron Lathander's punishment for the sin of vanity so who knows
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Mar 13, 2024 01:07
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I'm gonna be honest, I hate everything surrounding the emperor and requiring someone to turn into a mind flayer/Orpheus immediately accepting doing it himself. poo poo sucks.
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Mar 13, 2024 01:21
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I'm gonna be honest, I hate everything surrounding the emperor and requiring someone to turn into a mind flayer/Orpheus immediately accepting doing it himself. poo poo sucks. It's obvious that they wanted a Hard Choice for the ending but it is so trivially easy to get that Deus ex Machina ending (which I imagine most players would consider the "best" outcome) that imo they should have also just relented and let you have the Broseidon ending where you can convince the Emperor to stick around for like 5 more minutes so neither of them have to die. You can even do a sinister credits stinger with the Emperor like the one for Raph if you want. I don't hate the ending because I think Lae'zel's arc is actually very touching on that route, but the dilemma is silly for how fast they back off on it. mycot fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Mar 13, 2024 01:24
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one thing BG3 affirms to me is that an entertaining story really isnt about the story told itself but the way in which you tell it I think the actual plot synopsis is no more or less silly than 1 and 2, but such an emphasis was placed on characterization, voice over, motion capture, I can really roll with it. It's been kind of funny to me that it won all the awards last year for Story and Narrative but it's a very silly story and you really need to suspend your disbelief for it to work! If you somehow got rid of the extremely graphic violence, gore, dismemberment, etc, and the cartoon porno reward cutscenes, you have a Saturday morning cartoonshow from the 90's, basically! real X-Men poo poo. I feel this is extremely appropriate for The Realms and BG tho, idk
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Mar 13, 2024 01:45
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wizard2 posted:My main unfair criticism for the Internets about BG3 is that it has issues bigtime with structure and pacing, and a big part of it is that Act 1 sets up a dire struggle of resisting the Illithid powers, but there's never any big reward for doing so. I really am going to take "you look really uggo in screenshots" as my malus when I take the Emp's deal tho, until they thighten it up someday maybe. Everyone says Dragonborn don’t have any advantages and that’s simply not true. They can eat the special tadpole and still look fairly normal!
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Mar 13, 2024 05:22
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Prop Wash posted:Everyone says Dragonborn don’t have any advantages and that’s simply not true. They can eat the special tadpole and still look fairly normal! Hell, they can even look better See also: half orcs
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Mar 13, 2024 05:30
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I came to the game late and the way people talked about the effect I thought it was gonna be way worse than it was. I mean it’s not a good look but I was expecting to transform into a loving Beholder or something It does make me chuckle that my whole crew looks like a black metal band in corpse paint and nobody says poo poo in conversation. Probably not even the weirdest thing they saw today in Faerûn
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Mar 13, 2024 06:19
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wizard2 posted:If you somehow got rid of the extremely graphic violence, gore, dismemberment, etc, and the cartoon porno reward cutscenes, you have a Saturday morning cartoonshow from the 90's, basically! real X-Men poo poo. I feel this is extremely appropriate for The Realms and BG tho, idk Docjowles posted:Probably not even the weirdest thing they saw today in Faerûn This game is the first D&D property I've ever interacted with, and the whole franchise seemed weird to me before, but I sort of Get It now. Obviously this is just one game, but I assume it's always meant to have been a deliberately dialed-up-to-11 silly fun fantasy schlock experience.
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freebooter posted:This game is the first D&D property I've ever interacted with, and the whole franchise seemed weird to me before, but I sort of Get It now. Obviously this is just one game, but I assume it's always meant to have been a deliberately dialed-up-to-11 silly fun fantasy schlock experience. The movie from last year is good, you should see it. Jarnathan!
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Mar 13, 2024 11:21
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Lobok posted:The movie from last year is good, you should see it. But we approved your pardon!
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Mar 13, 2024 14:29
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If you start a civil war in the grove by stealing the idol and then go to the goblin camp to talk to Minthara how does that all play out? I would find out myself but one of my party members is now permanently stuck in combat and I can't long rest anymore so the game doesn't want me to pursue this
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Mar 13, 2024 14:41
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Cavelcade posted:But we approved your pardon! Honestly the movie was such a surprise at how enjoyable it was. D&D getting such a rennaisance with Honor Among Thieves and BG3, hopefully the quality train continues.
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Mar 13, 2024 14:42
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Medullah posted:Honestly the movie was such a surprise at how enjoyable it was. D&D getting such a rennaisance with Honor Among Thieves and BG3, hopefully the quality train continues. Good news! In response to said rennaisance, Hasbro fired everybody involved with writing the D&D books themselves, or almost everybody, I forget!
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Mar 13, 2024 14:44
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what house rules do everyone play with? my first two runs were pretty no holds barred, but I decided to make up a few honorable rules for my honor mode run, and it definitely made the game a lot more fun for me: * no pickpocketing vendors. * no respeccing to reset vendor inventories or buy max attitude. * no buff/utility bot characters. * no haste or speed potions. * no globe of invulnerability. * no alert. not so much trying to jack up the difficulty as prevent myself from trivializing the game and relying on repetitive boring stuff. Zodium fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Mar 13, 2024 15:00
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Zodium posted:what house rules do everyone play with? my first two runs were pretty no holds barred, but I decided to make up a few honorable rules for my honor mode run, and it definitely made the game a lot more fun for me: I can understand the first three, to be less meta or videogamey, but the last three just seem like making it harder for yourself for the sake of it when the enemy will use it or take advantage of it themselves. I know you said it's not for that but that's what it sounds like.
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Zodium posted:* no pickpocketing vendors. Zodium posted:* no haste or speed potions.
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Mar 13, 2024 15:07
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a more challenging run for some would be a No Consumables run, as in, you HAVE to find a way to use that consumable you just looted in the very next fight or you lose teh game
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Mar 13, 2024 15:10
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Got to the end of act 2 and it turns out the Absolute is just a tool for the Dead Three. Guess I should have known from the title of the game and the fact that the temple from BG1 is on the title screen that the plot would be stored in the Bhaals. 
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Woolie Wool posted:Got to the end of act 2 and it turns out the Absolute is just a tool for the Dead Three. Guess I should have known from the title of the game and the fact that the temple from BG1 is on the title screen that the plot would be stored in the Bhaals. ya, it rules. a big gripe with Early Access was "how tf does this tie into Baldur's Gate 1 and 2?"
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Mar 13, 2024 15:12
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wizard2 posted:a more challenging run for some would be a No Consumables run, as in, you HAVE to find a way to use that consumable you just looted in the very next fight or you lose teh game I've barely touched consumables but I'm still on my first run and doing Explorer, my Resident Evil hoarder mentality has led to Gale having bags of scrolls, potions and elixirs that are literally encumbering him heh
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Mar 13, 2024 15:13
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Woolie Wool posted:Got to the end of act 2 and it turns out the Absolute is just a tool for the Dead Three. Guess I should have known from the title of the game and the fact that the temple from BG1 is on the title screen that the plot would be stored in the Bhaals. 
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Mar 13, 2024 15:13
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Lobok posted:I can understand the first three, to be less meta or videogamey, but the last three just seem like making it harder for yourself for the sake of it when the enemy will use it or take advantage of it themselves. I know you said it's not for that but that's what it sounds like. you can think of them as a single "no ending every combat in round 1 before the enemy can take a turn" rule i guess.
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Mar 13, 2024 15:15
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I’m always pickpocketing. Respeccing for cheaper reputation gains are irrelevant when you can take the money. Speed potions and things like perilous stakes are mitigated by boosting HP. Not taking alert or a least someone without an elixir of vigilance seems like a deliberate way to punish yourself for engaging in dialogue. I’ve been watching a low dex wizard do a co-op run and they have been consistently getting KO’d on balanced. I’ve lowered the DC of Greater Invisibility to 10 Helmet or Arcane Acuity and Helmet of Grit changed to clothing so pajama tanks can wear them. Transmuters stone works without the wizard being in the party because it’s a rock and the only limitation I can find is attunement and you can’t have more than 1 effect of the same name. 3m extra movement speed is crushers ring from act 1 so leave me alone. D20 initiative so Alert doesn’t always win but it helps.
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I dont bother with any thievery or stealth bc it is tedious as gently caress on Steam Deck lol 
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