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Medullah posted:I can't imagine playing this game without one character with Speak with Animals. Talking to Scratch and the Owlbear Cub is a highlight of the game. there are 1 million swa potions and you can easily buy or make more, you don't need it on a character
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Zodium posted:there are 1 million swa potions and you can easily buy or make more, you don't need it on a character also get this to save the clicking https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2940
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Medullah posted:I can't imagine playing this game without one character with Speak with Animals. Talking to Scratch and the Owlbear Cub is a highlight of the game. how do you recruit the owlbear cub? he won't talk to me, he's just chowing down on his mother
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Eau de MacGowan posted:how do you recruit the owlbear cub? he won't talk to me, he's just chowing down on his mother You have to rescue him from the Goblin Camp later. He'll eventually come to your camp in a night event, usually around the time you reach the mountain pass.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:how do you recruit the owlbear cub? he won't talk to me, he's just chowing down on his mother exquisite tea posted:You have to rescue him from the Goblin Camp later. He'll eventually come to your camp in a night event, usually around the time you reach the mountain pass. For me I didn't kill the Owlbear mother, I used Astarion to sneak to the treasure and steal it without violence. The Cub then showed up at the goblin camp and it turns out the goblins killed his mom. Then at the end he's given super steroids and turns into a giant armored Owlbear you can summon in the final battle but I of course didn't do that because I don't want my adopted son getting hurt
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Medullah posted:For me I didn't kill the Owlbear mother, I used Astarion to sneak to the treasure and steal it without violence. father I crave violence
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When/how does the owlbear cub show up at the goblins? Ive never seen that.
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On my current honor run I got a Surprise round on the Owlbears and for whatever reason this made the cub hostile and join the fight. I non-lethal KO'd him (feels bad man) but he never showed up at the goblin camp or my camp or anything  rip to my feathered homieLoel posted:When/how does the owlbear cub show up at the goblins? Ive never seen that. At some point he usually shows up in the Chicken Chasing game. You can talk to him and he'll learn your scent to later follow back to camp
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Eau de MacGowan posted:how do you recruit the owlbear cub? he won't talk to me, he's just chowing down on his mother he can sometimes get stuck eating mom forever. if he won't move, use this console command. code:
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Baldur's Gate 3: he can sometimes get stuck eating mom forever
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Do the githyankis in this game have some kind of RNG superpower or am I missing something? Playing my first run on tactician, githyanki fights are a colossal loving pain in the rear end every time, way harder than everything else I've faced so far. They never ever seem to miss and they deal massive damage both melee and ranged. I swear they don't have crossbows thay have loving cannons.
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I encountered and fought the gnolls. Is there a reason gnolls exploded out the hyenas? I was trying to investigate and assumed there was some plot hook or something to explain why animals exploded into gnolls.
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It's described somewhere that hyenas that die due to some kind of traumatic event can give rise to gnolls. I think maybe if you succeed some kind of roll when you examine one.
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Kawabata posted:Do the githyankis in this game have some kind of RNG superpower or am I missing something? Playing my first run on tactician, githyanki fights are a colossal loving pain in the rear end every time, way harder than everything else I've faced so far. They're loving astral plane traveling, dragon riding, Mindflayer hunters. They just have their poo poo together.
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When I got to the ones at the bridge I was in desperate need of a long rest but I figured "I'll bring Lae'zel along to talk to these guys and maybe they'll give me some cool stuff for being friendly" Death. They gave me death.
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Medullah posted:I can't imagine playing this game without one character with Speak with Animals. Talking to Scratch and the Owlbear Cub is a highlight of the game. If you don't mind being a little meta gaming You can always just pickpocket Volo while he is in camp. There are no consequences of failing a pickpocket, and he always gets a few thieving tools and speak with animal potions every long rest. I do it just because finding those around the map can be a little annoying but not expensive.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I encountered and fought the gnolls. That's gnoll lifecycle lore. Origins of the Gnolls are that the Demon lord Yeenoghu wandered the world and hyenas that feasted on his kills turned into the first gnolls (via exploding out of their previous hyena body). Now particular gnoll champions are imbued with the demonic spirit of Yeenoghu (becoming a "Fang of Yeenoghu")and any of their kills that are feasted upon by hyenas turn into fully grown gnolls. Gnolls can tame packs of hyenas to travel around behind them to increase their numbers and in areas where hyenas are plentiful, a Fang of Yeenoghu can be a serious kingdom threatening issue that has to be hunted down. AngryBooch fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Finally beat it!  I am absolutely exhausted now.The epic battle sequence was way too long and frankly overblown with the Final Fantasy-style cosmic spectacle. In a way it is less compelling than Gorion's Ward duelling Sarevok in a filthy underground temple just for being so much less grounded in the tangible. I think the cinematic spectacle of BG3 is a bit much, a somewhat more grounded and literary tale could have been told that gave us 99% of the story and 100% of the cool gameplay capabilities for 10% of the budget, and give us space for  Minsc killed the Red Dragon by throwing Dribbles' severed body parts at it  The final final boss thing with the brain in the brain made no real sense to me, and especially what it was I actually did. Also it was a pretty straightforward HP race that my party won in two turns, with my paladin finishing the thing off by running up in its face and SMITING EVIL with Haste and Cloud Giant Strength, doing over 100 damage in a single turn. God the thrill of unloading four smites in a row never gets old. And at the end, everyone goes off a rad adventure that sounds like a subject for a great high-level D&D module (man I'd love to play Lae'zel's epic level gith revolution campaign across the stars), my character, the blazing, passionate paladin of the Oath of the Ancients, sworn to Lathander, god of the dawn, youthful vitality, and new ventures, retires...to Gale's tower in Waterdeep...to live among the books while Gale teaches wizard college and listen to his bitchy, jealous expy of Honor Harrington's loving treecat. I hope Gale knows how to please an 8 INT himbo boy who can barely read lmao
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Gnolls loving rule, they're so metal. Yeenoghu the demon lord makes them insatiably hungry to the extent that it makes them violently and irretrievably insane, and their gift to him is the flesh they gorge on after going on rabid slaughter rampages. After butchering everyone and everything they come across, whole towns and caravans and fields of livestock, they drag the carcasses into big piles around the smoldering ruins they've made, devouring them, sometimes vomiting up the contents of their stomachs into the gore nests because they've choked the flesh down too quickly and too voluminously. When the gore nests get to a sufficient size, they become a portal to Yeenoghu's Seeping Woods in the Abyss, and more fully grown gnolls start growing in veiny, fleshy cysts within the corpse pile. They crawl out, screaming and steaming and starving and wet with stinking puke and viscera, immediately going on a rampage for flesh to sate the curse of their slavering hunger. They're like zombies but way WAY worse, they are just about the worst thing that can happen to an area.
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 One playthrough.  E: Wikipedia says that that's about enough time to listen to Wagner's Ring cycle ten times and have enough left over for half a Beethoven symphony for dessert! 
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It pays dividends to read books and stuff laying around for all that kind of lore and more. Passing checks for Religion, History, Arcana etc tells you a lot too.
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is the durge canonically a sorcerer in the same way that he’s canonically a white Dragonborn?
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SlimGoodbody posted:Gnolls loving rule, they're so metal. Yeenoghu the demon lord makes them insatiably hungry to the extent that it makes them violently and irretrievably insane, and their gift to him is the flesh they gorge on after going on rabid slaughter rampages. After butchering everyone and everything they come across, whole towns and caravans and fields of livestock, they drag the carcasses into big piles around the smoldering ruins they've made, devouring them, sometimes vomiting up the contents of their stomachs into the gore nests because they've choked the flesh down too quickly and too voluminously. when did gnolls go grimdark, werent they just furry goofy goblins back in the day?
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Eau de MacGowan posted:when did gnolls go grimdark, werent they just furry goofy goblins back in the day? Idk, this was the explanation given in Volo's Guide to Monsters, but I suppose we have learned to take his missives with a grain of salt. I may also be misremembering and attributing some of the demon behaviors from DOOM 2016 to gnolls, but if I am then that's only cause it's cool and I'm the DM 
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SlimGoodbody posted:Gnolls loving rule, they're so metal. Yeenoghu the demon lord makes them insatiably hungry to the extent that it makes them violently and irretrievably insane, and their gift to him is the flesh they gorge on after going on rabid slaughter rampages. After butchering everyone and everything they come across, whole towns and caravans and fields of livestock, they drag the carcasses into big piles around the smoldering ruins they've made, devouring them, sometimes vomiting up the contents of their stomachs into the gore nests because they've choked the flesh down too quickly and too voluminously. You make it sound so sexual
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I love Gnoll’s ty for the explanation I had to research the demons vs devils thing because of Karlach I want to take a week vacation to do nothing but play this game
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Slurs for teiflings involve referencing devils and demons. It’s like the n word for them.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:when did gnolls go grimdark, werent they just furry goofy goblins back in the day? Reading through a history of gnolls through various editions, it seems they've been getting more and more grimdark with each edition, but the part of them being literally birthed in blood and violence was introduced in 5e. Even in 4e though, they were already more demonic than humanoid.
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Clarste posted:Reading through a history of gnolls through various editions, it seems they've been getting more and more grimdark with each edition, but the part of them being literally birthed in blood and violence was introduced in 5e. Even in 4e though, they were already more demonic than humanoid. Cool read, thank you for posting it!
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Clarste posted:Reading through a history of gnolls through various editions, it seems they've been getting more and more grimdark with each edition, but the part of them being literally birthed in blood and violence was introduced in 5e. Even in 4e though, they were already more demonic than humanoid. This was an interesting read but I completely disagree with how the author constantly harps on the tragedy of not woobifying the demon hyenas. Gnolls are cool as gently caress, it rules that they're insanely evil and metal, why do people want this game to just be going around and solemnly affirming the trauma of every single fictional monster, like, just go rub one out to some furry porn and stop trying to make this game into a dog dating simulator.
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Eh, the history of fantasy writing has also been a push-and-pull between people who want evil monstrous races that it's fun to fight, and people who point out that even the idea of a race that is always by-nature evil is pretty racist. It seems like D&D is trying to square this circle by making them much more explicitly demonic, rather than just dog people who happen to be evil, but it's also kind of arbitrary that they took them in such a different direction than goblins or kobolds.
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Clarste posted:Eh, the history of fantasy writing has also been a push-and-pull between people who want evil monstrous races that it's fun to fight, and people who point out that even the idea of a race that is always by-nature evil is pretty racist. It seems like D&D is trying to square this circle by making them much more explicitly demonic, rather than just dog people who happen to be evil, but it's also kind of arbitrary that they took them in such a different direction than goblins or kobolds. demons always being evil is also racist!
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Saraiguma posted:demons always being evil is also racist! stfu
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racism domain clerics are the worst
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I get the feeling that people have gotten kinda sick of "being an orc is exactly like being lgbt" sort of storytelling so the pendulum is starting to move the other way with nonhuman races having fundamental nonhuman qualities.
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mycot posted:I get the feeling that people have gotten kinda sick of "being an orc is exactly like being lgbt" sort of storytelling so the pendulum is starting to move the other way with nonhuman races having fundamental nonhuman qualities. unfortunately most writers are terrible at writing fantasy races as anything but "humans but 3 random adjectives and an alignment"
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Saraiguma posted:demons always being evil is also racist! No, they are literally created from the ontological clay of archetypal evil in mythic para-dimensional planes that are created by and for the metaphorical extension of human evil. They are not people, they are fictional effigies that answer the question "what if rape and murder and betrayal had a body?" If you want demons to not be evil, then you want them to not exist, because they are fundamentally an archetypal godform who exist solely to be reflections of the anti-social behaviors we fear. If you want a demon to not be evil, allow me to point you towards: the angel. A demon that is not evil. It is fine for this to be true, because all of it is fake fantasy gobbledygook explicitly written to contain it for the purpose of making your little elf knight battle in epic fashion over the soul of the Eldritch McGuffin while you eat pizza with your friends and then go get stoned and see Dune 2.
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Anyway I'm reminded of the exchange you can have with the mercenary trying to steal the githyanki egg and Lae'zel. The mercenary says the Society of Brilliance wanted the egg to prove an experiment that a Gith doesn't have to be inherently violent if raised out of that environment. Both the mercenary and Lae'zel are dismissive of the idea, but I'm pretty sure BG3 at least believes that is correct. Even Raph is kinda sorta implied to be a product of his environment.
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SlimGoodbody posted:No, they are literally created from the ontological clay of archetypal evil in mythic para-dimensional planes that are created by and for the metaphorical extension of human evil. They are not people, they are fictional effigies that answer the question "what if rape and murder and betrayal had a body?" If you want demons to not be evil, then you want them to not exist, because they are fundamentally an archetypal godform who exist solely to be reflections of the anti-social behaviors we fear. If demons have agency and personhood (they do) then them being "always evil" is simply portraying a race of people as okay to murder indiscriminately, alignment is moronic but there are multiple extant ways to forcibly change the alignment of a creature in dungeons and dragons
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