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exquisite tea posted:It's somewhat tedious to get him to actually stand under the mallet without Command or a movement-impairing spell like Ray of Frost. And if you already have a Cleric that can cast Command, then you can also just use Silence and completely negate his legendary action anyway, letting your melee wail on him. The worst part of trying to get him under the hammer is when he ends up positioned just so, that no matter which direction you get him to move, he walks right past the drat thing.
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BlazetheInferno posted:The worst part of trying to get him under the hammer is when he ends up positioned just so, that no matter which direction you get him to move, he walks right past the drat thing. That's pretty much what happened to me. Got 1 hammer hit and then gave up on it after having him just out of range a couple turns in a row. Next time I think I'll just owlbear from the top rope.
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I forget if I mentioned it in this thread, but I used our shared experience with early release Gale's advances as a mutual touchstone when talking to my teen daughter about consent, bodily autonomy, and pushy guys. "You will meet some Gales in your life, and you need to shut them down in the directest possible manner, they'll take politeness as an excuse to keep trying." Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:I forget if I mentioned it in this thread, but I used our shared experience with early release Gale's advances as a mutual touchstone when talking to my teen daughter about consent, bodily autonomy, and pushy guys. "You will meet some Gales in your life, and you need to shut them down in the directest possible manner, they'll take politeness as an excuse to keep trying." That's legit awesome, you're a good parent!
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Owlbear Camus posted:I forget if I mentioned it in this thread, but I used our shared experience with early release Gale's advances as a mutual touchstone when talking to my teen daughter about consent, bodily autonomy, and pushy guys. "You will meet some Gales in your life, and you need to shut them down in the directest possible manner, they'll take politeness as an excuse to keep trying." oh god. what was early release gale doing??
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cash crab posted:oh god. what was early release gale doing?? I've heard that he was extremely, dangerously horny. Though still nowhere near Halsin.
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cash crab posted:oh god. what was early release gale doing?? through some broken scripting he would somtimes come on VERY STRONG in a way that basically came across as gaslighting/stalky and yes, horny. also she felt a little blindsided by the bit where he offers to teach you some magic at camp, and she literally just though going for it would give her access to a cantrip or something.
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Owlbear Camus posted:through some broken scripting he would somtimes come on VERY STRONG in a way that basically came across as gaslighting/stalky and yes, horny. The whole "Magic lesson" scene had to be modified so that there was a way out of it that was, and I quote, "somewhere in between kissing him and kicking him in the head". Because there kinda wasn't initially. But yeah, Gale was initially literally bugged to trigger his Romance flags too easily.
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Black Noise posted:I was going to quote some Kung Fu movie about allowing yourself to be hit so you can strike a superior combatant in but maybe multi attack would mess this up. Yeah I just save scummed it til I won initiative lol. I didn’t totally realize it at the time but having the ability to do that made me lazy about thinking of better solutions. Playing on honor mode now I’m much more apt to spend time analyzing the encounter before diving in vs mashing F8 til I get favorable rolls Solo Wing Pixy posted:You probably figured it out from other posts, but if you hit the little padlock icon, you can mess around with what's in the default bars, the little + button will add rows if you need more, and those red divider things can be moved around as well. You...probably don't need a visual reference, but I made one anyways! FYI the stat debuff doesn’t have to be permanent. It goes away if you feed them a tadpole Also god searching this up to remind myself how it works people got SO MAD online about the debuffs lol
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It bugs me extremely that Halsin's dialogue tree forever has the "I hope I didn't come on too strong at the party..." option. Motherfucker the only conversation I had with you at that party was about the logistics of getting to Moonrise, don't make me complicit in your weird misreading of signals.
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A thought occurs. I've got three barrels full of drunk kobold sitting in Karlach's inventory. I need to decide when will be the funniest time to deploy these.
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GimpInBlack posted:It bugs me extremely that Halsin's dialogue tree forever has the "I hope I didn't come on too strong at the party..." option. Motherfucker the only conversation I had with you at that party was about the logistics of getting to Moonrise, don't make me complicit in your weird misreading of signals. I wonder if Larian is going to adjust Halsin in particular, I guess that would require having his actor do a few new lines. Its very jarring how out of place his advances are.
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Node posted:I wonder if Larian is going to adjust Halsin in particular, I guess that would require having his actor do a few new lines. Its very jarring how out of place his advances are. i literally barely spoke to him because i was busy trying to recruit minthara and romance astarion and it’s got a bit of a creepy vibe when it’s sort of out of nowhere like that
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The most creeped I was about companion romance attempt was actually with Lae'zel. I was playing Durge, I just killed Alfira in the camp and confessed everything to the party, so after that I was walking around and talking to other party members and Lae'zel hit me with the "Mmmm, you smell so good It turns me on so much, I want to gently caress you" dialogue while I was still covered with Alfira's blood and gore It was just a bad timing, but uhhh....it left an impression. 
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Docjowles posted:Yeah I just save scummed it til I won initiative lol. I didn’t totally realize it at the time but having the ability to do that made me lazy about thinking of better solutions. Playing on honor mode now hell yeah. my hm runs really pushed me to think in terms of "this will work even in a worst case scenario" instead of "this will be really good in a best case scenario." very satisfying.
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Lt. Lizard posted:The most creeped I was about companion romance attempt was actually with Lae'zel. I was playing Durge, I just killed Alfira in the camp and confessed everything to the party, so after that I was walking around and talking to other party members and Lae'zel hit me with the "Mmmm, you smell so good It turns me on so much, I want to gently caress you" dialogue while I was still covered with Alfira's blood and gore It was just a bad timing, but uhhh....it left an impression. oh i hate that so much
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Docjowles posted:Yeah I just save scummed it til I won initiative lol. I didn’t totally realize it at the time but having the ability to do that made me lazy about thinking of better solutions. Playing on honor mode now Yes, but to quote my daughter when she's moody, I dun want to.  BlazetheInferno posted:A thought occurs. I've got three barrels full of drunk kobold sitting in Karlach's inventory. I need to decide when will be the funniest time to deploy these. ...I might have to roll my save back an hour or so and grab those instead of blowing them all up. Fortunately I hard-save constantly. Also, all Halsin talked about at my party was "hey, go have fun with other people and stop asking me about the logistics of crossing Death Shadow Land Do Not Go" so I must have missed something. Maybe it got changed at some point (like Gale? I thought the Weave scene was cute...) or I managed to avoid clicking the right/wrong dialog option? I wasn't planning on achieving peace inside nature by having nature inside me anyways, so. Solo Wing Pixy fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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I always kill halsin every playthrough and so should you
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EorayMel posted:I always kill halsin every playthrough and so should you Knowing Halsin even when you kill him he gets off on it.
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Medullah posted:Knowing Halsin even when you kill him he gets off on it. ☹️
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EorayMel posted:I always kill halsin every playthrough and so should you Halsin tries hard to walk into my aoe after the beach fight so I think he agrees.
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Medullah posted:Knowing Halsin even when you kill him he gets off on it. La grande mort
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Zodium posted:hell yeah. my hm runs really pushed me to think in terms of "this will work even in a worst case scenario" instead of "this will be really good in a best case scenario." very satisfying. Run it again with no respecs and a lovely class hahaha. Like a hundred pages back I tried to solo HM with 1 life cleric/X necromancer (big armor and summons, for D2 vibes). Early levels are ROUGH. Made it to level 5 and then got hold-person'd. Having sanctuary is amazing, though.
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Recently restarted this with my brother and we're about to go through the goblin camp. I've read that you can now get Minthara without being an evil bastard but I hear a lot of contradictions. Some people say its as easy as using non lethal to down her and other people read out something that is on par with getting the keys to the truck in Pokemon Red or unlocking Luigi in Mario 64. Like you have to make her temporary hostile, you have to take her out first, after knocking her out you cannot leave the temple until you kill the rest of the goblin leaders, you cannot long rest until after the grove resolves, etc. Is it the simple option or do you have to do some weird series of events to have it work out?
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Non lethal KO her before doing anything else aggressive against the goblins: definitely works have done it multiple times. It used to be like 1990s gamefaqs poo poo you read in a file full of ASCII art where if you did these 38 steps perfectly you’d get her. But they patched it so it’s very easy now to recruit her if you want to
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Turds in magma posted:Run it again with no respecs and a lovely class hahaha. Like a hundred pages back I tried to solo HM with 1 life cleric/X necromancer (big armor and summons, for D2 vibes). Early levels are ROUGH. Made it to level 5 and then got hold-person'd. Having sanctuary is amazing, though. yeah I explicitly designed both the tb barb and control bard builds I used around beating or negating wisdom saves, because they'll kill you stone dead if you fail one. 16 wis, amulet of the harpers. other stats don't matter if you can't move or act and enemies automatically critical you.
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Mr. Lobe posted:La grande mort  also I feel like I have to repost this. Docjowles posted:Non lethal KO her before doing anything else aggressive against the goblins: definitely works have done it multiple times. On this note, I think I read somewhere that she's mutually exclusive with Halsin, is that still correct or was that just when you had to side with the goblins in Act 1?
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Leal posted:Recently restarted this with my brother and we're about to go through the goblin camp. I've read that you can now get Minthara without being an evil bastard but I hear a lot of contradictions. Some people say its as easy as using non lethal to down her and other people read out something that is on par with getting the keys to the truck in Pokemon Red or unlocking Luigi in Mario 64. Like you have to make her temporary hostile, you have to take her out first, after knocking her out you cannot leave the temple until you kill the rest of the goblin leaders, you cannot long rest until after the grove resolves, etc. Originally, it was Halsin OR Minthara, but some clever ducks reliably threaded the needle with aforementioned SS Anne-style bullshit involving Polymorph, so Larian decided to Rule Of Cool it that a specific kind of non-lethal takedown counts as a Quest Kill. It is very easy to get down once you know how to do it! The actually hard part later becomes if you WANT to decide to do this or not, because Minthara is somewhat poorly defined as a companion character, especially if you are a true goody goody and you already have 1 or 2 VIP's in your party comp.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:wyll just dancing by himself by the fire and being all OH HEY WANNA DANCE!??! when you wander past was the creepiest for me, dude is just reading weird PUA tactics about being 'quirky' I think its supposed to hook into a previous dialogue where he mentions he spent a lot of his youth drinking and dancing and you can needle him about it or invite him to show off or dance with you. When you do that he'll basically nervously deflect. Then you see him later somewhat drunk and happy during a celebration showing of his moves. In this sequence is makes sense, and if you are on a romance track and previously asked him to dance with you it makes sense, you literally asked for this earlier. If none of that stuff happened first, yeah I can see why that'd feel weird and jarring.
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blizzardvizard posted:Doesn't Halsin hit on you once and then back off once you said you're not interested, like any other companion in the game. Where's all this "Halsin is uncomfortably horny" coming from He is written as a big dude who is big horny and it's difficult if not impossible to not wrack high approval with him by simply solving the Shadow Curse. He makes the first move in the romance plot, so it can come out of nowhere, and for some reason, they had him take the let down particularly hard.. which might have been fine if game conditions made it seem that YOU were the one persuing HIM. Eau de MacGowan posted:wyll just dancing by himself by the fire and being all OH HEY WANNA DANCE!??! when you wander past was the creepiest for me, dude is just reading weird PUA tactics about being 'quirky' lol, I did have this happen. Wyll, wtf? I find it amusing in hindsight getting bamboozled into Wizard Lovin' from Gale's "Hey, man... do you want to see a magic trick?" because the backlash was hard, they patched this behavior and the script, and they all sometimes STILL hit on you too hard. It's all dumb and awful and dorky as hell, but it's part of the game's very idiosyncratic identity.
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blizzardvizard posted:Doesn't Halsin hit on you once and then back off once you said you're not interested, like any other companion in the game. Where's all this "Halsin is uncomfortably horny" coming from You can give him one positive remark, like Good Idea!, then he confesses his love for you at camp. It's really awkward and isn't believable at all. At least I knew Karlach for a few hours before she told me she wanted to ride me. Eau de MacGowan posted:wyll just dancing by himself by the fire and being all OH HEY WANNA DANCE!??! when you wander past was the creepiest for me, dude is just reading weird PUA tactics about being 'quirky' I hated this encounter too because he's doing this elaborate dance in the the middle of camp and then acts startled and surprised because you caught him. Dude, everybody can see that, even Withers. Node fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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