Baldur's Gate 3

TNP

So, wanting to play a druid plus finding Karlach who I love led to difficult party decisions. Astarion was a must for his thiefly skills and Shadowheart because everyone needs a cleric. But Gale was a must as spell support.

Until I found a tip online. Druids and clerics can take 1 level of wizard. This lets you learn spells from scrolls and cast wizard spells equivalent to your casting level, not limiting you to just level 1 wizard spells. You can put them in any of your spells slots as normal. Granted, they’ll use intelligence and not wisdom/charisma but there are a lot of great spells where that doesn’t matter. Plus it gets you the friends cantrip so your persuade works better if you don’t have a high charisma.

Bye bye Gale.

Vulgar Boy

I’m still just dicking around in the first area.

The characters are like “WE NEED TO REMOVE THESE BRAIN WORMS!!!” and I’m like shut up dipshit, you need to explore these random ruins. We can deal with your stupid brain worm once we have enough old dishes and cups to fill the inventory of every member of the party.

Also, I hate Astarion because he’s already become the inspiration for MUSHdom’s dorkiest people to play him badly.

I already survived the Mad Hattering of 2010. No more, please.

Solstice

I-I liked the early hair!

…and sad poems.

Aria

There is now an official Goostarion themesong, as sung by Neil Newbon himself. You’re welcome.

Cobalt

I MESSED EVERYTHING UP WHOOPS TIME TO SAVE SCUM

Mega spoilers:

no matter how much you love shadowheart WAIT to finish her quest in act 2 until after you go murder your way through moonrise towers, whoops, poor sad abandoned tieflings

Vulgar Boy

Whoops. Cut off Gale’s hand.

Oh well. I probably wasn’t ever gonna use him.

Solstice

@Cobalt

Yeaaaaaah, I messed that up too. Wasn’t willing to redo the 20ish hours over again, but felt terrible.

Roz

I FORTUNATELY got warned about that one and avoided it. I definitely would have been heartbroken.

Cobalt

@Roz @Solstice luckily I save often and had a save literally right before the point of no return, and had checked my journal right after.

So it isn’t too much time lost, but I was like “wait what— oh crap, let’s back up a moment…”

I also have a journal bug that gave me a heart attack. It says Halsin left me, but he really didn’t. It apparently happens if you go back to an act one area, but he actually doesn’t leave he

wont go with you if you go to an act one area

Aria

…Gale just pointed out that I haven’t had a proper bath in at least a tenday, but it’s cool because he likes my musk. After telling me about his deep, personal relationship with his cat.

I fucking can’t with this guy.

gale

Pyrephox

@Aria He’s SO FUCKING BAD at flirting that for me it wraps back around to adorable.

Aria

@Pyrephox said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@Aria He’s SO FUCKING BAD at flirting that for me it wraps back around to adorable.

I think what got me was that he was talking about nights reading in front of the fireplace with his companion and I just, like, assumed he was going on about Mystra again?

And then dialog options were like, “Gale, are you talking about your cat??”

At which pointmy brain shorted out because I was like, “Wait, IS he waxing poetic about his cat?!”

Yes. Yes, he was. It was hilarious and I kind of love Larian for generating that much of a WTF reaction from me and my character. Right until he brought up being unwashed and into it, which made it weird again.

bear_necessities

@Aria after essentially not talking to Gale thru Act 1 and most of Act 2, he just the other night sat me down and told me he was in love with me. I just stared at my screen like what the fuck??? We’ve never even had a moment!

Tez

@bear_necessities Frankly I think this just speaks to how well they captured the heart and soul of an entitled white male.*

Don’t come after me, Gale-lovers. I love him too.

Aria

@Tez said in Baldur’s Gate 3:

@bear_necessities Frankly I think this just speaks to how well they captured the heart and soul of an entitled white male.*

Don’t come after me, Gale-lovers. I love him too.

^This. There is a whole lot of weird misogyny in the BG3 meme world that pretty much boils down to “Why don’t women like Gale, who is clearly such a NICE GUY?”

Bro. You answered your own question.

TNP

It’s really not hard to understand.

Astarion just want s me for my blood.
Wyll is playing hard to get.
Gale is like that old joke about lesbians: What does a lesbian bring to a second date? A U-Haul.

Selira

No character in a video game has ever turned me off harder than Gale did in the very first scene with him.

Bro. Shut up.

Vulgar Boy

I cut off Gale’s hand and decided that ten minutes of roll back was too much, so I lived with it.

Devs are Larian have come out to say that the companions weren’t suppose to be so goddam horny, tho. It was a bug!

Solstice

After having more time with her on a second go-round, Lae’zel…

(Probably a Cold take:)

…has the most growth of any party member, and it’s depressing that she gets such a bad rap when she’s arguably the least static character, tied closely with Shadowheart. I feel like a lot of folks bench her before they get to see it.

Anyhow. Generally feel like societal norms did her dirty.

Aria

@Solstice Lae’zel has absolutely grown on me as I’ve seen more of her plot and after their big pitch fixing the bug that @Vulgar-Boy mentioned above.

In my first playthrough, it was just her constantly saying really insulting things to me right up until she’s like, “You would slaughter a dragon and then use it to murder another dragon!! LET’S BANG.” And I was just like, “I really do not need negging from some weird Githyanki PUA, so Imma peace out and take Karlach on everything that needs fighty missions as soon as I find her, thnxbye.”