I didn't even want to romance anyone my first playthrough becuase i was just so enamored with this game and wanted to focus solely on gameplay and the story.

But APPARENTLY, Gale is like STUPID easy to romance. I didn't even have to do anything. He just started talking about our "bond" and "wanting me" the second act 2 started. Even though i have never given this man any indication that I'm interested.

But then I was like "Okay, I guess I'll romance him why not?" And now I actually kind of like him. I've never been a fan of Gale until this 😭

Guess I have a boyfriend now

Got to act 3 and suddenly halsin is creepin on me shadowheart and astarion when before he was barely around and strictly business? Idk it feels out of character for him, and out of character for the others to be into it? And he also confessed his love for me when all I did was help him in act 2. Anyone else kinda turned off by this or was I leading him on accidentally?

Isn't he a MONSTER hunter? Why tf isn't he trying to kill her? Like seriously isn't this your whole job

I'm pretty happy with the result. This one is going to a friend of mine... any suggestions on how to improve?

PS. 3D model from h3LLcreator

I have played all of the game so spoilers are allowed and expected at least on my end. I personally want to make a character that revolves around a silly weapon.

At first I was considering the poop scraper dagger and the rock that is named nut buster. But admittedly when I played last I never payed to much attention to those kinds of weapons so there may be others that I'm unaware of.

So I'm wondering if y'all know of the silly category of weapons available in the game?

People keep talking about the Iron Throne and I’m very confused on what it is. I always thought that was where I killed Gortash during his coronation? I’ve already beaten the game, but I feel like I might’ve messed up killing Gortash the first chance I met him in person with my team . Like I never got to bomb the big factory since it was already destroyed and I think I missed out on a submarine level too??? I kept reading it is infamous for being a hard fight and I mean Gortash was kinda hard to fight with the traps and steel watch, but I had Karlach rush him with the gnome-IED so we were ok.

My sister is the only one between the two of us that had finished a run, since I was about a year behind her in terms of downloading BG3, so she knows just about everything. I, on the other hand, an currently in act 3 in my solo run.

To say I’m playing blind is an understatement—the -1 to intelligence on my Tav is simply art imitating life. I don’t pay as much attention to dialogue as I should, and I feel like I should have seen this coming, but I didn’t. Another point to mention: I am an explorer. I LOVE exploring. Filling that map when I press that little M key brings me more joy than direct crack shot into the bloodstream.

All that to say, I explored too close to the sun, and my sister decided to take advantage of my suffering.

I was exploring the gross sewers last night, as one does. Sneaking, scrounging, scuttling like the little pest I am. My sister was watching me stream, and I voiced my confusion when I happened to climb up ‘a stinky climb up’. She was just as confused, as she had never actually explored the sewers more then necessary, until she saw what I climbed up into.

It could have been my fault, not knowing what the Iron Throne was—though I don’t remember ever seeing it mentioned—and was audibly confused. My sister, on the other hand, smelled my fear and weakness, and started egging me on to going into the submersible. I was level 9 at the time, and to be clear, I’m not particularly good at the game. For this reason I like to be over leveled for whatever quest I think I’m meant to be doing, always doing more than necessary to be levelled up.

Not questioning it because, why would I? She’s my sister, she loves me, and she wants the best for me, right?

Wrong. I got my ass beat. I was superplexed by fishmen. I was pounded into the floor and then spat on. I was fucked, pegged, bitched, and not even taken to dinner first. I was body slammed, sucker punched, swirlied, and they rubbed dirt in my eyes just for kicks. They beat me over the head with a shovel then made me dig my own grave. They kicked me until I was down, kicked me WHILE I was down, then kicked me until I was downed. Twice. By the same fishman.

And for some reason the tentacle guy from mushroom land was there. That was the only good thing about this.

Regardless, we made it out alive, but barely. I can’t say the same for a majority of the tiny folk in cages, but even still, I saved a good 4 along with the octo-bro and Wyll’s dad. All this to say: my sister is awful, I never want to do this again, and fuck fishmen.

Spoilers for the end of Astarion’s personal quest.

So Cazador needed 7000 souls for the ritual and he had 7 spawn hunting for him. Astarion was one of his first spawn and has been enslaved for 200 years.

7000/200 =35. They captured 35 people a year. I get that Cazador had to go slow so no one would notice people going missing… but 35 a year? That’s so few people, especially in a city the size of Baldur’s Gate. Not to mention the fact that Baldur’s Gate is a port-town, meaning there are people coming in and out allll the time. WOTC apparently gave the city a population of 125,000. That’s huge!!

Why did it take him so long?? Even if he only sent out one spawn a night, twice a week, and they had a 50/50 success rate, it should have been like 135 years and I’m pretty sure he sent them a lot more frequently than that

Of course, this is also the guy who had a plan “centuries in the making” that hinged on seven specific people and then sent those seven out into the world regularly. Oh and it DIDN’T actually hinge on those seven, he could have grabbed literally anyone including one of his sycophant servants to replace Astarion at any moment

Been a while since I played BG3. I heard that patch 7 made some changes to the recruitment method, allowing you to knock her out and recruit while being hostile in act 1. Is that true? Just want to be certain I continue my play through.

Here's a list of my favorite game design/development things in this game:

1. When I talk to an NPC and I have to step away from my computer from a moment, the game displays the last sentence spoken by them, so I actually remember wtf I was talking to them about.

2. Freakin' Quicksave like, at any time ever. I'm almost embarrassed how many save files I have and it's only my first playthrough.

3. Integrated mod management, are you kidding? Do I even need to explain this one?

4. Being able to respec for merely pennies on the dollar (coppers on the gold?). In D&D, just talk to your DM, and you can likely work out mechanically fixing what you don't find fun about your class/subclass. Translating this to a videogame by making respeccing cheap is wild, generous behavior and should be appreciated. The devs could have easily hard forced you to play the class you picked at the beginning.

5. Choices that actually influence the environment. My husband and I have VASTLY different stories and experiences with this game. I'll be talking about a scene and he goes, "wait? THAT PERSON is there? wait what, how did you do that? wait, that was an option...?, etc"

6. Instead of having a map that spans the actual distance of the actual world, just jam pack your maps with content. I don't feel like there is one pixel of unused space in this game and the maps aren't HUGE HUGE, they're segmented, which makes it feel less daunting and encourages exploration.

7. Alt to see interactables.

8. Holding T on linkables that actually explain what things do (in general, the UI is so incredibly clean and intuitive. Being able to click Actions/Bonus Actions to quickly see what I can do, grouping/ungrouping, seeing all buffs/debuffs, toggling light sources)

9. Warnings about traveling to places that I'm underleveled for. Don't punish me for being exploratory, okay?

10. How even the NPCs are so full of life and interesting. I click on every named person and every one of them has their own line of dialogue, even if it's just to comment on the environment. Absolutely so immersive.

I know there's a million other things, but I am in the throes of my first playthrough, absolutely scouring every corner, talking to every NPC, looting every vase... I can't get over how FUN the game is. Obviously, the actors and writing and gameplay and all that is so polished and perfect, but it's the little quality of life things that just allow me to enjoy the game, instead of fighting against it to get to the content I want to see, of which I am so incredibly thankful. <3

It seems when you throw drow poison as a grenade, it always put an enemy to sleep, if they aren't undead or fey or have a specific resistance. The wiki however says there is a DC13 Constitution saving throw, but a saving throw never seems to trigger.

I cheesed the whole inquisitor fight on honour mode with it. Just give him a lil nap, kill his goons and keep up the poison to make him sleep again and again.

I’ve finished the story once but there’s so much I’m yet to experience in this game, I’d love to play it with someone. I don’t have any friends who play this game but it sounds like it’d be such a blast playing with other people.

Let me know if you’re interested! I play on steam btw!

I’d prefer if people were around my age ideally, I’m 23M!

I'm new to the entire universe of DnD. I've always wanted to play and never have but Baldurs Gate has been flipping great. But my brain is telling me to absolutely horde everything and it's starting to become overbearing. Too many items but idk what to keep and what not to keep. Especially books. They feel important. Any tips on whats definitely trash besides, well, trash?

I failed to convince Shadowheart to consume the tadpole and forgot about it. 10hours later I really want her to have some illithid passive but the dialog option is gone. I don't want to start over, any solution for this?

On xbox. Both of these mods works perfectly before. Since last update, started a new game and can see the toggle options for them but they just won't switch on.

Also playing with my brother in law on the same xbox.

V4.1.1.6717761

Hey so I just killed the githyanki that was with the dragon rider in act 1 I have a githyanki greatsword for my tav and got a githyanki long sword for lae’zel both were obtained from killing those gith. I know I can get the unique githyanki greatsword in the crèche after the gith try to kill my party and ik about the silver sword of the astral plane in act 3 is there any other githyanki greatswords I can get in act 1 or act 2 that can do the psychic damage when wielded by a githyanki?

I'm feeling spicy and I want to hear some of your hot takes about the game. Perhaps, I'll see the game from a fresh perspective and/or learn something new.

There's no limit to the hot takes you can share.

I'll go first.

Despite Araj's negative reputation, I think she's one of the best merchants in the game. In act 2, she carries the risky ring and the ring of free action, which is already amazing. But she also offers unique elixirs in act 2. In act 3, she sells sanguine explosives, which is basically a level 4 fireball that you can buy for less than 20 gold. Getting the unstable blood condition from her in act 3, can also be powerful if you build around it. The +2 to strength is super powerful if you're willing to torture Astarion, but even without that, she's still an amazing npc. She's a little pushy with Astarion, but she ultimately accepts his no. So, I don't stay mad at her.

I don't think completing a "good run" automatically makes your character good aligned. Basing your decisions around not making your favorite npcs sad is not a sound moral compass. I think there are more morally neutral people out there than people are willing to admit. It isn't a bad thing to be morally neutral. Jaheira is canonically true neutral in the older games, and people love her.

In case it somehow hasn’t been found yet, you can kill the myrkul lady and necromites at the top of the tower before fighting ketheric. Obviously it’s important to do this before entering the main hall triggering the ketheric cutscene. There’s some scaffolding around the side of the tier below that you can jump to (high str or jump spell) and from there cast fly on your party to reach the top. Then kill everything up there.

Also it’s more widely known, but you can do the same with Gortash. Climb the top of wyrms rock and kill the steel watch and bane cultists before meeting him at the coronation, then destroy the little wall device things to make the fight laughably easy.

Edit: it doesn’t make anyone hostile in either instance

Pretty much just what the title says, just looking for some input by people smarter than me.

Edit: I think I'm going with duergar, I was already leaning towards them but it was suggested by a few people as well. Thanks for all your help.

Also, is either class better to start with? i.e. cleric/mage or mage/cleric or does it not matter?

So here’s the thing. I have a mod I’m trying to install, specifically Gale’s beloved wizardly updo, and I’m having a bit of difficulty trying to find the damn mod folder to put the upzipped pak files in. Everytime I type in the path in file explorer it gives me an error. I installed BG3 through Steam, so I figured that might have a play in why I can’t seem to find any game files in file explorer period. Don’t know if it matters, but the gaming laptop I’m using is a Nitro AN17-41. Any advice or perhaps guidance? (EDIT:: I FIGURED IT OUT I JUST NEEDED TO USE THE ACTUAL IN GAME MOD MANAGER I FORGOT IT WAS THERE FML)

This is my first play through, and i honestly just want vibes. Comedic, slightly chaotic vibes. I was thinking of these three grouped together and wanted to know without spoilers if they’ll be good? Vibe and combat wise, i wanna make sure im not missing anything major in the story by not having shadowheart or maybe i can replace gale with her ? Whatever has the best vibes (astarion stays, please) suggestions?