I made a fantasy map of act 1!

When we start on this adventure, nobody has any special gear, powers or money.
Lae'zel is a teenager abducted from school, so this is understandable for her. But everybody else is some noteable figure, yet without any noteable gear.
But this changes during the adventure and in the end we are level 12 with really expensive stuff and a lot of coin (50K is on the lower end i guess).

So how are we doing compared to the rest of the sword coast or the world in general? Are we a noteable force? Are we really rich? Is our gear noteworthy? Or rather not?
Given we choose one of the endings where people stay alive and free.

I am curious cause i know nothing about the lore.

I’ve been playing this game since it launched on the xbox, spent at least 80+ hours on the game, tried so many classes and play styles, and I just found out you can duel wield crossbows! At least the hand crossbows but still. Not gonna lie thats pretty cool lol

I didn’t even know he existed until my 2nd play through and I was so freaking excited to learn there was a dragon you could recruit. Then we get to his cave and not only is he dead but he was killed by balduran?? His story is so depressing. I freaking love dragons and was 100% on his side through the dialogue and was ready to kill the emperor, then when I had no choice but to kill him I wanted to shed a tear. Why can’t we kill balduran instead man he’s like an actual villain

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She even asks for a memory jog after your first payment and calls you a stingy bastard for giving 100 gold. What an absolute cunt.

For the longest time, I completely ignored pickpocketing. I assumed it was a very high risk high reward thing where you can get lots of money but it's difficult and you risk getting caught and everyone turning hostile towards you like in Skyrim. I play mostly on honor mode, so having a whole town turn on me never seemed like a good idea.

That's not the case at all.

Pickpocketing is extremely easy to have ~90% success rate with even in act 1. Throw the smuggler's ring, shiftshaper's boon ring, graceful cloth, and guidance on a halfling rogue, and you're pretty much guaranteed to be able to grab every item worth <500 gold. Just hide, enter turn based mode, grab everything, then leap away.

On top of that, there is hardly any punishment for getting caught pickpocketing. Half the time, nothing happens, you just get -5 attitude with the trader, which can easily be gotten back by giving them a few items you've stolen from them for free in the barter window. Other times, you have to make a persuasion speech check, but that's easy enough if you just keep a character specifically for pickpocketing who's also built for persuasion. If you fail it, the worst that happens is you have to hand over some gold which you can steal right away again. Keep the rest of your party far away and nothing bad will ever happen.

Even more broken, vendors restock every level up/long rest. You can respec at withers and then that counts as a level up. And guess what? You can pickpocket that gold right back from withers. He won't even get mad if you fail, so you can just keep trying. Now you have infinite ability to restock the vendors, and the ability to take whatever you want from their inventory. Things like potions, scrolls, and arrows are virtually 100% chance to steal due to their relatively low value. Honor mode is much easier with infinite spells and health potions.

This is one of my durge runs ♥️

Why is the House of Hope, and I mean the dining room, so nasty and filled with rotting food? I just imagine him being and wanting everything to be so neat, organized and clean. Right before you fight him, he sounds so particular and proud of his house and gets offended that you brought chaos to his home.

What are your thoughts?

Pretty much what I thought at the beginning of the game :D