My first ending was not what I wanted. I ran out choices to reflect what I wanted or thought could happen and had an outcome I didn't like. My whole playthrough I didn't save scum, and lived through some decisons based on poor rolls, but now I may replay my last save. I really thought well if I keep disagreeing ill get to a choice that I want. Nope. Maybe it still can happen later, but it irks me that I have to replay a part. Still love the game though.
@Elodin elaborate in spoilers so I know what you're talking about specifically, and I'll see if I have any insight to what you are/were aiming for.
I think you are supposed to make choices based on what is happening with the knowledge you/your character has at the time, rather than what you think might happen though, but I don't know what you are referring to, so 😆
@Ravix I restarted after first elder
Dice rolls when the emp. comes . I made a hammer of a choice and it worked out. Fun battles to finish it off. The flexibility of an actual DM of course could see what you are trying to do and explain when to lean in on a choice. Games can only do so much. Excited for round 2. May go finish Avatar first and come back for an evil power run.
Re-downloading. Not sure what my intentions are, but feel like it could be my chillout "cant-be-arsed-to-play-anything-intensive" game, so want it installed just in case.
Who am I kidding, my intentions will be to be as evil as possible and to try and break the game 😁
Update: made my drow dark urge monk last night, and today we see there's added dark urge content, huzzah.
How are everyone's dark urge runs going? Seen a few mention they are currently on them. I have yet to decide what I'm going to do, but I'll probably test the mechanics of resist vs give in at some point. And I want to actively do different stuff from my first Bard character, although the urge to just play how I usually play will need to be fought off, I think.
May have gotten a bit bloody last night, but nothing evil, as yet.
I also need to change the hair, as in the world the skin tone isn't very obvious and it just looks like I'm Jaheira
Haven't found many evil doings yet, other than Gale deciding not to join the party.
But it has surprised me at how I made the start different on my own. I crashed, woke up Shadowheart and went straight into the locked door, which I can't remember being an option first time, but I'd looted some tools from somewhere. Opened another passage, surprised some thieving b*stards and picked them off, just the two of us.
Starting a game when you already understand the combat makes it a whole lot quicker early on, that's for sure 😁
Now it's just Me, SH, LZ and AS, two of which I know I can eventually lead down much darker paths. Having played all companion quests through to completion first time really does free you up for a playthrough. I will miss Gale.., his VA did a top job, but on the other hand I'm content that I've seen his tale through and he was one of the slightly more annoying companions to deal with 😅
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Re-downloading. Not sure what my intentions are, but feel like it could be my chillout "cant-be-arsed-to-play-anything-intensive" game, so want it installed just in case.
It's definitely a good chillout game even though it might not seem like it. I think it's the slow paced nature of the game. I've been playing it constantly the last couple of weeks, too addictive.
I believe you can add a name at the mirror later on, so if inspiration does find you, a name can be applied then.
Have a skim through an Elvish or Welsh names database, or a list of DnD translations (pretty sure that's what I did)
gwaed Arian was silver blood, for example. Sin'raema may or may not be Pleasure Fist 😅 fitting for a Drow Monk who enjoys punching people, I'm sure we all agree 👀
You could look up translations for "perpetual sigh" as, to me, that's what I see in their expression 😁
Dudebro at party: [approaches Drow] “Are you tired? Because you’ve been running through my mind all night. Heh, heh” [wink, a tongue click, and a fingerpoint]
Drow: [without changing facial expression from a cold emotionless stare] “I will destroy you if you do not leave me alone immediately. You prefer incineration or decapitation? You have 3 seconds.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@HallowMoonshadow the level of detail is immense. I’ve clearly been out of the character creation loop that Fallout 4 was my previous benchmark 😂 Good luck with your play through Foxy.
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Funny you mention Fallout 4 as I actually re-purchased it with all the DLC @Bob_Salat for £8. It was a decent enough character creator from what I recall?
But yeah this character creator for Baldur's Gate III is pretty stellar. Especially because of Mass Effect 1's I was just playing with BG III blowing it out the water on the detail department and then some
Well this was certainly an interesting discussion to find myself coming back to @Ravix & @Th3solution!
I didn't think she looked at that grumpy but now I can't unsee it. I HAVE given her a name now though.
Ciara Léanach. Ciara coming from the irish word Ciar for dark and Léanach meaning sorrowful. So... Yeah that sounded pretty good to me
Even though Drow are inclined to be more evil aligned characters (Especially Lolth sworn) I think I'll be playing Ciara more as her curiosity getting the better of her, wanting more and more knowledge given that she's a Warlock who's then pledged herself to a great old one. So she's probably more a neutral character. At least at the moment...
Also here's my guardian's design. Thought it was kinda funny to have them be a duergar/dark dwarf.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
I've picked up Shadowheart, Astarion, Lae'zel, Gale and Karlach with my team made up of Sh, As and Ka for the time being. I really like being able to go to camp whenever you like though and switching who you have in your party.
At the moment I'm quite liking Shadowheart and I'll admit as soon as I met Karlach I pretty much said the exact same thing as Shadowheart in that I'd be happy to let Karlach hoist me over her shoulder... To protect me of course and carry me to safety
Astarion is just a delight and I love everything about him. I was surprised at how much I liked Gale despite thinking beforehand he might be rather boring.
Lae'Zel is rather prickly so... We'll see how she grows on me but at the moment she is my least favourite.
I haven't really had a chance to properly flex the combat system at the moment. Karlach's story related fight was pretty good though. Got Astarion to use an ice prismatic orb and managed to knock two of them over and got a good few licks in, killing the one before she even got a turn in and managing to frighten Anders myself.
Good stuff so far. Looking forward to playing more!
@HallowMoonshadow Don't write off Lae-zel just yet...! I only kept her in my party originally due to wanting a strong melee fighter, but as her story develops she quickly became one of my favorites. For me, she is up there with Astarian and Gale!
@HallowMoonshadow@CJD87 Lae'zel is really good to have early I'd agree. I think it's almost weighted that way story wise as she is who you encounter first. I quite liked having a party of people being quite prickly at each other at first, too 😅 so I think I ran with Lae, Astarian/Gale and Shadowheart, but after some time that's when we swapped to Karlach to replace as the beasty tank role for the forever party.
I also did everyone's side stories on my one massive playthrough, so there was plenty of time to weigh up who I liked the most as I moved on with the game 😁
Glad you're enjoying it, and as things are only just getting started for you, and you seem plenty invested early, I know you are going to absolutely love what they do with all the companions.
One of those games I'd love to be able to play again from scratch with no prior knowledge. Fingers crossed for some light amnesia 😛
@Ravix In fairness the only companion I really didn't click with was Wyll.... otherwise the rest are all class! Gale was a favorite of mine also, and his storyline is probably one of the best I think
Yeah don't worry I haven't wrote her off @CJD87. I've got a friend telling me me the same thing.
She's my least favourite out of the group so far but I don't dislike her or nothing. She's still interesting and I don't plan on getting rid of her or anything.
I haven't actually met Wyll yet. At least not fully. I saw him prance about in the fight with the Teifling encampment or whatever it is but never actually went inside as I figured that was main story stuff and wanted to look around some more (Which was how I miraculously found Karlach).
Hopefully I'll make some good progress today though!
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@HallowMoonshadow@Ravix How easy is it to mess up getting characters to join your party? It seems like there are some characters that I read a lot about so it would seem they are automatic companions and others who are maybe missable?
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@Th3solution I mean, if you play games, I doubt you'd really miss them. There is maybe a specific one that is more unique. But if you're looking around anyway, there's quite clearly opportunities presented.
Unless you're The Dark Urge, then you may miss Gale 👋
It's a game best going in as blind as possible though, apart from learning about how the battles work and how to build different classes
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