Topic: Baldur's Gate 3

Yet another has finally joined late to the Baldur's Gate 3 party. I've been playing it for a week and a half or so now (approaching 20 hours), and so far I'm loving it. I'm really glad I decided to put the difficulty all the way down on the easiest setting though, as I was worried about being too overwhelmed whenever I finally dove into the game. Initially I had to get used to some things, but it hasn't been bad overall.

I'm still fairly early in Act 1, but I did start my romance with Shadowheart tonight when I camped. Lae'zel didn't seem too happy that I picked Shadowheart over her though, basically saying I'll miss out on her and that maybe she'd spend the night with Astarion instead then. If I do a second playthrough someday, I promise to pick you Lae'zel... lol

@Hapless Male Half-Elf Paladin. I'm doing a good run.

I was wondering who might be your romantic interest @KilloWertz.

Which party members do you actually have? I know you have Lae'zel, Astarion and ShadowHeart in your party but... I don't think you've actually mentioned the others on the box/key art and if you've found them or not?

Seems you got through the goblin leaders just fine though! Did you have to fight your way through or manage to get away with your sneaky method with Ragzlin in the end?

@HallowMoonshadow I have all 6 of the origin companions in my party now after getting Karlach this morning. I have Halsin and Scratch back at my camp. I have several side quests still left to do in Act 1, like Lae'zel's main companion quest with the Githyanki Crèche that I kind of unintentionally left until later instead of doing it early.

I did get through all 3 of them without fighting thanks to a YouTube video. I did have to fight my way out after pushing Ragzlin off where he was standing, but I managed. I do have to fight goblins any time I go around their camp and such, which is a bit annoying, but I can travel around them for the most part for the time being.

Oh nice @KilloWertz! Karlach pretty much replaced Lae'Zel in my party as soon as I found her (and I found her surprisingly early too).

The Goblin camp was actually one of the last things I did in the first Act unlike you... Just got sidetracked doing absolutely everything else on the map 😅

Have you been using the Ilithid/Mind flayer tadpoles powers much? I haven't actually touched them at all so far...

@HallowMoonshadow It probably would make sense for me to replace Lae'zel would somebody else now that I have Karlach, but I like that she'd solid at both close combat and ranged combat. Since I gave Lae'zel the Great Weapon Master feat, she can be pretty powerful too.

I am further into Act 1 now and took out a lot more goblins today, so I'm spacing it out some. I'm on my way to Moonrise Towers through the Underdark.

Not really. I looked at the menu and I noticed I had a few upgrades, but I don't think I even did that. I did have Gale absorb one tadpole, but after reading about that, I think that'll be the one and only tadpole I have anyone absorb.

I've stuck with Astarion, ShadowHeart and Karlach since the moment I've got them @KilloWertz and that was about 3 hours in... Only subbing Lae'Zel in for her needed moments about the crèche

I really should probably try a different lineup myself... At least for a little bit. Though making my character a Warlock does mean Wyll's pretty much completely redundant for my party 🤔

... Though I don't quite find him all that interesting yet so it doesn't really seem like that much of a loss!

@HallowMoonshadow That's a female being sexist against females. It must be because you think Astarion is dreamy... Seriously though, it wouldn't matter what I thought if I wasn't joking. lol

I've hardly used Wyll or Gale at all. Obviously I'll use them when I do their personal quest lines, but otherwise I've gotten by without heavy magic.

I do finally have one complaint, and that is it can be easy to get lost and spend quite a bit of time failing to find the way forward. Obviously I'm using the Underdark to get to Moonrise Towers, but I went one way and ended up at the Arcane Tower. I had no idea it was a dead end basically, so I spent quite a bit of time trying to find my way out and move forward after wrapping up everything inside. Turns out that was all a waste of time, so I ended up spending a decent amount of time finding one of the other ways you can go through the Underdark. I still love the game now that I'm on the right track again going another way, but I do hate wasting so much time in a game at times.

@HallowMoonshadow I had Karlach and Lae’Zel as I liked strong character that can bonk bad guys over the head with big swords.

Later on when you can unlock abilities so they can have 3+ goes in a round easily, you can wipe the floor with them.

My Tav was a rogue so I pretty much never used Astarion.

Just finished my 1st playthrough (yes I know I'm late to the party) WOW what a game, actually gutted it ended. It's the closest game that's come close to the witcher 3 for me but don't think it's quite at that level. I thought shadowheart was yhe best companion with her story buy I wasn't massively into the companions liked alot of npcs better like alfira