Baldur's Gate thread (BG3 confirmed by Larian Studios)

Official update on steam

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They’re being truer to tabletop D&D than most video game adaptations. Which is polarizing. 

i believe difficulty will be tied to DC (difficulty class) of a roll. So hard you have to roll over say 15 to persuade, easy you have to roll over 8. That’s how it’s done on tabletop. 

not sure how that would affect RNG content like rolling for a random thing but they do have the re-roll points that they’Ve said are easier and more frequent on lower difficulties. Essentially rolling with advantage but if you have enough points you appear to be able to roll until you get what you want, but we haven’t seen rolling in an RNG roll yet so I am unsure. 

save scumming will probably be useful if there’s RNG stuff that is important to go one way or another for RP reasons. 

and in terms of combat, at first it is annoying to miss a lot, but if you think about it, the mechanic is essentially the same as say Skyrim but instead of inflating health pools and Armor Reduction so that each attack you do has a percent of damage missing from it, that mitigation is instead a miss or dodge. 

also with turn based combat it’s not as bad as you think cause even if say you miss a spell attack or whatever you still have movement, a reaction, and a bonus action. 

I'm sure you guys think every time I post about my progress something new about BG3 has come up sorryyyy 🙏

I'm in chapter 4 and ready to do the Cloakwood areas. I'm trying to do everything I can, meeting every companion and doing their things too... if it suits me (Coran )... Safana and Edwin are the only ones I cannot use anymore because the first I told her I didnt need another thief (lol I really dont need another Peebee in my group sorry!) but I finished her quest as I wrote days ago. And Edwin pretty much left after I dismissed him, lol bye bitch



I did Neera's quest and the journal be like "I think she likes me" and I'm like I didnt write that you fucking devs lol WHY almost every game do this with female companions   ... I havent finished Dorn's quest since it is required to go to Baldur's Gate but I hope he is forced that way too lol

PS. I havent nor the game forced me to kill real life animals yet, feels nice   even rescued an angry bear in the goblin's village when I did Neera's quest lol


edit. wonder when it's a good time to do the DLC, I know there is a point of no return.


Also, the fact all drows are considered evil is so racist   I mean yeah it's a fictional race but...... well, real life racism inspirational take much? Viconia does not feel evil at all... yet...

D&d neckbeards will be like “akschully, some Drow are good look at Drzzt” which is true but on a whole only recently did they start changing the weird racism. Critical Role Campaign 2 really fleshes the post Llolth Drow lore out, but I have some issues with it still.... but that’s spoiler talk.

And my babies the Orcs and Goblinoids are still done so damn dirty.

Generally Great Old Ones are a broad and diverse group of entities. They usually have some connection to the Far Realms, planes of existence defined by basically being incomprehensible to most beings from the other planes. But several Great Old Ones have no connection to the Far Realms outside favoring mental domination (the main power of the Far Realms denizens is causing insanity or the like).

Usually Great Old Ones are the most uninterested in their warlock pact members. Devil/demonic pacts always end in your favor being called in, usually to fight in the blood war. Fey Pacts are mercurial and sometimes benevolent but they generally will eventually want something from you.

Great Old Ones in the Far Realms might view a pact as merely a piece of sand in an hourglass they are playing. Their pound of flesh for power might seem inconsequential or merely be the slow corruption of your mind. Some may even give mortals power for no reason. If the Old One is chained on another plane or like one of the Drow pseudo Old Ones Betrayer Gods, then your pact is more apt to involve you trying to free them or serve in their campaign to dominate the material plane.

Generally though Great Old Ones Warlocks are roleplayed to go crazy while devil/fey pacts involve some sacrifice of physical nature and demon pacts can be all over the place.

but great old one pact warlocks can have tons of freedom in story telling because the whims and expectations of the Patron may even be vague images, feelings, and not be actual communication and contracts like with devils or fey. 

edit: also there are completely not Great Old Ones classified as Great Old Ones pacts. Often times a forgotten betrayer god or betrayer god servant will tempt people with pact power in lieu of having clerics and for some reason these pacts are the same mechanically as true Great Old Ones. 

mediocreogre you know so much!!! Love it! Thanks I think I'm gonna go for Great Old one for sure, the fact the reasons of them being a patron being so vague definitely gives room for a lot of roleplay, and I doubt a custom character's backstory is going to be as defined as hottie Wyll




This is cool! It means that if they give us a male non-human companion (male tiefling pls 🤞) he's going to be a good boi




Totally scared about this lol let us reload

Interesting about companion alignments.

Shadowheart could be True Neutral and still follow Shar. But yeah.

edit: in that I am open to the interpretation that Gale is Neutral Evil as they tend to be arrogant and self centered. 

Wyll has at times been implied to be a person who fought for some cause and made a Pact out of somewhat desperate circumstances. Most often they say he regrets it but he’s still the least seen. So true neutral possible. 

Gale is said to be obsessed with being the best and infatuated with some powerful being and these things led him to self destructive behavior (true neutrals tend to be about balance, gale seems extremes are his thing). True neutral is still possible though. 

Githyanki are ruthless as a culture and borderline genocidal. Vampire spawns make sense to be neutral evil as their whole survival depends on the suffering of others.

ShadowHeart I can see going either way but her description says specifically she is wrestling with her faith. And usually Shar initiates are exposed to the Shadow Weave after passing a test of faith. Neutral Evil would not balk at the price of the Shadow Weave. Another interpretation though is that her being Neutral Evil she cares mostly for herself and does not like being sent to her death. 

I’m not a huge fan of dnd morality systems so hopefully there’s some nuance (which I see as all the characters are going through a crisis of sorts). 

but this reminds me of debates I had in high school with my dnd crew then, about whether neutral evil alignment you could even be a cleric for anyone even an evil god. Your wholly self interested, and even evil gods want you to care about their interests more. 

Next bg3 update is around the 10th. If anyone has any questions they might want answered, leave them in the bg3 reddit thread for the devs.

www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/ils839/baldurs_gate_3_qa_your_questions_needed_adventurer/