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I know, but I really enjoy it when I get the "thematically" right answer and I think we went soft there for a githyanki :) Never again! :)

It was pretty funny though and I like what happened. I feel pretty confident with our duo, so a little bit more challenge is interesting, especially when it comes out of this sort of narrative :)

I'm never trusting this woman with carrying anything of importance ever again, LOL!

@immersioneer That's it though, you got her full loyalty and admiration :-) She'll be a total babe from now on

Losing is so much better for the overall story :-) In my first playthrough I played sorceress romancing Lae'zel, she just obliterated me in one turn 😂😅

@@alexmashkin863 Older Githyanki, mother figure to Lae'zel, and Drow Durge, also older. I tend to play me in my Tav's what can I say. But next time around , I am going for a younger me... maybe.

@@Jules_Diplopia I play whatever character comes to mind when I see intro :-) I'm not that interesting to play myself I guess :-))

@@alexmashkin863 Well most games the protaganist is a male, and/or indistinguishable when playing, so I just played them. BG3 was the first that I played that had a character creator that was worth the effort, so variations on myself made sense, minus the wheelchair of course. Lol.

@@Jules_Diplopia I would really hope if you're playing a "mother figure" to Lae'zel that you're not sleeping with her multiple times! So hopefully this scene wouldn't come up at all

She also kept drinking invis potions but she kept getting spotted cus you had see invis!! :)

@ No way!!? Did she!!?

I know - if we lose the game now, it's HER fault!

Thanks for hiding it - I haven't read it :) Maybe I'll lose this fight one day :)

did he really? he made other references in his runs as Gith or rogue.

Thanks! Glad to have you on board! Yup, thanks for pointing that out as others have as well - I got that wrong. We’ll evaluate whether it’s better to get Kayn an armor, but ideally we’d probably like to go with the “theme” of barbarian and go armorless!

@@immersioneer My preference is to play an unarmored barbarian, however, with his dex it is quite challenging. That being said, your remark about utilizing the elixir of barkskin was quite inspired. This may be the only situation that I have encountered that the elixir is of benefit

Thanks! Yup, definitely going for slow and immersive, although there is scope to speed things up and we’ll try to do that. We’ve only played together for a few hours, so still learning to play with each other. Thanks for bearing with us!

Yeah, although I prefer certainty when the hit chance is below 60-65%. I’d rather to less damage twice, then risk missing once or even twice…

@immersioneer It's a valid way of looking at it :-) I generally only switch it off when the hit chance is below 40%, also trying to use every attack boost available: gear, bless, illithid powers etc

hi, I'm the barbarian, noted! Makes a lot more sense to do it that way :]

Yup, now we know! :)

Yup, I’m really looking forward to this playthrough as well :) It’s going to be wild! 🤪

Should be able to record more this Sunday, so will prob come on Monday.

Mmm, maybe… good point! Need to check that.

it does

@@Jacob-fz5ho I thought so, thank you :-)

Totally intentional :)

Hmm, but then speaking with animals and mind reading are potions rather than elixirs? Now that I think about it, they might be… what about individual single damage resistance elixirs? Do they also replace each other? Gotcha re silence now and I think I finally understood how to interpret “1” on the turn counter… this makes those sussur weapons much less appealing too, no? And doesn’t a 1 turn silence itself break concentration? Or can you maintain existing concentration while silenced? Alex noted that maybe B had the “spectral aspect” active and that prevented attacks of opportunity - I think that might be the case and makes sense thematically… Thanks for all the useful info!!

@@immersioneer All things called "elixir" cancel each other with one exception, that was mentioned. Sussur weapons do 2 turns of silence, not completely useless but close. Arrows just have specific use, but I would have preferred if they were doing 2 turns of silence as well.

@@immersioneer animal speaking and reading thoughts are potions, but they are the only cases of lasting a full day instead of 10 rounds, because it wouldn't make sense for them to be so short. Especially mind reading would be useless unless the player has knowledge of coming dialogues, which breaks immersion. another buff potion which breaks the "10 rounds" rule is speed, for obvious balance reasons. The individual damage resists are regular elixirs, drinking one will remove any previous elixir effect. I always forget to use the sussur weapons so i have little personal experience, but I think it silences for "2 rounds", which means the silence ends at the start of the enemy's second turn. Silence and concentration aren't related. You don't need to be able to speak to concentrate, only when you're casting. Silence can prevent a spell from being cast, but once cast silence won't affect the spell anymore I also first thought that spectral form prevented the AOO, so I checked the wiki, but couldn't find any reference to it doing so. The wiki is generally very reliable.

the aoo was because balth was spectral

@ Great to know! Thanks a lot! I don't remember sussur weapons exactly, but if it's 2 turns, then yeah, they are still viable.

Thank you! It was indeed!

Thanks! Appreciate it! Agree and ultimately we will have to rest more overall, no doubt, but we will try to stretch out the days as much as we can and ration our spells / rages. I don’t want to just go and long rest after every fight just because it’s HM…

Thank you for feeling my pain, haha! It’s not the end of the world though. We didn’t have the other gnome at Last Light anyway, so it’s ok… kind of…

Lol! Secret strats mate, we’ve for this!

Bis is good or bad?

@@immersioneer the best

@@ludnqka It's good. I really want disarming strike though :)

@ yes get disarming, prone(tople) and riposte as 1st 3 , fear is kinda meh but you can get it later with the accuracy one

I disagree completely. I held the guards off for ages, but the gnomes took forever to cut the chains / ropes. This should have either been sign-posted by the game during dialogue, telling us that we need to hold off the guards for a long time or some sort of signal will be given to us that they “ready”. I held the guards there for ages, unreasonable amount of time for a video game. Secondly, why on earth would you charge these well armed guards when trying to escape??? Just cut the ropes / chain, get in the boat and run. Give me a dialogue to tell them to do so or give me control of them so I can control the situation. All of this is immersion breaking and takes agency from the player. I did everything right and I wanted the gnomes to escape quietly. That is perfectly reasonable and immersive. I don’t think I did anything stupid. It would stupid for me to just spam illusion for 5 minutes. Imagine I wasn’t even recording this - are you seriously telling me that anyone would do this? It’s bad game / encounter design and/or bad AI. It’s not the end of the world, but it is frustrating, especially for players like me and can and should be easily fixed.

@@immersioneer i love your playthrough exactly because is not perfect, is genuine. I don't think either that your escape Plan was good, but that was the entartaininhg part. You don't know how many time the prisoner will need to escape? That is realistic. Some guard notices from the bars that prisoners are not there anymore? That is realistic Prisoners attack guards before be unarmed on a boat, while bombarded by magic and arrows? I think that is realistic. Shit happens, bad plans happens, but this is what keep rpg worth to be played in my opinion. Keep playing 💪

@ i strongly disagree. 1) you didn't hold the guards back long with the illusion. It may have felt that way because you repeatedly switched to turn based mode. 2) you were holding back guards from one side and only 1 eye, but there are patrols from both sides and there are 2 eyes. so your plan was doomed anyway. The other side ended up not mattering because the whole illusion spam did not take very long (as said in 1) 3) you didn't scout ahead enough. Who does a prison break without having a proper escape plan? You should have investigated the boat and such and realized it was chained and figured it would take some work to get it useable 4) the prisoners dialogue mustn't include information like "this will take long". how could they know that? Have they done that escape before? That's simply information they can't have. NPCs informing the payer of things they themselves can't know makes no sense and unrealistic and immersion breaking And as for not have dialogue options for every possible thing you can think of and that removing player agency, you forget you are still playing a computer game which is unavoidably limited by its programming. Why can't you tell a joke to random NPCs? Why can't you eat the soap bars in the game? Why are dialogue options limited to the ones shown on screen and not the ones the player can think of? All of that limits player agency! It's a silly argument. Anyone can always think of things which you could do irl but not in the game because it wasn't in the programming, that's the nature of games. This escape plan wasn't just bad, it was terrible and frankly stupid. No real person who was put in such a situation would come up with such a plan irl because its success chances are obviously too low to try

Heh, good timing!

Thanks! Now that I’ve done this with the Gith as well, do I understand correctly that if I destroyed the chains they would have just sailed away mid-fight?

@@immersioneer I believe you have to do it before combat starts in order to get away, otherwise you'll have to finish the fight because you have to talk to Wulbren once everyone's at the boat (and you can't do that in combat). You could try using a Wall of Stone or something similar to prevent the guards from pursuing you as well! I've never tried using Darkness to obscure the broken wall in the gnomes' cell, but it's an idea I'm interested in trying... You're right about Honour Mode, it's ridiculously difficult to do if you haven't played through the game already. Since it was released a few months after the game initially came out, it was meant as a challenge for people who already had knowledge of the story and quests. That makes it almost impossible for people who don't know what to expect, and the fact that it's permadeath and there's no reloading only levels up that difficulty. That causes a lot of frustrating stuff to happen that can't be undone, but I give you a lot of credit for going into things blind.

We’ve got this! Don’t worry! Everything is possible!

Never thought of that!

@immersioneer This way you don't have to care about annoying damage reduction :-))

Yeah, that was roughly my thinking too, although the penalty is quite noticeable, even with strength 20 and even with something like bless, which variable. Lowering your chance by 25% works if you really miss only 1/4 as expected. Because you deal +30 on other 3 hits. But 4 hits is a small sample and this penalty can easily mean 2/4 or even 3/4 misses. And given how short the fights are, this matters a lot. You do get an extra attack with a kill or crit, of course, so that balances it out as well. Definitely good to have both, I also think that around level 8, GWM is probably a better choice, but it is not always so. We’ll see how it goes, anyway.

Awesome, that’s good to know! Thanks!

When you want to transfer sorc points into a spell slot? Only when desperate? Or am I missing something?

@immersioneer When you have like 70 of the buggers :-)) Or you just really want that slot...

Yeah, I have a sense the tiefling “storyline” isn’t as strong, but I am looking forward to seeing it develop from this angle as they clearly persist into act 2 and I assume act 3 also…

@@immersioneer They do indeed persist all the way into Act 3. Enjoy.

Aaahhhh… thank you for clearing this up for me finally! I thought it was named items, which is pretty much all items a character would use that are magical. So then a simple sword +1 is magical damage?

@immersioneer yessir, a simple +1 sword is more magical than the sparkle points trident. The sword will overcome non magical resistance, The trident will not

Cool! Thanks a lot for your support and kind words! Ping me on about me then, it would be cool to do a trio at some point, I have a couple of ideas I’m super excited about. Doubt I’ll start it now, of course, but in a few months, we could definitely do it.

@immersioneer Wow, that would me cool! I'll definetly ping you, keep up with the good work!

You are welcome! Hope you enjoy it!

Glad to have you on boars, Sir! This is going to be Wild! 🤪

Doing good so far :-) Great to have you here!

@@alexmashkin863 thank you! :]