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Sorry to hear you went through such trouble getting the outcome you eventually showed us requiring you to play through this fight quite a few times. While it is neat in a way to see what spells and abilities an enemy is under or has, this fight showed how that can be cheesed a bit making the fight easier than if it was done on tabletop.

I've never fought Ethel on this difficulty and it really looks game breaking. On higher difficulties she often goes invisible and I believe that her illusions get higher initiative, however it was a very long time ago thus I'm not really sure, so the fight with her is considerably harder. I would never tackle her without magic missiles

i really appreciate all the effort you went through to restore the timeline. never got to hear ethel's vicious mockery in battle, those were glorious. but honestly if something like this happens again and things go differently when you redo the fight, i personally wouldn't mind if you change your decisions and go with the new results instead

You should check on Ethel other victims, they’ve probably recovered after her death and will probably be grateful. (Then again these are recorded in advanced so you probably did already)

Never fun when the recording messes up and requires quite a bit, including a boss fight, to have to be replayed. It's good the game is making potions so useful as in a real campaign they often end up only being used in emergencies leaving the party usually carrying around more potions than a potion shop has They apparently work far differently in BG3 than in regular D&D with these potions granting immunity until long rest instead of their usual brief resistance. Immunity is quite powerful since the poisoned condition of disadvantage on attacks and saving throws is often more annoying than the poison damage.

I found the other side of that second gnarled door recently. It's an incredible passage, if only it were actually passable. I've heard there is a way to pass through it, but... it's possible that the other side would be less impressive if you come at it that way. I don't know. Vents: you can block gas vents by placing heavy things on them. I think the game tells you this by this point.

I have a bit of unfortunate news, i did this fight non lethally too, but they just stay unconcious even after you defeat ethel, and even when you come back after a rest they will hav dissapeared like corpses (unless they patched that) appearently if you want to save them, you need to sneak past them and not fight. but perhaps thy fixed this since my play through. as for scended step, i say just keep it if you feel it's right.

oof my condolences for needing to redo the hag fight glad astarion is happy. happy for him, even

this is a very fun area, lots of ways to handle this and lots of little extra flavour here

I played this section a week ago and the whole time i was anticipating your reaction to this part. Loving playing along with the series.

make sure uncanny dodge is actually enabled (it’s in the reactions tab, along with opportunity attack and stuff). i got to like level 10 before i noticed it wasn’t enabled in my game :’). astarion’s glee both at seeing freshly dead corpses and hearing eve’s sheep imitation right after was very funny to me

surprised eve didn't kill the redcaps as they are basically elite fey goblins

hello, i just ant to give bit of a tip, there are 3 paths to act 2 i know off (one of the being the mountainpath). but if you take any off them you end act 1. so if you want to explore ,you should do it before you head to moon rise. (p.s. the whole of the underdark is act 1 and there is a lot of extra content there you could miss out on)

haha larian studios heard gamers making horny jokes and innuendos and has replied with "bet." love that you are indeed roleplaying the intimate scenes. there's a while before this is relevant, but can i... can i ask, do you have nudity in your settings on or off? you _could_ have nudity on and censor in editing, when _that_ eventually happens. or if you choose to have them off and want to rewatch The Scenes when not recording, just make sure to name the savepoints you want to keep. autosaves have a chance to be automatically deleted after some time

I also went with Karlach during my first playthrough, she is such a cutie

In the previous clip, where Gale was bloodied and bruised, he did have 5hp, having fought the big scratch in the cave.

Cantrip.

I'm wondering how different this event could be depending on if you had done much different actions. And yeah in my experience there is always one or two members of a dnd group whom have a character that tries to get it on with everyone- I've mentioned before that in the years long campaign I was in there were times when it felt like the rogue player and the barbarian player were competing to see which could sleep with the most npcs. As for what's going on in camp I feel this has the problem most video games like Fallout or Mass Effect do that depending on the choices and whim of the player they can romance or knock boots with any party member the devs allow with no consequence so everyone seems to come across a bit like horny teenagers.

40 min episode, amazing when you can die/turn into a mindflayer on any given day, i think being horny and acting on it immediately is quite justifiable yeah the alternate vampire reveal scene you got meant you couldn’t get a couple really big astarion approval boosts, that sucks. hopefully you get other good opportunities for that. big fan of his rejection dialogue though, that was funny wyll being a devil and not a tiefling is immediately apparent to everybody in-universe, although I don’t know what the distinction is. i have been assuming it’s curvier horns and the particular location and shape of the ridges (personally i think the developers were cowards, should’ve given him wings and more devil stuff). so i think that excuses him somewhat here, although not in that first meeting with karlach. there i assume he was conflating devil and tiefling because he was in denial and still wanted to listen to mizora. other than that, the writing surrounding wyll is pretty much the one flaw i have with this game- player dialogue options and reactivity surrounding him feel mediocre. for romances, if you agree to several propositions, you choose when going to sleep who you want to be with. you can have multiple relationships for some time until a character gives an ultimatum also all the companions are pansexuals, happy pride <3

*plays "All I Want To Do Is Have Some Fun" by Sheryl Crow for Astarion*

Man you really hate those wolf eggs.

Well. That was certainly something. Still, let's go, tiefling lesbians! Karlach seems so happy when Eve confesses to her! Speaking of which: It's interesting that she's the only companion where deciding to spend the night together is a romantic confession, not making or accepting a more... physical proposition. I don't know if this is connected to the social stats, Karlach's overheating condition, or nothing at all, but it makes this feel much more like the start of a romantic partnership than the other options. I like it!

You might have been able to move Clive, as you can do with other items. Scratch didn't fetch when you dropped it. (Not commenting on the... possibilities for the night, except... I think what Gale had intended might have been something that didn't make sense. Not sure.)

casually eradicating the spider population

it' strange how fights don't start for you, usually the fight starts as soon as i hit something in my case

Ah, right, you didn't have it yet then.

Just in case nobody else has said this, you can hold shift then click to move to move without interacting with things. Unless one of your mods changed it.

Yes, as you saw there, the familiar is attached to the character, so you can have four of them, technically. In fact, I think there are some instances of third-tier companions, if you have an NPC temporarily join you and they summon/create/etc. something.

I really love to watch this series as you tend to read most if not all books, letters, posters and all that is written. During my playthrough I have been reading only the most important scriptures and haven't talked to all of the npcs I could and just now I realise how perfectly connected and intertwined are plots in this game. I'm not going to pinpoint exactly what I am talking about but you are just starting your delve in some serious piece of story

I find it crazy how different the my playthrough feels from yours just off the class and race differences. I'm a Wood Elf druid and its really interesting to see how different the interactions can get and feel with. I can see why the game has so much replayability.

It's nice the devs thought of it as an option of not meeting Halsin before now but some of that conversation with him had information that did make it sound like you were suppose to meet him earlier.

I never had issues checking items with T before. Short rest is supposed to be Y be default, maybe it was rebound?

in multiplayer, the person initiating the conversation gets to choose dialogue options, and other players can spectate on the scene and show which option they would want to pick. an interesting thing is that approvals are per player, not shared by the party, so it’s harder to have a lot of characters at high approval to you (plus you bring less npcs in your adventuring party since there are more player characters)

The comments of all the tieflings back in the Grove remind me of the random npcs the player could talk to in Fallout: New Vegas with many of them commenting about something the player had done or something going on in the game world at the time. It's a nice touch added to BG3 to make the npcs feel like people instead of random nobodies.

I'm sorry about the T thing, i've never had i do a short rest when trying to inspect something. didn't even know that was button bound. Perhaps its a combination of shift or control and T? becouse i know shift/space is diffident thing then space.

Just break it

I know that feeling all too well. The pressure plate in the secret room of the toll house basement. I jumped over it going in. On the way out, I said to jump too far and hit it.

I love that we get to discover Eve’s backstory at the same pace as the other characters. I’m scared I’ll backseat or spoiler things if I comment on anything more but yesssssssss. yessss I love where this playthrough is heading and that you are liking Astarion more

It's nice to see that the game has many options to prevet you from missing out on character reveals. Also might i recommend swapping your party around as you travel, you sometimes get new insight on places you pass and exp is shared across all party members to it won't hold you back. This way you could sometimes add gale or will to the party and you get too seemore about their stories. I found it a lot of fun playing this way, and usually swap after a short rest.

So the game is now trying to make up for missing rests by sticking all three of these things into one. I expect you could keep going around and eventually get the vampire and devil conversations out of everyone, as you did the visitor by going back to Astarion.

12:14 No wonders Neil Newbon won many different awards for his acting in BG3 last year. The way he can play with his voice nad emotions, truly an amazing performance. But to be completely honest, all of these characters were played exceptionally well. There is a short series somewhere on youtube where the actors playing companions gathered and played some dnd, wonderful spectacle.

This was really interesting. A nice insight into everyone's minds. I also enjoyed hearing Eve's backstory here. I really like the idea of a warlock who gets her powers from one source and just kind of lets everyone assume they're from something else. It feels very organic in terms of storytelling, too. Everyone is beginning to open up and there was a good prompt for it. If Eve had her backstory coded into the game, this is probably where it'd come up.

Accidentally setting off traps... isn't that the purpose of traps, to be accidentally set off?😊

"Has: Permanently Armed" just means you can't Command it to Drop its teeth and claws. Ooh. I've only ever rescued them or delivered the chest unopened as they were trying to do. I had no idea what was in it. There must be some limit to what it can be used against.

Is there something already in the flask or is it empty? Also, ain’t it always the way, you refuse to use a power that’s definitely going to corrupt you down the line, but it’s heavily implied you should be using it.

My friends and I are new to paper RPG games, and we were wondering how to manage fights with a low number of powerful enemies. It seems that the action economy in DnD is tailored in such a way, that fights are almost always optimised around a group of enemies rather than one Big Bad Guy. Fights like the one with Flind and her (yes, Flind is cannonicaly a female gnoll) small army is one way to tackle it, you create one fairly strong opponent and surround it with a fair amount of smaller guys that should act as distraction and hope that your party is out of area of effect spells which could easily trivialise the whole encounter.

Nah, "draugr" are a completely different thing from "duergar." The first one would undead that featured in Elder Scrolls (but didn't originate there). You may or may not already have seen the key to the book. I don't know if you have it. My monk hasn't decided if he wants to open it or not. You don't really want us tell you if he is or isn't a companion. I'll say there is a part Volo might play, depending on what you do.

Man, the landscapes are BREATHTAKING. The fact you can control the camera and they've accounted for all these angles is really impressive!

Could this mynthe mentioned in the underdark have been the minthara working with the goblins?

--He got out on his own? Wow. That... might affect things? "Evil and good" is just harder to say because of the "ndgo" in it. No need to go into the whole thing, there's loads of science around plosives and fricatives and language development. "Easier" leads to "that's the wrong way 'round."