Ulorian - Agent of Chaos
Legend
I'm literally in those hallways right now.
D&D General BG3 Massive Spoiler Thread
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Watch out for all the puddles of blood my team is leaving all over the place.
Zardnaar
Legend
And my owlbear. To big tbh.
Zardnaar
Legend
ENworld help please.
So got a few parts of ACT3 to do. Thinking about my next character.
Last 3 builds have been dexterity, charisma and wisdom based.
Starting as Gale I think romancing Karlach. I don't particularly enjoy wizards or strength based. Or summoning vast hordes a few elementals are fine.
I want to do something interesting no meta power builds eg TB monk or throwers.
Haven't played Rangers, barbarians or druids to much. Earlier someone mentioned a dex based Paladin.
Or do a themed party eg stealth, bears, darkness. Party full of warlocks could be fun.
Any ideas peeps?
So got a few parts of ACT3 to do. Thinking about my next character.
Last 3 builds have been dexterity, charisma and wisdom based.
Starting as Gale I think romancing Karlach. I don't particularly enjoy wizards or strength based. Or summoning vast hordes a few elementals are fine.
I want to do something interesting no meta power builds eg TB monk or throwers.
Haven't played Rangers, barbarians or druids to much. Earlier someone mentioned a dex based Paladin.
Or do a themed party eg stealth, bears, darkness. Party full of warlocks could be fun.
Any ideas peeps?
deganawida
Legend
Barbarian is soooo much fun. Advantage on almost every Intimidation check. Think it’s just under bard for unique responses. Plus, take a look at the Bonespike set; that armor lets you leap into the fray and start damaging from the second you land. How cool is that? I’d avoid TB, like you said, though you can still be a berserker and just use your bonus action to Enraged Throw at enemies not in melee range of you.
I’ve played a little of ranger, though only to level 4. I found it to be kind of boring, and without much personality. YMMV, of course.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Orin is absolutely the Kai Leng of BG3, because fundamentally, ME3 and BG3 share a number of narrative flaws, it's just that in ME3 they're horrific and nearly fatal, and in BG3 they're largely superficial and easy to overlook.
But she has an identical inability to be stopped even though her plans are (almost literally) childish and absolutely defeatable with basic D&D planning and magic, and likewise gets to monologue the player obnoxiously despite being a moron.
The biggest narrative problem in BG3 for me remains scouting Moonrise though. You can find hard documentation conclusively detailing the core bad guy plan, revealing tons of stuff, including that Gortash is 100% part of it, Isobel is related to Ketheric, etc., you can even take that evidence because it's books and letters, but can you tell anyone?
Nope.
Jaheira directly asks you for that kind of info and you just have to flatly lie and say "some areas of Moonrise are off limits to me still", even after you've broken in everywhere!
You also can't confront Isobel with the info. Nor people who think Gortash isn't a crook.
Yet Larian know you have it because you can use it on Ketheric in his boss fight!
It's one of the worst cases of this I've ever seen in CRPGs and particularly bizarre because the game has so much reactivity otherwise, like even for 1% corner case scenarios. Sure they put it behind a DC30 door, but Knock is a spell, people, and DC30 isn't that hard to hit with Expertise and Guidance. Also how they put the cool undead dog friend behind the same door so they clearly wanted me in there!
Ruin Explorer
Legend
In other news I am mostly through the Underdark and still inexplicably not dead, though I did manage to lose some items to explosions/cliffs - I wasn't trying to shove that guy off a cliff when Karlach threw a spear at him, but I guess the elevation and angle did it anyway!
More concerned about Act 2 because I screwed it up royally in my first run so don't really know the "right" way to do it, or the "right" order of places to go. Also I keep telling myself I will take the safe and pragmatic options in dialogue and then the moment the chips are down I'm talking smack to people I really shouldn't.
Also as I predicted I did indeed walk into the exploding mushrooms (sigh). I managed to save the guy first but I didn't think carefully and so sent my STR 8 character to throw water at the torch instead of say, shooting it with an ice spell or ice arrow or using a proof thrower like Karlach. RIP special mushroom.
More concerned about Act 2 because I screwed it up royally in my first run so don't really know the "right" way to do it, or the "right" order of places to go. Also I keep telling myself I will take the safe and pragmatic options in dialogue and then the moment the chips are down I'm talking smack to people I really shouldn't.
Also as I predicted I did indeed walk into the exploding mushrooms (sigh). I managed to save the guy first but I didn't think carefully and so sent my STR 8 character to throw water at the torch instead of say, shooting it with an ice spell or ice arrow or using a proof thrower like Karlach. RIP special mushroom.
OB1
Jedi Master
Gloomstalker Drow Ranger is a ton of fun, not OP but lots of cool options.
I agree -- and I say that as someone who beat Honor Mode while taking on all the bosses, just to see if I could. I enjoy challenging myself that way, but I also want to be able to turn the heat down, play with less-optimal choices, and focus on the roleplaying which is BG3's best aspect, while still playing by the stricter rules (without the cranked-up enemies) of Honor Mode.
I mean, I guess I can enforce most of those rules on myself, but the more I have to think about "not allowed to do X in this scenario," the less I can just immerse myself in the story.
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