D&D General Baldur's Gate 3 will now be releasing August 3rd on PC and September 6th on PS5, increased level cap, race & class details and more

[Vael]

Try not to hit them though ... that'll inflict bludgeoning damage first ... I've heard of a few hilarious deaths from two failed death saves + a thrown potion ...

 

[Leatherhead]

Yeah I have the same question. Everyone says, and the videos show, just throwing the potion at the floor near them so the "splash radius" shows and splashes them. But my experience is... that doesn't work. I dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but exactly like you I can get it to work about one throw in four.

You are probably aiming at their circles and not at their feet. They have to actually stand in the potion to be healed. Remember this game isn't using a grid. You can even hit two people with the same potion if you aim it right.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Re: Gale, this is 100% the straight woman experience. You don't have to be remotely flirty with that kind of guy for them to decide that, not only are you obviously into them, but they're hurt when turn out to be dating someone else or whatever. You just have to be like, be normally decent to them, and most people are to Gale. Personally I got over this when I was about 14 (somehow, god knows how, I suspect it was explained on a TV show or something), but I know dudes who struggle with this concept in their 30. What happens to most of them is they eventually assume correctly, end up married, and thus just don't learn any better (but secretly think all their co-workers are into them - they are not lol).

Re: Halsin on the other hand is bugged. I'm not sure if it's all choices, but there's a place at the party where you can come on to him pretty hard, or not, and if you pick not, the game still thinks you picked to come on to him, and you're stuck with an apology option in your dialogue (which doesn't always go away even if you pick it) until like, the next act. Also he is quite a horny-ass dude when it comes down to it, but that's revealed later.

Yeah I have the same question. Everyone says, and the videos show, just throwing the potion at the floor near them so the "splash radius" shows and splashes them. But my experience is... that doesn't work. I dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but exactly like you I can get it to work about one throw in four.

I wonder if that's DX11-specific. Running on Vulkan I haven't experienced it at all, not even once, not even in Baldur's Gate itself. I get the same FPS in the same place at minute 5 or hour 5 or BG3 being up. But multiple people have reported it.

It's a bug, he's supposed to accept no for an answer.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It's a bug, he's supposed to accept no for an answer.

If you mean Gale, you have no basis for saying this. The last thing you claimed as a fact about the game turned out to be completely false, and the result of you misunderstanding a mod, so you might want to cite source and double-check stuff before making claims like that. Honestly, if you haven't got a cite, you're making it up.

If you mean Halsin, yeah I said it was a bug.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

It's amazing how the only time game makers put kids in, is to make them insufferable.

But now there is a mod to let you kill the tiefling kids. They had it coming.

 

[MarkB]

It's amazing how the only time game makers put kids in, is to make them insufferable.

But now there is a mod to let you kill the tiefling kids. They had it coming.

I would die for Mol. When my characters finish up this campaign they want to graduate to becoming a part of her criminal empire.

 

[Ondath]

It's amazing how the only time game makers put kids in, is to make them insufferable.

But now there is a mod to let you kill the tiefling kids. They had it coming.

I think Arabella is a good kid. And every kid NPC becomes incredibly cute when they want to pet my cat familiar. I was amazed to see that the devs thought of adding that to the game.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

See, if Arabella was by herself, I might buy that. But seeing how every other tiefling kid is also a thief, she just becomes part of the same gang. And I have to assume the adults raise them to be like this, because they're happy to commit suicide by PC because Mol said so..

 

[Ruin Explorer]

See, if Arabella was by herself, I might buy that. But seeing how every other tiefling kid is also a thief, she just becomes part of the same gang. And I have to assume the adults raise them to be like this, because they're happy to commit suicide by PC because Mol said so..

I mean, who is more guilty, a child, clearly under the age where they could understand what death is or permanent consequences or even really right and wrong, or an adult who psychotically murders a bunch of a children for stealing a genuinely insignificant and meaningless amount from him? I'm going go with the latter by... oooh... infinity? There's no "suicide by PC" for a bunch of 8-10 year olds. There's only child-murder by a psychopath who could have pressed the non-lethal button at any moment!

Also ringleaders are a thing. Very few kids are genuinely good at resisting peer pressure. I was, but that was because, I think, I was a ringleader by nature (as a child, less so as an adult). There's really only one kid who is perhaps genuinely a bad kid and on a bad path, and that's Mol.

I suspect most of the children who we can't locate the parents of are orphans, too, given the events of Descent to Avernus, also didn't they all traumatically get turned into tieflings by that? That's got to mess you up. And given how maladapted most of the tiefling adults are to the situation (they seem very middle-class, by and large, I guess Elturel was), and how young many of the surviving adults are (Zevlor being the only one who seems much older than "early 30s" - most giving early 20s vibes), I suspect the parenting skills they have are very limited.

However I will agree on one major point you make: what the absolute hell is wrong with RPG designers, that almost all the kids they put in games are horrible little thieving oiks?

I'm actually surprised the game didn't brutally manipulate us by having some genuinely nice goblin children (I've never even seen a goblin child, but then I haven't spent much time in that camp) to counterpoint the tiefling ones, but I guess that would be a little implausible given how awful the goblins are.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

If they were thieving on the streets of Baldur's Gate, that I expect. But they're taking shelter in the Grove, someone else's place, and their first instinct is to antagonize absolutely everyone.

I'm not really seeing the difference to goblins, here - perhaps goblins, too, are 8-10 years old and just lacked a parental figure. Only they're not literally hellspawn.