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It seems that my graphics card doesn't support DLSS (GTX 1650), I'll mess around with the settings I guess. Funny thing is, I had bought this laptop in 2020 because my old one couldn't run BG3 EA properly. Then on EA, this machine was a beast. Sadly it looks like time caught up with it...

Finally descended from the hill at the start of Act 3 towards Rivington and my framerate immediately dropped like a potato. Are there any specific settings that I should lower? I enjoyed how pretty the game looked on my mid-range PC, so I don't want to lower everything. But I also don't know...

I'm considering doing this after what happened with her personal quest in Act 2. I'll see where things will go.

Yeah, I think this is a simple solution. WotC was saying that they have multiple books being developed simultaneously at any given moment, and they could simply make sure the tie-in books are slotted in to the relevant release dates, and release other stuff in the menatime.

Octopedes, actually.

Well, the username checks out I guess...

The Neapolitan Calzone is kicking and screaming in the corner right now.

I run most of my (non-convention) games with the assumption that the game has a PG13 rating. Not the current, sexless Marvel-era PG13 but the 80s and 90s stuff that wasn't afraid of alluding to more risqué content, but didn't go for on-screen titillation. My players have spent some nights going...

It's like the fantastic Catdog quote: — We can't agree on anything! — I disagree, I think we can agree!

Sure, I concede that point. But my point was that DiA and BG3 fail at being good tie-ins even though they were designed as such. Since they fail at doing the tie-in job well, I'm exaggerating slightly to say that DiA should not count as a tie-in. Similarly, Whizbang was bemoaning how WotC wasted...

Except, it's pretty obvious that the vast majority of people were not playing the game in 2020. A minority played the Early Access, yes, but even then, that was only less than a third of the game. You couldn't glean all of the plot points of BG3 from that, and without those, the ways in which...

I think people are playing the "but technically it's touted as a prequel!" card a bit too readily, and I think @Whizbang Dustyboots has a point. You don't get a synergistic release when one product is released in 2019, and the other four years later in 2023. "WotC couldn't have accounted for...

Man, you should've wished for a million dollars, because Patch 1 is out now! Lots of bug fixes, some apparently target spoiler-y quests not appearing in the journal so I'm guessing that's Act 3 stuff. Also, they made Gale's romantic intentions clearer, and also added a way to let him down...

Yeah, I feel like DiA shoehorned in Baldur's Gate to its first act to get that product synergy, but was released way too early for that, and made the game start in a place that's completely unrelated to its main plot. Imagine making a character who is well-established in Baldur's Gate, with lots...

For everyone shouting about DiA being a tie-in product for BG3, I honestly think it doesn't connect into it that well. Both because the production cycle of the two products was misaligned horribly to get any sort of release synergy/coordination between the two teams, and I think the final...

As a consumer, I agree. But I'm guessing it's not a sensible business decision. People keep saying that one of TSR's big mistakes was putting out too many products, to the point that their books ended up competing with each other for sales. Since WotC/Hasbro seems to see modern D&D as "The big...

I kinda wish I could do that. I had an online gaming group with a Swedish DM, two Norwegian players and an American guy (I think?). The DM was really experienced and came from older editions, so he expanded the campaign with so many things without us realising. I was a bit of an arse as a...

I actually joined my LMoP group after they had been through the goblin ambush, but reading the encounter (and knowing the swinginess of early levels), I'm guessing that if the goblins manage to sneak on the party, them getting a full surprise round would probably put most parties in a bad spot...

Absolutely. I think so many of the interesting but weirdly-implemented UA options (the psionic die, stone sorcerer, prestige classes etc.) could actually be great additions, but were scrapped since they took the negative votes to mean nobody wants these ideas to be ever implemented.

Name-wise, that's possible since the name is from an ancient Babylonian deity. That said, I think Vecna is now more popular in the zeitgeist, both in D&D circles due to being Critical Role Campaign 1's final villain, and appearing in Stranger Things.