D&D General BG3 Massive Spoiler Thread

[MarkB]

After 190 hours my wife and I just finished our first play thru, both with custom characters (me shadow Monk, her, Gloomstalker Ranger0, and just WOW.

Big endgame spoilers to follow.



Our endgame had us transform Karach into an Illithid to take out the brain. Funny thing was, we'd hardly used her through the game as Wyll was a constant companion along with Shadowheart, but when Wyll became pissy that we didn't save his dad, I dropped him for Karach, who then volunteered to transform to take on the brain (La'zel was killed by Orin and we decided to trust The Emperor who I swore was going to betray us right up until the end).

Going to start our next play thru on Tactical mode now!

I played through as Lae'zel, choosing to take the path of restoring Prince Orpheus to the Githyanki throne, and when faced with the choice of letting him make the transformation she instead did so herself. Afterwards she chose to take her own life rather than risking losing herself to the transformation, granting her people a bright future she wouldn't live to see.

Afterwards I immediately jumped back into a new game, playing a Dark Urge character. Currently in the Underdark transitioning into Act 2.

 

[Ogre Mage]

I played through as Lae'zel, choosing to take the path of restoring Prince Orpheus to the Githyanki throne, and when faced with the choice of letting him make the transformation she instead did so herself. Afterwards she chose to take her own life rather than risking losing herself to the transformation, granting her people a bright future she wouldn't live to see.

Afterwards I immediately jumped back into a new game, playing a Dark Urge character. Currently in the Underdark transitioning into Act 2.

I finished my second run as a custom female githyanki ranger/rogue/fighter who was romancing Lae'zel. In our version, Prince Orpheus transformed into the mind flayer. After we defeated the Absolute he asked us to kill him but I passed a persuasion check and convinced him to live. He could see the fruits of his labor, even if he could not directly participate. He said he would exile himself to a remote corner of the galaxy. The game ended with Lae'zel and I hopping on red dragons and flying off to join the rebellion against Queen Vlaakith.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I just got to Nere and getting my butt kicked by him and the dwarves. Does the war horn work in this area?

Trying to recall, but I am highly certain I tried getting the warhorn to call the ogres but could neither get them to answer the horn unless I was in the starting map. Neither the mountain pass nor the Underdark got a response. I think the horn blows but someone chimes up with something like “Too far for the ogres to respond”.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Trying to recall, but I am highly certain I tried getting the warhorn to call the ogres but could neither get them to answer the horn unless I was in the starting map. Neither the mountain pass nor the Underdark got a response. I think the horn blows but someone chimes up with something like “Too far for the ogres to respond”.

Really? So not many places where they'd be actually useful. The githyanki near the Mountain Pass. Kind of a waste in the goblin village. Auntie Ethel (assuming you can summon them inside her lair). The spider matriarch? Assuming you can summon them underground, you've likely met her before finding the horn anyway. Maybe the gnolls outside of the Zhentarim retrieval quest cave? Even then, not that tough of a fight.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Really? So not many places where they'd be actually useful. The githyanki near the Mountain Pass. Kind of a waste in the goblin village. Auntie Ethel (assuming you can summon them inside her lair). The spider matriarch? Assuming you can summon them underground, you've likely met her before finding the horn anyway. Maybe the gnolls outside of the Zhentarim retrieval quest cave? Even then, not that tough of a fight.

IMO a reasonable place for the horn to get them to show up might be that gnoll/flind fight if you want to kill the flind and not just dominate it, or the githyanki attack on the Risen Road bridge where Voss first appears then flies off. The Goblin courtyard partying maybe?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Really? So not many places where they'd be actually useful. The githyanki near the Mountain Pass. Kind of a waste in the goblin village. Auntie Ethel (assuming you can summon them inside her lair). The spider matriarch? Assuming you can summon them underground, you've likely met her before finding the horn anyway. Maybe the gnolls outside of the Zhentarim retrieval quest cave? Even then, not that tough of a fight.

The horn isn't magical. It doesn't make sense for the ogres to turn up where they wouldn't be able to hear it.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

The horn isn't magical. It doesn't make sense for the ogres to turn up where they wouldn't be able to hear it.

That's true! The Act 1 main map is small enough that it's realistic that the ogres could hear it if they and the party are both on that map. But... how do they appear so quickly? Regardless of what they're doing at the moment even ("Get off the can, Ralph!!! Dude blew the horn!")?

 

[Andvari]

That's true! The Act 1 main map is small enough that it's realistic that the ogres could hear it if they and the party are both on that map. But... how do they appear so quickly? Regardless of what they're doing at the moment even ("Get off the can, Ralph!!! Dude blew the horn!")?

Maybe they're really good at stealth and are sneaking around near you, just waiting for you to use the horn. When you return to their normal spot they just go there quickly and pretend to have been there all the time.

 

[MarkB]

That's true! The Act 1 main map is small enough that it's realistic that the ogres could hear it if they and the party are both on that map. But... how do they appear so quickly? Regardless of what they're doing at the moment even ("Get off the can, Ralph!!! Dude blew the horn!")?

Well, they are standing about thirty feet from a fast travel portal.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Maybe they're really good at stealth and are sneaking around near you, just waiting for you to use the horn. When you return to their normal spot they just go there quickly and pretend to have been there all the time.

Well, they are standing about thirty feet from a fast travel portal.

Do they have nothing better to do with their time?

What if Ted had to pick up some milk for his mum in the meantime? Couldn't he show up late because he was fishing for nickels in his pocket/rucksack? Or Ralph got caught on his zipper in his rush to meet the super important call of the horn? I'll stick with "this is a magic summoning horn" in my mind palace.