D&D General Converting Bg3 to Tabletop

[aco175]

I have never played these video games and would likely play a printed version or chop things up with the locations and mini-dungeons for my home play.

 

[TheSword]

So interestingly I broached the subject with my group face to face after our game this weekend. At least one player bounced pretty heavily off the idea of having an ithilid tadpole in their head. Even just the potential threat of it taking over his character was enough to feel coercive and didn’t fit how he would want to play a character… as someone with choice and agency at a basic level.

I hadn’t thought of that. that the basic premise would be unpalatable to a roleplayer wanting to come up with a character.

 

[Zardnaar]

So interestingly I broached the subject with my group face to face after our game this weekend. At least one player bounced pretty heavily off the idea of having an ithilid tadpole in their head. Even just the potential threat of it taking over his character was enough to feel coercive and didn’t fit how he would want to play a character… as someone with choice and agency at a basic level.

I hadn’t thought of that. that the basic premise would be unpalatable to a roleplayer wanting to come up with a character.

I had anidea for BG4.
. Players basically wanted Tavs or do whatever with the iconic.

So canned the idea.

BG3.5 inspired worked great.

 

[MarkB]

So interestingly I broached the subject with my group face to face after our game this weekend. At least one player bounced pretty heavily off the idea of having an ithilid tadpole in their head. Even just the potential threat of it taking over his character was enough to feel coercive and didn’t fit how he would want to play a character… as someone with choice and agency at a basic level.

I hadn’t thought of that. that the basic premise would be unpalatable to a roleplayer wanting to come up with a character.

Yeah, it is understandable, and as part of the campaign's premise it'd be tough to single out a PC as not having been implanted. And while, in the videogame, it's not like the characters are constantly under control, there are definitely struggles for control involved.

Getting around it would probably require a completely different approach, maybe playing as hirelings for the Harpers investigating things from outside, but it would require some severe adjustments and likely entirely miss out on some things like the artifact and the Emperor.