Baldur's Gate

(Came to me while watching Karlach stare at an enemy Wizard while waiting for my turn)

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/09/27/baldurs-gate-3-devs-share-most-popular-powerful-and-unconventional-multiclass-builds/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3377194

Really excited to play the game. Seems like a Game of the Year candidate. Should be released around September 6 for Mac on Steam (and I think GoG)

Spoilers below - beware!

I beat Aec’Letec! I tried it on my last last play-through and gave up convinced it was ridiculous and unfairly balanced.

However… it’s really not that difficult if you get your tactics right (yes some cheese is required).

Such a shame the quest reward is meh (the xp is lovely though)!

I’ve started with a Drow Ranger and while I could start right away with multi-classing into a Druid I’m waiting until level 3 for the companion ability thing. But then I’m not sure if I wanna go hard with the Druid or Ranger build. I don’t really know all the higher level abilities well enough to be sure which synergy would be best.

I've been thinking of spicing up my next run by having no arcane casters in my party. I'm usually pretty arcane heavy so I'm thinking this'll force me to use different solutions.

Does anyone have much experience with this? Is it fun or does it just get tedious not being able to cast haste on your party to get around faster?

What’s everybody playing at the moment?

My current Charname is a Bard using the Blade kit on BGEE iOS and I have to say I’m really enjoying him!

I'll start.

My favorite performance is Jaheira, voiced by Heidi Shannon. That unique, eastern-european accent saying "Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure" is unbelievably iconic and also perfectly captures BG's slightly irreverent tone. It's emblematic of the series as a whole, and probably influenced a lot of fantasy RPG voice acting that came after it. For example, I am convinced that Laura Bailey's character Jester in the second season of critical roll was based on Shannon's performance, though admittedly the personalities of Jester and Jaheira are quite different.

And you know what's surprising? Heidi Shannon didn't go on to do anything else. Nothing that I'm aware of anyway. And I have no idea why. Makes me wonder if the voice actors back then knew that they were working on a very influential title, or if they just recorded those 2 minutes or so of voicework for that weird little game company just to pay some bills.

Hey I thought you guys might enjoy watching me and my friend try to play Baldur's Gate 1 enhanced iron man style, i.e. without ever reloading, except when we take a break and resume. So if our main character dies in a fight, we will delete the savegame and that run will be over. Likewise, if Imoen gets shredded by an unlucky crit, well we're just going to have to live with that.

We chose mage for our first run. Playing the enhanced edition so many years later after vanilla BG feels different. It's very strange to summon a familiar in candlekeep.

Anyways we will surely die. If anyone has advice for no reload runs, we would be glad to hear it. We are aware of some basic tricks like evermemory at friendly arm, and alginon's cloak and so on, but we also have some glaring holes in our knowledge of the game. Especially the parts in cloakwood with the bandits and the mine. I have like no recollection of that part, but I remember it being hard. We also know nothing about the EE npc quests, like dorn etc. Tips for these things would be very much appreciated.

Hey adventurers! Feel free to share your favorite builds, characters, companions, quests, moments or your latest solo or evil run experience! :)