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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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How are everyone’s stories coming along? Have you finished the game? If so how many times?

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[–] Linuto 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Starting my 2nd playthrough with a lolth sworn drow cleric(1) bard(11) build. Going dark urge, but resisting it.

I like the idea that through my character's relationship to an evil deity, they recognize the dark urge is something wholly other than Lolth's influence. So lawful evil in the sense that, "yeah I'll be evil, but not because you told me to."

My favorite thing so far had been Shadowheart hesitantly confessing she worships Shar, only for me to be like, "Oh that's nothing. Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, the Spider Queen?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have 180 hours. First playthrough was learning DnD rules and mechanics (I knew nothing about it before), I started on the easiest setting, got up to act 3 but I missed a lot of stuff and I wasn't satisfied so I restarted on normal.

I finished the game on normal, tho I rushed act 3 a bit because I wanted to see the end of the story. Then I started a dark urge run, still at the very beginning, I'll probably get additional 100+ hours by the end of it XD.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 3 points 8 months ago

First playthrough I didn't experience the Bulette burrowing away during a fight, but on second playthrough it does. I don't mind that on it's own but I'm wondering if it's broken or OP. I managed to get it low enough to put it to sleep. I figured one more round of attacks would finish it off but after one attack it woke up and burrowed away. Can it burrow as a reaction?

[–] reagansrottencorpse 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in act 2 on first playthrough, but I haven't touched it in weeks.

I guess I got bored of it.

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[–] Jumi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having a really hard time playing my character different from my first playthrough. I >!killed Karlach so Wyll doesn't get horns!< and it feels so wrong that I'm thinking about going back to an older save.

[–] Meuzzin 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on my 2nd playthrough, after ending my first abruptly in Act 2 (Someone here knows how that happens). Currently just hit Act 2 in my new game. Going on 458 Hours total. Think that includes OA time as well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

About 50 hours and just got my ass handed to me by Fist guy or whatever at the inn while most of my party had 1 HP left, so there's that. This is my first playthrough.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've never tried this kind of thing before but a mechanic seems bugged. I had a tough persuasion check (30) and my character had only one bonus. Guidance wasn't enough to get me to 30 if I rolled a 19 so I looked for other options. I thought I'd get some kind of bonus if I charmed my target but it didn't help at all. I never use Charm for conversations so I don't know if that normally helps. Possibly the normal effect is negated because (avoiding spoilers) the outcome of the convo was very important to the plot. If that's the case it still seems unfair. Took me like 8 reloads to roll a Nat 20.

Also, venting a little, charming that character was only 1% easier than rolling a 20.

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[–] DacoTaco 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

220h in, +/- halfway act 3 and still havent finished the game haha.
Like a few here i inspect every nook and cranny, do all quests i can do and read a lot of books and letters. Its amazing and very nice.
I did loose shadowheart and gale though ( oh no /s. Didnt like shadowheart anyway ).

I dont think i will do a second playthrough as ive seen a lot of stuff already, and dont want to go through it all again but i can understand some people do as there is still things to learn and see ( like the evil route )

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