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It's the problem with situational potions. They can be quite useful IF one remembers them. The game gives out so much loot it can be difficult to remember what one has (granted that's the case with most games that have looting/inventory mechanics since the vast majority exists solely for the player to use as NPCs rarely care about using such things themselves).
RAW in 5e sneak attacks do work on constructs (and the turrets are constructs) as they're considered creatures even if it does seem odd that it should work, and the game might be allowing sneak attacks off invisible allies due to the arcane trickster's Mage Hand being a common way for the rogue to have advantage, and from the arcane trickster being able to make the mage hand invisible. I don't know how BG3 handles Mage Hand but invisibility might have been coded this way to simplify the amount of work the devs needed. Invisibility is kind of broken in 5e with how powerful it can be, which is why I imagine so many higher level creatures and players have ways to counter/negate it.
I think constructs are fine in general, but autonomous things that have a 'programmed' targetting system shouldn't be affected. Arguably if they are targetting someone else, that might give more of an opening for a sneak attack.
@@Gar1onTabletop I'm not disagreeing with you as that would make more sense. I think that fight would have gone differently with a human DM for the arguments you and Mozzy made.
quick tip, after you have used speak with dead once, you get glowing bodies like you had here. that means they can be spoken with. (and maybe have info) Also nic to see you starting to tug at the mysteries of the under dark.
@@Gar1onTabletop LOL. Nah, I wouldn't want to spoil anything. Just saying that there are regions in the underdark, as there are above. You are in the place you are in this video, you saw a glowing tree thing area, and you looked out over a village of sorts at one point, and there was the minotaur area out front the temple with the death ray... places. I'm not even going to say if this area is vital, useful, or a distraction.
You were about to click on the way out as this ended. You were there for a reason. I do hope you go the right way. I... don't think you removed that one person's mask. Perhaps they chose to take it off, and the others still choose to serve?
when they're talking about a gift from the dream visitor, they're talking about a mind flayer parasite specimen. you should have an additional one in your inventory after every dream
quick tip, there is a quick menu to learn spells in the menu where you choose your spells for the day (button K) and bombs and cast of gunppowder are very good to trow/set up and use as a trap lastly, spells like reduce and featherfall are handy to get arround the map.
Yes that is the menu i meant, there is a button at the top right to manage spellscrolls in the inventory and learn spells. As for the enlarge/reduce spell fair warning it doesnt work for every small hole.
It's cute watching Eve flirt with Karlach. I wonder how different Will's story is if the player doesn't spare Karlach. It does also feel like the player should be able to call out his behavior especially if helping the tieflings and/or the player being a tiefling themselves. It's still nice the game has made potions more useful but most of them are still pretty situational.
@@Gar1onTabletop I wonder if I missed seeing something earlier in your playthrough or we just haven't discovered that part of Will's background yet but his behavior and phrasing would make sense if he had a thing against tieflings and saw them as the "offspring" of demons but Will has poked holes in that possibility, as does the fact that he has a demon for his patron. I wonder if the fact that Eve is a tiefling is why his behavior seems more apparent as with the level of detail the devs have put into the game one would think there should be tiefling specific responses countering his thoughts. I don't feel you're being unreasonable and I may have to go searching to find how people are defending or excusing Will.
There's definitely been nothing overt in my playthrough where he says he has a problem with tieflings. Seemingly the opposite. We met him when he was helping protect the tiefling refugees, he gave up his Karlach chase upon finding out she's a tiefling, and he doesn't see himself as a tiefling. He just constantly makes comments about how hideous and awful devils are, even when they look exactly like (or, for Karlach, actually are) tieflings. I am so curious about replaying this as a non-tiefling to see if/how his dialogue changes. I suspect a lot would be very similar, but I also consistently underestimated the variety possible.
@@Gar1onTabletop That's part of why I say my theory doesn't hold water. I like Will but his character feels a bit inconsistent. Maybe it's deliberate and will make more sense as the game progresses but I wonder if it could also just be a downside of him seemingly having the widest possible changes in story depending on the player's actions so far and not all the writers were on the same page.
Did you notice the LIT torch laid next to that one vent? Wounding Ray does exist in 5E, but as an Attack Action for the Spectator, where it does 3d10, not a measly 2d8. At least the source of it makes sense.
i recommend keeping the elemental damage arrows especially if you won’t always have spells dealing that element’s damage prepared, just in case you run into a nasty set of resistances and vulnerabilities. also since elixirs are per long rest, they’re actually pretty useful even if you only remember to use one at the end of fight #1 of the day. the rest though i forget too and those poisons are already better by far than what dnd 5e’s got
3:26 Reminds me of a pretty ingenious trap in a CYOA book I read once. It had all the set-up to look like a bunch of crossbows would go off if you didn't take a gem-eyed skull in the right way, but it turns out the trigger was in a pressure plate on the pedestal said skull was on. So if you replaced it and tried to be as safe as possible, you'd trigger the trap!
It's nice the drow can be conversed with and actually have some interesting things to say. A lot of games would have just given them something brief to say like a 'thanks' because it wouldn't have cared if you'd let them live or not. Also that is a bit on the lame side that you can't resurrect npcs but I guess that is the balancing due to the removal of the material cost to keep players from exploiting the mechanic. In the long campaign I was in even though returning from death was a rare thing in the lore of the world once we had access to Resurrection and True Resurrection the party started abusing it a bit in regards to how we resolved certain things with npcs (which irked my cleric some as I'd been avoiding using spells like Raise Dead to keep to the lore of the DM's story and resurrecting certain npcs would have broken parts of the narrative).
It's a risk in D&D and the like, where certain spells absolutely shatter the challenge/feel of the game and world. Even some classes can be mercilessly exploited. Unless they're balanced with homebrew, you've just got to sit your player down as a DM and get them to chill.
There does come a point when you can't go back, but I'm able to still jump back from the "scary-dark place" (the reason you are advised in the game to maybe try to go through the underdark, which is just dark and scary. You can certainly find the creche before things go bad, and come back. Underdark is adventures though. OK, so that IS a different Spectator. I think that... having the leader of these drow die, you may have avoided a "minor complication." Not sure though, as you've not left them behind yet.
@@Gar1onTabletop The thing I'm saying you may have avoided is just a thing that would happen in the current series of conversations, not later on, and it wouldn't affect things later. You might have made things much better for all I know. When I did this, not as many of the drow were de-petrified, and only the leader was standing at the end. My conversation options were very different.
@Tfin That may not be a spoiler for this run, but it's still close to a spoiler for this game. I plan to do subsequent playthroughs (not sure if they'll be on the channel or not), and I don't want those spoiled either. Apologies if you feel I'm too strict about spoilers, but it's not something I like to risk. The smallest thing can be a spoiler sometimes, so that why I have a blanket 'No Spoilers' on all my series. There's a lot that can be discussed without touching on spoilers, but anything that mentions game content I've not seen - even if it's just mentioning that it exists - can be a spoiler.
glad to see you heading into the underdark, i find it one pof the more fun area's of the game. Also i'm curious what your opinion on gale after having had him in you party for a while. he did get 2 nicknames over his trial period.
Glad you thought so Im a big fan of gale.. With shads the thing is, trickery is the least usefull domain in bg3 you could switch it to knowlege domain as that is also one of shar's domains and vastly more usefull.
Oh, that might indeed be worth doing. I really want it to remain true to her story, and Knowledge is the Wizard-esque domain... Looking into it, Shar was only Knowledge domain in 3rd and 4th editions. In 5th she's Trickery and Death (which apparently isn't in BG3). It's always possible to make things work with domains outside of the obvious, but I think I'd need to think of a 'story' way to make her Knowledge. I'll think about it some more.
i noticed you going to waypoints to travel to other waypoints, so pardon me if you already knew this, but you can click on the waypoints on the map interface or the list of waypoint names on the right of the map to use fast travel
Lae'zel is likely not doing well with a bow because she's a strength fighter and bows use dexterity (even though in real life it takes a lot of strength to use a bow). She'd do better with thrown weapons but of course those aren't as plentiful as arrows, and if you want to reuse them you have to go collect them again afterwards.
Most of the time, Astarion disapproving is about autonomy He doesn’t like it when you force him or someone to do something against their will. Like buying a slave or signing him up for something without asking, things like that. Sometimes it’s also just helping without getting anything in return
admittedly its a bit disappointing that there isn't an option to lie about opening the flask. Like they were attacked and killed by Gnolls, its not that much of a stretch to lie and say that it got opened then and you just cleaned up afterwards. I suppose you can't let charisma casters talk there way out of everything, but this is one where I feel like a deception or persuasion roll would have fit decently.
I interpreted it as having (obviously) opened the locked chest it was in. That chest should have been delivered intact. I think I kept at least one of the two in the cave alive so that they could deliver it...
I interpreted it as having (obviously) opened the locked chest it was in. That chest should have been delivered intact. I think I kept at least one of the two in the cave alive so that they could deliver it...
It does feel like that should have been an available option. In general I don't think the deception skill gets enough opportunity in most DnD games/campaigns. I also find it amusing they decided to attack the group that survived opening the flask.
For the future, ‘attack rolls’ in this game includes spell attack rolls. The spellsparkler you saw synergizes well with multi-ray cantrips/spells like eldritch blast, as will similar on hit effect items you’ll see
I'm still working on it. I've been going through some personal stuff lately, so I haven't updated it for a month or so, but it's still being worked on. Everything we have so far is on the Far Wastes Lab: thefarwastes.notion.site/The-Far-Wastes-dcfce873072546529b48d1de7eecce53
Unconscious NPC didn't slow me, as I absolutely needed to rest after the Hag fight, encountering it a bit earlier than you have. (Previously, I skipped the whole area!)
Sorry to hear you went through such trouble getting the outcome you eventually showed us requiring you to play through this fight quite a few times. While it is neat in a way to see what spells and abilities an enemy is under or has, this fight showed how that can be cheesed a bit making the fight easier than if it was done on tabletop.
I've never fought Ethel on this difficulty and it really looks game breaking. On higher difficulties she often goes invisible and I believe that her illusions get higher initiative, however it was a very long time ago thus I'm not really sure, so the fight with her is considerably harder. I would never tackle her without magic missiles
i really appreciate all the effort you went through to restore the timeline. never got to hear ethel's vicious mockery in battle, those were glorious. but honestly if something like this happens again and things go differently when you redo the fight, i personally wouldn't mind if you change your decisions and go with the new results instead
You should check on Ethel other victims, they’ve probably recovered after her death and will probably be grateful. (Then again these are recorded in advanced so you probably did already)
Never fun when the recording messes up and requires quite a bit, including a boss fight, to have to be replayed. It's good the game is making potions so useful as in a real campaign they often end up only being used in emergencies leaving the party usually carrying around more potions than a potion shop has They apparently work far differently in BG3 than in regular D&D with these potions granting immunity until long rest instead of their usual brief resistance. Immunity is quite powerful since the poisoned condition of disadvantage on attacks and saving throws is often more annoying than the poison damage.
The potion changes do seem cool. I'll try to have a sit down and look at the potions and poisons I have to see how likely I am to use them. I totally agree that having the resistance last until long rest is a great change, especially as long rests are still entirely under player control.
I found the other side of that second gnarled door recently. It's an incredible passage, if only it were actually passable. I've heard there is a way to pass through it, but... it's possible that the other side would be less impressive if you come at it that way. I don't know. Vents: you can block gas vents by placing heavy things on them. I think the game tells you this by this point.
I have a bit of unfortunate news, i did this fight non lethally too, but they just stay unconcious even after you defeat ethel, and even when you come back after a rest they will hav dissapeared like corpses (unless they patched that) appearently if you want to save them, you need to sneak past them and not fight. but perhaps thy fixed this since my play through. as for scended step, i say just keep it if you feel it's right.
that's not true. i don't know if the masked people stay if you nonlethal them and the hag doesn't die, but if you do kill the hag in this fight, you can save one of them. the other victims in the lair can be saved after the hag dies
make sure uncanny dodge is actually enabled (it’s in the reactions tab, along with opportunity attack and stuff). i got to like level 10 before i noticed it wasn’t enabled in my game :’). astarion’s glee both at seeing freshly dead corpses and hearing eve’s sheep imitation right after was very funny to me
hello, i just ant to give bit of a tip, there are 3 paths to act 2 i know off (one of the being the mountainpath). but if you take any off them you end act 1. so if you want to explore ,you should do it before you head to moon rise. (p.s. the whole of the underdark is act 1 and there is a lot of extra content there you could miss out on)
haha larian studios heard gamers making horny jokes and innuendos and has replied with "bet." love that you are indeed roleplaying the intimate scenes. there's a while before this is relevant, but can i... can i ask, do you have nudity in your settings on or off? you _could_ have nudity on and censor in editing, when _that_ eventually happens. or if you choose to have them off and want to rewatch The Scenes when not recording, just make sure to name the savepoints you want to keep. autosaves have a chance to be automatically deleted after some time
I'm wondering how different this event could be depending on if you had done much different actions. And yeah in my experience there is always one or two members of a dnd group whom have a character that tries to get it on with everyone- I've mentioned before that in the years long campaign I was in there were times when it felt like the rogue player and the barbarian player were competing to see which could sleep with the most npcs. As for what's going on in camp I feel this has the problem most video games like Fallout or Mass Effect do that depending on the choices and whim of the player they can romance or knock boots with any party member the devs allow with no consequence so everyone seems to come across a bit like horny teenagers.
Fallout has a similar 'open world with actions earning approval' thing, so it's possible to skyrocket your approval in a short space. But Mass Effect has romance progression linked to story progression, meaning while several characters are into Shepherd, you have very limited chances to pursue them and you need to 'set it up' before those chances come up. Maybe I'm biased towards Mass Effect romance because Tali'Zorah is one of my favourite characters ever, but I definitely see the comparison to Fallout. I think just because they all offer it at once here. You can't get any kind of 'drip-feed' of romance propositions when camping is a universal event for them, and they all seem to wait until the party to try it on. Astarion trying it on the first time we camped felt more natural, because he was the only one and it was oppurtunistic.
40 min episode, amazing when you can die/turn into a mindflayer on any given day, i think being horny and acting on it immediately is quite justifiable yeah the alternate vampire reveal scene you got meant you couldn’t get a couple really big astarion approval boosts, that sucks. hopefully you get other good opportunities for that. big fan of his rejection dialogue though, that was funny wyll being a devil and not a tiefling is immediately apparent to everybody in-universe, although I don’t know what the distinction is. i have been assuming it’s curvier horns and the particular location and shape of the ridges (personally i think the developers were cowards, should’ve given him wings and more devil stuff). so i think that excuses him somewhat here, although not in that first meeting with karlach. there i assume he was conflating devil and tiefling because he was in denial and still wanted to listen to mizora. other than that, the writing surrounding wyll is pretty much the one flaw i have with this game- player dialogue options and reactivity surrounding him feel mediocre. for romances, if you agree to several propositions, you choose when going to sleep who you want to be with. you can have multiple relationships for some time until a character gives an ultimatum also all the companions are pansexuals, happy pride <3
Well. That was certainly something. Still, let's go, tiefling lesbians! Karlach seems so happy when Eve confesses to her! Speaking of which: It's interesting that she's the only companion where deciding to spend the night together is a romantic confession, not making or accepting a more... physical proposition. I don't know if this is connected to the social stats, Karlach's overheating condition, or nothing at all, but it makes this feel much more like the start of a romantic partnership than the other options. I like it!
You might have been able to move Clive, as you can do with other items. Scratch didn't fetch when you dropped it. (Not commenting on the... possibilities for the night, except... I think what Gale had intended might have been something that didn't make sense. Not sure.)
