Just Something I Live With | Let's Play Baldur's Gate 3 Blind Part 4 

im so ready for 200 eps of this

The reason Shadowheart wouldn’t give you Guidance that one time is because Guidance is a cantrip that requires she touch you, and you left her outside. If she were close enough to tap you on the back she would have been able to give you Guidance for the roll.

1:40 "What's the point of this room?" It's a prison where you end up if you misbehave. 🤣

Wyll failing perception 3 times in a row is so in character lol

44:05 The space hamster from Mass Effect is actually a reference to Baldur's Gate 1&2 (which were also made by Bioware). In those games there was a popular companion named Minsc who had a 'Miniature Giant Space Hamster' named Boo. Some tips: Your list of skills (like Sleight of Hand) are shown on the third tab of your character sheet, the tab with an icon that looks like a bullet point list. Turns take place over six seconds, so any turn timers outside of combat tick down after every six seconds. Some lore notes: The Hells are a plane of existence one can travel too, but it does require pretty powerful magic, so there are relatively few people who can do so. Infernal is a language, the language of devils and the Hells. Tieflings aren't from the Hells. Tieflings are the descendants of individuals who made pacts with devils. They may appear devilish, but are no more devilish than a human. Mind Flayers definitely aren't common-place. For the average person they are basically just a crytid that people may have heard of, but barely anyone has ever seen. Volo is a longtime lore character, most notable for writing books of dubious accuracy. Some D&D rulebooks are even presented as being written by him.

I have a suggestion for Wellens' backstory: She was a bit of a kleptomaniac and a hoarder when she was a wee lass. Her parents, not wanting people think they're 'bad drow', sent her away to a monastery to control her unhealthy habits. Or somethin'.

So Volo is a very interesting character. He’s a longstanding D&D lore character, known for trying to learn everything but being hopelessly naive and exaggerates everything. He’s the “canon” author of the D&D rule book “Volo’s Guide to Monsters” and thr editors note is hilarious. Apparently, Volo went to personally interview every monster, and beforehand his editor sent letters to them all saying something like “This guy named Volo wants to interview you. Please don’t eat him, he tastes horrible and he’s harmless” 😂

- The nine hells are real places in D&D lore. You can visit, but it's not easy or freely doable. It takes powerful magic to do so. - Tieflings are not 'from hell', however, they are the result of hellish fiends in their bloodline. Some time in their familial history a fiend made a pact with one of their ancestors, and tieflings are born later on in their bloodline. Tiefling means 'deep person', IE, from the depths.

44:03 “Space Hamster. Kind of reminds me of Mass Effect.” It’s really funny you mention that because the Space Hamster in Mass Effect is in reference to this exact creature in Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2.

You mentioned if you didn't talk to Arabella's parents, would you not get the quest? The truth is you can actually progress a lot of quests at ANY point in the quest. So if you didn't talk to her parents, but then did talk to Kagha (kinda unavoidable if you enter the grove to find Nettie) the quest will still appear in your journal, with the next relevant step.

42:28 Wyll *can* talk to animals now, it’s just that that druid as the bear didn’t really wanna talk so that’s just a literal roar at him xD

“If no one sees is it a crime?” My good character justifying having Astarion steal literally everything 😂

When welonz reads about the difficult situation tieflings are in and immediately tries to rob them of their last food rations ✨

"what mean I am better with range weapons tham staff?" Monks are best at fists, and u always want to be at melee range to use bonus unarmed strike

Once Welonz figures out how to use the stealth button, she's going full True Evil and robbing everyone blind.

Kids. Scattah!

i love how perceptive Welonz is at catching and remembering all the details in conversations and notes

The weird feeling of BG3 freedom after playing RPGs that look open but are essentially theme park rides huehue you'll get used to it

Welonz bullies kids by reading their books 😂 This is some serious nerd domination! 💪

As a loot goblin, I use the “pick up as wares”, on every I don’t plan on keeping, that way I can sell all of it at once. If I’m just looking for gold I use the “barter” and exchange wares for gold; if the merchant has something I want, I use the “trade” option, add wares to offer to see how many magic arrows and alchemical items I can get for example, then use the “balance offer” button to even out the transaction automatically with gold from either side. This is my easy way to turn rotten fruit, bones, paintings, books, extra armor, weapons, every scrap of paper with a random scribble on but is now worth 14 gold-into something useful.

I love how Welonz is comitting to roleplaying as a 8 Intelligence character by stepping on three exploding mushrooms in a row! She'll love the Underdark ;)

15:37 - this whole segment you making sims noises made my day omg hahahha

Welonz is gonna fuck around and find out isnt she?

'What is the point of this xyz'. One of the most enjoyable things about BG3 is poking around everywhere and finding interesting things that may/may not be relevant to anything. A lot of times they're only significant later, or in an another playthrough. Or it's just environmental storytelling. I enjoy it, almost everything rewards exploration in some way, but there's definitely also a downside to this much freedom, which is that you're constantly feeling like you *might* be missing out on something due to your choices 😂

About the "Monk" options: Yes there are some options out there, where you have a big advantage by selecting your class specific option. There are even some where no rolls are needed. BUT: In this case, there were two brackets. If you had hovered over the second bracket, you would have seen the roll to make. Also there are some class specific options, that are not so good or even bad (for example paladins might rather go into the offense sometimes even when not intented) in the specific situation. Sometimes you even can omit a roll by not chosing the class specific option. So better investigate the choices a little closser and also do not go fixed by something like that and instead try to evaluate which option might fit the situation and your intention best.

If you wanna thieve you *gotta* learn to sneak xD

Just want to say I really like your character and the faces she makes during conversations, she often looks either slightly annoyed or slightly amused :D

Teiflings are not from the hells but they can trace their lineage to a devil

Shadowheart should have the cantrip Sacred Flame, that is what she should be using as the spamable ranged spell.

I'd say, taking some time to investigate every menu/window can be of GREAT help for understanding alot of terms and mechanics of the game. Like the character sheets etc. Also, speak with animals is only castable on oneself, but it lasts until you long rest so is a good idea to cast it just before you leave the camp after long resting if you plan on use it. Loving the series, even with the anxiety that gives me seeing you on the brink o causing so much trouble so often xD

"The little meat ship." -Welonz 2024 13:35

Welonz casually robbing a bird for all it's valuables. 😱

12:01 Welonz: I mean, that lady’s not looking right? The lady: *paralyzed*

"I don't want to kill kids." This is how you know this is a good aligned party. 😂

13:39 Funnily enough Avernus is a real place in Italy that was thought to be the entrance to Hell, or rather Hades 🤓

When you say you're pretty sure you can't spellcast at all it isn't true at all - you have characters that cast spells in your party. The "mistake" (not really a mistake per se, more of a misperception) you're making is thinking of the character you made in character creation as "you" and all the other characters as "not you." They're all you and you'll want to frequently swap between who you're controlling for different purposes. Some examples of when you might want to do this: Have a high-perception character as the one you use when walking around a new area to take point, so that you stand the most chance of spotting traps before you're on top of them. Have a high-charisma character under your control when you're about to enter into a discussion with someone you're going to want to persuade to do something. Have a specific character be controlled if you need it to be them talking to someone for a specific situation (maybe you need someone with high arcane or survival or history, or a certain race or class to fulfil a conversational objective). Any character can be the party leader at any time and be the one to "do the talking" so to speak - you're not always necessarily going to want it to be the Drow for reasons you've already observed. tl;dr: It's an ensemble cast, and the player-created character isn't really the "main character" edit: as soon as I post this you literally start to realise and make use of this... that'll teach me to post before finishing the video!

Long rest more often than you think it‘s really necessary, there are a lot of companion scenes that require a fair number of long rests to see them all. I think I missed a few in my first run because I always thought ‚oh I can go on a while longer‘.

It's my new favourite TV show, let's gooo

Someday I'm going to play a D&D character who has read way too much Volo and is convinced dragons are secretly behind everything.

Staffs aren't finesse but because you're a Monk you get to use your Dex instead of your Strength. In a way, they are finesse *for you*. Eventually your fists will become you best weapons (again, because you're a Monk), but that'll be in a while. Also, yeah, Monks aren't spellcasters. However, one of the subclasses give you spell-like abilities which use your Wisdom as a not-actually-spellcasting stat.

"Nothing wrong with scamming people for money" Got scammed for money by kids I would say fair enough, right? xD

It's important to know your parties skills and proficiencies. You can find the skills on their respective character screens. It's the third tab.

You can check other people's cone of vision by holding Shift. Also you can press a buttom to hide(and even hide your full party) to see if you are hidden. When you are detected by someone your character instantly stands up

Wow, I didn't even know it is actually possible NOT to befriend Mol. Wellens, the evil monk managed to prove me wrong. 😱

Theres still more of the beach to explore. You can see sight lines by going in to sneak, c is the default keybind, or shift c for the group. Maybe find some more kids to help out, then head back to the hideout. When levelling on the left side where you see what you're getting, at the top right theres the add class button, this lets you multiclass, so instead of getting to monk level 3, you would be monk level 2, whatever level 1. Id ignore that for now, it can have its benefits if you know what you're doing with it.

you are so lucky you had Mol glitch out like that, in my gameplay when the 'kids scatter' I got in serious shit coz of what she does lol.

If you get the spell Disguise Self or Shapeshift you can shapeshift into a smaller race or animal and go through that hole to the kid's hideout. You'll be finding more holes like that throughout the world.

50:05 you can press C to go into sneak mode or click it at the hot bar it looks like someone crouching. It’ll make it so you can open chest and doors quietly as well.

Your channel is my favorite to watch games on! I like how you pay attention to everything. You've motivated me to actually finish my abandoned playthrough so I can watch your videos without getting spoiled later on lol

Mini lore tidbit: 31:35 -- Calimshan is the Forgotten Realms version of fantasy Arabia. It's a land historically influenced by powerful genies. In 4e D&D, a race called the Genasi were introduced, who are descendants of genies (and each having a touch of elemental blood). When Forgotten Realms was brought into 4e, Wizards of the Coast explained the sudden appearance of Genasi by claiming that they were always around, but just disguised as humans. During the 4e time, they cast off their disguises and took over Calimshan. Since then, there has been a series of wars and revolts, and in 5e, and eventually the Genasi were overthrown. Currently, Calimshan is in a state of turmoil and there's no cohesive leadership there.

Welonz is a weeeird person, and I'm here for it.

To answer your question about turns outside of battle, every six seconds outside of battle count as a turn (thus 10 turns is a minute and 600 turns is an hour).

As a monk, you're most certainly better in melee. Staff is a "monk" weapon. But, you are effective with some ranged weapons as well. Check out your proficiencies to learn a bit more if you want to. This game is loot goblins heaven and hell. It is also genuine troll of loot goblins, and very effective one. Monk option still had [Persuasion] next to it. So it is check, just option itself is class-specific, so if you hover over [Persuasion] it usually has advantage as a "bonus", reason being "specific class", but not always, sometimes it is just a check being also a class-specific one 6:45 Things have timers, thus making the game fully turn-based even when you are not in turn-based mode (manually or in battle). Movement, actions and bonus actions use in real-time might as well be used in turn-based. Essentially, and I know it could be hard to fully sort of wrap the line of thought around it, the game is fully turn-based, it is just you explore it in real-time. If you manually enter turn-based you'll see this plainly, even environment, that is NPCs, traps, animals, other thing, takes turns itself as well (and environment "breaks" into individual entities such as NCPs, animals and so on when in combat or in more complex scenarios). That is the engine that game works on. 10:22 You've ungrouped the party, Shadowheart wasn't following you, and Guidance cast in melee range, so she isn't close enough to provide you Guidance ;). You can always cancel with "Cancel" button. 14:57 Nah, it is a legit good question. Tieflings are descendants of people who made pacts and/or "messed" (you know what I mean, lol) with devils and demons at some point. Basically, with some "drop" of devilish or demonic blood in the bloodline. But they are normal people, just looked down upon as sus, for various and mostly racist reasons. 21:14 Yes, you can talk is high CHA character. But you would be experiencing story as them, like playing as them as the origin, they are all separate entities. I would say when playing as a custom character it is better, for various reasons, story included, to interact as a custom avatar character. That's the reason dialogue was repeated for Wellens, because Mattis didn't encounter her, because Wyll talked to Mattis. Everything is up to player (you) ofc. 55:20 That's just a native camera mod messing with targeting with cursor on smaller objects, like with a bird. These camera angles it provides could be a bit... rough, imo. But as long as you like it.

amazed at how wyll is just...glowing nonstop?

11:38 - ...BINGPOT. You've hit the lother-mode! 13:42 - [Doctor-Who-series-8 feelings intensify] 44:01 - Bioware's legacy lives on!

Regarding why Guidance wasn't available for lockpicking the door - Shadowheart was too far away from you. You need to have people close to you for bonuses to be available. So to "fix" that - switch to the required party member and bring them closer to the character doing the checks :)

Who steal a gold piece, stole a jewel; ends up in jail. For one gold piece you just tried to scam that poor bird...

Man, I know some people don’t like to do it but I feel like the only way to really understand what all the stats and mechanics mean is to look some tuff up with outside material. Luckily most resources warn you before spoiling. Like I didn’t really understand how saving throws or concentration checks worked until I looked it up.

14:52 Infernal is in fact the language of the Hells you got that right ;3

The title of this series should be: "What the hell is happening?!?!?!" :D

Lol Wyll getting played!!

you need to be in stealth/hide to steal things and pickpocket

Monks are melee-characters. Best with fists only. And if if you want to beat the hell out of enemies, just go every day to aunty Ethel and buy some powerdrinks, I think its Giant-Hill-Potions. By the way, a great walkthrough, as I hoped❤

You're picking up on the D&D mechanics super fast. It's impressive. On your character sheet, there are 3 little tabs I don't think you saw. One of those shows your characters skills and proficiencies.

Something to keep in mind, the dialogue option do matter and tend to lead to different scenarios. Picking a class specific option can be a bad choice. For example, if you follow a certain god and you meet someone who follows the an opposing god, do you immediately start a fight with them because they follow an enemy of your god or do you just not mention it? Sure, for roleplay purposes picking those other options might lead to interesting dialogue or funny situations but might also lead to a fight^^;

*heavy breathing cat meme* 😺

Always a pleasure to watch this game from you, Welonz :)

I wonder what happened, I never seen Paandirna being knocked down

Kids, scatter!

15:00 Tieflings are made in a couple of ways, one is when a mortal strikes a deal with a devil, if the mortal then goes on to have a kid, that kid will be born a tiefling. Another way is to literally have fiendish bloond on their veins, like, an ancestor is a cambion or a full devil.

grow is HUGE lot of ppl to talk to and lot of quests to pick up.. you might want to explore the Nautiloid crash region more carefully there are things.. and ppl back there :)

Class-specific conversation options will very often (not always) be better choices than not. They'll either have advantage, or you'll be rolling against a lower DC, or they'll be options you can't otherwise take. Granted, this isn't *always* the case, sometimes the class-based option is just the same as a racial option (ie: mostly flavor), but it's something to keep in mind.

54:40 For certain situations like this one for example the turn based mode comes in handy as it will slow things down.

Kids! Scatter!!

There is a combat log The full map can be used to check if you miss any areas and teleport to locations you have already visited(portals)

thanks Welonz fun stuff

3:15: "does that mean I'm actually better at ranged weapons than my staff". No. This one needs some explanation... normally you'd be right; crappy strength would result in being bad with a quarterstaff for most characters, but monks have the "Dextrous Attacks" feature which lets you use dexterity for any non-heavy, non-two-handed weapon that you are proficient with. This includes your fists, and it also includes versatile weapons like the spear and quarterstaff - even when you use them with two hands. So keep bonking enemies on the head with your staff; it's fine. 59:13: "Where's Halsin? He promised me a mate" Is that a verb or a noun, I wonder. It's hard to tell with druids.

For every yellow-texted keyword in an explanation you can hover your mouse over the yellow text and press "T to inspect" which helps you explore it further. Even without a wiki it explains it pretty well but it just takes the extra step sometimes. As a monk Dex is your main way of dealing damage with staffs and fists. Makes you perfect for lock picking, disarming, and stealing also but stealing always comes at a risk of causing combat. Keep it up Welonz!

very important info for your class: Monk Weapons are melee weapons the Monk has Proficiency with, and which don't have the Two-Handed property. Versatile weapons count as Monk Weapons even if they are wielded with both hands. Monks can use Dexterity for those weapons, even if they do not have the Finesse property. your quarterstaff counts as a monk weapon. a single turn is 6 seconds in real time. it is extremely helpful to check sight lines before committing crimes with shift. if you are in the red, someone is looking at you. when committing crimes, it is also important not only to be unseen, but also unheard! crouching with C will muffle your movement. putting off long rests is usually a detriment. the game will tell you if you have something urgent going on that will fail if you rest. lots of cutscenes can be missed and character interactions gutted if you don't long rest enough. it's important to long rest frequently. if you don't want to use up camp supplies, take a partial rest at camp (different from a short rest). that will also advance story and companion dialogue. you've met Volo! oh... here we go lol. a very colorful character indeed. we'll just leave it at that for now. I'm excited for you to get to know him lol

i can already tell i'm going to have a great summer!

13:39 well one doesn’t freely come and go there unless they have powerful magic that can take you between planes but yes one can travel to the Hells

9:06 I've put more than 300 hours into this game and I never knew you could access the shed this way. What the hell.

Did I miss it or did she not encounter a certain someone on the beach...?

More tips for using Shadow Heart: you can freely switch her prepared spells when out of combat. She knows a bunch of cleric spells, and the list expands when you reach certain levels.

Just so you're aware, the reason the Camp Event Notifications mod is pretty important is that if you don't long rest often enough in Baldur's Gate 3 you will miss out on several important scenes, because if you progress to a certain point, start certain quests, or even just walk to certain locations on the map then those scenes will be overwritten by other scenes you've unlocked. For example: at this point, you've missed out on the first Camp Event of the game because - for some odd reason - if you approach the Emerald Grove, it gets overwritten by the second Camp Event. I haven't been watching your videos for very long, so I don't know if that's something you care about, but I think it's good to be aware of it either way 😅

You didn't think Shepard's hamster was any ordinary rodent did you?

On sneaking and stealing: holding shift will show the vision cones of any NPC, friendly or hostile. As long as you are out of the red zone you can get away with stealing mostly anything afaik. While hiding (pressing C/Shift+C) vision cones will automatically show. Switching to turn-based mode (Shift+Space) can make one time crimes very simple

24:08 If you'd picked War Widow he would have respected you for your knowledge of cons, and I think even become a better merchant.

when walking through traps (or explosive mushrooms!): Ungroup, take baby steps, succeeding a perception check means you'll spot the threat but walking over it will still trigger the explosion. that place is just the prison, you get taken there if the guards catch you committing crimes but there's not much to do there.

Tip about stealing something: First by pressing Shift you can see if you are seen by someone if you stand in the red colored area (that also can vary in intensity if someone sees you clearly or not - you are in shadows). Second, if you want to steal something, first press stealth (default key C) because even if you are not in someones vision cone, they still hear you etc and that is why those druids knew you tried to steal that key from birds nest. Third, if you stole something, never hang on in that place for too long because if someone notices something is missing, they will accuse you of stealing it even if they didn't see you. Just run a one or two screens further from place you stole. Still if someone accuses you of stealing, there is an options of persuasion/intimidiation/deception (depends on your character stats) to get out of trouble or even attack (not the best solution) or surrender (you will end up in jail) or even bribe someone (not really profitable to steal if you pay more to someone hush money).

Inventory management will be a bit of a task but remember you can sort things by equipment, scrolls, potions, throwables etc. but I think the 'auto send food to camp' mod would help a bit in sending your food camp supplies to camp automatically where they are needed without weighing down your inventory. Shadowheart should be your best companion at picking locks (I believe) that you currently have available. Another you haven't found yet with pale skin should be even better due to sleight of hand bonuses + dexterity.

Because of your camera mod you are very much missing out on a lot of important/entertaining areas you would otherwise have noticed naturally without a wasd mod. I suggest you follow your trail back and visit corners that you haven't checked carefully. Like you said, this game inst particularly good at warning you of important/quest filled sections or characters.

Check out if Karmic dice is enabled in the options. Whether it's something you're interested in having on or have your roles be totally randomised

40:22 Not really. Rule of thumb for this game should be assume everyone is special there are probably more of them about than npcs that just have two lines to say, even if all they have to say right now are two lines if that makes sense.

If you are interested in a broad-strokes, pinch-of-salt, TLDR for some of the less-intuitive classes, I'd say: Cleric: Melee fighter-spellcaster hybrid, leaning towards spellcasting. Paladin: Melee fighter-spellcaster hybrid, leaning towards fighting/frontlining Wizard: Vast array of powerful spells for any situation, at the cost of being very reliant on spell slots. Warlock: Small array of spells compared to the Wizard, but not as reliant on spell slots, since their signature 'Eldritch Blast' is a cantrip. Sorcerer: Somewhere inbetween the Wizard and Warlock in terms of capabilities. They have comparatively few spells; but can modify them in powerful ways with their unique mechanic: 'metamagic'.

Select trade to sell your items for gold. Barter is to exchange your items for an equal amount of worth with merchant's items. I just trade and sell/buy, never barter. You are correct about wares option, it can be sold with one click to sell all items in the Wares

6:45 - One turn outside of combat is 6 seconds of real time :)

What difficulty are you playing on? Spells like charm person and friends can be risky on Taction+ difficulties.

1:05 It seems you don't take HP damage but do still get knocked back and down on the save. So it's a partial save.

This game has insanely deep event branches and details, and the freedom to mess around. Unfortunately this also means that it can be buggy and/or contradictory pretty frequently even now, after several major patches. I really enjoy your messing-around-and-commit-to-it style though, this will be a wild playthrough.