Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[rusty_shackleford]

What the fuck is everyone talking about. There are no good mainstream D&D settings. Forgotten Realms sucks, Dragonlance is total shit, Greyhawk is meaningless and Eberron is retarded. Planescape is cool, if you can ignore the fact that it implies the existance of the other ones.

Mystara is just a meme, Dark Sun is acceptable but only thanks to the racist cannibal halflings.

ravenloft is top-tier you pleb

 

[Reinhardt]

Dark Sun is acceptable but only thanks to the racist cannibal halflings.

Well, the only interesting thing in FR is drow dominatrixes.

 

[Chippy]

Well, they should've ripped the band-aid off and just said which way they're going, because almost every forum discussing this game has just become a cancerous clusterfuck of insisting Larian go either RTwP or TB, or else the game is ruined.

I will enjoy the inevitable shitstorm, but I doubt the game won't turn out to be at least moderately profitable.

You see, Swen's genius is that he doesn't merely target biodrones and teenager-with-problems types, like the amateurs at EA did. Instead, he is targeting whole clusters of idiots, by offering them the chance to play coop. Where EA make one sale because of their insane production values and marketing push, Swen makes 2 or 3 sales because of the coop lure.

Kelly Brook

Wow, that's a whole lot of tits! First good thing to see thanks to this thread.

Women like Kelly Brook inspire me. The sky could tumble and fall, the mountains crash into the sea, and Larian could release a shit BG3...but women that beautiful could make me look for the fucking Grail for the rest of my life and still die happy.

Although if she had a shit personality, I'd rather be with someone less attractive and get on like a house on fire - but that's actually finding the fucking Grail.

 

[Stella Brando]

 

[AwesomeButton]

With that ass? Pass!

 

[Chippy]

What.The.Fuck.Is.With.All.The.Illithid.Porn?

Ya demented bastards.

Unless...you think it'll be Skyrim with nude mods and illithids. fuck - I hadn't thought of that.

 

[ga♥]

What would Illithid music sound like?

 

[Lacrymas]

What would Illithid music sound like?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

What.The.Fuck.Is.With.All.The.Illithid.Porn?

In our world there is Blacked.

In the Forgotten Realms there is Flayed.

 

[Vulpes]

What.The.Fuck.Is.With.All.The.Illithid.Porn?

Ya demented bastards.

Unless...you think it'll be Skyrim with nude mods and illithids. fuck - I hadn't thought of that.

I think I speak for everybody here when I say that every hole is a goal

 

[Chippy]

I can't even think of a suitable rating to give your posts.

 

[Vulpes]

I can't even think of a suitable rating to give your posts.

Come on, you've gotta be squidding me!
Don't tell me you wouldn't mind filling a busty illithid's beautiful beak with your bountiful bouquet of seamen, stuffing that pleasantly pliable polpo paisana's filet-o-fish knish with your bulbous boner until she's practically spraying you with a bonus loader of free ink toner or at the very least giving that naughty Nautilus nullifier the good old "two in the pink, one in the ink".
After all, if octopussy was good enough for James Bond, it should be good for you too

 

[Chippy]

You know that sick feeling the world got when someone reported on a woman making breakfast out of the stuff that came out of her vagina? Well your post is a close second.

 

[Vulpes]

You know that sick feeling the world got when someone reported on a woman making breakfast out of the stuff that came out of her vagina? Well your post is a close second.

Hey, it's not my fault that you find my pelagic proclivities profoundly problematic. Like any other man of the sea, I can't help but find the idea of ripping a resplendent resident of R'lyeh's pantaloons clear off and splatooning her poon with my pulsating tool strangely arousing

 

[Chippy]

When the Illithid porn comes out this fetish will be the first modder authoring it.

 

[Lacrymas]

When the Illithid porn comes out

Oh, honey, sweetie, it has been out for a long time already.

 

[Chippy]

Ok, when it comes out in BG3, and we find out Vulpes started this shit because he works for Larian, and got a head start.

 

[Vulpes]

Ok, when it comes out in BG3, and we find out Vulpes started this shit because he works for Larian, and got a head start.

Don't worry, for like a prophet of Poseidon or a paragon of all things pelagic, I shall return as un-officiated orator, bearing gifts of the sea and preform an ostentatious showing of an octopi getting octopied by yours truly. And perhaps then, my dear friend, you'll give into your curiosity, see how crafty some canonized cephalopod cunny can be and celebrate with us the coming of a new age of incline

 

[Rivmusique]

BG3's Illithid villains are amazing. Inflicting massive intellect damage years before release.

 

[Fairfax]

Unpopular opinion:
Drow and the Underdark are one of the only good things about Forgotten Realms setting. Most of it is fully retarded.

The drow and the Underdark were created by Gygax for the World of Greyhawk.

I always thought that people like FR as a whole as it was (and I think still is) the defaut setting for D&D.

It only became the default setting in 5E.

 

[Dodo1610]

What.The.Fuck.Is.With.All.The.Illithid.Porn?

Ya demented bastards.

Unless...you think it'll be Skyrim with nude mods and illithids. fuck - I hadn't thought of that.

I think I speak for everybody here when I say that every hole is a goal

I can tell you that Larian after DOS 2 shares your goals. After kissing a giant spider and sleeping with undead and lizards fucking squids is the only logical course for Larian.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

It only became the default setting in 5E.

The Forgotten Realms was intended to be the default AD&D campaign setting from its creation in 1986-7. This was a replacement for the Greyhawk campaign setting, based on Gary Gygax's personal campaign, which had been serving as the quasi-default AD&D setting due to the publication of an abbreviated gazetteer in 1980 followed by a detailed box set in 1983, as well as various adventure modules being loosely connected to the setting. After Gygax's ouster from TSR in October 1985, Greyhawk went without any modules or other AD&D material for the next two years, while the Forgotten Realms was prepared and launched in 1987 with a box set followed by numerous accessories.

Dragon Magazine #119 (March 1987) introduced the Forgotten Realms to the public with an article by Jeff Grubb, one of the architects of the setting, in which he stated "We quickly set about creating a new campaign which would not only be the home for the AD&D game modules of 1987, but would act as the basis for adventures in the Second Edition AD&D game system." and that "The FORGOTTEN REALMS™ boxed set is the launching point for TSR’'s new campaign world of the same name, in the tradition of the worlds of Oerth and Krynn. It will be the “home base” of the AD&D game universe, and —with the arrival of Second Edition —the home for that as well."

The Forgotten Realms remained separate from the core rulebooks of AD&D 2nd edition, if that is what you had in mind by "default", but it was from its inception the standard, generic (and bland, derivative) campaign setting of AD&D.

 

[King Crispy]

So how many pages is this thread going to reach before the game is actually released?

 

[Fairfax]

The Forgotten Realms was intended to be the default AD&D campaign setting from its creation in 1986-7. This was a replacement for the Greyhawk campaign setting, based on Gary Gygax's personal campaign, which had been serving as the quasi-default AD&D setting due to the publication of an abbreviated gazetteer in 1980 followed by a detailed box set in 1983, as well as various adventure modules being loosely connected to the setting.

I believe we've talked about this before. FR was originally meant to replace Dragonlance, as Jeff Grubb shared in 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons:

In 1986, there was concern about Dragonlance fading (yeah, it sounds silly now, but it was a concern at the time), and we were looking for the "next world" to replace it. I did not know Ed personally at the time but I did know that he wrapped his articles for THE DRAGON in descriptions of his home campaign. I suggested to my boss, Michael Dobson, that we check into whether Ed had more background for that world. I made the initial contact with Ed, and for my troubles I became the in-house half of the team.

The Forgotten Realms remained separate from the core rulebooks of AD&D 2nd edition, if that is what you had in mind by "default", but it was from its inception the standard, generic (and bland, derivative) campaign setting of AD&D.

Yes, TSR evidently pushed FR as the main brand, but the core books and accessories weren't tied to it. 2E still supported more settings than any other edition, and each had their own supplements, modules, unique systems, etc.

5E is different. Although the default setting is supposed to be the Multiverse, every (new) hardcover module and splatbook is set in FR. 5E's designers have talked about "finally embracing the Realms as the main setting", and they don't add content that goes against FR lore. Minor example: gnolls in 5E FR are irredeemably evil demonspawn, so they can't be an official playable race:

 

[Volourn]

FR is awesome. Best D7D setting. PERIOD.

Hey, look guys, let's play Dark Sun. Hey look guys, more sand in your vaginas and buttholes! DEEP.

Planescape? An excuse to explain the outerplanes connecting to everywhere. Goodf or what it does but not really a setting but a cool place for high level characters to explore when smacking orcs and goblins are passe.

Greyhawk? A wanneb FR. And, yeah, I know it came first. But, yawn.

Birthright? Woopity do dah. You get to be royalty. OMG. You can do it everywhere.

Dragonlance? With their fake paladins their stupid wizard rules (lol let us copy FF1 magic classes ). Forget the idiotic gods. Books were decent but playing in them was all about changing its rules because they were anti anything that would change the books.

Ravenloft? Nice for a visit to say hi to your friendly neighbor vampire but an actual full fledge campaign setting? COME ON. It's called a DEMIPLANE for a reason.

Oh. There's that inner world or whatever it was called? That was a nice little concept but no depth.

Now, the Realms has issues too but the fact you can play it any way you want is awesome. You want DS? Go play in Anaurach? DL? There be dragons and silly gods in the Realms too. RL? Vampires exist and you can always have your players go there. Same with PS.

FR > ALL

But, the best? FARLEXIA. That was the best.