That topic was already discussed and the gist was - the gith is surprisingly fuckable for some people, gay vampires lel, Shadowheart is cute (she is), BG2 had weird implications (Aerie is a child, Jaheira is your grieving aunt, Viconia is the only patrician choice).
The topic of your aforementioned tabletop-related romantic adventures, you tease.
Shit I didn't even think about that concept. I know--unrelated--but a Githyanki that has a Mindflayer tadpole in her brain. That is freaking sweet concept.
She is literally green. Green is not a fuckable color. Sick people, vomit and insects are green.Shit I didn't even think about that concept. I know--unrelated--but a Githyanki that has a Mindflayer tadpole in her brain. That is freaking sweet concept.
Ivan,get your granda's vineyard spraying machine,i will get the oil and lets go cleanse some gypsy katun!Y'all debaucherous Slaaneshi worshipers disgust me.
I just want an irl group of hazard stripe paintainig connoisseurs to play Wh40k tabletop RPGs with.
Oh, I have plenty of those. That wood elf basically subsisted on fellatio alone, but she had like 9 CHA and rolled above a 10 on her seduction checks like once. That didn't stop her from ...extracting her desires from her human bard party member while he was asleep. Or that time where the innkeeper seduced her and was into weird armpit sex, but then tried to kill her to claim the bounty due to her previous misadventure with the mayor and his kink paraphernalia, so they ended up running naked around town while jumping through windows and shit before deciding they'd be a great couple after she tied him to the bed.The topic of your aforementioned tabletop-related romantic adventures, you tease.
Not that sort of tabletop-related, you double tease.Oh, I have plenty of those. That wood elf basically subsisted on fellatio alone, but she had like 9 CHA and rolled above a 10 on her seduction checks like once. That didn't stop her from ...extracting her desires from her human bard party member while he was asleep. Or that time where the innkeeper seduced her and was into weird armpit sex, but then tried to kill her to claim the bounty due to her previous misadventure with the mayor and his kink paraphernalia, so they ended up running naked around town while jumping through windows and shit before deciding they'd be a great couple after she tied him to the bed.The topic of your aforementioned tabletop-related romantic adventures, you tease.
Fuck, that sounds exciting, maybe I should search some D&D action after all... Just with a bit more females.
To be fair to your specific example though, DE:HR was hyped a lot, and it was kind of a miracle that it turned out to be as good as it was
It's very exciting and fun, it's the most fun I've had in a very long time. People who like video games as much as on this forum are doing themselves a disservice by not playing PnP too. And yes, women play with us too. Imagination is universally appealing.
This sounds a lot like Galvarey.
It's a niche of a niche (more people are likely to play DnD-based video games than there are to play DnD tabletop). Also, you forget one thing: convenience. Playing by computer allows you to bypass the requirement of having to be somewhere on time. This is great for people who would like to play, but can't be arsed to due to how time-consuming it is for them to reach the point of convergence (when one-way trip takes 90 minutes or so).
Eh, better than the alternatives.
Baldur's Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after all
Baldur’s Gate 3 will probably be here next month, and it’s still unclear where it will land on the critical issue of a level cap.
Developers Larian previously stated in a Reddit AMA that their upcoming sequel will cover levels one to ten, but in our recent interview, lead systems designer Nick Pechenin said that this isn’t certain, as they’re still weighing it up.
Like its predecessors, Baldur’s Gate 3 is based on the same rules that govern Dungeons & Dragons, the far out tabletop game invented in 1982 by Tom Hanks. But those rules have changed dramatically in the 20 years since Baldur’s Gate 2. There was never a single clear answer to the levels question, but allowing players to run all the way from one to 20 was never realistic. As Pechenin explained to Video Matthew: “it’s a massive, massive amount of things to come up with and the higher you go in levels, the harder it gets”.
Though initially fragile, player characters become near demigods at 20, which makes balancing raw numbers even more difficult than a typical RPG. Narrowing the range means that a more satisfactory experience can be built within that range, as well as making life easier for Larian. As Pechenin says: “You get to spend a bit more time on every level, this means the content that we have – the situations, the combat – they can be tailored a lot more specifically to what we expect the player to have at this moment”.
It’s not just a numbers problem. Any tabletop fan will tell you that they’ll always outdo video games with their room for negotiation, improv, bending the rules, and generally simulating and accounting for anything a set of laws can’t. The higher a player’s level gets, the more access they get to open-ended or abstract abilities. “You get closer to spells like Wish [a high-level spell whose limits and consequences are defined by the whims of the DM running the game, and can be ironic], where you go, like, ‘what do we do? Do we accept emails from people with their wishes and quickly patch the game?’ So we have to do a lot more thinking about what would be exciting and reasonable things that a DM would let you do with these kind of spells and high level creative features that classes get.”
If you’re not familiar with The Dungeons And The Dragons, ten sounds like a very low cap for an RPG. It’s actually the exact middle, as the tabletop rules treat level 20 as the end point for player progression. Even then, it’s uncommon to take a character that far. Most campaigns are ready to tap out many levels before then, and a game that covered the full range would have to be extremely long. There’ll likely be disappointment whatever Larian go with, not least as some classes really hit their stride later on, and level 11 specifically is a notable power bump for many. But a sub-20 cap is near inevitable. Exactly where it’ll land though remains to be seen.
Disclosure: Former RPS deputy editor Adam Smith is a senior writer at Larian studios working on Baldur’s Gate 3. He edited much of my freelance work, and I can’t remember which way round but one of us probably bought the other a drink the one time we met in person. I would normally add an insult here but it seems less funny now that he can’t fire me.
Game can't go into setting changing shenanigans, as Swen put it, and not have the heroes be at least level 20. It should be a minimum requirement to even have an interaction with gods and other entities that actually matter to the cosmic order.
