Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[AwesomeButton]

Watch how you converse with female NPCs, or you might just get E M A S C U L A T E D!

Serious business, these videogames.

 

[Fedora Master]

What happened here while I was gone? It's starting to remind me of my elementary school.

Larian audience.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

You guys are just jealous about my broad knowledge about sex and love.

 

[Delterius]

ghey bdsm sex now

i propose we change 'the underdark' to 'ed greenwoods bdsm phase' all in favor say the safeword 'fluggaenkoecchicebolsen'

 

[La vie sexuelle]

ghey bdsm sex now

i propose we change 'the underdark' to 'ed greenwoods bdsm phase' all in favor say the safeword 'fluggaenkoecchicebolsen'

All this complaining on sex in Forgotten Realms sounds silly if you know how pervy Old Librarian is and how much fetishes he put into Forgotten Realms.

From 1d4chan about that:

Forgotten Realms And Sex​

The current Forgotten Realms material is highly sanitized from Ed's original vision. In FR as created by Ed:

• Bi-sexuality is normal (and yes, this means the men as well as the women)
• Transgenderism is encouraged by several deities so that priests can experience life as the other sex
• "Revels" (some of which involve sex) are normal
• "Festhalls" (many of which employ prostitutes as staff) are relatively common and visiting them is the normal way to spend evening.
• Prostitution is a core industry of Forgotten Realms; "sex workers" are all over and there are about 40 different names for different kinds of prostitutes.
• Incest is a normal way for noble families to "indulge feelings of mutual affection" (poor people don't as they can't afford the contraception)
• Pretty much all of the immortal NPCs in the Realms have come to believe that accepted sexual norms such as temperance are bullshit, so they flout them. Constantly.

All of this is confirmed by Ed Greenwood himself, from Ed's responses to fan queries on the Candlekeep forum.So Saith Ed here, here, and here. It's also all completely, 100% canon thanks to Ed's ludicrously favorable contract.

Of course, this isn't exactly out of place in certain historical periods and cultures (Per example the Greeks, the Etruscans, were particularly known for having frequent orgies, Canaanite religion frequently involved cross-dressing (which may be why the Bible forbids it) and the nobility of many cultures like Hawaiians and the Ptolemy Egyptians practiced sibling incest so as to avoid muddling the bloodline with peasant genome; Rome had all of the above at various points), so some individual cultures or nations with this going on probably wouldn't be off the mark, and notably, the post that included the stuff about incest also included that Ed himself is against incest... but when the whole damn world is into this stuff, it's not treated as a problem, no one questions it and there's no sign of things changing, then clearly the author has something on his mind.

In short, the Forgotten Realms are Ed Greenwood's magical realm cleaned up by TSR and later Hasbro for general consumption, and the Romantic Encounters mod for Baldur's Gate is probably canon.

As of 5E, WoTC has decided to embrace the first bullet-point, there are random bits of homosexuality everywhere. Two men sharing a bed, a married pair of male porters and married pair of homesteaders, a gnome settlement with two kings, and a shopkeeper with nonbinary pronouns all appear in 5e adventures. An attempt to Retcon the massively corrupt and crime-ridden city of Waterdeep into "Seattle during Pride" was actually met with significant backlash.

No regular orgies in every village yet, but Rime of the Frostmaiden does feature a completely inbred town.

 

[Volrath]

So two more months until this masterpiece™ comes out. Which class will you dumbfucks be starting with?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Name? Marysue.

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

Race? Seldarine drow.

Class? Mage

Roleplay Character? Chaotic Good.

Specialisation? Evocation.

Party composition? Frog, Me, Astarion and Shadowheart.

Lover? Shadowheart.

Most hated party companion? Gale.

Favorite trick? Fireball.

Favorite spell? Enlarge.

Coffe? Yes.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

As this site's only confirmed and qualified Sex Haver, I find recent developments in this thread quite amusing.
As for the question about the class, I don't know. Maybe some class that's not represented in any companion yet. To be fair, that's a common pet peeve of mine, in party based rpgs that only allow you to create one character. I'd like to avoid redundancy.

 

[Delterius]

Maybe some class that's not represented in any companion yet. To be fair, that's a common pet peeve of mine

i also have this autism, so i'll be a sorcerer

 

[MerchantKing]

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

If you have to say it, it means you don't.

 

[user]

Am I late to the party, children?

In all seriousness, not a fan, but romance and sex in rpgs would be fine as a seamless and realistic part of a holistic world design. The problem is, that most of the time, it is not seamless at all, because it is a common element in both realities, it tends to be depicted more faithfully to our own reality than the designed universe. And because it is so personal and commonly experienced™, self-insertion tends to be much more prevalent than any other element. Also fuck this shit, pour money into mechanical depth instead.

 

[NecroLord]

pour money into mechanical depth instead.

Like pussy depth and circumference?
And boob physics and jiggling dependent on motion?
You guys are really overthinking this, aren't you?

 

[MerchantKing]

I just want a dungeon diving combat game like Gygax intended.

 

[Delterius]

I just want a dungeon diving combat game like Gygax intended.

underwater levels suck

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Swen looks like a dude who eats lots of cheese and rips tons of ass all day.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

If you have to say it, it means you don't.

So, you also doubt am I drow?

 

[MerchantKing]

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

If you have to say it, it means you don't.

So, you also doubt am I drow?

You're not a drow. You're a frog.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

If you have to say it, it means you don't.

So, you also doubt am I drow?

You're not a drow. You're a frog.

How he knows?

 

[MerchantKing]

Gender? I have sex, you schmuck. And this sex is woman.

If you have to say it, it means you don't.

So, you also doubt am I drow?

You're not a drow. You're a frog.

How he knows?

Because you said you were French (a frog) in this thread before. Are all of you goyim like this?

 

[Larianshill]

Swen looks like a dude who eats lots of cheese and rips tons of ass all day.

No one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses

 

[FreeKaner]

All Larian needed to make a good game was a setting & ruleset that would tame and contain Swen's autism and undying passion and love for Korean MMO item generation.

 

[Delterius]

All Larian needed to make a good game was a setting & ruleset that would tame and contain Swen's autism and undying passion and love for Korean MMO item generation.

i've been saying this for a long time, even in disbelief, but it would appear that ed greenwood's sex dungeon has been therapeutic for the deranged belgian minds of larian. minsc is too serious a man for rivellon.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Deadass]

Swen where the fuck is my monk class

 

[Rhobar121]

The city looks pretty good. It seems that in this aspect there is a chance for one of the better cities in RPG.