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

[vortex]

First look at NPC portraits in BG3.

 

[Farewell into the night]

Laeral Silverhand's kit is just beautiful! So blue, I love it <3

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Its not that WotC is hyping BG, its that they are using BG to sell what, otherwise, few would even be aware of. The damage 4E did to the brand was brutal.

 

[Storyfag]

Yep, basically what is happening to the Forgotten Realms franchise is a GREAT template to what will happen to the Star Wars franchise. Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

Don't give me hope.

 

[S.torch]

Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

Delusion.

 

[Mortmal]

Yep, basically what is happening to the Forgotten Realms franchise is a GREAT template to what will happen to the Star Wars franchise. Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

Don't give me hope.

Where did you get some in this thread ?

 

[Lacrymas]

Even though I liked The Last Jedi quite a lot, some structural problems and superfluous characters notwithstanding, I think just ignoring the whole sequel trilogy is for the better. Just like they ignored the prequel trilogy lol. The thing is, they got 1 good-ish film (TLJ) out of the whole batch they released, the spin-offs were also terrible, which tells me they just can't make worthwhile movies with their current writers or crews, or whatever it is, so it doesn't really matter whether they will ignore them or not. As for the Forgotten Realms, eh, what did they have to ruin? Drizzt and Elminster were hardly high literature. I haven't followed it for quite a while, I see some of Minsc's new comics in my local gaming/comic book store and it does indeed look cringe, soooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Efe]

so you liked the last movie they put out but they cant make anything worthwhile with current crew...
isnt this like admitting to having shit taste?

 

[Lacrymas]

The last movie is Rise of Skywalker, not TLJ. RoS did indeed cement the notion they have no idea what they are doing, or at least have no plan, and retconing everything worthwhile from TLJ was a very tasteless move that created a film nobody liked, so whatever. I'm not invested in this franchise enough to care.

 

[Yosharian]

Even though I liked The Last Jedi quite a lot

How the fuck can you just come out and say some retarded shit like that and not die of embarrassment?

 

[Morblot]

Always nice to read about Star Wars in a Baldur's Gate thread. Do go on. I insist.

 

[Lacrymas]

How the fuck can you just come out and say some retarded shit like that and not die of embarrassment?

Because I have the ability known as critical and contextual thinking. TLJ is a pretty good movie, good cinematography, and it brought some interesting ideas which always plagued this franchise to the forefront, while fixing others (the borderline/straight-up fascistic elements, the incest, and the nature of a hero). It didn't go as far as KotOR2 with the radicalism, but it made me think that Kreia, while right about the general concept, wasn't correct in assuming destroying the Force was the only option to fix the underlying existential dread of this setting.

 

[Delterius]

Always nice to read about Star Wars in a Baldur's Gate thread. Do go on. I insist.

ok smartass how else do you plan to get to page 300 at this rate

 

[S.torch]

Make no mistake: I'm not saying that Disney will "decanonise" the Sequel Era and its related products. Instead they'll move a completely different era and never, EVER, look at the Sequel Era again.

That's why they already announced that in the new seasons of their streaming series, The Mandalorian, characters from the sequels are going to appear?

And at this point, it doesn't really matter if Star Wars or Forgotten Realms are rebooted. Again, delusion.

 

[Morblot]

ok smartass how else do you plan to get to page 300 at this rate

I withdraw my complaint.

 

[Yosharian]

How the fuck can you just come out and say some retarded shit like that and not die of embarrassment?

Because I have the ability known as critical and contextual thinking. TLJ is a pretty good movie, good cinematography, and it brought some interesting ideas which always plagued this franchise to the forefront, while fixing others (the borderline/straight-up fascistic elements, the incest, and the nature of a hero). It didn't go as far as KotOR2 with the radicalism, but it made me think that Kreia, while right about the general concept, wasn't correct in assuming destroying the Force was the only option to fix the underlying existential dread of this setting.

No it's not

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Always nice to read about Star Wars in a Baldur's Gate thread. Do go on. I insist.

No, this thread should be used for its intended purpose --- discussion of classic D&D/AD&D from its origins through TSR's demise in 1997.

 

[Morblot]

Got any good houserules for multiclassing in B/X? It's weird how all demihumans are fighters.

 

[Yosharian]

Imagine thinking that TLJ 'fixes' anything

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Got any good houserules for multiclassing in B/X? It's weird how all demihumans are fighters.

Elves are already a combination of fighting man fighter and magic-user in OD&D, B/X, and BECMI. Labyrinth Lord - Advanced Edition Companion has brief suggestions for multiclassing with demihumans, but if the aim is to have variety among dwarves and halflings (and elves) rather than to have multiclassing itself, I suggest looking at any existing rules for demihuman class options. For example, GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome has rules for a Dwarf-Cleric, GAZ8 The Five Shires has rules for a Halfling Master "sub-class", Dragon Magazine #96 (April 1985) contained an article by Gary Gygax on demi-human clerics/druids/rangers, and so on.

 

[Morblot]

Elves are already a combination of fighting man fighter and magic-user in OD&D, B/X, and BECMI.

So... fighters, as I said.

Thanks for the rest of your post. In trade I offer you a link to this blog post on the subject I read and bookmarked yesterday: http://realmsofchirak.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-basicexpert-d-project-ii.html?m=1

 

[Cael]

Yep, basically what is happening to the Forgotten Realms franchise is a GREAT template to what will happen to the Star Wars franchise. Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

The Spellplague was the single dumbest thing ever in the entire human history of marketing.

"Let's wipe out 90% of characters that people grew up with, that is integral to the entire lore of the setting, that all the fans got invested in, that basically defined the entire setting in the first place, and make completely new ones in a cliche post-Apocalyptic fast-forward. What can possibly go wrong?"

 

[ArchAngel]

Yep, basically what is happening to the Forgotten Realms franchise is a GREAT template to what will happen to the Star Wars franchise. Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

Don't give me hope.

Notice that, outside of a completely throwaway line about Canto Bight in one episode, none of Filoni's works (Mandalorian; Clone Wars; Rebels) has even a single mention of anything related to Disney Wars? It seems obvious he attempts to "wait out the storm" with his works, and make them as easy as possible to reinstate into a potential reboot.

Oh, one more thing: about Ashoka being confirmed as dead in Rise of Stinkwalker? Filoni already confirmed this is not the case. A "regular" LucasFilm employee just straight out told in an interview that the movie is wrong.

That explains why Mandalorian felt like a cartoon more than like a TV show or a movie.

 

[Storyfag]

Yep, basically what is happening to the Forgotten Realms franchise is a GREAT template to what will happen to the Star Wars franchise. Basically everyone still somewhat invested in the franchise, including Filoni himself, are waiting for the inevitable "soft reboot" to happen.

Don't give me hope.

Notice that, outside of a completely throwaway line about Canto Bight in one episode, none of Filoni's works (Mandalorian; Clone Wars; Rebels) has even a single mention of anything related to Disney Wars? It seems obvious he attempts to "wait out the storm" with his works, and make them as easy as possible to reinstate into a potential reboot.

Oh, one more thing: about Ashoka being confirmed as dead in Rise of Stinkwalker? Filoni already confirmed this is not the case. A "regular" LucasFilm employee just straight out told in an interview that the movie is wrong.

That explains why Mandalorian felt like a cartoon more than like a TV show or a movie.

True, but that does not detract from my enjoyment of the good parts. Or my raeg at the bad ones.

Anyway, to steer things closer to topic, the waiting made me finally install PF:K to scratch my BG itch. Game is pretty decent, I esp. like the camping mechanics. Wonder if Larian will at all think of something similar, or forego that element completely.

 

[Elex]

In 5e books there is no reference about spellplague.

not a single NPC with a spellscar.