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

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

That and mindflayers reproduce from tadpoles growing and developing into adult mindflayers, not by infecting others with tadpole parasites, which is an apocryphal post-TSR invention.

"Mind flayers have a lifespan of about 125 years. They are warm-blooded amphibians, and spend the first 10 years of life in a tadpole state, swimming in the pool of the elder-brain until they either die (which most do) or grow into a fully developed illithid. lllithid are sexless; each flayer is capable of producing offspring (twice per lifetime, once every 20 years)."
- Monstrous Compendium, AD&D 2nd edition, 1989

 

[Lacrymas]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

They do eat your brain, which usually causes people to die. You can argue the tadpole replaces your brain and you (or more specifically your body) never technically die, but there is nothing that makes you you anymore.

 

[Spectacle]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

That and mindflayers reproduce from tadpoles growing and developing into adult mindflayers, not by infecting others with tadpole parasites, which is an apocryphal post-TSR invention.

"Mind flayers have a lifespan of about 125 years. They are warm-blooded amphibians, and spend the first 10 years of life in a tadpole state, swimming in the pool of the elder-brain until they either die (which most do) or grow into a fully developed illithid. lllithid are sexless; each flayer is capable of producing offspring (twice per lifetime, once every 20 years)."
- Monstrous Compendium, AD&D 2nd edition, 1989

The mindflayer life cycle was first detailed in TSR's The Illithiad (1998) so you can't blame WotC for this one.
Edit: read about the book here if you doubt the content.

 

[NJClaw]

Three days without shitposting. Baldur's Gate 3 is dead, nobody cares anymore. Who's to blame?

Please, Ontopoly, come back. Reignite the spark.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's quarantine, nothing is happening anywhere.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

You're dead. Your brain is replaced with the mindflayer.

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

That and mindflayers reproduce from tadpoles growing and developing into adult mindflayers, not by infecting others with tadpole parasites, which is an apocryphal post-TSR invention.

"Mind flayers have a lifespan of about 125 years. They are warm-blooded amphibians, and spend the first 10 years of life in a tadpole state, swimming in the pool of the elder-brain until they either die (which most do) or grow into a fully developed illithid. lllithid are sexless; each flayer is capable of producing offspring (twice per lifetime, once every 20 years)."
- Monstrous Compendium, AD&D 2nd edition, 1989

This is still true. Illithid that don't get put into a host keep growing and become neothelids(sp?). I'd have to go review the material but I believe Illithid refers to any of the species and not specifically ones that have been implanted in humanoid hosts.

 

[Lacrymas]

There's only one neothelid that can spawn from an elder brain pool because this usually happens to a destroyed colony and the surviving tadpoles eat each other until there's only 1 left. The Illithids consider them abominations.

 

[Elex]

Wait for the 28 new stuff incoming.
Probally not the early access date.

 

[Gyor]

Wait for the 28 new stuff incoming.
Probally not the early access date.

Where did you get the 28th date?

 

[Elex]

Wait for the 28 new stuff incoming.
Probally not the early access date.

Where did you get the 28th date?

The elex told me.




also for who don’t belive how big is 5e: https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-best-year-sales-ever-wizards-coast/

Spoiler

 

[Lacrymas]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

 

[Maxwell's Demon]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

See this thread. It's still D&D if they censor all mention of orcs, right?

 

[Elex]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

It’s easier to actually play D&D, if you are a DM you can find a group of people you like and remove who don’t like and ignore them.
And that also mean you can convince them to play others ttrpg after they played for some time.

 

[Cael]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

It’s easier to actually play D&D, if you are a DM you can find a group of people you like and remove who don’t like and ignore them.
And that also mean you can convince them to play others ttrpg after they played for some time.

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

 

[Darth Canoli]

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

I understand why you think that, having met yourself already ...

 

[Cael]

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

I understand why you think that, having met yourself already ...

I rest my case.

 

[Harthwain]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

It’s easier to actually play D&D, if you are a DM you can find a group of people you like and remove who don’t like and ignore them.
And that also mean you can convince them to play others ttrpg after they played for some time.

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

Aren't most of the Codexians in a different group (3.5) than the people who are playing DnD nowadays (5.0)?

 

[Cael]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

It’s easier to actually play D&D, if you are a DM you can find a group of people you like and remove who don’t like and ignore them.
And that also mean you can convince them to play others ttrpg after they played for some time.

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

Aren't most of the Codexians in a different group (3.5) than the people who are playing DnD nowadays (5.0)?

HERESY!!! There is no DnD after 3.5. Burn the witch!

 

[NJClaw]

It's kind of a good thing D&D's popularity is going up, isn't it? I'm kinda excited about it.

It’s easier to actually play D&D, if you are a DM you can find a group of people you like and remove who don’t like and ignore them.
And that also mean you can convince them to play others ttrpg after they played for some time.

Kinda hard with the ongoing lockdown, plus, I am not sure if I really want to meet Codexians in real life

Aren't most of the Codexians in a different group (3.5) than the people who are playing DnD nowadays (5.0)?

From what I gathered from this thread:
- most codexians don't play PnP and aren't familiar with rulesets outside of what they learnt playing crpgs;
- (this derives from the first point) many of those codexians who are somehow familiar with D&D are still attached to 2th edition AD&D, because that's what they used in their favorite games, and see even 3E as irrimediable decline.

 

[Fedora Master]

3 and 3.5 were pretty fucking shit to play as actual tabletop games though. Way too bloated. There are better, more elegant systems. 3.5 works best when a computer keeps track of everything.

 

[NJClaw]

3 and 3.5 were pretty fucking shit to play as actual tabletop games though. Way too bloated. There are better, more elegant systems. 3.5 works best when a computer keeps track of everything.

What do you mean by "bloated"?

Both 3.x and AD&D 2 are "bloated" in their own ways.

 

[Fedora Master]

3 and 3.5 were pretty fucking shit to play as actual tabletop games though. Way too bloated. There are better, more elegant systems. 3.5 works best when a computer keeps track of everything.

What do you mean by "bloated"?

Both 3.x and AD&D 2 are "bloated" in their own ways.

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[mibbles]

Can I get a tl;dr on what's known about the game?

 

[Lilura]

Can I get a tl;dr on what's known about the game?

Have you played Oblivion With Guns? It's going to be worse than that.

 

[The_Mask]

Can I get a tl;dr on what's known about the game?

You get to have a tadpole in your brain that lets you do freaky things. You also get to choose between the man with many cheeses, and hot walnuts.