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

[Lilliput McHammersmith]

I think we should move the discussion to the Baldur's Gate 3 sex thread, there should be one by now.

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).

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.

 

[NJClaw]

I think we should move the discussion to the Baldur's Gate 3 sex thread, there should be one by now.

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).

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.

 

[fantadomat]

We then went to a bar and almost hooked up but that's besides the point.

Since we are reliving through the same arguments again and again, I guess you could go into details to spice things up a bit in this topic.

It's not that spicy. Well, it is but I don't want to tell the story in detail. We went to his place and he proposed getting intimate in a specific way (not sex), but I refused because I don't do any of that on first dates. We did get physical (not sex) on the third one though, which is uncharacteristic of me. A friend of mine plays in his group now, and I passionately wish I could be there too, but alas life is suffering.

To connect this to the topic lest the jewbot gets angry - BG3 is a game that exists and we are talking about it right now in this very thread.

I think we should move the discussion to the Baldur's Gate 3 sex thread, there should be one by now.

We can go with this one with a broad interpretation of the word "love": https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/baldurs-gate-3-love-thread.132127/

Y'all debaucherous Slaaneshi worshipers disgust me.

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I just want an irl group of hazard stripe paintainig connoisseurs to play Wh40k tabletop RPGs with.

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Ivan,get your granda's vineyard spraying machine,i will get the oil and lets go cleanse some gypsy katun!

 

[Lacrymas]

The topic of your aforementioned tabletop-related romantic adventures, you 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.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

The topic of your aforementioned tabletop-related romantic adventures, you 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.

Not that sort of tabletop-related, you double tease.

 

[jackofshadows]

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.

Fuck, that sounds exciting, maybe I should search some D&D action after all... Just with a bit more females.

 

[Yosharian]

I didn’t know that levels of this retarded were possible. Infinitron can we intimidate him more, please? Apparently you are a tyrant oppressor.

Hopefully when the Early Access comes out next month, all of these weirdos will be intimidated away by the sight of people actually playing the game.

It reminds me, one of the earliest threads I remember from back when I joined the Codex was for the then-recently released Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which was called something like "The I Am Actually Playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution Thread". Presumably because there was a previous thread that was filled with this same sort of nonsense.

It's a problem whenever these sorts of long-awaited sequels and spiritual successors occur. A lot of discussion that centers more around the idea that the game even exists, and how that makes the poster feel, than the actual game itself.

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

A bit of pushback was not entirely unwarranted

 

[Joseph Stalin]

To give something more on topic, here's a page from the Minsc comic showing a Mind Flayer scavenger amongst the Blood War.

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Dungeons-Dragons-Infernal-Tides/Issue-4?id=173156#11

 

[Lacrymas]

Fuck, that sounds exciting, maybe I should search some D&D action after all... Just with a bit more females.

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.

 

[The_Mask]

She is literally green. Green is not a fuckable color. Sick people, vomit and insects are green.

This sounds a lot like Galvarey.

 

[LESS T_T]

They've been very strict about issuing keys IIRC. D:OS2 is never sold on any third-party sites other than Steam and GOG, not even on Humble Store. Now BG3 has no KS backer there will be no keys at all. (Unless they decide to release boxed version I guess.)

 

[Harthwain]

My point is that I very much doubt it's that popular. It's not like video games which were considered for fat nerds at best but then the dudebros discovered Halo or whatever and now the industry is terrible. It's still a niche thing.

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).

And when there are no video game adaptations of boardgames (by the way, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game is getting a digital edition) there is still stuff like Tabletop Simulator.

It's a bit of a shame that Neverwinter Nights' attempt to "recreate, as accurately as possible, the feel and play style of pen and paper (or PnP) roleplaying, Dungeon Master included, on the PC" didn't really become a thing enough to spawn more tabletop-like video games (although Divinity: Original Sin did pick up on the idea of Dungeon Master).

 

[Thac0]

I hope when the game finally releases a new thread is made and the old one goes directly into retardoland.

 

[Saravan]

I hope when the game finally releases a new thread is made and the old one goes directly into retardoland.

Yeah, 701 pages and the game hasn't even reached EA-stage. Mostly a collection of unsubstantiated speculation, memes and shitposting. This forum acts all prestigious but I have only seen a handful here that are capable of formulating thoughts not bogged down into the equivalent of an American refusing to wear a mask because it "stops the oxygen intake".

By the way this forum is exactly as reddit you only replaced downvotes with butthurt people spamming retarded rating on everyone they disagree with.

 

[Thac0]

I hope when the game finally releases a new thread is made and the old one goes directly into retardoland.

Yeah, 701 pages and the game hasn't even reached EA-stage. Mostly a collection of unsubstantiated speculation, memes and shitposting. This forum acts all prestigious but I have only seen a handful here that are capable of formulating thoughts not bogged down into the equivalent of an American refusing to wear a mask because it "stops the oxygen intake".

By the way this forum is exactly as reddit you only replaced downvotes with butthurt people spamming retarded rating on everyone they disagree with.

Where I give this forum a leg up is that you can see who rated you. To me a rating by someone whose judgement I value has a lot more weight than the usual rating by someone with a dumbfuck tag (excluding a few good Dumbfucks!!!)
The percentage of high value posters and low value posters is the same all across the internet, but due to avatars and open ratings you can see who is who more clearly here.

 

[Saravan]

I hope when the game finally releases a new thread is made and the old one goes directly into retardoland.

Yeah, 701 pages and the game hasn't even reached EA-stage. Mostly a collection of unsubstantiated speculation, memes and shitposting. This forum acts all prestigious but I have only seen a handful here that are capable of formulating thoughts not bogged down into the equivalent of an American refusing to wear a mask because it "stops the oxygen intake".

By the way this forum is exactly as reddit you only replaced downvotes with butthurt people spamming retarded rating on everyone they disagree with.

Where I give this forum a leg up is that you can see who rated you. To me a rating by someone whose judgement I value has a lot more weight than the usual rating by someone with a dumbfuck tag (excluding a few good Dumbfucks!!!)
The percentage of high value posters and low value posters is the same all across the internet, but due to avatars and open ratings you can see who is who more clearly here.

I'll give you that, that's true.

I'm not however particularly impressed with this site.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I'm not however particularly impressed with this site.

Eh, better than the alternatives.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Part two:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...might-not-cap-player-levels-to-ten-after-all/

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.

 

[ChildInTime]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...might-not-cap-player-levels-to-ten-after-all/

Baldur's Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after all

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.

 

[Spectacle]

Part two:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...might-not-cap-player-levels-to-ten-after-all/

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.

 

[Peachcurl]

Spectacle

I really can't say whether this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Mazes and Monsters, or just a general mess-up by the author...

 

[User0001]

A masterpiece

 

[Cryomancer]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...might-not-cap-player-levels-to-ten-after-all/

Baldur's Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after all

That is a HUGE incline. Low level D&D is awful. At lv 10, you can cast a cloudkill and now, need to rest to cast it again. Fighters would get a 2 attack at lv 5 and spend the rest of the game with two attacks per round...

 

[User0001]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...might-not-cap-player-levels-to-ten-after-all/

Baldur's Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after all

That is a HUGE incline. Low level D&D is awful. At lv 10, you can cast a cloudkill and now, need to rest to cast it again. Fighters would get a 2 attack at lv 5 and spend the rest of the game with two attacks per round...

Low level is still awesome.

 

[Ontopoly]

I hope when the game finally releases a new thread is made and the old one goes directly into retardoland.

I'll still be here. Those 700 pages represent the people and all their thoughts and hopes and disappointments. I'm proud of these 700 pages and I think they mean something to me and a lot of posters on the forum who participated. The passion that drove this to 700 pages is nothing to be ashamed of. These pages contain the immediate and raw reactions of the codex everytime larian gave us news or updates.