Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate companion illustrations from James Ohlen's Heroes of Baldur's Gate tabletop adventure

[Joseph Stalin]

oh no

the tadpole is a bhaalspawn

That's something I've been repeating for many, many months now - the "big reveal" will be that the tadpoles aren't special - it's the subjects. They'll either all turn out to be Bhaalspawn, or more generally Godspawn. Remember - the child of a Bhaalspawn/Godspawn is also automatically one. The tadpoles are only an excuse to "awaken the dark power within, wololo" and serve as a red herring.

 

[NJClaw]

oh no

the tadpole is a bhaalspawn

Can you imagine the hot Bhaal on Elder Brain action?

"Hey, cutie. Why don't you get into the pool with me?"

Spoiler

 

[The_Mask]

oh no

the tadpole is a bhaalspawn

At least the original knew to make fun of itself when these kinds of "Chosen One (TM)" scenarios popped up.

Spoiler

 

[Delterius]

oh no

the tadpole is a bhaalspawn

That's something I've been repeating for many, many months now - the "big reveal" will be that the tadpoles aren't special - it's the subjects. They'll either all turn out to be Bhaalspawn, or more generally Godspawn. Remember - the child of a Bhaalspawn/Godspawn is also automatically one. The tadpoles are only an excuse to "awaken the dark power within, wololo" and serve as a red herring.

no

the tadpole is literally the bhaalspawn and the actual protagonist of the game

in fact, all the tadpoles combine to form bhaal-brain the greatest of all spawns

the only way to stop it is to collect all the 3 pantaloons of destiny to build mecha-bhaal

 

[The_Mask]

mecha-bhaal

 

[Trans-Financial-Man]

Why the fuck did they make him Ronald McDonald?

 

[Abu Antar]

I was thinking that the character was a Kefka (FFVI) knockoff.

 

[NJClaw]

no

the tadpole is literally the bhaalspawn and the actual protagonist of the game

in fact, all the tadpoles combine to form bhaal-brain the greatest of all spawns

the only way to stop it is to collect all the 3 pantaloons of destiny to build mecha-bhaal

I bet 50€ on the plot being worse than that. Far worse.

 

[Thac0]

I was thinking that the character was a Kefka (FFVI) knockoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXVNKtmWnc
Id take this as Xzars theme song.

I thought of Kefka at first aswell, but on closer inspection their costumes are very different.

He looks a lot like Hisoka with the hair and the tears.

Edit: Pics now on Imgur, should work

 

[Ghulgothas]

Nu-Montaron is the best of the lot, and fits his voice much better than the original ever did.

 

[Voids]

Nu-Montaron is the best of the lot, and fits his voice much better than the original ever did.

You shut your fucking whore mouth.

 

[fantadomat]

Nu-Montaron is the best of the lot, and fits his voice much better than the original ever did.

You shut your fucking whore mouth.

Yeah,the old one looked like homeless mentally challenged individual. BG1 generally didn't have great portraits.

 

[Nano]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

He's a simple and sadistic brute. He's probably the most shallow party member in the entire series, the EE companions and Siege of Dragonspear included.

 

[fantadomat]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

What character? Most of BG1 companions have like three lines of dialogue lol.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

What character? Most of BG1 companions have like three lines of dialogue lol.

That's not entirely correct. There are quite a few banters, but often so obscure and hidden that barely anyone sees them. For example - which of you gentlemen has ever witnessed the two dialogues between Xan and Xzar? I guess next to no one.

 

[Gargaune]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

He's a simple and sadistic brute. He's probably the most shallow party member in the entire series, the EE companions and Siege of Dragonspear included.

Montaron is the Joe Pesci of Baldur's Gate, and that gets him a thumbs up in my book.

 

[fantadomat]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

What character? Most of BG1 companions have like three lines of dialogue lol.

That's not entirely correct. There are quite a few banters, but often so obscure and hidden that barely anyone sees them. For example - which of you gentlemen has ever witnessed the two dialogues between Xan and Xzar? I guess next to no one.

There is a banter but it is very small. Every character has like 2-3 interactions with different characters and if you don't have them in your party,you don't see it. They made too many duo companions. Most people get the two hobos at the start and later they get jahera and kalid. Later on they kill each other and you find yourself two good companions. BG1 characters are maybe the weakest part of the game. You lack a hub area where you could change them like bg2. They are also annoying if you want to do all the quests,you have to have a free space for that,thus ending up with 5 perma characters. The genre has come a long from back then.

 

[Delterius]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

He's a simple and sadistic brute. He's probably the most shallow party member in the entire series, the EE companions and Siege of Dragonspear included.

Montaron is the Joe Pesci of Baldur's Gate, and that gets him a thumbs up in my book.

if he said "i'm walken eere" with a borderline racist italian accent i'd not only use him in bg1, i'd make a mod for bg2 that makes him the true secondary main character in place of imoen

 

[Joseph Stalin]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

What character? Most of BG1 companions have like three lines of dialogue lol.

That's not entirely correct. There are quite a few banters, but often so obscure and hidden that barely anyone sees them. For example - which of you gentlemen has ever witnessed the two dialogues between Xan and Xzar? I guess next to no one.

There is a banter but it is very small. Every character has like 2-3 interactions with different characters and if you don't have them in your party,you don't see it. They made too many duo companions. Most people get the two hobos at the start and later they get jahera and kalid. Later on they kill each other and you find yourself two good companions. BG1 characters are maybe the weakest part of the game. You lack a hub area where you could change them like bg2. They are also annoying if you want to do all the quests,you have to have a free space for that,thus ending up with 5 perma characters. The genre has come a long from back then.

Doesn't the EE allow you to send them to specific taverns?

 

[Goldschmidt]

Gone is my boner for Jaheira. She kept me straight for 20 consecutive years.

 

[Joseph Stalin]

By the by, anyone else noticed how absolutely NONE of the companions from either the Enhanced Editions or Siege of Dragonspear appear in any outside media (adventure modules, comics, lore-books)? The sole exception is Neera, and even in this case it's because one of the characters is similar to her in appearance (a pink-haired elven wild mage) and Minsc simply mistakes her for Neera. Other than that - they don't exist outside the games. Says a lot when adventure modules from 2013, 2019 and 2020 respectively all heavily feature prior companions of Gorion's Ward, whilst anyone Beamdog shat out is ignored. Which is a bit of a shame, since Rasaad is an acceptable persona, whilst Neera, either intentionally or not, is a living, breathing representation of "this is why, in real life, you'd be retarded to go into a relationship with a real Chaotic Neutral character."

 

[Joseph Stalin]

Gone is my boner for Jaheira. She kept me straight for 20 consecutive years.

You hadn't noticed for 20 consecutive years that she has a lazy eye? And now you won't be able to un-see it.

 

[Storyfag]

You guys saying Montaron wouldn't have a smile on his face when he's, for example, gleeful about Xzar dying? He's not some simple brute, I think you people are really misinterpreting his character.

What character? Most of BG1 companions have like three lines of dialogue lol.

That's not entirely correct. There are quite a few banters, but often so obscure and hidden that barely anyone sees them. For example - which of you gentlemen has ever witnessed the two dialogues between Xan and Xzar? I guess next to no one.

There is a banter but it is very small. Every character has like 2-3 interactions with different characters and if you don't have them in your party,you don't see it. They made too many duo companions. Most people get the two hobos at the start and later they get jahera and kalid. Later on they kill each other and you find yourself two good companions. BG1 characters are maybe the weakest part of the game. You lack a hub area where you could change them like bg2. They are also annoying if you want to do all the quests,you have to have a free space for that,thus ending up with 5 perma characters. The genre has come a long from back then.

Doesn't the EE allow you to send them to specific taverns?

I dpn't recall seeing this option in EE.

 

[Gargaune]

Doesn't the EE allow you to send them to specific taverns?

No, the EE doesn't change the old companions, they behave as they always did. Beamdog's new companions go to their respective homes when dismissed, though.