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Baldur's Gate Plot Crossover between Baldur's Gate 3 and D&D Dice Adventures according to Dragon+ 32

Gyor

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From an In The Works: D&D Dice Adventures Article in Dragon+ 32

"The upcoming Baldur’s Gate III video game features a storyline about mind flayers using illithid tadpoles to create advanced soldiers and our use of Ioun stones shows where that tech came from.”

Apparently the characters in BG3 are lovecraftian versions of Captain America.
 

Akachi

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I think you need less comic shit movies and more D&D if that sounds like Captain America to you. AFAIK, the Illithid have always experimented on and bred their thralls to make better soldiers. Just look at the Thralls section from the 3.5e book Lords of Madness (p. 73):

Illithid communities are filled with slaves or, more correctly, thralls. Thralls do all menial work in illithid society. They are the household servants, public workers, and draft animals. They even fill the ranks of the mind flayer armies, where their role is largely to serve as cannon fodder while powerful illithids wreak havoc on the enemy with mind blasts and mental domination.

Newly captured slaves are subjected to inspection and disinfection, followed by constant psychic bombardment to ensure that they become docile and willing thralls. Those lucky few who managed to escape from thralldom describe it as a waking nightmare. The slave is always aware of what he is doing and is filled with revulsion at his deeds, but is powerless to resist illithid commands. The hopelessness and horror of this mental captivity bears down on the thrall as constant weight.

Many thralls are captured in raids, but not all. Some are bred selectively for strength, docility, or even coloration or height.

Few thralls die of natural causes. Most become meals for their masters. Their usefulness doesn’t end at death, either. The bodies (minus the brains, of course) are fed back to other thralls.

In addition to the tasks they perform, thralls provide another service to their masters. Illithids have a need to dominate lesser creatures and take great pride in the quantity and quality of their own personal thralls. An illithid with an especially valuable or exotic thrall enjoys great prestige among its peers, while an illithid without thralls is considered weak and incompetent.
The real mystery (besides you thinking this was worth its own thread) is why Larian and WotC think this Illithid tadpole plot (complete with nautiloids and githyanki, who along with drow are the highest CR humanoids) is a level 1-10 campaign. WotC doesn't support high level play because their designers don't like it themselves, so no one plays it in 5e because of a lack of support, so WotC concludes no one likes high level play. And they couldn't come up with a better way to rip off the player being "cursed" like they were going to be in The Black Hound, I guess, yet wanted to rip it off anyway even after that idea was already used in MotB.
 

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https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ioun_stone

I think D&D Adventures just accidently introduced a Nentir Vale God to the Forgotten Realms. Ioun Stones in FR lore are originally from the Netherese Wizard Ioun, although others learned how to make them and innovated on them later. The Goddess of Knowledge for the Nerath/Nentir Vale Setting wasn't until 4e, and her connection to Ioun Stones was in Open Grave and it largely only applied to Nerath (and now maybe Exandia). Until now. This could have implications for BG3 if the there is a connected plotline.

Still Ioun Stones trapping essence of a soul does fit the lore for some of them.

This appears to be the second video game that blundered and caused a Nerath deity to immigrate to the Forgotten Realms that was not originally intended to move to FR. The Storm of Zehir expansion to Neverwinter Nights 2 used the Nerath God Zehir instead of the Forgotten Realms Yaun Ti Sseth, right around 4e's release. This lead to FR designers deciding to just roll with it, and Zehir became an immigrant deity to FR (literally they didn't make out like he was always in FR, they made it clear he'd just immigrated from Nerath). Zehir appears in the Forgotten Realms novel Venom in Her Veins and has his own reluctant and oddly good Pureblood Yuan Ti Chosen in the novel.

Then Tome of Foes added the Ravenqueen to FR, but a Elven Quasideity version instead of the Nerath/Exandia version of the Ravenqueen.

And then Sword of Lies FR novel is weird in that there is a tomb/temple in FR that has glyphs of Gods from Nerath and other none FR worlds, it's used as a place for special Deva/Aasimar (4e kind) to reincarnated on Toril, when he isn't born on other worlds instead.
 

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Actually, if you go back to old previews of Storm of Zehir, they say Zehir was supposed to be a major new force in 4E. When I asked if anyone had any idea what the hell happened to that, the best anyone could figure out is plans for 4E derailed wildly after a murder suicide in the dev team.
 

Spectacle

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This appears to be the second video game that blundered and caused a Nerath deity to immigrate to the Forgotten Realms that was not originally intended to move to FR. The Storm of Zehir expansion to Neverwinter Nights 2 used the Nerath God Zehir instead of the Forgotten Realms Yaun Ti Sseth, right around 4e's release. This lead to FR designers deciding to just roll with it, and Zehir became an immigrant deity to FR (literally they didn't make out like he was always in FR, they made it clear he'd just immigrated from Nerath). Zehir appears in the Forgotten Realms novel Venom in Her Veins and has his own reluctant and oddly good Pureblood Yuan Ti Chosen in the novel.
The entire plot of SoZ is that Zehir is entering the Realms. It was 100% intended.

(It's rare to see you fail a Forgotten Realms Lore skill check Gyor ;))
 

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I tried to ask a larian dev some week ago why some random mobile game have revealed a big plot twist so casually, no answer.
 

Gyor

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I tried to ask a larian dev some week ago why some random mobile game have revealed a big plot twist so casually, no answer.

I'm not surprised, they likely wish to avoid inter company I'll will so just publicly don't discuss it.
 

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