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Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread

Chippy

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
mediocrepoet said:
Chippy said:
Stuff like: Xan changes "their" gender regularly and Kivan married Cernd.
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Jesus Christ. Aren't there any straight characters in these settings or does FR stand for Faggot Realms?
:stunned:
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Once upon a time, you avoided this stuff if it could be mocked easily. I mean if they had to make a few characters gay or Mizhena, then at least do it professionally. Now we get to make doggystyle jokes, and compare Kivan's wife having less hair, etc.
 
rusty_shackleford

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it's not official material
Joseph Stalin said:
Got an answer.

Support Agent (D&D)

Oct 19, 2020, 4:53 PM PDT

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Wizards of the Coast Customer Support. If you are speaking of Heroes of Baldur's Gate as found here, the adventure is unofficial fan content published through the DM's Guild online adventure marketplace.

Are you happy, rusty_shackleford ? Siege of Dragonspear remains safely canon. :(
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Chippy said:


It took all these years for us grognards to get a BG3 and a continuation of the lore for the original characters (when I was laways hoping to see them in other RPGs released by Obsidian, or recognised in FR novels) and when we finally get something...it's faggotry.

I thought this video was fanfiction until I saw it was an official WOTC book at the end. Stuff like: Xan changes "their" gender regularly and Kivan married Cernd.

>Insert wood jokes here<

Edit: thought I'd summarize it a bit in cse you can't stand the prat voice narration.
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Im happy with some of the older BG characters making a reappearance in BG3 and its fantastic news that Viconia will be around :salute:
 

Chippy

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NecroLord said:
Grunker said:
"she's now a fusion of god, mortal and vampire"
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It's Forgotten Realms.
Everyone and their mother is a god or demigod in the making.
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I thought James Ohlen was writing some P&P modules with the original BG characters? There was another one I think that was set right after BG1 when Khalid was still alive. I know it's fabulously optimistic, but I was hoping there would be a spin-off game at some point that was set in the BG1-2 era.

But then I just realise that there' nobody left to make it. I think unless the original BG1 writing team did something, it would be shit. Otherwise we're back with Amber Scott types writing about werewolf Cernd buggering Kivan. And Xan. With Montaron and Mazzy baking pizza in the background.
 
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Chippy said:
But then I just realise that there' nobody left to make it. I think unless the original BG1 writing team did something, it would be shit. Otherwise we're back with Amber Scott types writing about werewolf Cernd buggering Kivan. And Xan. With Montaron and Mazzy baking pizza in the background.
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As long as Monty's back to life, I don't really care what horrors the "good" characters visit upon one another.
 

Chippy

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BruceVC said:
Chippy said:


It took all these years for us grognards to get a BG3 and a continuation of the lore for the original characters (when I was laways hoping to see them in other RPGs released by Obsidian, or recognised in FR novels) and when we finally get something...it's faggotry.

I thought this video was fanfiction until I saw it was an official WOTC book at the end. Stuff like: Xan changes "their" gender regularly and Kivan married Cernd.

>Insert wood jokes here<

Edit: thought I'd summarize it a bit in cse you can't stand the prat voice narration.
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Im happy with some of the older BG characters making a reappearance in BG3 and its fantastic news that Viconia will be around :salute:
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I don't pay any attention to BG3. It's hard not to notice when they announce stuff, and my brain is wired to think that I played the first two games in a series, so the third should be of interest.

But then I remember we live in a clown world. Go back 20 years or so and tell the original BG fans that you wanted two of the male characters to marry each other, and they would have said you were beyond nuts.

I just have to process that it's like any product that had a target and then switched to another one. Like a 4x4 that was intended for offroading, and then over the years it became a product for upper class types to drive in the city.
 
rusty_shackleford

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Chippy said:
NecroLord said:
Grunker said:
"she's now a fusion of god, mortal and vampire"
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It's Forgotten Realms.
Everyone and their mother is a god or demigod in the making.
Click to expand...

I thought James Ohlen was writing some P&P modules with the original BG characters? There was another one I think that was set right after BG1 when Khalid was still alive. I know it's fabulously optimistic, but I was hoping there would be a spin-off game at some point that was set in the BG1-2 era.

But then I just realise that there' nobody left to make it. I think unless the original BG1 writing team did something, it would be shit. Otherwise we're back with Amber Scott types writing about werewolf Cernd buggering Kivan. And Xan. With Montaron and Mazzy baking pizza in the background.
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again, it's not official material, you guys can stop getting butthurt

now THIS however, is official material:
rusty_shackleford said:
sigard said:
mazzy
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make sure you use her new official portrait
Mazzy-CLB.jpg
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Yes, really.
 
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The original Mazzy portrait was pretty cringe too. Like what the hell was up with her hair?
 
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