| Pronouns | He/Him |
Decided to do a bard with a single level as a knowledge bard of selune for Shadowheart's romance. Bard is just more fun because of all the skill bonuses, and unlike the Pathfinder games, the spells are genuinely useful here due to enemy saves not being so busted.
Bard also gets the most fun dialog options.
Oh and I'm The Dark Urge and a half-drow so there's an extra layer of weirdness here trying to be a flamboyant hero.
Baldur's Gate 3 feels easier than before. Did they tone down the difficulty in a patch or is this just the karma dice thing turning down fail rolls? I didn't change much off the balanced difficulty so I'm surprised how much smoother the early game is right now.
Guess I'll see how long that lasts once I meet the gnolls.
My yuri visual novel Bittersweet Blossoms, the sequel to Blackberry Honey, has now been released!
Return to Bly once more with Dot as she meets (and maybe falls for) the snippy, sharp-tongued Lady Patience ❤️ ✨
🌹 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429340
🌹 https://ebihime.itch.io/bittersweet-blossoms
Look up how people talk about recruiting Mithera in BG3 if you want a good example of how sometimes the simple solution in game design is the best option.
I get the initial intent was to make her exclusive to an evil playthrough initially but also what the fuck did you think people were going to do when you offered a drow baddie? Of course they were going to exploit the hell out of your needlessly complicated systems! Just use basic event flags when you patch her as viable!
The Pathfinder games aren't even considered a high bar for writing in this genre but they run laps around BG3 in terms of character complexity and theme work, even Kingmaker.
I don't want to discredit everything it does, there's some very strong character stories here, but it's a very lopsided package.
I think I've started to become a CRPG snob and there's still so many holes in my knowledge base, but god seeing people praise this game so much has begun to annoy me, especially the writing.
The performances are all doing heavy lifting for a pretty vapid fantasy quest, as is the complexity of choices and outcomes - though those are usually kind of dull on a narrative level.
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