As I've mentioned in my previous BG3 posts, one of the goals of my playthroughs is to see what it's like to enter into a relationship with each of the available romancable characters. Of course, this allows me to see all the available sex scenes in the game. The relationship goal for this playthrough was Gale. In…
The "Zapper Disaster" turned out to be the defining moment of playthrough 11. In order to describe it, I have to break with my practice in these write-ups: I have to discuss some system-related stuff earlier than I would otherwise prefer. In my playthrough 10 write-up, I said I'd save the D&D-based details until the end. I…
I'm taking a different approach with this Baldur's Gate 3 write-up. As with my playthrough 10 write-up, my goal is to make things easier for whoever might be reading it. This time, I'm breaking the write-up into smaller individual blog posts. I've typically written one long post per playthrough. My goal, as with my massive post on…
I have a social media presence on Facebook, Bluesky (@acorn.garden), and Mastodon (@wgseligman@pagan.plus). Because my ego knows no bounds, I posted the following on all three: My review of ta' puq mach has just been published on Amazon. I was a bit surprised they accepted it. (For those of you whose Klingon is rusty, ta' puq mach…
When someone shares word of a death on Facebook, I will occasionally respond "So it goes." What does that mean? In a couple of Kurt Vonnegut's books (most notably Slaughterhouse-Five), there's an alien race called the Tralfamadorians. They perceive time differently. They see the past, present, and future all at once. When someone dies, they say "So…
I received an email via the Acorn Garden website inquiring about Kickin' Wiccan, the pagan jewelry shop I set up through Shapeways. Even though I was no longer marketing my items through Etsy, I still received occasional orders through the Shapeways shop page. The reason why the prospective buyer contacted me through my Wicca page is that…
In my previous post on creating the Bard instrumental ensembles in Baldur's Gate 3, I had a misleading statement: It’s almost impossible to get all six instruments to play at once within the main game. [...] In the main adventure, even if you have all four of your party members with the Musical Instrument skill, you’d need…