Real Angela’s playthrough 5 – Origin Astarion

Unlike my previous Origin Karlach playthrough, this one was not planned. As I get further into my playthroughs of BG3, I have certain goals planned, but don’t necessarily have all the other factors filled out. In playthrough 5, I wanted to romance Lae’zel because I hadn’t before (and Bill stated that she was one of the best…

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BG3 world-building/lore series part 1 – the Arcane Tower

BG3 is a huge game, full of mind-blowing amounts of small details that are so easily missed. I have almost 1000 hours into this game, and I'm still finding new things, whether they be little bits of lore hidden in flavor texts, new dialogue options, or just putting the pieces together. I'm starting a series of small…

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Real Angela’s playthrough 4 – Origin Karlach

Background and goals After the emotional train wreck of my previous evil playthrough, I wanted to do one that was light and bubbly — so I decided to play as the terminally ill character! For this playthrough, I added the goal of collecting all the teddy bears in the game. Partially because I need to give myself…

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Real Angela’s playthrough 3 – Darkness and Regrets

Well, here we are. When I was going through my first two playthroughs, I kept telling Bill that I would not do an evil playthrough because I don’t like them. But there is the option for “Dark Urge” as an origin character (still a Tav, but with a different storyline than the ones we’ve seen before) and…

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Real Angela’s playthrough 2/14.5

Warning: unlike my previous guest post, where I was trying to be delicate about revealing game information, this one is spoiler city. Spoiler metropolis. This playthrough is called 2/14.5 because it's my second playthrough, and Bill's 14.5th, since he only joined me part of the time I was playing. Characters For this playthrough, my main character was…

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