Premise The main difference with playthrough 9 is that I wanted to try Honor Mode for the first time (with mods). I try to play as different classes for each run, both to see how combat develops through the game, and to see if there are any class-specific events/dialogue. This time, I tried a Way of the…
Goals The main goal for playthrough 8 was to try a “solo” mode — sort of. I wanted to see if I could play most of the game with just one character. However, I still wanted to try out a romance I hadn’t done yet, and Minthara has been (im)patiently waiting her turn. She doesn’t show up…
While exploring BG3, I came several stuffed animals scattered all around the world. Sometimes they were in areas that made sense (in a home with a child) but some of them were weirdly remote, and some were just incredibly sad. Those cute little details became a bit of an obsession, so over the next few playthroughs, I…
Welcome to the write-up for playthrough 7! Character I wanted to play a monoclass druid, as I have never really focused on that class before. Sure, we get Halsin and Jaheira, but they come in fairly late game, and I usually re-spec them, or don’t keep them around. My original plan for this druid was much less…
Character After back-to-back playthroughs of Origin characters, I wanted to go back to playing a Tav character, one that I could sink more into and hopefully use as a palate cleanser. Meet Persephone, my Light Urge/Resist Urge character. I wanted to roleplay her as being naive and wide-eyed and gullible, someone who is aware that something is…
One of the main plotlines in BG3 involves a bad guy named Ketheric Thorm. You hear his name a lot in the first half of the game, both from allies and enemies, and the final boss battle of act 2 revolves around him. He was once a powerful general, and the driving force behind the curse of…
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…
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…
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…
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…