BG3 Logbook

This is a log of the Baldur’s Gate 3 playthroughs described on this blog site. If you see something like [1] in the table, it means it’s a footnote to text after the table.

Footnotes

• [1] This is the ordinal number of the run; e.g., “playthrough 3” means it’s the player’s third playthrough.

  When there are two numbers (e.g., “1/14”, the first number is the count of the playthrough of the host, the second number is count for the guest.

  The link takes you to the blog post that describes the playthrough. If multiple blog posts were written for a single playthrough (e.g., Bill’s playthrough 8), the link will take you to the first of those posts.

  I’ve written more BG3 essays than just the ones linked here. Here’s the complete list in reverse chronological order.

• [2] The difficulty level of the playthrough.

  Baldur’s Gate 3 has four difficulty levels: Explorer, Balanced, Tactician, Honour. There’s also a “custom” mode to tweak individual difficulty levels for different aspects of the game.

  In a few cases, the host changed the difficulty level mid-playthrough; e.g., “Explorer -> Balanced”.

• [3] This is the word count for the blog post linked in the first column, as reported by the WordPress plugin Article Word Count. Note that this word count is highly suspect, given the number of pictures and other mark-up in many of these blog posts.

  If the playthrough write-up consists of several blog posts, this is the sum of the word counts of all the posts for that playthough.

  In the case of playthrough 8, it does not include the fanfic.

• [4] This is the number of pictures associated with that playthrough that Bill has in his iCloud photo repository.

  This is a count of all images, including tests of photo mode, records of character gear, and so on. Many of the pictures were made after the playthrough was over, as Bill experimented with photo mode.

  This number is much larger than the number of photos actually published as part of the associated blog post(s).

• [5] This is the approximate date of the playthrough.

  I didn’t record the dates of most of the playthroughs. The date here is a guess based on the dates of the essays, the internal dates of any pictures, and other clues.

  I didn’t take any pictures prior to playthrough 6, at least during the playthrough, because I didn’t know how. I also don’t have dates on the old game save files; those were lost when I transferred them to my Mac. That’s why there are no dates for playthroughs 2-4.

  Most playthroughs take more than a month. The date shown can be at the beginning or end of the playthrough, or any time in-between, depending on the information I can find.