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…
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…
CW: There are videos in this post that include rapid movement in a video game. If you have vertigo or a similar reaction to visual media, the videos may be disorienting. Since this essay is about the audio, you can close your eyes or look away while the videos play and still understand what's going on. TL;DR:…
TL;DR: If your game controller isn't working, it's not your fault. My apologies if you clicked on this post expecting to see a political discussion. It's difficult to talk about the real topic of this essay without using the word "left". The actual topic? Joystick drift on a PS5 controller. A trivial topic, to be sure. There…
Did you think that title means that I'm finally easing up on playing BG3? Sorry, no. I mean that I'm taking it easy on you. I know my blog is read by perhaps a dozen people. When a couple of them make the same observation, it means a lot. That observation is that the last couple of…
If you regularly read this blog, you know that I've posted a lot about Baldur's Gate 3. You also may remember my long discursive posts on using a Macintosh desktop. Therefore, here's the post you've been waiting for: A lengthy description of my problems running BG3 on my Mac. (If I could, I would have added "...…
Content warning: The story gets dark. That's shown in some of the images, especially those that reflect the relationship between Laurelin and Astarion. If you somehow got to this post directly: This is another post in my BG3 series. I’m not a skilled player. Don’t expect tips for soloing Honor mode. It's both a playthrough write-up and…
Before we conclude the story (here's parts one and two), some reminders: This is Baldur's Gate 3 fanfic (though perhaps it's better described as an annotated screenshot album). The screenshots are from my 8th playthrough of the game. Angela the Arctic Druid is a hireling, not a "Tav." It may help to know her back story. I'll…