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BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Three

Let's take our minds off of Armor Class and Spell Save DC with a story. The events and images are a blend of my most successful Balanced-mode test and the Tactician-mode tests, as I describe in my previous post. A story If something illegal happens within sight of a witness (and there were plenty of civilian witnesses…

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BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Two

This post is a follow-up to my previous post on recreating the character of Arctic Druid Angela. If you're like Guard Wulf and are bored by system stuff, skip ahead to my next post, in which I tell a story using pictures. Originally I wrote this essay and the pictorial as a single post. It got a…

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BG3 – You too can play Arctic Druid Angela

Warning If you're tired of my continual references to Arctic Druid Angela, well, too bad. This post is neither a culmination, catharsis, nor an intended ending to her story. On the other hand, if you're curious about what the fuss is about, you're in the right place! Context When I write up playthrough 15 of Baldur's Gate…

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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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BG3 – Alternatives to Fly

Minor spoilers follow. If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 before, you might want to consider not reading this post until after your first playthrough. This post records some notes I made during a conversation with Real Angela. Roughly half-way through the game, characters have the option to gain advanced powers. Of these powers, by far the…

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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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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Reality

Now for a dose of reality Video games are not Barbie dolls. When you start a playthrough, the game offers you a choice of which character you want to play: an Origin character or a character of your own design. That's the character who's supposed to be the protagonist of the story. The game is not designed…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Drama

Kill Wyll Let me get this out of the way first: When I'm writing about our attempts to get Wyll out of the picture, I'm writing from an imaginary perspective as a "Wyll-hater", as I was when I role-played the character of Wicked Sandalwood. In reality, I have no antipathy for the character. I have great respect…

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