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…
In a post in which I wrote about problems I had running Baldur's Gate 3 on my Mac, I described a problem I had with running the program while also running VPN. I went through network traces and whatnot to try to track down the problem, with no success. Larian released Hotfix #34 for BG3 about a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What does 8'/2.5 mean? I could no longer play with Real Angela on a game she hosted, but what about a game that I hosted? Real Angela was willing, but she had her own exploration through BG3 and didn't want to spoil that. She said she'd join me for a part of a playthrough I hosted if:…
Confused? I don't blame you. Aside from the opaque nomenclature ("8'/2.5? What does that mean?") the situation behind this playthrough started off tangled and gets more tangled as we go along. On the one hand, it's a story of two friends who would like to occasionally play Baldur's Gate 3 together, but can't do so freely due…
Background: Neil Newbon is the actor who supplied voice, performance capture, and direction for the character of Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 (among many other roles). I'd planned to get Real Angela a cameo for her birthday. At the last minute, I realized that I'd totally forgotten. I went to the cameo site and put in for…
In the "this probably matters only to Bill" department: Currently, a good chunk of the posts on this site are on Baldur's Gate 3 playthroughs. The sequence of playthroughs, for both me and Real Angela, are complicated enough that it's easy to lose track of what's going on. I've set up a BG3 log spreadsheet. I've added…