SPOILER WARNING for all sorts of stuff throughout the game Welcome to the next post of the BG3 world/lore series! In my last post, I talked about how Shar is utter garbage and caused a big chunk of Act 2. I left off by saying that she was responsible for half of the crap that happened in the…
Last year, for Real Angela's birthday, I got her a cameo from Neil Newbon, the actor behind the character of Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3. This year (why mess with success?) I arranged for a cameo from Devora Wilde, the actor who supplied the voice and motion-capture for the character of Lae'zel. She provided a bright, cheery…
Even before the fanfic, let's get this disclaimer out of the way: This essay is a supplement to Real Angela's excellent essay on stuffed bear locations in Baldur's Gate 3. It's not a replacement. Read that article first. Then come back here to learn why her count of stuffed animals was 50, while mine is closer to…
Of all the posts I've written that fall into the "This matters only to Bill" category, this one is the most "This matters only to Bill"-est. My Baldur's Gate 3 fanfic tends to refer to itself a lot. One story daisy-chains into another. Even I, the guy who wrote them, can lose track. Also, there's a connection…
... or the origin of Jarvis. This is the follow-up post to the teaser I posted about three months ago. Why? Let's deal with the obvious question: I have a long-documented antipathy towards the Windows operating system. Why did I buy a Windows machine? If you've followed my blog posts, or looked at the tag cloud, or…
This is part four of a four-part article that begins here. Observations In preparing this essay, I became aware of how much my process resembles that of making a movie: composing each shot; understanding the properties of the camera; consider what's in-frame; location scouting for the background in the images; organizing the cast (not all characters are…
This is part three of a four-part article that begins here. Poses Let's deal with the obvious: Those four pictures are the same image with different captions. There's no operative difference between that and something like this: Ah, that's better. I picked the name "Tav" because I was trying to hide. The name "Tav" was so common,…
This is part two of a four-part article that begins here. Position Remember when you learned about co-ordinate systems back in high school? BG3's Photo Mode lets you put that knowledge to good use. There are two coordinate systems to keep track of. Warning for the math-adverse: If your head starts spinning, just scroll to the Composition…
Forward This was originally a single long essay. I've split it into four parts to make it easier on folks using phones to read it. If you see something like "I discuss this below" it refers to the entire article, not just the page you're reading. CW: There's at least one photo in the overall essay with…
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…