Warning: unlike my previous guest post, where I was trying to be delicate about revealing game information, this one is spoiler city. Spoiler metropolis. This playthrough is called 2/14.5 because it's my second playthrough, and Bill's 14.5th, since he only joined me part of the time I was playing. Characters For this playthrough, my main character was…
I have a general disclaimer associated with my series of Baldur's Gate 3 posts: Anyone looking for tips how to solo Honor mode is probably looking in the wrong place. For this post, I'm weakening that disclaimer. The disparate topics I'm going to discuss are advanced enough that folks pursuing playthroughs at higher difficulty levels might find…
TL;DR: You can use Larian's BG3 cross-save feature to preserve PS5 game saves onto a desktop system, provided you're willing to purchase a second copy of BG3. Why? Let's get the obvious out of the way first: This article will be useful to you if you own a Playstation 5 and you play Baldur's Gate 3, or…
If you've been following my Baldur's Gate 3 series of posts, at this point my nomenclature may be confusing. When I say "playthrough 3" or "playthrough 12", that's clear enough: It refers to my (Bill's) 3rd or 12th playthroughs of the game, respectively. The business with the slashes may not be obvious. The number before the slash…
When I first decided to play Baldur’s Gate 3 earlier this year, it was for a number of reasons. It had been a while since I played a solid video game. I was coming out of a mental health spiral and felt like I had some energy to put into fun again. But mostly, it was because…
While doing some bookkeeping work associated with my Baldur's Gate 3 blog posts, I came across a prediction from a cultural ethnologist. Background that you'll already know if you read any of my BG3 posts in the past year: back in playthrough 8, I named a hireling after a friend of mine. The hireling was Arctic Druid…
Multiplayer technical problems Playthrough 1/14 was marked with a number of technical problems. I hope that by going over them, I can spare you from the same difficulties in your own multiplayer BG3 playthroughs. Here's the TL;DR version, if you want to skip this section and move on to the next: According to Larian, and our own…
Approval One major issue with our multiplayer stories was with approval. Every non-player character has an approval rating of the protagonist. What we learned in this playthrough is that each player character in multiplayer BG3 has a separate approval rating. By far the biggest adjustments of a character's approval come during the cutscenes. A cutscene will involve…
Scratch Real Angela loves dogs. One of her closest and dearest friends is Hodor, a floppy dog who's mostly folds. As we approached the location where a player could meet Scratch for the first time, I went into all-out overly-dramatic mode: "This is it. The most important quest in the game. Nothing is more important, not even…
The other characters When I play BG3, I play a role. In my first playthrough, I played Jank Halversen, a stereotypical slimy Bard. Assuming a role other than myself comes naturally to me, from years of playing table-top role-playing games, LARPs, and working at the NY Ren Faire. That's why I can indulge in the silly fantasy…