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…
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…
Edit a few weeks later: No, the problem is NOT solved. It's just that the "test save" I used started working again. Other saves did not. I decided to leave the post up, with just a change in the title and this note. In a post in which I wrote about problems I had running Baldur's Gate…
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…