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Goals The main goal for playthrough 8 was to try a “solo” mode — sort of. I wanted to see if I could play most of the game with just one character. However, I still wanted to try out a romance I hadn’t done yet, and Minthara has been (im)patiently waiting her turn. She doesn’t show up…
While exploring BG3, I came several stuffed animals scattered all around the world. Sometimes they were in areas that made sense (in a home with a child) but some of them were weirdly remote, and some were just incredibly sad. Those cute little details became a bit of an obsession, so over the next few playthroughs, I…
Welcome to the write-up for playthrough 7! Character I wanted to play a monoclass druid, as I have never really focused on that class before. Sure, we get Halsin and Jaheira, but they come in fairly late game, and I usually re-spec them, or don’t keep them around. My original plan for this druid was much less…
If a picture has a blue border, it's a link. You can click on it to learn (maybe) the context of the image. If you've kept track (and there's no reason why you should), you may be puzzled by the mention of an 18th playthrough when I haven't written about playthroughs 15, 16, or 17. I'll save…
As I've played and discussed Baldur's Gate 3 with both Real Angela and Actual Sabrina, the subject of "dice checks" often comes up. Their interest comes from different places. Actual Sabrina is new to gaming, and is learning how die-rolling works. Real Angela is an experienced gamer, and wants to understand how a flat bonus compares with…
Character After back-to-back playthroughs of Origin characters, I wanted to go back to playing a Tav character, one that I could sink more into and hopefully use as a palate cleanser. Meet Persephone, my Light Urge/Resist Urge character. I wanted to roleplay her as being naive and wide-eyed and gullible, someone who is aware that something is…
One of the main plotlines in BG3 involves a bad guy named Ketheric Thorm. You hear his name a lot in the first half of the game, both from allies and enemies, and the final boss battle of act 2 revolves around him. He was once a powerful general, and the driving force behind the curse of…
I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with Actual Sabrina for a few weeks now. I've labeled this "playthrough 1/16": Her first playthrough, and my sixteenth. She's new to video games, and to the "Gygaxian" rules systems associated with both BG3 and D&D. To help her out, I pointed her to the "rules tangents" I included in some…
Unlike my previous Origin Karlach playthrough, this one was not planned. As I get further into my playthroughs of BG3, I have certain goals planned, but don’t necessarily have all the other factors filled out. In playthrough 5, I wanted to romance Lae’zel because I hadn’t before (and Bill stated that she was one of the best…