BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Four
Honestly, I had not intended this to be a four-part essay. When I wrote the first post on Arctic Druid's Angela's specs in Baldur's Gate 3, I thought I was done. The
BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Three
Let's take our minds off of Armor Class and Spell Save DC with a story. The events and images are a blend of my most successful Balanced-mode test and the Tactician-mode tests, as I describe in my previous post. A story If something illegal happens within sight of a witness (and there were plenty of civilian witnesses…
BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Two
This post is a follow-up to my previous post on recreating the character of Arctic Druid Angela. If you're like Guard Wulf and are bored by system stuff, skip ahead to my next post, in which I tell a story using pictures. Originally I wrote this essay and the pictorial as a single post. It got a…
BG3 – A fix for VPN on my Mac
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…
BG3 – Alternatives to Fly
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…
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade
I don't usually put a warning in my blog posts, but I feel I should for this one. Content warning: Discussion of mental illness. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (SSH2) is a sequel to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (HSS). When I wrote my post on my top-rated games, I'd forgotten about HSS. I've just edited that post to mention…
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Reality
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…
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Drama
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…
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Renewal
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:…
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8’/2.5 – Druid Angela and Mor’lith
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…
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