Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 17 – Flight
This is part five of a five-part story that starts here. Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background.
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 17 – Collections
This is part four of a five-part story that starts here. Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story. Statues
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 17 – The Bed
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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 17 – The Jump
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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 17 – The Chronicler
This is part one of a five-part story. Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
No Man’s Sky
While Baldur's Gate 3 is still the video game that currently commands most of my attention, there's another game I've played occasionally since 2016: No Man's Sky. I've spent about 650 hours in NMS over the past decade. It comes in third in terms of the amount of time I've spent in a single video game, behind…
BG3 – An explanation of Dice Checks
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…
My BG3 and D&D rules explanations
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…
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 3’ – Tav and Trophies
CW: Partial nudity, on the same level as my previous post. The first pictorial is spoiler free. However, there'll be a warning afterwards for content past that. The warnings Now we're entering SPOILER ALERT territory. I'm going discuss more plot elements about the Dark Urge that Tav mentioned. I don't regard Tav's mention of the existence and…
BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Seven
CW: Partial nudity. Kinda. I tried to keep it to the PG-13 level. Also, more Druid Angela stuff, as if you couldn't figure that out from the title. Big surprise! ... Not! If you've read along in this series of essays on creating Arctic Druid Angela in Baldur's Gate 3, as soon as I mentioned the possibility…