A Dream Visitor's Plea | Baldur's Gate 3 | Blind Playthrough [Part 14]

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[@smol_seli]

The reaction to lae'zels romance dialogue was so funny. She's really going for it hahaha!

[@Safiyahalishah]

I had to replay it twice, that was so good 😂

[@DavisonIncorp]

"I've always wanted a hot githyanki girlfriend" is the most fourth wall thing, hahaha

[@TheJakson67]

And let the Lae'zel romance begin 😂😂😂

[@ArawnDan]

It's funny, but rather than call her easy I'd say she's direct. Honestly I don't think gith know how to flirt. Its like a mix between a Klingon and Vulcan; aggressive and logical.

[@russety]

Lae'zel is such a hopeless romantic

[@g.a.5083]

Laezel is going to start stealing your hoodies so she can wear them around with your pheromones

[@joecash1912]

Mapocolops is the new Anakin Skywalker of Baldur's Gate. He killed them. killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too.

[@ArawnDan]

Ha

[@jekkabean]

Absolutely my favorite playthrough happening right now. "I will come to you one night, and I will take what is mine." Mapo immediately: "I'm SO tired we need to rest RIGHT NOW."

[@gustavgustav2670]

Lae'zel romance just might be the best.

[@CandleLight129]

You don't need to pick up or throw objects in the world to move them. You can click and drag them to new places even if they are a little too heavy to throw. The sarcophagus lid for example can be moved by someone w/ high strength even though it is too heavy to be thrown.

[@doudline2662]

"I'm scared of this option, what if Astarion turns evil?" Sir I have a good news and a bad news, and they're the same...

[@baileybyrd2116]

The way this had me cackling!!!

[@ArawnDan]

I'm like bruh

[@Desdemonaii]

Party makeup being the people you wanna flirt with >>

[@BySpartan]

2:31:26 If you said that Gale would take it off your hands he says that "No he's not eating this one!" Its a funny reaction so I just wanted to let you know :D

[@dietrichenstein]

Are we about to witness Bae'zel supremacy...literally on the edge of my seat for the next episode 😂 Also, immensely enjoyed watching you clear out the goblin camp, that level 5 power spike is always such a doozy. 😌

[@Safiyahalishah]

Another Baldur's Gate video after just two days?? Hell yeah.

[@clairebear1028]

@@Safiyahalishah I was stoked to see this

[@ponspectorstillwedie4579]

I'm guessing we can thank Radahn for that.

[@baileybyrd2116]

I have so enjoyed your commentary during these play throughs 🤣 I’m on my third play through and STILL am finding new dialogue and information!

[@emperman]

Mapo just making the best decisions. That goblin camp fight is hard but you breezed right through.

[@Safiyahalishah]

Genuinely impressed!

[@AyaWetts]

He was already level 5... its easy then. If you go there right away and still like level 3, its very tough

[@bradleypeate3266]

​@@AyaWetts when I did tactician it was pretty easy to get wiped out but this mode seems to not be as harsh on the levels of the main bosses

[@TheGameVerse]

"Why are you tired, all you did was read a book." Meanwhile he only has a quarter of health left...

[@LLlap]

So nice! Just finished the prev part and here's the new one! You were on the verge of some really cool stuff!

[@RCunderscore]

The audible gulp was too much for me hahahahaha

[@karolswieboda1781]

I'm romancing Laezel for the first time now, romancing her is worth it, trust me!

[@LucLeao11]

I do love me a guiding bolt on my cleric but that’s why I love this game and seeing other playthroughs. You might use spells that I never thought of using. Keep up the good times friend.

[@NBLTKYO]

Mapo's Pherognomes have got Lae'zel down BAD

[@ShmuPixel]

I knew you wouldn't let Volo poke out your eyeball... But I did! And it was -painful- amazing. Not a sight for sore eyes, mind you, but I've been a good pupil and now we see eye to eye on the matter. With these jokes, eye am going to leave. Thank you, and goodbeye!

[@ZonaiHero-ul5nm]

Eye see what you did there.🥸

[@LLlap]

I couldn't envision so many spectocular puns! I raise my glasses to you!

[@YellowBirdOfParadise]

They really need to fix the "they gave me another tadpole gift" dialog from Wyll. It's remnants from the open beta where the Dream Visitor/Guardian worked differently, and it's a little confusing. Fun fact: you can throw literally anything while in camp and Scratch will fetch it! He's the best boy. :)

[@Safiyahalishah]

Is _that_ what everyone's dialogue there is about... It has always confused me, wow!

[@AyaWetts]

The guardian will talk to you differently if you have more tadpoles powers and have been embracing it, so it makes a little more sense. I guess I've never avoided them so I never saw the "You haven't been using" dialog before.

[@twiggy934]

@@Safiyahalishah Yes, the Guardian would give every character a special ability in early access, I believe you just had to use the Ilithid Persuasion once or twice. That is the "gift" they are talking about. The tadpole skilltree and the usable tadpoles themselves did not exist at that point so that is how you would get tadpole powers.

[@trengilly01]

Lae'zel executing the goblin children feels very in character! 🤣

[@jimathy1988]

Lae'zel is best girl

[@Mattttherman]

Spirit Guardians(cleric lvl 3 spell) is... well, kind of OP. Like ridiculously so.

[@unknownduck4927]

Bae'zel let's goooo!

[@theoceanman5761]

shoutouts to spiritual weapon

[@h0llowbtbx2017]

I can't believe this started over a month ago and I managed to catch up to It. I was so hooked by your campaign that I don't know that to do now hahaha

[@Darkienzo1]

1:35:38 you can right click at any time to cancel whatever you’re doing 😉

[@OhThatRobin]

👆 this has saved my life so many times 😂

[@madzapan]

WHAT?! I'm like 50 hrs into my third (HM) run and this is new information to me. Bless you kind soul

[@tarvisantabusta]

One of the first things I re-assigned to mouse wheel button. So many games use mouse right button for camera panning, menu opening or other very common functions, so I constantly kept interrupting what I was doing 😖

[@sloporion]

2:06:49 So, fighters get a second feat at level 6. Take a look at the Sentinel feat in combination with the Polearm Master.

[@EverHazy_Games]

28:00 If you are occasionally going to be checking your companions approval levels, just click on the 3 dots 3 lines tab and scroll down. This will give you the specific numbers instead of generalized descriptions like "neutral". Easier to keep track of actual progression or regression of approval. :)

[@jamesm8400]

Love your play through! Dont forget to summon Scratch! He gets the help action so can use him to stabilize downed party members. Also something i learned late game is summoning a cleric through Withers and keeping them in camp. Free Aid on all party and some other buffs like Warding Bond.

[@luciano1240]

If you ever feel like "what did that do?" something you can check is in the character sheet where every ability (feat) the character has is listed, if you keep more or less track of what you have, you can see if another feat has been added from something you did. For example, you gain Speak with the Dead after one page of the book, that's a ritual spell, but you gain a feat if you turn three pages of the book

[@BusinessSkrub]

It always takes me two or three "pages", aka skill checks/saves, to get SWD, and I always get locked out of the book immediately after learning it (until act3 and finishing it, of course). How does one obtain the feat? And is it a feat choice, or do you get a specific feat?

[@luciano1240]

@@BusinessSkrub You gain SWD after turning one page of the book and then you gain a specific feat after the first 3 pages regardless of the outcomes of the checks but if you failed some you also get cursed

[@BusinessSkrub]

@@luciano1240 that's..... Insane. I've never had any of these things occur, I've never had ANYTHING occur except for earning SWD and getting locked out. What the heck am I doing wrong LOL

[@luciano1240]

@@BusinessSkrub I noticed when playing because when you turn the first 3 pages and get locked out, you gain an ominous looking ass feat called "forbidden knowledge" or something like that so i was like "i definitely didn't have that before"

[@BusinessSkrub]

@@luciano1240 OOOOOOOOOOOOO I might know what you're talking about now! That suddenly sounds very familiar, I'll have to double check when I get home lol! It's so subtle

[@JShepLord]

Given you're a gnome, having Gale (or yourself if you're a wizard) use Reduce on you will allow you to fit through the holes that are usually for small creatures and animals.

[@larrymays4244]

Use what?

[@JShepLord]

@@larrymays4244 The full spell's name is Reduce/Enlarge Spell I believe. You can grow Karlach to make her hit harder or shrink yourself to fit into small places. Gale and any other wizard can learn it.

[@ronindesbois9660]

The air is heavy Hands aching, brow is sweaty He's turning into a mindflayer already Sad Githyanki ( how isn't there already a comment like that )

[@alveraan1]

And that's why the sex% speedrun is always with Lea'zel 😂

[@nice2355]

I know it's too late now since you're probably done recording several episodes ahead, but I would love to see your reaction to Volo's surgery attempts. The scene is quite funny. Do it as an "extracurricular " lol

[@karolswieboda1781]

Ackack?

[@nice2355]

@@karolswieboda1781 pfsbfs

[@tarvisantabusta]

Great episode, with nice fights! I just kept hoping that, when you saw that ogre getting aggroed, you had remembered that you also have your own ogres.... Mostly because I have never remembered to summon them in that fight and wanted to see how they smash gobbos around, or I had already killed the ogre trio earlier.

[@Averssem]

I have a growing fear that Mapo will skip the other half of Act One since the story is urging him towards Moonrise towers. I would be sad if he does but it is a blind playthrough so it's not like I have any say in it.

[@BusinessSkrub]

Yeah it would definitely feel bad, but of course I wouldn't blame him either. The game essentially lays out two obvious paths, overland or underdark, and it's hard to expect a new player to believe both are fully available and one doesn't get locked out when you choose the other. Luckily I played 100+ hours in EA so I had plenty of experience with act 1 lol

[@Todesnuss]

I suppose he might miss nere and such but there's every chance he'll just stumble into the underdark from moonrise and get an epiphany.

[@johnnyjkx6977]

Shadowheart's Guiding Bolt is very strong for a level 1 spell, check that damage (I think you missed the amount of damage it can do) and creating an advantage for allies is a plus. I notice that you exhausted all the level 2 and level 3 spells at 02:24:10, but Guiding Bolt is a level 1 spell. Also, I think by you choosing Life Domain for Shadowheart, she should be proficient with heavy armor now.

[@andyh4464]

Shadowheart is lowkey goated in combat if you use her to the max potential.

[@donyates7300]

I hate guiding bolt because I swear is misses 80% of the time….and if the listed hit chance in under 60%, it misses everytime. Literally only that spell, and fire bolt.

[@zarasha8220]

@@donyates7300 the only spell I've been able to consistently hit with SH is Inflict Wounds... and it hits for a really nice chunk of damage. I also respec her to Life Domain as soon as I get the chance & she's my primary healer/support role

[@andyh4464]

@@donyates7300fire bolt makes sense because that’s her racial cantrip but that rolls with int modifiers and she’s a wisdom character.

[@BusinessSkrub]

​@@zarasha8220I respecced her into Nature Domain in my first playthrough, she was easily one of my most broken characters. Two casters with Plague of Insects was cracked in act3 lol

[@kipgrey1267]

Lae'zel got our man proper flustered

[@sciencepluspotato1294]

It's nice to see you take Shadowheart on your party, looking forward to you getting to know her more

[@marcgw496]

I’m laughing imagining Devora Wilde recording those lines and the directors being like “can we run that back?”

[@ragenaros4475]

Oh its not only bones Scratch can fetch, he can fetch everything you throw, even severed heads, His favorite fetching head is from Thiefling :)

[@AyaWetts]

its annoying when you throw explosives on things you are going to blow up and he runs and grabs the explosives lol

[@Angarl]

🎶Cheer up, sleepy Jean Oh what can it mean To a daydream believer And a homecoming queen?🎶

[@AwsomeSauceBigJ]

Lol for such a thoughtful and analytical person you arent very magically inclinded. So many situations im thinking"but why not magic..."

[@andyt1313]

I love Act 1. It masterfully builds the intrigue and mysteries of you and your party’s journey. All through Act 1 I was like WTF is going on.

[@imgettingtoooldforthis]

Now the mysteries start to unfold. What a ride we are on.

[@dsilvermane0]

Noooo the episodes are too short lmao nice one giving the tome to Astarion, to me it always feels like the "right thing" to do.

[@Obileo346]

I'm hoplessly head over heels for Halsin. I swear evey tav i make has to romanc him. It sucks cause the other romances are so good.

[@AyaWetts]

can do Shadowheart and him both... later on she doesn't mind sharing. She says she'd love to climb mount Halsin and I shouldn't pass up the chance lol.

[@imgettingtoooldforthis]

I love how there are so many ways to deal with the goblin camp.

[@AlmostYearly]

And none of them as easy as Mapo's.

[@EricNelson-o4y]

Great job, sir. You have the overworld. About 25% done now, lol 🎉

[@xllGustavollx]

he needs to interact with the tadpoles he has in his pocket, then decide whether to use them or not.

[@omgitsnathan5204]

The best part is he actually doesn’t “need” to do anything at all 🤷‍♂️

[@BySpartan]

1:20:38 Anakin greatly approves!

[@WineAndGames]

Halsin! My favourite bear elf man.

[@Christian44326]

You mean a big creepy guy with corny lines, who keeps talking about his relationship with some random kid in the forest? Yeah, that's not weird at all. 😂😂

[@WineAndGames]

@@Christian44326 Sorry, can't hear you over Halsin's big beefy bear arms.

[@tarvisantabusta]

@@WineAndGames That's right, Halsin has the right to bear arms!

[@zarasha8220]

@@Christian44326 when Halsin was a child, he met Thaniel, and they became good friends... but as Halsin eventually grew into an adult, Thaniel stayed as a child. There's nothing weird about his relationship with Thaniel, because Thaniel is the forest personified. (and everybody loves corny dad jokes :) Halsin's the most wholesome character in the entire game)

[@AyaWetts]

I love him more as bare elf man 🥰

[@zarasha8220]

FYI: to see what your approval actually is, just open the party view (Tab key) and click on Character Sheet at the top of the screen, then click on the 3rd tab on the right above each companion's head (it's the one with 3 horizontal lines) and scroll down to see what the numeric value is... max is 100. The color changing bar you've been looking at doesn't give as clear a picture of where you stand with each of them.

[@j-plarouche9959]

level 5 is such a power spike its crazy

[@christianhall8230]

Thanks for the vid!!

[@chipsalom]

You're "signaling your intent" to give the book to Astarion when you select that dialogue option with that book. Gale dissaproves because he wants it, too. It is arcane magic, after all. Its an intelligence save, as well. You might pass, you might fail, but a char with high intelligence is best suited to pass, ofc. But there is no wrong decision, just choices and consequences, and even failure with most everything you do will potentially have a narrative outcomes that could last throughout the game (The Necromancy of Thay is the related quest you recieved thats now in your quest journal).

[@BusinessSkrub]

Did they change the book to use Intelligence at some point? It definitely 100% used to use Wisdom, I always had Shart do it

[@TheBackyardChemist]

It is not a bad idea to have Speak with Animals active all the time ;)

[@ElenHalls]

I don't think I'd be able to handle her :O

[@bradleypeate3266]

o my that poor nome going to get an experience 😅

[@scrims83]

No Ogre summons for the outside 😢

[@wante2746]

Press the "escape" key to cancel any action

[@karolswieboda1781]

Next time follow through with Volo's procedure, you won't regret it.

[@karolswieboda1781]

I mean next time you play with different character.

[@Todesnuss]

Get Karlach a stash of throwing weapons. She can throw three times a turn and is better at it than crossbows. Throwing is not just a utility, took me a while to figure that out myself. It even gets damage bonuses for high ground.

[@Ghost-Mom]

I have a huge spider phobia--well it's kind of like all bugs in general, so I can relate to your comment about being grateful we don't live in a world without giant spiders, but I have no idea how you manage in Australia. The things I've seen pictures or videos of in Australia gives me nightmares.

[@Safiyahalishah]

As an Australian (east coast), to be honest I see way more snakes than big spiders!

[@dalmaskadeadtrash3592]

The huge spiders with fur look so cute and cuddly in comparison to the european ones though.

[@AyaWetts]

still hasn't figure out at this point how to get better tadpole powers, but love lots of the reasoning on things.

[@LordBovyn]

YEARNING!!? 😂😂😂😂

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

May have missed it in the previous episode but did he get the big gold stash from the room with Ragzlin?

[@Ghost-Mom]

Yes.

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

@@Ghost-Mom ah ok ty :)

[@bradleypeate3266]

sparkle hands sounds like a monk item mmm 🤔

[@CWReace]

Psst! Instead of taking damage jumping off the tower, you could have just fast-traveled to the goblin camp travel point a few meters away. 😉

[@grapeape325]

I am guilty of doing some save scumming during my playthrough of the game. I tried to just go with my die rolls, but there were a few times I just couldn't resist the temptation.

[@jemaselite8076]

I mainly reloaded to see other choices because I was curious lol, especially for a certain romance scene down the line 😂

[@BusinessSkrub]

I had to reload a lot because karmic dice were HELLA busted at launch, I would keep getting streaks of the exact same (failing, of course) number like 7-10 times in a row over multiple reloads and would have to close the game entirely lol.

[@morbid1.]

maybe it's time to learn shortcuts and "ungroup" party when you select random person because they will OBVIOUSLY move to that position

[@Zero-Phoenix]

Praying for karlach x mapo

[@invertedangel]

YEARNING ? :o ODOR ? 🤯

[@tajm737]

2 Mapo uploads of BG3 only one day apart from eachother? A feast

[@EmmaDelamare]

Pherognomes!

[@MediumChungus223]

The tadpoles you've been picking up are consumable items, JSYK

[@NathanFrank-n9d]

"Bethesda kids"🤣

[@darklord747]

I really wish he'd play on tactical. He knows the game really well now. He's exploring every nook and cranny. Obviously play as you like but I wonder if the challenge just wont really exist in this playthrough.

[@my_username_was_already_taken]

"oh.. you wanna ask first???" when Halsin checks you out that line had me laughhinngggg dog btw, if you see objects in the world that only show 'too heavy to throw' you can slightly drag them to move them and see whats under them. it's not super intuitive imo and I'm pretty sure that I missed several items early on since it took me awhile to figure out, lol

[@SaltedFishero]

Maybe it's something with your recording tools? Your specs are better than mine, but I don't have that problem. Thanks for the great episode as always!

[@nickrubin7312]

Killing goblin kids, a rite of passage for "good" playthrough lol. They were just numbers anyway. Fireball and Counterspell picks you've made for Gale are so good. Just my opinion, but would've picked the same for evocation wizard: a classic AoE and great permission spell that utilizes reaction as resource (doing something on enemies turn). Great choices. Gythianki psionics as racial abilities (lvl1, lvl3 and lvl5) are also very interesting. Out of all the spells, counterspell for me, personally, is the best. Counter spell and Misty Step, as 1st and 2nd on my S-tier. The whole reaction system is the result of players nagging about implementing it into the game during the early access.

[@morbid1.]

why you didn't talk to spiders??

[@BurcuCS]

yess they were disengagingggg how could you? :((((

[@karolswieboda1781]

They were going to get the other goblins in the room!!!

[@wakkadakka9192]

14:30 eh poor choice, very poor choice 😅

[@mantasunreal3273]

Tbh honest no one cares about your opinions :D this is blind playtrought let him discover things his way :D i respect this guy not reading your comments so many spoilers :D

[@wakkadakka9192]

@@mantasunreal3273 You don't care so much that you couldn't pass by and wrote a whole comment how much you don't care lol sure sure Also what spoilers? Are you delusional or something?

[@Aquiwer]

Shadowfeet are inevitable

[@jemaselite8076]

I dont know if youve seen it yet since im not sure how far ahead you are but you should have a new tab available somewhere titled illithid powers, its worth a look to see whats avaliable. This playthrough is awesome so far, cant wait to see some of the choices you make later on

[@imgettingtoooldforthis]

I have never seen the graphics have such bad pop in.

[@BusinessSkrub]

My gtx970 takes around 5 minutes to fully render after a load up, and even then it freezes for another couple minutes every time I try to start a conversation, loot something, or click on anything in the world before it's done rendering lmaooooo hasn't stopped me from putting 400 hours in the game though 😎

[@larrymays4244]

You better be on Tactician difficulty by act 2

[@emperorxenu519]

Is keeping the parasite specimens in a pouch keeping it from triggering the parasite menu?

[@andyh4464]

Yeah the game doesn’t really explain that whole situation well at all. The dream visitor is not only talking about using the illithid dialogue options but also the parasite specimens.

[@plants.plants]

No, that menu never appears until you attempt to consume one.

[@BusinessSkrub]

​@@plants.plantsthis

[@nickrubin7312]

1:09:20 that's the game sort of signals to you, without pushing or breaking your RP, that there might be something in the camp because you're "so tired and need rest" ;). That's one of the designed ways to signal to a player about longresting. 1:14:51 Idk, man, I've reported it to Larian way back, because it is random weird Dream Visitor annoying you how it "won't work" and "try again". These lines have been there since the EA, and I don't know what to make of them now, after a year of full release, lmao. Like, ok, "it won't work", sure. 1:40:40 Exactly, people upfront equals free XP. Can't let the just scatter after killing the leadership, plus got to test all the new cool spells and abilities after lvl5 ;) 2:13:39 I like how in true BG3 fashion, only strong girls can jump and explore, literally giving Gale, Astarion and Wyll all 8 STR is a very deliberate design choice. Mapo being a gnome and not so strong, but rather dexterous and wise, only adds to this whole "dynamic" 2:25:11 Dashing together is same as shared initiative, for player shared initiate allows for some tactics, which party member they would like to use first, possibly setting up some interesting situations, for enemies - simultaneous enemy movement to speed up turn-based combat, for instance 8 spiders hatch and instead of each spider moving separately, which would take time, they move at the same time

[@phantomsplit3491]

Your comment about 1:09:20 is wrong. Your comment was suspected to be the case but it was looked into within a month of launch and found that the dialogue about being tired is not attached to camp scenes at all. With regards to your comment about jumping, if giving the men lower strength than the women is an intentional design choice since none of the male companions (so far) use Str as a main stat then you are correct. But if you are trying to say it is an intentional design choice by the developers to make female companions have more Str than the males as a statement about empowering women, then citation is needed.

[@Safiyahalishah]

Hey nothing wrong with 8 STR. You don't need to be strong to be powerful, and the three bros are case in point. And who would begrudge these girls for being beefy, it's hot - I mean, it's cool and good for them. Also I think the 'I need to rest soon' will happen randomly if you're missing anything that can be regained through a rest (in Mapo's case, probably ki points).

[@nickrubin7312]

​@@phantomsplit3491 >. Your comment was suspected to be the case, but it was looked into yet, there was a scene and there scenes, a bet it was looked into by reddit professors, aye? I'm joking btw, don't get all so serious about response, if you have one ofc It was looked by me, for some time, including this month and it kind of does work, professor ;) >But if you are trying to say it is an intentional design choice by the developers to make female companions issa joke, phantomsplit, why so serious? It is a light joke and memed in all parts of community, even bg3twt, reddit or forums meme about it, it is a joke. Good thing you know for which classes STR is good tho and for which not so much, good on you, congrats. We can discuss Halsin's STR with his looks later ;) "citation needed", "empowering women" - yeah...some touching of grass as well, apparently, good luck with that and your next thesis with citations and whatnot

[@nickrubin7312]

​@@phantomsplit3491 >Your comment about 1:09:20 is wrong. Please relay to reddit professors that right now it works just fine, even tho it might have been bugged on release (a year ago, before plenty of bug fixes), I'm sure your esteemed colleagues would like to hear some good news lol >Your comment about 1:09:20 is wrong (and so on) You're too serious for me, it is a light joke common in the community, and you ask for citations and whatnot. I think not only citations, but touch grass from you would be needed, too much clenching buttocks for my liking. I bet you had a very serious face while typing it, like this is a discussion to be had, there gotta be proof to debatelord in here, YT comments are serious business, not be joked about male STR in the videogame. Good thing you know what stats are good for what for classes and all that attribute dependency stuff, good on you, congrats.

[@phantomsplit3491]

@@nickrubin7312 If they made it so that the "I need a rest" banter actually indicated a camp scene then it would be great if they put it in a patch note. But from publicly available info it seems the "I need a rest" banter is meaningless and random, and this aligns with my own experiences playing the game, and they have not put in any patch notes that they fixed this issue. I was going to leave your comment alone with that one. No need to be a know-it-all. But my understanding of your statement on companion Str score was that you were saying "the developers intentionally made female companions in early game have a high Str so that they can break perceived gender barriers." And if that is your point, and it's actually true, then cool. But citation is needed. Because I have paid very close attention to this game since before early access started. I watched every panel from hell from beginning to end, and read every patch note for early access and full release from beginning to end. And I don't recall ever seeing or hearing Larian ever saying anything like that. And while I know I sound like a know-it-all and perhaps I am one, *but the reason why I am calling your comment out is because I think you are putting words in Larian's mouth.* If Larian ever once said that they made the female companions stronger so as to defy gender norms, then just say where this info came from. Until then I am going to go by the far simpler assumption that none of the male companions recruited thus far by Mapo have a mechanical need for Str, and therefore they have 8 Str. Hell, even ripped Halsin has 10 Str by default. Because druids don't need Str. The ability scores are based off the class' intended playstyle and not Larian making a gender equality statement, unless you have evidence pointing otherwise. *And if you don't have evidence pointing otherwise, then you shouldn't go claiming to know what is an "intentional design decision" by Larian.*

[@clairebear1028]

Let Volo take that eye bro. Trust me.

[@Just2Ddude]

Am I alone who thinks that BG3 did a poor job at romancing? Like people go from 0-100 in like a second. Kinda like... Already want to fuck you after few hours of gameplay?

[@Ghost-Mom]

it's been like 50+ hours of gameplay, and probably like a week+ in days spent together. Trauma bonding is real. people fuck people they've just met in real life too you know.

[@nickrubin7312]

>Already want to fuck you after few hours of gameplay? yes and no Better job than Liara jumping on you after 2 lines of dialogue, still not CP2077 level of complexity (specifically romance, not relationship which are very good in this, although CP has very limited options which allows for deeper writing) more of like Witcher3 type I would say, with some more complexity Overall @Ghost-Mom is kind of correct, idk why people miss this point, it has been week-two weeks in game, bunch of drunk extremely hot people with days to live (plus adrenaline after goblin slaughter), with different views on sexual and romantic relationship. It happens. the only who hit 100% is Lae'zel, with other you sort of initiate yourself really, they don't actually start it themselves. And Astarion and Wyll don't really want to in this playthrough in a first place.

[@AyaWetts]

most romances aren't like that... Lae'zel doesn't really romance, she just likes to use someone, and she doesn't really have to like you... Gith are racial supremacists, so she doesn't see you much more than an animal anyways if you aren't Gith.

[@Just2Ddude]

​@@Ghost-Mom fair point. Just remember that in my playthroughs they just gang on me all together and it feels so... Wierd idk.

[@Motor7Mike]

You fucked up Volos Quest

[@AyaWetts]

There is no messing up... you do and play how you want

[@Motor7Mike]

@@AyaWetts The Quest will be incomplete after you free Halsin and you will miss Volo in Act 3 same goes for Mithara in Act 2

[@RevanTheRebel]

@@Motor7Mike You are just flat out wrong.

[@AyaWetts]

@@Motor7Mike You are mistaken... there is no wrong way to play. You can slaughter and perma kill all the companions if you want.

[@mortomes7063]

2:16:28 I do love Shadowheart

[@lovelavender9738]

There’s a trick to flirt with Karlack. You need to use a common item to put out her flames.