Baldur's Gate 3 Cast on High Rollers Actual Play | Full Interview

Tabletop News interviews Baldur's Gate 3 Cast about their experience on @HighRollersDnD Actual Play! #BaldursGate3 #TabletopNews #TabletopGames #NoJusticeForBingBong
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Director: Katie Wilson
Lead Writer/Script Supervisor: Garrett Palm
Writers: Kevin Carpenter, Rowan Zeoli
Researchers: Josh Heath, Leah Frampton
DP: Jared Hoy
Editors: Christopher E. Garcia, Lucas Eubank, Andrew Fogel
Social Media: Skyler Seymour
Line Producer: Glenn Akers
Thumbnail: Ness Cardano
Producers: Adam Rady, Michelle Nguyen Bradley, Nathan Ondracek, Katie Wilson
HUGE Thank you to our Special Guests: Amelia Tyler, Devora Wilde, Jennifer English, Neil Newbon, Samantha Béart & Theo Solomon
Tabletop Gaming Topics Discussed in this Video: Baldur's Gate 3, Dungeons & Dragons, High Rollers, Larian Studios
Chapters ►
00:04 Sponsor | Noble Knight Games
00:18 Intro
00:26 Why Devora X.X Bing Bong
01:30 Previous D&D Experience
03:38 Actual Play VS. Voice Over
06:55 Roleplaying Personality/Characteristics
07:26 What character would you choose to play as in BG3?
10:03 "Impressive Impressions"
12:32 What's Your Favorite Voice Line?
13:43 Advice on Tabletop Games
16:01 Outro
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[@SherlockHulmesDM]

Was a delight DMing for this crew on the one-shot. Was a little nerve wracking, but got a lot of great little stories from behind the scenes, and hey I brought Bing Bong into this world. ;) Hopefully I get to DM for them all again someday!

[@watchtabletop]

We were all blown away by your DMing and rooting for another adventure soon!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Would love another go from you guys.

[@patrykjaron353]

Mark, you were amazing! Thanks to you I decided to try tabletop :D Till now I was just playing crpg games but seeing how fun it could be with such amazing DM I decided to try it. Its enormously impressive how well you could change your voice and personalities to match any character you played. Its seriously mind blowing. I hope I'll meet DM's with even half of your skill or even play with you personally one day. England is not too far from me (Im from Poland) so who knows :D

[@MElXUE]

u were amazing!!!!! 🤎

[@ChristianM1978]

I hope Larian brings Bing Bong to life in some sort of DLC / expansion :)

[@KatieWilson]

I had such a blast with this cast! Poor poor Bing Bong! 😂😂😂

[@coldsun1187]

No justice for Bing Bong!😆

[@RaiofLight]

I saw the other day someone had made a mod to the game that allows you to summon Bing Bong, so in a way he does get justice 😆

[@HakaiKaien]

The image of Shadowheart hugging and holding hands with a chunky imp will forever be engraved in my brain. That was probably one of the most endearing moments

[@BrunoCanales]

​@@RaiofLightThat's right, I have that mod installed 😆✋

[@Kimlang30]

It was awesome seeing you interview them Katie

[@twocents7509]

I think laezel would be fun to play in a dnd campaign. An alien that is learning earth customs and norms for the first time, but it’s all skewed because she’s surrounded by lunatics. 😂

[@nunpho]

Jen having the bingbong t-shirt and necklace 😂. This cast is the best. Their one off game with high rollers was so much fun and i say that as a newbie to d&d.

[@brianadecoster1663]

The Bing Bong merch thoooo 😂

[@KatieWilson]

I know! I want some! Hah!

[@Leo619858]

I think Neil hit it right on the head regarding role playing in an actual play versus acting in a script. The biggest difference I noticed was that most of the characters felt closer towards the actor's actual personalities and I think that's because there wasn't a script involved. In the AP, Karlach was a lot less happy and hyper, Gale was a lot more goofy and silly, and Shadowheart was a lot more kind and considerate. Astarion, Lae'Zel and Wyll still felt pretty close to their gaming counterparts, but I have to give major props to Jennifer, Sam, etc for performing characters so well that are off center from who they are.

[@ВладиславБулаев-л3э]

What does AP mean?

[@tekakiuluy3221]

I doubt that Dev is similar to Bae'zel 😂

[@a.m.7438]

​@@ВладиславБулаев-л3эAP means Actual Play

[@isbammoi3358]

​​@@ВладиславБулаев-л3эI think Actual Play aka the live experience, like the video title so it's just shortening that

[@RobotScarlet]

@@tekakiuluy3221 It's not that she is, is that she, along with Neil and Theo during the campaign, played up their characters closer to how they are.

[@wetwillie]

I love this crew so much. They have such great chemistry considering how recently most of them met for the first time. I would absolutely love to see another DnD campaign with them all.

[@Balnazzardi]

Agreed, such lovable bunch of lovable ppl. The only other time Ive seen voice cast this lovable was with Overwatch, which is exactly why its darn shame Overwatch is just a multiplayer game with cool cinematic trailers, but does not (atleast yet) have singleplayer campaign of any kind. I hope that would be about to change now that Microsoft finally managed to finalize their acquirement of Activision-Blizzard.

[@johannord4778]

@@BalnazzardiSure if it is profitable but it would feel tacked on. It is a multiplayer game at it´s core after all

[@Balnazzardi]

@@johannord4778 Im talking about making entirely seperate Overwatch singleplayer game....hopefully now that Blizzard Entertainment is free from Bobby Kotick and former Activison-Blizzard leadership, they can more freely do whatever they want, before it was just about what AB and Bobby Kotick think would be most profitable and any other projects in Blizzard Enterainment would be scrapped

[@chad8767]

@@Balnazzardi Very much a different thing, but Critical Role is another group of voice actors and friends that you can tell really love each other. I would love to see the two groups cross over somehow (Critical Role was actually asked about that recently and they would love to have them on the show).

[@sdoaiza]

​@@BalnazzardiSameee, after I finished their campaign and saw how nice it was to see them all together I got reminded of the Overwatch crew, and then I started to think about the differences between each game 😅

[@murderycatdoll1380]

Bing Bong has to be in a DLC!!! XD And gets a Bonus when Thrown 🤣

[@MandalorianRevan]

But only if he misses.

[@En1gmat1c1]

If they ever did a BG 3 inspired campaign in the same vein of a Critical Role, they would gain a big following and it would be quick

[@sintopiaa6]

I love the VA cast so much, they always brighten my day 😭

[@bloodyfitnerd1947]

Calling them voice actors belittles the work they did for this game.

[@sintopiaa6]

@@bloodyfitnerd1947 idk if you’re trying to attack me by saying this but like i was just keeping my comment short and sweet 💀. i wasnt saying that they weren’t anything more than VAs, if thats what you were trying to get at.

[@20storiesunder]

There is nothing wrong with the term voice actors.@@bloodyfitnerd1947

[@LoveReacts]

Theo and Samantha’s impressions were 10/10 French kiss 🤌🏽

[@LoveReacts]

Ooo and Neil’s was great too!!

[@BooksToAshes]

I’ll never get used to seeing Neil with sleeves

[@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23]

Neil's line: you KNOW he wanted to give the most Astarion of Astarion responses to that 😂

[@beccazach]

I’m so sad Tim wasn’t there! But I absolutely love the whole cast and I HOPE we get the chance to see them all together again in something, perhaps another DnD session or maybe… a whole BG3 tv show? 👀

[@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23]

Same, it was a pity he wasn't there but I'm also happy for any extra content with this group lol

[@johannord4778]

Why Wasn’t he present?

[@beccazach]

@@johannord4778 It was probably just due to a scheduling conflict

[@jonbaxter2254]

A tv show could work, I reckon they could all pull off live-action too.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Think he is in Canada atm, from another interview he did. @@beccazach

[@tylerboyce4081]

The thing I love about this cast is how much chemistry they all share. They are fantastic actors!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

And the odd thing is that they do despite not actually working together during production. Everyone was on their own and they all met for the first time after the game was released.

[@vRED13vTTV]

Lae'zel killed Bing Bong to avoid breaking continuity when they return to the Player of the game, everything goes back to the status quo

[@abovewater6918]

Yes exactly this. Lae'zel needed to do this, not to break the lore or canon of the actual videogame

[@deanospimoniful]

Bing Bong and Shovel would become rivals.

[@johannord4778]

Excuses excuses

[@Dugga49]

Shadowheart with the Bingbond merch was hilarious

[@lunarwench]

Lovely to see everyone! Definitely a shame Tim Downie wasn't there too, hope he's alright and knows he was missed!

[@johannord4778]

Wonder why he wasn’t

[@Tazazak]

@@johannord4778I would guess scheduling conflicts

[@kputadelol]

I love that they are getting so much attention, for their amazing work, which usually you don't see happening in the video gaming world, with voice actors. Love it! Wish them all the best success!

[@johannord4778]

I have seen it plenty

[@OverlordMalarkey]

Sam saying she'd wanna be Raphael so she could get a theme song every battle would be a very Disney villain thing to do edit: im surprised Neil didnt say "Its not enough we have a gallery of villains to look out for but now we could be infiltrated by a shape-changer?!" cos that was my favourite line from him ever

[@100deadinside9]

“I can’t even tell if any of you are acting strange because you’ve been replaced, or because this group is full of weirdos!”

[@Asterionfu]

what it did to you? Devora: yes

[@watchtabletop]

😂😂😂

[@marywaugaman8357]

Wyll dying being brave is the most Wyll thing ever. I love my man. But "false life" exists for wyll ravenguard. ❤

[@jonbaxter2254]

Wyll loves charging headlong into death almost as much as he loves wine.

[@JoeyFlip21]

What a great interview! So cool seeing the voice actors of a current favorite game! Them all hearing Shadowheart's line and Neil performing it was fantastic 😂 and I'm with Jen #JusticeforBingBong !!!

[@coldsun1187]

I stand with Dev. #nojusticeforbingbong 😆

[@noirmeitte]

BingBong is the cutest #JusticeforBingBong

[@billybong50]

This game is so special and it's brought so many people together. It was genuinely heartwarming to see the cast at MCM yesterday. Neil was an absolute trooper and had a massive queue of people all day and still hours later, I checked in and he was still on his feet and as animated as ever. Samantha and Jennifer were literally hugging people. I was gutted that I didn't get to meet any of them face to face but seeing them interact with fans in the room in such a lovely way is something seriously special and these guys are all fantastic.

[@JnEricsonx]

I admit if I meet Devora at a con, I'm gonna bow.

[@JarlAxeGaming]

I just love chemistry between them, they are soooo lovely ! Lae' zel 😍 and her Ghith smile ! ❤

[@JarlAxeGaming]

@gina-hp2jo That's right :)) I saw them on KZbin,playing DnD session together, and that's was epic ! 😀

[@alexandersnider734]

Whats crazy is each of the actors could honestly play their characters live action, with a bit of makeup and a haircut. Its also still so weird to hear Jennifer speak, because her voice is just so much Shadowheart in my head and that character, and I feel like I know her so intimately because of that but then obviously realize its just a weird brain trick/short-circuit happening , its a really kinda unnerving feeling.

[@johannord4778]

The character were modeled after there VA with exceptions for Lae'zel.

[@jonbaxter2254]

I think it could totally work, and for Shadowheart's voice, Jen has a slight catch when she is speaking that I noticed. Really humanises her charatcer.

[@TheQuirkyNerd]

Clearly the writers who scripted the story for each companion story are the heart of Baldurs Gate 3. But these talented actors provided the soul and nuance to connect with the player. This game is/ will continue to be a benchmark for narrative storytelling. The entire cast (voice and motion capture), and BTS directors should be commended.

[@leviscleaningsquad]

If larian develops story dlcs for BG3, they better find a way to add Bing Bong to the adventure! hahah

[@johannord4778]

If they don’t they Will have disadvantage on saving throws

[@LadyAhro]

Someone has made a mod for him

[@shallendor]

They are such a fun group of people!

[@CptPhilippines]

I love Jen's Bing Bong shirt and necklace!

[@nathan1507]

"I'd fucking do it again" -Devorah Wilde

[@qirunwei]

Love the interview! Thank you for showing us this lovely ‘behind the scenes’. Although they are not technically the *voice* cast but just the *cast*, since they did so much more than just voice work for BG3… Samantha and Dave both spoke about this in panels, so it would be nice to see other people starting to refer to them as the cast as well!

[@katiecook4486]

Ahhh!! Love seeing the whole interview. :D even without seeing the HighRollers game. #whoisbingbong LOLOL. The BG3 actors are hilarious and have such good chemistry together for a group who voiced a game separately.

[@Lemon_218]

Wonderful interview!! So much fun and laughter! And loved the game!!

[@Astronomica574]

I just love them all so much and wish them the best

[@jonbaxter2254]

These recent weeks remind me of when RDR2 came out, and all the cast did all these junkets and interviews together. Helped so much making the game feel more real.

[@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23]

Amelia after Jennifer's impression: now you know how you leave us mortals 😂

[@JesseDylanMusic]

Amelia!! You’re not getting old! 😭 I love that woman dearly

[@nathent.s8569]

My headcanon is that Bing bong reunites with the party in one of Karlach's endings (If you know, you know) and is brought back to Faerun where Shadowheart takes care of him like an adopted child

[@Cinetyk]

It's completely delightful to watch the whole cast like this. This game singlehandedly recaptured my love and passion in videogames - in a way I could not have dreamed before. I needed all your actors and actresses' performances... You made my dream reality more real than my dreams ever were.... Oh boy I love your performances so much it's like dreams never were possible but for youu................

[@isaacj9831]

I really like that interview Katie did a fantastic job!!

[@MUNMOMUU]

Here's to hoping we get another one with these people, I loved it so much!! Especially now that they got much more comfortable with it :)

[@darkshamrock5763]

I don’t think I’ve even enjoyed a cast of VA’s this much in all my life. Everyone one of them were amazing in the work they did.

[@sokerinen]

The idea of Devora getting trolled by Bing Bong is so damn funny - and omg YES SAM! Raphael woulda been my choice too and exactly for the same reasons

[@gnomestomper69]

The cast was amazing and the characters were so well crafted. BG3 has become one of my favorite rpgs.

[@1101-f6z]

where's Gale? :[

[@aurorafina]

Team sport indeed, and may your dice be kind along the way.

[@TheNyghthowler]

Amazing interview Katie!!! So hilariously fun! Loved the voice line game. It was too funny how many of them just said "I can't do that impression" haha. So informative too. Definitely a must see 🙌🙌💖

[@jonathanhibberd9983]

Theo absolutely nailed that Karlach impression.

[@carterbeaucage8414]

idk if anyone knows this but in the epilogue with romancing shadowheart she will talk about meeting bing bong

[@Arikel1349]

Like i commented below the actual Game on the High Roller Channel: PLEASE ... a full Campaign with you all! I don't exaggerate... watching you playing was the most adorable and fun game of D&D i ever watched. You demonstrated something really important. You all have a connection to your character. You all know your character and because you are new to the System, the Character was the top Priority. And this is what many players are lacking. Way to often i see characters just lifeless shells builded up to take advantage of the System in an optimized way. But you don't know how to optimize, the system was absolutely secondary and it forced you to compensate by doing what you actually have a grasp on: Filling the character with life. Of course, there are many good players being capable of doing this as well. But seeing you, so fresh and clueless towards this system managing to pull of such a dynamic and joyfull performance was heaven. And my greatest Wish would be: Hell... a full (smaller) Campaign with you all, from lvl 12 up to lvl 20, as a follow up to the Game storywise (since lvl 12 was max in the game).

[@tchulinomu]

the best game and one of the best actors Long live to BG3

[@potfrr]

RIP Bing Bong... The hero we didn't deserve.

[@meander112]

High for the high god! Rollers for the roller throne!

[@Tranitosaur]

16:06 YEESSS!!! WE NEEEED MOOOOAARRREERERRER XD Please and thank you 🥺

[@deanospimoniful]

Justice for Bing Bong!

[@alldemcats]

This was a great interview.

[@RaiofLight]

I'd watch a full campaign with them and Mark, the oneshot was too short❣️👀👀

[@CafeenMan]

I didn't play this game until the full release. I think August? When I bought it I watched a few videos to learn how the mechanics worked but as little as possible to avoid all spoilers. I wanted to enjoy the game without knowning much about it. But I did know some stuff about Act 1 because it was kind of unavoidable in the things I watched even though the people making the vids tried to avoid spoilers as well. So long before anyone was raving about any of the voice actors (that I saw), Neil just stood out to me as a phenomenal voice actor. When I first encountered him I thought I was really going to not like him (Astarion, not Neil). He seemed arrogant and a bit of a douche. But he quickly grew on me and his work when we beat Calzador (the epilogue) was just great. The man stole every scene. He's just so good. Also love Shadowheart. I mean who doesn't love Shadowheart? I need to spend more time playing with Karlach in my party because I love her attitude and have mostly not played with her in any of my playthru's other than to advance her quest line minimally.

[@nathan1507]

I literally just died is Sam's arms tonight

[@vampyricon7026]

Neil says he can't do it but he nailed Shadowheart's mannerisms I think

[@arbsan8366]

I love this cast so much!!😊

[@Nebularzzz]

Great interview, thank you!

[@emmah8242]

I really hope they do another dnd campaign!!

[@gisellegant]

Such a great interview.

[@louhodo5761]

Bing-bong as a DLC companion?

[@Enkarashaddam]

I loved every microsecond

[@Ramza1987]

I agree that adopting an NPC is such a D&D thing to do. XD

[@AsianGaiden]

Well with the recent update, Devora's comment about Bing Bong not being an official part of the story hasn't aged well at all. I'm sure we're all the more happy about it.

[@CafeenMan]

The fleshy nose line really caughe me off guard in the game. I was not expecting anyone to have a strong opinion about someone's nose. That was funny.

[@musicxxa6678]

Devora is criminally beautiful.

[@daludna]

''raphael'' YES

[@spooky_zen]

love bae'zel

[@RabidSquirrelX]

Bing bong first dlc

[@pandoraeeris7860]

Amelia and Jennifer are bae ❤

[@binary1123]

16:10 I thought Neil started flipping everyone off 😭😭

[@VandalXXI]

I would've loved if the lines were instead said as their own characters, but I still thought it was great

[@ataucei]

Ripo Bing Bong

[@Xdgvy]

"Yes and..." If you want to play dnd, whether as a player or dm, those two words are what will make or break your game.

[@aroddo2953]

By the way, is this all part of Larian's post launch marketing campaign? Or do all these numerous interviews and invites of the VA cast happen naturally?

[@johannord4778]

Both it started as a post launch marketing campaign that grew beyond that

[@aroddo2953]

@@johannord4778 Thanks. Now I wonder if the cast gets paid for their ambassadorial work. Not that I begrudge Larian or the VAs their popularity. The bloody well earned it!

[@connerdennis-fr4xb]

hey guys, it would be awesome if the main cast could do an episode of hot ones together, lazel may die though haha

[@CafeenMan]

I disagree. It should have tense moments for the player. But I think there's a happy medium between taking 20 minutes to analyze all the numbers to decide the best move vs. just randomly picking something. I think the game should have a good pace to it so you think about the numbers a little bit but not so much that you're taking a ton of time with it. For me it's about what I'm trying to accomplish. For example, I could maybe use some ability that causes the most damage in every case but mostly I just don't want to get hit so I'm gonna find a way to stop that without thinking about it too much. Throw down some spikes or something and if you have an action left then take a shot or do a defensive thing and end turn. Or I could analyze every bad guy on the screen, look at all my possible actions. Run all the numbers, try to think eight turns into the future and 20-30 minutes later decide to do a thing. That's not fun for me. What's fun for me is just beating the crap out of the enemy, taking hits myself and surviving them and then walking away with my entire party alive and all the loot from the baddies.

[@Einomar]

Well to each their own

[@henryweiland7761]

#BingBongWasAskingForIt

[@obavolka]

Where is Gale???

[@oldschooldos6850]

Also demons return to the hells when they die don't they so not actually dead?

[@ASMRipz]

*devils - very important distinction in d&d

[@schnitzelnugget9550]

😭 no justice for bing bong

[@tavsgate]

Sam, Amelia please marry me, I LOVE YOU

[@nrieh4553]

No Tim?.. /mesadpanda 🐼

[@Rikard_A]

Marknadsförigring av BG3. Why do I get this kind of video. I have not searched for it, not even close.

[@dark_neverland]

*is confused about Bing Bong in poor*

[@Greendalian]

The high rollers episodes are free on yt

[@kmmgd3869]

Ì

[@magister343]

I feel like Lae'zel and Minthara would probably have been even better if their voices were swapped.

[@BlueRonin44]

I want to marry Amelia and have her babies. 😍

[@LLlap]

Is she farting at 0:39?

[@AB-ez4rm]

There's a Bing Bong mod.