[Clip] Gale's Amazing Ray of Frost (BG3 Cast Play D&D Stream Highlight)

[@stepharoth]

Tim having never played DnD before but intuitively deducing that a glass creature would be vulnerable to cold made me so happy for him! He got into the RP really quickly, bless

[@wooshbait36]

Maybe it's because he lives on earth?

[@ArbiterofMankind]

@@wooshbait36 Alot of people can't pick up on these things as quick. Like me who spent 15 minutes save scumming to pass a strength check for the statue to turn, only then realising that you could use grease to turn it 🙃

[@wooshbait36]

You are talking about a video game, where you can't know if devs implemented that feature and it's not even that obvious, but this is totally different in the video. It's like saying "omg he's so smart, he realized that water puts out fire". @@ArbiterofMankind

[@iwo_witterel]

@@wooshbait36 You must be fun at parties.

[@wooshbait36]

You must be very original@@iwo_witterel

[@silox100]

The timing on that "You're gonna need a bigger boss" "...One." was too perfect

[@waveculture9457]

Not too much damage I'm afraid...😅

[@tenshi.kurama]

add the time stamp 7:29

[@sooneyd4039]

Neil’s reaction made it even better 😂

[@richardwhite3521]

Shadowheart does the best role play because she just has this knee jerk reaction to try to guidance everything.

[@mrjones2721]

She just stands in the middle of everything, magically yelling “DO BETTER!”

[@lizzuuu3831]

Theo's "What have I done...?" 😂 You created an opportunity for everyone, my good sir.

[@xdreNOOOO]

I can hear shadowheart for hours. pretty voice!

[@PK-cg5ej]

she really does have one!!! very soothing

[@vaethe_w]

It's cool to see how into it Jennifer English got. She seemed to be really interested.

[@carlotheemo]

big orb of black karlach looks at wyll im crying lmao

[@Furrnox]

Wyll really just cast darkness and yeeted out of there lol.

[@MsLuckoftheDraw]

Darkness is such a funny spell. It's honestly good, but more than half the time it ends in the party staring in disappointment at a glob of black that is a boss before glaring over at the Warlock.

[@JaxonBurn]

A lot of people, even experienced DMs like Mark, often forget that, because the blindness effect works both ways, attack rolls aren't actually made at disadvantage. You can't see whatever is in the darkness, so you have disadvantage on attack rolls to hit it, but it also can't see you, which would give advantage on attack rolls against it, so it's just a straight roll. I think the fact that people often forget that part is what makes it feel like such an awkward spell to use. (Maybe the enemy in the clip has blindsight or something-- I'm not sure)

[@fuchsmithut4108]

@@JaxonBurn fair enough but I think he kinda hinted that the thing can see through magical darkness somewhere in the beginning after Wyll cast the spell

[@jamescourtney514]

@@JaxonBurn TBF the rules are very counter intuitive a lot of the time. For example, two blind archers would shoot at each other normally according to the rules. Blinded gives you disadvantage on attack rolls and enemies gain advantage on attack rolls against you, so when the aforementioned blind archers shoot at each other, the advantage gained from the enemy being blind is cancelled out by the archers' own blindness. The idea of disadvantage and advantage cancelling each other works when you have situations where they come from different sources; i.e, if you're blind and melee attack a prone enemy, it makes sense that you'd have a greater chance of hitting than if that enemy was standing. I understand why WOTC simplified the whole advantage/disadvantage thing to cancel each other out but it results in a lot of stupid RAW interpretations.

[@thehonestaspy102]

They have such a fun wholesome energy to their group, I really hope we get more BG3 content!

[@JJRodriguez]

So La'zel canonically is a Battlemaster. That's funnily what I put her as.

[@Hemlocker]

It's also what the game selects for you by default, I believe

[@TriNguyen-mu9ok]

Nah; you can choose her subclass when she level up like usual.

[@EviIM0nk3y]

@@TriNguyen-mu9ok nah nah it defaults to BM but you can change it to what you want You high?

[@oOPPHOo]

There's nothing officially canon about this. I think they might have even changed Astarion's background to criminal even though he's a charlatan in the game. Also, in my head canon, she's a psionic warrior. That's not in the game yet and I forget if her intelligence score even supports it, but I'm waiting for Larian to release the subclass as DLC before I make an Origin playthrough as Lae'zel.

[@ProbieKnox]

@@oOPPHOo, default = canon.

[@MDestron2282]

My immediate thought within seconds of this video was "A glass knight? Throw a rock." I think that would've been the campaign.

[@jefferydavis4132]

Like real D&D, it took 6 minutes to do one thing and in the end it did low damage. I love D&D

[@ellijhamitchell3805]

Goes through all of that just for the ray of frost to do 1 dmg peak dnd :') ❤

[@80xlulz]

Later on Lae'zel berates him, but misses her sword strike AND her Action Surge, and Gale goes "Well, well, well...😏" both times.

[@CBGBBB]

My BG3 Gale spells hit half as often as the tea Gale. Maybe all he needed was a blessing

[@Senriam]

Gotta raise that spell save DC

[@Einomar]

​@@SenriamIndeed, Gale is a constant in my party. His damage and the usefulness of the evocation sub class makes him an mvp.

[@noblue4u]

Mark sounds more like Gale than Gale.

[@Einomar]

Naah

[@Vic-Valentine]

they do sound very alike at moments, i thought the same

[@TheBlarggle]

Big magic people!

[@UvaLuva]

Hearing astarion just randomly exlcaim "SANTA CLAUS"

[@lyianx]

I think its now required to sing "Bless" when you cast bless :)

[@mrjones2721]

Everyone (except Wyll) looks so much like their characters that it’s creepy. Doubly creepy because Karlach is almost as far from being a 7’ barbarian as possible, and Lae’zel is not, in fact, a githyanki.

[@imjumokay]

A lot of time, games and animated films will model characters based off of their voice actors. It makes animation easier when the person speaking the lines has the same facial structure as the chararcter.

[@hugzpls]

…Really???? I feel like Theo is the ONLY one out of the group that looks like their character

[@Local_commentor]

Bing bong will be avenged or Zariel take me

[@KenP1973]

Did Larian design the characters after their respective actors? brilliant

[@ghostprojekt]

They didn't but Astarion's VA (Neil Newborn) is a gaming industry (and DnD) veteran and was deeply involved in a lot of things (such as motion capture)

[@Einomar]

There is clear similarities in some of their facial features, so I bet they were used as inspiration for their characters looks. Just look at Tim Downie, smack some stubble in that face and long hair and he looks almost exacly like Gale.

[@0912sooli]

​@@Einomaryou should swe him with bear, he looks good. He also need to grow hair or wear wig cause he will look amazing with it

[@billystanford275]

Haven't they been performing these characters on performance capture for a few years, aswell? Got to be hard to not put alot of yourself into a character over that period of time

[@oeurydice]

They probably had concept art in the works prior to casting, but I imagine that it must help the animators if the in-game models and the actors have a similar facial structure.

[@richardwhite3521]

Epic roll.

[@jiito808]

3:08

[@shootits48]

I thought Bless adds to damage not hit chance

[@Einomar]

Nope

[@GodOnFlow]

Talking dont take turn, she should be able to speak all time if she want(just no incantations etc what goes with effect). Not only few word in her 6sec turn.

[@funvidman]

How much can you say in 6 seconds?

[@TempestLM]

It depends on the table. Round is defined as 6 seconds so not having long monologues is a common sense

[@lovethepandainyou]

Not per 5e rules. The same way "talking don't take turns", basically doing anything doesn't really take a turn. It's just made-up rules to emulate a strategic, turn-by-turn fight.

[@SardineMilk]

fUrSt

[@TheBlarggle]

... is worst! gottem!

[@csguak]

To fornicate with a mind flayer

[@Jk-zv6tz]

8min video for one moment of in the title. Derp

[@xxmusicplease]

Well...context is nice. 🙃

[@xxmusicplease]

This is literally the real pacing of playing an actual DnD session. Which is impressive given how many first time players are at the table. Dm dis great keeping things moving while keeping thr playerers engaged and enabling them to be creative.

[@Little-wig]

I'm very disappointed the y don't know every spell and everything haha

[@Tamaki742]

Most of them are first time players, Neil is the most experienced one.

[@Little-wig]

@Tamaki742 yess but the skills they are using are in baldurs gate 3 I just kinda figured they would know all the skills

[@Tamaki742]

@@Little-wig Well, not all of them played the game by themselves yet. Only Neil, Jennifer, and Devora for now.

[@songbird6414]

Broski I’ve been playing dnd for years and I still don’t know every spell and skill in the game