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Mr. Poopybutthole
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Might have been more rewarding to straight give his ass to the vampire hunter?
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Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games
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Might have been more rewarding to straight give his ass to the vampire hunter?
Brikker
Trump's Staff
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I finally managed to sit down at the PC and play. 2 hours felt like 20 mins, game seems pretty great. I have zero DND experience outside of BG1 and 2 as a kid, also. It will probably be a long ass time before I finish though. I'm still playing through D:OS2...
As a total newb, I started as a half orc barb and was going to try some things I've seen posted here for the rest of the party:
Gale as a Divination Wizard, Shadowheart as some sort of cleric (tempest?), and maybe Astarion respecced to Gloomstalker ranger and multiclass into assassin.
I don't know enough about this shit to really plan anything though.
As a total newb, I started as a half orc barb and was going to try some things I've seen posted here for the rest of the party:
Gale as a Divination Wizard, Shadowheart as some sort of cleric (tempest?), and maybe Astarion respecced to Gloomstalker ranger and multiclass into assassin.
I don't know enough about this shit to really plan anything though.
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Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Basically it's 2 levels of warlock, 8-10 levels of draconic (blue/bronze) sorc, and 0-2 levels of wizard. I don't think I'd ever go 2 wiz, but 1 is tempting for the utility. You absolutely must do the quest to rescue the woman at Waukeen's Rest and choose the quarterstaff reward from it. Also, you need to be helping the tieflings throughout the first two acts or else you'll miss out on the second most important piece of gear for the build.
Edit: I tend to agree with the comments in that reddit post about evocation too. I don't think anything compares to the Storm Sorc / Tempest Cleric build for raw damage. Its AOE spells are as strong as anything else doing single target damage. About the only exception there is an owlbear orbital strike in certain situations where that is viable.
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Grabbit Allworth
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Now that I've started Act III and seen a good chunk of the loot, I've noticed more than a few strange things with itemization. Several of the items that I picked up very early are objectively better than stuff that I found much later, but the new stuff is obviously supposed to be an upgrade.
A prime example is the green (uncommon) Melf's First Staff. It gives +1 to spell attack rolls and +1 to spell DC. For casters, items that provide +1 to either are much more rare than the melee equivalent and finding an item that provides +1 to both is S tier. Any experienced 5e player knows how incredibly valuable that is. I've found several pink (very rare) staffs and none of them are as good Melf's.
That's just one example of several and I think players with little or no experience with 5e may be making their characters less powerful by equipping items they, reasonably, assume to be an upgrade, but aren't.
A prime example is the green (uncommon) Melf's First Staff. It gives +1 to spell attack rolls and +1 to spell DC. For casters, items that provide +1 to either are much more rare than the melee equivalent and finding an item that provides +1 to both is S tier. Any experienced 5e player knows how incredibly valuable that is. I've found several pink (very rare) staffs and none of them are as good Melf's.
That's just one example of several and I think players with little or no experience with 5e may be making their characters less powerful by equipping items they, reasonably, assume to be an upgrade, but aren't.
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Nirgon
Log Wizard
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yes since I cant refund ive begun doing this and spinning the yarn of "its so great the game lets you do this"
Needless
Toe Sucker
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i'll have to look more into these two quests, thanks!
edit: okay i havent visited waukeen's rest yet but ive done the gnolls and shit around that area, and im still in the process of killing the goblin leaders since i was just exploring all over the place first lol
Valderen
Space Pirate
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In my current playthrough, I am not reloading unless my party dies. So I live with the consequences of all my decisions and bad rolls, no matter how bad it is or unexpected.
In Act 2, I fucked up....really badly, but I'll live with it.
In Act 2, I fucked up....really badly, but I'll live with it.
So basically at some point you need to prevent Isobel from being kidnapped as she is casting the aura over the Inn that keeps everyone from being infected by the shadows.
You do this by keeping her alive during the fight, if she falls to zero hp, she is then kidnapped and the shield protecting the inn and everyone became infected and attacked me...I had to kill everyone.
Some of the impact of this, the tiefling armorer that is wroking in Karlach infernal engine is dead and I cannot continue that quest.
Back in my camp after talking to Halsin, he leaves to talk to someone at the Inn, when I get there he's infected and attacks me so I killed him. This cause I cannot complete the quest to clear the shadow from that area because Halsin is needed for that.
Also a bunch of minor quests(I hope) cannot be completed.
Anyways, this was definitely not the outcome I wanted.
You do this by keeping her alive during the fight, if she falls to zero hp, she is then kidnapped and the shield protecting the inn and everyone became infected and attacked me...I had to kill everyone.
Some of the impact of this, the tiefling armorer that is wroking in Karlach infernal engine is dead and I cannot continue that quest.
Back in my camp after talking to Halsin, he leaves to talk to someone at the Inn, when I get there he's infected and attacks me so I killed him. This cause I cannot complete the quest to clear the shadow from that area because Halsin is needed for that.
Also a bunch of minor quests(I hope) cannot be completed.
Anyways, this was definitely not the outcome I wanted.
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Penance
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Holy fuck i tell people I did it because i wanted to bang the drow bitch but thinking back to it originally i took the fight and lost against the hobgob so just went with the alternate route.
Whats funny is i think i killed the gob priest
Mist
REEEEeyore
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To expand on this a tiny bit: If I wanted to play D&D with a party full of annoying drama bombs, I would have maintained friendships with the people I knew in college.
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Gutterflesh
Parody Account
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I found that stoners and metal heads are the best to play D&D with. Steer clear of the theater fags and wannabe screen writers.
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Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
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Harshaw
Throbbing Member
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My main group, that I played 90% of my gaming time with, was the stoner/metalhead group. Other than me banging one of their ex's, we had almost zero drama amongst us. The theater/drama peeps were a whole other story. It seemed like every month there was some weird drama shit going on amongst them. I stopped hanging out with most of them after they got busted having an orgy at a larp event.
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Mist
REEEEeyore
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Yes. BG's companions are basically an entire party of theater fags, except for Karlach I guess.
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Goonsquad Officer
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Valderen
Space Pirate
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In my current playthrough, I am not reloading unless my party dies. So I live with the consequences of all my decisions and bad rolls, no matter how bad it is or unexpected.
In Act 2, I fucked up....really badly, but I'll live with it.
So basically at some point you need to prevent Isobel from being kidnapped as she is casting the aura over the Inn that keeps everyone from being infected by the shadows.
You do this by keeping her alive during the fight, if she falls to zero hp, she is then kidnapped and the shield protecting the inn and everyone became infected and attacked me...I had to kill everyone.
Some of the impact of this, the tiefling armorer that is wroking in Karlach infernal engine is dead and I cannot continue that quest.
Back in my camp after talking to Halsin, he leaves to talk to someone at the Inn, when I get there he's infected and attacks me so I killed him. This cause I cannot complete the quest to clear the shadow from that area because Halsin is needed for that.
Also a bunch of minor quests(I hope) cannot be completed.
Anyways, this was definitely not the outcome I wanted.
Well I'm going to quote myself here, Hotfix #4 makes it easier to not fuck up like I did.
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Well I'm going to quote myself here, Hotfix #4 makes it easier to not fuck up like I did.
Same shit happens when you let shadowheart kill that one angel bitch.
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