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I’m a little aghast A Christmas Story isn’t on here.

#frageelay #ovaltine #red rider #how weird can I make these tags and still stay on topic #I can’t move my arms #shoot your eye out #triple dog dare

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Oh hey I’m on this one. 🥰

Astarion is being the suspiciously chipper lil' helper with that loooooong Thank You list of mine (maybe a bloody sip sip has to do with it...?)

Thank you to my patrons for making this piece possible ^_^

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #aimo is the best #I don’t make the rules it’s just true

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This!! These shitty trinkets don’t even vendor for more than maybe a couple dozen gold!!

Y’all have probably spent more on skimpy outfits for whichever manic pixie girl you’re simping on, just feed the man.

"gale eats all of my magic items i hate him"

give him useless shit. theres so many junky magic items that dont do anything even remotely useful. feed him komira's locket. give him the ring of color spray. i call these "gale snacks"

you're opting to feed the man a gourmet dinner when he's perfectly content with lunchables. thats on you

#bg3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3 #don’t get me wrong #I love all the manic pixie girls too #but my sad wizard just wants a snack okay?

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Legit valuable information.

You can use Shillelagh on a sausage. Thought you all should know.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #faerun #dnd #it’s the best spell #don’t judge me for not tagging it #you try spelling shalalala without looking it up or being Irish

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This, except I’m Wolverine and my husband is romancing Shadowheart.

My boyfriend during all the romantic scenes between my Tav and Gale when we play in multiplayer mode.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #faerun #dnd #Shadowheart #honestly it’s fine #I’m full bi energy and we both get to enjoy the show

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Shoutout to literally all the Baldur's Gate 3 voice actors. Every single one of them. They all gave 110% and it shows. I can't even pick a favourite anymore because every time I do, up comes along a new scene that absolutely blows me away with how good the VA is.

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Okay, so, Act III spoiler ahead:

Orin has finally kidnapped a member of our party and I don’t think it’s gonna go how she hoped. 😂

I’m in a (failed/bugged) romance with Gale as my (Barbarian) Tav, my husband’s (Ranger/Rogue) Tav is in a (successful) romance with Shadowheart, and while I’ve occasionally swapped Gale out for certain story bits (usually Jaheira or Karlach, sometimes Wyll), we usually stay pretty static in our party and have kind of ignored one person in particular.

Guess who Orin snatched:

#baldur's gate 3 #act 3 spoilers #orin #lae'zel #We don’t explicitly hate her #But we’re not exactly in a rush to save her either #sorry not really sorry

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Oh no.

OH NO-

sorry if you followed me for [fandom here] i am about to enter my baldur's gate 3 era

#baldur's gate 3 #dragon age inquisition

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Elminster has done this in every Baldur’s Gate and I’m so glad a new generation gets to appreciate suffer his vexing existence now too.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #elminster #gale of waterdeep #bg3 spoilers #faerun #same goes for Volo #damn charlatans

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I feel like a lot of the snap judgements on characters is a byproduct of the fact that this is probably the most complex RPG ever coded, and potentially the most nuanced that’s ever existed outside of games that are explicitly designed around relationships (romantic or otherwise). The writing is phenomenal and the systems that support them are a coding marvel, even with their faults.

This RPG has Simulation level writing and interactions, and I don’t think people who don’t normally play simulation games are expecting that.

This is one of the things AAA devs are worried about. The quality is incredibly high in arguably /more/ than one genre, and even when you smash head first into an unfortunate bug (hello being locked out of a romance entirely), it’s easier to forgive because it’s clear the level of complexity that’s there. At least, it is for me, but maybe that’s because I have a more than cursory understanding of the industry and what clearly had to be put into this game to make it this great.

I don’t know how anyone can be so staunchly against any of these characters. All of the companions (other than Absolute-only companions) have the potential to learn and grow throughout the course of the game depending on how you interact with them. Astarion continuing to be a manipulative asshole, for example, is a choice you actively encourage or not.

But yeah, if you decide you don’t like a companion and ignore them throughout the game or be a dick to them in the roleplay, no, they’re not gonna be a better person. I largely ignored Lae-zel’s personal quest during my first playthrough and she’s become quite the fanatic that I have little sway over. But I don’t hate Lae’zel and say, “See? See? Green lady bad.” That’s all on me.

I also think many of you are treating this like a bioware game. Approval isn’t so strict. You don’t need to do everything your companion agrees with to get them to like or respect (or romance) you. You can push back on them. You can disagree with them. They might even approve of you stepping in and stopping them from doing something reckless. I’m a little disheartened to see so many jokes about being a good person except when trying to get Astarion’s approval. Like, just be a good person babes, if that’s what you want to do. He’ll come around, I promise.

These characters were written with so much nuance and go on such a huge journey throughout the course of the game. To boil them down to one problematic trait (Lae’zel = mean, Gale = annoying, etc.) without context or empathy is frankly childish.

And if anyone gets in the comments and says “but x did y atrocity”, you can literally genocide an entire camp of goblins and that be considered the morally good option. Shut up, this is dnd, just have some fucking fun. Chat with the mean green lady

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gamedev #rpg #simulation

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Resurfacing this with relevancy to Baldur’s Gate 3.

Invalid D&D Alignments

Lawful Chaotic - loophole abuse. their goal is to carry out as many zany shenanigans as possible in an absolutely nonpunishable manner. Chaotic Lawful - malicious compliance. dredges up obscure laws that haven’t been implemented in decades or centuries and insists on following them. thrives on inscrutable bureaucratic labyrinths. Good Evil - the token evil teammate. a missing stair. an objectively terrible person but charming or useful somehow so people keep making excuses for them. Evil Good - always does the right thing, but, like, in the least comfortable way. call them in for big, big problems, and then spend a year wondering if it was really worth it. their approval fills you with shame.

#baldur's gate 3 #dnd #dungeons and dungeons #bg3 #Astarion is Good Evil #and Lae’zel is Evil Good #but there’s far too many choices for the other two #it’s probably just all of us Tavs

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Honestly, PC romance might be the most D&D accurate thing there is. 😅 Especially so if a couple’s present.

Mind you, I’m just as guilty of it, but if I had a nickel for every PC romance (or PC to NPC romance) that started at my table, whether I was DMing or not, I could retire. Nerds expressing their power fantasies to one another tends to get real horny real quick.

I know nothing about Baldur's Gate but the more I see on tumblr the more convinced I am it is a dating simulator before a dnd simulator

#baldur's gate 3 #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dungeon master #seriously it happens so much #if anything it’s the number one thing BG3 got right

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Honestly, similarly funny as a wild magic barbarian.

“Yeah, magic is neat! It happens sometimes when I’m mad.”

Then you get the ability later to give back spell slots to your casters, and the animation looks like it hurts them - so now my headcanon is I’m just slapping them until they remember their spells.

I love romancing Gale as a sorcerer. The whole time he’s showing me magic I’m just like, “cute, magic man. I’m made of magic. Mystra ain’t shit, she’s not even that hot”

#bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 tav #Bg3 Dayntee #as a wild magic halfling barbarian im just a small magic snack for Gale

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Lord dump lore dump lore dump ☺️

So I'm not done lol I wanna rant about how all the god shit in BG3 is connected! Spoilers under the cut...

To preface: all dates are listed in DR, or Dale Reckoning, which is the most commonly used dating of years in Forgotten Realms lore, established with 1 at the signing of the Dale's Compact, creating peace between the elves of Cormanthyr and the human+ civilizations of the Dalelands (notable to current discussions, as Elminster Aumar is equally well known as the Sage of Shadowdale, one such dale in the Dalelands).

So Shadowheart's arc highlights the tug of war between Shar and Selune, but Shar and Selune are ALSO the progenitors of a lot of the other deities INCLUDING the OG Mystryl, born when Selune tore a part of her essence & threw it at Shar during their initial war post-sun creation, wounding them both & casting Shar into the void for a while. Mystryl was that piece of magic torn from Selune and having grabbed up a piece of Shar's as well when she hit, a blending of light and dark.

Mystryl then much later gave her life to save the world during Karsus's Folly in -339 DR. That's how Karsus fucked up magic so bad and so permanently. He almost DESTROYED the Weave, because Mystryl - and in future, Mystra - IS the Weave! And she died - thus also killing him, as she was inside him at the time - to preserve the Weave when he tried to steal some measure of her power!

*And Gale knew this*, knew much of it anyway. How could he not, with his own research that led him to the Orb? And his relationship with Mystra? And friendship with Elminster?

Anywho, Mystryl took time to reincarnate herself using a young peasant girl as her vessel, she then chose to go by the name Mystra instead of Mystryl. Once in this vessel she regained control of the Weave, bringing magic back to Toril (the planet Faerun, a continent, is on), which had been chaotic & largely depowered. After Karsus, she became much more strict/ Lawful in her decrees around magic, banning mortals from using any magic above 9th level spells (Karsus's Folly involved at least one 10th or 11th level spell iirc).

Later, during the period known as the Time of Troubles, which began when Bane & Myrkul (two of the Dead Three) tried to steal the Tablets of Fate from Ao (the Overgod that most mortals don't even know exists). Ao then locked the deities into the Material Plane, forcing them to walk among their followers on Toril. Mystra at one point defied Ao's order, attempting to return to the heavens, and was killed by Helm, who had been tasked by Ao with protecting the gates and ensuring none of the gods disobeyed him. (Good job, Mystra.)

Also during the Time of Troubles the Dead Three got their name in truth, as Myrkul, Bane, and Bhaal were killed (as were several other gods, some of whom Ao chose to resurrect as they perished while fulfilling the obligations of their portfolios, like Torm). The Time of Troubles is also when Bhaal was seeding his Bhaalspawn - including Sarevok Anchev - in the world (the results of which gave us Baldur's Gates 1 and 2).

Anyway, as previously established, Mystra IS the Weave, so killing her fucked magic up again, unleashing the Spellplague (hello 4e D&D and your reduced pantheon & reduced magic). Ao selected several mortals to either ascend into vacated portfolios or rewarded mortals for killing gods who needed killing; Cyric was a mortal who killed Bane, while helping to retrieve the Tablets of Fate for Ao, for example of one such occurrence, who fwiw was the adventuring companion of two other mortals chosen for godhood, Kelemvor and Midnight. Kelemvor took on a portfolio of the dead, and Midnight was who Ao picked to take on Mystra's role and she chose to take on Mystra's name as well. This happened in 1358 DR, and when the Tablets were returned to Ao, he ground them to powder so they'd never be at risk again. This however fucked up the natural laws of Realmspace, which began to unravel, beginning the Era of Upheaval. The Era of Upheavel lasted from its beginning in 1358 DR (BG1 takes place in 1368 & BG2 takes place shortly after) through the Second Sundering (though most mortals only know of it as the Sundering, since the First Sundering happened even before Karsus's Folly by millenia, in -17,600 DR, in the time of elves) which took from about 1482 through 1487 DR. (The Second Sundering and its associated tie in novel series - very good! - brings us from 4e into 5e D&D, in ttrpg terms.) Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in 1492 DR, starting in the equivalent earth month to August, late August specifically.

Considering that Midnight took on the mantle of Mystra in 1358, I'm pretty sure Gale has only dealt with *her*, while Elminster has served Mystra - including being her lover and raising 3 of her 7 daughters - for 1300 years by BG3, which would include both previous incarnations of Mystryl/Mystra.

So in summary, the gods are all Like That, even the ones who used to be mortals (and I'm pretty sure Gale doesn't know his Mystra used to be a mortal, or that any other gods were either, based on dialogue after you get the Tome of Karsus in Act 3).

All the delicious BG3 god machinations are connected and have been for centuries if not eons. The Dead Three like to cause problems on purpose, Shar and Selune are sisters & also kind of contentiously divorced parents who can't play nice & use the kids to fight. Even the Lathander stuff at the gith creche is kind of connected, since the kick off of the big war between Shar & Selune was the creation of the sun to give their first child, Chauntea, the og earth/nature deity, warmth. Lathander (& Amaunator, rip) is the deity of the dawn/sun, among other things, and Silvanus (hello deity of the Druids in Act 1 & Halsin) is the wild nature counterpart to Chauntea's now largely agricultural portfolio. Chauntea has been known to have romantic connections with Lathander, as well. Zariel too - hello Wyll & Karlach's storylines - is connected, because before her fall into Avernus where she became an Archdevil in service to Asmodeus, she USED to be a solar (most powerful type of angel/celestial) in the service of Lathander.

If you've gotten this far, thank you for listening to my lore dump lol. I hope it enriches your experience of BG3 & the Forgotten Realms!

Post-Script: if you're left wondering how the unraveling of the laws of Realmspace got fixed, the Second Sundering began when Ao decided to recreate the Tablets of Fate to fix what he'd broken vis a vis the chaos of the Realmspace.

Additional fun fact: of the 3 of Mystra's 7 total daughters that Elminster raised, Storm Silverhand - renowned High Harper of the Dalelands - was one, and often also traveled with him as an adventuring companion as an adult through the centuries. Another is Laeral Silverhand, current Open Lord of Waterdeep, that big ol' city Gale is from that's right up the coast from Baldur's Gate.

#baldur's gate 3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate lore #faerun lore #forgotten realms lore #forgotten realms #elminster aumar #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #faerun

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Completely blocked out of Gale’s romance today. Apparently the window to continue is still stupid narrow and easy to miss in Act II. 🥲

I’d have to redo nearly 30 hours of gameplay to correct it, so I’ll just have to save that for another playthrough, I guess.

#baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #Gale why did you do this to me #disaster wizards lead to broken hearts every time

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If anyone’s ever wondered why I use the name Dayntee, well, here she is.

Many moons ago, I rolled a halfling barbarian named Dayntee in a Forgotten Realms campaign with a bunch of my nerd friends. Dayntee was a ghostwise halfling from Chult, a rainforested land far, far south from the Sword Coast where Baldur’s Gate takes place. Appropriately, for those who don’t know, ghostwise halflings have light telepathic powers.

Dayntee had two important quirks. One, she loved wielding the biggest, most absurd weapons she could get her hands on as a show of strength. Two, undead /terrify/ her - and upon seeing them, will rage until either they or she stop moving.

All this has made for a very amusing, very perfect MC in Baldur’s Gate III.

Now, back to adventuring with several boxes and crates in my pockets so I can loot those top shelves.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate tav #faerun #dnd ocs #baldur’s gate oc #Dayntee #bg3 oc #she has a complicated relationship with Withers #it’s a good thing she’s in an MP game with my husband or we’d never get anything done

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Withers is, objectively, the best.

We meet again. As predicted.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 withers