#yes larian

[galedekarios]

larian: “we’re releasing patch 5 this week!! don’t worry, we fixed the most pressing issue: ast*rion’s kiss! 🤭” my brother in christ you have a whole roster of character’s that need tending to. honestly this is just comical at this point.

so i just came home from work and hoped this message was a pointed joke, but no

it wasn't 🙃

#the absolute tone deafness #yes larian #the most pressing issue is of course finetuning the overflowing content of your writer's pet #of course #not the novel-length list of far more pressing issues including the absolute lackluster act iii and the glaring scene disparity of #other characters (basically everyone that isn't ast*rion) #ngl i'm just so done at this point #sorry for liking the wrong character #next time they should clarify who their fave is in advance instead of pretending to have an equal roster of companions #so i can adjust my expectations accordingly #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #text: asks #larian critical #bg3 critical

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

#also #and I can't believe I'm saying this #it feels like character assassination against enver 'can't be in a room with you without 5 robocops for protection' gortash. like come on. #stop trying to make him sexy he'll never be sexy #he's a slaver. #i feel like larian have backed themselves into a corner where they have to pander to this side of the fanbase #because they've encouraged it so strongly that now it feels like a majority share of their audience are here for the sex #bg3 #larian critical #bg3 fandom critical #to be clear. Yes i am being a hater #baldur's gate 3

[syngularitysyn]

#baldur's gate 3 #cyberpunk 2077 #baldur's gate iii #cyberpunk #cd projekt red #cp2077 #larian studios #baldur's gate #bg3 #shitpost #Yes I'm finally playing bg3 after getting lost in Cyberpunk again for MONTHS #gaming #games #meme

[dailyastarionpics]

A huge night full of well deserved awards and recognition for Larian Studios! Congratulations and thank you for creating such an incredible game!

#i love seeing larian have their cd projekt red moment :D #everyone worked so hard to bring BG3 to life #i'm so glad they all got the recognition they work so hard for #and yes i said WORK not worked!! they dropped a hotfix MID AWARD SHOW lol #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #the game awards #goty #goty 2023 #larian studios

[bg3-npc]

Is Theo Soloman (Wyll's voice actor) the ONLY employee through Larian that actually likes Wyll????? Like, I loved the writing for Wyll and felt bad that his writer didn't get to create more and develop him further.

That response to the article though?? It's one thing to not take your characters seriously all the time when you've made it clear you care about them. It's another when a majority of fans are extremely hostile to them and your response is to laugh at a joke made at their expense. You're telling those fans, "Hey keep antagonizing them, it's not only deserved but funny."

If he came to Wyll's defense no one would take note, but joining in on the mocking of him only makes the aggressive (and extremely racist) fans feel vindicated in their treatment of Wyll. You're adding fuel to the fire.

Theo is the only one who (when even invited to speak) talks about Wyll with care and sincerity. He's the only one that when he does poke fun at Wyll, obviously comes at it from a place of love and understanding for the character. Never from a place of indifference or carelessness.

Theo Soloman thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for Wyll. I'm so sorry the people who made your job exist only ever invalidate and demean your work.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll #larian critical #baldur's gate 3 critical #bg3 fandom critical #astarion #astarion ancunin #yes I'm tagging vampy #I want everyone to see the shit #wyll fans have to deal with #mine

[hyakunana]

A Wizard and a Rogue walk into the Archive

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #larian studios #gale dekarios #astarion #house of hope #comics #fanart #enjoy this sort of comic production while i can now that the projects im working on are all paused together #no lil video to prove this occurence bc it was such a casual method at this point dfghjk #but it was funny to have separated these two in library and wyll and shadow rescuing hope #hope: wHERE'S THE HAMMER U DOOFUS / wyll: hold on my magic pockets are working on it #yes i've become what i feared: i've become an astarion main #it's against my nature to leave him at the camp in my durge run since she's the dex one already #Is pillaging the house of a devil a crime? experts weight in

[spellbooking]

THE WALKING APOCOLYPSE

picture credit: @galedekarios

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3edit #bg3 #gale dekarios #YES I USED A MODDED VERSION OF GALE BC I FORGOT I INSTALLED #AND IT WAS TOO LATE #no bc this took a long ass week to make #ch: gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldurs gate 3 gif #baldurs gate gif #the eras tour #larian studios #gifset #baldurs gate #ch: gale of waterdeep #dailygaming #videogameedit #galedekarios

[niccoguedes]

BABY SAID...

ty!

Hello, thank you for the support on my BG3 fanart. 🔥❤️

Some of you asked for individual full shots of them, so I decided to make it. There's an interesting suggestion with Shadowheart and Karlarch I might do as well...

"Can I use it as wallpaper/screen cover?"

Sure. Just don't remove my signature or modify the drawing.🤘

"Can I print it on my own?"

If possible, please consider supporting me via INPRNT. If you can't, ofc, I won't hold you, go on, print it and later drop me a coffee at ko-fi, darling! You can also share some cents via paypal. Send pics as well of your achievement. For personal use only. 🔥

"Can I print it to sell, use commercially?"

No. Unless you pay me 100kUSD.

🇧🇷"Tem print?" Para sua felicidade, sim. Só me enviar comprovante de 50$ no pix: 51648094000140 e endereço de preferência para o e-mail: niccoguedes @ gmail.com . Envio no tamanho A4 com rastreio.

#bg3 fanart #while shooting this: #halsin took off his coat after 1h #Karlach didn’t stop quiet. the photographer had to use high speed cam #Gale talked with Wyll every break #Astarion was too concerned if the camera captured him #turns out yes #and he couldn’t stop bragging about modernism #Shadowheart listened to Maneskin and is a Victoria fan now #Lae’zel wasn’t in the mood. She accepted anyway. #Small astarion agenda #Astarion being small even in heels #Pathetic little man #I love you #hazeilus #fanart #brazilian artist #bg3 astarion #tadpole gang #larian studios #baldurs gate art #i love larian #baldurs gate 3 #astarion fanart #shadowheart fanart #laezel fanart #gale dekarios fanart #wyll fanart #karlach fanart #halsin fanart

[y-rhywbeth2]

"Bhaalspawn" is a template that can be added to any dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, monstrous humanoid, outsider, or shapechanger (referred to hereafter as the "base creature"). The creature's type changes to "outsider." It uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities...

Looking at that article again (I enjoy it, leave me alone).

For context, if you're confused by "template," in 3.5e when a character was unusual in some way the template was a bunch of extra rules you put on top of the "base creature" (so if a human is a Chosen, or had unusual parentage such as being Half-dragon, or in this case having Bhaal for a father, you start with a human character and then put the template's mechanics and rules on top of the "base" human ones)

But moving onto what caught my eye; the mortal parents of Bhaalspawn belonged to categories including: "dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, monstrous humanoid, outsider, or shapechanger."

Bhaal what (who?) the hell were you doing. I mean I already had an idea, but what, are there dryad Bhaalspawn? Pixies? Lemures??

Also; "The creatures type changes to "outsider.""

Uuuuh... Turns out - in tabletop rules at least - Bhaalspawn are not even human[oid]!

Outsiders are things like elementals, devils, demons, celestials, modrons...

Honestly that would make a lot of sense regarding dying in BG1+2 where you just get insta game over when you die, your body dissolves into ashes and your soul fucks off to the Throne of Blood.

"Unlike most other living creatures, an outsider does not have a dual nature; its soul and body form one unit. When an outsider is slain, no soul is set loose. Spells that restore souls to their bodies, such as raise dead, reincarnate, and resurrection, don’t work on an outsider. It takes a different magical effect, such as limited wish, wish, miracle, or true resurrection to restore it to life. An outsider with the native subtype can be raised, reincarnated, or resurrected just as other living creatures can be."

When a creature of the outsider type dies outside of their native plane, their body disintegrates (or something like that) and reforms on their home plane. If Bhaalspawn are outsiders considered native to their father's domain in the Lower Planes, they'll return there on death and reform (and would only be permanently destroyed if they died within the plane itself).

They didn't explain this in game, but since the article is written by the original game writers, I assume this is how it worked in-game. I thought it was being innately tied to Bhaal, but no, it's the plane itself.

This is more relevant to Charname, Imoen, Sarevok and the original games because Larian paid absolutely no attention to that part of those games but HUH.

#In fairness I can also point at places where Bioware wasn't totally faithful to this idea #Yes yes Larian did some fascinating and annoying things with established lore like ignoring it #The lore still exists #durge #the dark urge #lore stuff #bhaalspawn

[kiiraarts]

Could not stop thinking about a post by @thermo-catz and I had to draw it! Such a good idea <3

Here is Rolan in all his wizard glory as Howl. Pretty man deserves pretty clothes

#bg3 #bg3 art #bg3 fanart #bg3 tiefling #bg3 rolan #rolan bg3 #digital art #artists on tumblr #small artist #art #dnd art #howls moving castle #studio ghibli #larian studios #is this his halloween costume?? yes yes it is

[baldysgate]

Larian fixed the after drow dialogue with Halsin and I---

A developer that listens to concerns, makes active changes in their game to make us feel comfortable... i am absolutely speechless. The speed in which they turned out the dialogue, considering it needs to be written, voiceovered and lip-synced in the game on top of the 1k+ fixes they are also handling. Absolutely in awe here. This game truly deserves GOTY a million times over.

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #halsin #yes this is about halsin again #but also about larian and how absolutely wonderful they are #they deserve every piece of praise #games are going to look at BG3 for years to come to aspire to be anything close

[stormcallart]

thought i was gonna be an astarion girlie all the way but then here comes this giant boulder of an elf with a heart of gold and arms like tree trunks.

#jk im an astarion girlie too #they're the two types i love #feral black cat with traumatic past #golden retriever man who can do no wrong who is also a bit traumatized but hides it #and you can have them BOTH #*blows a kiss to larian* #yes this is about baldurs gate #bg3 spoilers #halsin #astarion #bg3 #baldurs gate

[norupo]

Minthara in the Underdark

#larian won't let minthara in the underdark so I'll do it myself #sadly yes this is a modded tav #minthara #minthara baenre #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate #my edit

[aristenfromwarsaw]

The most beautiful elf from Forgotten Realms...

#yes I love this outfit for him #astarion #astarion bg3 #bg3 astarion #baldurs gate astarion #handsome #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate #astarion ancunin #virtual photography #neil newbon #larian studios #rpg #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate screenshots #vampire #astarion vampire #bg3 screenshots #aristenfromwarsawastarion #gorgeous #aristenfromwarsawastarionblackandwhite #bw

[lucrezianoin]

Some Ascended astarion fans are truly unhinged

#how to forget the blackmail to larian #and now someone telling me I'm sending myself hate lol #yes classic normal behaviour

[galedekarios]

there are gifsets floating around here with ast*ri*n being uncomfortable with the potential foursome involving the drow twins and the dialogue option chosen -- rightfully so! -- points out that it's not right to ask this of him: someone who has experienced abuse in the past, especially after this foursome is very much a spur of the moment thing, jumped on the love interest suddenly and without proper discussion beforehand, of the expectations and consequences this would have for the relationship in the long run...

only for a handful of people to then turn around on all of that and call it "pearl-clutching" and "totally not" coercion when the decision comes up for gale. even though he expresses being uncomfortable with it as well. even though he, too, has experienced abuse (grooming, in his case, and a relationship that also held an incredible power imbalance). even though you have to make a hefty 25 persuasion check to yes, coerce him into a situation he didn't want. gale isn't even comfortable with someone he does know when the protag does take the time to talk about things properly before they are done (halsin).

i am not even going to get into the cuck jokes. this is a man who removed himself from the situation in a way he still could while also still trying to please a partner who coerced him into this in the first place.

at this point i just wonder why gale's trauma is being turned into a joke. and by 'wonder' i do mean i know exactly why, but it's Truly A Choice.

(i should clarify that this is a personal interpretation and one that i'm not comfortable arguing over.)

#this entire thing should've been handled differently by larian in the first place imo #and yes #men can be coerced into things they are uncomfortable with too #ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #meta: mybg3 #bg3 spoilers #grooming cw #coercion cw #discourse for ts