What difficulty are y’all playing on? I’m on standard and consider it quite tough. A friend just told me he’s playing on hard.
Standard and also finding many fights to be pretty difficult. Fighting against the goblins was just splash/environment damage spam which got a bit tedious. I appreciate that you can use the environment and height but it’s not as much fun for melees.
I’ve been playing multi-player with my wife, who rolled up a halfling wizard nudist. It’s amazing how differently a lot of the dialogue reads when it’s being said to a completely naked woman.
“We’re going to be up to our tits in goblins!”
Cut to a pair of naked tits.
You have a goddess fighting in your party? 
I kid, I kid - I know what you meant!
I’ve been adventuring with Shadowheart and Gale for the most part, with Astarion tagging along so far although he’s gonna be my “wildcard” slot that’s traded out for whoever’s quest I am doing. For example, when I look for the Githyanki Creche I will trade him out for Lae’Zel, or when I take Wyll to find Karlach .
I’m hoping I will get to experience the story of all the companions to at least some extent. I’m reminded of Neverwinter Nights 2, where IIRC I did end up doing side quests for most of the 12 companions you meet? Some of them were relatively less fleshed out, though.
** sigh **
Starting over and re-rolling for naked 
lol whoops. Though it WOULD make these fights easier 
My current party loadout is myself (Thief Rogue), Shadowheart, Wyll and Gale. Shadowheart is using the previously mentioned True Strike spear and Wyll is equipped with a glaive that can pull enemies closer (Pact of Blade, naturally). Kaz annoyed me so she can live in camp and I missed picking up Asterian and have no intent to go back and look because another rogue would be redundant and I’ll save him for another playthrough.
My current quest objective leads to another potential companion but she’ll also be redundant after I multiclass next level. Next game, I better play a caster because I’ll have a bunch of unused melees making up my core.
Do you suppose the temple gives you names or was Shadowheart’s mom all “She… looks like a Shadowheart”?
I installed my first mod: One that eliminates the persistent blood on your character after combat. Other games usually have it fade after a minute but, in BG3, you wear it until you short/long rest. I got tired of having deep Companion conversations with me looking like I just ran a fruit smoothie blender with the top off.
Maybe it’s a family name. Like, her grandma had that name or something.
I assumed it wasn’t a real name. A recent development influenced this thought further - spoilers and speculation:
when Shadowheart told me that she was a cleric of Shar, she also told me that she’s on a secret mission, and that until its completion her memory was supressed. My guess is that Shadowheart is not her real name, and that the real identity she cannot remember is not a servant of Shar at all.
Rather than fading with time visible blood is based on your HP. If you cast a Cure spell during combat and go back to full health the blood will be gone. If you hang out at half HP for the rest of the day you’ll stay bloody. Since resource management often means it is wiser not to heal completely I can see the appeal of that kind of mod.
Me too. It is tons of fun. I never played BG 1 or 2, but I played the heck out of NWN 1 and 2.
Nevermind, apparently I’m too dumb to format spoilers.
If you have issues, make sure you put [Spoiler ] and [/spoiler ] on their own lines,and if your spoilered text has any line breaks you’ll need to end and restart the spoiler tag.
Line breaks should be fine. Using the backslash (\) escape character to disable these spoiler tags:
[spoiler]
As long as both the open and close spoiler tags are each on their own line, it should work fine.
Adding line breaks for paragraphs shouldn’t impact it.
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Without the backslash escape characters, here’s how that renders:
As long as both the open and close spoiler tags are each on their own line, it should work fine.
Adding line breaks for paragraphs shouldn’t impact it.
Ah, I had read otherwise but never bothered to check it. I never found that the “red paint look” added much anyway so was happy to do away with it. It doesn’t really look like blood but I also wouldn’t really WANT my character dripping in viscera so I’d rather just go with the epic fantasy of being well-washed.
Wish you could set a cosmetic hat. Shadowheart looked great in her cowboy hat but I found a better helm and had to replace it. Then turn helmets off. C’est la vie
Thanks, I guess I was missing the line breaks.
Let’s try again with something less spoiliery:
Is it possible to permanently lose access to a party member based on your choices?
Anybody know if there’s an easy way to change out your party and/or access the inventory of non-party members without going into camp and walking from bedroll to bedroll reshuffling your composition?
Not entirely sure
Very Mild Companion Spoilers
There’s a few scenarios where one companion will kill another if you allow it. In fact, you can let one of them kill YOU. If you do, you just drop dead but can switch to another Companion party character just as if you died in combat. I just reloaded (only allowed it as a lark) but now I’m wondering if I could have had someone else drop a Revivify on me and just been “Now that THAT’S over…”
Likewise, I don’t know if the game would allow me to resurrect member X if I allowed Y to murder them.
I’m going to get a chance to test out the stealing mechanics, I think.
Mild plot spoilers:
I freed a goblin prisoner and she led me into their camp, where I’m going to meet their priestess. A few people have already been chatting about how she will be “branding” me, and I heard a spooky voice when I approached the goblin lair, so I ain’t about that. I figure I’ll be fighting my way out, but if that’s the case I may as well rob the goblin merchant blind first.
That’s where I saved for now, may get a chance to play more this evening.
I swear this game cheats. Spoilered for plot elements:
I’m in the goblin camp and I have defeated Gut and Minthara. I’m having a terrible time with Dror Ragzlin, even though I have the druid Haslin with me who fights as a bear. I’ve died easily a dozen times in this battle.
So, after reloading after I’ve died my dozens of times, I’m finally having a good go of it. I’m one-shotting weaker enemies, and I’m doing really well. No one in my party is in danger. I’m fighting well against the boss…
And suddenly the game crashes to desktop.
I love and hate this game at the same time.
That fight sucked. I had fun overall but it still sucked. And my “50% chance Hold Person” either wouldn’t land or would immediately break (he was right after my cleric in initiative order).