In Baldur’s Gate 3 casting Heal on a Dark Urge character lets them remember either playing with other kids or killing their adoptive family. With the later option their house is described as a 2-bedroom place in the poorer part of the city. And I’m curious if it could be a house we can visit in-game.
Could it be the same house Mayrina’s anti-hag group holes up? It’s in ruins when they set up shop, I don’t remember anything explaining why it’s like that, and it makes sense a place where a family was murdered would be abandoned. And if The Dark Urge did grow up there, it might be familiar.
And if they tell Mayrina ‘I think I grew up here,’ that could make it a landmark post-game. 'The Childhood Home Of The Hero Of Baldurs Gate’, or maybe it would be rebuilt and given to them as a reward for their heroism. Any thoughts?
me starting a new baldurs gate 3 save just to fuck the Emperor again and piss off all the little delulu haters who are still making shit up to be upset about
I’m sorry, but concerning the tags, where did you get the idea that Raphael was a child predator? If you’re talking about him taking Gortash as a slave than 1: having a child slave doesn’t mean you’re a kiddie fiddler, and 2: if you use speak with dead on Harleep, he says that Raphael only wants to have sex with himself.
Can I just say that trying to do all the character stories in one playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 is - to me at least - very annoying and not that fun.
The issue is that I keep having to swap out who’s in the party and who’s at camp based on where I am, where I’m going, and what will be happening at any given time, a fact made worse in Act III where all the stories come to a head.
This results in a lot of needing to predict where I’m going to be, what will happen there, and who I’ll need with me to make their story progress. That leads to a lot of tedious back and forth between the camp and the area of the act I’m in.
And yes, I know there’s the ‘Party Limit Begone’ mod that will let me have everyone in my party at once, but the enviroments of Baldur’s Gate 3 aren’t designed to have a party of nine or ten people, plus any summons, all moving together to the same place at once.
This is even more true in the indoor enviroments, which leave little space to work with for a four person party, let alone a group of twice that many. You’d barely be able to move without clicking on someone you didn’t mean to, and the rest of the party will keep getting in trouble by wandering into restricted areas because there’s not enough space for everyone.
Also, does playing on the lowest difficulty make companion approval higher and easier to gain? Because playing on that difficulty, I’ve had Lae'zel proposition me even though I’ve only had her in the party for the bare minimum needed to progess her story. I;E, get her out of the cage and talk to Zorru about where the Githyanki are.
Would it make sense for a Dark Urge character to start eating Mind Flayer tadpoles when the dream guardian tells them to, not because they want the power, but because they think doing so would restore their lost memories?
The idea is that they’re desperate, and thinking, ‘I likely lost my memories when the tadpole was put in my skull, so maybe taking the power they offer will bring them back, because they’ll fix the gaps in my brain’. Does that make sense, or does it seem hard to believe that logic would come even from a brain damaged individual with Inteligence and Wisdom Modifiers of -1?
Another - likely more rational - motivation I thought of, is that the refuse the power, until they learn that they’re Bhaalspawn. At which point they embrace the Illithid powers, because they’re desperate to not be connected to the god of murder.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, the first meeting the player character has with Astarion - assuming you don’t play as him - is when he threatens them with a dagger. If the Tav/Durge fails a Wisdom Perception Check, he pulls them to the ground and holds a dagger to their neck.
Thing is my Durge, Tavarius, is a seven feet eight inch tall dragonborn paladin. So I wonder, would Astarion see him approach, wearing paladin armour and carrying an axe, and just think, ‘Hmm, nope. Bad idea’? Or would he try it anyway?
But I just had a thought might render the whole thing pointless. If Shadowheart did lose her legs, couldn’t the rest of the party just kill her, then give Withers some gold to ressurect her, fully intact, legs and all? Can anyone present a reason why this wouldn’t work?
So I previously made a pair of polls asking for peoples opinions on whether or not Shar and The Emperor would abandon Shadowheart should she lose her legs.
The second asking about The Emperor was a bit more split with 48% of the 50 voters saying no, but 42% said yes. (The remaining 10% said they were unsure.) But a thought occured to me about this.
Would Shadowheart even need his protection at this point? I don’t think The Absolute would have any interest in a double amputee being a True Soul, and I don’t think it would want to turn such a person into a Mindflayer either, so what would it do?
Kill Shadowheart remotely? Or delete the tadpole in her brain, effectivly curing her? Or would it do nothing and leave her with a dormant tadpole sat there like a bomb waiting to go off?
(Remade because I messed up the poll. A continuation of my post where I asked about Shar abandoning a Shadowheart who lost both of her feet/legs.)
The second issue is with The Emperor. He’s only concerned with his own survival and freedom, morality be damned. He pressures the group into becoming part Illithid, and has to be convinced to protect Minsc from The Absolute. Someone without legs, even if they still have divine power, could easily be seen as a burden. So my second question.
Would the Emperor withdraw his protection against The Absolute if Shadowheart were crippled?
My concern, because this would happen before he reveals himself, is that he would let Shadowheart become a Mindflayer at the moment she loses her legs. So there wouldn’t be time to try and convince him not to let that happen.
In Act 3 of Baldur’s Gate 3, if you don’t side with The Emperor and instead free Prince Orpheus, he says that someone needs to become a Mindflayer in order to defeat The Netherbrain. It occurs to me that a resisting Dark Urge character might volunteer to transform, because they don’t want a body that has any connection to Bhaal.
I know he reclaims Durge’s blood when rejected in the temple, but isn’t the rest of the body also made by him? Couldn’t someone who rejected him want to do anything to remove any connection to the murder god?
But then they might realize that with their new need to feed on humanoid brains, they’ve in a way become what Bhaal wanted: a creature that needs to kill, kill, and kill again.
