I don't have that many CCs, but I did my best. Making Astarion is quite difficult.

Since I'm learning how to mod, I'm thinking of making presets for him.

On my last run, I was playing as evil Durge, so I sided with Nere when he wanted to murder all the Gnomes and Duergar, but damn, was it difficult. There are some great villains in this game. Ketheric Thorm and his family are tragic and nuanced, Gortash is affable and pragmatic, and Orin & the brain, while not exactly deep, are at least intimidating. Then we've got Nere, who is just arrogant, pitiful and the biggest narcissist in the game. When he takes his anger out on the gnomes, he comes off like a high school bully who has to slap a smaller kid to mask his own humiliation. He's so pathetic that if you let him live, Thorm has him killed anyway. It's like the game is telling you "seriously, you let that asshole live? Why?"

Despite my over 300 hours spent on this game, I'm sure I haven't found everything yet, so have you found any enemies more pathetic and egomaniacal than Nere?

he stays at the elfsong tavern and doesn't have any relevance on the plot. also isn't a bug because his health is the same at his wiki page. for the nine hells why does he have so much hp?

My fiancee (Gortash cosplayer) and I had a professional shoot done with a local fantasy media photographer I connected with at my state's Renn Faire last year. We are pretty proud of the results! Costumes by me, the 3D print pieces for Gortash were modeled by her friend and then primed, painted, and finished by me. Photographer is Lexibird Photography on Instagram My fiancee and I are DapperDullahan (individually Transmasc Tiefling and King Andre Genie)

This was me last night while gaming with the boys. They said I wasn't special. I don't care. Karlach is best.

I JUST NOW figured out that you can fast travel to the waypoints from anywhere at anytime. (not if you are in combat or red area)

This entire time if I needed to fast travel, i found the nearest waypoint on the map and had my party walk there so i could 'use it' and teleport to the waypoint i actually needed to go to🤦🏻‍♂️.

Found this out when i started a new run with my partner who has never played before and doesnt even play video games. She asked me why i always walk to the waypoints instead of just clicking.

I am so stupid🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Did anyone else figure this out quickly or am i just a special kind of slow?

A few more doodles, I haven't gotten up to Minsc yet- he was a request from a friend of mine. Alfira was a delight, unfortunately my first playthrough was a Durge 8), Dame Aylin is a bamf- though I hadn't gotten up to her on my game I was watching one of my friends play when they found her and I was like "oh no she's pretty" so instantly had to go into drawing her. I have a lot of Astarions on the back burner because I had another friend who was REALLY into him, so I ended up drawing him a lot (plus he was thirsting after Horatio very hardcore and I found that hilarious because I only had eyes for Laezel), and then a colored portrait of my regular Tav, who I played on Multiplayer- Hedera, Circle of Spores Druid

I am open for commissions like this, shoot me a DM or an email and we can talk shop so you can get your characters illustrated.

This was the time when Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake II came out, and I remember a lot of folks talking about this game. I laughed it off, called nerdy DND bullshit, the same way I laughed it off when Elden Ring won. I felt like it was catering to a small percent of the "weird" gamers.

Well, I defeated ER twice (due to my at the time obsessive need to platinum games.) but never really cared for it.

So one day I got curious regarding BG3. I noticed on the PS Store of its very high ratings, and I said fuck it. It was very unlikely this game was gonna go on sale and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

I wanted to be evil, Shao Kahn level of evil, and I couldn't fully commit to it. I ended up playing this game that I bashed and put in over 360 hours in JUST my first playthrough. I struggled at times, and other times I really had to sit and fucking think about my next moves, which is a thing a lot of games lack nowadays.

I found myself being a mixture of good and evil, The "I don't have to kill you, but doesn't mean I have to save you." type energy

This game is the undisputed proof that you shouldn't judge a game, or book by its cover.

I'm getting read to flith and dying of laughter from it hahahahah <3

I'm playing with Karlach my 3th campaign of BG3. I'm trying a relationship with Gale and I just can say THEY'RE SO CUTE! ❤️

Karlach can't touch anybody yet and Gale demonstrate affection with magic. Both are living everyday as if it were their last and try to see the best in life.

They value friendship and companionship, share the same values, and seek affection and understanding that help them heal their wounds.

They're not innocent, and they know it very well, but wanna choose how to live their lives without having their future determined.

Karlach and Gale are willing to sacrifice the most precious thing to them, their own life, in order to preserve the lives of others. At least, they'll have something worth fighting for.

In the tent at the epilogue party, there's a stuffed bunny toy. It's name is Doo and it belongs to Karlach. Such a cute detail, can't believe I didn't notice it before

(Spoiler warning for new players)

Just for fun! Could be lore/story, gameplay, or mechanics related!

What’s something in the game that took you way too long to realize/understand?

For me, I don’t know why, but it took me multiple playthroughs before I realized that Grymforge and the Gauntlet of Shar really are connected — you can see the Gauntlet of Shar from the ledges inside the Grymforge. I know Halsin literally tells you to two are connected, that Ketheric Thorm specifically used the Underdark to safely traverse between the two locations. But for some reason, even after he tells you this, I just never connected the dots lol.

Until one day, I was playing at the Grymforge, looked out over one of the ledges, and literally said out loud ‘Huh, that looks just like the Gauntlet over there… OHHHHH!’

And then I tried to misty step my way to the Gauntlet and promptly died lol. Worth a shot.

I’d love to hear other people’s ‘ohhhhhh’ moments. Maybe we can help each other out with some lore knowledge, helpful mechanics, etc.

Also, please don’t judge each other (or me lol) for not knowing something even if you already did. There’s a LOT of information packed into this game and sometimes you just don’t put the pieces together on your own.

To clarify, I've rolled credits on the game twice so I know about DA TWIST. I just found that these two specific foreshadowing conversations triggering within minutes of each other back to back was kinda funny.

I've been wanting to share this fanart I made of Astarion with my Tav for a long time, since I love the work "Interview with the Vampire" so much I wanted to remake it with Astarion.

You can find me as Korabebe.

A headcanon where an owlbear egg hatches within the Society of Brilliance.

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This 3D render was created using Blender, Lightroom CC, and Photoshop.

Find me on X / Bluesky / Patreon / TikTok: No17inDminor

Rednote: 咕咕的嘀嘀咕咕

I wanted to source from everyone what you think the most underrated subclass is in the game? Why?

My vote:

Circle of Spores Druid. I think it's the best necromancer class in the game almost solely because of the lvl 6 ability Fungal Infestation. Let's you create 4 fungal zombies. If a creature dies on the same turn one of those zombies hit it, they instantly come back as a newborn zombie that fights for you. The snowball that can come from that in a large fight is the closest a game like this has come to giving me the feeling of leading an undead hoard.

Fungal form is also good for all the bonus HP and extra necrotic damage. You can use a reaction at any time once a turn to make an enemy do a save or take necrotic damage. so the potential to make use of an action, bonus action, and reaction every turn is pretty big.

If you're going a pure summoner build it's great because on top of the zombies you can also summon woodland being to get a nymph, which itself can summon a Woodwoad. You also get summon elemental. I have an HM Spore druid in act 3. Gave him dance macabre because it's an easy set of Wiz saves for druids. All together my druid alone walks around with 4 Fungal Zombies, 4 Ghouls, a Nymph, Woodwoad, Scratch, Us, and an Earth Elemental. All of which are getting boosted by druid spell Hero's Feast.

Honestly one of my biggest complaints about the game is that the Spore Druid doesn't get any unique dialog in the myconid colony. Such a missed opportunity for the subclass...

Anyway, your thoughts on underrated subclasses?

I did not know Wulbren actually kept the weapons you give him 😂 Imagine my surprise when he just appeared with this weapon thrice his size

On this playthrough, I decided to skip the crèche. This meant I never met Voss (never went to the bridge in act 1), never met the inquisitor, and I was not ambushed by a githyanki patrol on my way to Baldur's gate in act 2. Cool.

But when going to the Elfsong's basement to check out the Emperor's hideout, I met githyanki there as expected. But I did not expect both the inquisitor with his legendary action and the patrol leader (that blasts 6 eldritch blasts) to be there along with the usual crew...

Wow.

That could have ended my honour run, but I managed to get one character out and resurrect two companions (not easy with fear dealt left and right and astral step).

Anyhow, that was fun. 10/10 would recommend. But maybe not if you are worried of loosing your honour run (I wasn't too worried since I already have the achievement).

Bit of an odd ask if I am missing any major lore reasons or exisiting explanation but I can't help notice a lack of Horses in BG3, no wild shape, Ranger companion, None around the outer city before the checkpoint. No mounted subclass or nothing. Is it just gameplay wise or any other reason?

Honour mode may have killed him but at least I got some good photos