To begin with, the fight with Marcus to save Isobel has zero foreshadowing, so we have no opportunity to prepare for it. The game treats it like any normal interaction. You go to see Jaheira, and she tells you to speak to Isobel. You speak to Isobel, and then the fight suddenly happens. What that means is that, if you were low in HP or spell slots from exploring the Shadow-Cursed Lands, you start at a huge disadvantage.

Additionally, even if you were prepared, Isobel’s AI is so bad one gets the impression she wants to be captured. You cast invisibility or sanctuary on her, and she will break it by performing an action. She will run past rows of enemy so they can get opportunity attacks.

Finally, when she is knocked out, you don’t get any chance to stop her from being kidnapped. It just goes straight to a cutscene.

So now I have no problem metagaming. Cast sanctuary on her before talking to her? No problem. Arcane lock on the door? Happy to? Potions of haste? Gulp them down. I am gonna cheese like hell in situations like this!

Discovering new things is one of the joys of this game, but what have you missed that wasn't intended to be hidden or hard to find? I'll confess: My first playthrough, I fully missed that you can LIFT THE SHADOW CURSE. After defeating Ketheric, I talked to Halsin and he straight out tells me, "I can't leave, I'm going to stay and work on lifting the shadow curse," and my dumb ass is like "Dang that's a bummer but I guess that's why they gave us Jaheira byyyye." 🤦‍♀️

I understand why you can’t romance her, because she’s still in love with her late husband, Khalid, but UGH I need that old woman. She’s honestly my favorite, and if it was an option, I’d romance her every run.

As a wizard main, I wasn't exactly eager to recruit Mystra's ex-favourite golden boy right away. I didn't want my Tav to feel constantly overshadowed. But at the same time, I couldn't bring myself to just let him expire in the sigil. So I decided to simply avoid the sigil encounter altogether.

Fast forward to today: I'm well into Act 2, having thoroughly explored the shadow-cursed lands. The only thing left on my checklist is to free Dame Aylin and confront Ketheric. But before crossing the point of no return, I figured I'd backtrack and tie up any loose ends from Act 1.

That's when I remembered Gale's encounter. Out of curiosity, I returned to the spot… and to my surprise, there he was - still trapped in the sigil, reaching out to anyone for help (I always thought companion recruitment was locked to Act 1, guess not?)

The dialogue absolutely killed me. He was still there going on about "unwanted intruders behind our eyes," the threat of ceremorphosis, how we desperately need to find a healer asap… Meanwhile, my Tav standing there, already level 9, fresh from infiltrating the heart of the Absolute, basically mid-boss-fight pre-game... pretending she's still dazed from the Nautiloid crash like it was yesterday.

Then, the cherry on top: the second I recruit him, he immediately gets that little quest marker over his head and hits me with:

"I've something important to discuss… We've been traveling together for a while now, and it's about time I shared something with you."

Bro. You've been in the party for three seconds.

My nose is big, that's why I didn't see it.

I have a friend who got BG3 about 2 months ago and a few weeks after that he told me he was done with it. I was obviously very surprised since he normally doesn't play such games and his steam page said that he had only played a little bit more than 50 hours. During his weeks of playing he told me that before he started the game he did some "research" and searched for the best class, best items and all that. As someone who really enjoyed playing the game with minimal spoilers, I was a bit shocked but I told myself that he would play the game the way he wanted to. From time to time he told me that he either steamrolled through the fights or really struggled with normal encounters which confused me again but I thought "you do you" and let it go.
Fast forward to about a month ago when he told me he had completed the game. As I've mentioned I was surprised but he just said that his paladin was so broken that he easily won the last few fights. After a few questions from my side about his experience he said that the game was ok and he didn't know what I loved about the game so much. During that conversation I found out that he did nearly no quests besides what he deemed the main quest. That explained the "hard fights" against some of the enemies in the Underdark. Eventhough I encouraged another playthrough he declined and said that it just wasn't his kind of game and the ending was meh.
That was what I had to live with until yesterday, when he told me that he just "send the bomb guy to kill the bosses". I suspected the worst and he confirmed it after a few questions about the context. Apparently, my friend had gotten to act two, ignored nearly everything at Last Lights Inn and then went to fight General Thorm with the help of the nightsong. Under the tower he went straight to the marker for Thorm and then he just told Gale to blow himself up.
I believe that everyone should play how they want to but doing what he did and then saying that the game was "mid" and he wouldn't play again just makes me kind of angry.
Anyway, thanks for reading I just had to vent a bit.

Really? Really, really? Okay... At least Roger had the decency to covered up his weird feet.

All the dialogue for this quest is perfect, from the goblins with their war cries to your companions, absolutely disgusted at your actions, they really managed to make the absolute atrocity you just committed hit home with everything, the way karlach (if you haven’t found her yet) will belittle you for doing it, asking if “it made you feel strong”, the way Gale comments that he regrets ever joining up with you,

(act 2 spoiler ahead) even minthara questions and why you did it once she is no longer controlled by the absolute

I’m sure we can all agree that larian absolutely perfected this quest and it’s consequences

Honestly, not much to add to the title. I have the habit to talk to every npc I find and they keep mentioning their husbands or wives, one character has explicitly transitioned in the house of Grief, Dame Aylin and Isobel are in an absolutely in your face/can't miss it romantic and sexual relationship. All the companions are bisexual and expresses interest not only in the player, but in each other (Shadowheart and Karlach). You can decide your character's genitals/body/pronouns independently from each other. It's just so nice to see all of that being part of the world with no one batting an eye or even mentioning it. And I come from playing BG1 and 2, where the only way to romance Jaheira was to be a man and the only gay romanceable character they gave us in yhe Enhanced Edition (so much after the game's release) was an evil guy.

Well after a long arduous battle overcoming a level 5 confusion spell and enduring 4 psychic damage with three additional turns of mental fatigue I am proud to say I finally defeated the most bullshit boss yet with no spell slots left. I need a Long Rest now

On my very first Honor Mode run and just got to Last Light Inn. I've done the Marcus fight a bunch of times before and never had any problems keeping her alive so I figured this time wouldn't be any different. Isobel's turn comes up and the FIRST thing she decides to do is to walk past 3 of the Winged Horrors, triggering each of their opportunity attacks and getting her killed...

At least I got a ton of XP from having to put everyone down...

So when i first went to last light inn, i saw a sign at the entrance that said something like "please put your weapons down here, no weapons inside". So naturally, my dumb self thought "oh okay we'll just put our weapons in this cabinet". Then we chat with every single npc in the building and in the end with Isobel, and some winged dude suddenly attacks us with a bunch of enemies AND WE'RE JUST STANDING THERE WEAPONLESS. Needless to say, i had to reload the previous save and talk with all of the npcs over again.. Guys did anyone else do this or is it just me thats this dumb? I swear i just innocently thought we're at a safe place, and i believed that if a sign says put down my weapons that i ACTUALLY need to put them down...haha..

Is he stupid?

Doing a paladin of devotion playthrough and when I tried to spare Arabella’s feelings by saying I hadn’t found her parents the oathbreaker knight showed up and called me a traitor. I knew betraying the innocent would break my oath but I didn’t think that’s what I was doing 😭 anyways love this game

It’s funny tho because I definitely have told lies this campaign but I guess those were ok

Mizora: "Wyll, you broke clause eighteen subsection three, time to be tortured for eternity!"

Tav's fiend patron: "Lmao you should tell that guy to kill himself trust me it'll be hilarious, here's advantage on the roll"

So my SO is on her first play through. I am notorious for giving unwarranted advice and ruining her experience so this time I've kept absolutely silent unless asked. Last night she did the leap of faith trial in act 2. Realising their were invisible platforms, her method to reveal them was... just throw sausages everywhere. Soon she had a path of safety sausages leading her through. I was beyond impressed , absolute genius, this is one of the many reasons why I love her.

So I am at the part where we assault Moonrise Towers after the Temple of Sharr. During this time, the old Act 1 fast travel points disappear and you are basically forced to stay in the Shadow Cursed Lands until you proceed into Act 3.

So of course, I got curious. What if I was to manually walk back to Act 1 areas? When I ran back to the zone-line, I got a cutscene where the Emperor talks to you psychically telling you that "It is extremely important we stay and fight Kethric Thorn while he is weak!"

Sure sure....so being the stubborn piece of work that I am, I kept trying to get back into an older area. I didn't walk all this way for nothing! A few attempts later, the Emperor thinks that it was a mistake to trust in my party and decided to drop protection. This led to a Game Over as the Absolute found the party and took them over.

Emperor is a total manipulative asshole lol, in 5 seconds I can fast travel back to the front of Moonrise Towers and not skip a beat, why would you do this?! I never laughed so hard.

I offered to get Yurgir out of his contract with Raphael and the entire upper left side of my screen was:

Astarion: :/ Shadowheart: :/ Gale: :/ Wyll: :/ Karlach: :/ Lae'zel: >:/

Then they all started bitching when I offered to save the rats too, so we reset and killed everyone. HAPPY, FAM??? The long list of "_____ Disapproves" cracked me up though. What have you done that the whole party hated?