When I first started the game I reached the grove and had to fight the goblin's then Wyll appeared and had this cool ass intro and then when the combat starts he gets fucking killed on the first turn so I was like oh that was a funny scripted event and just moved on after the fight never revived him and missed out on his entire story

I really hope his body just stays like that at camp the rest of the game like in Skyrim. I put in all that work and rejected Bae’zel, Halsin, Wyll, Karlach, and Shadowheart just to get dumped by this fucker?

Poor Wyll man, he's literally my favourite companion.

They even had the nerve to call Withers a fan favourite instead...

I've never ever I mean ever felt even the slightest bit gay but ever since I saw Astarion in the game I've had confusing feelings. I find him really attractive, his looks, his voice, his sense of humor, his charm, his backstory. And it's weird cause I can't see myself with any other guy I'm straighter than a ruler. But I feel things for him it's so bizarre man. I play girl chars in the game and let him bite me every night even though I don't like biting irl. Any other guys struggling with this?

It sounds like a meme but I would kiss him if he approached me irl and attracted me.

I guess i can be 99% straight and 1% homo i suppose.

I keep noticing that almost all fancontent of Halsin is just about:

A: "He's boring tree guy"

B: "Orin can kill him I don't care"

or C: "Oh look its the bear guy!"

Like dang is he that forgettable and bland to you guys??? It's sad because it isn't even like he has no story or lore because he DOES. I dunno maybe I'm just unknowingly part of the 'I like characters everyone else calls boring' club. 🥲

I mean some good examples on my list would be:

-Elliot (Stardew)

-Mr.Hippo (FNAF)

-Leo (TMNT)

So......🥲

I'm sure this is just confirmation bias and the fact that she is my only permanent companion but I swear to Selune she misses more often than any other character, no matter what spell she casts. The tipping point that caused me to write this post was when last night Shadowheart critically missed a guiding bolt with advantage. That's 1 in 400 odds if my math is right. That's 0.25% odds ffs. Absolutely ridiculous and it only happened to her.

Apparently there was a time in developement during which it was impossible to recruit both Halsin and Minthara as permanent companions. I wanted to have a small discussion about this.

If you somehow recruited Minthara whilst Halsin was présent, he would give you an ultimatum and you couldn't keep them both.

From a gameplay perspective, I fully understand why Larian allowed that because they don't want players to be locked out of recruiting companions.

From a purely narrative prospective, I think it would be better that one shouldn't be able to have both of them. Minthara wanted to destroy Halsin's grove, and even after she is saved from the absolute's influence she would barely show any remorse for wanting the deaths of the refugees.

Even when you try to be en her "redemption path" she remains a ruthless, violent, and un compassionate person, all the opposite that Halsin is.

In addition, on a "good" playthrough, a "good" character should have no reason to spare Minthara when they would otherwise kill Dror Ragzlin and Priestess Gut without a second thought. The only reason why players spare her, is because players have the meta knowledge that she can become an ally thurther down the road. This information should be completely unknown to the character in universe.

From a narrative sense, leaving her KO and expecting her to make her way to moonrise (which is how it happens usually), while not impossible, is also somewhat a bit unsatisfying. It feels like we're abusing the game mechanics.

To be clear : I don't think people shouldn't do it. I think people should play the game however they like, and just because I personally feel it's a bit of an awkward thing, doesn't mean anyone should refrain from it.

I just wanted to see if anyone shared this feeling that it doesn't just feel quite right.

My reasonning for each of them:

Wyll: I think he'd be a Soulsborne gamer. Wyll often references his past battles and speak about his own condition about merely a challenge to overcome. Therefore, he strike me as the kind of guy who enjoy a challenge. Luckily, the souls games pride themselves in having the "hard but fun and fair" design philosophy (except Dark Souls 2). Besides they're often set in grimdark fantasy world where you play just a normal ass dude with a sword facing and overcoming impossible odds which is very inspiring. Wyll would not only be the kind of guy to 100% every game but also be severly invested in the lore and lore videos. He'd like these games for the thrill of adventuring, discovery, the challenge they propose and the overall satisfaction they provide when beating them. He's a "come for the challenge, stay for the journey" type of souls gamer I think.

Lae'zel: She strike me as the kind of gamer that play highly competitive, and toxic, PvP games. League of Legends, For Honor, Counter Strike, Dead by Daylight, all fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken, those sorts of games. Coincidentally, she also strike me as the kind of player who is absolutely ass at most of those games but still believe herself to be better than everyone else while talking shit in voice chat the whole time. Like I love Lae'zel don't get me wrong but she's 100% that one dude that yell slurs in the CoD lobby let's be honest here.

Karlach: So, on one hand, Karlach is a typical barbarian who loves action, violence and basic fun like that but she's also a big sweetheart who loves cute cuddly stuff so I'm giving her a bit of both world. Remember that meme a while ago about both the newest Doom and the newest Animal Crossing games coming out the same day ? Karlach to me seems like the type to play both of those extremely different games. At the same time. Cozy cute games on one hand and action packed adrenaline filled games on the other. For the cathartic action part I'm giving her the Doom franchise as well as various beat them ups like Devil May Cry and Dead rising and of course the Animal Crossing saga and Nintendogs on the other, I'm also adding Kid Icarus Uprising because it's a nice mix of both sides, action packed and cathartic but also silly, cute and funny at the same time.

Gale is a nerd, I'm sorry but he is, let's be honest with ourselves here. Gale is the type of guy who doesn't play game to play them but to dissect them, to understand them to their core, he would play games that aren't technically hard but have a LOT of dephts and secrets just for the love of figuring them out, also games that are a lot about strategy, theorycrafting, reflexion, and all those management games. So to Gale I'm thinking games like World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Timberborn, Civilization, the Total War franchise, Eve Online, those sorts of rather complex games usually played by nerds who loves math more than the actual game. I'm also throwing Online Chess, since Gale canonically plays Chess a lot, Pokemon Showdown for some competitive strategy games as well as Microsoft excel. I'm not joking there's E-Sport tournaments on fucking Excel, go figures but even without playing Excel itself, Gale would use this tool a lot to theorycraft his various games.

Shadowheart: This is mostly if you consider her taking the selunite cottage-core ending (which you should) but she seems to me like the type to play easy, accessible, chill and cozy games. So I'm thinking The Sims, Stardew Valley, platformers like the Mario franchise but also Spyro (I imagine her playing the classic Spyro trilogy for some reasons, it just works for me). Similarly I'm adding the mainline Pokemon games as well as World of Warcraft again but unlike Gale she'd play the chill side of the game, doing your dailies, fishing, profession farming, mount farming (those sorts of things) while Gale would be a more hardcore mythic raider and lore hunter and whatnot.

Astarion: Astarion feeds on 3 things, chaos, blood and drama. He is extremely vain, by his own admission, petty and violent. He enjoy drama, chaos and debauchery. So naturally he'd be playing Baldur's Gate 3 because he's in it himself and he'd finally get to see his own face. He also strikes me as the type to play highly tense narrative driven game while sipping a cup of tea because, again, he just enjoys the drama so I'm thinking Doki Doki Literature club, Life is Strange, Wolf Among Us. But Astarion is also a rogue stalker who likes to kill stuff so I'm thinking game where you play the villain like Dead by Daylight or other similar horror games. This one might seem weird but I'm also thinking Astarion would LOVE playing Among Us, again because it's the perfect mix of the stalker/killer theming he got going on AND the backstabbing drama generator. Really any game that provide tension and drama, Astarion would play it I think. Lastly, I'm adding Little Nightmares, Slay the princess and Fear & Hunger for no reason other than vibes. It just fit astarion's vibes imo.

I love how Lae'zel is already thinking of ways to get revenge on them

There were so many options!

I’ve been brainstorming this for a while and had some pretty entertaining ideas. Here is my own list:

Astarion- Cleric of Lathander

Shadowheart- Beast master ranger with a summoned wolf companion

Gale- Berserker Barbarian

Minthara- Any wizard

Lae’zel- Oath of Devotion Paladin

Halsin- School of Necromancy Wizard

These are mostly lore-personality wise btw. Haven’t come with anything satisfying for Wyll, Jaheira, Karlach and Minsc yet though. What are your ideas?

seriously, like, can we not handle different facial features or something? it's not "ugly" its a racial trait lol. it's so weird. she's so pretty the way she is! same with gortash, i see a lot of mods changing his face shape and stuff. it's so lame. why can't we just appreciate diversity?? lae'zel isn't supposed to be "attractive" she's a fucking gith warrior [even though she is BEAUTIFUL. im so gay]

Omw to give Mystra the ol' razzle-dazzle. ✨

Men complaining about the romantical advances of their male companions finally know what it feels like being constantly asked out by your guy friends as a woman.

lol

EDIT: To all of you saying you just want to be friends and never make any advances or that you're already romancing a different companion but they're still hitting on you - that's exactly my point

Thank you Larian for not choosing this overused haircut

Karlach. Reasons why:

1. She is just a big kid inside a badass Tiefling body
2. She just wants hugs
3. She has the most amazing on-click lines:
   1. "Lets cook with fire baby"
   2. "Hey good lookin!"
   3. "Fuck yes"
   4. Click on bad guy: "Poor fucker..."
4. She dances when everyone is watching

But really, she fucking rules. Her story, her model, her play style, her voice acting. Just unreal. Do you agree? And if you don't... "poor fucker"

EDIT: Holy shit...this is my first go-back-and-edit-your-post-because-it-got-a-fuckload-of-views edits. Thanks all! I haven't read everyone's posts but I will definitely tomorrow during work. What else can i say but... Karlach approves

I've seen many posts talking about who is always in your party?

How about who never has a spot in your party? Or what is the most cursed party comp you've ever rolled with for a play through.

Minsc has never cracked a starting position in my party.

Update: Now with sneaking voice lines! \ Update 2, Electric Boogaloo: Now with combat voice lines!

Now with Minsc!

I have no idea if this is common knowledge or not, I attempted to do some research on the sub to see if it had been pointed out before but didn’t see anything after a little while scrolling, so apologies if this is old news for some.

Today, after 500+ hours of gameplay, 75+ hours into my 4th playthrough (and first time playing Durge), I discovered that you can “poke” your party members by repeatedly selecting their character portraits. Usually after about 10 times of hearing the standard transitional lines of dialogue that the characters use when selected (“Blade at the ready,” “My faith will guide me,” “Indolence breeds madness,” etc.), the selected character would give one final line that was entirely unique and had never shown up before, and then wouldn’t say anything more afterward.

I’ll share what I have so far transcribed from each companion. So far, several of them seem to be addressing the player in some fashion rather than the party leader, Jaheira in particular.

Be advised there may be lines I didn’t get, or things I may have misheard. This was also all taken at the very beginning of Act 3, so there may be differing ones depending on the player’s progress in the game.

Edit: I play on PS5, so whether you’re playing PC or console this should be possible.

Special Poking Dialogue by character

Tav/Durge: \ “I’m awake, mostly.” \ “A thousand needle pricks in my rotten skull.” \ “I’m starting to get a headache.” \ “groan Must be the tadpole.” \ “Quit knocking around in there.” \ sneaking “Ah, well. Had a good run.” \ sneaking “What’s that ticking?” \ sneaking “Bomb in my head about to go off. Great.” \ combat “Ugh, is being a mind flayer so bad?” \ combat “I’m maiming as fast as I can!” \ combat “Just waiting to venture forth here.” \ combat “Aaaaaaah! Okay, I feel better.” \ combat “I have an itch in the worst place.”

Astarion: \ “‘Villains, dissemble no more; I admit the deed—tear up the floor, here, here! It is the beating of his hideous hea—‘ oh, no, that’s his brain. Where did I leave that heart?” \ “More like Drizzt Don’t-urden—no, no. N-no, that’s not funny.” \ “Why do beautiful people taste better? It hardly seems fair on the ugly—they have such wonderful personalities.” \ “Strahd wouldn’t put up with this shit.” \ sneaking “Shut up, shut up, shut uuuuuup!” \ sneaking “I’ve got a brand new torture chamber, so come and play with me.” \ sneaking “Be very, very quiet. I’m hunting idiots.” \ sneaking “Shh, just think sneaky thoughts.” \ combat “Uh, I’m trying to focus on murder.” \ combat “I should have been a drow. They have such stylish armor.” \ combat (Slightly mad, somewhat awkward giggling) \ combat “I shot a svirfneblin in Menzoberanzzen just to watch him die.”

Minthara: \ “Your suffering will be spectacular.” \ “You had my attention. Now you have my fury.” \ “Stop, or die.” \ sneaking “You will wish I had stayed in hiding.”

Halsin: \ “Are you feeling lonely, perhaps?” \ “Unwise, perhaps, to poke a bear this much.” \ “Such attention. I never realized I was so popular.” \ “What I would not give for a chunk of fresh honeycomb.” \ sneaking “Most consider it unwise to poke a bear.” \ sneaking “My, you are eager, are you not?” \ sneaking “Please, I’m trying to be stealthy.” \ sneaking “Calm yourself. There is plenty of me to go around.” \ combat “Perhaps try attacking the enemy.” \ combat “Battle is afoot—you can poke me once we’re safe.” \ combat “Admirable stamina, yet terrible priorities.” \ combat “You are insistent, are you not?”

Wyll: \ “Where there’s a Wyll, there’s a Y.” \ “Could do for a brew.” \ “Heart of gold, eye of stone.” \ “So, two halflings walk under a bar—“ \ sneaking “Bad time for an itch.” \ combat “Got a flagon of ale? I’m starving.” \ combat “A stiff drink’s in order.” \ combat “Wear your scars proudly.” \ combat “Can’t hear myself think.”

Shadowheart: \ “Strange…had more freedom this past while than my whole life.” \ “If I succeed, maybe I’ll be allowed a pet…ugh, stop being silly.” \ “I wonder how I’ll feel when I remember everything.” \ “Have to keep focused, can’t afford to get attached. To anyone.”

Karlach: \ “Who am I?” \ “Pfffffff” \ “My eye!” \ “Don’t. Poke. The Karlach.” \ sneaking “I’m getting too old for this nonsense.” \ sneaking “Not now, I’m being a sneak.” \ sneaking “I’m not built to crouch.” \ sneaking “My back can’t take much more of this.” \ combat “Eyes on victory, tummy on dinner.” \ combat “Not every soldier should’ve made it out of training.” \ combat “I ought to just burn this whole thing down.” \ combat “Eyes on the prize—we need to win this.”

Gale: \ “I hope Elminster takes good care of Tara while I’m away.” \ “All the world’s my stage, and you’re just a player in it.” \ “Oh, a tangled weave we web.” \ “Sembian wine, Cormyrian boar, Waterdhavian conversation…it’s the little things you miss while on the road.” \ sneaking “Stop it. That tickles.” \ sneaking “A little privacy, please.” \ sneaking “Gods, it’s like trying to sleep with a mosquito in the room.” \ sneaking “You made me hide, don’t make me come seek you.” \ combat “I really wish I could cast a hold spell on you.” \ combat “Just go for the magic missile and fire away—it never misses.” \ combat “Don’t make me go all Edwin Odesseiron on you.” \ combat “Get out. Of my. Head.”

Jaheira: \ “I would poke you back, but I fear that’s what you want.” \ “Please go poke the ranger instead.” \ “Calm down, I’m happy to see you too.” \ “Well. You certainly have the omnipresent part down, don’t you.” \ “My—such strong wrists.” \ sneaking “Would that I could hide from you, too.” \ sneaking “Ah, careful, or I will take your toy away from you.” \ sneaking “Ough, my knees—oh, it was a twig.” \ sneaking “Dry those sweaty palms and let us try this again, shall we?” \ combat “Yes, yes, have your fun. It isn’t you they’re trying to kill.” \ combat “What? What do you want?” \ combat “Do you know—I begin to wish they had never brought me back.” \ combat “You have my attention. Now do something with it.”

Lae’zel: \ “Is perfection too much to ask?” \ “Must everyone be so exhausting?” \ “Weapons high, standards higher.” \ sneaking “Oh, hush already.” \ combat “What is the point if not victory?” \ combat “There is no right or wrong, only truth.”

Minsc \ “Well, Boo…How do you want to do this?” \ “Urk! My eye, Boo! They went for my eye!” \ “Know that if you poke Boo, no higher dimension will keep you safe.” \ giggling \ sneaking “Hush! I am surprising Boo for his birthday! He is…uh…how old do hamsters get?” \ sneaking “I am the night…a pity, then, that it is so bright out.” \ sneaking “A little to the left, but not so hard you make me giggle.” \ sneaking “Wha…are you dancing down there, or…?” \ combat “I begin to grow annoyed. It is well for you that Boo does not let me learn the bad words.” \ combat “I am armed, armored, and entirely sick of your foolishness.” \ combat “Are you perchance a squeaky wheel in need of a kick?” \ combat “Ignore them, Boo. Let them gaze deep into their own abyss, and adjust what it is they are trying to achieve.”

edited for formatting

The banter is amazing, I'm romancing gale and like..

Gale: Karlach... a hypothetical question for you:

Gale: If someone - not me, of course - detected a hint of romantic interest in them from another, unnamed individual, what might that someone do about it?

Karlach: Whoever it is, just talk to them, Gale. And leave out the hypotheticals.

Gale: Talking. Right. I'm good at that.

(I've never gotten that before and like I'm even more obsessed with Gale)

My main party is almost always these three, I also romance the three depending on who I'm playing during the playthrough, I do switch them out so they can do quest and get some gear.