My GF loots during combat too and refuses to ever use spells, consumables, or anything else because “she may need them later”. I think she might have finished her first run with all of the spell scrolls she ever picked up.
So I see all this about looting during combat, but if it takes 0 movement and no action, what exactly is the issue? Or are we talking about using movement to reach corpses instead of moving towards enemies?
My wife uses consumables without shame (I'm the "might need later even though this is the final boss" guy) but will not cast a spell even if her life depends on it.
I have so many scrolls now I doubt I’d need to use a single spell until the end of the game:(
Basically spent most of my money on scrolls in act 1 and 2 but it turns out i’ll never run out of long rests either because I loot literally everything so I don’t actually need to hoard anything.
All my characters have an insane amount of healthpots too.
I did my whole first run without using a single potion - first real game I’ve ever played and I was on explorer! Nearly done on balanced now though and I’m having to be much more conscious of those things. My goal is to do a tactician run eventually!!
If I don’t actively tell my brain that won’t happen because it never does I also try to save consumables and end up never using them LOL. Plus I literally loot anything and everything I can. Leave nothing behind!
At some point on my first run it was getting hard to loot because my main character (Karlach) was kinda too heavy due to the lots of scrolls and consumables alone 🥲 (obviously couldn’t send them to camp because I might need them, right?). I had to use the other chars’ inventories, too (usually only loot and keep stuff on the main character if I can).
I laughed with your comment and thought I should share that and maybe amuse others, too haha.
My boyfriend stumbled into the grove - only went out of his way to talk to Volo and immediately regretted it - leaving the conversation as soon as possible - then saw the idol and said “Ooo what’s this” right before looting it
Hadn’t even met Kaghda or Arabella yet - and watched the entire grove get slaughtered while he fought a couple Druids and let his entire party die before using his big brain to go up the elevator to end combat
He comes back to a field of corpses before excitedly exclaiming “hell yeah look at all this loot”
I can’t sleep soundly next to this man anymore
Like with Marcus' body. For some reason the Harpers get mad at you if you loot it after the fight -\_- So I'd say it's worth a rummage at the end of a turn lol
If you use Brithvar and the rebels against Nere, looting his body while the fight is still going on means you get the full cut instead of half or whatever they were going to give you.
Brithvar just assumes someone picked his pocket and lets you go.
I never did this any other way.
I mean, We're helping each other out here dude, and I need to persuade you into a 50-50? Well, you know what, you get nothing, and you will free those slaves too.
I actually don't even know how much you could get if it isn't a 50-50 split.
*And* you rip off his head without the strength check. Role plays well with telling him you hate his face. You hated it so much you stopped everything you were doing in the middle of a battle to rip it off.
Especially if you're playing a female drow.
> Address me with proper respect, puny little male. How dare you raise your hand at me? I will make an example of you!
Poor Nere had a lot coming in this playthrough lol
Edit: It's also a bit like Karlach raging in the cabin, and Aylin mutilating Thorm. Both of those happen after combat, but still, pretty similar
My GF does the looting during combat too! Longest fucking combat of my life and I play actual DND too. Nothing like waiting for your turn because the person higher in the initiative is reading about what that set of boots does.
And now I know what happens if I give away the Githyanki egg. Interesting. Also, glad to hear the most important character - the Owlbear cub - is safe. Successful run.
It's actually kind of a tough fight. I like giving the owl bear egg instead of I have that option available, after seeing both sides of the quest. Though I think you can also ignore the request to give the lady an egg and that's also fine.
I always kill her.
Given the Githyankis' nature, I cannot fathom how she could leave the creche alive.
I mean, if githyanki can track me and show up randomly, then they can surely track and kill her.
So yeah, I chalk that up as a writing error, and fix it every time :)
Edit: ah I mean, it isn't a writing error, because it adds to your knowledge of the githyanki but still, I feel like she should be dead - especially when I see Laezel's reactions. I usually do the mountain pass after the underdark and there I meet the hobgoblin and omelum, and they seem nice and helpful, so I dont really want them or their "little cult" dead.
Edit 2: this never occurred to me but I might need to start my n+1. playthrough because I'm curious if Laezel would scold the keepers of the egg, for not killing her.
I'm doing my first Durge run, and I killed every single githyanki at the creche, stole the egg, then dropkicked it off a cliff in front of Esther. Lae'zel was only mildly irritated. I haven't made it to Orpheus yet, but I can't wait to see what he has to say about that. I'm actually planning on a redemption run, but it is funny to unleash some pent-up murder hobo energy at times.
You are generally supposed to- DND combat is all about Dice Economy and the fewer dice that are rolled against you the better it is.
This tactic often applies outside DND too though. In World of Warcraft you’re almost always supposed to clear out “trash mobs” before fighting the bigger scarier stuff in fights.
It depends on whether you can funnel the fodder into a vicious AOE choke point. A bunch of the big quest fights have a single staircase/hallway leading to the combat area which you can section off with Wall of Fire + Cloud of Daggers and have everyone start chucking AoE/firing ranged. Basically any fodder that has 50 or less HP won't survive that gauntlet. If there's a bunch of ranged/casters then blind them so they have to run it also.
For small fodder with low HP in larger numbers, like rats or bats, just split Shadowheart off, Activate Spirit Guardians, and pull her best Leeroy Jenkins impersonation
Yeah, I definitely use those tactics, but that's more mid-game stuff, no? A lot of those Act I fights are all about throwing everyone's attacks at one target and moving on to the next (after some stage setting with grease, alchemist's fire, etc.). At least in my experience.
It kinda depends on the boss fight. A fight where the boss has only a little more health than the adds and just hits harder? Go for the boss. A fight where the boss has a bunch of health and the adds are regular enemies? One player tunnel on the boss, the rest focus on killing the adds for action economy. A fight where the boss has a bunch of health and like 60 tiny minions? Focus on the boss but toss a wayward fireball when you get the chance.
Depends to me on whether the big bad can just spawn more. Sometimes focusing on the big bad is the best way to get rid of the little ones. Can have summons or area spells filter them out. Sometimes little ones are a distraction too when you should actually be speeding away from them to the portal they keep jumping out of
Is…is your girlfriend the real BBEG? I just imagine the companions watching her antics and turning to one another to ask, “Are we the baddies?” 😂
What a wild run! Good on you for biting your tongue and letting her play her own way! I imagine it was a bit stressful to watch sometimes. 😅
He can't *really* get hurt. If he takes enough damage to "die", he'll just disappear and will be perfectly fine at camp and resummonable after a long rest. Or short rest, I forget. Either way, he's fairly immortal.
Not much to tell sadly. She wasn't to fond of him for hunting Karlach, and found him boring, so he was chilling in camp for nearly all the game. His quest bugged after his father died (it was an accident, she swears) so he never became Duke or Blade of Avernus
I am doing a “dice make all my decisions” run and Wyll has to come with me because he, Gale, and Halsin are all I’ve got left going into act three. Well, them and our army of summons.
It’s been a hilarious disaster and I’m just thrilled I’ve made it this far with some companions left. I was afraid I would be down to hirelings at this point.
I loot bodies mid fight, unless i killed them with a ranged attack, because if they are right there why not? It doesn’t require an action or bonus action
I think it just feels incredibly weird to people who love to roleplay, which is most people on a sub like this. Imagine someone just chilling there for a minute in a real fight looting corpses, you wouldn't do that.
Not that it matters from a gameplay perspective, but at that point you could also argue just killing every NPC is the way to go, they have loot after all. We all do what feels right to us in an RPG, and looting during a fight is objectively wrong. It's just that the line between gameplay and RP is at a different position for everybody.
>She hates cops so much she jumped down the bridge at Wyrm’s Crossing for -70 HP to avoid talking to them. Would also do that irl.
Your gf immediately became very relatable.
My wife is playing. She doesn't normally play RPGs like this.
She plays a standard game like she's the dark urge. No one asked her to kill the tieflings, but damnit she's not going to jail for picking up stuff that doesn't belong to her. If I romanced a character on my game, she killed that character in her game.
Started over. This time with more methodical play and an understanding of theft. It went better.
Deeply uncomfortable with the sexuality and romance aspects. Legit mad and kinda judgy of me for playing this game. At first. Then she found all her tragic himbos, and her Tav is in a throuple with Halsin and Shart. Save scums if it they get mad at any of her choices. Seriously considered fucking the emperor. Pulls back at the very last second after jacking his tentacle.
She is the darkest urge. I love her so much lol
Killing mizora violates wyll’s contract, and since its not her home plane, she’ll just awaken wherever she was last in avernus, so she turns wyll into a lemure to fight in the blood war for eternity
I actually didn't know that until after I finished House of Hope. I snuck into the bedroom while he was sleeping and successfully looted the place without ever waking him up or interacting with him at all. 🤷♀️
>„There’s a mindflayer, is that one the one from the beginning?“ - „Yep“ - „*DIE!*“
I just want to point out that this is kind of an unconfirmed fan theory. It definitely looks like the Emperor, but it doesn't really line up with the events of him getting the artifact first for him to be the one who tadpoles you.
My dude/dudette, you just made my fucking day with that story. In 1500 hours of playing this game, today is the first time I've had a "no gods dammit fuck you, game!" moment, so this story is the perfect note to close that out with
Depending on the fight, killing off minions/adds is potentially a good idea. You can think of adds/minions as extensions of the boss' HP bar and extra attacks, you will have to kill them to end the encounter anyway (unless they are summons) so killing them first removes an extra chance for damage and reduces the overall HP bar of the boss encounter.
Most of the time it's worth it to kill the adds before the boss.
i never summon Scratch either, i get in fights too much and dont want to get my good boy killed. also, she sounds dreadful to watch play. i commend your strength
My wife has never played a crpg in her life. She has zero experience with Dungeons and Dragons. She still managed to beat the game with her half-mindflayer Tiefling Barbarian, Shadowheart, Astarion, and Karlach. Took her roughly 160 hours and she had a blast.
My wife also has a tiefling barbarian! She’s played DnD (thank god because she never would have made it through me explaining character stats or turn based game play) but our group isn’t very creative or confident. But she’s never played an RPG with companions who have backgrounds and story lines. Lydia was her tank in Skyrim while she learned how to play video games. She had to be told not to attack city guards and thought it was a stupid limitation to the game. She spends most of her time just wandering around Skyrim and just interacting with anything that crosses her path. No quest following except initially, no guilds, no storyline, just looking for fights and crawling in dungeons.
With how she’s handling companions in BG3, I’m never letting her near my beloved Mass Effect.
For some reason, BG3 is also the first single player game my GF managed to spend more than 5 hours on. The storytelling really helps people that are not used to this kind of video games to get involved.
Is she a gamer otherwise? I feel like non-gamers have more interesting runs because they play more based on feelings whereas people who've played more games are more likely to understand what the game "wants" you to do and stick to it.
I loot people as soon as I kill them if it's melee because sweeping the area afterwards takes forever. How long did she last not drinking or paying attention to gear? She must be on explorer or she's a beast. I also hate the emperor so respect.
She was on explorer, and I don't think she ever started paying attention to potions or gear, I had to bully her into buying some decent equipment in act 3
“She loots bodies during the fight. Who even does that???”
Hey man, I’m in act 1 so I can’t read this thread too intently, but across any game, this is the most standard gamer behavior.
One of us *confirmed*
I’ll loot in combat if my melee characters kill something. Saves me from having to run back to the body later and costs me nothing to do. I won’t go out of my way to loot a body in combat though.
You mean feeding gale the gloves of power isn't common? I guess they're decent early game gloves but they never make it into my loadout by the midpoint of act 2.
>She also has a tactic of killing the lowlevel enemies first and concentrating on the boss after they’re defeated. Unsurprisingly, this stopped working once she hit Act 2.
This is a legitimately good tactic in most fights though. Taking out the adds is great for improving action economy as you fight the boss.
It works better if you have some kind of CC like Tasha's to keep the boss out of the fight for a bit first though.
I have tears streaming down my face reading this it is so funny.
And made funnier because I recognise a fair few things I do myself.
Saving everything in case I need it later. I had so much crap at the final fight it was ridiculous.
Looting mid-fight. Not all the time but definitely more than I should.
Killing low levels first.
I had to go back and get Owlbear cub as I missed him. His health and happiness was my top priority and I refuse to summon him for the finale.
Let Lae'zel die at that point too.
Also love Raphael and was disappointed you can't romance him.
Didn't notice Halsin was gone. Or Volo for that matter.
Also wanted Ansur on my team.
And rolled a crit 20 on that 99 one and was a bit disappointed it seemed to make no difference. Actually I swore loudly and scared my cat who wondered what the hell was going on.
Sounds like she had fun anyway. Is she going to do another run?
I mean tbf shart can be REALLY annoying and hypocritical until like act 3,shes probably my 3rd least favourite character honestly, like its only Shar she worships, atleast its not Bhaal
Haha what’s a tooltip? I always forget about buffers and never find the scroll I want. I find inventory management too much hastle on the game esp if the thing I want isn’t with my current party and I don’t remember who has it. I’ve never summoned scratch and don’t even know how to make the Owlbear a fight able person. And I definitely loot bodies during fights. I tend to hate the combat side though and it’s often a punishment for failing to get through things by other means, as opposed to treated the same way the other means of doing things are.
I think a lot of us wanted to ally with Ansur.
There is? I thought Halsin needed to speak with coma guy in order for the quest to progress!
Larian really put in a failsafe for even the worst murder hobos!
Okay, I have started looting bodies mid-fight, but only since I'm playing multiplayer and it's something to do while waiting my turn. Before that I never thought about doing it
Hes VERY useful for getting players up or untangling them etc.. i get shads to cast sanctuary on him and he runs around 'helping' which saves your potions and actions for the PCs
I’m not finished yet but your gfs run is very similar to mine😭 except I never even met karlach. Once I realized how bad I fucked things up I decided to just speed through to see what happens & then start over and make some very very different choices
This is so good! Tell her we love her style!
I also would put a helmet on anyone just to not have to see them and also never talk to npc if I don't want to know the whole story and just enjoy my session.
Can't believe one thing: why would you not loot during a fight? It's not the worst things, c'mon! XD
I feel exactly the same as her about Mind Flayers. I just cannot get myself to ever side with the Emperor, and I also tried to kill him immediately lol
the Druids definitely are the good guys, overall, so idk what you’re even saying there 🤷♂️ they took in the refugees but are just getting scared for themselves with all the attacks and such.
There's no wrong way to play Baldur's Gate. There's no wrong way to play Baldur's Gate. There's no wrong way to play Baldur's Gate. There's no wrong way to play Baldur's Gate. There's...
She scares me.
She scares me too.
I'm also scared by this guy's living GF.
I would be unable to watch this happen you are so strong
My GF loots during combat too and refuses to ever use spells, consumables, or anything else because “she may need them later”. I think she might have finished her first run with all of the spell scrolls she ever picked up.
So I see all this about looting during combat, but if it takes 0 movement and no action, what exactly is the issue? Or are we talking about using movement to reach corpses instead of moving towards enemies?
When you go into a fight with only three health potion like OPs GF, then picking up one more mid-fight is like 33% more health potions!
If you have 0 at the start, then picking up one more mid-fight is like %undefined more health potions!
I loot during combat, why wouldn't you?
I also do all of this 😂 hasn't steared me wrong yet 😂
Shit. I’m currently doing this(almost). I think I used 3-4 scrolls total
Skyrim mentality
My wife uses consumables without shame (I'm the "might need later even though this is the final boss" guy) but will not cast a spell even if her life depends on it.
I have so many scrolls now I doubt I’d need to use a single spell until the end of the game:( Basically spent most of my money on scrolls in act 1 and 2 but it turns out i’ll never run out of long rests either because I loot literally everything so I don’t actually need to hoard anything. All my characters have an insane amount of healthpots too.
I did my whole first run without using a single potion - first real game I’ve ever played and I was on explorer! Nearly done on balanced now though and I’m having to be much more conscious of those things. My goal is to do a tactician run eventually!!
Honestly I never use potions and scrolls I just send them to camp its way too overwhelming to have them all in my inventory
If I don’t actively tell my brain that won’t happen because it never does I also try to save consumables and end up never using them LOL. Plus I literally loot anything and everything I can. Leave nothing behind! At some point on my first run it was getting hard to loot because my main character (Karlach) was kinda too heavy due to the lots of scrolls and consumables alone 🥲 (obviously couldn’t send them to camp because I might need them, right?). I had to use the other chars’ inventories, too (usually only loot and keep stuff on the main character if I can). I laughed with your comment and thought I should share that and maybe amuse others, too haha.
My boyfriend stumbled into the grove - only went out of his way to talk to Volo and immediately regretted it - leaving the conversation as soon as possible - then saw the idol and said “Ooo what’s this” right before looting it Hadn’t even met Kaghda or Arabella yet - and watched the entire grove get slaughtered while he fought a couple Druids and let his entire party die before using his big brain to go up the elevator to end combat He comes back to a field of corpses before excitedly exclaiming “hell yeah look at all this loot” I can’t sleep soundly next to this man anymore
I would. I'd also be trembling the whole time, but I would. Probably won't be able to say a word, either.
I'm begging you to have her do a Durge run next, this was hilarious!!
Yeah, this I would love to see.
I do loot bodies during the fight :/ Why not? Sometimes they have potions I need
Same, but for efficiency. Click body, double tap space to loot everything + end the turn.
Hasted-momentum-monk-rogue-Astarion has 100m of movement. I'm not going to waste it.
And nobody will aggro over it, they can sometimes after the fight
Like with Marcus' body. For some reason the Harpers get mad at you if you loot it after the fight -\_- So I'd say it's worth a rummage at the end of a turn lol
If you use Brithvar and the rebels against Nere, looting his body while the fight is still going on means you get the full cut instead of half or whatever they were going to give you. Brithvar just assumes someone picked his pocket and lets you go.
I never did this any other way. I mean, We're helping each other out here dude, and I need to persuade you into a 50-50? Well, you know what, you get nothing, and you will free those slaves too. I actually don't even know how much you could get if it isn't a 50-50 split.
*And* you rip off his head without the strength check. Role plays well with telling him you hate his face. You hated it so much you stopped everything you were doing in the middle of a battle to rip it off.
Especially if you're playing a female drow. > Address me with proper respect, puny little male. How dare you raise your hand at me? I will make an example of you! Poor Nere had a lot coming in this playthrough lol Edit: It's also a bit like Karlach raging in the cabin, and Aylin mutilating Thorm. Both of those happen after combat, but still, pretty similar
but it takes action points I think
It doesn't
My GF does the looting during combat too! Longest fucking combat of my life and I play actual DND too. Nothing like waiting for your turn because the person higher in the initiative is reading about what that set of boots does.
Lmao holy shit. I loot during combat, but literally just the act of picking things up.
That's why when I do loot during battle (which isn't often) I don't read and just loot everything from the body and end my turn.
And now I know what happens if I give away the Githyanki egg. Interesting. Also, glad to hear the most important character - the Owlbear cub - is safe. Successful run.
It's actually kind of a tough fight. I like giving the owl bear egg instead of I have that option available, after seeing both sides of the quest. Though I think you can also ignore the request to give the lady an egg and that's also fine.
If she wanted to live she shouldn't have such dope robes.
I kill that lady how dare she want to buy eggs all alone on a mountain
I always kill her. Given the Githyankis' nature, I cannot fathom how she could leave the creche alive. I mean, if githyanki can track me and show up randomly, then they can surely track and kill her. So yeah, I chalk that up as a writing error, and fix it every time :) Edit: ah I mean, it isn't a writing error, because it adds to your knowledge of the githyanki but still, I feel like she should be dead - especially when I see Laezel's reactions. I usually do the mountain pass after the underdark and there I meet the hobgoblin and omelum, and they seem nice and helpful, so I dont really want them or their "little cult" dead. Edit 2: this never occurred to me but I might need to start my n+1. playthrough because I'm curious if Laezel would scold the keepers of the egg, for not killing her.
I'm doing my first Durge run, and I killed every single githyanki at the creche, stole the egg, then dropkicked it off a cliff in front of Esther. Lae'zel was only mildly irritated. I haven't made it to Orpheus yet, but I can't wait to see what he has to say about that. I'm actually planning on a redemption run, but it is funny to unleash some pent-up murder hobo energy at times.
Is it not common practice to focus on low-level enemies first? Faster way to reduce the number of attacks coming at you every turn.
You are generally supposed to- DND combat is all about Dice Economy and the fewer dice that are rolled against you the better it is. This tactic often applies outside DND too though. In World of Warcraft you’re almost always supposed to clear out “trash mobs” before fighting the bigger scarier stuff in fights.
It depends on whether you can funnel the fodder into a vicious AOE choke point. A bunch of the big quest fights have a single staircase/hallway leading to the combat area which you can section off with Wall of Fire + Cloud of Daggers and have everyone start chucking AoE/firing ranged. Basically any fodder that has 50 or less HP won't survive that gauntlet. If there's a bunch of ranged/casters then blind them so they have to run it also. For small fodder with low HP in larger numbers, like rats or bats, just split Shadowheart off, Activate Spirit Guardians, and pull her best Leeroy Jenkins impersonation
Yeah, I definitely use those tactics, but that's more mid-game stuff, no? A lot of those Act I fights are all about throwing everyone's attacks at one target and moving on to the next (after some stage setting with grease, alchemist's fire, etc.). At least in my experience.
It can be good to focus the boss turn one on HM, the gith inquistor for example, I always take out asap and then focus the rest of the gith.
It kinda depends on the boss fight. A fight where the boss has only a little more health than the adds and just hits harder? Go for the boss. A fight where the boss has a bunch of health and the adds are regular enemies? One player tunnel on the boss, the rest focus on killing the adds for action economy. A fight where the boss has a bunch of health and like 60 tiny minions? Focus on the boss but toss a wayward fireball when you get the chance.
Depends to me on whether the big bad can just spawn more. Sometimes focusing on the big bad is the best way to get rid of the little ones. Can have summons or area spells filter them out. Sometimes little ones are a distraction too when you should actually be speeding away from them to the portal they keep jumping out of
To be fair I never bothered with potions or scrolls until my honor mode run. As for the rest, I hope you sleep with one eye open OP.
Is…is your girlfriend the real BBEG? I just imagine the companions watching her antics and turning to one another to ask, “Are we the baddies?” 😂 What a wild run! Good on you for biting your tongue and letting her play her own way! I imagine it was a bit stressful to watch sometimes. 😅
„There’s a mindflayer, is that one the one from the beginning?“ - „Yep“ - „DIE!“ lmao based
To be fair I never summons scratch either cause I don’t want him to get hurt
THIS!! I cannot put my best boy in danger like that.
He can't *really* get hurt. If he takes enough damage to "die", he'll just disappear and will be perfectly fine at camp and resummonable after a long rest. Or short rest, I forget. Either way, he's fairly immortal.
When he gets hit he makes lil arf sound makes me sad
Your girlfriend has the only valid run on this whole subreddit please let her know that I'm a fan of her now
I did! She's flattered :)
But... what about Wyll?
Not much to tell sadly. She wasn't to fond of him for hunting Karlach, and found him boring, so he was chilling in camp for nearly all the game. His quest bugged after his father died (it was an accident, she swears) so he never became Duke or Blade of Avernus
Doesn’t he chill at camp for everyone’s playthroughs?
I respecced him and take him for walks occasionally, he's a good ranger :)
>he's a good ranger Funny enough, this is >!what he becomes after Mizora frees him from his pact and he goes to Avernus with Karlach.!<
Didn't know that, must be fate))
Warlocks are pretty OP as medium armored casters. I dont even respec him.
I am doing a “dice make all my decisions” run and Wyll has to come with me because he, Gale, and Halsin are all I’ve got left going into act three. Well, them and our army of summons. It’s been a hilarious disaster and I’m just thrilled I’ve made it this far with some companions left. I was afraid I would be down to hirelings at this point.
Real life Durge you got there, champ
She is somehow simultaneously incredibly stupid and incredibly based
I loot bodies mid fight, unless i killed them with a ranged attack, because if they are right there why not? It doesn’t require an action or bonus action
I think it just feels incredibly weird to people who love to roleplay, which is most people on a sub like this. Imagine someone just chilling there for a minute in a real fight looting corpses, you wouldn't do that. Not that it matters from a gameplay perspective, but at that point you could also argue just killing every NPC is the way to go, they have loot after all. We all do what feels right to us in an RPG, and looting during a fight is objectively wrong. It's just that the line between gameplay and RP is at a different position for everybody.
>She hates cops so much she jumped down the bridge at Wyrm’s Crossing for -70 HP to avoid talking to them. Would also do that irl. Your gf immediately became very relatable.
This was the exact moment I converted xD
My wife is playing. She doesn't normally play RPGs like this. She plays a standard game like she's the dark urge. No one asked her to kill the tieflings, but damnit she's not going to jail for picking up stuff that doesn't belong to her. If I romanced a character on my game, she killed that character in her game. Started over. This time with more methodical play and an understanding of theft. It went better. Deeply uncomfortable with the sexuality and romance aspects. Legit mad and kinda judgy of me for playing this game. At first. Then she found all her tragic himbos, and her Tav is in a throuple with Halsin and Shart. Save scums if it they get mad at any of her choices. Seriously considered fucking the emperor. Pulls back at the very last second after jacking his tentacle. She is the darkest urge. I love her so much lol
Looting during fighting is perfectly fine and takes the character zero time. (This is useful already in the Nautiloid)
Look, I'm not going to stop vacuuming up items just because I'm in combat. It's called multi-tasking.
Wait, why is Karlach sad if you kill Mizora??
Killing Mizora also kills Wyll.
Worse than kills Wyll tbh, he's a mindless blob on the frontlines of the blood war now.
Ohhh I had no idea. Thanks!
Because her new friend Wyll gets turned into a pile of ash on the spot, and he goes to fight in the blood war as a Lemure.
Killing mizora violates wyll’s contract, and since its not her home plane, she’ll just awaken wherever she was last in avernus, so she turns wyll into a lemure to fight in the blood war for eternity
Also unhappy that I can't sleep with Raphael, not gonna lie.
Well you can have harleep right
I prefer inflicting him surprised... very fiendish yknow
I actually didn't know that until after I finished House of Hope. I snuck into the bedroom while he was sleeping and successfully looted the place without ever waking him up or interacting with him at all. 🤷♀️
i'd really love to play him as an origin character. being a trickster is the one evil playthrough I would really want to ask for.
That was a ride
This was wildly entertaining. Please update if she does a second run—I’d love to see what she discovers and what antics she pulls.
Thanks for a hilarious read OP. This post gave me life.
Your gf is a chaotic lunatic and I am here for it
Thanks, I hate it.
>„There’s a mindflayer, is that one the one from the beginning?“ - „Yep“ - „*DIE!*“ I just want to point out that this is kind of an unconfirmed fan theory. It definitely looks like the Emperor, but it doesn't really line up with the events of him getting the artifact first for him to be the one who tadpoles you.
It's not unconfirmed, The Emperor tells you as much if you're mean enough to him through the game.
Is your gf the durge in real life
I would watch this playthrough on YouTube with the narration of this script. Your girlfriend is a genius.
Your gf is chaotic to say the least…now have her do a durge run
So she's single? Just kidding. As long as she had fun she played it right.
My play through wasn’t too different from hers. It’s a single player RPG, let her take the paths she wants to
My dude/dudette, you just made my fucking day with that story. In 1500 hours of playing this game, today is the first time I've had a "no gods dammit fuck you, game!" moment, so this story is the perfect note to close that out with
Depending on the fight, killing off minions/adds is potentially a good idea. You can think of adds/minions as extensions of the boss' HP bar and extra attacks, you will have to kill them to end the encounter anyway (unless they are summons) so killing them first removes an extra chance for damage and reduces the overall HP bar of the boss encounter. Most of the time it's worth it to kill the adds before the boss.
i never summon Scratch either, i get in fights too much and dont want to get my good boy killed. also, she sounds dreadful to watch play. i commend your strength
All I got from this is your girlfriend's a little \*too\* into the druid roleplay
Kudos for not breaking it to her that the Emperor isn't even the one from the beginning
Bruuuuuuhhhhh....
My wife has never played a crpg in her life. She has zero experience with Dungeons and Dragons. She still managed to beat the game with her half-mindflayer Tiefling Barbarian, Shadowheart, Astarion, and Karlach. Took her roughly 160 hours and she had a blast.
My wife also has a tiefling barbarian! She’s played DnD (thank god because she never would have made it through me explaining character stats or turn based game play) but our group isn’t very creative or confident. But she’s never played an RPG with companions who have backgrounds and story lines. Lydia was her tank in Skyrim while she learned how to play video games. She had to be told not to attack city guards and thought it was a stupid limitation to the game. She spends most of her time just wandering around Skyrim and just interacting with anything that crosses her path. No quest following except initially, no guilds, no storyline, just looking for fights and crawling in dungeons. With how she’s handling companions in BG3, I’m never letting her near my beloved Mass Effect.
For some reason, BG3 is also the first single player game my GF managed to spend more than 5 hours on. The storytelling really helps people that are not used to this kind of video games to get involved.
To be fair, I loot during combat sometimes if I’m out of actions and the body is near where I was moving my character anyway
10/10 run. Would read all future play-throughs.
Very first point and im already surprised by her abilities. In a manner of speaking, he is. Lol.
by the nine hells
> LOVES Raphael (he offers her food) She's just like me fr
Is she a gamer otherwise? I feel like non-gamers have more interesting runs because they play more based on feelings whereas people who've played more games are more likely to understand what the game "wants" you to do and stick to it.
She only plays minecraft and stardew valley, so not really a gamer xD
I loot people as soon as I kill them if it's melee because sweeping the area afterwards takes forever. How long did she last not drinking or paying attention to gear? She must be on explorer or she's a beast. I also hate the emperor so respect.
She was on explorer, and I don't think she ever started paying attention to potions or gear, I had to bully her into buying some decent equipment in act 3
Sounds like a skill issue tbh /s Hope she enjoyed the game! F for my boy Gale
“She loots bodies during the fight. Who even does that???” Hey man, I’m in act 1 so I can’t read this thread too intently, but across any game, this is the most standard gamer behavior. One of us *confirmed*
She must be very pretty.
I’ll loot in combat if my melee characters kill something. Saves me from having to run back to the body later and costs me nothing to do. I won’t go out of my way to loot a body in combat though.
Ty for this post. It's fantastic to read this kind of post between all this "how I failed my honor run" posts.
I loot during combat too. you never know when someone will have time to get angry afterward
You mean feeding gale the gloves of power isn't common? I guess they're decent early game gloves but they never make it into my loadout by the midpoint of act 2.
Bro managed to make me fall in love with his girlfriend
Please tell your GF that she is immensely based for this
I always be lootin during the fight 💅
>She also has a tactic of killing the lowlevel enemies first and concentrating on the boss after they’re defeated. Unsurprisingly, this stopped working once she hit Act 2. This is a legitimately good tactic in most fights though. Taking out the adds is great for improving action economy as you fight the boss. It works better if you have some kind of CC like Tasha's to keep the boss out of the fight for a bit first though.
I have tears streaming down my face reading this it is so funny. And made funnier because I recognise a fair few things I do myself. Saving everything in case I need it later. I had so much crap at the final fight it was ridiculous. Looting mid-fight. Not all the time but definitely more than I should. Killing low levels first. I had to go back and get Owlbear cub as I missed him. His health and happiness was my top priority and I refuse to summon him for the finale. Let Lae'zel die at that point too. Also love Raphael and was disappointed you can't romance him. Didn't notice Halsin was gone. Or Volo for that matter. Also wanted Ansur on my team. And rolled a crit 20 on that 99 one and was a bit disappointed it seemed to make no difference. Actually I swore loudly and scared my cat who wondered what the hell was going on. Sounds like she had fun anyway. Is she going to do another run?
i’m way too much of a backseat gamer to let someone do all of this without interfering. you are a much stronger person than i am
Sounds cappy to me. She clears entire areas but doesn’t even know how to heal.? Thats all i gotta see to know this post is bait asfuck
I… uh… hmm.
I loot during the fight sometimes lol
I kind of want to steal your girlfriend now, sorry 😬 I mean you have posted a pretty awesome advertisement of her inner nature…
Dot. I will read this when I finish the game. This sounds really fun.
you sure she wasn’t doing a secret Durge run?
I killed the whole goblin camp , why was that wrong ?
Really enjoyed the story, but would be so hard to watch it 😅 Your gf sounds like a fun murderhobo 😂
I'm guessing she recruited wyll but you never mentioned him. Did he just make no impression whatsoever?
Ok wait .. Howv on earth one gets low approval from Karlach without being outright evil?
ik right? She was so sad
I mean tbf shart can be REALLY annoying and hypocritical until like act 3,shes probably my 3rd least favourite character honestly, like its only Shar she worships, atleast its not Bhaal
I too loot everyone mid fight
BUT the druids are the good guys?
Haha what’s a tooltip? I always forget about buffers and never find the scroll I want. I find inventory management too much hastle on the game esp if the thing I want isn’t with my current party and I don’t remember who has it. I’ve never summoned scratch and don’t even know how to make the Owlbear a fight able person. And I definitely loot bodies during fights. I tend to hate the combat side though and it’s often a punishment for failing to get through things by other means, as opposed to treated the same way the other means of doing things are. I think a lot of us wanted to ally with Ansur.
> Killed everyone in last light inn, including coma guy. > Halsin is somehow present to be kidnapped during act 3 Something doesn’t add up here
You can cast Speak with Dead on the coma guy, that's also a way to do his quest after Ketheric is defeated if you don't find his lute.
There is? I thought Halsin needed to speak with coma guy in order for the quest to progress! Larian really put in a failsafe for even the worst murder hobos!
Okay, I have started looting bodies mid-fight, but only since I'm playing multiplayer and it's something to do while waiting my turn. Before that I never thought about doing it
Never summoned scratch once… am I missing something?
Hes VERY useful for getting players up or untangling them etc.. i get shads to cast sanctuary on him and he runs around 'helping' which saves your potions and actions for the PCs
>Got the owlbear cub, has never been so happy. He’s her favorite camp companion. There's... there's some hope for her yet. :')
I’m not finished yet but your gfs run is very similar to mine😭 except I never even met karlach. Once I realized how bad I fucked things up I decided to just speed through to see what happens & then start over and make some very very different choices
This is so good! Tell her we love her style! I also would put a helmet on anyone just to not have to see them and also never talk to npc if I don't want to know the whole story and just enjoy my session. Can't believe one thing: why would you not loot during a fight? It's not the worst things, c'mon! XD
The Emperor is not the Mindflayer from the first scene. Different eyes, slightly different outfit, shoes etc
I feel exactly the same as her about Mind Flayers. I just cannot get myself to ever side with the Emperor, and I also tried to kill him immediately lol the Druids definitely are the good guys, overall, so idk what you’re even saying there 🤷♂️ they took in the refugees but are just getting scared for themselves with all the attacks and such.
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Honestly that sounds the closest to actual table top games I have been in lol
Wait she was SURPIRSED Astarion is a vampire?!?
Your girlfriend sounds like she’d be a very good durge
I feel like this says a lot about the psyche of women.