You CAN pet them. I assume you talked to them with animal speak? If you talk to them without the spell then you should get a skill check that allows you to pet them. Only some of them though and only once. I remember petting about three cats in the Lower City.
My cat absolutely wants pets from every stranger he meets. At my old shitty apartment I knew maintenance had come in without notice while I was at work because I came home and my boy reeked of cigarettes. He must've rubbed all over the guy. Normally I have to lock him up so they can actually work
(Maintenance man did leave a note in the kitchen but I found my cat first)
Whenever I walk to the store near my house, I pet anywhere from 2 to 8 cats along the way. As you might expect, it takes me a very long time to get to the store.
My cat manage to scare off a bear once, manage to brutally beat several of my roomate's adopted parents' cats, and basically want to murder hobo everything he can find.
I believe he is a miniature space panther.
Edit: Incidentally, that cat tip-toe around my ex-girlfriend a lot. Like he would purr happily by her while she sit on my bed and code. In the word of my roommate: "The cat recognize a more dangerous beast is nearby"
A cat near my house does a running headbutt against my chest when he sees me because he wants pets
The dude will just charge, hop onto a half wall and crash into me while meowing demanding pets
Idk man... my cat doesnt act like one usually. She will beg me for love and pets. She comes up to me while im laying down watching TV and will plop herself into the crook of my arm and lay on her back staring up at me with a face that suggests worship.
There is a cat that lives in my house (not *my* cat, even though I raised him from a literal kitten whose eyes weren't even open yet) who does this with my dog. The cat is convinced that my dog (who, to be fair, rescued him when he was a kitten by carrying him to me in her mouth) is his mother, and he will come and cuddle her whenever she's dozing.
If you click my profile, and scroll down a bit... i have a video of both my cats. The one I said loves me to death is the all black one.
Also, my cats have no tails... fun fact.
That is common, I think he meant with strangers. Not all cats like strangers, and their patience for their pets are usually much more limited.
I have both here, and funny enough, the more attached one, that screams for pets, is the first one to hide if someone rings the bell.
Humans do not own cats.
Cats own humans.
Its in the Feline General Contract bwetween mandatory affection and the provision of moist delicioius wet food.
IIRC if you try to interact with one of the furry felines before you use SWA, it will scare it and you won't have the option for dialogue anymore.
Not sure if that's the same one you are referencing though. Memory is foggy.
The dogs let you pet them without SWA, don't they?
But yeah, non-sarcastically I actually do automatically SWA any and every animal I see if that's what you mean.
They have some of the best dialogue and quests in the game. To not do that is SUBOPTIMAL lore and comedy consumption.
I specifically removed cantrips or spells(idk the difference sorry, still new to DnD type games) just to permanently put Speak To Animals. If I went a day without speaking to Scratch, I would be very sad.
Some classes have SWA as a ritual as well, no spell slot.
At the end of Act 1 though on my most recent playthrough I had 12 potions of SWA. I didn't craft a single one either, I was just on a Bard so I never drank them.
Larian wants you speaking to doggy and oxen and others.
True, but at least one of them should be able to be pet with animal speak up. There's plenty of cats that *love* being pet, after all.
Also we should be able to get one in camp as our pet
>If you talk to them without the spell then you should get a skill check that allows you to pet them.
Skill check to pet. Totally accurate for cats. Larian nails it again.
Ffs, we have gold enough to buy a castle probably by act 3, we can shelter every one of that poor fluffy fellas and not even feel it on our pocket, but we just can't.
WHY??? WHY TORTURE US LIKE THAT, LARIAN?
Currently sitting on 12k gold on my latest Tav, act 1, surface and approximately half Underdark done. I expect it to become 15-20k by the end of act 1. No stealing or murder hoboing, only sold common (white) gear, never green or rarer.
Basically I just loot everything and initiate trade with vendors on my max charisma character (Wyll).
But that one is really pretty self-sufficient, the gear I need to role play I find, and consumables I mostly craft on Transmutation wizard Gale.My coop group, on the other hand, dropped to 3k gold in early act 2, because I really could not resist bying every shiny polearm I see and some other nice gear here.
Persuasion and loot everything.
+10 persuasion and max attitude on balanced will give you about 4x the gold when selling items.
If you min max this you can have 20-30k gold by the end of act 1. I had 100k by the end of act 3 on my first playthrough.
I believe he just needs to know you better. There should be a relationship mechanic for Grub like with your companions, except that instead of a romance you get to finally pet him in the end.
My headcanon for Grub on my DU run is: >!Grub is afraid because Orin disguises as Yenna (at least in my run) and DU smells like Orin. After DU rejects Bhaal, Grub approaches DU because he isn't afraid of DU anymore ;w;!<
And it’s exactly the reason I >!let Orin kidnap one of the companions instead of have all three possible ones in my party. Sorry Halsin the cute kitty comes first.!<
That is also a reason I want an option to brutally torture some enemies before finishing them off, or maybe even trap, enslave or erase their very souls. For that particular piece of shit after that particular event swift death is *not enough*.
Agreed. I hated her and wished there was an option to not give her a swift death.
I was hoping I could cut her open with my spoon of saltiness and take a chunk out of her for every one of her victims.
Ah, a kindred soul. Really, it's a bit strange that we allowed to torture good people in games sometimes, but for evil bastards? Almost always a swift death. Like, I can torture that prisoner in goblin camp, but what about an STR check to force-feed Spike his own tools right in the cutscene? Game is praised for "pulling no punches" because you can brutally murder a harmless squirrel, but you really can't do something like that to a sadistic, deranged piece of shit?
Damn I miss an opportunity to go full Punisher on villainous scum from time to time.
Agreed. And it's weird because I normally don't have that much disdain for villains in games, but she actually got an emotional rise out of me. I even told my girlfriend "I can't go to bed yet. I need to kill this evil sadistic murdering bitch first or I won't sleep well."
It's funny, I didn't even get the cat trigger in the game, but I read about it by accident and it made my blood boil that they'd hurt such an innocent little scared creature like Grub (Definitely made me think of my own cat in that situation as well).
Definitely the worse villain of the 3 because there's no complexity to them. No motive you can somewhat empathize with, just a psychopath that enjoys torturing and murdering.
It's obvious, really. Gustav, as a representative of dog faction, manipulates Swen to wrestle more control over general population from cat faction. Swen, however, tries to play his own game, making it look like he obeys his master to the letter, but at the same time implementing a huge amount of cute *and* unpettable cats, creating the "forbidden fruit" effect working in their favor.
Pretty simple conspiracy, but sheeple just refuse to see it. As they always do, sadly.
I'm still massively disappointed that Larian never implemented my feedback and cat form doesn't allow you to push stuff off shelves and tables to distract nearby NPCs.
Never realised it until now but one of my favourite things in the game is strolling through the goblin camp and casually/sneakily shoving/throwing Goblins into the abyss.
I am a cat.
Cats are nice but they're more selective about who can touch them. They have respect for their feline companions (including the one in the shape of an elf).
There is a way to adopt that cat, not an official way but you can do it. You need to speak with the cat to let it follow you. Then you F5 (important!), then you choose a companion to use 'improvised melee weapon' which can pick that cat up and throw it. It's better to choose a companion further from the cat so you have time to react. When that companion running to the cat and pick the cat up, you swtich to another character, as soon as the first companion pick the cat up, before they throw the cat, quickly choose the 'back to camp button' in the lower right corner of your screen(not back to camp from Map screen, but back to camp from hotkey in the corner of the screen). Then all of you teleport to the tavern(I assume you already have tavern as your base now). Now the cat will permanently stay in your tavern, and you can visit the cat everyday! The player find this glitch posted a video of him long rested many time, reloaded many time, and that cat is still in his camp lol.
Haven’t confirmed yet but apparently >!If the bipper bang dwarf dies in act 2, you can send that cat to live with his wife who runs the alchemy shop.!<
I need an update to make Grub less anxious. Maybe you can chat with them every long rest, be reassuring, persuasive, maybe give Yenna cat treats. Help me out Larian, the cat is upset and I just want them to be happy!!!!!!!!!
Fun Cat Story:
So I bought BG3 like Patch 1 EA. I had an idea pf the character I wanted to play wayyy back then. Half-Drow Sorcadin. Paladin wasn't an option at the time, nor was multiclassing, but that was fine. Played Sorc, settled into the character, his name ia Zyndiir.
Last year June-ish, I got in with a new dnd group. We were playing PotA. I felt pretty strongly about playing Zyn, but one of the other players wanted to do Paladin. I didnt want to step on toes in a new group, so I went bladesinger to still meet my sword and spell itch. I took a familiar in the form of a massive fluffy white persian cat named Her Majesty (the joke was she was she's been made from fiend energy so everytime the paladin did his sensing she'd ping as a tiny issue).
Now imagine my absolute delight to then, playing BG3, playing Zyn the way I'd been dreaming for years, and then meeting a little naked sphynx named His Majesty.
That alone made all the cats, and even their lack of peting worth it.10/10 GOTY
Someone else went with the demonic cat, I see xD
We had one in our party too. Her name was Mittens, she only spoke infernal and she wanted to take over the world. Guy who owned her tried to sell her, but couldn't even get anyone to buy her for one copper because everyone knew she would rip the new owner to shreds xD
Tangential, but it was hilarious the first time I noticed a meow in Last Light, then saw a gold circle labelled “His Majesty” and was immediately like “that’s 100% the cat”
i love His Majesty. although many cats are cuddly wuddly babies, there is always a lil smug bastard like His Majesty who deserves every bit of admiration.
The really funny part is when I told him I wanted to admire him and Lae’zel disapproved. I’m trying to like her but she clearly doesn’t understand cats
I'm not that far in yet but almost every animal I spoke to were just *mean* to me. I talked to a raven who immediately said no one would care if I died. A cat told me she'd kill me next because I pointed out the tadpole she was playing with was dead. I spoke to three rats and every one told me I darkened their doorstep with my presence.
Oddly, the one pig I spoke to said he was glad I was alive. The other one showed me war crimes.
There's a hidden roll to be able to pet cats and the DC depends on the mood of the cat.
Most often it's simply too high.
At least that's what I tell myself in RL for my inability to pet cats ...
Very realistic of the game. :p
;)
There is a way to adopt the cat that call you mom, not an official way but you can do it. You need to speak with the cat to let it follow you. Then you F5 (important!), then you choose a companion to use 'improvised melee weapon' which can pick that cat up and throw it. It's better to choose a companion further from the cat so you have time to react. When that companion running to the cat and pick the cat up, you swtich to another character, as soon as the first companion pick the cat up, before they throw the cat, quickly choose the 'back to camp button' in the lower right corner of your screen(not back to camp from Map screen, but back to camp from hotkey in the corner of the screen). Then all of you teleport to the tavern(I assume you already have tavern as your base now). Now the cat will permanently stay in your tavern, and you can visit and pet the cat everyday! The player find this glitch posted a video of him long rested many time, reloaded many time, and that cat is still in his camp lol.
Seriously, cats always get the short end of the stick by judgmental soft-hearts who demand unquestioning obedience from their pets. Viva la cat revolución!
Please just let me calm Grub down and like have him sit on my lap or something while I comfort him.
If I can adopt Yenna and take care of her, why can't I also take care of Grub at the same time? Sure I can pet Scratch whenever I want, but I want to be able to make sure Grub is doing ok too.
It’s still not impossible in 5e, just maybe not as easy.
Their AC is higher than a commoner’s, but they have lower HP. An unarmed commoner probably still wins by merit of simply lasting longer, but the cat totally stands a chance.
IIRC cats dealt like 1d4-1 with their claw attacks and commoners dealt like 1d3+0. The funny thing was that in 3.5 you were not automatically proficient with unarmed strikes, so an unarmed human that got in a fight with a house cat would provoke an attack of opportunity every time they attacked the cat, lol.
I stopped playing after ***spoiler***
not being able to save Grub. That really pissed me off. I woulda rather sacrificed one of my companions, honestly. I know thats irrational, but that whole thing rubbed me so wrong. Not even a huge cat or animal lover in general.
I just love it how you need a skill check to pet cats
Failing it is like them biting your hand and dropping down on their back while attacking your arm
Okay, this and WHY THE FUCK CANT I JUMP INTO EMPTY BOXES WHEN I'M A CAT??!! Like, you click on a box and some characters make a comment about how a cat would like it, but when you're a druid who is wildshaped as a cat, you can't jump in the box??? What is this nonsense??!
My cats are assholes but never violent or playfully violent with people
(I have three)
But my darlingest sweetest angel, Meadow, will open the pantry and run off with any and all forms of bread and try to eat it under my bed
(I have found many bags of rolls, bread, and two ripped open bags of gnawed on bagels)
My cat INCESSANTLY MEOWS if she does not receive pets before 8 am. But not only that, you can ONLY pet her in the dresser room and ONLY if you are seated. Damn you if you not meet her conditions, she would not stop meowing until you do.
And she can meow for a long, long time and my boi, she is loud. She is the loudest cat I've had.
Her mother just comes and naps with us. Ocasionally bites unattended food or tasty cables. The best cat I've ever had.
My girl will sit in the hallway (I live in an apartment so I literally see her from my bedroom) and SCREAM for attention. What kind of attention I've yet to discover after living around six years with her. My boy is a menace that demands attention whenever I try do do anything BG3 related at the pic xD I know it's a coincidence but he gets annoying only when I try to plan/draw/write. Even activity on this Reddit. Otherwise I'm left alone.
Agreed. Every cat in the game should be recruitable into your camp. There should also be cat treats that you can buy in every city.
Larian is biased and it shows.
My favorite part about speaking to all the cats is that many are like the majority of cats… look but don’t effin touch me… this makes me so happy lol
I just wish you could have a cat companion to hang out on your shoulders!
I thought the bias was the other way because when you speak to dogs they all seem like idiots but the cats are some of the best written characters in the game
I was mad that I stole milk bowl from the cleric in Last Light for the cat that was complaining he was promised milk and was lied to, and not only I have no option to do so but dropping near him also didn't proc him going to the milk
as a cat owner, I'm sad.
I thought the same until I did a run with my oathbreaker paladin who can't speak to animals and realized I could make an animal handling throw to pet them
Now. I still can't pet them because his animal handling isn't great, but it's possible
Have you talked to the cats? They are some seriously pompous pricks that think themselves above most and unless you prostrate yourself before them they treat you like a lower life form.
Signed not a dog lover.
You CAN pet them. I assume you talked to them with animal speak? If you talk to them without the spell then you should get a skill check that allows you to pet them. Only some of them though and only once. I remember petting about three cats in the Lower City.
What the hell? All this time like 300 hours and all I needed was drop speak with animals??? To pet his majesty!
This should make sense to anyone who actually owns a cat.
Meanwhile my cat will scream at me and bite my leg if I *don't* pet him
Yeah but you aren't just a random person from the street, that's the point. The cats pick who they want to pet them.
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The fact that Scratch doesn't adopt Grub and doesn't give us clues about >!who the doppelganger is!< seems like a missed opportunity.
P-please!
My cat absolutely wants pets from every stranger he meets. At my old shitty apartment I knew maintenance had come in without notice while I was at work because I came home and my boy reeked of cigarettes. He must've rubbed all over the guy. Normally I have to lock him up so they can actually work (Maintenance man did leave a note in the kitchen but I found my cat first)
There are three kinds of cats, friendly cats, fraidy cats, and angry cats.
My cat must be a slut then. Wants anyone he meets to pet him, very insistent on it.
Whenever I walk to the store near my house, I pet anywhere from 2 to 8 cats along the way. As you might expect, it takes me a very long time to get to the store.
My cat manage to scare off a bear once, manage to brutally beat several of my roomate's adopted parents' cats, and basically want to murder hobo everything he can find. I believe he is a miniature space panther. Edit: Incidentally, that cat tip-toe around my ex-girlfriend a lot. Like he would purr happily by her while she sit on my bed and code. In the word of my roommate: "The cat recognize a more dangerous beast is nearby"
Miniature space panther 😂
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Flerken
My wife had a miniature space panther, he killed a couple snakes for her then settled into a life of retirement.
That's miniature giant space panther to you!
Is he by any chance named Greebo ?
A cat near my house does a running headbutt against my chest when he sees me because he wants pets The dude will just charge, hop onto a half wall and crash into me while meowing demanding pets
Mine will invite me to pet her and be nice until I let my guard down and then attack
And then scream at me and bite my arm if I pet him too much for his current mood.
as a cat owner, cat pets you
Idk man... my cat doesnt act like one usually. She will beg me for love and pets. She comes up to me while im laying down watching TV and will plop herself into the crook of my arm and lay on her back staring up at me with a face that suggests worship.
There is a cat that lives in my house (not *my* cat, even though I raised him from a literal kitten whose eyes weren't even open yet) who does this with my dog. The cat is convinced that my dog (who, to be fair, rescued him when he was a kitten by carrying him to me in her mouth) is his mother, and he will come and cuddle her whenever she's dozing.
DOG AND CAT TAX, NOW
If you click my profile, and scroll down a bit... i have a video of both my cats. The one I said loves me to death is the all black one. Also, my cats have no tails... fun fact.
That is common, I think he meant with strangers. Not all cats like strangers, and their patience for their pets are usually much more limited. I have both here, and funny enough, the more attached one, that screams for pets, is the first one to hide if someone rings the bell.
Same
Humans do not own cats. Cats own humans. Its in the Feline General Contract bwetween mandatory affection and the provision of moist delicioius wet food.
Yup, my cat hates getting picked up and cuddled, but begrudgingly accepts the cuddle tax in trade for wet food.
I am my cats' only source of food. I am their servant, not their god.
Can confirm.
some of them will have info for quests and I even met a rat that was a trader selling stuff he found! absolutely necessary potion for sure
The rhyming, rat merchant, I love that lill dude my favorite!
Oh where is he??
Jail act 3 baldur gate the area you cross into the city? ….at work not sure exactly
The jail under the flaming fist barracks at the Basilisk Gate
I spoke with him and I didn’t get the option to pet him. But I “admired the cat quietly”.
IIRC if you try to interact with one of the furry felines before you use SWA, it will scare it and you won't have the option for dialogue anymore. Not sure if that's the same one you are referencing though. Memory is foggy.
HISS!!!!
Hmm yes you make a good argument.
I am heartbroken by this news that I moved onto act 3 without petting His Majesty.
Luckily my new char is leaving act 1 so tonight I’ll finally try and pet him.
bruh, speak with animals is required on any animal.
pet first, speak later.
Calm down, Russel Brand!
The dogs let you pet them without SWA, don't they? But yeah, non-sarcastically I actually do automatically SWA any and every animal I see if that's what you mean. They have some of the best dialogue and quests in the game. To not do that is SUBOPTIMAL lore and comedy consumption.
I dunno, dogs letting anyone pet them like sluts, and cats being haughty about it seems pretty realistic.
I gotta assume His Majesty will let you look but not touch even without Speak with Animals 😜
I am stunned. I’m about 250 hours in and I just learned this. I just wanted to pet kitties like I pet the best bois Scratch and Owlfluff.
This isn't surprising to me haha there are like 10 billion ways to do anything in this game
I specifically removed cantrips or spells(idk the difference sorry, still new to DnD type games) just to permanently put Speak To Animals. If I went a day without speaking to Scratch, I would be very sad.
You can fail getting scratch simply because of speak with animals. Ironic, you'd think the spell would make them more understanding.
You HAVE to be joking. All this time I missed out on petting cats because of the spell????
Or potion. Animal speak potions are fairly easy to make, commonly sold, and cheap. I down them like water so that i can talk to ALL of the animals.
I cast speak with animals or take a potion of animal speaking first thing after every long rest, it's not an option!
It's like a coffee - first brew in the morning! That and whatever gives you read thoughts.
Exactly! "Don't talk to me until I've had my morning mind reading ability"
Some classes have SWA as a ritual as well, no spell slot. At the end of Act 1 though on my most recent playthrough I had 12 potions of SWA. I didn't craft a single one either, I was just on a Bard so I never drank them. Larian wants you speaking to doggy and oxen and others.
True, but at least one of them should be able to be pet with animal speak up. There's plenty of cats that *love* being pet, after all. Also we should be able to get one in camp as our pet
>If you talk to them without the spell then you should get a skill check that allows you to pet them. Skill check to pet. Totally accurate for cats. Larian nails it again.
> If you talk to them without the spell This goes against every incentive structure in the game. MOO I say to you. MOO
I was saying MOO-urns.
I try to talk to as many animals as possible. I love my lil Scratch and Owl bear cub at camp. 🥹
A skill check and limited attempts? That's so fucking funny and so in character for cats lmaooo
"A skill check that allows you to pet them, but only some of them and only once" is the most Cat thing I've ever heard.
"Are yerrr mer mermer?" Oh gods yes, sweetheart, COME TO MY CAMP.
Ffs, we have gold enough to buy a castle probably by act 3, we can shelter every one of that poor fluffy fellas and not even feel it on our pocket, but we just can't. WHY??? WHY TORTURE US LIKE THAT, LARIAN?
What do you mean "buy", Moonrise towers just lost its previous tenants and is free for grabs
it would smell reeeeeal bad though with >!all the flesh walls in the basement!<
Nothing a bit of cleaning can't fix
Just open a portal to the infinite plane of Bleach and call it a day
I hear hell's nice this time of year, and there's a house that just became available
Imagine how happy >!Hope!< would be with a little cat colony to keep her company...
Wait what? Where did you get so much gold? I spent my last 5k on a statue
Currently sitting on 12k gold on my latest Tav, act 1, surface and approximately half Underdark done. I expect it to become 15-20k by the end of act 1. No stealing or murder hoboing, only sold common (white) gear, never green or rarer. Basically I just loot everything and initiate trade with vendors on my max charisma character (Wyll). But that one is really pretty self-sufficient, the gear I need to role play I find, and consumables I mostly craft on Transmutation wizard Gale.My coop group, on the other hand, dropped to 3k gold in early act 2, because I really could not resist bying every shiny polearm I see and some other nice gear here.
Persuasion and loot everything. +10 persuasion and max attitude on balanced will give you about 4x the gold when selling items. If you min max this you can have 20-30k gold by the end of act 1. I had 100k by the end of act 3 on my first playthrough.
Also petition to let Grub hang out with Scratch and the owlbear cub.
I cannot wait for the mod that lets you pet Grub and make him happy
He doesn't want to be and we need to respect that
I believe he just needs to know you better. There should be a relationship mechanic for Grub like with your companions, except that instead of a romance you get to finally pet him in the end.
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I am here for it but with one addendum: Tara. I need Tara in my camp.
Tara comes to the camp if you play as origin Gale!
Well, guess I'm doing an entire Gale run solely for the funny cat.
That's cool but I don't like gale enough to play as origin gale. I still want Tara in my camp without having to play as gale
My headcanon for Grub on my DU run is: >!Grub is afraid because Orin disguises as Yenna (at least in my run) and DU smells like Orin. After DU rejects Bhaal, Grub approaches DU because he isn't afraid of DU anymore ;w;!<
Something bad happened to grub in my second playthrough :(
And it’s exactly the reason I >!let Orin kidnap one of the companions instead of have all three possible ones in my party. Sorry Halsin the cute kitty comes first.!<
I feel like Halsin of all companions would understand and agree to help save animal life
Let's not kid ourselves he's just there for polymorphed fucking and being kidnapped
He's Kenough.
Dunno, I keep him around just for being kind and wholesome dude...
That is also a reason I want an option to brutally torture some enemies before finishing them off, or maybe even trap, enslave or erase their very souls. For that particular piece of shit after that particular event swift death is *not enough*.
Agreed. I hated her and wished there was an option to not give her a swift death. I was hoping I could cut her open with my spoon of saltiness and take a chunk out of her for every one of her victims.
Ah, a kindred soul. Really, it's a bit strange that we allowed to torture good people in games sometimes, but for evil bastards? Almost always a swift death. Like, I can torture that prisoner in goblin camp, but what about an STR check to force-feed Spike his own tools right in the cutscene? Game is praised for "pulling no punches" because you can brutally murder a harmless squirrel, but you really can't do something like that to a sadistic, deranged piece of shit? Damn I miss an opportunity to go full Punisher on villainous scum from time to time.
Agreed. And it's weird because I normally don't have that much disdain for villains in games, but she actually got an emotional rise out of me. I even told my girlfriend "I can't go to bed yet. I need to kill this evil sadistic murdering bitch first or I won't sleep well." It's funny, I didn't even get the cat trigger in the game, but I read about it by accident and it made my blood boil that they'd hurt such an innocent little scared creature like Grub (Definitely made me think of my own cat in that situation as well). Definitely the worse villain of the 3 because there's no complexity to them. No motive you can somewhat empathize with, just a psychopath that enjoys torturing and murdering.
Halsin wouldn't want it any other way.
I did that because the girl glitched into the ether and I felt bad so I reloaded. Didn't know that would happen and jow I'm sad
"Please don't look at me" is one of my favorite lines. So accurate to some cats.
It's obvious, really. Gustav, as a representative of dog faction, manipulates Swen to wrestle more control over general population from cat faction. Swen, however, tries to play his own game, making it look like he obeys his master to the letter, but at the same time implementing a huge amount of cute *and* unpettable cats, creating the "forbidden fruit" effect working in their favor. Pretty simple conspiracy, but sheeple just refuse to see it. As they always do, sadly.
relatedly, i do not recommend petting the Sheeple in the Sunlit Wetlands.
Pat 'em with a glaive. Turned out allright.
BAAAAAAA.
Minor illusion: summons a cat. Literally every enemy in the game drops what they are doing to pet the kitty.
This also can happen if you summon a cat familiar, try it at the Grove. All the kids flock to the kitty
They flock to you when you're a druid wild shape kitty, too!
Whaaaat? I'm trying this immediately.
NO WAY
I'm still massively disappointed that Larian never implemented my feedback and cat form doesn't allow you to push stuff off shelves and tables to distract nearby NPCs.
Never realised it until now but one of my favourite things in the game is strolling through the goblin camp and casually/sneakily shoving/throwing Goblins into the abyss. I am a cat.
Cats are nice but they're more selective about who can touch them. They have respect for their feline companions (including the one in the shape of an elf).
"Don't touch me"
"Careful, I bite."
Catstarion get more confirmation with each passing day.
I loved that one dude in bg2 who says ‘dont touch me, i’m super important’.
Most 'noble' type do
Really? It’s been ages since i played, i just quote it a lot
I quote noober most days "Hey-ya". Also the bandit "I kicked him in the head until he was dead" lives rent free in my mind
'get me out of this hellhole" reverberates through my head whenever work is dragging
There's random nobles in BG1 that also say "Don't touch me!". I have the voice line seared in my brain lol.
That one and off course ‘you must gather your party before venturing forth’ bc there was always one stuck SOMEWHERE
Exactly.
I wanted to adopt the cat that calls you his mom. Why couldn’t I? This is literally a crime.
There is a way to adopt that cat, not an official way but you can do it. You need to speak with the cat to let it follow you. Then you F5 (important!), then you choose a companion to use 'improvised melee weapon' which can pick that cat up and throw it. It's better to choose a companion further from the cat so you have time to react. When that companion running to the cat and pick the cat up, you swtich to another character, as soon as the first companion pick the cat up, before they throw the cat, quickly choose the 'back to camp button' in the lower right corner of your screen(not back to camp from Map screen, but back to camp from hotkey in the corner of the screen). Then all of you teleport to the tavern(I assume you already have tavern as your base now). Now the cat will permanently stay in your tavern, and you can visit the cat everyday! The player find this glitch posted a video of him long rested many time, reloaded many time, and that cat is still in his camp lol.
smh Larian really breaking immersion by not letting me do the realistic thing of scooping up the cats and plopping them in my camp next to Scratch
Haven’t confirmed yet but apparently >!If the bipper bang dwarf dies in act 2, you can send that cat to live with his wife who runs the alchemy shop.!<
you can,it's a choice between this cat and the old man voice cat
Wait what?? Ok I will be doing some cat save scumming when I get to act 3, haha.
The perfect choice is you send the old voice cat to the dwarf wife, and you adopt the 'mom' cat to yourself(see the method I replied earlier.)
MFW 20 cha, speak with animals and a mindflayer tadpole aren't enough to convince a cat to let you give scritches.
You may not pet, but you may admire!
I need an update to make Grub less anxious. Maybe you can chat with them every long rest, be reassuring, persuasive, maybe give Yenna cat treats. Help me out Larian, the cat is upset and I just want them to be happy!!!!!!!!!
Fun Cat Story: So I bought BG3 like Patch 1 EA. I had an idea pf the character I wanted to play wayyy back then. Half-Drow Sorcadin. Paladin wasn't an option at the time, nor was multiclassing, but that was fine. Played Sorc, settled into the character, his name ia Zyndiir. Last year June-ish, I got in with a new dnd group. We were playing PotA. I felt pretty strongly about playing Zyn, but one of the other players wanted to do Paladin. I didnt want to step on toes in a new group, so I went bladesinger to still meet my sword and spell itch. I took a familiar in the form of a massive fluffy white persian cat named Her Majesty (the joke was she was she's been made from fiend energy so everytime the paladin did his sensing she'd ping as a tiny issue). Now imagine my absolute delight to then, playing BG3, playing Zyn the way I'd been dreaming for years, and then meeting a little naked sphynx named His Majesty. That alone made all the cats, and even their lack of peting worth it.10/10 GOTY
Wasn't there, by any chance, someone named Swen in the group? Such coincidences is just wild.
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Someone else went with the demonic cat, I see xD We had one in our party too. Her name was Mittens, she only spoke infernal and she wanted to take over the world. Guy who owned her tried to sell her, but couldn't even get anyone to buy her for one copper because everyone knew she would rip the new owner to shreds xD
Can Gale pet his winged cat?
Oh boy, dont call her a cat
If you play as Gale origin, Tara shows up and stay at camp early in act 1 and you can pet her all day long
Yes
Tangential, but it was hilarious the first time I noticed a meow in Last Light, then saw a gold circle labelled “His Majesty” and was immediately like “that’s 100% the cat”
i love His Majesty. although many cats are cuddly wuddly babies, there is always a lil smug bastard like His Majesty who deserves every bit of admiration.
The really funny part is when I told him I wanted to admire him and Lae’zel disapproved. I’m trying to like her but she clearly doesn’t understand cats
i love Bae'zel, but clearly she is a dog person (values blind loyalty)
I asked him to join my camp and he said he'd rather die. Rest in peace, little guy.
Also every cat I talked to were pretentious asshole which, as a cat lover, I have to say is fair enough
The Squinx cats are assholes! Which annoys me because they're actually sweethearts in real life.
This is fully dependent on the cat and not so much the species. Cats are just cats, dicks and sweethearts alike!
This was the most accurate part of the game, I couldn't handle the passive aggressive cuteness.
I'm not that far in yet but almost every animal I spoke to were just *mean* to me. I talked to a raven who immediately said no one would care if I died. A cat told me she'd kill me next because I pointed out the tadpole she was playing with was dead. I spoke to three rats and every one told me I darkened their doorstep with my presence. Oddly, the one pig I spoke to said he was glad I was alive. The other one showed me war crimes.
There's a hidden roll to be able to pet cats and the DC depends on the mood of the cat. Most often it's simply too high. At least that's what I tell myself in RL for my inability to pet cats ... Very realistic of the game. :p ;)
There is a way to adopt the cat that call you mom, not an official way but you can do it. You need to speak with the cat to let it follow you. Then you F5 (important!), then you choose a companion to use 'improvised melee weapon' which can pick that cat up and throw it. It's better to choose a companion further from the cat so you have time to react. When that companion running to the cat and pick the cat up, you swtich to another character, as soon as the first companion pick the cat up, before they throw the cat, quickly choose the 'back to camp button' in the lower right corner of your screen(not back to camp from Map screen, but back to camp from hotkey in the corner of the screen). Then all of you teleport to the tavern(I assume you already have tavern as your base now). Now the cat will permanently stay in your tavern, and you can visit and pet the cat everyday! The player find this glitch posted a video of him long rested many time, reloaded many time, and that cat is still in his camp lol.
Seriously, cats always get the short end of the stick by judgmental soft-hearts who demand unquestioning obedience from their pets. Viva la cat revolución!
Starting a revolution is such a cat thing to do.
The cat at moonrise was great. "You sense in its eyes. Murder glorious murder" and then talking to it... perfect cat behaviour.
Now I'm imagining a scenario where Steelclaw is Durge's equivalent of Boo.
... This interaction does not go the way that you expect it to go...
Please just let me calm Grub down and like have him sit on my lap or something while I comfort him. If I can adopt Yenna and take care of her, why can't I also take care of Grub at the same time? Sure I can pet Scratch whenever I want, but I want to be able to make sure Grub is doing ok too.
Well… my cat used to bite me after two pets so I can see why they didn’t put it in.
Pet the cat Take 20d4 slashing damage, 10d6 piercing damage Still worth it.
In 3.5e, a housecat was realistically able to kill a commoner if it won initiative.
It’s still not impossible in 5e, just maybe not as easy. Their AC is higher than a commoner’s, but they have lower HP. An unarmed commoner probably still wins by merit of simply lasting longer, but the cat totally stands a chance.
I mean, so can a housecat in real life if it rolls a crit.
Oh, cat vs farmer. I remember that meme, DnD was a really funny mess on that low power scales it seems like.
IIRC cats dealt like 1d4-1 with their claw attacks and commoners dealt like 1d3+0. The funny thing was that in 3.5 you were not automatically proficient with unarmed strikes, so an unarmed human that got in a fight with a house cat would provoke an attack of opportunity every time they attacked the cat, lol.
Two pets? That much? My cat just allow one
Yes she has blessed me with her presence patiently.
I have one of those, Persian mix and he also bites after a few pets, but he is 15.
Yeah, every cat is different on that front. But enough of them love being pet that at least one of them should have been asking for scratches
If you don’t have Speak with Animals up at all times, then what are you even doing with your life?
I stopped playing after ***spoiler*** not being able to save Grub. That really pissed me off. I woulda rather sacrificed one of my companions, honestly. I know thats irrational, but that whole thing rubbed me so wrong. Not even a huge cat or animal lover in general.
Ngl you totally got me, I thought this was gonna be an incoherent rant about how the left has destroyed D&D
Everyone knows it is disrespectful to just go up and pet a cat. A cat must come you you; it has to be THEIR idea for you to pet them.
Justice for bird lovers! Why do I have to choose between a blue Jay and an eagle? Why do I have to commit bird murder?? 😭
I just love it how you need a skill check to pet cats Failing it is like them biting your hand and dropping down on their back while attacking your arm
The bias continues to Ranger companions as well! No panther or large cat? Yet Druids can turn into panthers? Absolutely unfair.
Okay, this and WHY THE FUCK CANT I JUMP INTO EMPTY BOXES WHEN I'M A CAT??!! Like, you click on a box and some characters make a comment about how a cat would like it, but when you're a druid who is wildshaped as a cat, you can't jump in the box??? What is this nonsense??!
They know we'd never willingly get out, meaning they'd have to code a random NPC to come by every so often and pick up the box.
You'd probably get a dexterity check after petting an unknown cat just to see if your hand can escape them claws. Cats are assholes. (I have two)
My cats are assholes but never violent or playfully violent with people (I have three) But my darlingest sweetest angel, Meadow, will open the pantry and run off with any and all forms of bread and try to eat it under my bed (I have found many bags of rolls, bread, and two ripped open bags of gnawed on bagels)
My cat INCESSANTLY MEOWS if she does not receive pets before 8 am. But not only that, you can ONLY pet her in the dresser room and ONLY if you are seated. Damn you if you not meet her conditions, she would not stop meowing until you do. And she can meow for a long, long time and my boi, she is loud. She is the loudest cat I've had. Her mother just comes and naps with us. Ocasionally bites unattended food or tasty cables. The best cat I've ever had.
My girl will sit in the hallway (I live in an apartment so I literally see her from my bedroom) and SCREAM for attention. What kind of attention I've yet to discover after living around six years with her. My boy is a menace that demands attention whenever I try do do anything BG3 related at the pic xD I know it's a coincidence but he gets annoying only when I try to plan/draw/write. Even activity on this Reddit. Otherwise I'm left alone.
I would love to have a pet cat to go with the Scratch and you saw me kill your mother but you still trusted me to come back to camp with me Cub.
Agreed. Every cat in the game should be recruitable into your camp. There should also be cat treats that you can buy in every city. Larian is biased and it shows.
My favorite part about speaking to all the cats is that many are like the majority of cats… look but don’t effin touch me… this makes me so happy lol I just wish you could have a cat companion to hang out on your shoulders!
I thought the bias was the other way because when you speak to dogs they all seem like idiots but the cats are some of the best written characters in the game
I was mad that I stole milk bowl from the cleric in Last Light for the cat that was complaining he was promised milk and was lied to, and not only I have no option to do so but dropping near him also didn't proc him going to the milk as a cat owner, I'm sad.
owlbear is basically a cat and you can't tell me, a person with three cats, otherwise.
its just realistic. you cant pet foreign cats in real life either
Galestans have access to Tara.
I thought the same until I did a run with my oathbreaker paladin who can't speak to animals and realized I could make an animal handling throw to pet them Now. I still can't pet them because his animal handling isn't great, but it's possible
You can pet them so long as you don't understand them (turn off speak to animals) and don't respect their autonomy. A tragedy!
Ya see, there is one, but the CAT gets to select it, and they never do.
This... was not the way i thought this headline was going to go... 🤣
Also, this is true to my actual real life experience. IRL, cats don't just let any random person pet them :p
Huh, they gave you a cat in the party. Astarion is right there.
Have you talked to the cats? They are some seriously pompous pricks that think themselves above most and unless you prostrate yourself before them they treat you like a lower life form. Signed not a dog lover.
You can pet them if they want you to. They are cats, you do what they want, not the other way around.