Baldur's Gate III - Non Spoiler Edition

For me GOG Galaxy says I spent 55 hours on the game.  But let me say I spent 15 hours on the EA, 20 hours in the full release so far, and 3 hours total in the character creator.

Here's my Half Drow Bard with the fancy dlc dyes. I'm enjoying the game so far, still having a few issues with some cutscene dialogues but usually reloading fixes it. I'm also surprised how much I prefer the controller over the keyboard. I really just like how uncluttered the screen is when out in the world.

Here's my Order of Vengeance Paladin redone.  He is not going to be evil he's just going to be harsh on his enemies and enemies of the light.  

Now I'm gonna need some tips on how to roleplay this type of Paladin, and how would he handle say the goblin camp.  Would he talk his way in?  Or would he fight them?  Since goblins are evil.

I keep hitting screencap a fraction of a second too late to get good shots, but here's my Dwarf Cleric!



The reason she looks worried is that someone asked her to be stealthy. The one thing she's not good at, oh no!

(Spoilers: she failed the roll and a *spoiler redacted* tried to kill us all.)

It's a bit weird. I wasn't planning on using the respeccing option originally, but I must have used it like 3-4 times already. And now I'm thinking of going back to Lore Bard over Valor (keeping the 1 level dip into Cleric).


edit: You would think Metacritic score would go down over time, it's actually went up 1 point today. 97 now with 13 reviews (which is the highest score ever for a PC game, a single other game share it with BG3: Disco Elysium and Disco only has 11 reviews).

You are playing Vengeance Pally, their PHB description is basically "let people die in the burning house to run after the arsonist and slice his head off while he beg for mercy".

Also playing an Oath of Vengeance Paladin

One thing I like about this game is how often there are class-specific dialogue options for Paladin (hoping other classes get frequent options too). I also remember at least one instance of an "Oath of Vengeance" specific dialogue option so far.

For a bard, some of the options are about your knowledge of culture, and sometimes it’s just about being a bit of a jerk.

One nice touch is that if you start performing (properly, not just giving inspiration) near another bard, they’ll play along with whatever instrument they have.

Also, big props to whoever made the tool tips and wrote the descriptions. It’s great that you can quickly delve down more than the basic description. So an item gives you an ability, then you can check what that ability does and where it applies, all the way down to basic mechanics like advantage or armour class. Virtually never bought an item or leaned a spell or skill that didn’t do what aI thought it would. Which for a D&D game with so many spells and abilities is quite impressive. It could have easily been completely impenetrable to people not wanting to play with a wiki open.

Not quite exactly, Vengeance Pally focus on the greater evil over lesser evil and to not show mercy to their enemies. They are still supposed to help the victims unless it gets in the way of pursuing their enemy.

The Players hand book. In this case the one for d&d 5th edition which Larian adapted.

Each of the oaths in the phb have a list of tenets they follow which presumably larian has based their oath breaking decisions on, though i haven't played a paladin in bg3 myself.

Eg

Tenets of Vengeance

The tenets of the Oath of Vengeance vary by paladin, but all the tenets revolve around punishing wrongdoers by any means necessary. Paladins who uphold these tenets are willing to sacrifice even their own righteousness to mete out justice upon those who do evil, so the paladins are often neutral or lawful neutral in alignment. The core principles of the tenets are brutally simple.

Fight the Greater Evil.
Faced with a choice of fighting my sworn foes or combating a lesser evil, I choose the greater evil.

No Mercy for the Wicked.
Ordinary foes might win my mercy, but my sworn enemies do not.

By Any Means Necessary.
My qualms can't get in the way of exterminating my foes.

Restitution.
If my foes wreak ruin on the world, it is because I failed to stop them. I must help those harmed by their misdeeds.

"Random."

Honestly, a lot of what goes on in software would make more sense if it really was just the code mutating on its own, rather than human programmers screwing things up.