Baldur's Gate I & II - Gather your party before venturing forth

I've never loved a game series more than BG.

I know I'm a bit late replying but I did play the original game and now I feel really old. I'd been interested in D&D but had no one to play with so Baldurs Gate was the answer to my prayers, although I had previously played Eye of the Beholder, which was really old school. I loved the Forgotten Realms setting. Played all the series and then Neverwinter Nights when it came out, also Icewind Dale series and Planescape Torment. Read all the original Drizzt books and several by other authors as well. I think you can safely say that Baldurs Gate began an obsession that has now transferred to Thedas.

Twenty years!!!

It is not yet twenty years since I actually played it for the first time - that will be June 29th of next year, my little brother's birthday. (And by 'played' I mean 'sat next to him and hassled him while he enjoyed his birthday present." I didn't start my own character until later, and it was much later than that before I actually finished the saga on my own ...)

Anyone have any favorite portraits to share of their CHARNAME?

Well this are some of the original and custom portraits that i had used (i mostly played humans, elves and half-elves):

Damn meant to suggest that earlier and forgot, I still have the original disks but went with buying them digitally to stop having to do all the updates and yeah they were cheap.

After a long hiatus, my true neutral Pale Master (modded Sorcerer kit) has continued his journey and is now traveling with a full group of companions: Imoen, Minsc, Dynaheir and the mod NPC's Drake & Sirene. The group has now scoured most of the southern and central areas of the world map and recently cleared out the bandit camp in Peldvale:



Shortly after this, the group was ambushed as they made their way towards Cloakwood as they continued their investigations. Norek got sloppy, more than anything else, but the end result was that big brute of a bandit managed to get close and chopped his arm off slightly above the elbow before being felled.

Such an injury was beyond the skill of the group's healers, and he would not survive until they got him to a temple. After some initial brief protests and faced with the prospect of their companion bleeding out in the middle of nowhere, the group agreed to help the young spellcaster as he told them of the bold and questionable idea he had to save both his limb and his life. They did the physical part of slowing down his bleeding, placing and sewing his severed arm back in its place as he started to chant the words, hoping in his lightheaded daze that he remembered the ritual correctly from having read about it in a tome he wasn't supposed to have known about back when he and Imoen were still in Candlekeep. 

I just posted a link about it in the gaming news thread.

Larian has 2 game series that could get a 3rd entry (both in the Divinity universe) and I can see them troll people via metadata, so I personally would be cautious.

Saying that, Brian Fargo did retweet the tease and he was the one last year who said he knew someone was making BG3.

update: Jason Schreier is getting confirmation from his insider sources this is real. So yeah, hope away.

Supposedly there were plans for a Baldur's Gate 3 called The Black Hound.  Though it was to be set in the Dalelands and have a completely new cast of characters.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_III:_The_Black_Hound

Well, BG2 didn't take place anywhere near Baldur's Gate either  

But in any case, this is just what Black Isle planned.  Who knows what Larian's doing.  Or even if this rumor is true?