What did you do today in any other game out there

No unofficial patches?

No patches, no mods.

That's what Durance will do once I get two more party members. I decided to pick him up after I almost got wiped by the Goldpack Paladins bounty hunters. Caed Nua is nastier then them at low levels. In fact, I got stun locked by Shadows in the great hall fight because I wanted to economize spells the first try (cleared it on the second and then the room upstairs).

My druid have now inherited the place from Maerwald and opened the way forward toward Defiance Bay and the two companions I want to recruit ASAP. Also, much talking to Edèr, Aloth and Kana. Poor Maerwald's soul reveled all its secret once he was dealt with too (I felt that was the most Galawain-like choice...will bite me in the ass in Deadfire SSS dlc if I ever get there).

By the way, rushing to get Hivarias/Sagani probably isn't that good of an idea. Doing Caed Nua at level 3 with only 3 camping supplies (4 max on normal) and a single healing potion was a bit ethic. My 3 frontliners (MC, Edèr and Kana) are almost dead-dead after the Maerwald fight and I got one camping supply left (so I can rest after the fight you know, I'm literally in the middle of nowhere). I didn't even clear the entire level 1 of the dungeon: many beetles + everyone is using slashing weapons = bad idea. Sagani is "safe" to pick-up, but Hivarias has some nasty critter near him. I'll have to be careful.

Saying that Bear-Druid is awesome. I probably should be casting a bit more spells thought, Druids have nice ones.

I restarted my Druid, because the bear spiritshift look was annoying me. I'm now a "Stag lord" or "Stag Lady" I guess. Would be even better if my character could wear helmet as there is a stag helmet in the game, but godlikes can wear them so the cosplay won't be 100% accurate (except nature godlike kinds have horns so, 99% accurate).

I redid my rush for Sagani and Hivarias. Weirdly, Caed Nua's lawn was harder than the interior this time, my MC almost died there. Kinda weird, as there are less enemies outside. Getting the two companions after that wasn't that hard, expect I didn't remember where Hivarias was on his map ...and like I said there is some nasty critters on it (you are usually around level 7-8 when you get there, not level 3). So I looked online and Durance is now sitting at the stronghold sipping tea or something...

After that, I rushed back to Gilded Vale and did all the task/minor quests around the town. Found some magical trinkets too. It's the first time I do the stuff there with a full party...it's rather easy lol.

Next: Gilded Vale underground church. Lets see how my nature loving party enjoy it...Kana and Aloth might not be exactly nature loving persons, but Edèr, Sagani, Hivarias and my druid are.

My druid is now the Champion of Gilded Vale. At least that's what my reputation says, I'm not sure if murdering the lord of the land and all his retainers makes you a Champion but there it is. Hopefully, the next guy will do a better job of "governing"...

Also, the village can defend themselves too, as the local merchant has enough armors and weapons to outfit a small army. They will need it, as I said, the entire lord and his soldiers are dead now.

The ruined church underground were also explored, that's much easier with a party of 6 than my usual 3 or 4.

Finally, **** Raedric's fight. Too many paladins in plates. I had to redo it once, as my party wiped the first time trying to aggro a few enemies on my frontliners. I ended up having to make a wall and cast spells like a maniac on their asses instead. At least, they do not like dancing bolts* and insect plagues + combustion wounds.

*Tips, never wear full plate armor against druids, the low shock DR is just a way to say "shock me!". Works both ways too, druid enemies in Pillars of Eternity 1 are bad news...good things there aren't that many encounters.

My Stag Lady Druid has now cleared three floors of the Endless Path (which isn't Endless because there is 15 floors ). I had totally forgotten the fauna of floor #3, I was sure it was a repeat of floor #2. Lets just say "Outch!". I might have been a bit underleveled at level 5 for it, but I managed...somehow. A few people ended up with broken ribs and burned faces.

I built a few more section of the stronghold. Somehow lost all my revenues to bandits despite having 16 security too.  Not that I need the money, but someone has to pay the salary of the guards that lives in the barracks now.

Then the party was off to Defiance Bay. I need to do some shopping and find some temple there. Of course, all of that will get sidetracked by local politics, factions hating each others and corpse eating zombies. You know regulars side questing.

The more I'm playing, the more:
- I want to play Deadfire. It does a lots of things so much better than the first game.
- I fall in love with the setting...thanks god(s) Microsoft bought Obsidian and allowed them to make Avowed. I need more Eora!

The chance of that happening is zero (actual late game spoilers:)

Pillars of Eternity or The Quest For Weirdness.

I finally got Pallegina. She's replacing Kana in the party right now (like wearing all his gear I gave him). She might end up replacing Sagani eventually as I think Chanter brings more than Ranger do to the party.

I cleared lots of side quests in Defiance Bay and now doing some side quests that bring me outside of the city. For some reasons, my keep haven't generated events yet. I'm wondering if I have to finish the first Act II main quest before it happens, as you have to do it for the expansion start. The unused companions must be dying of boredom right now.

After 54 hours, I've "finished" my 'learn the game play through' of Crusader Kings 3. Obviously, I promptly started another one, this time with IronMan enabled so I can finally start earning achievements. So far; got married, and had a breakdown, so we'll call that a draw.

I've got to say, this game is dangerously addictive. I'd not played any of the previous entries, so don't know how it compares, but damn.

Side note: sudden and unexplained nudity is sudden and unexplained. I understand how the various characters appear naked - 'show nudidy' is ticked. But....why? Is it a trait thing? Cultural? It's all very peculiar, especially as it only started after my tutorial playthrough had been running about 10 hours...

Pillars of Eternity

My druid finished more quests in Defiance Bay, including the "district of horror". Heritage Hills is one of my fav places in the city. I swear. Advanced the main quest too and now I'm looking at dubious hints to find dubious happening. Aka I'll stumble on stuff eventually. That also means that White March part 1 is now open for adventuring too.

Then I was off for some more side questing, got my hand on the shiny spear Cladhalíath and purchased some exceptional hide armor (for RP purpose, it's kinda crap to actually use, lol). My Druid looks very pretty and deadly now.

Went back and forth a few time to Caed Nua. Kana finish his little adventure, so he's back into the party now and Sagani and her pet are taking some much needed rest (she got downed a lot lately, nasty teleporting enemies that attack my back line).

I think I'll do the Dryford area, then some Endless path before venturing north to the White Marches. Concelhaut's little siege is going to wait, because you don't do that at level 8. Aloth was fangirling when he heard about it thought.

Completed Vampire the Masquerade Coteries of New York and Shadows of New York. They were alright, my only real issue was in order to actually see all the side content you need to do multiple playthroughs. Which is a bigger downer when you realize that doing that side content doesn't really even effect the main path or endings at all so why not let us do them all in a run? Next up is Night Road

Yes 


very.

It had been on my list for pretty much all of 2020, but the janky combat, coupled with the fact that I generally don't like gaming with a keyboard and mouse, kept turning me to other games instead. But today I finally fired up The Witcher 1 for a replay, almost 6 years to the day from when I started my one and only playthrough. Kinda excited to see what details I'll pick up now that I've read the books.