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[Baldur's Gate 3] Kiss a bear and grapple with the horrifying slug living in your brain
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Spoiler about a couple of Act 1 things
Guess I'm redoing that house!
edit: Ok it seems you can pass a persuasion check (i had saved at the start of the conversation when I realised how problematic this was gonna be). But you also need to pass a deception check. Fortunately I managed to pass both after a couple of reloads. And now I'm turning around and going somewhere else Lae'zel, sorry.
yeah I guess out of the BG2 crew you could have
Jan
Aerie
Mazzy
Korgan
Possibly Haer'Dallis?
who could still be alive by this point
but I suppose if they have a macguffin that kept minsc around, they could do it for any of the human characters as well
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And now the rest of them are pretty chill and I feel bad for that little goblin guy. He was just getting drunk out on the edges of the camp on his lonesome and he got murdered by a gloomstalker for no reason.
that's fine, but it feels like BG2 didn't even happen with the sole exception of
My question is will this apply outside of the goblin camp. Cos I don't care if goblins hate me.
Rion: A sending spell can carry 25 words. Do you know how many her only message contained? Seven.
Me: Met. Gorgeous. Hero. Out. In. Shadow-Lands. Is shadow-lands one word or two?
Everyone approved of the snark. I. Love. This. Game.
Fortunately I think I just finished it, so I'll head on out of here.
I'm at stage where I'm abandoning middle-of-road loot because I just cant be arsed lugging shit around to shops i'm already making karlach carry like seven suits of plate she must hate my guts
edit: I am no longer encumbered.
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Like I know some of the books themselves have their own story purposes as well, but they each came with a scroll for a presumably powerful spell. Is that just rainy day materiel? Or is there something actually useful that I can do with them?
Burn 'em for fuel, got it.
Is there anything that disguise self and seeming are any good for besides turning into gnomes to go through holes or forcing racial dialogue options
If you kill someone and want to talk to their ghost, disguise self helps them get over their silly little "I don't want to talk to my murderer" hangup
It can also help you trigger any racial bonuses on gear. Like, say, any githyanki gear that gives bonuses if you're gith
I've run into at least one quest that can be advanced with it.
On a related note, by L12, the characters sure can lay down pain.
Which is... uh... Well, let's just say you find more opportunities for this than you might expect.
But also, there are a couple of characters that you should absolutely, 100% talk to as yourself after murdering them to get in some siiiiiick burns.
I keep forgetting to talk to dead folks because an awful lot of them get the generic "regards you lifelessly" message. Speak With the Dead is also very one dimensional by design. I can ask someone who they were (very brief), how they died, who killed them, why they might have been killed, etc. but I can't ask them if there's anything they'd like me to pass on to their surviving loved ones or if there's anything they regret. There's an example in Act 2 were I felt like that sort of interaction was oddly absent.
If I want to talk to a corpse I have to burn a long rest cooldown ability and then I get to ask one single corpse a couple questions that it may or may not answer in a helpful manner
I don't know how the normal spell does it, but there's a necklace in early act 1 that lets you cast the spell and then it stays "on" and you can recast it as many times as you like until your next long rest. I haven't done it on my druid, but in my naked halfling playthrough I use it a lot.
The number one reason to talk to dead people is to taunt assholes who just just killed in boss fights.
on my first playthrough, yeah, tons.
On second playthrough it's pretty pointless because you already know who to kill and where all the gold is burried.
It's got nothing on speaking with animals though.
The version that comes from reading a Bad Book works like this too, I have Astarion available to speak to dead whenever
Then, in the first region of act III,
Speaking with dead folks can be pretty illuminating in a city with a murder cult murdering everywhere.