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Our Baldur's Gate 3 full thoughts (Spoilers)
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole we finally hop into our full Baldurs Gate 3 discussion (huge spoilers for the game). As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introduction and Spoilers Warning
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. I'm Ron. And this podcast comes with spoilers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Spoilers ahead. If you haven't played through Baldur's Gate three. The pause now and come back when you've beaten the greatest game of all time. Ah, well, maybe not all the time, but God, reason. Game of the year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, easily. Yeah. So.
Traffic Frustrations and Humorous Solutions
00:00:27
Speaker
So did you ever get over me breaking your mind about the blinkers? No, no. I just can't watch now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They should all be in cadence. Yeah. But then I was thinking like, how would you enforce that? I'm just saying like they should be able to be in cadence because, you know, when you're sitting in traffic, you mean you're listening to your little click, click, click and the light in front of you is either faster or slower than it. It's true. Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:56
Speaker
Yeah. So somebody at all. All four are all automakers has to get a metronome out, get them all insert in cadence. Let's go. Yeah. That seems like a good waste of our time. Well, you know who could do it. Jim working on a Zune. He could take a time off. Take a week. Fix this problem. He could easily do it. He keeps the Zunes running. It's true. Yeah, he does. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:24
Speaker
I thought I was going to get road raged this morning. Oh, boy. There was some dick wad in the far right lane, which is a turn lane for like three blocks. So they went through multiple stoplights. So at that point, I was like, oh, you're a prick. So then I became a prick and I matched their speed so they couldn't get over. And I would slow down, speed up, slow down. Then they started honking and swerving erratically. And that's when I let them go.
00:01:54
Speaker
I finally got to punish a prick today. Nice. Because the road that leads up to my neighborhood has been under construction for, I don't know how long. It seems like infinity. Yeah. And so one of the, you know, it's, it's got a merge to the right, left lane closed ahead. And this guy goes all the way up traffic and then it's finally my time and he's still sitting there stopped. And I'm just like, screw you sucker. Yep.
00:02:24
Speaker
You saw the sign for a half a mile. You saw everybody else get over, but you were so much more important. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy your day. Yeah. Not too important now, are you? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I have to rant about the city of Salisbury for one hot second. What, the 19 different construction zones? No. No.
00:02:49
Speaker
left my station on the peaceful east side of town where we have sensical road construct, you know, the roads make some sort of sense. I went to Dunkin Donuts, get my tea, had to teach class this morning, you know, which went swimmingly. And then I get to Dunkin Donuts, get my tea. I'm like, oh, I'll just take the back way to work. I'll just go down Camden to Winder, to Riverside.
00:03:21
Speaker
Get to the traffic circle that they put in that traffic circle didn't help at all. No, no. That road is not clearly was not meant for traffic circles. Yeah. Because like it doesn't flow. It's just a traffic circle. That's basically a stop sign. Yeah. I mean, nobody is like, it is insane.
00:03:45
Speaker
because you've got all the people dumping off a 50 on mill and that doesn't slow down. So it's useless. Yeah. Who? Is there no punishment for this person? No, because they told somebody, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm, yeah, I'm great at designing, you know, roadways and, you know, easing up traffic things. They've got their money somewhere and they're laughing like a fat cat. Well, apparently they're doing another one at five points over by, Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:04:13
Speaker
Yeah, that just means I will never use that intersection again. Yeah, that's the first time since it's been in and it's been in for a while that I've gone that way. Yeah. I've usually been coming from Carroll and I was like, I guess it's fine coming from Carroll. It's just basically making a right hand turn. It's not a big deal. Right. But if you're coming from Riverside, it is nightmare fuel. Yeah. Yeah. You've got to be like at the perfect time. Yeah. What was the point of that?
00:04:41
Speaker
Well, isn't that all the idiots going to rise up that are backed out on the traffic? Yes. Yes. Rise up does not help the situation. Well, they're also putting their circle in by you guys on Snow Hill Road. Where? Snow Hill in Toadven is what I've been told. What? Yep. That makes zero sense. Yeah, I would think of anything. You'd be right there at Robbins.
00:05:10
Speaker
I don't understand why a circle would do anything there. Yeah, I don't know. You have a major thoroughfare with some ancillary psych secondary streets. Yeah. Maybe a light would make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Because Robin coming out from Robbins on the snow hill is terrifying. Yeah, it's terrible. A light would make sense, which is the traditional solution to these problems. So it's like, it's like circle man going to the city council. I follow your problems with circles.
00:05:39
Speaker
Let's go meet the new insignia for the city. Just circles, circles. We're just going to Salisbury home with a circle. Yeah. The Salisbury circles. The bypass is a big circle. Oh my God. It's everything. Circles are everywhere. Remember the bypass is only three quarters of a circle. That's true. Only three. Yeah. Again. Why did they not finish it?
00:06:11
Speaker
Oh, no. It would make so much more sense if it was a circle. Yeah. That you could go from the west side to the east side and. Or to the south side instead of going all the way around the city. Well, you're bypassing the city. No. And I'm having a real problem writing reports in Salisbury because only one road goes east west and only one road goes sort of north south.
00:06:40
Speaker
Every other road is like. Northeast, southwest, nothing knows. So you're like, oh, they're on the northbound lane. Nobody's on the northbound lane of anything. Oh, yeah, no. You got to get there and you got to get your compass out. Let me set up my surveyors tool to find out which direction you guys are traveling in. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they're in the oh, and I like that people are like, well, they're in the number one lane. What's that? The number one lane is the one closest to the center line.
00:07:09
Speaker
Is it? Yes. Okay. Because the other day somebody putting it in a report and that was the one closest to the shoulder. No. Number one lane is closest to the center line. At least as I always thought it was closest center line is number one working your way out and up in numbers. Because if you think about it on a two lane, like a one side, one way, each way road, you only have a number one lane. Then you mark your way from there. Yeah, I get that.
00:07:37
Speaker
It's just how I was taught Sally, but you know, I'm sorry. I just saw some asshole. Let his dog shit in my neighbor's yard and he walked away. Oh, get him. Get him. I can't. I'm in the second story window. I can't, I can't jump that far. It's okay because cats are shooting all over my yard. I hate people. We, uh,
00:07:58
Speaker
Cause we went on vacation a couple weeks ago and we were gone. So clearly the dogs let loose, you know, they were not there to take away the, we came back there with shit, catch it everywhere. Wow. On my deck, just everywhere. Yeah. Why did you do it on the deck? I don't know. What the hell? And my wife's like, just power wash it off. I'm like, yeah, that's a good plan. Let's power wash the feces. So it's, you know, airborne and particulated into my face. Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:29
Speaker
Fucking cats. She's, I wanted to put, what did I want to do? I wanted to put something out and when I was like, Oh, I was like, Oh, we should put a, uh, like a Zen garden out. She's like, cats will just use a litter box. I'm like, Oh yeah. I can't enjoy that because the cats will use his litter box. You can't call the SPCA because they don't consider, they won't do anything about cats. Really? Yep.
00:08:57
Speaker
My neighbor, she's a nice lady. Sounds like it's time to get a... Bag, rocks. Well, I was going to say, you know, just release some coyotes. We don't have a coyote problem. That's how wars start. My neighbor's a nice lady. She traps them and gets them spayed or neutered at her own cost, which, you know, feels wrong that she's paying it for it because the state won't.
Animal Nuisances and Y2K Reminiscing
00:09:23
Speaker
But still, we have tons of cats that run around.
00:09:26
Speaker
I'm going to get a giant snake. Where are the cats going? I don't know. That snake looks real full. Eagles. Eagles. Yeah. Now that's, now we're talking. Yeah. Like a big golden talent Eagle. Condor. Yeah.
00:09:54
Speaker
Where's predatory animals? Yeah. Cougars, wolves, coyotes. Yeah. All of those things. I want my backyard. Oh, small animals such as eagles, snakes, hawks, owls and raccoons can hunt cats for food. Well, that's terrifying. Oh my gosh. Out there. There's a raccoon with a damn cat in his mouth.
00:10:20
Speaker
Slowly back away. Close the door. Just call the chief. Not coming to work, chief. There's a raccoon eating a cat in my front yard. I'm not going out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if it's any chief worth half their salt, understandable. Yeah. Yep. We'll see you in a week when that raccoon's gone. Call us and let us know if the raccoon leaves. Yeah.
00:10:44
Speaker
Yeah. Oh gosh. Yeah. That's a, that's terrifying. Hmm. Yeah. It's got little hands already messed up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, according to one of the kids in my oldest, uh, environmental studies class that Salisbury has a big problem with wolves and bears in that we don't have any.
00:11:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's the only thing I can think. Yeah, you're really okay. Yeah, I haven't, knock on wood, haven't seen a bear in the wild in Salisbury. If I did, I'd be like, well, the bear finally escaped from the zoo. Oh, gosh, those bears are so weird. Yeah, because their lives are terrible. Yeah.
00:11:36
Speaker
And then like, you know, they have the, what do you call Delmarva Red Wolf or whatever the heck that is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which no one's ever seen. No, what do you mean? Seen in the wild or seen there? In the wild. Oh, yeah. Of course not. It's probably, they
00:11:53
Speaker
I can't. It's the cousin to the circle guy. The guy didn't, you know, they had red wolves in Delmarva and he's got like real he's got regular wolves and he like dies them. Right. He sneaks to the zoo like once a week and sprays them down. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah. It does seem like something to do in Salisbury. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:17
Speaker
Slightly depressed. It's the time of year where it gets dark before I want it to be dark. Yeah, it's starting to get dark already. We fall back November 4th? Something like that. Whatever my phone tells me when I wake up. I know, but you got a week to get used to it again. It's almost three months to find all the clocks that need to be fixed. Yeah.
00:12:46
Speaker
Yeah, don't say that. You might work November 4th. That's the worst day to work. Yeah. Yeah, because you fall back, you work an extra hour. That's an A-shift day. Suckos. That'll learn you. Yeah. Yeah, and then you have those time-traveling calls. Yes. Yeah. We were dispatched at 11.59. We arrived at 11 o'clock. Yep. Yep.
00:13:16
Speaker
Computers don't like that. No. No. That's why we were worried about the Y2K. It's true. Sort of. Yeah. Yeah. I had to work that day. It was a thing. You know what? We honestly didn't do anything because nothing happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For you kids listening, Y2K we were worried about when we went from 1999 to 2000.
00:13:43
Speaker
Yes. They thought that the computers would think it was 1900 and realized that planes hadn't been invented yet. And therefore they would fall out of the sky or something. Yeah, or something. It was all because some lazy computer program in the 1950s never thought the year 2000 would happen. I read this book, 1984. It's not going to happen. Yeah. Well, I mean, probably more like anything.
00:14:13
Speaker
That's 50 years. Wow. Yeah. I have to worry about that shit. Oh yeah. I know how bad I am. I'm like, future Chris will get that in a couple of days. Yeah. Yeah. Future Chris never does. Pastron is an asshole. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why, again, I'm terrified. One of these days at 10 o'clock I'm going to get hit. You're on these days. Keep hoping. Yeah.
Baldur's Gate 3: Gaming Mistakes and Strategies
00:14:41
Speaker
Well, I'm very excited. We want to move on to the only topic of the day. Yes. We'll move on to the only topic. Do you want to admit to everybody what you did? Oh, I made, you made the same mistakes. Well, similar mistakes. I made a similar mistake that led to the same problem. Yeah. So when did you hear a die in your play through?
00:15:02
Speaker
At the moonlight tower. Mine too. But moonrise tower, she died. I'm right. Yeah. Like because she wild changed into a panther. It was like, I'll go take on 20 enemies. I was dead immensely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you can't use a revivify scroll on her. Nope. Yeah. You can. If she's your companion. Right. But yeah, if she's not. No. Yeah. Yeah. And I was trying to heal her, but no.
00:15:30
Speaker
No, it wasn't. It wasn't enough. No, that fight. I had to do that fight like four times because there's just so many freaking enemies. Yeah, that and the temple of shahr. Yeah, that one was a bad. I was using a lot more by then. Oh, yeah. And fireballs were not enough fireballs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:55
Speaker
I mean, you're going to now you're playing a bard. Yeah. You're going to feel my pain of like, oh, I'm kind of useless. I'm just sitting in the corner playing a guitar as my party gets killed. I have a flute. Sometimes it feels real bad. Yeah. Well, um, vicious mockery helps. It's fine. Yeah. I think I picked. I just have hit my specialty. I think I picked College of Lore.
00:16:23
Speaker
Yeah, the one that gives you a better inspiration. Yeah. Yeah. And cutting words. There's a problem. Inspiration takes an action. Yep. And it only lasts once. Right. I guess College of Lawry might last twice, right? Yeah. But it's like, oh, okay. I wasted an action doing that. And then they still critically miss and it's like, oh, that was fun. That's why I cast on Karlaak and she goes crazy. Sure.
00:16:48
Speaker
This time I picked Karlaak to be the arcane berserker or whatever. Uh huh. I'm mixing up a little bit this time. Sure. I'm not using Karlaak this time as much. She's amazing. She's great. She's my girl in the first one. Yeah. In the first playthrough. Mine was Lizelle. Oh. Yeah. Freaky time. So at the end of the game, let's get there. Let's start at the beginning. Okay. So I played a bard.
00:17:17
Speaker
I played a ranger. I played a half elf bard. Half elf ranger, half a wood elf or wild elf, whichever one it was. I don't remember. Maybe high elf. I think I went high elf. I went, not that it matters. I was college of valor for most of it. Nice.
00:17:42
Speaker
Basically, I was just a utility spellcaster with a little bit of shooting. I was a huntsman. Yeah. My ranged party for, let's say 85% of the game was, Astarion was my only ranged attack. Okay. I built them out. I gave him two levels of ranger. Okay. That'll help. And he was all the rest assassin. Okay. Laselle was a,
00:18:12
Speaker
Champion. Yeah. Yep. And boy, does she kick some butt. Yes. Yeah, especially. God, they're at the end when she does the action surge and she can hit what, like eight times. It's crazy. And then Will was my utility caster. So boy, Will gets crazy. Did you keep him as a warlock? He was he was pure warlock. Yeah.
00:18:38
Speaker
Uh, pack to the blade without actually didn't end up using pack to the light that much. Yeah. Yeah. I, I picked that one also. And it was, I was, there were a couple of times I use it and I was like, he's got Eldritch blast and can cast a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:53
Speaker
He's knocking people off of, I mean, I can't remember which fight it was, but it was one of the bigger things that I just knocked off the board. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then when the, when you go into the Astral Prism for the first time. Yeah. And you're fighting all the Githyanki. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, Will is literally just knocking them off. Yeah. Well, and that was the thing I was forgetting for a couple of fights that, yeah, you can like shove people off.
00:19:22
Speaker
things. And also, yeah, we'd have like a car like it send us, you know, next to somebody hit a couple times. And she did, I was like, just shove them off the cliff if you can. Right. And yes, yes, I did get knocked off a few. Yeah. A few times I had to restart because I got knocked off because there was no choice because you're just party wipe at that point. Yeah, yep. Yeah, it sucks. So then
00:19:46
Speaker
I never found the dog somehow. Scratch it. Never found the dog. Good boy. I never once used the druid guy. He didn't come with me. He comes with. Well, he came with me intact to. I think I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he was an actor with me. Yeah, but I couldn't use him. I think you can. I don't know. I never tried. Yeah, there's like I saw that you've got to like do some little the.
00:20:16
Speaker
In Act Two, where there's the guy in the bed and they're like, Oh, we don't know what's wrong with him. He can't talk. He doesn't have a memory or whatever. If you fix him. Then the druid will come with you or something. Yeah, they're trying. Yeah. So Act One, I. There wasn't really any. I mean, I went full. I did not go full crazy goblin killing. I did. Until I had to.
00:20:46
Speaker
Until I. So, yeah, I infiltrated the camp. Yeah. I did not allow her to give me the tattoo. Neither did I, which then caused me to have to fight them all. Oh, I was able to talk my way out of that. Well, that I eventually had to fight. I actually killed them all, including the drought that you can recruit. Yeah, I did kill her. Yeah. Yeah. And then when you come out of that,
00:21:13
Speaker
I had to kill like every guy once you killed them, like a dagger at everybody. It was not great. Um, I did talk my way out of the troll fights and then the trolls were like at my beck and call the trolls in the town. Trolls in the town. Yeah. There's like three trolls in the, is that an act? Three trolls in the town. Maybe that's an act too. No, three trolls. Are you talking about like the blighted village or whatever? Yeah.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yeah, there were trolls or ogres or the others. Oh, OK. Oh, yeah. No, I saw them in their room and I sniped them. Oh, no, I did not even try to talk. Yeah, they were. They were my buddies. Oh, no, they were. They were my enemies. Yeah, they gave me a horn that I could call and they would come fight enemies with me. I never used it once. Oh, that's delightful. Yeah, no. No, between the goblins and them, I went full. I was full Anakin.
00:22:14
Speaker
Yep. The women, the young links, they all know. Thanks. Nobody made it. So did you. How about Auntie Ethel? Killed her. Yep. Sort of. Well, yeah, she comes back. Yeah. Raised her husband as a zombie. Yeah. And then got the zombie killed. What? So in act three. Yeah. Yeah. You go. You see her again in the house. Yeah.
00:22:46
Speaker
There was a fight. Yeah, she. Yeah, she killed him, I think, in mine. Oh, no, she didn't kill her mind. Like he got killed during the fight. Oh, no. He survived the fight. And then talking to her, she realized I was like, look, he's got a miserable existence. And she was like, I know. Could kill him. Yeah. Yeah. Got him killed. Hmm. Pretty much anybody who followed my party died. Yeah.
00:23:14
Speaker
The little gnome guy died. Oh, really? You're a little gnome guy, too. My little gnome guy died in the. Oh, in the midnight towers. No, not that one. Oh. In the watchers, the steel watchers. Oh, those guys. Yeah. Yeah, I really messed that one up. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:37
Speaker
Yeah, I saw the countdown. I was like, I'm in a different room. It won't affect them. Boy, was I wrong? Boy, was I wrong? Let's see. Who else? I got here killed. Yeah. Yeah. That was a kid to follow me at one point. I think I got killed. I just I mean, everybody to follow me died. It was a real life. If you were a kid that what's her face like kidnaps and has on the oh, no, for you, it was somebody else, wasn't it?
00:24:06
Speaker
In act three, there was a kid that I met. Yeah, because that kid was dead. Oh, no, no. Yeah. Because she posed as the kid for a while in my camp. Oh. And then tried to feed me something. And she was like acting sketchy. So I was like, you know, insight check. It was like something seems off about the kid. So I think I pick like punch the kid or something like that. And it turned into her and laughed and left. It's like, well, that's terrifying that she's been here the whole time.
00:24:37
Speaker
I know she left little gifts in my my camp. Little bloody letters. A portrait. Oh, letters and a portrait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I did her last. Yeah, so did I. And I killed everybody there. I had no problem going for Anakin there. So I got done fighting her and the guys that were chanting around her. But
00:25:07
Speaker
when I got done with them, everybody else in the temple was like, you're cool. Oh, they were all dead by then. Yeah, no, I. Yeah, I did not. I did not leave survivors in the temple. Yeah. I was like, I'm clean. Yeah. Do you hear it? Looks like your hair died immediately. I didn't save Celine. I did. Yeah. Yeah. So then I had to kill Celine later.
00:25:35
Speaker
It was fun. Like, oh, there's Celine and her dad. Let's kill Celine and her dad. Yeah. So it was fun. Hmm. I went to the underdark first, but I didn't go. I did go back to the get yucky after that. Yeah. Yep. I think it seemed pretty much. Yeah. Oh, did you get the T flings out of the druid camp?
00:26:04
Speaker
Yes, only for them to die later. Yeah, I killed them at the dungeon of moonlight or moonrise, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So there's like an achievement. No tiefling dies. I was like, Oh, crap. Yeah. Yeah. No, I didn't get that achievement. Yeah. Yeah, but you accept the worm. I accepted the which one?
00:26:34
Speaker
The one at the end, the white worm or whatever. No. Oh, I did. You did. Yeah. I also didn't get my eye cut out. Yeah. Yeah, I did. Yeah. I let Volo cut my eye out. I did not do that. I was like, this is crazy. Motherfuckers not touching my eye. It's pretty neat. You get a eye that can see invisibility. Yeah. Still don't do it. It didn't do that much. Yeah. You sided with Raphael, didn't you? No, I killed him.
00:27:04
Speaker
You killed him. Yes. But you didn't kill that first demon. No, I beat him in combat and didn't kill him. Oh, yeah. No, I sent him right back to hell. So when. So he was waiting for me. Yeah. Yeah, that did not work out well for him.
00:27:23
Speaker
For what? Oh, for us, it was a hard fight. He so because of how I did it, he ended up fighting Raphael with me and he was in the final fight of the game with me. Oh, wow. Yeah. Huh. So I had him twice. Yeah, no, no. He was like, yeah, you know, you killed me in the material plane. Now you're on my turf. I was like, shit. Oh, yeah. I said, hope free. So did I. Yeah, she actually was very helpful in that fight because she healed a lot.
00:27:53
Speaker
Right. Did you take down the four pillars that were in the room? No. Fighting. I took one of them down. Yeah, I didn't even mess up. I just got out of here.
00:28:04
Speaker
Yeah. I like that. Yeah. He has 666 hit points. Yeah. His music was awesome. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause it's like a whole song and stuff. Yeah. That whole song was awesome. Yeah. Um, I didn't, yeah. So when I, well, let's see, I didn't have any of the Harpers
Endgame Decisions and Character Fates
00:28:22
Speaker
left. They're all dead. Oh. And I had to kill most of them. Cause they turned.
00:28:29
Speaker
As soon as Celine died, they all turned. Oh, I had to kill them all. Yeah, they're still my buds. So the the blacksmith guy was dead. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So he gave Carla one upgrade and then he was dead. Oh, let's see. That's sad. So I don't know. Make some really good armor. Right. So I didn't I don't know if you can upgrade Carla so that she doesn't die in the end of the game. She didn't die for me. So. But but she turned into an illithid. Oh.
00:29:00
Speaker
So at the end, yeah, it's like, you know, one of the options is to turn into an illithid and Karla was like, no, I'm going to die anyway. It should be me. And she lives after that. So, yeah, my character is just like hanging out with an illithid now. So I became illithid in mine. Oh, nice. And Karla and I and Will, we became hunters of the infernal planes. Oh, we all we all left for the infernal planes because Karla was going to die.
00:29:30
Speaker
So she went with me to the infernal plane. So we're just living on the infernal planes. And my demons and my dude and Karlaak live somewhat happily ever after, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. No, I killed the emperor. So did I. Yeah. Yeah, because I let Orpheus free. Right. I was off with Orpheus free. Yeah. Which he was a decent monk.
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like they really wanted you to play a monk because I found a lot of stuff that was like either super light armor or unarmed combat. Yeah, I found a lot of stuff. So I found like two really bad ass bar items and then the rest was like stuff I just couldn't use. And then when I I mean, by the time I did the game, I found the armor that doesn't matter what you're proficient in. I was like, Oh, I'll wear this. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker
Um, but. Yeah, I did let him free. I didn't find him. He was pretty useless. I I just let him kind of run out and take fodder. I didn't I didn't call in all the allies at the end. Oh, I did. I only called like four sets of them. Oh, I call. I think I called almost almost all of them. Yeah. The hunters were stupid useless. Um. I said I sent them on.
00:30:54
Speaker
There was like a vampire bat dude up on one of the ledges, and I I called them like right there. A vampire bat dude. Yeah. I didn't have that. Well, the vampires are dead. Yeah, see, I yeah, I let a Styrian do the full thing. And how could you let him do the full thing? I don't know. That's super evil. Yeah. Yeah. I had to kill. I had to kill a Styrian. And I. Oh yeah. And I let the.
00:31:24
Speaker
What was it? 7,000 thralls? Yeah, they all died. Oh, no, they're all loose in the underdark for me. But they're all dead. Nope, they're roaming the underdark. They all died for me. And I think my characters even like as somebody else's problem. Nice. Yeah. No, no, they're all dead in mine. Yeah. Steering's dead. Yeah. I was like, no. Yeah.
00:31:50
Speaker
I played half the game, not half the game, a good chunk of the game with Asterion using a longbow when he wasn't proficient in a longbow. Oh yeah. That was really, really, real, real great pickup on me that he was like, why is this fucking assassin never getting advantage ever? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so I'm a moron. Yeah. So now I was like, Oh, you're going to level of ranger. Yeah. Shockingly now you hit things and kill them. Yep. Yeah.
00:32:18
Speaker
Well, that and it took me a while to realize they have him bonus action hide than attack. Right. Well, if you're an assassin, he can do super invisibility hide. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he could do two hides. Oh, so he can hide attack hide again. Nice. Nice. Yeah. See, I had done arcane theme for whatever for the first one. Yeah. So. Um.
00:32:48
Speaker
If I did, you did the Alber cub show up to your camp? No. OK. Yeah, I didn't have it either. Well, yeah. Yeah. I looked into how you have to admit it's a pain in the butt. Yeah. Yeah. So I didn't I never rested. Yeah. Gayle saved the day for us because he detonated himself over top of Baldur's Gate. And that's how he took down the.
00:33:14
Speaker
What? Yeah. Son of a bitch. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Because we were about to like go fight like I didn't fight that red dragon at the end or anything. Yep. Gale was like, nope, I'll go up the cat. I'll go up there and I will handle things. And he goes up and the older brain starts talking to him and he just turns purple. And it's like, yep. What? Yep. That was the end of the game for you. Well, I mean, there was cut scenes, but yeah. What? Yeah.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yep. So. And then at the end, you're like we're like standing on this dock and. The starions there and all of a sudden he's like he starts burning because he's in the sun, so he like runs away and hides. Hmm. Because, you know, the worm's gone now and Lazell goes off with Orpheus. Right. And but she like looked longingly back like she wanted me to talk her into stay. And I was like, No, go go with your dude. I don't want you around.
00:34:13
Speaker
Oh, she was the love of my life. Yeah. See, I sent her away. Yeah. I still I still sent her away because I was like, Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because you were an elephant. I was a little bit. Yeah, that was a yeah. Carla. She was like, Oh, I'm ugly. I'm like, No, you just got some tentacles. Come here, girl. So yeah, she was weird. She was like, I see the world in a different way now and all this. I was like, she's going to eat my brains when I sleep. This is what's going to happen. Yeah.
00:34:42
Speaker
Yes, so in my original playthrough, my game technically ended in Act Two. Really? So at the fight, so I had Gail in my party. Oh, for the fight against Miracle. Right. But before that fight, he detonated himself and killed them all. Huh. And killed all of us. Oh, really? Yes.
00:35:10
Speaker
So my game technically should, I should have restarted it. Like it was a purist. I would have restarted everything there because technically it ended there.
00:35:20
Speaker
So he didn't blow up. So then I redid it. Yeah. And Gail was kidnapped by what's her crazy. Yeah. Crazy bitch. Yeah. And he so then he can she kidnapped him. So I didn't have him for basically most of Act three. Wow. And then I didn't take him on the last fight. And because his gear was all wrecked, I was like, oh, I haven't upgraded his gear. Yeah. You know, forever.
00:35:49
Speaker
And so then he somehow lives. He like. I think he was just like, oh, I'm good now. And he. Yeah, because I had to go talk to her. I think you switched to him only and you were talking to the goddess of magic for a while. Yep, never had that. Yeah. And he basically at the end of my game was like, I'm going to go challenge Mr. to be a god. Whoa.
00:36:20
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So you didn't, did you fight the sorcerer in Baldur's Gate who was trying to get the, um, no night, whatever. No, I never, I never fought him. Like, like, I didn't really know what, like I did everything after the fight and I was like, I'm not going to turn the nights on over this asshole. So then it just, that was the end of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I,
00:36:45
Speaker
talk to the night song, I told her what she wanted or what he wanted to do. And she was like, I'm going to kick his ass, meet me there. So she showed up and yeah, she was kicking ass and I just kind of helped. Yeah, I never saw her again after act three. Oh, yeah. Well, because her boo thing died. Her boo thing was linked. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Did you find all the pieces of the clown in act three?
00:37:15
Speaker
No. Did you the clown you have to kill? Yeah. But then you talk to the circus master. And they come to find out like, you know, the real bibbles or whatever. She's like, you know, something had to have happened to him and you find like I found his torso. That was it. Oh, I did find his torso. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can find all the pieces of him, take him back to her and she raises him. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't find all his pieces, but yeah.
00:37:47
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, right, because she's a necromancer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you let the drow sample your blood? The the drow twins? No, no, no, I didn't. Yeah. Did you get freaky with the twins? I did not. Oh, yeah, neither did I. No, there's a drow that I can't remember where I first ran into her, but she's like,
00:38:16
Speaker
You know, you're very interesting and this and that, you know. Oh, she was in the in Moonrise. She's like in one of the bottom rooms. And she was like, Yeah, if you give me your blood, I'll make this potion. I'll make you super strong. I was like, I like to be super strong. Because at first she wanted to test. A Styrian. Hmm. And he was like all weird about it. So I got to test me. It's fine. So yeah. And then she showed back up in act three and.
00:38:46
Speaker
Yeah, wanted more of my blood. The guy right over there was probably dead by then. Yeah. Did. Did you understand by you? Yeah, that's it. I didn't like that. That's your plan. I knew he was a vampire immediately. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, you can see the little pinholes on his neck and, you know, he's super pale, sparkly in the sun.
00:39:23
Speaker
Try to think what else big decisions are changed. Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously, yeah, like me, we're not able to convince Minsk to not go nuts. No, I had to kill Minsk and it was
00:39:40
Speaker
I think the worst part of it was boo. Yes. Yeah. Because it's like sad squeak. I'm like, screw you, Alarian. I didn't need that. Mm hmm. God. Yeah. Oh, did you save Will's dad? Yes. I mean, save is a weird word considering he's, you know. He was pledged to a demon at that point.
00:40:06
Speaker
Who? What's her nuts? The one that is in your camp? No, who was pledged to the demon at that point? Will's dad. No, I didn't give her the dad. Oh. Yeah. Because it was either she was going to kill Will's dad. Yeah. Or she's going to kill Will.
00:40:25
Speaker
So I gave her the dad. Oh. And she turned him into the same thing. Well, it's basically. Really? Yeah. Yeah. See, for me, it was either when your dad sold or your soul. And I was like, Come on, we'll do the right thing. He was like, they can have my soul. Yeah. Well, I did that, too. You know, because that's how we came out his horns. Yeah. No, I can't remember if he had his horns before that or not, but he.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah, she came and helped in the final battle. She did not. Yeah, I don't think. Did you fully go through Shadow Hearts quest? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that was a pain. What do you do with their parents?
00:41:24
Speaker
Oh, I don't run into her parents. What? No. Yeah. So in the Temple of Sharr, after you beat the what's your face? Ficonia, it was in a boulder ski to. Yeah, there's like a passageway behind there. I like went downstairs and there's just like her parents were like trapped in this stasis field.
00:41:48
Speaker
And they could talk to her and they're like, oh yeah, it's so nice to see that you grew up and this and that, we're so proud of you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, well, I have to be able to get you out of here. And they're like, no, we're dead. Just leave us. And she's like, no. And then, yeah, they died. And she walked away crying. Yeah. Kind of got done with the emotion out of her pretty early in the event. Yeah. I thought I had finished everything up there, so maybe I didn't.
00:42:18
Speaker
Hmm. We had very different playthroughs. Yeah, we did. Yeah. Yeah. Because her and mine, her her quest for. Quote unquote, all done. Well, yeah. And I think the achievement for her is you just give her a flower and she's happy. Hmm. The corpse rose or whatever or nightshade. I think I did get that to her. Yeah. Yeah. That she says sometime about like, that's her favorite flower. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:46
Speaker
Did you did the surgeon operate on you in that fight? Fuck no. Yeah, we talked about it. Oh, yeah, that's right. You didn't even fight the surgeon. I didn't fight them. I I convinced him to let the nurses operate on him and they killed him. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So did you fight the gold lady? I did fight the gold lady. I didn't. I just avoided her. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like you try to talk to her and she wanted more and more money. And I was like, I'm giving you more money.
00:43:17
Speaker
Yeah, evidently, there's a way to talk your way out of that because it's like to talk her into, you know, oh, you've got, you know, you're made of gold and, you know, all you want is gold. And this is just kind of like implodes, I guess. I don't know. So did you save any of the gnomes at the steel factory? No, they all died. I think they all died. Definitely the one. No, I think I did save two of them.
00:43:44
Speaker
But yeah, I and then in the in the prison. I only saved like four people Maybe even though they underwater prison. Yeah. Yeah Well, I found an illithid in there I Never found it with it the one that was in the underdark with the hobgoblin Yeah, I don't think he was in there for me because I talked to him in Baldur's Gate Wow. Yeah. Yeah something must have
00:44:08
Speaker
Again, it's one of those little decisions I made that branched off and did that. He was in Baldur's Gate in the. The whatever league. Oh, the League of Light or. Well, now letteries, but that's. But he. Yeah. Huh? Because I talked to him and. Yeah. Never saw the hobgoblin again, but. Oh, yeah, the hobgoblin was with him when I finally got back to town and he was there. Hmm.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, did not. That's weird. Yeah, that he was not in that prison for me. I don't know if anybody likes that. I I got the that the his dad out. Yeah. And then I didn't get anybody else out. Basically, there was just some random people. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Did you stop the presses? Press the newspaper.
00:45:10
Speaker
was you're supposed to. Well, so I, I found where the newspaper, you know, was it the Gazette or whatever? Uh-huh. So where it got printed. So I walked in there, I talked to this guy and he was like talking all this shit and he's like, yeah, I'm just going to run a slander campaign against you and throws you out of the place. And like, there's this quest, it was like clear your name or stop the presses or something like that. I didn't know how to do it because every door was like red and locked and I tried opening it once and got demolished. So it's like, nope, you can just print whatever you want about me.
00:45:41
Speaker
Right. Oh, yeah, never even. I don't think I saw. I mean, I read the newspapers and I never. There was one where the guy was stealing from the refugees. I had to kill that guy. Stealing from the. Right as you get into bottles. You killed him. Yeah. Did you track down his presence that he was setting up for? Yes. OK. All right. Did you go in his basement? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the traps everywhere.
00:46:08
Speaker
Yeah. Did you go to where they were making the gunpowder? Yes. Yeah. I was across the street and lobbed a fireball. Oh, that's much shorter plan. Yeah, but I did. Yeah. As soon as they were like, you can't go up there. I had a Styrian go invisible, drank an invisibility potion and went up there and I saw all like the fire barrels. I was like, I can fix this. Went back downstairs, sent Gail
00:46:38
Speaker
upstairs across the way. And I was like, I can't. Yep. Right there. Hit it. And it was go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Huh? Yep. Yeah. Much easier. That seems much easier. That fight was actually a pain in the butt. Yeah. Um, did you stop the mummy? Stop him. Well, kill him. No. Really? You're talking about the one in Baldur's Gate. Yeah.
00:47:08
Speaker
The one that has the three or four zombies around town or ghouls. Yeah. Yeah. Why would you kill them? Because he was a bad guy. I mean, he's not a bad guy. I found his. Yeah, you find his little jars, the canopic jars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You destroy each of those and then you can kill him, kill him. But why would you kill him? Because he wasn't a nice guy. He didn't do anything to you. He didn't do anything to me, but he turned those guys into ghouls or zombies or whatever.
00:47:38
Speaker
I mean, I just I didn't kill him. Yeah. Did you find the court or the fish people? Yes. Yeah. And I killed the red cap. Yep. And they were. Yeah. Yeah. I killed them. I was their God and the red. Oh, really? Yeah. So they killed him. Yeah. But then they attacked me. Oh, no, no, they didn't. Yeah. They were my friends. Oh, no, no, no. That's what it was. I tried to convince them and I failed it.
00:48:07
Speaker
So they all turned on me. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good place for a poison cloud. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. See. The gift camp. Did you find the Kobolds that were trying to invade? They were like all drunk. Oh, yes. Yeah. I didn't realize they were trying to invade. I just killed them all.
00:48:39
Speaker
Just killed them all because I was like, cobalt's dead. Yeah. Did you talk to the cobalt that was selling stuff at the circus? Oh, so it was a circus. He had like stolen stuff or something. He was funny. He showed up again at the end. Oh, did he? Yeah, because he was selling stuff like right before we went up. Hmm. Yeah.
00:49:04
Speaker
I don't think I saw him again, but yes, I did try. I did talk to him. I talked to pretty much every merchant I could. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it's so much crap to get rid of. Yeah. Well, that's like it took me like five or six interactions to realize you didn't just have to barter. You could just sell and buy. Right. Yeah. Because I was like, you know, I was like, oh, my God, you know, trying to balance everything out. And I was like, well, if I give him an apple,
00:49:32
Speaker
That'll bring it up a gold piece. And, you know, I think the one complaint I will have is that there was almost nothing worth buying from the merchants. I bought some stuff. There was a couple of things that I was like, oh, that's cool. And then like immediately I find something better. Yeah, I bought a lot of healing potions. Oh, I just made them. See, I'm doing better about that this playthrough of like getting all the materials.
00:50:01
Speaker
Right. But I had materials for potions I would never make in my first play through. Yes. He says like, Oh, yeah. Oh, you make a potion of animal speaking. I'm a ranger. I can talk to him. Right. I don't need it. There was a lot of potions that I didn't need because of my class. Yeah. So I just never made them. But but basically at the end of the game, my healing was so good that I didn't really need potions. So. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. It.
00:50:31
Speaker
You know, Shadowheart is not a healing cleric. Not a good. She is a terrible cleric. Oh, gosh. Terrible. I even tried to like boost her up and there was one. There was one spell I had her learn. And it was like if she cast that and then cast a healing spell, it was automatically at its max. So that worked out. But then it was trying to remember
00:50:59
Speaker
to save one of those spell slots so she could use that spell first. Yeah. I almost basically, I basically didn't use her. Yeah. Ever. I've thought about just hiring, hireling. I, I did. I thought as well about that same thing because I was like, this, she is such a terrible cleric. Yeah. And my new, because of my new playthrough, I'm playing a paladin, so I probably won't use her ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought about making Lizelle a monk this time.
00:51:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. I didn't think I didn't think about that, but yeah, you could. Yeah. I. I don't I'm going to try to not use a stereo, but it's like it's almost impossible. Yeah. Because you need a rogue. Oh, yeah, just because of the frickin opening traps and traps and the frickin I mean, so the trash gets so frickin crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:00
Speaker
I do like, though, that if you back up enough, you can usually set it off and be safe. Unless it's a freaking cloud drive that sits around forever. Right. Yes. But you can put. A chest or something over top of the vent and it'll stop. Oh, I didn't do that. I just found that out. Oh, yep. Yeah, because like in the Bladed Village in Act one, there was that
00:52:29
Speaker
Room underneath where you both sit in a chair and it opens up the hidden wall and you go back there. It's like where that forges. Yes. Yeah. And there's all those traps on the floor. Somebody set one off. I was like, I was like, wait a second. They do a lot of stuff that lets you really mess with things. So, yeah, I had Carlack pick up a chest, put it right over the vent. That area cleared right up. I was like, I'll just go around doing this. Hmm. Yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Did you combine a grease spell and a fireball? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of stopped doing it because it wasn't worth the hassle. Yeah. But really, at the end of the game, I was just worried about action economy. Yeah. So, you know, what did the most damage like Carla or Lizelle just did so much damage? Oh, gosh, yeah.
00:53:31
Speaker
It kind of annoyed me how much more damage they did than spellcasters. Yeah. Will was only one useful because he gave me some crowd control. Yeah. But yeah, I didn't... I didn't use Shadowheart, basically, past Act 2. Because he was just so bad.
00:53:54
Speaker
It's just a bad cleric. She's just so emo. Yeah, she's so emo. It's just, you know, because I was in a relationship with as well. She was just like, Oh, I don't like her. I mean, she hates Lizelle. Yeah. You're like, did they fight in camp for you? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Insanity. Yeah.
00:54:20
Speaker
Not who else showed up in the camp that I was like, What are you doing here? Well, Volo shows up for a while. Yeah, Volo was in the camp for most of the time. Yeah. Well, when you save the druid and he shows up to the camp, he's just super horny. Well, yeah. Did you have to rescue Volo twice? Yes. Yeah. In Act three, he was tied up.
00:54:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Stupid, stupid bard. Yeah. It runs his mouth. Just runs his mouth. So he does. Yeah. Yeah. But that was fun interacting with him. Like he was like, oh, you know, what did the goblin look like? And, you know, you can like bard response. It's like goblin. There were gold dragons or something, you know, like really make it crazy. Did you talk to Elminster?
00:55:19
Speaker
I talked to him only once. Oh, yeah. I talked to him like three times, I want to say. I think it was only maybe I talked to him twice, but, you know, it wasn't I didn't get him as much as you did. Yeah. Did you fight Saravac? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. I killed him. Yeah. God, that was a pain. It was such a pain when he's like first buffed up because he can hit you like five times in a row.
00:55:45
Speaker
Oh, I don't think he even made it to melee range with me. Oh, God. He did for me. Yeah. He. I think I held person on him or charm. Nice. Yeah. And did you help the fungus people? Yes. OK. Yeah. Yeah, I killed the bad dwarves. Yeah. Yeah. The duergar or whatever. Yeah.
00:56:11
Speaker
mostly because I remember the fungus people from the Dritz books. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, I remember them. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I kept, I helped them. Um, I helped the stupid
00:56:32
Speaker
I think it was a dwarf. What was he? The guy that was picking flowers and got caught behind the poison cloud. That guy was a pain in my butt. That's when I first learned that Misty Step is the best spell in the game. Picking flowers. Yeah. His wife is in the fungoid area. He died.
00:56:57
Speaker
Oh, because I accidentally set off one of the explosive tools and it was just like. Misty's got his shoe back to her. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she was like he was an asshole anyway. Nice. Yeah. So yeah, because she was in Baldur's Gate.
00:57:21
Speaker
selling herbs and things. Yeah, I never found her again because once I save her husband, she's like, if you find this mushroom, bring it to me and I'll give you something. And I never found her again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you go to the wizard's tower in the Underdark? That had all the lightning traps at first? Yes. Yeah. That was such a pain in the ass. It was a little bit of a pain in the ass. Again, Misty Step is your friend.
00:57:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And by friend, I mean the greatest spell in the game. Yeah, yeah, it is. Yeah, I think I had will have that as like a bonus action. Somehow, I think it was like a charm or something I had on him. I mean, it was boots. It was boots. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah, there was there was a lot of ways to get it. Yeah.
00:58:19
Speaker
I had. Items and. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Spells. And then Lizelle had her psionic jump at the end of the game, which. Yeah. Jump across the whole freaking board. Yeah. All right. You get trouble. You're a chump. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be good. Thank you. Jump was crazy. And it's just a dessert. Get the Yankee jump. It's freaking stupid. Shadow heart. It's like.
00:58:48
Speaker
She did so little damage and so bad healing. And like her one offensive spell that she starts with is the stupid fireball can't trip. Yeah. Like fireball fireball. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because her. What's it called? The other cantrip, she can cast. Like radiant blast or whatever. It's it never hits.
00:59:15
Speaker
Everybody always resisted every freaking time. It's like, oh, that was helpful. Way too cleric. Yeah. She is. Oh, man. She was so bad. It was so bad. I guess I could have like bolt a cluster into something. But thanks.
00:59:41
Speaker
She sucked. Yeah, let's see. Trying to think other ones. Did you save Arabella in the Emerald Grove? The little tiefling that was accused of stealing this with the stupid snake? Yes. Yeah, I save her. Yeah. Yeah, I just parted my way to that one.
01:00:08
Speaker
Because I was like, I'm a bard. You stop doing what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah, because her parents were. Super helpful. And I got what's her name, her contract back. From Raphael. Oh, oh, all. Oh, mall. Yeah, a little mall. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm looking at like.
01:00:36
Speaker
So is it the top 10? The top 10 morally morally objectionable decisions you can make. Sure. And where is it? Number four, let Astarian ascend. So yeah, I did that. Yeah, of course. It's terrible. Oh, my God. Give Raphael the crown. The crown. Yeah, I didn't do that either. Oh, no, I didn't do that.
01:01:02
Speaker
Kill Minsk. Kill Minsk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He will have to be knocked out using non-lethal attacks. I did that. But you have to have your hero alive. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. It was real annoying. Oh my God, this is horrible. I didn't think you could do this. Have Will sell his soul, but don't save his dad.
01:01:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you could let him die in iron through in prison. That's terrible. That is that's that's that's bad. Oh. Yeah, that's bad. You're a terrible person if you do that. Yeah. Also, you're a terrible person if you let a Styrian. The son to God would. He wasn't a God.
01:02:01
Speaker
Basically, no, because a dark god. No, he's just a mighty guy who has all the power of all the vampires in the whole world and can stand out in the sun and yeah. What a terrible thing to do. Did you hook up with the emperor? No, near the left of him. Yes, so did I. Yeah, I was.
01:02:30
Speaker
Semi blown away by the. Whole reveal that he was Balder. Yeah. Yeah. And that I had to kill his dragon. Yeah, that was a pain in the butt fight. Yeah. Yeah. Are you going to try a Dark Urge playthrough?
Praise for Baldur's Gate 3 and D&D Authenticity
01:02:51
Speaker
I am trying workers now. Oh, you are? Yeah. So I'm a paladin with a Dark Urge. I'm going to see how this works out. Oh, gosh. Have you killed anybody yet?
01:03:00
Speaker
Not yet. You've got like you've been tasked to kill people, haven't you? I'm not that far in, so I don't. OK. Yeah. Well, so. Yeah. So if you're playing the Dark Arch, then you can side with the goblins and have them raise the Druid Grove. And you can you can do all kinds of maybe that way you can get the drow. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, mentor or whatever.
01:03:29
Speaker
Yeah. Metara. Yeah. Such a good game, though. It's such a good. Oh, my God. It's insane. I tell you, it's. The. I'm not going to say best game ever because, you know, that also takes away from the awesomeness of Watergate and all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boy.
01:03:56
Speaker
It's definitely game of the year for me. Yeah. And there's so much that it's just just like a real D&D game. It's like, you know, if you think it, you can probably do it. Yeah. Yeah. You.
01:04:10
Speaker
I like I said before, they did such a great job. Making spells that you're like, this is going to be useless, right? Or this thing is like, no, this is never going to come up. Yeah. And you're like, oh, I could jump here or I can misstep here. That changes everything. Or yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Gameplay Challenges and Strategies
01:04:29
Speaker
Yeah. Remembering that at all times, you're in a 3D plane. Right. Fighting. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:36
Speaker
Oh, if I, you know, make the ground slippery here, he'll fall down this little, you know, embankment. Yeah. So you talk about, you know, if I jump here or whatever, how many times do you have shadow? Well, you didn't play with her a lot, but one of your companions gets stuck. Like you're jumping across something and then you look, you're like, shit, where's, you know, will or whoever.
01:05:03
Speaker
Uh, Oh yeah, it happened a lot. Especially because in the end, like where Laselle and Carla are just jumping so far and we'll couldn't, I was like, God damn it. So I was like, switch back to Will and be like, all right, now Misty step over. Yeah. Yeah. Use your skills, Will. Use your skills. Yeah.
01:05:27
Speaker
Because her their their jumps when they were 20 strength was ridiculous. Yeah. Well, and that's like where I mean, you know, when you become the illithid where you can just fly. Um. Yeah, it's true, you can fly. Yeah. I mean, how would you know you blew up the freaking elder mind you pictured?
01:05:54
Speaker
Yeah, but I but I had taken that tadpole and did you use all the other tadpoles that you find? I used most of them. I used them all. My brain was gone. Did you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm actually thinking about it. My character's face was like all black and. Oh, really? Just figured. Yeah. Yeah, I thought use them because I was like, Oh, these are all evil. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were a bad guy. I was.
01:06:24
Speaker
I was. I tried to make good decisions, but I played some bad things. There was one thing I did. I can't remember what it was. I got down playing and I was telling Sarah, she's like, that's not nice. There were times though that I just didn't know what the right answer was. I know. I was like, this is morally ambiguous. I don't know.
01:06:47
Speaker
Uh, yeah.
Emotional Impact and Character Rescues
01:06:49
Speaker
Yeah. But still like after I had to kill Minsk, I turned the game off. I went in the other room and sat. Yeah. Yeah. I was just, I was, I was, I was torn. I killed Minsk and then I was like, I need a break. Yeah. And I reload the game. And then I was like, I just can't be away to get around this. Nope. Nope. Nope. Sad squeaks. Yeah. Sad squeaks.
01:07:16
Speaker
Yeah, that is my goal. This playthrough is to save Minsk. Yes, mine too. Yeah. I don't know if I've got to maybe cast whole person on Jihira. Oh, that's a good idea. Don't let her get in the fight. Yeah. Her cast like globe of invulnerability on her. I don't know. She's got to be something. Yeah, what's that? When do you get that spell? I never used it. I didn't either. But I did have it. Hmm.
01:07:45
Speaker
Yeah, something like that. Or maybe I'll just misty step away with her. Or was that no teleport or dimension, dimension, door, door. You take one person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a couple because I had a bunch of spell or scrolls for like that and protected protection from good and evil. Yeah. So yeah, I stopped carrying those.
01:08:12
Speaker
I basically I didn't realize till my second play through that you could copy spells into your spell book. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The option when you click on it says that you don't know it gives you the option to learn them. I didn't see that option. Oh, yeah. Because I was like, why is this say it's only going to cost, you know, like one of the traits that, uh, or yeah, when I pick gale specialty, it's like, why is it saying?
01:08:36
Speaker
Spells only cost 25 gold. Copy into the spell book. That's weird. That got expensive too. Some of the rarer ones are like 200, 300. They get pricey. Yeah. Yeah, that's a... Boy, that's a thing you could do. Yeah, I know that now. Yeah. Yeah. You should know about that. Yeah. I'll just sit and play my little flute. Yeah. Yeah.
Speculations and Listener Engagement
01:09:06
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah, such a good game. It's oh, my God. I I'm. I am taking a small break because I'm playing other games with my brother, but yeah, like I feel like this is the kind of game that I will. Load up and play on the regular. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I think about how many times I've played through Baldur's Gate 2. Right. And, you know, you saw my laptop today. It's still on my home screen.
01:09:36
Speaker
So yeah. And I told you, you have to take it off because you don't earn it. But it was I'm going to earn it this time. You earn it this time. Yeah. Yeah. So sad. So very, very sad. Yeah. Yeah. My oldest was like, isn't that the little purple guy with a hamster that you've got on your desk? Yes, it is. Shut up. This is corpses rotting in the sewer. Guys. Well,
01:10:06
Speaker
Folks. All I can say is go play Baldur's Gate. Yeah. If you were at all interested in D&D or the D&D it is. Yeah. I can't think of a better expression of D&D. Yeah. It's so accessible. Yeah.
01:10:28
Speaker
Except for playing D&D. I just can't see you. Right. I can't see a video game. I can't remember a video game that had gave you so many options. Yeah. And it made me hold my breath when it was rolling the dice. Yeah. Yeah. And boy, the stupid. I can see a whole DLC with just the one guy who's in your camp who we haven't even mentioned. Oh, Withers. Yeah. Which I think is Jericho. He is.
01:10:58
Speaker
Okay. Did he not say that? He didn't say it, but I mean, Oh, he basically says it in my play through. No, no, no. He just, you know, I saw it where he was talking about the three and you know, it was, I just kind of inferred that he was. Oh, I mean, I guess I got, I guess maybe I got inferred too. I had the application. It definitely wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's.
01:11:25
Speaker
Weird. Yeah, I could see a whole play through these deals and just with them easily. Yeah, because I was like, I need to kill him. Yeah. And I'm kind of interested to see how my paladin is going to react to him. Oh, yeah, that's going to be a good one. But you got the dark urge. That's fair. Yeah. But I could see. Yeah. Real issues. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they can definitely arise. Yeah.
01:11:55
Speaker
But yeah, yeah, go play Baldur's Gate 3 folks. Boys, should you play Baldur's Gate 3? And let us know how your playthrough is going. Yeah, follow us on the Discord. Yeah, yeah, join the Discord. Send me a message at CLTrute22. Oh, yeah. And enjoy the Baldur's Gate now because it's dark out and you can't do anything else. Exactly. Right. Perfect time for that. Perfect. Perfect time. Yep. All right, folks. I am now going to go play Baldur's Gate
01:12:25
Speaker
Me too. Right after eat some dinner. Yep.