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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2364 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 24, 2025

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I'm thinking of starting a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough tomorrow. I played until Rosymorn (end of act 1, it seemed) a couple of years ago but will probably start a new character now. I will be using an AI generated Christopher Lee or Philomena Cunk as the narrator. :) Are there any other must have mods I should get? I don't want to spend hours pouring through this stuff, so just a few great ones will suffice.

I'd also appreciate some ideas on a fun build or anything that's particularly important to do in act 1 to avoid later regrets. Try not to spoil anything beyond act 1 if you give that kind of advice. Thanks. :)

It's pretty easy to lock yourself out of half the side content in Act 2, which is where and why I quit my first playthrough of the game. The main things to know are that you should probably go around talking to everyone in that zone before picking optional fights and that the Tiefling refugees you already met in Act 1 are the main set of recurrent quest relevant NPCs (there's an achievement for having every single one of them survive the whole game but you don't need to go that far).

Take good care of the horned buggers; got it.

Something I hated about my act 1 a couple years ago was how I didn't get to remove Kagha because I cleared out the goblin camp before I had finished gathering the evidence and for some dumb reason that caused the quest to close. Also I heard something about how it's better to let the evil hag (who tortures people in her basement) live due to some endgame shit and that really didn't sit right with me. I don't want to read any spoilers on this, but a simple yes/no might be helpful.

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