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Friday Fun Thread for November 14, 2025

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I'm over 30 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 now.

I pretty much did all the quests in Act 1 (that I could find), and in pretty skillful ways. Only some 'losses': I didn't know you had to knock Mayrina's brothers unconscious to keep them from being killed in gruesome fashion by the Redcaps after they had charged in. Persuading them was not possible. You'd have to equip clubs and knock them out to save their lives. And, much earlier in the game, one of the Grove denizens died during the fight at the gate. But overall I was very happy with my performance. I killed the hag in one turn and saved all of her victims that could be saved. And in the Underdark I killed the would-be terrorist and obtained both a vial and a huge barrel of that super-explosive material.

I'm now in Roseymorn Monastery, having chosen the Mountain Pass route to Act 2. I had Shadowheart draw on the portrait of Vlaakith, much to Lae'zel's chagrin. And Elminster was good fun too. :D

I've got some cool spells on my MC Sorcerer and Gale and Shadowheart. Fireball, lightning, Slow, etc. While Lae'zel does crazy damage with her double actions and follow up attacks.

Did you manage to get hit on by every party member at once? I had vampires, paladins and gay mages trying to jump my bones.

I accidentally banged Halsin in that game, or started on the path to it maybe (been a while). I took a conversation option that I thought was being a bro and sympathizing for the tough times he had to go through, but apparently he took that as "let's fuck".

Maybe it's petty, but that is too me possibly even worse than general wokery and makes me want to avoid the game. Good romance is already hard enough to do well in a video game when focussing on one or two fleshed-out options and still often feels very cringe even then. Strong feelings ought to be earned, which is incompatible with many genres. I often entirely avoid romantic subplots altogether if possible for the same reason, and there is little I dislike more than accidentally stumbling into it (and no, I can just watch porn if I want to see merely casual sex, I don't need it in games).

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