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Friday Fun Thread for August 11, 2023

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Talk about your Baldur's Gate 3 characters!

I'm playing a Way of the Open Hand monk. Reached level 4 and picked Athlete as the feat. His armor class is pretty crazy - 19. Due to getting Dexterity up to 18 and using gloves that give +2 AC to unarmored characters.

I'm going to play him as a good person mostly, an enlightened monk who mainly uses non-deadly means. That's why he's equipped with a quarterstaff instead of a slightly more damaging sharp weapon. :)

Not making much progress as I've had a busy week, but I've been playing a Paladin/Warlock. I'm at 1 level on Ancients Paladin and 2 of Warlock, itching to get the third Warlock level for pact of the blade. I'll take Warlock to 5 and then Paladin to 5 and then decide how to finish from there.

The character is a lot of fun because I'm pretty strong in both melee and ranged. Reasonably tanky, especially with the incredible Warlock spell buffs. And, killer at conversation from high charisma. It feels strong enough to be fun without being so strong as to be broken.

Sounds fun. I assume Paladin benefits from Charisma being the primary ability as well. I sometimes wish I had high Cha for some dialogues. Mine is at 10 lol. But I can use Wyll for some of those dice rolls. He's my Warlock. I picked Pact of the blade for him, so that I could use the flaming greatsword I got from the prologue by killing the devil creature who was fighting the mindflayer. Wyll is limited in terms of armor and weapon proficiencies, but the Pact gives proficiency for whatever weapon you use it on. :)

What race is your character? My monk is a Wood Elf, because they get extra movement.

I did the Seldarine drow, for reasons that currently escape me.

The Paladin and Warlock spells both benefit from charisma, and pact of the blade will make it my primary attack stat for physical attacks with the pact weapon. I also use the everburning blade from the nautilus, which is carrying me for melee attacks right now because my strength is only 10, and I need another level to take pact.

I've never played 5e before and honestly I find the multiclassing kind of clumsy (but I guess it always is). That said, the benefits of having a high charisma plate wearer who got to hit hard and do fun conversation stuff with intimidate and persuasion was too good to pass up.

I was disinclined to ever use Intimidation, but I'm warming to it after turning up the difficulty level, hehe. I started on easy, now I'm on balanced. Getting more rewards and avoiding some fights seems more important now.

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