• @[email protected]
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    413 months ago

    You can say Astarion, it’s okay.

    (Seriously, any player who tried Astarion’s introduction at my table would be told to go get a different character, because what the fuck?)

    • @[email protected]
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      233 months ago

      It would be great if there was another way he could meet Tav without pulling a knife, like if Tav had a high enough passive perception to say "Hey I can see that knife of yours mate. You pull anything and you’ll be Eldritch Blasted into Avernus. "

      He’s supposed to be this charming rogue, but he can’t try conning Tav into doing instead of violence

      • mox
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        3 months ago

        I kept an open mind despite the knife. What he did at camp, though: that was his death sentence.

        One thing I haven’t figured out yet: Is someone teleporting Astarion’s body to each new camp we set up, or is he just playing dead and stealthily following us whenever we relocate?

        • Snot Flickerman
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          83 months ago

          Wyll is such a good boy he is just a bit boring. Despite his deal with Mizora, he really is on the straight and narrow.

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            I’ve always just interpreted him as a poser, he always gives the most obvious answers because he’s just acting out a role

        • @lowleveldata
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          43 months ago

          Wyll looks cool! I never take him out of camp either

  • ShaunaTheDead
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    273 months ago

    imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they’re all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!

  • @[email protected]
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    233 months ago

    The fact that everyone has different characters that they love and/or hate suggests that the devs did a pretty good job.

    The writing isn’t stellar, but there’s a wide range of character types, and one person’s favorite is another’s leaat. For me, Lae’zel and Astarion are insufferable (Lae’zel a little less so, but still annoying). But those are favorites of other people, so they’re presumably not objectively bad, it’s just a matter of taste.

    My only wish is that there were one or two more, or at least that the others were introduced earlier in the game (hell no, I’m not changing my entire party dynamic in Act 3).

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      I mean, I hated everyone but Karlach at the beginning, and they rendered well the uneasy cooperation between the characters, then everyone just grew closer act by act and it was great.

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      Lae’zael describing her diplomatic plans in the epilogue was just great. Just like Astarion being happy about NOT becoming a vampire ascendant

  • 🐍🩶🐢
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    83 months ago

    I did my first playthrough as Karlach and romanced Gale for shiggles. After he abandoned her at the end. >!You know. Her last night alive before burning to death.!< Yeah. You can bet I left his ass in the portal the next time.

      • @[email protected]
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        83 months ago

        There’s a spoiler tag? Just showing in clear text on mine, didn’t even get the option of not clicking it…

        • 🐍🩶🐢
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          33 months ago

          It is really frustrating because the spoiler tags are kind of client dependent I think. I just use the spoiler tag formatting button in Sync, but I know there is some fuckery where it doesn’t work everywhere, or another client uses a different tag.

      • 🐍🩶🐢
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        13 months ago

        There are other endings you can get for her. Everything will be ok. Karlach is the best flaming teddy bear ever.

    • @[email protected]
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      103 months ago

      My friend, talking about hirelings: “They’re just soulless followers! They don’t have any sort of personality!”

      Me: “I know.”

  • teft
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    43 months ago

    I always make Laezel leap to her doom right after the first fight with the three winged turds so yes, completely relatable.

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    I recently started a Durge run and accidentally chopped Gale’s hand off and killed him by clicking the wrong dialog option when I first ran into him. Was honestly happy to not have to feed him magical items all the damn time.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    I didn’t like that they “grew better,” tbh. I liked them the way they were when I met them.