#Miriam plays bg3

[miriamforster]

So I’ve seen a lot of Balder’s Gate 3 fanart at this point, and enjoyed most of it, but also now I have questions about the cultural role of circumcision in Faerun. 🤔

[miriamforster]

The Ascended Astarion “does he really love you after he ascends” debate is interesting to me because I’m not sure it matters as much as people seem to think it does.*

I don’t know about you, but pretty much every person who has hurt, neglected or abused me in my life has also been a person who genuinely loved me. In some cases they loved me deeply, in many they love me still.

Loving someone (emotion), doesn’t have anything to do with whether you are capable of loving someone (action). To love someone well you MUST be able to grow, reflect and change.

He can love (emotion) Tav, in fact I think he probably does.

But is he still capable of growth? Or is AA forever locked into the worst version of himself, doomed to repeat toxic patterns because that’s all he’s known?

And if he CAN change, is he capable of changing enough to love (action) Tav they way they need to be loved?

That’s the real question.

*unless we are discussing “does he have a soul” (which, ultimately, could also be defined as the ability to change and grow), but that is a different topic.

[miriamforster]

Question for any other parents who play BG3.

Are y’all also pretty much locked into helping the grove every time because you can’t betray the tiefling kids?

Like I think it would be interesting to see the other path but also OH MY GOD SO MANY DEAD CHILDREN.

[miriamforster]

GUYS

My husband and I just hit the Gauntlet of Shar.

He doesn’t know what the Nightsong is.

He doesn’t know.

[miriamforster]

Reading fanfic about the Baldur’s Gate 3 warding rings.

VS.

Finding the rings in game and reading the husband’s diary:

[miriamforster]

Things I will probably always do in BG3, a non-exhaustive list:

—free Us if i can, makes the nautiloid fights easier

—have Shadowheart cast sanctuary on me and dash around looting all the mindflayers on the way to the control board. (Also good for grabbing the sword if you can get it.)

—slap Gale’s hand

—tell Lae’zel to say please

—side with the tieflings, cause I am a parent and fundamentally incapable of killing kids on purpose

—investigate Kagha even if I don’t actually get the quest, because I find that version of the story very satisfying.

—get into the swamp via the log bridge/back way to the goblin camp. You need feather fall, but it’s close to the waypoint, and that way you can talk to Ethel at her house and avoid the brother’s confrontation.

—also makes the investigating Kagha quest faster

—kill Ethel with arcane lock on the stairs. Her full fight gets kind of annoying with repetition, and I HATE the vent traps. Plus the one time i made a deal with her, it was way less satisfying for me then just killing her and freeing everyone. Much easier to just lock the stairs and kill her fast.

—knock out Minthara if I can. I’m not super thirsty for her, but I like collecting allies

—sleep with Astarion if he asks before the party. If I’m romancing someone else, I visit to the drow asap as soon as I get to moonrise so I don’t have to choose and we can be friends. He just has a lot of good stuff in act one, and I enjoy it.

—do the Weave scene with Gale. It’s super sweet and I can just imagine us as friends if I’m not romancing him, which seems to calm him down a bit lol.

—side with the myconids because i like and respect fungi and their home is really pretty. Also I don’t want to make Blurg sad.

[miriamforster]

Been sick and super fuzzy and not up for Tactics, so I started a new game. Fire sorceress resistant Dark Urge.

It’s my first durge game and my GOD.

Some notes:

-Do NOT fantasize about shit as a dark urge. (Sorry about the hand, Gale)*

-trying to knock Alfira out so I wouldn’t kill her was SO stressful cause the scene triggered at level two for some reason and it took me a few tries to find a way to take her out in one turn. I ended up casting sleep on her so Astarion could do enough sneaky damage.

-but then I got to kill a dragonborn bard with no pants who sounded like Strawberry Shortcake for some reason, so it all worked out.

-also got a murder gremlin butler and a cool new cloak.

-Durge is so relatable though. “I’m awake, mostly.” “Mind’s never quiet.” “I have such a headache.” SAME GIRL, SAME.

-In that vein (ha), I know people have mentioned this, but it’s genuinely upsetting to tell the companions “hey my mind is filled with murder” and have them be like “it’s fine.”

-I KILLED SOMEONE IN MY SLEEP. MAYBE WE SHOULD MAKE SOME CONNECTIONS HERE IDK

-My durge is a tiefling, cause fire powers, but I gave her shorter horns cause I thought it would be fun to make her look like the devil. And now when she gets That Look, she’s literally this emoji: 😈

-Lastly, my favorite little Durge line yet is when we recruit Astarion and you think about what a pretty, perfect corpse he would make. There’s something very satisfying about it.

*I reloaded because I was tramatized lol, so he’s safe now

[miriamforster]

Ugh I am OBSESSED with making elemental dragonblood sorcerers in BG3.

So far I have my bronze dragon halfling sorceress with as much of the sparky lighting gear as she can use.

And I found some super good cold magic gear in act two, so naturally I had to make a white dragon half drow sorceress.

I think I’ll do a fire based tiefling sorceress next.

Of course they’ll all have the elemental adept feat, so their magic ignores resistances. And dragonblood sorcerers get a boost to their elemental spells at level six as well.

And naturally they all have appropriate signature colors. My half drow looks so good in pale blue it’s UNREAL. A true ice queen. 💙

[miriamforster]

I ran the Act 2 portal fight and finally found a use for the Elixer of Peerless Focus!

I had Gale, Shadowheart and Wyll each take one to help them keep their concentration spells up.

Wyll and Gale blocked off the corrupted zombie side with Gale’s black tentacles overlaid with Wyll’s hunger of Hadar sphere. Shadowheart called up her circle of Spirit guardians, which basically killed any low level creature who got close.

(Not relevant, but my halfling lightning-build sorceress made her own little puddle of water to electrify and ran some lighting bolts through the zombies, which was fun.)

The only thing we really had to fight was the wraiths, which was good cause those things are a PAIN. Radiant damage is the only thing that really gets them, so everyone but Shadowheart was just chipping away at their health.

Still we won! I did the fight a few times because BG3 battles are like puzzles to me, and the Elixir of Peerless Focus was definitely what kept those barrier spells up.

If you have a fight that relies on a concentration spell, highly recommend.

[miriamforster]

Playing a sorcerer halfling in BG3 is super funny because your special dialogue options are basically:

[Sorcerer] “I AM MAGICAL, POWERFUL, AND AWESOME🖕😏🖕”

[Halfling] “You should really try being nicer to people.”