#and now bg3 is kinda giving me a way to have some at home play

[seeminglyseph]

I did not bring Wyll to the burning building because I am playing the game mostly blind. so it is kinda funny in my head to be like.

"I thought we refused looking for the Duke?"

"We refused when some random noble lady asked and I figured like. 'Why the fuck are you asking me? I just showed up here, you don't even know who I am. I don't know who *you* are. Fuck off. If I don't commit, I don't get in trouble if I don't figure it out.' But then I found out it was Wyll's dad. And I like Wyll, and so I'm willing to put in effort to go find Wyll's dad. The difference is who asks for help, honestly."

which is a conversation Astarion and Lake had for literally no reason, but that I can't help but have little scenarios in my head. In this scenario Astarion learns that Lake is basically Chaotic Neutral. "May save your life, may steal your car." This may canonically not work for someone who is supposed to be a Selûnite Cleric but like. fuckin'. whatever. It was a fun goddess to be a cleric of and I admit I did not do a lot of research into her alignment and I suck at alignments and almost always play some form of Neutral. That's My Ninja Way, Bitch.

I should probably spend some time on the Forgotten Realms Wiki to figure out the lore I don't know for a bit. I am a fake DnD fan who knows more about Tal'Dorei than Faerûn. fuckin' oops. I'm sorry to everyone who knows me for every time I make a critrole reference especially since I care way more about the Mighty Nein than Vox Machina and Bell's Hells. which makes me like. The least relatable fan right now. Campaign 2 was my introduction to DnD and that's gonna hurt a lot of people's brain's and I'm real sorry 'bout that. One day they're animated series is gonna come out and it'll be easier to explain that. It was really good but there's just too much content to expect anyone right now to actually go watch and understand it...

[livingfictional]

Heyyyy, id love a baldurs gate and a red dead redemption matchup! (If i can select two if not simoly bg3 is fine!)

This is gonna be messy because i do not exist to myself and its really hard to describe myself but i digress!.

I am a trans man. I have a bleached blonde mullet with the shaved sides that are my natural hair colour which is brown, i have grey eyes with central heterochromia I think its what its called? I have a ring of green in my eye to accompany the grey. Im 5’7, i dress really well and i love to dress up though my style varies from streetwear to 3000 year old vampire. Im pretty skinny, got a slim waist🤞🤞

I am funny, love sarcasm, bullying my friends is my love language (when appropriate), in general my love languages are quality time and physical touch. Im very adaptable i love hiking as much as i love staying indoors and watching a movie. Interesting fast is that i cannot watch a movie alone i do not have the attention span for that i need someone else with me or something to do with my hands thats why i prefer videogames. Ill really do not care what people think about me unless its someone it’s someone close to me. Im protective of people i love in a “put myself between the danger and the loved one in case this goes south” way. I am extremely loyal but it takes a while to earn that partly because I’ve encountered a ton of horrible people (had like 3 different stalkers follow me home). I give great advice even though I don’t follow it. I feel all of my emotions deeply which kinda sucks because i grew up with an angry man in my house so thats the most prominent one but i am a lot better at handling that now than i used to. I am also quite competitive unless its someone i love then im alright with losing. I also love arguing as a joke and making up fake scenarios with my friends i think thats so fun.

For hobbies i do a lot but im not perfect in anything; cosplay, acting, sowing, rollerblading, ice skating, skateboarding, drawing, singing, dancing, baking, cooking, embroidery, prop making, video games, shows, swimming

This is a lot and messy so sorry about that🙏 i hope it makes enough sense😭

I am a gay man so id like to be matched with guys🫶🫶

Hiiii, don’t worry it does make sense! Hope you like it!

I match you up with…Halsin!

I feel like you guys would get along so well.

Deep inside, we know that Halsin is quite a playful guy, he’d play along with your teasing and sarcasm!

Knows of your upbringing, he’s the exact opposite of men you encountered growing up. He’ll help you with your emotions, there’s nothing wrong with being emotional! Will always listen and is ready to help or give advice. He just wants you to be happy.

You seem to have got a lot of hobbies, he’s more than happy to try some of them if you’d like to do that! Loves spending quality time with you.

I match you up with… Sean!

He’s a bit dumb, but he means well, deep inside.

Will make conscious effort to lower his voice, avoid yelling around you. He’s not angry, never, he’s just a tad loud with poor social awareness.

Will probably bully you back, that would be his love language too haha.

He feels honored that you put your trust in him, he’d never rush or push you, just happy that you’re there with him.

Would never let you put yourself in harm’s way, he wants to be the one to protect you and make you feel safe.

He is not great with his emotions either, quite oblivious, but will try his best to understand you and what you’re feeling.

[de-pointe-du-lioncourt]

Some things I’d like to see in BG3 (even though it will never happen)

Not saying anything new here but more animalistic races:

Smaller reptilian races like Lizardfolk or Kobold. Kobolds are already in the game like. Come on.

Firbolgs. Everyone loves them now that Critical Role has been using them a lot more. I love seeing things from previous D&D editions that have been forgotten getting the love they deserve. I also enjoy how they went from mostly human looking to Bovine-esque.

Shifters. I admit my vision for Shifters is probably way different than canon, I see them way less human than in the pictures I’ve seen. More feline or rodent like faces, furrier, etc. Great for lycanthropy which was going to be a thing considering the scrapped werewolf companion. Also apparently there’s a lot of them near Baldur’s Gate in the Werewoods.

Simic Hybrids. Yeah yeah they’re from Ravnica but you can make it make sense. The Gith can travel through different planes. There’s already cults and guilds and crazy wizards doing wacky science experiments so the Simic Combine making an appearance in Faerûn isn’t far fetched.

Other, not animalistic races:

Warforged. From Eberron, not the Forgotten Realms. There’s already robots in the wizard tower in act two and Sorcerous Sundries in act three, both of which use magic to pilot them. Then there’s the steel watch in act three which uses tadpoles brains to pilot them. I don’t think an explanation as to how Warforged (or at least a version of them) appeared in Faerûn would be very difficult to come up with.

Changelings. Also from Eberron and tbh… I don’t have a real case for them I just think they’re neat. I could see them be home brewed into another Underdark race though tbh.

Aasimar. Totally doable. We have Aylin already, we have Marcus who is like a fucked up twisted version of an Aasimar. They would be great.

Genasi. Technically we can make them in all but name. Skin, eye, and hair colors to match whichever element/subrace you want. Classes and subclasses and spells and even gear to give you a whole element theme. Might as well have just made them a playable race.

Classes/subclasses:

If I’m being honest I’m happy with what they picked. Except I don’t understand why they didn’t add Artificers. We have all these gnomes. The Guild Artisan background. All these robots that I mentioned earlier. Gortash being Gortash with all his designs and building and shit. Let me give Durge a gun.

I will never understand why they didn’t give us the Loviatar option for Clerics or the domain of Pain.

Also give Paladins the option to choose a deity so you can be a Paladin of whatever deity you want without having to dip into Cleric. But make it a choice because not all Paladins are followers of a god. Also I want more oaths.

Make Warlock patrons actually get involved more. Not like Mizora level but still… maybe I’m just not far enough into my warlock.

Backgrounds, character lore, etc:

Why can’t I have a Tiefling from Elturel when like 90% of the game’s Tiefs are refugees from there. Why can’t I have a character from Waterdeep or Candlekeep. One thing that kinda annoys me about the game is that other than brief mentions or some books about other places, it really feels like Baldur’s Gate is it. Which is funny because you don’t even actually reach Baldur’s Gate until act 3! And then Menzoberranzan is treated like it’s super close but actually it’s far as fuck and there’s totally other Drow cities that are closer. My point is I wish we could choose where our characters are from.

Going back to my Genasi point, pretty much we can already make them. They could just. Add some flair options. Could also work for my Paladin point, give us flair to choose from to label your character as “Paladin of *whatever deity*.” I’m sure there’s other flair options that people would enjoy, even if it doesn’t have any effect on the game. I think it would be good for role playing purposes. What if I wanted to label my high elf as a sun or moon elf? Or have a Shadar-Kai elf? Or say that my wood elf is a wild elf? Literally just having it in my character description would make me happy.

Okay I’m done. For now.

[agent-oo-z]

Thinking about bg3 but instead of a Durge/Tav it’s my beloved DND 5e pc Narea. Thinking about how she’d interact with all the characters.

Some background info on Narea: Narea is a half elf. Her parents both have the life span of a half elf instead of the respective elf and human ones because her elven parent was a cleric of the elven love deity and begged her to grant their human lover a longer life by taking some of theirs so they would never have to be apart. Her family runs a farm/animal sanctuary thing. She left home to go figure out who she was as an individual. Her companion animal is an African wild dog(which we called a painted wolf in game because Africa doesn’t exist). She’s a chronic NPC adopter but also mega autistic and prone to grudges.

Narea would hate Astarion so much(at least at the start). He’d pull the knife on her and she’d refuse to let it go even after she grows to care about him. She’d learn about Cazador and be like “alright I get that you have ultra mega super trauma but you also need to try and not be a dick all the time. That’s just how things work.” And then they’d kill Cazador and she’d be like “anyways now that you are free would you like to come live on my family farm and help us with night time chores and stuff you can drink as much of my blood as I can handle every day until I die and also we butcher our own livestock and can save that blood for you too or I could just teach you how to raise livestock on your own or how to hunt or-” and just. Ramble at him for hours about the ways her and her family could help him start a new life. Because she still holds her grudge but she’s a giant softie and wants to help people improve and grow and change.

She’d have mixed feelings about Lae’zel. Narea really doesn’t like excessive cruelty/violence so the whole vlaakith cult would make her uncomfortable. But she also recognizes that different cultures prioritize different things and all that. Once she learned about Orpheus tho? Home girl is gonna be chomping at the bit to kill the lich Queen herself.

Kinda a similar situation with Shadowheart. I think the most interesting thing about their early interactions would be seeing if Shart’s fear of wolves extended to her companion painted wolf Cantillë(roughly translates to four toes in elvish because African painted dogs don’t have duclaws and thus are four toed) because like. Shart isn’t afraid of dogs. And in game she isn’t afraid of the ranger’s companion wolf. They’d also bond over half elf things I think. Also Shadowheart would have such an amazing time moving in with an area’s family are you KIDDING ME?! It’s already like the farm/homestead she makes post game if you romance her it has a whole bunch of random animals. Narea’s parents would also welcome Nocturne in so happily. They’d just fully adopt both these poor cult victims and be so proud of them.

Narea and Wyll would bond quickly. Then the Mizora reveal would happen and the only reason Mizora doesn’t die on sight is because it would doom Wyll. Narea would want to kill her as soon as Wyll’s contract is broken. Also once he switches from warlock to ranger? Narea would be so obsessed with him. Giving him all the tips, helping him get gear made to keep his companion wolf Lily safe, helping him memorize edible and medicinal plants and fungi, all the ranger stuff. Cantillë and Lily would have puppy play dates.

Narea would fucking cry over Karlach having to go back to the hells. She’d be constantly checking in with Damon and Wyll and Karlach and doing everything in her power to help solve the engine problem. They’d do so much silly goofy bonding stuff together as well. Narea would dedicate herself to helping Karlach make up for a decade unable to have friends.

Narea would be very cagey with Gale. She doesn’t like people whose ambition goes(mostly) unchecked. As he grows during the plot of the game I think the two would get closer and eventually be friends. When Narea meets Tara tho? Game over. Gale invites her over for tea and her first question is always “will Tara be joining us?” Not because she doesn’t like Gale. She just fucking loves Tara.

Narea and Halsin would be best buddies. She’d see his observation notes about the owl bear and start fucking vibrating. They’d spend all their free time being life science nerds. Talking about animal behavior, plant properties, etc. they’d be such goobers. Honestly the character she’d be most likely to romance if he weren’t so much older than her. She’s like. Half elf equivalent of 25 human years old. Halsin would be more of a mentor/father figure for her realistically but if they were closer in age it would be such a perfect pairing.

Jaheira would be very much a grandma/aunt/mentor figure as well. They’d be besties tho. Like constantly snarking at each other and being catty but in a friendly mutual way where the both know each other’s boundaries and respect them. Jaheira would be invited back to the family home to meet Narea’s parents and they’d have big combined family get togethers every so often to catch up.

Narea would want to put Minsc and Boo in a jar and study them forever. They are so strange and fascinating. She fully believes Boo talks to Minsc and just wants to understand how and why. Nothing invasive/harmful but so many questionnaires and observational studies.

Assuming Minthara didn’t die during the goblin camp fight, and Narea met her at moonrise, she would never be able to fully forgive her but would assist in her breaking free of the cult of the Absolute and becoming less “evil” because that’s who Narea is. She may not ever personally like you or forgive what you did in the past, but she will never try to set you up to fail or sabotage you if you’re willing to genuinely try and improve. They’d never be friends, and if Narea ever learned Minthara was hurting innocents/enslaving people/etc she’d not hesitate to take her down. But she would be perfectly clear about that and give her ample fore warning.

Narea would be suspicious of Withers the entire time. Not necessarily total distrust, just a very heavy sense of apprehension.

Narea would adopt Scratch and the Owlbear cub no questions asked. She’d probably adopt every single cat you meet on the streets of the gate as well. Any creature without a designated home(aside from literal wild animals, the cub is a special case because it was orphaned very young and then just kinda grew up physically but not maturity wise because of a potion) she’s adopting them. Even Us. Maybe not Shovel but Shovel’s her own deal.

Narea would try desperately to convince Mol’s gang not to be involved with thieving/the guild because she has a personal history with organized crime(as a bystander turned random victim) that severely traumatized her. Mol would ignore her and be annoyed. Narea would try and convince them all to come live with her family and get paid for helping raise livestock and stuff.

Narea would probably try and fight Withers over Arabella leaving. She would take more convincing than Arabella most likely.

Narea would totally depose Wulbren and replace him with Barcus. She would love Barcus even tho he’s prickly.

Basically Narea would complete every single NOC quest and try to convince everyone who was involved in Criminal Activities(mainly more concerned about people being hurt as opposed to breaking the law to be clear) to come be employed on her family homestead. Or to at least start their own and raise ducks or something.

Her “to kill” list would be. Pretty long. Gortash, Orin, Kethric, Vlaakith, Shar, Mizora, Zariel, Raphael, Wulbren(if he tries some fuck shit), Cazador, Godey, the Emperor. But not Mystra even though she does not like the goddes.

The Emperor tho? Oh she’d rip his throat out with her bare hands. Finding out she was manipulated and lied to by someone enslaving essentially a POW who killed his best friend, A DRAGON, because his best friend realized he was no longer himself post ceramorphosis? She’s killing him so hard and so much. Probably wanting to curl up and die after learning that her own freedom and survival was only possible because of the enslavement of Orpheus. Might even offer to join the war on Vlaakith to try and make up for her involvement in his enslavement. I don’t think she’d be willing to turn into a kind flayer tho. I think she’d learn about what happened with the Emperor and be terrified she’d become the same if she changed.

Bonus: She technically has a romantic partner from the DND campaign she was in. Assuming he still exists in this alternate universe for her, Astarion would come on to her and she’d be like “sorry mate, I’m already spoken for” and then just. Never mention her boyfriend again because she’s a goober. He’d be with her at the reunion party and everyone would be like “??? Who the fuck is this?” And it would be very funny.