#i literally cannot wait to do my durge playthrough omg

[reliquiaen]

the default dark urge pale dragonborn model IS in the game actually i found him. not as a companion, sure, but still cool lil touch. wish it was possible to speak with dead with him

[hightief]

#It's SUPER likely you're already doing most of these but I figured I might as well list as much as I could think of!#hopefully it's not too much information 😂 I really don't want to bombard you! but I hope it helps even a little? 💞#oh!! another thing I'll just stick here - I also understand the pressure to do everything. that's another hard one to let go of#ultimately I just surrender myself to the fact that I will likely play this game for a long time across many characters#so there's no real need to do EVERYTHING with a single character. and that helps to ease the pressure I feel. another thing is that if you#establish your character well enough you'll start to see quests & such that wouldn't be in-character for you to even do. letting the#logic of the narrative drive you instead of the need to complete everything can be super helpful!#(for example durge!aune didn't do any investigating of kagha at all because it didn't make sense for her to care enough about all the#grove drama when she has the tadpole and the urge to worry about. I couldn't justify her taking the time to do that as it would be too OOC)

I'm including your tags because omg all of this is so helpful. My jaw was open reading all of this because I cannot believe I did not think and dwell on these things. Because it's like. Those are all things I do with my D&D characters, why didn't I do it for BG3?

And just. My gosh thank you. It's like you know exactly how my brain is wired, and you spoke directly to it with the solutions to the problems. I've already played this game near religiously since it entered full release. You're right, I am going to be doing a LOT more playthroughs. And then the bit about letting the personality guide them? So much sense. I think that nailed an issue I get to, where the 'video game, gotta do it all' happens and then I'm like "this character isn't fun", well yeah because their personality got replaced by the perfectionist video game completion mindset.

And the point about being neurodivergent is huge. Because that honestly probably plays heavily into my line of thinking. This honestly was so worth the wait, and I am reblogging not only to sing a thousand thank yous because you singlehandedly fixed the issue my brain was having, but I also feel like overall this is FANTASTIC advice and I think so many others could benefit from it. You are literally a blessing, genuinely. You've made so many things click for me. 🥺❤️

And IDK. I felt like this was added like...almost reassurance for me to do these things, to let myself indulge in this as a creative outlet. Like I've been given permission to be a fan of my characters and do things with them.

I have no idea why it is so hard for me to commit to a character. Which is baffling, because I normally have the opposite problem in games. Especially D&D? Like I get so absorbed and attached and into the characters I've made for the games I'm in, I get so invested, flaws and all. I'd certainly roll up a new character if they died, but I don't have the fickleness and struggle to connect like I do with BG3.

Any of the origins (outside of durge)? No problem. Focused, committed to their character and lore. Finish to completion. But I have not completed a single tav or durge. MAYBE I NEED TO PLAY IT MORE LIKE A D&D CHARACTER RATHER THAN A VIDEO GAME? Maybe it's why I have an easier and more enjoyable time playing the other origins.

That and I feel like, since it's a video game with determined paths and choices, there's a sense of 'got to do it all, got to do it right'. Which is such a weird behavior? My D&D characters are flawed; some of them are morally grey. They've hurt those they've cared about. They've fucked up. Inter-party tension. And playing out those consequences are fun.

But fucking up in video game? Brain cannot handle. My smooth, fleshy human brain literally cannot handle.

Advice? Please? Because I want more than anything to have a ride or die character for this game because it is so much fun and it's my fix during the work week when I have to adult and can't D&D, and I would love to like, have headcanons. Maybe do writing snippets and art like I do for my D&D games.