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Recently I learned about The Chest Of Grateful Words, a unique chest that appears in the camp during Wither's epoliogue party. It holds letters from various letters from NPCs the player helps during the game, including Alfira.

If you played The Dark Urge origin and managed to save Alfira by knocking her out before she shows up at camp, she sends the following letter.

"I've lost count of how many times I've started this letter, so I'm just going to get straight to it.

I heard what you are, and what you've overcome. I saw murder in your eyes when you looked at me - but you stayed your hand, didn't you?

I'm not going to tell you where I am (for obvious reasons) but I'm safe. I'm happy. And I'm not wasting a second of the life you spared.

Thank you.

With love and forgiveness,

Alfira"

To be honest, this letter annoys me. If Alfira shows up at camp, she explains that Durge inspired her to adventure, to face the world instead of trying to hide away from it in fear. But if she knew that Durge felt a compulsion to murder her when she makes that choice, than she is monumental idiot.

The wording of this letter shows that the two met and likely spoke to eachother, and that if she hadn't been knocked out, she'd have seen this person looking at her with murder in their eyes and thought, 'I'm going to ask this person if I can travel with them!' which would make her - like I've said - a monumental idiot.

This letter, combined with how no-one comments about her dissaperance if she dies and that game files have been dug up showing she was meant to be a possible companion, leaves me truely annoyed at how she was handeled by Larian.

#video games #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #Alfira #BG3 Alfira #Dark Urge #The Dark Urge #Durge #BG3 Dark Urge #BG3 The Dark Urge #BG3 Durge #Baldur's Gate 3 Durge #Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge #Baldur's Gate 3 The Dark Urge

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#Animation #Cartoons #YouTube #Helluva Boss #Poll #Polls #Tumblr Poll #Tumblt Polls #C.H.E.R.U.B

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Reminder I am vehemently AI intolerant. I do not support Character.Ai, I do not support using AI for fic writing. I do not support AI art. I do not support AI in any creative sense. AI is created from stolen works. AI is plagiarism. Using it promotes creative theft. If I catch you anywhere near my blog with it you will be blocked.

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How Much Time Passes In Baldur's Gate 3?

This might sound like a stupid thing to ask, but does anyone have any idea on how much time the events of Baldur's Gate 3 take between the nautiloid crash, and the Nether Brain being defeated? Like with most games I play it nevers says, and this bugs me for some reason.

In Act One, there's a Tiefling you can talk to atop the gate of Emerald Grove who says that if the road was clear, the trip from there to Baldur's Gate would be a tendays march. Let's assume that the same would be true for the party. But the road isn't clear thanks to the Goblins, and they don't go straight to the gate. The party has to go through The Shadow Cursed Lands and deal with all the nonsense there, which increases their journey time.

Let's also assume that the party go's through all the events that can happen during a long rest - excluding the Alfira/Quill incident, let's say The Dark Urge isn't part of the group - and visits the Githyanki Creche in search of a cure, plus freeing the Gnome slaves in The Underdark and dealing with Wulbren and The Ironhand Gnomes. That would all add to the total adventure time.

There's also fighting Cazador, dealing with Vicona for Shadowheart, and Gale's situation with Mystra and The Orb.

So at the end of the day, how long would it take for the characters to defeat the Nether Brain?

#video games #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #BG3 #Shadowheart #Astarion #Cazador Szarr #gale dekarios #Mystra

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Baldurs Gate 3 Blank Character Sheet!

I was really disappointed that there wasn't a blank Version of the Character Sheets, so I took my time to make one. Not my best work, but enough for private use.

Please feel free to use for your own Original Characters! :]

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Imagine you wake up one day as a Minotaur or similar anthro cow being. You remain yourself in mind and soul, can still speak human lanquages, and have hands with fully functioning digits. What's the first thing you do?

go YESSSS!!!!! YEEEESSSSSS!!! and then dig a hole with my head and then go OOOOOOOOO

#cattle #Cows #Animals #Nature #Minotaur #Fantasy

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I say I use default, but I make three changes. One: I give him a tail. Two: I use different chin and jaw attachments. And three: I give him piercings.

Note: There is no one right way to play a Dark Urge but the Dark Urge we find in the Bhaalist temples bed chamber during a regular playthrough is a white Dragonborn & is considered the “cannon” depiction of the Dark Urge.

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #the dark urge #polls #tumblr poll #Durge #Dark Urge #Baldur's Gate 3 #bg3 dark urge #BG3 Durge #BG3 The Dark Urge

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What's the actual name of the anime?

bad

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I spy, with my little eye, a photo that was faked by an AI image generator! Can you spot the clues?

FB is turning into a parade of fake AI images churned out by click-farming pages. More misinformation is on the way. Learn some tricks for spotting AI photos!

#important #Art #AI #artificial intelligence #AI Art

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Druidic Alfira !

#baldur's gate 3 #Video Games #Fanart #Alfira #BG3 Alfira #baldurs gate 3 #Baldur's Gate 3 Alfira #Baldurs Gate 3 Alfira

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I Feel Bad About How I Play Baldur's Gate 3

There are 3 reasons why I feel bad.

1: I don't think I'm any good at building powerful characters. My leveling is based more on roleplay than actual stratergy, and I have no idea what would be a good build for a Trickster Domain Cleric or Moon Circle Druid. In fact I think if I were to change Shadowhearts domain or Halsin's circle, they would end up built the exact same way.

2: I don't use barrelmancy. It's accepted among the fanbase that barrelmancy - the use of smokepowder/oil barrels to destroy enemies - is the most efficent and amusing way to deal with things, but I just don't use it. My main concern is that it'll destroy or scatter any loot in the area.

And 3: I've never played the first 2 games. I didn't even know Baldur's Gate was a thing until 3 came out, so I don't recgonise any of the returning characters. Seeing Jaheira wasn't a big deal for me because I never knew who she was until she tried to kill my PC, and I can't get involved in talks about how Sarevok or Virconia were done dirty because I don't know what they were like before.

All in all, I feel like I'm doing something wrong and I don't really fit in.

#video games #BG3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #Jaheira #bg3 jaheira #Baldur's Gate 3 Jaheira #Baldur's Gate Jaheira #Shadowheart #Halsin

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‘Serenading the cattle with my trombone (Lorde - Royals)'

#cattle #Cows #Animals #Video #Happy

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Rare pity, mercy and compassion of the giants called humanity

#Art #Poem #Poetry

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Technically true.

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In the Baldur's Gate 3 fanbase, it seems to common place to mock people who kill of the companion characters like Lae'zel or Astarion. Call them out for not indulging in all the story the game has to tell.

Thing is I don't see an issue with that. There's two reasons why someone might kill a companion character first chance they get.

The first is roleplay. I have 3 PCs, all Dragonborn, all with a superiority complex and a focus on their own survival. It would be in character for to hate Lae'zel for having the nerve to treat them like lessers, tolerate her only for the supposed cure she promised, and kill her the moment that cure turned out to be false.

It would also be in character for them gank Astarion during the vampire reveal. They're focussed on survival, someone they're traveling with just tried to drink their blood without permission and will likely do it again, so they're going to stab the guy.

Or maybe you're playing a Cleric/Paladin of Selune. When Shadowheart outs herself as a Sharran, the expected reaction is to kill the enemy of your goddess.

The second reason is you don't have the patience for they stories. There are 6 companion characters, which makes 7 stories if you don't play as one of them. That might not seem like much, but with how the game works, it becomes tedious.

You can only have 4 people in your party, so you have to keep swapping people out in order to do their stories. But it's easy to forget that you need a specific character at a specific time and place, so you can end up not having them when you need them.

Plus you have to tolerate personalities you might not stand, and swapping them out can mess up party composition which can mess up your play style.

So all-in-all, I don't see an issue with killing of certain characters if it make playing more fun for you.

#video games #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #BG 3 #astarion #lae'zel #shadowheart

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What the fuck is this 'boop' thing?

Reblog if you have not been booped yet