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Wrath of the Righteous features a roster of splendidly written and enjoyable companions, but the majority of their interactions are, sadly, easily missable on individual playthroughs. A collection of camping banter made by the amazing @neverwintrians remedies this issue to some extent by making some of the dialogues easily accessible for all the players. Since the characters’ input goes much further, a good while ago, I started a project to record all their comments and interjections. The idea was to copy-paste them from the localization file into a convenient spreadsheet. Since a new wave of players pick Pathfinder games after playing Baldur’s Gate 3, and we have more DLCs on the way to reignite the interest of the old fans, I figured it’s about time for me to share the results so far. Whether you want to use it for all sorts of analyses, as an inspiration or a reference for fan content, are simply curious, or want to get a few laughs: here you go.

Now, a few notes to keep in mind.

The data is still incomplete. My current playthrough goes very leisurely, and I only finished Act 3 recently. Almost everything past this point, save for some crucial parts of the story I revisited, comes from the run during which I wasn’t yet using Toy Box. I intend to continue slowly patching the holes as I go on, but please take what you see in the later chapters with a grain of salt for now (and don't expect to see Ulbrig's lines there).

Having that said, the branching, especially in later acts, gets crazy, so naturally, I wasn’t and won’t be able to find every last bit of dialogue on my own. What you see is based on my Angel playthrough, in which I haven’t even activated most of the romances. I managed to cheat my way into some interactions that normally would be unavailable to me, but the results were mostly confusing. Cells highlighted in yellow contain dialogues that I found via game files but either have some of the information missing, or I simply wasn’t able to trigger them while playing. There are also red cells that include lines that, to my knowledge, might not have been implemented since I found them in localization files, but the blueprints folder doesn’t confirm their presence in the game.

So here’s where I have a request for you all. If anyone can help me fill in the already existing blanks or spots a dialogue is missing and can provide a screenshot or a transcript of it, please contact me. I will add it to the document and credit you. All I need to know is when and where the conversation occurs, what/who the companions are reacting to, and if there are any specific requirements to see it.

The areas of special interest are:

mythic path exclusive interactions,

romance exclusive lines (especially in Acts 4 and 5),

Greybor’s, Arueshalae’s, and Lich companions’ lines during the celebration in Heaven’s Edge

late game dialogues for corrupted Arueshalae

I also want to thank GardathWhiterock from Pathfinder reddit, who advised me to look into the blueprints folder. Once I figured out how to work with it, filling up the majority of the blanks became super easy.

I will most likely edit this post in the future to note some important updates and milestones. For now, I just hope you guys will find anything of interest in what I have gathered.

#wotr #thank you for your service

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Whenever I think in Sorcerer bloodlines and their power to change your appearance to channel the source of your power, I think in a friend's half-serious character concept.

We dubbed it the "manorc". As in, the entire idea was a human with the orc bloodline who slowly became a full-on orc as they leveled. I'm fairly certain the idea was to abuse some human-exclusive feat to break the character entirely.

I'm also certain the manorc was supposed to hate orcs due to backstory reasons. For the drama.

#a shadow's rambles #I'll never forget that bloodlines are intended to change your looks as you level thanks to the manorc

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commission for @cassynite for her cos player character lune! this was super fun to work on and i had fun playing around with the colors!

#friends' creations #this looks great Ama!! #Such a fun pose

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p.. pretty......

#wotr #oh i love these so much #you captured them all perfectly

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On happy creative news, I think I'm done with the front version of Nela's post-recovery outfit afte A LOT of back-and-forth trying to fine-tune it (not as much back-and-forth as her original/main outfit, thankfully) AND I'm done figuring out the face of modern times Samel.

I think. I'm now proceeding to get feedback to determine if I managed to properly convey his age (and general design choices, but I'm most worried about the age part).

#a shadow's rambles #I guess this is a good test of my skills but this was so out of my comfort zone it's hilarious actually #I have an idea of how I want his outfit to be so hopefully that won't take me long #... I say whilst remembering how much blood and tears were spent on all my previous times to design an actually elaborate outfit

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yes yes characters doomed by the narrative always slap BUT what about characters saved by the narrative? characters who have already given up hope and don't know they have a happy ending? characters who believe they are a lost cause, characters who feel irredeemable, characters who think there's nothing left for them, but the narrative does provide a way out? what about the characters who don't expect anything good, who don't even remember how to wish for it anymore, who get the things they need anyway? what about the characters who actively run from being saved getting saved in a way they can't stop or control. what about being saved by the narrative!!!

#Nela

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I just destroyed my fingers furiously typing Japanese on my phone. It was a good reminder of how annoying I find to write Japanese on my phone (the keys are smaller so muscle memory betrays me constantly and I typo so much... So much...)

#a shadow's rambles #it was for a friend so it's ok #but man it's annoying

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[2839/11080] Cryptic becard - Pachyramphus salvini

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Tyranni Family: Tityridae

Photo credit: Gary Rosenberg via Macaulay Library

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Happy memories of getting low key traumatized by Princess Mononoke because my brother bought the movie and played it in the living room whilst I was there playing with my toys.

#a shadow's rambles #I love Princess Mononoke but that sure was a way to get introduced to it #Our parents weren't there at the moment lmao

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#it was... maya the bee... #me with 3 years watching kodomo anime as one should #my brother also bought manga and I've been reading it since I have been able to read so I guess I could ask him what shit he got first #my brother keeping the more dubious shit like RGVeda away from me because I would try to read anything he bought like a little child menace

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Fairy Pitta (Pitta nympha), order Passeriformes, family Pittidae, Hong Kong

photograph by Michael Law

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Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, Macquarie Pass National Park, New South Wales, Australia

photograph by Jono Dashper (@jonodashperwildlife)

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Ludwik Stasiak - Dandelions (ca. 1900)

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Crying because I think I finally found a shape for the front of this jacket I'm happy with. No matter what I tried something kept bugging me, feeling off... But this may be the winner!!! Which transitions beautifully to the back!!!

#a shadow's rambles #outfit design is both fun and freaking horrible to do #I think the main reason I didn't think in this option sooner is the jump-off reference I used

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Like legit I'm so insecure about color it's maddening.

#a shadow's rambles #I accept both tips on how to improve or/and reassurement it's all on my head #I don't need false praise but if something isn't working I need to know WHY

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For artist trademark I’d say I can spot your art by your thin sharp lines, while having soft shapes. Your lovely use of gradients really stick out. Clean crisp but creamy colors. Where you put detail also. It’s like it enfolds out. (Hope this makes sense 💕)

In answer to this

First of all, thank you so much Dolly!!! This is so sweet too 🥰

I find the soft shapes part interesting, as it's something I hadn't noticed myself! But I'm particularly happy to hear you talk about my colours in a positive way!!

Color is something I feel I struggle with a lot for reasons and something I feel really self-conscious about. I'm always second guessing myself about it, especially when it comes to shading and render.

I'm glad people think of the way I use color not only as distinctive but in a positive way! And that you find my gradients (I'm guessing you mean particularly the ones I use for shading) lovely. Maybe I'm not doing as badly as I feel (?)

Do not worry it made all sense!

#ask meme #the-raging-tempest #honestly if I found a brush that blends like the one I'm using right now but more textured I would cry #a part of me would like to try a more textured brush but I'm very fond of how this one blends... #i may have to investigate how to modify brushes???? #if I can be arsed lmao