#gate-keeping

[elvhendis]

Somebody translated the infernal runes face tattoo that you can put on your character and the runes on the forhead literally just spell "forhead", the runes on the nose spell "nose" and the runes on the chin say "chin"

#karlach: “who's gonna tell him” #larian you can't keep getting away with this #baldur's gate 3

[everchased]

hahahahaaaa get safe and cared for, idiot

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 tav #astarion x tav #oc: finch #my turn to draw my tav being cute with his vampire bf heeheehee lalala my turn my turn #because i'm weak for a hug and tired bitches snuggling #and for astarion still being nervous about his boundaries being pushed #waiting for the shoe to drop but it never does #slowly lowering the hackles #because it keeps getting reenforced that. it might be okay #anyway i continue to be abnormal about this game bye #my art #bloodoath

[elminster-big-naturals]

when its 4am and the whole squad is zooted out their gourds trying to read the overhead menu in mcdonalds

#baldur's gate 3 #i've been them all #wyll: the smell of dirty fry oil is making him green out #astarion: 100% of his energy is dedicated to keeping his face perfectly neutral. he hasn't said or heard a word since they left camp #lae'zel: wait. where do my arms go. how do i noramlly hold my arms. what. am i supposed to do with my arms??? ogh god everyone knows im hig #anthrael: has been trying to read the menu for 13 minutes now but the pictures on the screens keep changing too fast

[ahahnopenope]

here's the picture i couldn't get out of my head

#my art #sketch #traditional art #fanart #dungeons and dragons #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #bg3 wyll #astarion ancunin #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #wyll ravengard #baldur's gate 3 #lord of the rings #saruman #ponder the orb #i'm so fucking tired i keep messing up shit #deleted my first post by accident cuz i'm fucking dumb and couldn't find the original post

[itsafreetrialofdeath]

my boyfriend husband doesn't believe that his cat bullies mine

pt. 2

#my art #they’re friends it’s ok #someone’s gotta keep him from stealing all of the wine #astarion #batstarion #tara the tressym #bg3 astarion #bg3 tara #bg3 #baulders gate 3 #digital art #baldur’s gate 3

[lazylittledragon]

the only thing scarier than vampire lords/mind flayers/death cults is meeting the in-laws

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tavstarion #i feel like he’s good at schmoozing but i’m not sure how much he would actually Enjoy it #he gives me extroverted introvert #being surrounded by a few hundred very pretty wood elves for a weekend is probably quite nice though #he might have a bitch sesh with dorian’s sisters #also i will keep making his outfits cuntier if it kills me #what’s that post about how wyll is the only character you could realistically bring home without disaster

[awetfrog]

Here to throw them into as many romcom tropes as possible

#my art tag? #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #bloodweave #put actual effort into keeping everyone in their canon armour but drow armour looks so Correct on astarion #hes in his mcr three cheers for sweet revenge era let him be #anyway hope they get divorced soon

[vole-mon-amour]

by @/baiyameng on twitter

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#halstarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #halsin #astarion #halsin x astarion #astarion x halsin #fanart #i keep winning with the bear and the batstarion/catstarion

[cheekylittlepupp]

My Roman Empire.

#astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate #mims posts ~ #astarion gif #bg3 gif #bg3 gifs #HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS #baldurs gate 3 astarion #my gifs ~ #baldurs gate 3 #ok i think this is currently my fave gif set...

[ssalballoon]

professor dekarios and that weird guy who keeps visiting him during office hours

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #astarion #astarion ancunin #my art #bg3 fanart #bloodweave #idk why i keep drawing gale in lapels or in that one specific angle #idea is basically from highrollers... the scenario and astarions fit is all neil newbon

[mossy-rock-in-a-field]

Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldur’s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted “to see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.” For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but it’s been a few years since she’s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:

She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks he’s polite and qualifies as “relationship material.” She also REALLY likes the things he’s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know she’s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.

She’s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks it’s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.

Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesn’t like selling things because “what if I need them.” The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. She’s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.

She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.

She did NOT get Volo’s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.

She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold I’ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that “please someone help me balance my finances my family is starving” tweet but instead of candles it’s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.

We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I would’ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didn’t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)

She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldn’t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didn’t.)

She’s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.

She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.

I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. She’s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me “what is Discord” yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.

anyway shout out to my mom for being neat

Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale #gale of waterdeep #astarion #gale dekarios #laq talks #I talk #she stares at me real hard after she makes a choice too #like squinting to see if my expression gives anything away #if it was a good or bad call #I keep my face blank as shit it’s hilarious #I have not told her I’m writing fanfic for this game #nor will I ever #jesus christ

[dekariosclan]

So I was watching some videos of Gale’s epilogue discussions with a friendship/non-romanced Tav, and…oh my god, Gale…

[Sorcerer] You confine yourself to the School of Illusion? I’d have thought you could teach the entire curriculum…

Gale: I did offer, as a matter of fact.

Gale: However, the Blackstaff insisted I couldn’t teach every subject, nor could the simulacra of myself I offered to create for that purpose.

————————

Blackstaff: Well Gale, we’d be honored to take you on as a professor. What subject would you like to teach?

Gale:

ALL OF THEM

#Wasn’t there just a post about Gale using his simulacra as a substitute teacher? That is officially canon now #How is it I keep finding out new things about this man that make me love him even more #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #epilogue #spoilers

[tea-time221]

i, too, would like my head to be cushioned by wyll ravengard's bosom :3

throws these things into a cooking pot and blows up the kitchen

i cant stop drawing them grrrgrrrrrrrrrrr GRAAAAARARARRRRRRGHHHH

#pro tip: watch character design videos while drawing #still not sure how i drew astarion there #im in a forever fight with wyll's horn placement #it keeps changing everytime i draw him im sorry pensive emoji #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #wyllstarion #bloodblade #bloodfrontier #bloodpact #farts n sharts #I KEEP FORGETTING MY ART TAG

[juusbox]

first impressions

#sorry gale #jun will listen to you nerd out but the price is that you're talking to his last remaining braincell #every vampire/spawn keeps a diary #that’s the law #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 memes #bg3 astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 gale #astarion #dark urge #our small army of stars

[amaranthsynthesis]

This Hark! A Vagrant strip is immediately what I thought of when I found those letters. I’m sticking with the hot topic implication bc it’s funnier than finding a faerûnian equivalent for France and bc fantasy hot topic would be fucking fantastic and I want to go there right now.

(The postscript says ‘no homo’ but it is very much homo)

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #the dark urge #the dark urge spoilers #durge #ballard #Enver Gortash #durgetash #bg3 comic #thank you Kate Beaton #the meme that keeps on giving a decade on #artings #digital art

[zfedraws]

I am normal about my tav <—- lying

#art #doodle #my art #fanart #bg3 tav #bg3 #gale x tav #Tara #baldur's gate 3 #unwell behavior #hhehehehehehehehehehe #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #tara scritchy face #if you please #i do this with every blorbo I get #bg3 is just very open about posting it so I’ll do it too #ocxcanon keeps me sane