#liveblogging baldur's gate

[americankimchi]

the way i finished bg3 and immediately went through the 5 stages of grief for like a solid 2 hours

#liveblogging #liveblogging baldur's gate #guess who just got a bad ending #spoiler alert: it's me :) #200 hours down the drain ♥ #i looked it up after the fact and apparently one (1) dialogue option fucked me over #and it's like. 60+ hours back so it's not even worth it #everyone got a happy ending but my tav 😔 #THANK U FOR UR SERVICE....... AS THE FIRST ONE YOUR PLAYTHROUGH WAS DESTINED FOR FAILURE....... #we will always remember ur sacrifice 🫡🫡🫡

[acadieum]

slight undertale ref in bg3 maybe???????

#adrien rambles #yall am sobbing in my hands... #bg3 good... #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #just in case.. #also i only realized this after this posted but dont talk abt my bloodless stat and the way astarion is sittin right there in the corner of #lets not speak of it #adrien's liveblog logs

[lehdenlaulu]

My heart. 😳🥹🥺😭

#him 💜 #Gale of Waterdeep #PC x Gale #Valisa x Gale #BG3 #BG3 spoilers #Baldur's Gate #Baldur's Gate 3 #Darna liveblogs stuff #Darna plays video games #also there's a candidate for the otp tag huh? #'I can't imagine anywhere that could turn my heart from you' #Darna plays BG3

[eerna]

pls show us your Tav 🥺👉👈 I'm so curious so see your bg3 blorbo

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE <3

#eernart #bg3 liveblog #she is like cotton candy and it looked SO BAD during the underdark parts yikes #she will only look even worse in baldur's gate i just know it <3<3<3 can't wait <3<3<3 #missgwendolenfairfax #eernask

[badassindistress]

Astarion; or, the easiest floofy shirtsleeves

So, my dear sister @mysunfreckle has gotten briefly obsessed with Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3, and she showed me this:

He's wearing carefully mended shirtsleeves! Now, as we all know, that is my obsession. And I haven't made a single shirt with a dramatic ruffled flounce yet!

And I recently saw Lizcapism on YouTube make a Lazy History Bounding Shirt and wanted to try it out, to show everyone who didn't want to bother with the gussets and neck pieces of the historical method. So that's what I'm gonna do today!

It'll be #floofy shirtsleeves sewalong addendum or #astarion or the easiest shirtsleeves, to block or follow this liveblog experience at your leisure.

#a talia original #talia's adventures in dressmaking #sewing progress #sewing liveblog #floofy shirt sewalong #floofy shirtsleeve sewalong addendum #astarion or the easiest shirtsleeves #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #its 15:12 let's see how far i get in three hours

[blackjackkent]

Suggestion for your fic prompt request :)

Jaheira and Karlach - "stories around the campfire" - Karlach is full of questions about the old days, and Jaheira tells her a story she may not have expected.

TYSM for this prompt! This one made me smile a lot. (I really love writing both Jaheira and Karlach, so writing both of them bonding is, as Karlach would say, aces. :D ) I really hope you enjoy it!

-----

Comrades and Lost Children

Pairing: Jaheira & Karlach Characters: Jaheira, Karlach Rating: G Warnings: None Word Count: 2.3k Setting: Several hours after the death of Ketheric Thorm Summary: Jaheira and Karlach share memories during a late night after the fall of Moonrise Towers. other bg3 one-shots | send me fic requests!

-----

A shadow among shadows, the black panther pads through the twisted forest outside Moonrise.

The curse is already beginning to fade with Ketheric’s death. The land is hardly yet safe, but the silent creature can step without pain in the milder patches of darkness. And it seems joyous in that freedom; a low purr rumbles in its throat as it darts repeatedly from the path to climb a gnarled tree trunk or roll in a struggling patch of grass, scenting out the places where nature’s strength is starting to recover within the broken landscape.

It’s a short journey north to Last Light, but the panther’s meandering route takes it past the moonlight-bathed building. Instead, it makes for the small camp where Hector and his companions have been lodging since their arrival in the shadowlands. Unsurprisingly, given it is nearly two in the morning, the camp is still and silent; only a lone tiefling figure sits up keeping guard by the slowly dying fire.

So softly does the huge cat move that Karlach does not at first notice its approach. It is almost within the circle of firelight before she registers it - but when she does, she moves fast, leaping to her feet with a startled cry and bringing her sword to bear on the beast. “Holy shit--”

For a moment the two of them stare at each other, unmoving. Then the panther's body begins to shift, magical energy flowing off it like a surge of dark water. Jaheira's lithe form uncurls within the burst of power into a standing position from the hunch in which the wildshape left her. “Is there a problem, Karlach?” she says, looking calmly into the point of the sword drawn on her.

“Oh, thank fuck,” Karlach says. She slumps with relief and lets the weapon drop to her side; a nervous smile bursts onto her face at once as she recognizes the other woman. “You scared the piss out of me.” 

Read More on AO3

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanfic #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 fic #baldur's gate 3 fic #jaheira #jaheira bg3 #karlach #karlach bg3 #karlach cliffgate #i enjoyed writing this so much; thank you for the prompt! <3 #i think i've decided these two are my favorite characters to write by far c: #(maybe tied with lae'zel) #also if i had a nickel for every time this week i posted something about jaheira getting wine-tipsy and opening up to someone #i'd have two nickels #which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice XD #no hector liveblog tonight bc i have gw2 raids in a little while but i offer this instead :D

[almea]

I'm going to fucking pass out, they changed Karlach's kiss animation and now there's a lingering forehead touch and it's soooo sweet, what the fuck... Truly a character made for me.

#Annie plays Baldur's Gate 3 #The one and only liveblog I have for this game right now is crying over them changing Karlach's kiss animation lmao #I simply... could not contain my feelings about how cute it is

[winntir]

I did not wake up today expect Robbie Daymond to rate the Baldur's Gate 3 penises.

#critical role #baldur's gate 3 #cr liveblog #robbie daymond #dungeons & dragons

[goatsghost]

(x)

i was trying to find the most popular love interest in bg3, and obviously i was thinking astarion, only to find out he doesn’t even break top 3???? doesn’t beat out lae’zel even???

i completely forgot that a large number of gamers is in fact straight men

#baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #ggw liveblog #mine #i was very confused that astarion wasn’t in the top 3??? #bc i love (and chose) shadowheart #but both tumblr and tiktok can’t get enough of that funky lil vampire man #but also this article misspells karlach so how trustworthy are they lol

[carabas]

Finally finished BG3, brief rambling under the cut -

Completely charmed by the dead smuggler sisters and that unexpected little 'they didn't deserve this' banter that triggers if you bring Droralias's teddy bear to her corpse - just the fact that there's absolutely nothing prompting you to do that in terms of quests or rewards, no one asked you to deliver her teddy bear to her, but the game devs knew if they put this teddy bear in the game then some of the players were going to do that and they wrote a little companion banter just for this ;_;

I'd gotten used to Tav's half-ilithid look over act three, so I was not prepared for the sheer relief when Tav got his face back at the end - I'm even more happy with the half-illithid path now, it makes for such a visible weight lifted, even more so than the destruction raining from the sky, proof that not just the general tadpoles but your specific tadpole is really dead, it's really over, just by having a before/after sequence -

Ending the game by getting visibly healed!!

Also kind of pleasantly baffled that trusting the Emperor had no other negative consequences aside from that one semi-unwilling appearance change. I was really expecting him to push harder for Tav to go full mind flayer at the end, but there wasn't even a dice roll for it! Even after all these ominous hints about Stelmane, that clear warning not to trust him! He tells you he still has feelings even as a mind flayer, and then you go through his old letters and find his writing about not feeling his feelings anymore now that he's a mind flayer! (The whole backstory with Ansur was cute ;_;) Surely, I thought as I watched him suck Orpheus's brains out, this is going to come back to bite me when I get some kind of evil ending! And yet!! No, nothing. Thanks for the cool powers and tentacle sex and saving the world, dear sweet thrall master who spends the whole game leaching off a captive in this story that's all about freedom and the lack thereof.

I am also completely charmed by how everyone in the epilogue wants to catch up on Tav's epic friendship with Karlach over and above anything else, they are so glad Tav and Karlach have each other, Karlach's smiles brighten the skies of hell, this is the most important relationship to talk about here (romanced Wyll who has also spent the past six months in hell is standing right there, guys. He's the one who pleaded for Karlach to come with us!! I left the choice up to her!!) For a minute I thought there was a bug and I was getting Karlach romance dialogue, but no, some of them did specifically refer to it as friendship, Karlach is just that central to Tav's life. As is right.

#baldur's gate 3 #liveblogging

[americankimchi]

i truly hail from the brian murphy school of RNG

#liveblogging #liveblogging baldur's gate #they need to study my rolls i'm beating the statistics on levels heretofore unseen

[bardofbaldur]

Text: Gale: Magic is... my life. I've been in touch with the Wave for as long as I can remember. There's nothing like it. Gale: It's like music, poetry, physical beauty all rolled into one and given expression through the senses. Gale: Is it the same for you? Era: Magic is music, poetry, and beauty. Though I suspect you and I perform it differently. Gale: Fair enough- though in the end we're still playing the same composition.

This is making me insane actually. The way that being a bard gives Era a similar viewpoint regarding magic as Gale, the way that Gale without prompting from Era, reveals that to him magic is the sort of creation she is well versed in. I am chewing on this conversation, unable to let it go. It's a sort of parallelism between the two of them, a sense of love and wonder for their craft that drives them in their every moment.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #ori liveblogs #bg3 oc: era #bg3 tav #bg3 oc #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #i am absolutely normal about this #not losing it at all

[animoogus]

I think Karlach and Astarion should bond

#bg3 liveblog #I guess it's not liveblogging if it's just loose thoughts but in the tag it goes #no spoilers or magic missile!!!!! #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #post schmost #astarion #bg3 astarion #karlach #bg3 karlach

[lehdenlaulu]

Ooh, they've changed things so that Gale will volunteer his story when his condition becomes worryingly unstable. He appears to be at least mostly honest, too.

I wonder if the magical projection still happens if he dies, haven't had a chance to find out.

(Also, from some new party banter... he's worried about getting a word to his mother?? Aw.)

#Darna liveblogs stuff #Darna plays BG3 #BG3 #BG3 spoilers #Baldur's Gate #Baldur's Gate 3 #Gale of Waterdeep

[jidem]

Lae'zel is so nice actually. If i got kidnapped, wormed, sent to another dimension, and forced to collaborate with a bunch of lunatics hell bent on exploring the entire world and eating brain melting parasite at every corner i would NOT be this patient

#Genuinely she would have been completely justified in ditching us by now #It's been like a week we've done no progress #lae'zel #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #jidem's liveblogs

[larsisfrommars]

Christmas BG3 Playthrough!

For personal reasons I will be honoring the Christmas season by doing a Santa Claus playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3!

I have named my Tav “Nicholas” and based on all the variations of Santa origin material I’ve watched/read (Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Rankin-Bass, The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus by Frank L Baum, and Klaus on Netflix) I have decided Santa is a Circle of the Land (Arctic) Druid with a Guild Artisan background!

Power of the elements (wintery powers and so on), being raised by “elves/fairies/little magic people”, and in pretty much every variation being able to talk to animals. I can keep justifying myself in Santa’s Druidy-ness buuuut, I don’t feel like it.

I am playing as a young-ish pre-legacy Santa because I plan on rizzing Gale for funsies also I think it’d be cute.

Important Side Note: My guardian looks like Krampus :D

I’ve got 3 rules:

All of my hirelings MUST be gnomes, and I will do at least ONE major combat with all “Christmas elf” hirelings. Christmas elves are “immortal” so I don’t have to feel bad when they die unlike my mortal cohorts!

All of my companion’s clothing must be dyed red, white, and green. But mine specifically must be dyed red or ‘scarlet and alabaster’ when I can find it.

This is going to be an EXTREMELY goodie goodie two-shoes run, probably more goodie goodie than I’ve ever done before. Even when I think it’s a stupid thing to do or start getting FOMO I will go “What would Santa do?”

I will be documenting this madness as I go! Enjoy!

#baldur's gate 3 #BG3 #bg3 tav #Christmas #Santa Claus #st. nick #st Nicholas #Santa Claus is coming to town #the life and adventures of Santa Claus #klaus #bg3 liveblog #BG3 christmas liveblog