Baldur's Gate 3 Season call for comments
Added 2025-03-17 00:36:30 +0000 UTCWe're in the home stretch folks. We have 2 more RLH episodes about Baldur's Gate 3 left after today. We'll then record an announcement episode for Season 2, but we also wanted to give you a chance to get in your last thoughts on this amazing game.
Try to keep your thoughts brief and specific and we'll read them during the transitional episode.
Gary
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All I know is I told ChatGPT that it’s Sceleritas Fel and I’m a Bhaalspawn, and now all its answers are fucking insane. Thanks, Baldur’s Gate.
Joseph
2025-04-02 04:47:24 +0000 UTCIt's been incredible to compare my playthrough vs my wife's. She's extremely maximalist and pokes around in everything, I'm very much of the mindset that if you miss content, it just makes your experience more unique. She seems to maintain that I "literally didn't play the game" given that I A) murdered Astarion after his introduction because a vampire held a knife to my throat, B) didn't take Shart into the temple of Shar because I didn't like her, and she ran off to probably become a mindflayer somewhere, and last but not least, C), I saved the entirety of the underdark for my second playthrough. But I got to experience the game in the same way I experience a TTRPG, where I don't rifle through every container I can find and I try and make the most interesting decisions, not the gamiest ones. Reflecting, this is one of the only games that has managed to create a wide enough possibility space for me to engage with it like that, and I love it so, so much. She, on the other hand, doesn't play TTRPGs, and I suspect that's why she played it the way she did.
Vivian F.
2025-03-27 21:12:03 +0000 UTCLove the whole BG3 experience very minimal complaints I’ve been obsessed since I jumped in and got a ps5 this winter recaptured my childhood dopamine playing video games. From all the cute interactions with the animals like grub and the fully fleshed out real feeling characters like karlach. And the monsters are so cool and diverse. Really opened my eyes to how fun the world of dnd is and the potential for storytelling in the setting. Mad respect for the covering this giant of a game been a great detailed overview of it that’s a really entertaining listen.
Hurin
2025-03-26 14:15:29 +0000 UTCMy first clear of BG3 was on Honor Mode. I played on normal up to about the end of act 2, and then got obsessed with Honor Mode. I love the added challenge, but the real fun for me was having to live with every botched roll, natural 1, and funny mistake. Not being able to reload a save adds so much tension to fights, but dice rolls could be scarier than bosses sometimes. In total it took me 14 failed attempts and over 250 hours, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. My durge lost the fight with Orin and pissed herself, but I got those gold dice. Learned so much about the game in the process, and am currently about 10 attempts deep into Solo Honor, hoping to clear before Patch 8 fixes all my favorite exploits. Love the game to bits, and so happy to have had the experience of listening along.
Alex D
2025-03-24 00:20:39 +0000 UTCI'm quite behind on episodes, but wanted to add to your talk about Chult. I'm currently running the Tomb of Annihilation module set in Chult so I've done some research on the history and wanted to mention a funny lore tidbit: Ubtao was very involved with the people Chult, physically walking among them and helping them out. But eventually he got sick of people coming to him about their insignificant problems and said "If the people wish to cry and complain rather then listen to my wisdom, then so be it." and left Chult, never to be seen again. As for problematic things in the module, the only thing I've found is the disease "Mad Monkey Fever", which they actually released an errata to change to "Blue Mist Fever"
Demicol
2025-03-23 23:05:51 +0000 UTCI've done two full playthroughs of this game. One was a Durge playthrough which felt like a personal fuck you to Karlach (Romanced her, persuaded her to become a mindflayer, killed her at the end. Rough stuff). But my first playthrough was the real reason this game will always be special to me. Me and a buddy put aside a couple of hours a week and did a co-op run. We made every decision together, and it was amazing going through that journey for the first time together. What a game, can't wait to see what Larian do next.
Ben Green
2025-03-23 21:51:02 +0000 UTCI love this game, played it a ton, did a full run with a friend and had a blast with it. I think this game did a lot of things right but, weirdly, my biggest take away is that I think the combat in Divinity 2 was more fun? I love doing goofy stuff in BG3 like throwing goblins at other goblins or knocking people off cliffs. There were some smart changes Larian made to BG3 instead of trying to directly port over 5th edition combat but I think having things limited to action/bonus action/etc is more restrictive than Div 2's action points. You can often land more attacks in BG3 (especially if you're hasted) but in Div 2 being able to cast multiple spells or use multiple items in one turn lets you combo attacks in some really satisfying ways. In BG3 I often felt like I was only taking half a turn or that I was using my turn to set up something cool for my allies to take advantage of. D&D is a team focused game so it makes sense but it still nagged at me every time I played BG3. The characters and story ended up carrying this game for me more than the combat as a result. Still a great game but now I'm looking forward to Larian going back to their own thing.
greyrain
2025-03-20 01:03:17 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say that it's been quite a fun ride listening to you two go through this game hearing your analyses and experiences. I started playing this just before you started the podcast as I was afraid I'd get way behind in game progress compared to where you two got (I seriously underestimated my ability to blaze through a couple of playthroughs, also it was just before you detailed the full structure of the show). My exact memory of certain situations is quite a bit behind me at this point and anything I think about as a fun discovery or way things played out, etc. wasn't anything I really could add to each episode especially with as thorough as you two have been about all the possibilities the game allows and the lesser known elements and contingencies the devs planned for (Thanks you two/well done) but it's still been a blast to listen along and think about my time with it as well. Also really fun to read others comments of their experiences or knowledge related to what's discussed in each ep. Thanks again, and I'll be looking forward to whatever's next for this slot.
Limowreck
2025-03-19 23:02:51 +0000 UTCAs someone who has been playing Dungeons & Dragons since 2001, Baldur's Gate 3 is the most purely D&D experience I've ever had in a video game. The D&D MMO was fun as MMOs go - I hate MMOs in general, but it was never not fun to go into a dungeon and hear Gary Gygax himself introduce the setting as the DM. I enjoyed Pools of Radiance and I love KOTOR with a passion, but neither really felt quite like D&D even though they were directly based on AD&D and D&D 3.5 respectively. But BG3 just absolutely nails everything about the experience; the roleplaying, the "yes, and" to almost any action you can think of, the expansive lore and worldbuilding, dynamic character creation and customization, and a nearly perfectly tuned ruleset. The only thing it was missing for me was co-op because at 42 years old I now find it kind of hard to get that sort of thing together anymore, virtual or tabletop. This game has unseated the likes of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, and Persona 4 to take my number one RPG slot and is in my top 5 video games period. Thanks for the extensive, detailed, and loving coverage. Now I feel compelled to further damage my backlog progress and start a Dark Urge playthrough.
KerooSeta
2025-03-19 17:07:22 +0000 UTCThis game opened a whole new level of friendship interaction for my wife and our mutual friends. We've been saying "Oh, D&D/Pathfinder sounds neat, doesn't so-and-so have a campaign they said we could join, well one day..." for years now. From the moment we fired up BG3, my lovely lady partner was all the way in, 200+ hour campaign territory, spore druid necromancer with a full crew of zombies, wood woads, and elementals. Come get this work. Since then, we've played a few brief campaigns and one-shots at local tabletop games/bars, and just last month, officially joined an ongoing campaign as a Starforged Dwarf and an Astral Elf. Our friends have been delightfully patient in explaining to us the differences between BG3 and D&D mechanics, and it's truly a highlight of every week. We are also big fans of the podcast, and it's been a treasure to learn about things we still missed even after a second, lengthy playthrough. A hearty "Alora" to Larian and you fine fellows.
Jody Vyrostek
2025-03-19 16:51:19 +0000 UTC
