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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3...confirmed!
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2019-06-15, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Would an extra rebellious young illithid try to get back at it's parents/culture by sneaking off and helping children and saving animals and do other good deeds?
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2019-06-15, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Reach down into your heart and you'll find many reasons to fight. Survival. Honor. Glory. But what about those who feel it's their duty to protect the innocent? There you'll find a warrior savage enough to match any dragon, and in the end, they'll retain what the others won't. Their humanity."
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2019-06-15, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Shepard and Garrus definitely seem to have this relationship if you don't romance him. The bit where they put their heads together before the final assault always really touched me.
I love that there's lots of speculation on ilithid romance when I picked that specifically as a joke..
If there is indeed romance (and I assume there will be), I do hope it's handled a bit better than DOS2. That's the only game I've played where I accidentally slept with a party member.
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2019-06-15, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Jokes aside, if they do have an Illithid companion I'd expect a 'enemy of my enemy' archetype rather than Tentacle Drizzt. Still evil to the core and perfectly happy to snack on brains, but whatever huge plot is at hand is being orchestrated by an internal political rival, so it needs to fail even if the species as a whole would benefit.
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2019-06-15, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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He is. He has the ignoble distinction of being the only female romance option while having a jerkass personality, although he is technically two romances in one because you can take his personal quest through routes that turn his personality in different ways (though they both default to him becoming less obnoxious overall).
Luckily, Enhanced Editions give us Rasaad, a brand new spin on the spiritual warrior formula, who is infinitely more useful and powerful than anyone else while still being romancable by ladies. He mixes power and stealth in such mysterious ways that it will take you the entire game to notice him ever doing anything useful, for his way is not one of such earthly things as "combat results". As you journey with Rasaad, who single-mindedly climbs the mountain of enlightenment, you find that while he might fare excellently on the plane of the mind, he cannot climb any mountain on the plane of the body as he has non-existent scaling. As a result, you, the player, flourish in spirit, and achieve the peak of personal Zen by realizing that the Monk's late game power is as the sound of a single hand clapping. Rasaad uplifts your spirit by taking 1/6th of your overall XP intake and ensuring all challenges provide more hardships, for enduring them is a virtue.
Spoiler: BG2EE spoilersHis romance ending is idiotic, too.
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2019-06-15, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think Haer'Dalis was slated to be a female romance option, but it got cut. Might be just a rumour, though. Either way, the romance options for women are... not great. It's a pretty 2000 game in this respect, I suppose.
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2019-06-15, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 03:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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People find many jerks obnoxious but still endearing because they have personalities. Nice guy isn't a personality. As flawed as he was, he's still going to get picked over someone with the personality of wet toast. You don't have to be a perfect romance partner; you just need to be better than the next best option. Anomen won this contest hands down by being the only willing party member for females.
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2019-06-15, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-06-15, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 10:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-06-16, 02:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 09:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Bending the tropes like that is out of Larian's ball park I assume. Or at least I very much hope so. But you can bet your precious behinds that we will get Dak'kon 2.0, with all the fanboying around Gith. I assume (s)he will be a DLC thing , but there is no way you have a story about Mindflayers without the Gith empire involved.
How about the opposite. An illithid turned into a human?
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2019-06-16, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Cespenar; 2019-06-16 at 04:16 PM.
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2019-06-16, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-06-16, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, Zhajeve tried way too hard to be Dak'kon. Copying the "Pronouncement of two somethings" scheme was a step too far.
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2019-06-16, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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She copied it and Dak'kon's "Pronouncement of two deaths as one" and made an, uh... pronouncement of three in shadow, two in light, or something. About how she'd help you defeat the big bad shadow creature. It's been a while and I'm honestly not sure how I managed to finish NWN2 to begin with.
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2019-06-16, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-19, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Correction, he was the only romance option for ladies in the original game while having a jerkass personality and being fairly stupid, too. He really seems to be quite slow when Keldorn is trying to engage him and completely misses Yoshimo's sarcasm. I think the main character herself can take potshots at him, but I'm not going to replay the game with him in my party.
His arc with his sister could have been interesting, but maybe you shouldn't have to steer the cleric who has shown NO signs of actual competency back onto the path of his faith? Unless Helm was the god of pompous buffoonery, he didn't really seem to reflect much of his god. And the idiot is in the Copper Cornet, good job hero. This is why I wish that Yoshimo was the romance option.
I wonder if you're going to get a companion that survived ceremorphsis, given the emphasis on it. I vaguely recall that it was very, very, very rare, but possible, but I can't remember where I found it. Getting to play with some illithid abilities would be nice.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.
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2019-06-19, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-19, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've always thought of him as the god of 'GAZE INTO THE FIST OF
DREADHELM' because he had no qualms about killing his lover to uphold his creed and was the ONE guy Ao thought could be trusted to actually do something. I mean, even in the craziness of fourth edition, the dude was just doing his job.
Maybe Anomen was some sort of pity hire.For all of your completely and utterly honest needs. Zaydos made, Tiefling approved.