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months later I finally finish this series I'm sorry I took forever trying to figure out what Minthara would be
My brother not wanting to romance any of the men is a tragedy. Yes ✨women✨ but also have you seen these men:
Look at this man!!
He lets you love who you want and himself!!!
What more could you want!!!
Our perfect guy no thought just happy to be here
I MEAN COME ON HES TRAUMATIZED BUT THATS THE BEST KIND
He’s far too good for everyone. Make him a little evil from time to time can’t hurt right??? WRONG. He’s perfect.
THEN THERES GALE YOU SEXY BASTARD!!! I may have romanced astarion but by god my heart belongs to you!!
Honorable mention:
Pls just let us have him… Larian pls!!!
Some doodles ❤️
THE DRESS💦
The motherwave dress is hand down the most stunning armor of BG3
I'm still aliveeeeeee, it have been hard few month, I needed a break
"The alliance is reforged, mortal. The planes thus quake, and the gods shudder."
Actually. Y'all know those animal videos that are like My Dog Was Raised By Cats And Now He Purrs or This Duck Thinks He's A Dog or Mama Cat Raised Puppy Alongside Kittens?
That is. Probably what happens to Owlbear Cub.
Because he's not really being raised as an owlbear. He was, for a bit, but he didn't have a mom for very long. His primary role model now is Scratch, a goodboye. Owlbear Cub is, basically, being raised as a weird dog.
So it seems natural that he'd start copying Scratch's behaviours, to bond with his new family. And those would become habits, settled in beside his instinctive owlbear behaviours.
Scratch likes to play fetch? One day, it's Owlbear Cub who returns the ball to Shadowheart.
Scratch gets up to go lay his head on Astarion's chest when he starts to twitch and sob in his not-sleep? Owlbear Cub will go with him, and curl up there too.
Scratch enjoys chewing on Wyll's socks? Owlbear Cub...doesn't like chewing in general, really, but he does learn that if he steals companions' things and runs around the camp with them, they will chase him, and he thinks that's great fun! Gale's trousers, discarded on the floor of his tent. Astarion's shirt, snatched off the drying line. Minsc's underpants, at one point, which is still better than trying to eat Boo.
(They still haven't managed to stop him hunting small critters and dropping the bodies in people's laps, though. They're not sure where he got that one from, but Tav is sure he keeps doing it because Lae'zel and Astarion keep praising him for it. Their justifications are, respectively, "The creature is a drain on our resources; it is good that it is proving useful as a pest repellent," and, "Ooh, yay, fast food.")
Anyway, yeah. Little dude thinks he's a dog send tweet
You can rip Minsc out of my cold dead hands I LOVE HIM
bg3 companions by whether they would self-administer an electric shock if stuck in a room with nothing else to do
halsin: no karlach: yes minthara: no lae'zel: she would hold out for a long time but press the button eventually wyll: no jaheira: yes astarion: at the beginning of the game yes but by the end of the game no shadowheart: no gale: thrice minsc: electroshocks georg
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The Emperor's New Groove x Baldur's Gate 3 crossover
Someone said Kronk and Yzma remind them of Minsc and Jaheira.
Why haven't I seen anyone talking about this?! This is adorable 😂
Astarion: "Phew, I don't think Minsc will find me - "
Minsc: "ASTARION! My old friend!"
Astarion: "SON OF A BITCH!"
bitching about narrative design in bioware games part 1
feel free to keep scrolling if you dont want to see me bitching about baldurs gate and dragon age (and even a tiny bit of mass effect). i was talking to one of my best friends (https://sunwinni.tumblr.com/) about bioware’s narrative design and how they enjoy shitting the bed. im gonna be really messy and probably hit a lot of different points in an unorganized fashion, so i apologize if this is confusing, its not meant to be a professional analysis.
while i deeply love the baldurs gate series, forgotten realms, and dragon age, i think faerun sucks in general and im sure that surprises no one here.
you cannot convince me that a world where most bipoc features and cultures are represented as “savage” and/or “evil” is designed well. so many things about faerun are so stereotypical and so poorly designed it’s difficult to want to create new stories in it for me. characters that in lore design SHOULD be bipoc are often not represented that way in the actual stories and games. biggest example is minsc, who is painted white in both of his portraits in bg1 and 2, and will likely be white in bg3 when (i dont think its an “if”) he shows up. a smaller example is khalid, jaheira’s husband, who (imo) should have been painted to look middle eastern/south asian considering his name and backstory.
minsc is easily one of the most beloved baldurs gate characters, if not one of the most beloved rpg characters in gaming. i dearly love him too. yet theres a lot about the framing of his character and story that just bothers me so much, especially irt how his mental disability/traumatic brain injury is played off to comedic effect and never actually comes into play in a way that discusses or looks at the issue effectively.
his witch dynaheir is the only black woman companion in the entirety of the original two bladurs gate games, and she’s killed off (along with khalid) at the beginning of baldurs gate 2 to supply minsc with some sads. not only was she easily THE most powerful female mage in the game, her enemy edwin is now effectively the most powerful mage in the game. he literally wanted to murder her in bg1.
you know who they replaced dynaheir with in bg2? a white girl lol
yeah, of course, if you dont recruit aerie and dont have minsc, you never get this storyline. but its in there. he asks aerie to be his new witch. aerie, btw, is a multiclassed cleric/mage, and thus will never be as effective a mage as dynaheir could have been strategically or mechanically. but thats not the worst part imo. the worst part is we all lost out on dynaheir for the entirety of bg2 and ToB and never got to see what her story could have been.
tldr: they killed the only black woman in the og bg games for a (supposedly) white man’s pain and then offered a replacement in the form of a white woman.
im not done yet tho, bcoz i bring this all up to talk about how bioware frames and designs their more modern games like mass effect, but especially dragon age, which is supposed to be “dark fantasy” ala game of thrones. ill post part 2 soon. edit: here is part 2
1-10 scale on how realistically ripped the bg3 companions should be, because I am very smart and I don't understand the bodies that I'm seeing in the game;
Lae'zel: She's a fighter and she favors great weapons, also that 17 strength? Please. She could snap you over her thigh like a dry twig. 10/10
Shadowheart: Her strength may not be particularly impressive, but clerics know how to rearrange someone's face just as well as they know how to keep it in place. At the very least, she could shatter your jaw with a good, solid punch. Plus she wears some pretty sturdy armor and still manages to run around just fine, that takes a lot of core strength. 7/10
Wyll: Okay so he's not very strong, but he's got good dexterity and he is a professional adventurer, one would think that's quite a bit of exercise. Does he have a six pack? Probably not. A lean build with some developed muscles in his arms makes the most sense to me. 6/10
Astarion: Skin and bones. Sickly Victorian child. I wanna feed him soup. 0/10
Gale: He's a wizard and a huge fuckin' nerd who sits around in a library all day. Where's his gut? Where's his jiggly thighs? Where's his back rolls? Make him doughy! MAKE HIM DOUGHY! 2/10
Karlach: Fuckin'... look at them. They could pick me up with one hand and spin me like pizza dough and it would be the greatest moment of my life. 15/10
Helia: Based on what little I know of Helia, probably not very ripped. Some are saying she will be a bard, some are saying she will be a druid. Either way, likely to be on the soft side but could still land a nasty kick on your shins. 4/10
Minsc: Minsc has muscles. He's got muscles on his muscles. He's got muscles on his eyeballs. 20/10
If it's any consolation, Abe or whatever his name is in those books canonically gets killed by another Bhaalspawn in a 5e adventure.
abe dbsvsgsvsga
yeah, i know, but he is also considered the canonical CHARNAME and his death is the thing that pretty much kicks off the events of bg3, so i'm terrified he'll be this constant presence in the narrative. especially since we're getting minsc as a companion (though maybe that isn't a big deal bc minsc turned down adventuring with abdel in favor of waiting tables in athkatla lmao)
Party banter [Romances] | Baldur's Gate 3
Please you all need to see this.