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Real Lich Hours 29: Ruined Battlefield (Part 1)

🕑 Added 2024-06-30 17:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Brian Levy

Dog, I just blew that Shambling Mound off da cliff on turn two.

vvhalefccd

I tried to not kill the githyanki when they turned on us, especially those younglings in training. I learned that only melee attacks are non-lethal when I accidentally killed a kid with an arrow. Then when I just wanted to weaken a group of kids with a fireball… one of them burned to death 😬 oops. I told my co-worker this story, who is a casual gamer/never even heard of bg3, and so he proceeded to go check out the game because (and I quote) “that sounds pretty cool”

Clever Clogs

I even like when companions have strong opinions that are set and can disagree with you. Karlach being a goody goody is a-okay in my book. I just think she’s insufferable. 🤷

Mark Laufgraben

I like Gale a lot. He is cursed by his early romance bug, which seems to have permanently made people think of him as a pushy incel type.

Mark Laufgraben

(this is a joke)

Mark Laufgraben

“They claw attack you, which is the same as being held.” It’s been so long since I’ve been claw attacked :(

MeltyHam

I actually kinda like Gale. Other than his romance options triggering way too easily I thought he was kind of a quippy point Dexter type. He was in my original run party very consistently but I unfortunately got kind of the bad ending for him where he ends up being truly insufferable.

Christopher Grunert Pedersen

It’s the same for me, I think all of their stories are generally great and interesting and the interaction between them is really fun. Wyll might not be all that intersting as a character, but he has a lot of great encouraging lines that generally stick with me. There are companions I like the most but I generally do enjoy all of them. I love the pathos that Jaheira gets when you visit her home, I love Gale’s interaction with Mystra, Shadowheart’d struggle with her faith, morality, Karlach with her mortality and Lae’Zel becoming a stronger person when she breaks free from Vlaakith. Astarion’s story feels very real when it comes to the subject of abuse, and I think Neil Newbon really sells it with his performance.

Orins meat puppet

Love Rolan. 😂😂

Orins meat puppet

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I mean I like her dancing, but she drives me nuts. I like to play as a jerk/ good person with serial killer tendencies. Karlach does not like any of my choices. She does however like when I blow up the mushrooms. I feel like even Wyll has better hits than she does. Turned him into a paladin/ warlock.

Duckfeed.tv

This is a good question and we'll use it as a segment in an upcoming episode. Reithwin is so dense with actual encounter stuff that it's hard to find side segments. -GB

David

With mod support getting released into the wild I was wondering if there's anything in specific you'd like to see.

Corva Cobb

In another instance of “this game can go so wildly different” I just experienced something I had not seen before in this area. This is a Durge playthrough. First, I took the underdark pass to the shadow cursed lands, got the blessing from Isobel then killed her and lost all the Harper’s. Then, trekking though the shadowed battlefield came across the drider. Now alone and hoping to avoid a fight, I managed to convince him I was blessed by the Absolute and that he should hand over his lantern as it was her will. After a few increasingly harder checks, I managed to get him and the convoy to all walk into the darkness and die. Incredible feeling! Editing to add - I have no idea if this can occur with the Harper’s following. It would require giving up a surprise round and so I’ve never tried it! Of course, being the Durge, I killed the fairy and now have no way of getting through the harsher darkness…thank goodness for quickload?

Kalem Wedemyer

The charge mechanics are cool for RP reasons, but don't seem very strong unless your able to stack the gear that cares about them. On my first playthrough Gale ended up being a powerful fire wizard because of multiple pieces of gear I had found that cared about fire charges. I can't recall all of the mechanics, but it was a very high risk, high reward. Essentially as Gale built up charges, he would take more burn damage, but also deal more fire damage. There were battles he would go down because I wasn't able to out pace the burn damage through healing, but he was the most powerful member of the party through much of that playthrough.

Matthew Morel

The discussion of which companion is my favorite is hard because I love them all in their own ways! This game is the first time I’ve ever been invested enough in my companions to effectively role play as my party. Like killing the goblin kids in act 1. My “life is sacred”-ass monk Tav would never. Laezel on the other hand would probably say “fuck them kids”, so I had her astral step on over to stop them from getting the guards. Later in act two I fondly remember trying to make a desperate escape from a fight in moonrise where I placed Wyll in a narrow doorway to hold them off while the rest of the party fled. Wyll absolutely seems like the type to pull that “save yourselves” cliche. Anyway, I love the creative narrative potential that this game’s combat system allows. Closest feeling I’ve had to real tabletop company antics.

Daniel Runfola

Iron Fist = Alexander from Elden Ring!

Justin Schmidt

I won't lie guys. I'm a big gale fan. I will accept all stones and boos thrown this way. I love his story, and his background. Something resonates with me about the arc of making decisions for the sake of your happiness as long as it's not at the expense of others, in particular making choices for yourself over sometimes a superior/lover. Also, he's a huge dork and it's endeering to me. 🙃 He's from what I can tell canonically the strongest character in the party being a former chosen, so when it feels like people are jumping Gale I imagine it's my enemies going, "Oh shit that's Gale of Waterdeep, he has to be dealt with immediately. 🤣

Clever Clogs

Wonderful episode as always. Now I need to confess something because it’s been driving me nuts. I hate Karlach. I think she’s an awful awful character. I don’t understand why people love her and I’m really not trying to be contrarian. She’s such a Mary sue. Her only character flaws are that she is so good and righteous she sometimes loses her temper when she sees injustice. I read something online saying she feels like a fan fiction self insert character, which isn’t too far off. Gives me conniptions. Anyway, I’ll accept this as a personal failing. It goes without saying that differing opinions on a fictional character are not important. I just find this case interesting because I *so* do not get it. Good work as always!

Matt Bixler! Hello!

I was describing the show to a friend and mentioned how your two playthroughs diverged so heavily you had to split the Last Light into two episodes the other day. I made something click in my head that might explain why the game's pacing is so strange. BG3 seems to have this weird bread-sandwich thing where act 1 and 3 are enormous and act 2 feels very svelt by comparison. I think what's actually happening is that the beginning and end of the game are sort of these huge buckets of content, and act 2 is a smaller number of events/incidents, built with much more disparate outcomes.

Wyatt

Gary’s tip about dual wielding the club of hill giant strength unlocked some great shithead gameplay for my Druid! My sole tactic for act two has now been to place moonbeams in choke points after an ice storm. As enemies painstakingly slip and tumble on their butts, pass through the burning light of the moon, and finally reach me, they find themselves reduced and thrown back through the moon beam, onto the ice where they started. The consistent radiant vulnerability in the shadow cursed lands has justified this nicely.

Christopher Grunert Pedersen

I think my favorite NPC is probably Rolan, he’s a jerk who gets a lot of development and I also enjoy Wulbren as an ally who is a dirtbag with interesting motivations who does help you out, and even goes out of his way to help rescue the Tieflings from the Tower.