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Update: Part 2, Chapter 20 is now published. This concludes Part 2 of the Hellraisers story.

Is this the end?

BG3.5 - Hellraisers (Fanfiction)
Baldur's Gate 3.5: Hellraisers - an original fanfic story that is a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic: The Afflicted. It picks up immediately after the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as characters from the previous fanfic - Fiovay, Kai, Aelun, Vlyn, and the other members of their party - travel to Avernus. Their quest is to save Karlach but also to hopefully find and rescue Darson, Aelun's father, from the clutches of Demogorgon.

Here is the link to the blog site: https://baldursgate3hellraisers.blogspot.com/2025/10/baldurs-gate-35-hellraisers.html

There is a new game out in early access (EA) and its based on D&D5.2024.

But weirdly enough its NOT based on any established D&D setting, like the Forgotten Realms.

It absolutely looks like any such game though.

The Wikipedia entry exists, but is extremely lacking for the moment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solasta_II

My group was able to connect again and continue our 4 player game on xbox tonight! hurray! Thanks for sharing the news

My group was able to connect again and continue our 4 player game on xbox tonight! hurray! Thanks for sharing the news

I haven't played the original Baldur's Gate and it's been two decades since I played the 2nd but when I found your dad's NPC I was willing to bet he must have been some kind of reference to one of two previous games. A little googling brought me here to find your great post. Thanks for sharing this story. Big props to Larian and superwriter. What a great team they have there.

Hi all,

I normally play on PC, but I’ll be travelling a lot soon and I don’t want to give up gaming because of that, so I’m looking for a laptop that fits my needs.

It should be mainly for Baldur’s Gate 3, but I’d also like it to handle other games well. BG3 is definitely the priority though.
My budget is around 1200–1500€.

I live in Germany, so ideally I’d like to order from a German retailer if possible.

I already found this guide while looking around:
https://pixel-goblins.de/builds/laptops/beste-gaming-laptops-fuer-baldurs-gate-3/
The acer nitro 16 ai with rtx 5070 looks promising but is a bit expensive....

And as an example from a German shop, I also found this one on notebooksbilliger:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/acer+nitro+v+16+ai+anv16+42+r0tr+gaming+887294
But here is just a RTX 5060 - not sure if this would be enough for Baldurs Gate 3 on High Settings...

What I’m looking for:

good BG3 performance

also suitable for other modern games

decent cooling / not too noisy if possible

preferably something with solid value for the money

If you were buying in this price range for BG3, what would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

That was unexpectedly hilarious in a very BG3 way.

The mock-academic voice works really well, especially because it keeps escalating from “dry legal-philosophical essay” into something completely unhinged while still sounding serious. The ending lands because of that contrast.

A few things I liked:
- the faux scholarly structure feels believable for a Faerûn-flavored satire
- the moral/legal framework makes the joke last longer than a one-note meme
- the final reveal reframes the whole piece nicely

If you want Lae’zel in melee and specifically not GWM, I’d lean sword-and-board Battle Master over dual wield.

Reason is simple: without GWM, Fighter damage drops anyway, so DW doesn’t gain as much as people expect unless you build heavily around it. Meanwhile shield + Battle Master gives you a sturdier frontliner, which your party seems to want, and maneuvers still keep her impactful with control/disruption.

When you say "first full PT" does that mean, first time playing, or you have already done some parts of Act 1 and maybe Act 2 ?

If it's really the first run, I would wait with modding and try the game as it is. Act 1 is eminently replayable, so if it turns out to be too easy you can get some mods and restart. If you 've already tried some parts of the story with different classes and found it too easy, then forget what I said.

I'm currently also getting constant crashes with dx11 and vulkan with the device lost error. Just curious if anyone has seen this and if there is a solution.

Disclaimer: I know that on some level, I'm partially to blame for what I am about to share, but I come here hoping the right dev at Larian may see it and take pity.

So a few years back, I played DOS2 on my PC and LOVED it. When I heard it was coming out on Switch, I was thrilled to pick it back up again so I could do another campaign on the go.

Fast forward to today. I got through Act I on a near completionist run, and was bit into Act II. My husband said he wanted the TV, so I said no problem - it can cross save, right, so I'll continue on my computer!? I enabled cross saves on my Switch via the game options menu. It gave me a quick prompt about transferring my current switch save to Steam, which I accepted! Or so I thought.

I open DOS2 it via Steam on my PC, only to find my old saves from my precious run a few years ago, no current campaign save from my switch to be found. "No problem," I think, and go back to my switch to re-open my current, locally-saved campaign.......to find out the local save files have been overwritten by my old campaign files from my steam account. I try deactivating steam saves in the menu and rebooting, to no avail.

In toil and despair, I go through the stages of grief (aka trying everything humanly possible to find a non-existent backup / pouring a whiskey). I finally accept the disappearance of my new campaign, and restart my game from the beginning on my switch. I finally land on the beach, and go to save. Being extra careful, I enable steam saves, and double check that prompt I mentioned before.

Well, it turns out if you press A, it uploads your switch saves. However, if you press B, it OVERWRITES local saves with your steam cloud saves. Unfortunately for me, I also have an Xbox (my usual console of choice), which has the A and B buttons reversed compared to the switch controller. I am so confident that I just mixed up my buttons on a single press, resulting in the erasure of my local saves. I realize this is technically my fault, but it would be REALLY helpful if this prompt was a little less easy to mess up! Yes, I know that I pressed the wrong button. But having only a half inch between cross save bliss and total campaign annihilation seems a little flawed, too.

Larian - I love you! I will play your games until my eyes pop out and Ifan gives me little kisses on the forehead. Please please please make this prompt more obvious for others! I feel the void has cursed me this day.

Signed,

BackOnTheBeach

Did you find a solution for this issue?

Mine started occurring infrequently in Act 2, maybe once towards the end of the act, turned into 10 or so times in Act 3 and now in Arx it happens constantly.

Clearing Levelcache and deleting old saves works for a little but the issue always returns.
The amount of save files doesn't seem to be the issue because when it's working I can quicksave 30+ times with no issue. However when the crashes start occurring I need to delete levelcache and saves in order to be able to save again.
Tested nearly all fixes I've found online, I've even reinstalled the game.

Steamcloud disabled.
Created new profile and moved saves.
Disabled Onedrive (Uninstalled)
No AV
Lowered inventory size
No mods except bedroll and 8 AP from giftbag
Lowered settings
Lowered total save count

Another thing I've noted is that when enabled any other feature from the giftbag the game is guaranteed to crash on the next save, so I can't enable anything else.

I'm over 100 hours into my first playthrough and this is just so frustrating. Never had anything like this in BG3.

It was the version on mod.io https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/impui#description

Do you mean Gandrel? You meet him outside and should speak to him before entering Auntie Ethels Teahouse. Never heard about such a bug with him? But based on what you've described and the fact that the Vettel no longer appears, your game seems to be quite buggy or that you haven't explored her lair thoroughly enough.

In Baldur's Gate 3, you have to be extremely careful with this kind of approach! It backfires more often than you might think! I've seen so many complaints where suddenly your own camp has become completely hostile, and then on top of that in Honor Mode...

Hi everyone. Me and my friends have just started playing a few weeks ago, with me on my macbook, the host on their PC, and our friend on his PS5. I constantly and consistently keep getting disconnected, and I don't know what to do. I've followed all the advice online. We've all turned off autosave and cross save and enabled cross play. It doesnt work even if I use an ethernet connection. We've tried changing hosts and this still happens. I've tried playing with and without a VPN and it still happens. I dont have private relay on on my mac either. It also happens even if I launch from steam or directly from the app file and log in through larion. Please provide any advice or fixes that have worked for you guys, cause I got no idea what to do.

I'd like to see more dynamic environmental systems, involving weather-based mechanics and interactive construction

There's this mod which allows companions to ascend; really it resets it to the way it was before one of the bug fixes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691183676