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You cannot spent the bonus action on an offhand attack if the opponent is already dead. There is literally nothing to attack. No P&P round would actually demand that you lose your bonus action in this situation.

That you have to toggle dualwielding on and off all the time in BG3 is one of the inconveniences of the interface.

Because Larian wanted to show off dragonborn but the origins were already done, some like Helia and Minsc had already been scrapped so they made their half finished origin a dragonborn which makes little sense from the story.

Age of Empires II at my cousin’s place hooked me, then a dusty Half-Life demo disc from a magazine sealed it. LAN café CS 1.6 weekends were the best; nothing beats yelling after a clutch. I still boot AoE2 DE sometimes, but these days it’s mostly CS2 and the occasional Hades run. When I want a fresh look in CS2, I swap surplus skins through SkinsMonkey, sign in with Steam and the bot trade hits in seconds with low fees. Their tips on making the inventory public saved me from a failed trade once.

To be fair, AD&D 2nd Edition was full of contradictory material since the game designers weren't allowed to do any major testing from the mid-1980s, and many products were rushed out and created by different teams. It was very liberating to drive our home campaign past the official timeline, because I can now just choose which information is true in my multiverse and not get contradicted by future products that chose differently. To me, BG3's narrative too was a DM making such decisions and as a gamer I simply accepted differences to my campaign, like - "okay, there are no firearms in your world." I would also say that most of the other character species in my world are far less human than how Larian depicted them. Besides obvious design flaws, role-playing games often leave the last decision to the one writing the adventure. Since I'm usually exclusively a DM, it was nice to just be a player again.

But if you ship a program out with bugs more than likely something you could improve upon to make it less buggy in the first place and increase the life expectancy of the program before it needs a replacement, could also just be bugs that could just be a small deviation in the code that only manifests maybe one in a millionth time being performed as an extreme example, but thats less about video games and more about tirival codes.

So of course it will always be riddled with trivial and barely noticeable bugs, I just really hope they stick to the word to fix the more obvious ones and some of it in the core logic and the msot obvious ones that affects the gameplay negatively.


Good luck enjoying your companion Karlach to the fullest, something's wrong with the flags pertaining to her romance scene since patch 8 as an example of an elephant in the room that should not be left abandoned.
I just really hope that we will have bug fixing patch maybe clsoer to Q4 of this year or Q1 of next year.

He's allowed to run away from a combat while engaged, but Lae'zel gets an attack of opportunity if he does, which is why she gets that second attack.

The link just says "service unavailable".

The by far most likely reason for four crits in a row is that the target is stunned and was attacked from within 5 ft / 2 m.

Otherwise the chance for four critical hits is 1/20*1/20*1/20*1/20 = 1/160,000, in words once every 160,000 tries.

There are ways to force a single critical hit, and there are ways to increase the chance to critical hit, but obviously opponents in the game will not stack such effects and will never have better than crits on a 19 or 20, and even that rarely. After that there is having the advantage to almost double this range in practice, which means there is a 1/5 chance to critical hit, so then its down to 1/5 ^ 4 = 1/625 chance (the actual value is even a bit lower because the true chance is less than 1/5).

So really the stun is by far the most likely reason.

Updated BG3 blog. Book 4: Ascension of the Mastermind, Part 5, Chapter 46 and 47. Hope you enjoy it.

It is the final book in the Baldur's Gate 3 The Afflicted fan fiction. At last, the Afflicted have arrived at Baldur's Gate, but they quickly learn that there is SO much more going on than the Cult of the Absolute. Numerous schemes, conspiracies, and intrigues quickly entangle them and threaten to enslave or destroy them. Will the Afflicted stay united? Will they survive? Will they overcome? Or will the greatest mastermind succeed and ascend to absolute godhood?

This story is free on the blog site to all who wish to read the Baldur's Gate 3 story using characters I created as the protagonists.

MAJOR SPOILERS if you plan on playing the video game. Hope you enjoy.

https://baldursgate3theafflicted.blogspot.com/2021/08/home.html

Book 4: Ascension of the Mastermind (MAJOR SPOILERS!!! It is highly recommended you play the video game first. This story is based on choices and decisions I made while playing the game as well as on what I thought the characters would do if they weren't restricted by the video game. Also, SPOILERS for the Demon Hunters story as it is the prequel to the Afflicted story. Three of the characters from Demon Hunters - Aelun, Vlynrifane, and Fiovay - are among the main characters of this story. There are other characters from Baldur's Gate 3 that are in Demon Hunters, so the two stories are closely tied together. As before, I will be releasing portions of this story as I complete them, so watch for updates regularly.
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Also check out Demon Hunters, the 2-Book prequel story based on the Out of the Abyss campaign. The Demon Hunters story has many tie-ins with Baldur's Gate 3 that I've created including several major characters. You might get confused at some points in Baldur's Gate 3 if you haven't read Demon Hunters.

https://dndemonhunters.blogspot.com/2022/09/demon-hunters-d-5e-fan-fiction.html

(Not to be confused with other Demon Hunters stories or franchises. I created Demon Hunters as a story prior to certain other Demon Hunters publications (notice 2022/09 in the above link). I got the name, actually, from a heavy metal Christian band I used to listen to, so there is absolutely no relation with current, popular Demon Hunters.)

The lore of the game gets a bit confusing after D&D 3.5, but the Shadow-Cursed Lands have been around for at least a few decades when we explore them in BG3. I would therefore assume that there are ways around the badly cursed parts that are relatively safe to travel, but don't get shown in the game. Since the Chionthar is the main trade route between Elturgard and the Sword Coast, it's probably also possible to book passage on a boat, barge or ship headed for Baldur's Gate.

I have had some success in removing the crashes, and now have a largely very stable game. There have been the odd hangs, still in the cutscene transition, but overall I'm much happier. That may change as I get into the later Acts, where things get more busy ofc..

Given the previous posts in the thread as a guide I started a process of elimination with background processes and system extensions. I have found that a specific network extension in my case was the cause.

I had LuLu installed, which is a network filter extension (a firewall of sorts) for outgoing filtering, eg preventing rogue apps from phoning-home to unknown destinations.

Although BG3 was whitelisted, whenever LuLu was active I would experience the frequent crashes. When switched to inactive, though still running in the background, the crashes went away.

Regrettably I had to stop using LuLu, especially as it's Open Source, and implement a different filtering solution. After evaluation, Little Snitch fitted the bill.

Since then, as I said, it's been a lot more stable.

I still have a case open with Larian which has been passed to the devs, and they have a couple of process sample dumps to work on. Hopefully they will eventually come back with a similar diagnosis.

To anyone experiencing this problem, it is definitely worth experimenting with what else is running on your machine in a process of elimination. It might not be exactly the same solution as mine, but if you have system extensions installed, worth a try.

And a year later Larian still has not fixed the issue they created with their forced, totally broken mod manager.
I used Revo to clean my registry so nothing existed of BG3 and reinstalled it and I STILL get a naked black male in the middle of my screen, four black male heads in the party list ON THE CHARACTER CREATION PAGE. I literally cannot even start a new game, make a new character, play the game at all in its current state. At this point I want my money back.

Brand new to D&D and Baldur's Gate in general but I'd like to play through a the entire campaign from beginning to end with a full squad.

Platform/Cross play Preference: PC but I'm good with cross play.

Difficulty: Balanced (I think) I know it's the 2nd option for sure.

Mods: I am unfamiliar with how mods work, so I guess I'm good with it as long as it doesn't detract from the story.

Mic or No Mic: Mic preferably, but dealers' choice.

Language and Time zone: English, EST.

Current party members are in DC, Chile -1 EST, England +5 EST.

Primary gaming time will be 3pm - 6pm EST.

Vibe: Chill and beginner friendly.

Age Range: Doesn't matter but I'm 44 and a dad, I'm just looking for people understanding of parenting duties and real life happening from time to time.

We, would like to game at least twice weekly, preferably 3 times.

We are looking to have our first meet up this Sunday to create our characters.

Please reply or DM me if interested.

[bug] when you first grab Minsc having Halsin swap out still bugs out locking your game in dialog
when you get this bug there are two work arounds;
kick a party member out before talking to Minc or tell Minsc to meet you at the camp... then go collect him from there

this bug is clearly caused by script error

As per the nicely laid out thread in Suggestions: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=958753&#Post958753

Why is all this stacking nonsense still a problem Larian? Can you please, for the love of all that's holy, sort it out?

It beggars belief that all this nonsense is still a problem in 2025.

But it is.

Any update on when the games might come back to the App Store?

Any chance of BG3 coming to iPad?

Edit:
Side note: LOVE D:OS2 on my iPad, happy to say it seems to be running great on iPadOS 26, it even supports window mode.

I'm a Baldurian, I never traveled to Yartar, so I don't know where they got me and Lae'zel from.


Also, there's a curious reference to the nautiloids at the end of Act II. As you descend for the final fight, someone comments how there are several nautiloids parked there. You can't see them (as far as I could ever see) but I assume they are parked, floating above the ring below. (That's a huge area, but I'm not sure it could hold one nautiloid, much less three, but I can ignore that.)

Astarion joins Marcus in the tactical genius category.

Mostly I just leave him in camp, though I've taken him all the way through his end game.


Anyway, I kept rolling fails when he assaulted me, getting more and more irritated with his smug, so I did something I never did before. I attacked! Deep enough into the convo, even that was denied me, so I attacked as he walked away after not joining my party (which was fine) but turning your back on me after all that? Please. There are dead people all over this wreck. One more won't be noticed!


I attack, and whiff. He responds by throwing a grease down. It catches all three of us, but he's the only one who slips.





Even a gnome has the high ground on a guy on his ass.

No hehe,

The UI lag is weird, it only occurs in my native resolution (1440p), when i use DLDSR to get my game to 4k or go down to 1080p the UI is fine even when i cap my fps. It didnt happen in patch 7 or even when patch 8 released.

Patch 8 introduced these stutters, i have the same ones also when entering druids grove and in act 2 near last light and on the stairs to moonrise towers.

Hello guys, I hope you help me.
I put together a build around the Wyll Hexblade with the Booming Blade as the main damage. During Act 2 and 3, I added the following items to the build:
Ring of Elemental Infusion- When you deal Damage Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage using a Spell or a Cantrip, that element infuses your weapon. Until the end of your next turn, you deal an additional 1d4 damage from that element on your first successful weapon attack.
Gloves of Belligerent Skies - When the wearer deals Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage, inflicts 2 turns of Reverberation upon the target(s).
Boots of Stormy Clamor - When the wearer inflicts a condition upon a hostile creature, they also inflict 2 turns of Reverberation.
But none of these items work (at least in honor mode) as I imagined.
I thought that by dealing damage with the Booming Blade, I would gain 1d4 Thunder Damage on the next hit, and apply the 4 turns of reverberation at the time of the hit.
Does anyone know if this is a bug or a game feature?
I'm currently playing honor mode on Hotfix #33 and it's still not working.