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As the title says.

We already discussed this in the past in relation to BG3 AND it's something that came up as passing comment in other threads of this very same subforum, but I think it's a good time to refresh the feedback on this specific topic and give it a dedicated thread.

I think Larian's insistence on trying to cram as much as possible on a single "regional" map is actively harming their ability to build credible worlds.

BG3, even more than DOS 1 and 2 before it, suffered a lot of what some of us on this forum baptised as the "diorama effect", where the environment feels more like a crammed toy miniature constantly wrapping around itself rather than a series of real places.
Which is how we got stuff like the goblin leadership struggling to find the "super hidden druid grove" literally placed 100 meters down the same main road.

While I won't take away from Larian the credit of being able to build great looking locations (sometimes even with very good layouts from a gameplay perspective) I genuinely think their world design would benefit from "fragmenting" their gaming world more, in a series of smaller but more abundant submaps, increasing the number of locations and connecting them through a world map.

Maybe even add some abstract "map travel" through it, eventually opening the way to the possibility to throw in some "randomized" -but not really- encounters to their usual formula.
Then again that would be separate design decision to made that doesn't change the main point of this thread.

So obviously one of my New Years resolutions is to really get into modding and especially this. I have been debating whether it would be better to add Aerie to the base game or have a new campaign where Aerie is a main character. The later is probably too ambitious for one person though, and reuniting Minsc with Aerie is something that is frankly long overdue considering she is a popular character (yes, I am aware some people think she was annoying, but that was a hundred years ago when she was a kid healing from some pretty heavy trauma. That's one of the reasons why she's always been one of the most interesting characters to think about returning), and no-one wants to have to wait another twenty years. Not to mention there's lots of potential for real meaningful interactions between Aerie and Jaheira as well.

It happened to me now, the Vengeance related achievements didn't popped to me, sad to see to a 10 year old game wich had a recent patch

I really don't understand why so many people like Astorian. It's probably because of his writing, not his appearance.
He looks like a boy-band member, but over 35 years old. 😂
Extremely caricatured/exaggerated character, I don't find him attractive.

I'd rather they give me an interesting lizard companion than another Astorian. (I'm really hoping for a lizard option.)

Larian might not have the rights to all of their older games released under a different publisher. I don't knows the details of their publishing deals, but I do know it's very common for the publisher to end up fully owning the game, which makes it a lot harder for the developer to do anything with it after release.

I TOTALLY AGREE!

It's time to create a alive world!

▶ Day/night cycle
▶ Weather
▶ NPCs with behaviors/routines
▶ NPCs/enemies migrations
▶ Rare enemies or events depending on the time of day or weather
▶ Some changes in certain areas are happening because of something you did

That would be AMAZING!
They have a large budget now
Static HUBs again would be disappointing.

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Adding a quest item to the inventory using the Norbyte's console
While playing the game, I missed the chance to take Atusa's leg off her dead body. This happened as a result of my experiments with the deathfog barrel over the assembly of magisters at the gate of Fort Joy. As a result, the leg did not appear at all.

Using the guides and instructions I found, I found all the available item IDs (Statsid, Template, String) in the game files, and later, using the Norbyte's Script Extender console, I tried to add Atusa's leg to my character's inventory.

The command worked, but, unfortunately, not quite as we would have liked. Every time, as a result of using a console command, an ordinary, nameless foot appeared in my inventory, which did not even have an original description, much less having original effects and original value.

I would like to ask if there are ways to concretize my request, and finally, using console commands to get the original Atusa's leg?

There hasn't been a great real time pause RPG that I've enjoyed since dragon age origins, if I'm honest.

Larian; with your world building and character development, just the sheer depth, I think you guys could build one of the greatest real time pause combat RPG games ever imagined, I know it brings more limitations, and makes things like multiplayer more of a hassle/not possible; but even just as an option I can turn on when I'm out adventuring on my own to change up the pace would be huge

I don't know if this idea will be well received but I felt I needed to throw the idea out there atleast

A fable/ dragon age style real time pause RPG produced by larian would go hard I think.
I trust larian to add in depth backstory like the origins system we see in dragon age origins, and to have your characters history, background etc actually mean something.

Perhaps I'm alone and wishful for things long gone

I'm a huge fan of the Pillar of Eternity mouse over links, yes! Dragon Age 2 does this in another interesting way in that you can select to ask about a concept, and Hawke will technically ask about something else but the conversation will tell you what you wanted to know without making your character ask what their home town is. That requires a voiced protagonist though and I'd imagine we're staying as a text-based protagonist in Divinity.

This turns conversations into checkboxes and it actively diminishes games that have it. I vehemently hope they DON'T implement this.

It's up to the player to think things through, but hey, sometimes conversations don't go where you expect them to go. How things turn out is not for your character to decide, he or she can only make choices for him- or herself.


This makes no sense. It's the option you would have picked, but you didn't pick it? Huh?

Hi, im a newbie to bg3 and i really have enjoyed what i could so far, but this is really something i need help with.

26 hours in on my first real run i finally got to the second map, found the first waypoint and then my game crashed unrepentantly, and ever since its all it'll do. Ill try to load into the game, make it past the larian logo and it'll crash and freeze my desktop upon it reaching 100%. I've tried various tricks and none of them help, the only time i was able to get past was when i made a multiplayer game with my friend and set my fps cap way down low (like 40 frames) which i think would indicate my pc couldn't handle bg3 but i have 50 hours with no bugs glitches or anything?

Please comment or tag me in any helpful threads i haven't found yet, it would be greatly appreciated. i really dont want to lose the ability to ever play this game again, it was the most fun i've had.

I registered here just to bump this post - there are all sorts of complaints elsewhere (Reddit, etc) so please don't think that a lack of discussion here means this isn't impacting a lot of people.

As a first time player, not being able to use a *massive* chunk of equipment is really ruining the game. There are countless situations where you only meet the stat requirement to equip something due to stats gained from other equipped armor pieces, and this bug means that like 1/3 of armor I should be able to use is just worthless.

Again - when viewing equipment, if you meet the stat requirement to equip a piece of armor due to stats gained from another (ie, "requirement met due to equipped items" message is shown in the tooltip), it will not work. The tooltip itself will be normal with no red warning text and tells you that you can equip it, but you're unable to do so and the "equip" button prompt at the bottom is greyed out.

I'm really hoping you guys still do bug fixes for this title - I get you're working on a new game, which I am very excited about, but DOS2 is my first time playing a Divinity game (I'm playing it purely because of your Divinity announcement) and I'd imagine there will be tons of others playing it for the exact same reason - please, please fix this. Gear is such a huge part of games like this and not being able to use so much of it really sucks.

It will depend a lot on what rules someone decides to use for the setting.

A lot of settings (Especially video games) tend to use the rule that you're not actually running around picking up loot off people for the most part, but you're already fully equipped (Aside from a few particularly noteworthy magical artefacts). Which is a means to bypass the illogical nature of magical morphing equipment sizes (For example, how a Female Gnome is apparently able to equip Ketheric Thorm's personal armour). With the whole "Looting" business being more of a game mechanic than a lore one.

Whereby the idea of running around looking like a hobo that was struck by a hurricane in a thrift store makes little sense. As why would anyone choose to dress like that.

Like, literally other media outside of games, never has the heroes randomly going around looting crap off their enemies and looking like clowns (With a few exceptions, there are some novels where someone picks up some items but it's not very common). It's very much a "Game" related mechanic that doesn't make a whole lot of logical sense, but provides some more interesting gameplay.


Though even in D&D the rule is patchy and strange at best. Especially when it comes to Wildshapes and Druids having magical items literally meld into their flesh but having them stop functioning most of the time. As well as limitations for things in your backpack despite the fact that you're still "Carrying" them.

Still, certain things don't make sense. Like getting an AC bonus from a shield that you're not holding (Unless it's specifically in effect only for attacks from a direction in which you're carrying it)

Update: Part 2, Chapter 11 is now published. This is the beginning of Part 2.

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

lost a key item.
I couldn't find the inventory editor.
How to get to Evelyn's hideout without Reveal Spell.
Or how can I find it?

Every 3-20 minutes I get disconnected from host and his session is auto-setting itself to "Nobody". Host tries to switch to "Friends", "Invitation Only", or "Anybody" but it infinitely loads those options. Forced to restart to fix, and it happens 10 times an hour at least. We really want to enjoy the game together.

Also series S frames drop over time until a restart.

Series S dropping frames over time too, the host has series x.

Hey

So I have a problem where none of my saves that I have made shortly after I enter the lower city load more than 75%, and instead lead to the game crashing on Xbox Series X.

I’ve tried saving in different areas, hard restarting my console, deleting local save data, re-installing the game and even Xbox cloud gaming to see if it was a problem with my console - all to no avail. The game is also fully updated.

Is there anything I can do to solve this or is there any news on Larian working on a hotfix or something?

Also I have been considering purchasing a Steam Deck, would this issue be likely to follow me over on that device if I load up a cross save?

Thanks for any help or insight and sorry if this has been asked before

hey, did you ever get this fixed?

just bought the game with my friend on xbox series x and we're having this exact issue.

Hi
for some reason the game isnt loading! its been fine but now its doesnt work i have tried everything - reinstalled, reinstalled AMD drivers, launch in admin, delete cache, remove modes, log out steam then login, I even installed the game on a different harddrive. Other games work fine!

My Steps: I open Stem, I click BG3 to play, it goes to black screen like normal but nothing happens! - I have tried both Video options.

Windows 11
Video: Radeon RX 9070 AMD

Current ERROR LOG:
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 ---- New session ----
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 Working directory is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Launcher"
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 Version 4.67.74.246
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 System locale is "en-AU"
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 App locale is "en"
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 User not onboarded, clearing cache
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Initializing community
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Platform Steam
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Steam authentication requested
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Steam initialized
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Checking for mod detection
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Initializing web component
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Starting initialization of CEF
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Initializing SDL
8/1/26 08:45:34 0 Run Game "..\bin\bg3_dx11.exe"
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Launch executable "..\bin\bg3_dx11.exe"
8/1/26 08:45:34 1 Steam authenticated
8/1/26 08:45:35 1 Storage reads per second: 5246
8/1/26 08:45:36 3 {"message": "Invalid request body"} StatusCode1 BadRequest
8/1/26 08:45:37 0 Launched executable "..\bin\bg3_dx11.exe"

any help would be great! thanks

Swen already confirmed it will be turn-based. So YAY!!

Finally found some time to hunker down and figure out just why, exactly, I was constantly having to reset my Larian passwords.

Turns out Larian's using entirely different account systems for its website, its forums, and its store, all of which are saved (in a browser) under the label "Larian.com," so every time I reset the password for one account, it winds up breaking the passwords for the other two.

Not really a huge issue for me as I don't exactly visit often, but it is the kind of thing that'll keep from from jumping into the forums to say something when I otherwise might (okay, okay, no great loss there) or -- as was nearly the case today -- not buying something I specifically came to the webstore to buy.

I *really* hope that we do not see a return of the magical/physical shield system.

As the title of the thread says, is there any part of the forum where I can look for co-op teammate?