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So I'm just shy of 500 hours into the Early Access and I'm not kidding when I say I have enjoyed EVERY time I've gone to the goblin camp. The way Larian allows you to treat these goblins is pure gold! Throwing a pile of shit in the guards eyes, making Crusher kiss your foot after humiliating him. As well as telling that little rotten goblin kid that "Maybe your parents had their deaths coming." To which the little bastard was like "Yeah... they was nasty ol'geezers!"

I also really like how the goblins do not talk like 3 year olds. Every single table top game I've played where goblins are involved, or in every video I can think of off the top of my head on youtube, people have the goblins talk like toddlers. Yet, they form societies, hierarchies, etc. In my experience, it's always been annoying dealing with goblins in D&D games because it was like dealing with Murder Toddlers. Here, they communicate clearly and have clear goals. It's dealing with, what seems like, European Rednecks and it's glorious! Their vernacular is super fun! You can insult them to their faces and they either love it, agree with it, sit there and take it or you can start a fist fight where everyone enjoys the show! This is the best place to come blow off some steam, pick on people or just be a shit head for the sake of being a shit head. The goblin camp is the internet of Faerun!

The Auntie Ethel is defintely my favorite area / encounter in the game so far. But the goblin camp is a close second.

Good stuff Larian, very good stuff! I would also like to request more fun stuff in the camp on full release. I can't get enough of this. :P

I agree the goblins are brilliantly realised in BG3.

And I also find the sheer variety of ways we can gain access the camp and the shattered sanctum great fun to discover. Each character I’ve played in EA has been able to take an approach to this that suits their class and the way I’m trying to roleplay them.

Same, that's why I usually 1) save before arriving at the Goblin Camp and 2) name that file something like "Before having fun at Goblin Camp" or "Yaaay! Let's gooooo party at Goblin Camp!" 😄

Pretty much for the same reason stated in the OP (although I don't like interacting with children 😅) but also for other characters like the one that's proudly wearing a dead dwarf's trousers (and can be convinced to give away the dwarf's poem) or the one reading Volo's journal.

Something could be said about using an accent that can be associated with the working-class to depict "evil" races but, to be honest, in this case, I personally find that it humanizes them and makes them more relatable/likable (to me)...even though they are doing awful things (celebrating a raid, eating people...) that I wouldn't do 😅.

I also loooove Auntie Ethel (whether it's at the Druid Grove or the bog). I mean, I still kill her, but I respect her craft (to some extend) 😁

Some of the encounters in the game and interactions with companions are just chef-kiss. That's what made me want to start playing (after watching some cutscenes on Youtube).

Auntie Ethel is also fantastic. Her writing and acting and her hag character model are all amazing (though I always think her human body model is too skinny and young-looking for all she’s hunched over). The whispering masks if you put one on without protection are soo spooky I can’t resist doing it, and I love all the mini-stories behind her “pets”. And the whole illusion over the swamp and redcaps as sheep, and poisoned apples in a picnic basket with the “loving note”, and so many little touches like that.

Though there are some bits of the Ethel encounter I don’t yet find wholly satisfying, such as Mayrina’s brothers and the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a way to free the “saveable” mask before killing Ethel. And I’m sure there must be a better way of navigating through the poison trapped part of her lair than I’ve yet discovered. Plus what is really going on with that frog? I don’t feel I’ve got closure there!

But based on what we get in EA, I’m really looking forward to meeting Ethel’s “sisters” in the full game.

Yeah, I did notice that, no matter what, the brothers are scripted to die. I've knocked them out just outside the swamp and moved on. And the game still treats it as though they died. However, I absolutely LOVE lying to Mayrina and tell her that it was Auntie Ethel who killed her brothers and not me. >8)

Her reaction to that made me have a hearty belly laugh! She looks at you and says "Oooohhhh.... so that's how you want to play this, huh? OK then!" And then she plays along with you and tells Mayrina that she did kill them. Denying you the satisfaction of watching her attempt to defend herself in your lie. :P God I love that route! :P

And yes, I am extremely excited to meet Auntie and her sisters in full release!!! I'm not sure which route I want to take yet when the game comes out. I'm very much leaning towards this route... I want to knock out all of the servants and not kill them. Hopefully in the full game I can meet them all in Baldur's Gate later on. Then, get Auntie to 20hps, let her grovel, and not only take the ability point, but take Mayrina as well. I want to see what it's like to fight an entire coven of Hags who have a bone to pick with you!