Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General GATHER YOUR PARTY (CHARACTER POLL)

No, but this thread isn't about things that were in the PFH.

Edit: i might have missunderstood your question. But no it was not in the PFH, it was just the minigame which served as an animated prequel to the backstory of this serialkiller entity.

I'm glad my girl shadow is so popular.

I hope wild magic barbs will be able to get the sorcerer doslogue lines with her.

Astarion, Gale, Shadowheart - potentially for the entirety of my first play through ...as Im thinking there will be many over the next few years .......plenty of time to mix parties & try to see more content over time

I already wanted to play a white dragonborn sorcerer, so the Dark Urge stuff won me over. My first party will probably be:

1. The Dark Urge, White Dragonborn Sorcerer (maybe multiclass?)
2. Shadowheart <-- I feel like she's the most important character in the game.
3. Lae'zel <-- One of my favorite characters. I want to see her journey through with her.
4. Astarion <-- Dude's a vampire spawn. I wanna know what's going on with his story.

I really need to start reading up on multiclass options. Not at all sure what works well together.

It's so, so hard to try and imagine a disciplined approach where I don't try to see everything on my first playthrough. "Astarion's story would make more sense to explore when I play as..." I really don't know if I'll be able to help myself from trying to cover as much ground as possible

(It's really hard to decide, I still wish we could have a party of five. But I am very glad the party won't be locked.)

My first party will be my wild magic sorceress Lia (charlatan background), Astarion, Karlach and Shadowheart.

As usual, Lia will romance Astarion, and I hope she can become best friends with Karlach. Surprisingly, she and Shadowheart already get along quite well.

After this panel, and hearing from the writers that our character's actions and interactions with the companions do indeed influence their character development and growth, I am now much more confident that the Astarion romance with a "nice" character doesn't necessarily have to end in a complete disaster 😄

I am very curious to find out.

First Party will be:

1. Tav (Lore Bard for Charisma, Skills, Arcane Magic and ranged combat)
2. Shadowheart (Divine Magic), also really interested in her story/arc
3. Karlach (Melee), love the new design and backstory of her
4. Open for whoever fits current Quest, area, fight or whatever

If we can multiclass companions (i think we should?) i might give SH a few (2-3) levels of Fighter

The Dark Urge, Minthara, Astarion and Laezel.

There will be blood.

Tav - Wood Elf Gloomstalker 5 / Assassin 7
Minsc, Jaheira, Gale

edit: No, no, no, no.

The Dark Urge: Wood Elf Gloomstalker 5 / Assassin 7
Minsc, Jaheira, Hireling Wizard.


In retrospect, I will eat Gale's arm and savour him for a second playthrough. In fact, he's my favorite for an origin playthrough so best not to spoil all that. I can assuredly do act 1 without a squishy wizard.