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I'm really looking forward to adventure in a world where my actions have consequences, and I can stand up to evil and beat it flat (3 most satisfying moments in BG3: )

It's not just about beating difficult encounters: It's about standing up to the bad guys when you could have just walked away (and they even try to bribe or induce you into doing so).

Make the story's progression and choices even more contingent on the players' competence?

We're gonna need something that's even easier than story mode, maybe. Also, it means that we either have to have a lot more combat, or half again the work for the writers and programmers to add in further branching storylines (if they just had to account for the characters choosing between to fight or not to fight, they now have to account for characters choosing not to fight, fighting and winning, and fighting and losing).

I liked , BTW. And my other favorite moment in the game where the happy ending was dependent on my preparation and planning was .

I'm having the same issue on X-box. I've been doing a crossplay in Honor mode with my mate, which doubly sucks. We saved it on Wednesday and I noticed the depreciated version error this evening.

Just went to the Underdark by way of Zhentarim hideout. Buff up, go down ladder, leap over traps, attack nearby minotaur.

First hit, 95% chance, hit.
Action surge
Second chance, 85%, not sure why, but whatever. Should I do feinting attack to get advantage? Nah, let's just go for it.

Critical miss.

Really? This isn't an outlier. This is the average thing.

Well, time for the awesome power of F9.

Just bring back the cut Minthara pregnancy if you're gonna keep patching the game

If y'all bring back pregnant Minthara I'll pretend none of the nonsense these past 2 months ever happened.

Beautiful example of the buggy doors.

Sneaking up on the Githyanki, Wyll can't cast a surprise eldritch blast because the door opening blocks the way.



But they can still sneak 50 cm further on,to pass across the door opening , and then the spell can hit target.



Please avoid this in your future games, Larian.

I don't know it's my my case specifically but I still get mad frame-time fluctuations form 8.6ms to 14.14/15.65ms, maybe it's caused by shader cache being built due to me doing a clean install of BG3 maybe?

Update: Part 3, Chapter 21 is now published. This is the beginning of Part 3 of the Hellraisers story. The adventure continues, but will the Hellraisers survive after being captured by Auntie Ethel, Minerva, and Iggwilv, the Queen of Witches?

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

This is happening to me, and it is a relatively new glitch I hadn't previously encountered. I always quick save and reload to remedy it.

While I can't tell if there are any known fictional characters that inspired Mystic Carrion, that line surely hit home for my tabletop campaign. I have a rather powerful good-aligned (think crypt keeper knight) mummy NPC friendly with the player characters who once complained to a player that even years after being awakened, their bodies still have reflexes left over from being alive, like wanting to draw breath when startled although they too keep their lungs in a pot, developing cravings for food they can't eat, or expecting pain when cut or panic when they can't breathe, but then only feeling numb and dead. The warmth of a living being and feeling a heartbeat are calming to them.

In AD&D, other types of undead are usually tied to the Negative Energy Plane which comes with an innate hate for anything positive or living, although some higher undead can control this urge. Mummies, however, get their regeneration and rotting touch powers from their connection to the Positive Energy Plane which replaces their natural life force. If you're a real mummy nerd, the ba remains with the mummy, while the ka moves on to the Outer Planes and gets replaced.

I don't mean to disrespect anyone who started on newer D&D rules, or who got them working for their group, but it's actually still mind-boggling to me that people have been playing D&D for a quarter of a century with WotC combat rules. The original AD&D (2e) rules were convoluted, confusing, often frustrating and showing signs of age, but they only needed a cleanup (do I have to roll high or low for this?), some fresh concepts (Saving Throws, damage flavours,...) and maybe a little less anti-player bias. But, WotC seems to have confused the often counter-intuitive AD&D rules themselves. Or maybe in some sense, D&D 3e continued only old D&D's straightforward simple but far less granular rules, while AD&D was discontinued. However, seeing how the rest of the rules were treated, I have severe doubts that this was by design.

The 2e-based combat rules I use at the table have combat phases (determined by initiative, number of attacks and speed factor of weapons/spells/actions), combat rounds (which combatant's turn it is - duh, but we're playing in German) and combat turns which renew after every combatant has used up their actions. This means the first one to act would use their first attack, then the next character would use their first attack, or maybe draw the attack to parry for higher AC, retreat or do whatever. Then you'd proceed to second attacks and so on. Dropping combat phases has led to this awful taking of turns with attacks (you hit me thrice, then I hit you thrice) that made everything post-Y2k unplayable for me. In 2e, thieves and (some of) their subclasses can use backstab on any surprised opponent. To use this ability, the thief must be behind the victim and the victim must be unaware that the thief intends to attack them. This usually boils down to one backstab per combat encounter, as you'd expect a comrade dropping to the ground with a knife in the back to be a bit of a giveaway, but this is a limit that can be pushed with magic, clever use of terrain or skill.