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Unfortunately game (steam version) crashes on 2 my last quicksaves. It happened after I dropped teleporter pyramid in treasure room of dragon worshipers and went to Ars magicana to sold loot. I make 2 quicksaves near merchants I now cannot load them.
Older saves can be loaded without troubles.
Is there a way to troubleshoot what went wrong and fix my saves?

Do you have Karmic dice turned ON or OFF?

My arm stuck through the wall, I decided to resist. I chose the melee option, something like "Forget subtlety claw at anything you can."

The dice popped up. 0 was the difficulty class, the dice were messed up, like no numbers on them. I clicked it, with bonuses, I couldn't tell what I got, but it added to 20 (not a crit) but that was enough, I pulled free.

A male voice then said something about it, I can't recall what. The only problem was my party is 4 females and my dream visitor is female and not yet revealed, so it wasn't one of those five.

So whatever was going on, a bunch of pointers to data, GFx, and voice choices was going wonky.

As a side note, there's a meme on the Internet that the game will yank thieves' tools from the chest so you don't have to carry them around. Nope.

Isn't there a country song, "Your Cheatin' Dice"?


In Balthazar's underground base, trying to unlock the 30 difficulty door.

These are the raw rolls, with advantage!

5
11
13
11
11
8
8
14
15
15
1
18
9
17
12
15
18
10
Crit
My bonuses were +9 to +13

I literally have 30 lockpicks in my group, and 50 more back at the base. That's not the point. Come on, man.

That's 18 failures of advantage, the equivalent of 36 rolls. .95^^36 = 15%, not not impossible, but unlikely. Keep in mind rolls of 17 or above would have to fail the 1d4 guidance on top of that. There were three such rolls.

I'm not a modder...

But, is there any way you can manipulate the attack roll portion of the skill?

As there's no need to mess with applying Hold Person, if you can just make the attack roll a guaranteed nat 20 or adjust its crititcal threshold by 19.

A few weeks ago I posted a bug report and support has told me that the team knows of these issues and they're working to resolve them, it's just a matter of how long they take.

Hello again, sorry I wasn't responding for long, I've been quite busy. Thank you for your adviced, I attempted to do just like you asked but it was unsuccessful. Furthermore, I went as far as to completely reinstall my entire OS, and the game still won't load. And as a final nail in the coffin, I've now stumbled into a new problem: now the game won't load the main menu past 95%, HOWEVER! Only on my first attempt at launching it. Should I attempt to launch it a second time it will load the main menu but will fail to load a new game past 81%. I did some operations with mods (turning them off and on individually), and I succeeded at loading up a new game ONCE, but after I attempted it again, I was met with failure and now the bug that prevents the main menu from loading past 95% became permanent.

I'm really desperate here, I feel like there's no hope and there's something wrong with my PC at this point.

Somewhere there's a YouTube video, where some insane dude picks up and carries all three of Kethric's siblings over to him, then kills them in front of him just for spite. Or maybe carries or lures Kethric to them, I forget. I can't imagine carrying fatso even with two cloud giant strengths.

Either way, now there's a nasty roleplayer!

I always wanted to do a run where I never freed the pixie, but had to run around with a lantern out, just for Astarions and giggles.

Well, in this one, I went the Dryder route, straight to Moonrise, and he kept the moonlantern and scootered up the side of the tower to the top.

Later I went up the outside and cleared it except for Ketheric, and got the moonlantern. I didn't do anything with it (and on retrospect, not sure I could.)

Anyway...


I didn't even know this was possible. I suppose all those dead pixies should have been a clue, it wasn't just due to sloppy work by Balthazar. I've no idea if it was me or the dryder who was responsible.


I plead dumb. Which is easy with an 8 int.

Yeah, it's pretty depressing.

If they're working on a fix, I would at least like to KNOW.

Guess I'll try social media, since we're not getting any responses from Larian here.

i always like the Mazzy romance story best but that doesn't involve the player character so not sure it counts for this thread

I have been working on a custom spell request for a friend of mine. Essentially one of the features they have requested is that this attack (once per long rest) has an instant/guaranteed crit. I have looked into other spells that accomplish something similar such as the Better Illithid Spells and my current troubleshooting step involves applying the Hold_Person status effect as part of the attack. The issue I am running into with both of these is that it requires an extra turn to actually incur a critical hit. The Hold Person effect works but it does not apply the critical to the actual damage. Was just wondering if anyone knows a way to work this feature in or if I will have to make it a two parter?

Thanks in advance, I'm still figuring this all out.

Nice! There are really so many great stories to tell and I had a bunch of fleeting ideas for further characters, but being subscribed to the narrator role on tabletop, I guess I was happy to "just" be a player again for once.

I have installed the CD version of Divine Divinity and have updated to 1.0034A. I'd like to transfer my saves from the GOG installation into this one but I can't find where the save games are stored. I searched in the games folder and even AppData but I couldn't find anything. I remember it was easy to find them when I was playing the GOG version but I'm not sure how 1.0034A works. Can anyone help me?

You can change Viconia's alignment if you romance her. Doesn't happen until Throne of Bhaal, so you have to wait a while, but it can definitely be done without the helmet. Unfortunately there is no way to stop Jahera from being an annoying nag.

The problem with game design is often that there are features suggested that for example "add immersion" that create a lot of additional work and waste a lot of limited resources, but dont actually improve the game as a game.

Full simulation of a city is one of those. A shopkeeper who is open 24/7 and never moves from their spot may not be realistic, but its hella convenient for the player.

About Bioware, the Aerie romance is still by far the best game romance I've seen anywhere.

Lots of dialogues, interesting developments, it was just really well written and interesting and had a satisfying ending, too.

The Jaheira and Viconia romances are most likely also really good, but Jaheira is frankly just annoying me, and Viconia as an evil character is just too much of a hassle. Would have loved to get a helmet of opposite alignment in BG2 unfortunately that one just doesnt exist there (the BG1 addon had one, at the end of Durlags dungeon).

I thought, I might revive this thread.

Some newer characters of mine:

Ylva Ravenshade: she is the black sheep of the noble family Ravenshade and she pretty much cut ties with her family after her sister got murdered because of some powerplay her uncle had with that recluse noble Szarr.
She became a true crime columnist at the Baldurs Mouth Gazette and actually found a taste for solving crimes. She and some of the not corrupt flaming fists (Devella, Valerias unhappy partner among them) teamed up on numerous occasions and she was allowed to write about it.
She was abducted after a friend of hers, Olenna Toryl (my tiefling detective) asked her for help in finding out about a Bhaal cult in Baldurs Gate. That creepy friend of her editor, some guy named Gortash, didn't like it and she got warned to investigate further ... which of course made her investigate further. Both she and Olenna got attacked in the streets at night and woke up in the nautiloid.

Her class is lore bard and instead of playing instruments, she is a storyteller. In a modern AU she would probably be a youtube true crime storyteller, but one of the more respectful ones, that focus on crime solving and being respectful towards the victims families.

She is a gold dwarf (I looked up what dwarf Ravenshade is, but the wiki only said dwarf, but I think, gold dwarf makes more sense here)








And here is Holly Brambleweed, lightfoot halfling and natural explorer.
She is working for the natural society in Waterdeep (which I just made up, but since Waterdeep has everything basically, including temples of nearly all gods and different schools and universities, I felt, it fits) and specialises in field work. Classwise she is a ranger/land druid.

The last expedition brought her and her colleagues to the outskirts of the the so called Shadowlands. They were trying to find out about the changes in flora and fauna there, but instead run into a group of cult followers of the so called Absolute with drows, goblins and hobgoblins among them. In the following fight, a lot of her fellow explorers died, but she was taken in unconscious and woke up on the Nautiloid.
She will be delighted to be able to investigate the Shadowcurse later on and help Jaheira, the harpers and Halsin and Thaniel restoring the lands.






I also did a new playthrough with my half Gur / half high elf Inara Vargoba, since I'm in a monster hunter mood, while reading the WItcher books for the first time and I finally found a face/hair combo for her, that fits, what I had in mind for her.
She was taken by the nautiloid while helping a halfling bard, that got bitten by a werewolf (yes, Helia is canon for me) to deal with the curse. I imagine her a bit similar to Geralt in the regard that she doesn't just kill every creature, that is considered a 'monster' but will try to find out, if they are really evil or not. Funnily enough I created her without knowing much about the WItcher universe, so her turning out to be a female Geralt in some regards was purely by accident.
She romances Wyll, which I found fitting, fellow monster hunters and such. She will also be searching for her Ciri, Helia, since she didn't know, what happened to her and if she was abducted too.
The companions remind me a bit of the companionship in Baptism of FIre, similar dynamic and such.
Inara is less grumpy than Geralt, on the contrary, she is pretty open and friendly.

I'm pessimistic about this. It took them nearly four months to "fix" the corrupted save issue, without any explanation or temporary workaround provided. Who knows if the next hotfix will come, or when it will arrive.

All Caps 'yelling' put aside, I really wouldn't mind if Larian went a bit out of their way to undo or change whatever they did to permanently break the Visible Shield mod (and all mods trying to accomplish the same thing.) There's currently one mod that sort of works around it by turning the shield into a weapon (https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18667) but it doesn't work with other mods which adds shields.

This mod is so important for style and fashion and it's sad to see it gone and ignored :c

Update: Part 2, Chapter 18 is now published. The Hellraisers attack Nevrik's Keep, hoping to save Karlach's heart of flesh. But what trap(s) do the devils have in store?

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

First time playing a new game of BG3 since the Feb update, and a few hours in I'm starting to get horrible lag/stuttering/frame issues. I didn't know about this bug or I wouldn't have updated. I feel like I should have bought the game on GOG so I could roll back patches, but this is the first time I've seen an update cause more problems than it fixed...

Does Larian *know* there's an issue? Have they told us if they're working on it? It's been 10 days, so I'm sure they know, but some communication would be nice. Would just like to know if I should uninstall the game and go get it on GoG, or if it'll be fixed in the next couple of days.

Thanks Taril your right! I thought about it a bit and pretty much figured it out. LoL Thanks again!

Sounds like you're getting the Guidance spell cast on you.

Which is a Cantrip that requires Concentration that provides a 1d4 bonus to skill checks.

It's often offered to be cast on you when you encounter a skill check and someone with the Cantrip is in your party and will provide a very small VFX when its active.