Let’s all take a break from arguing over random encounters, long resting, and the shove mechanic to appreciate this video of Astarion.

https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/1509908517326663681?s=21&t=1T4d66yPVpfv48kr3JTdzg

Not to mention this adorable outtake.

https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/1509916737638223872?s=21&t=1T4d66yPVpfv48kr3JTdzg

That was a fun April Fools’ joke. His voice actor is a good sport!😊

The only fangs im willing to watch:

Onlyfangs. Love it

ha! Only confirmes I am not Larian's intended audience as I sit in confusion thinking: Is it a joke? Reference? Why is Astarion, a medieval fantasy vampire somewhat aware of social media? It's not like Archer, who thanks to being set in modern world can do in character Q&A without breaking the fabric of reality. Wouldn't it at least make more sense, if the skit pretended that Astarion is a digital actor playing an Astarion (like in Who Framed Roger Rabbit) then weird in camp thingy?

It was just meant to be an April Fool’s joke. Though he does admit he doesn’t know what Like or Subscribe mean lol.

Exactly like I feel.

The worst is that our in-game evil character Astarion is not far away from this joke.

Yea, unfortunately I'm very much not the target audience/humour style for this kind of thing. I'm kind of tired of the constant jokes/sass with everything they do, but I know it's popular, so that's fair.

Lamer than a dude in a wheelchair.

To be fair, the fact that we're posting on a forum in 2022 pretty much means we're likely not the main target customers of any mainstream game lol.

I'll admit 'Only Fangs' is actually a decent enough pun but this is about as obvious a case of preaching to the choir as you could get. I suppose on the one hand it's sort of funny if you like that kind of thing but on the other it leaves me a little bemused why you would choose to associate a BG/D&D game with OnlyFans even for an April fools?

TBH I’m not surprised. Larian has always been thirsty. Go look up the cover for Divine Divinity.

I took it as a funny April Fool's joke. Something unrelated to the game. Even better that they got the voice actor to do it.

My opinion is that if you want a deeply evil character with no good side, Astarion isn't the dude for you. He's chaotic and definitely not good aligned but somewhere in D&D rules they took out the standard alignment chart anyways. They may give him a redemption style arc or he could go ala Bishop from Neverwinter Nights 2 (I am still not over that one!). We will find out.

As for not being the target audience, that's ok. You can still have a product or go to a store that's not marketed for you. Also your choice to not play the game when it comes out. I'm excited but I completely understand it isn't everyone's style.

Am I the only one here who could appreciate it as a joke and then just move on? It was an april fools joke, nothing more...

Hahaha! But I used forum for a first time only couple years ago - first Obsidian's, now Larian's. I was surprised how civilized they are. Maybe all the riffraff moved on.

Fuck off. My disability is not your insult. If you've got something to say about the issue at hand, find something to actually say about it and leave us disabled folks out of your insults.

Immediately dislike because fuck Astarion 🤭

The Obsidian forums (especially the POE boards) had some of the most knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly people I've ever met on the internet. Really great place.

i genuinely dislike astarion. i have no idea why. may how he looks? i don't really have issue with said sosiel or daeran (in pathfinder) though. similar in dragon age i dislike and hated zevran and anders.

Larian forums : ( rpg fan haters that says they love rpgs but rpg needs modernized this and that <insert pointless arguments> how dare we criticize BG3 because rpg is complicated systems that newcomers need support to role play; but what is role play when everything is auto this and that, lots of cute colors and faces feels good love astarian OMG sex me up yea baby shove me Larian cause your the best)


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