Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Book and Quill

In Act 1, we come across quite a few books, but also quite a few items like inks and feathers/quills.

If that not already planned, I think it would be nice to have a journal/diary (or craft one).

This could be used in different ways :

• For RP reason : writing a journal/diary in character.
  • This journal could be more personal than the "Quest Journal" and allow to go into more details.
  • This could help people :
    - Characterized their Tav
    - Immersed them-self
    - Stay true to their Tav
    - Let their Tav theorize about their companions or what's happening
    - ...
• For RP/practical reason : setting personal objectives or making note of their discoveries.
  • This could be done in character or in a very meta way.
  • This could help people :
    - Who are ditz like me and easily forget things.
    - Who like being organized and taking note (TO-DO lists galore ❤️).
    - ...
    I often think things like "It would make sense to do this first because X and Y" or "I should bring this type of spell when I do that".
    However, I often forget 😅

Yes, they are external tools that could serve similar functions (pen and paper, notepad++, spreadsheets).
Don't worry, I'm using those like there's no tomorrow.
However, having it in the game would help in term of practicality and immersion.


The implementation could be fairly simple. I have in mind the "Book and Quill from Minecraft (more or less).

This would include :

• A cancel/exit button
• A save/exit button
• A Text Box/Editor : just a Text Cursor and the ability to write is enough. More is welcome (formatting, copy/cut and paste) but not necessary.
• Adding a new page when the current page is full (also indicating the # of the page).

The UI is almost already existing (just a blank book) and allowing users to add their input shouldn't be too hard. After all, we are already able to select the name of save files (❤️), Profiles and Tavs.


"Dear Diary,
Today, I've survived the crash of a Nautiloid Ship after getting knocked out by some random rock.
And I would like to say...Ouchie.

Tav."

This silly entry has made me think that people could also have fun sharing their journals/diaries online 😄.

I presume our savegames will aswell work this way ...
There is some space under the name that seems like "notes" ... or at least i hope its meaned that way.

But i like this idea too ... especialy that sharing part.

passs fix one of the 10000 suggestions in this forums instead of making this... Sorry i have
pencil and paper in my table and i use them in my gameplay since the dawn of adventures games. Max i would want is map notes i guess if that.. But with the corrent map system i would prefer no map at all.

I did notice that yes (about the saves). But that means potentially keeping a lot of save files which I'm not a fan of 😅
Plus, it wouldn't be as immersive/practical.

That being said, if the save files with note is all we get on release...well...I'll survive 😛

I just really like the idea of an in-game journal for immersion/RP/practicality sake.
I wish more games had that feature actually 🙂

If it's not in this game, maybe in a future one.
Or a mod if some modders were to pass by 😛