Yeah Sorc was the class i went with. Cant really tell the difference between Sorc and Wizard. Im really hoping the tips or whatever when toggled helps out alot.
Lolth-Sworn Drow, Oath of Vengence Paladin. I'm playing the character like a completely unsubtle version of Batman, only instead of never killing my enemies, I always kill them. As a Lolth-sworn drow he loves killing, but he's doing it for Good. Next playthrough I think I'll go rogue, try to do as much as I can without killing or getting caught.
The toon sounds kinda cool. The class and subclass i have no clue what it means though lol
Sorc is charisma based and doesn't have to prepare spells (but their list of usable spells is much less). Wizard is INT based and you have to prepare/memorize spells
When youre ready, totally get needing a break. My own personal soulsborne rankings...
Paladin is a melee class, still built around STR or DEX, but with some degree of casting power which uses CHA. They're considered a "half-caster" compared to the sorcerer "full-caster". Oaths are the subclasses for paladin, like how sorcerer has Wild magic, Storm, etc. Their oaths are a set of tenets they HAVE to follow, and their oath is accounted for in the game. If you do an action that breaks your oath, you become an Oathless paladin (it's not a perfect representation, but the easiest way to think of it is as an evil paladin). I liked the paladin for a first playthrough because of how binding their oaths are to roleplay. I can't just pick the "best" solution to a problem, I have to pick "my" solution.
(In classic overaggerated nerd voice)
I'm not sure I'd make the argument that he's good. It's not valor, it's violence. He doesn't redeem enemies, he removes them.
I only have 15 - 20 hours in, it was fun, but got sidetracked with other games i want to finish before devoting a half a lifetime to BG3. Obviously any magic user is going to be a little weak early on.... I just love the dialog options available with 18+ charisma.
Cool cool. I think ill still roll with sorc.
Sekiro ive heard is a fantastic game but one of the harder if not the hardest. I think id wait to play that one after the DS series and would probably going in chronological order. Demons Souls and Bloodbourne (ive heard its a top notch game as well and usually peoples favorite) arent on PC atleast i think. And i honestly think id 100% ER before moving on.
Paladin honestly sounds cool. Especially for RP purposes. Ive thought about it a bit of what kind of toon i wannna play but i truly have no idea. Id like to be a smooth talker and get what i want in conversations but i would also like to be able to hold myself in fights, i dont wanna be weak per se in fights and would like the best of both worlds. Thinking maybe Solider might be a good background for me because itd give me proficiencies in that area (i think) then since im Charisma based that should help me already with the conversations. And yeah ill keep yall posted on how its going, maybe not as in depth or as often as ER but i will.
I wish i could find a table for D&D. Ive been wanting to play or its something thats peaked my interest for a long time i just dont know ANYONE who plays. Maybe BG3 scratches that itch.
If my table doesn't get back together, and it's looking like it might not due to our next DM having life blow up on him, I'd be down to group up online. My group's been playing through Roll20.net, while using Discord for voice and video. That's worked well for me because being a husband, a dad of two small children, a full-time worker, and a college student, I can't really find much time to meet up at an in-person table. Also because of those reasons, I don't have enough time to DM, otherwise I'd look into doing that myself.
Itd be rad i just dunno if i could commit to something like that. I'll keep it in the back of my mind though.
I'd def be down. When I said table I meant roll20, finding a group of nerds is hard enough, finding a group of nerds close to each other is probably dangerous near impossible.
Me neither. So id be a complete noob as well. I might be down in the future but i cant commit to it right now. Maybe after the holidays or spring.
You can do it, but the game mostly allows for failure and gives you different results if you fail. I prefer not to save scum in it, especially since I know I'll probably play through it a couple more times, eventually.
Nobody knows what they're doing their first time, it's cool. Three years ago, I'd only ever played games like Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, etc., too.
And to be clear, I think this is also a valid way to play, I just found myself enjoying it more the less I did it.
If you keep playing that rogue character let me know how it goes, because that's one of my concerns. One of the things about stealth is that it's pretty powerful in tabletop because most GMs will just have you roll the dice once and count that as your stealth for the entire encounter, but BG3 rolls the dice every so many seconds instead, which introduces a bunch of extra chances for you to fail.
I think id eventually wanna drop him for a druid if i come across one or a barb or something. I have that pass without trace spell so maybe i should try it today. Combat and all its mechanics are going over my head a bit still. Like i have a spell where you summon a battle axe, a longsword etc but i cant figure out how to use it for offense. It always seems to pass over that summons turn.
The summon may be taking its turn on the same turn as it's caster. There'll be a little portrait for the summon next to its caster's portrait. Click on that during it's summoner's turn and see if it gives you control of it.
Youre pretty spot on. Ive leveled Astarion a few times along with me learning the mechanics a bit more and hes getting pretty strong. Stealth if you can get it off is pretty powerful it seems. I still think id like to replace him eventually but i dunno.
