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1d4chan>Blajbara: /* Baldur's Gate III */

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Baldur's Gate III

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	===Baldur's Gate III===		===Baldur's Gate III===
	Heretofore ~~unsubtitled~~, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> ~~illithid Nautloid~~, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an ~~illithid~~ tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".		Heretofore un-subtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> Illithid Nautiloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an Illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".

	The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until ~~some point~~ in 2023, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.		The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until sometime in August 2023, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.

	==Characters==		==Characters==

129.110.242.173 at 16:14, 19 October 2022

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	Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".		Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".

	The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in ~~2022~~, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.		The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in 2023, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.

	==Characters==		==Characters==

1d4chan>The Hat That Was: /* Black Hound */

2022-10-19T06:24:54Z

Black Hound

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	The cancelled Baldur's Gate III, before Larian made their own BGIII. It was going to use the [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition\|3rd edition]] rules, have a new engine, and be the first in a new trilogy, but they lost the license to release D&D games on the PC in the mid-2003. The plot would've gone thus:		The cancelled Baldur's Gate III, before Larian made their own BGIII. It was going to use the [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition\|3rd edition]] rules, have a new engine, and be the first in a new trilogy, but they lost the license to release D&D games on the PC in the mid-2003. The plot would've gone thus:

	You are some random shmuck with no relation to the previous games in the Dalelands, huddling around a fire in an old barn during a storm when a black hound with arrows stuck in it dies on your lap. Then a group of raiders bursts in and their leader, who we later learn in named May Farrow, accuses you of being in league with the dog and almost kills you, but you're saved by the Riders of Archendale who take you to the magistrate where you're questioned. He then tells the you're not allowed leave the areas of Archendale, Battledale, Deepingdale, and North Sembia, and as you wander the lands, the black hound appears whenever you encounter someone burdened with great guilt, and you slowly become the essence of guilt in the four areas due to your actions. As it turns out, May is a widow who felt guilt from believing to have killed her husband, referred only as the farmer, and had him resurrected... only something went wrong and he came back as an abomination. As you've wandered the land, the black hound has been channeling the guilt of others to the farmer, making him stronger and stronger, and you ~~wold~~ need to find a way to stop him.		You are some random shmuck with no relation to the previous games in the Dalelands, huddling around a fire in an old barn during a storm when a black hound with arrows stuck in it dies on your lap. Then a group of raiders bursts in and their leader, who we later learn is named May Farrow, accuses you of being in league with the dog and almost kills you, but you're saved by the Riders of Archendale who take you to the magistrate where you're questioned. He then tells the you're not allowed leave the areas of Archendale, Battledale, Deepingdale, and North Sembia, and as you wander the lands, the black hound appears whenever you encounter someone burdened with great guilt, and you slowly become the essence of guilt in the four areas due to your actions. As it turns out, May is a widow who felt guilt from believing to have killed her husband, referred only as the farmer, and had him resurrected... only something went wrong and he came back as an abomination. As you've wandered the land, the black hound has been channeling the guilt of others to the farmer, making him stronger and stronger, and you would need to find a way to stop him.

	===Baldur's Gate III===		===Baldur's Gate III===

1d4chan>ThatOneBruvva: /* 5e Legacy */

2022-10-18T22:31:18Z

5e Legacy

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	==5e Legacy==		==5e Legacy==
	In October 2021, WotC decided to milk the Baldur's Gate nostalgia by putting out a semi-official splatbook on the DM's Guild titled "Minsc & Boo's Journal of Villany", which provides a number of goodies for DMs, in the form of some basic advice on running adventures, but largely an assortment of new hometowns, patrons, campaign villains, NPCs and monsters. Of course, many of those individuals are actually converted characters from the Baldur's Gate games!		In October 2021, WotC decided to milk the Baldur's Gate nostalgia by putting out a semi-official splatbook on the DM's Guild titled "Minsc & Boo's Journal of Villany", which provides a number of goodies for DMs, in the form of some basic advice on running adventures, but largely an assortment of new hometowns, patrons, campaign villains, NPCs and monsters. Of course, many of those individuals are actually converted characters from the Baldur's Gate games! Similarly, there was also the "Descent into Avernus" module, which is set in Baldur's Gate and even has some token references to events here and there, but the plot has nothing to do with Bhaal (and it's even implied that the MC Bhaalspawn is actually dead), instead focusing on Zariel throwing all of Elturel into the hell of Avernus.

	...And of course, this being a 2021 D&D product, many of them have their lore messed up (even beyond the insistence on canonizing Abdel Adrian), but what do you honestly expect from WotC at this point?		...And of course, this being a 2021 D&D product, many of them have their lore messed up (even beyond the insistence on canonizing Abdel Adrian), but what do you honestly expect from WotC at this point?

1d4chan>Sicarius at 22:16, 18 October 2022

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Undo revision 852866 by 99.64.160.215 (talk) - Do not argue on the main page. Change it so it's correct or don't bother.

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	Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".		Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".

	The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in ~~<s>~~2022~~</s>2023~~, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.		The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in 2022, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.

	==Characters==		==Characters==

99.64.160.215: /* Baldur's Gate III */

2022-10-17T23:57:42Z

Baldur's Gate III

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	Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".		Heretofore unsubtitled, a new game made by Larian instead of Beamdog. [[Illithid\|Illithids]] are plotting something and the [[Githyanki]] are on their tail, and that's where you (no longer a Bhaalspawn or one of their descendants) come in. You all meet in an <s>inn</s> illithid Nautloid, and get the dubious benefit of being impregnated with an illithid tadpole, but don't get turned into a brain-eating walking cephalopod. Bhaal and the other [[Myrkul\|Dead]] [[Bane\|Three]] are somehow behind the events of the game. Also has a few of the classic Bioware mold characters, with the Githyanki fighter Lae'Zel being the "sexy-but-morally dubious-and-dangerous woman" and half-elf cleric only known as Shadowheart being the "socially awkward sweet girl with a tough core".

	The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in 2022, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.		The game is currently in Early Access and can be purchased on Steam and GOG, though at the time of writing only the first act and about half of the PHB races and classes are available. Larian have indicated that they don't expect the game to reach 1.0 status until some point in <s>2022</s>2023, and have explicitly warned against buying before then if you desire a full game experience.

	==Characters==		==Characters==

1d4chan>ThatOneBruvva at 14:17, 8 August 2022

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	~~''If looking for~~ the namesake city from the [[Forgotten Realms]]~~, see [[~~Baldur's Gate (City)~~]].''~~		{{Disambiguation\|the computer game made by old Bioware\|the namesake city from the [[Forgotten Realms]]\|Baldur's Gate (City)}}

	'''Baldur's Gate''' is a fucking awesome series of [[Advanced_Dungeons_and_Dragons#AD.26D_2nd_Edition\|2e]] [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [[CRPG]]s based in the [[Forgotten Realms]] [[campaign setting]]. They were made by [[Bioware]] between 1998 and 2001, and comprise four games in total; ''Baldur's Gate'', ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'', and their respective expansions ''Tales of the Sword Coast'' and ''Throne of Bhaal''. The games follow the story of a [[Bhaalspawn]] (the player's character) as they discover their identity and have to deal with both the effects it has on themselves and the threat of outside agencies who wish to use the player's character for their own goals.		'''Baldur's Gate''' is a fucking awesome series of [[Advanced_Dungeons_and_Dragons#AD.26D_2nd_Edition\|2e]] [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [[CRPG]]s based in the [[Forgotten Realms]] [[campaign setting]]. They were made by [[Bioware]] between 1998 and 2001, and comprise four games in total; ''Baldur's Gate'', ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'', and their respective expansions ''Tales of the Sword Coast'' and ''Throne of Bhaal''. The games follow the story of a [[Bhaalspawn]] (the player's character) as they discover their identity and have to deal with both the effects it has on themselves and the threat of outside agencies who wish to use the player's character for their own goals.

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5e Legacy

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	'''Xan Moonblade''', another [[Candlekeep]] patron. He's an [[elf]] [[bladesinger]] now, and still sporting his iconic moonblade. No mention is made of his iconic gloomy persona from the games, and instead the focus is on how he wants to go to [[Evermeet]] and how he's one of the new "Blessed of Corellon" sexshifters.		'''Xan Moonblade''', another [[Candlekeep]] patron. He's an [[elf]] [[bladesinger]] now, and still sporting his iconic moonblade. No mention is made of his iconic gloomy persona from the games, and instead the focus is on how he wants to go to [[Evermeet]] and how he's one of the new "Blessed of Corellon" sexshifters.

	'''Kivan''' returns as an example patron associated with the Emerald Enclave. Now his backstory is that, after his wife was killed by the [[ogre]]] Tazok, he fell in with ~~Faldron~~ and became muscle for the Shadow Druids, though he ultimately quit them and joined the Emerald Enclave. Unfortunately, ~~Faldron~~ has now infiltrated the Enclave and is working her way up its ranks, leaving Kivan stuck on what to do, since if he outs her as a Shadow Druid, she can do the same to him. Also he's now gay-married to Cernd, the [[werewolf]] [[druid]] from BG2 for some reason.		'''Kivan''' returns as an example patron associated with the Emerald Enclave. Now his backstory is that, after his wife was killed by the [[ogre]]] Tazok, he fell in with Faldorn and became muscle for the Shadow Druids, though he ultimately quit them and joined the Emerald Enclave. Unfortunately, Faldorn has now infiltrated the Enclave and is working her way up its ranks, leaving Kivan stuck on what to do, since if he outs her as a Shadow Druid, she can do the same to him. Also he's now gay-married to Cernd, the [[werewolf]] [[druid]] from BG2 for some reason.

	'''Faldorn''' is, well, Faldorn; she's now a high-ranked member of the Shadow Druids and is secretly seeking to corrupt the Emerald Enclave from within by taking over as its new leader. She did take a few years off from the anti-civilization crusade to go back to her old tribe and pop out a son, though. Also, she and Kivan now worked together.		'''Faldorn''' is, well, Faldorn; she's now a high-ranked member of the Shadow Druids and is secretly seeking to corrupt the Emerald Enclave from within by taking over as its new leader. She did take a few years off from the anti-civilization crusade to go back to her old tribe and pop out a son, though. Also, she and Kivan now worked together.