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This week is more Balders Gate 3.

We started a new honor run because there was a bug with one of the big side quests in act two, where you’re supposed to help break the curse on the land. It’s completely optional, but it seems weird to not do it. Unfortunately one of the NPC’s that is needed was buggy, and in an attempt to fix him, he perished. He’s not supposed to be able to die. We also messed up a small interaction in act one, that apparently leads to less of the tieflings making it to act two. So we decided to restart again.

We have been playing with mods, mostly just cosmetics, but last run and this run we’ve had a mod to increase the party size, so we can have five people. The fifth person isn’t there to do anything, just to be there in case something unfair happens and wipes the party out. So far only one fight needed a res. One fight in the underdark, where you’re on a boat to get to the forge. One of the duergar apparently get’s a smoke powder bomb, which he proceeds to throw on our small raft leading to a (unfair, in my opinion) party wipe. We also got a mod to make oath braking not really annoying. For some reason it’s an oath breaking action to kill a Duergar that was has been actively abusing animals and whipping slaves, but it’s not an oath breaking action if you aggro them in dialog first(?). Anyway we’ve just finished the Underdark and are in the exact same place as last week. Onwards towards the Crèche, third times the charm. Sharee! That’s infernal for cheers, or possibly turnip 

What’s everyone else doing?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

More Balders Gate 3. So far things are going significantly better than last time, we managed to save the kid surrounded by Harpy’s. Unlike our last honor mode, where he died on the first turn, and everyone kept getting stunned by the singing, and for some reason someone from the grove, who is not supposed to be in that area, got into the fight, wild shaped into a badger, and got stuck on a tree.

We got some extra time to play this week, due to a snow storm, so yesterday we went through all of the underdark and even “fought” Grym by hanging out on the stairs above, and throwing random garbage at him, and since he’s weak to blunt damage, and physics is a little goofy, throwing a piece of rotting cheese did 32 damage, and a heavy crossbow does 2.

After I’m done writing this, we’ll be off to the Crèche, and hopefully not dying.

What is everyone doing this week?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

More Balders Gate 3.

We only played our honor mode game this week. It was going well for the most part, we started act two, and since we were over leveled, we cleared out a lot of the enemies including the three Thorm fights. Unfortunately the fight at the inn went bad, and a very important NPC got killed, so effectively every NPC died. We did manage to survive that whole ordeal, and continue for awhile longer, even clearing out moonrise. But the run came to an end, while fighting Ketheric, a combo of bad rolls, and poor choices, led to the end of a fifty hour game. Anyway we’re starting again, right after I’m done writing this.

How’s everyone else doing this week?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him