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My oulander Gith is above such petty fears. Turning a weapon on its master is just good warefare and they gave us a nuke.

(persuasion) I dunno man seems kinda cool, I heard all the kids are doing it 👍

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Mystics don't exist

​@@christianrivera1708that's the biggest possible nerf

@@bongosmcdongos4190 -Reduce Damage- *YEET AND DELETE*

​@@christianrivera1708they do in my world, it is more rare then sorcerer's

​@@christianrivera1708WOTC cannon and balance are crap.

Just like real D&D. Missing a hit on a dude tied up and weaponless is an actual thing. Always a chance to hit, always a chance to trip over a chair and accidentally stab your party members. 😅

Try not to think of misses as just whiffs. You are going against an enemy's armor class. So a "miss" could mean that they blocked your attack with their shield, or you hit a strong part of their armor and it is ineffective. Or maybe they are too dexterous to hit. Armor class is a combination of all those factors.

@@michaelt.5882is there any way to see how many modifier to hit you have?

@@Andreus9733 in BG3? It is the + number underneath the weapon when you view your inventory. If you mouse over it, it will show you how it is calculated.

@@michaelt.5882 yeah, but I'd like to see total result of my roll against enemy's AC, like my buffs, my str/dex modifier and so on. Like in Pathfinder log

So true but they're a paladin rip

*laughs in twinned spell blue draconic sorc with a dip in tempest cleric for the GUARANTEED max damage roll on lightning damage" UNLIMITED POWAH!

@@Supadrumma441 ya but sorc/wizard for sculpted spells and fireball i can just lay waste with 0 care for my allies, the ultimate turn brain off build

@@HippioKass I've played both and they're pretty even. Tempest/Sorc is more powerful though. You dont need the extra spells wizard has when everything is dead in a single turn. Twinned chain lightning ftw.

Or storm of daggers is fire

thanks i needed some lore on why they are so advanced

Not really, the illithids don't have the knowledge to create spaceships. All the nautiloids they possess is due to trade with an alien race of merchants. They are not more technologically advanced than the other races, rather they are a hyper-specialized species in psionic powers, control and subjugation.

That's from third edition. These days they might be conquerors from the Far Realm or war mongering mutants hellbent on restoring their once thriving civilization. I like the uncertain origins, mistery suits the mind flayers.

​@@nzoth66Yup, they pretty much created an unbreakable loop for themselves in time so that even if they're defeated a million times, they will always persist and return.

@@TheDonMarcio On the one hand; yes. On the other, the mystery angle is why I really dislike the Far Realm connection for them. The Far Realm used to explicitly be NOT a place, even though it was: that was what made it so scary, and the creatures from it so horrifying. 4e wildly overused it as a quick excuse for all aberrations ever. To the 'mutant' angle, though also 3.5, there was a spell in one of the very last books released for the edition that gave the caster face tentacles and an ability to eat brains. The spell did not, as I remember, mention illithids at all. 'Gone horribly wrong/right' , anyone?

It's an option

You can opt for it and it's honestly so fun lol

Even if you take the astral tadpole, you don't have to fully transform

@@kenny3179oh can you still control your character when you become a mindflayer? Do you keep your class/racial benefits and feats/spells?

@@_n3kr055 you keep everything and gain a lot of amazing abilities like the ability to freely cast actions and bonus actions interchangeably, a more powerful mindblast and making your next spell cast not cost a spell slot, there is more though that's at the end of the game ofc.

Or it is but at what cost for using them at all?

​​@@JacobB-kr5emvery little cost tbh

@@JacobB-kr5embecome ugly in some scene 😂 like you can flight anywhere you want if you accept the worm

Isn't it supposed to be only once a long rest? (literally haven't tried using it more) Though with that and the staff I got Gale, casting 3 lvl6 spells in a fight tends to be more than enough.

@@Slackerhunit is but the toggle bugs it to being permanent ao all yours spells are free. Using it as a wizard dropping 6th lvl aoe spells has been a blast

Saaaame

dark urge is pretty sick! im pretty sure its meant to be the "main character" story of the game, it's the most directly tied to BG 1 & 2

I went no illithid in my dark urge campaign besides minthara because she comes with illithid shit already. Didnt upgrade her further though

On my plain white bread playthrough I avoided butter. Saving that for my wheatbread playthrough

@@Guitarslayer135 so you haven't played the game then?

sad thing is that doesnt matter. using their powers or not NOTHING CHANGIN.

​@@user-vv3zc9il9kMy ass things don't change if you embrace the parasite

​@@user-vv3zc9il9kfor some characters it matters bc of their gods paladins and clerics can become oathbreakers if they choose to follow the absolute

became oathbreakers doesnt matter in Baldurs Gate ending. Nothing matters. No epilogue nothing. You can clear whole map of nps kill everybody and still can be HERO in ending@@nzoth66

If you attempt to remove the tadpole at the gith then empower it you are able to use them as bonus actions and then they're all useful.

@@michaelkelly4533damn thanks I was looking for it today how to get the passive. Missed it by deceiving the queen and slaughtering everyone afterwards 🥲

Yeah the base illithid powers kinda suck except for Luck and ability drain. Basicly either you go all in late game, or just simply resist.

Yeah Luck is really nice for the guaranteed hit when you really can't afford to miss if nothing else. Yeeting 2 minautors off the map when i was about to get nuked by them with a Luck boosted Eldritch Blast really made me appreciate it lol.

You're dreaming bro, most of them are good

I roll a warlock, what's one more bad deal on my plate going to cost me?

Balduran didn't why should I?

Laughs in Displacer Beast

Nah ima do my own thing.

bet you save scum

OoOpPpP

Same. Such a wasted potential.

There was supposed to be bad consequences but they cut all of that out of the game.

@@Redrik666 bruh are you serious? The way act 1 and act 2 presented it seemed like the tadpole was gonna take over my body if I kept feeding it, so I played nearly the whole game without one power. What a disappointment, I guess I’ll go full ilithid next playthrough

@@Chadius_Thundercock Yeah. I refused the tad pole every step of the way. My friend meanwhile took the tadpole powers. You end up with all kinds of stupid OP powers and no negatives while rejecting the tad pole doesn't give you jack shit.

I didn’t take it because I couldn’t take the story seriously anymore if my character looked all fucked up from the illithid parasite and I didn’t want to be a mind flayed

In all seriousness.. just darker eyes

​@@GLFiveGamingWhich doesn't even work on Dragonborns 😆

None. The only acknowlwdgement from what I heard is that when refusing the astral tadpole, if you ate and used tadpole abilities, you have to roll for a check.

The consequence is you have less power. Why would you get a reward?

@@calvintyler9281 thats how most games work, "You resist the evil spooky power now you have a new path or item to unlock."

@@UmjaeMJ yeah no most games tempt you with blatantly/obviously better evil powers because if there were better stuff for being good all the time then everyone would be good. You don't get rewarded for not being a piece of shit. The lesson applies to most stories and real life.

@@calvintyler9281 for this game in particular tho it’s weird for it to not have any semblance of consequence for whether you use the power or not. Especially seeing as it is one of the few games where even the most minor choices have notable effects.

Look for the Plus button on the right side of the bar bruv

TLDR: I like the option to be very OP in exchange for nothing more than immoral choices. It makes making the sacrifices of being good feel more meaningful. I feel ya, but as a counter point, stealing anything and everything is also strictly the right thing to do. Infinite money by stealing makes the game easier, but you might feel like its wrong. If you go full illithid, you become a one mane unstoppable god that solos armies with ease using no items or class abilities. But you have chosen a path that your RP character might feel is 'wrong' in doing so. So everyone should do it once, but then try another playthrough where you deny that awesome power in the name of doing the 'good' thing and the sacrifice you make in the name of goodness feels more meaningful.

@@bennettjb2010 it's simply a missed opportunity by the game designers. Even if these decisions just made the last bossfight harder or just made you more susceptible to mindflayer influence or weaker towards enchantment magic, it would've been fine.

@@faselfasel2864 If I was a dungeon master running this as a campaign, I would allow the players to take "levels" in illithid to unlock more potent power options. I dont know about 5e, but in 3.5 monstrous races had an effective level adjustment because a lvl 10 minitour fighter is strickly stronger than a lvl 10 human fighter. In the same way, in this game, going full illithid makes me feel like an 18th level character instead of a 12th level which throws off the feeling of balance. I think it would feel good to have a choice than means at endgame i could have say SRC11/MON1 with tier 1 squid powers available. SRC10/MON2 with tier 2 squid powers, or SRC8/MON4 and have the full squid super powers.

the intro part of it was Jhin's theme as well wasn't it? I think I need to find this cover :p