What tips did you find most useful when you first started?

Always love people's reactions when they get to the second round of character creation.

I have never seen meeting Shadowheart go that badly. That was amazing!

It's very valuable that you focus on one game at a time. A lot of youtubers play 3-4 masterpieces at once to have more SEO exposure and widen their audience faster. Your experience feels more genuine, it's not not just for reaction clicks.

I can’t wait for the Druid’s grove, lots of fun tension with a tiefling Druid.

Honestly this playthrough is soooo good. It's fantastic you know nothing, but you're invested and not willfully incompetent. very enjoyable to watch.

Oh wow, this gonna be good. Really excited to see you play this. Um, embrace failure. Failure isn't always bad. That's the best tip I can give. Have fun!

Awesome job on character build, she looks fabulous.

helpful tips without spoilers as requested: 1- getting to the targeted baddie may require jumping, dashing, or climbing, however these will take up one of your actions so try to start out with spells and ranged weapon attacks first and let the baddies come to you. 2-ALWAYS try to have the high ground. High ground gives you advantage on attacks and being on low ground causes penalty to attack. even stacking crates and barrels to stand on will give you the "high" ground. 3- Pick up bags, backpacks, pouches, and boxes for inventory management. excess baggage can be sold for 1 gold each. 4- everything that can be picked up is worth at least 1 gold coin (even rotten fruit), so pick it up and sell it for profit. 5- right click on enemies and items to "examine" them. Sometimes you will see weaknesses/vulnerabilities as well as resistances.

This is literally the FIRST time since the game came out that I have ever seen anyone roll a natural 1 on opening Shadowheart's pod. :D

Twi things I enjoy about first cold playthrough: They tad pole reaction. Then "you need a Guardian, pick one" 100% did not fail. Here for it!

"Do we want Asmodeus as daddy?" I'm dead 🤣 48:56

I like to treat the hair greying slider as a second highlight option so can have 3 colours in my tav’s hair 😊

"You need a guardian. Choose one." Just when I thought I was done with character creation. They pulled me back in!

Gale has the socially awkward rizz. He's awkwardly charming. Or adorably awkward.

YESSS!!! I've been excited for you to play this. Prepare yourself Java, this game is about to absolutely take over your life for at least the next month. I can't wait to see the adventure you go on.

3 games I would highly recommend to you. They are all great and heavily story-driven. 1. SOMA = Wonderful horror game about existential crisis. It has a safe mode so that creatures can't harm you if you like that. One of the best stories and endings in gaming. 2. What Remains of Edith Finch = Truly beautiful and emotion filled 3 hour story game. 3. Observation = Space thriller about finding out what happened to a crew on a space ship. About 5 hours long. These are all worth streaming imo. You would definitely like them.

My fav part is when the character looks into the camera and says "Can't believe it. I have become the Baldur's Gate the third" that's storytelling!

A good piece of advice for squeezing as much companion interactions as you can that many people don't know of: In many areas (like the druid grove when you enter it for the first time) and after some specific events (whenever someone new joins the party, for example), each companion will comment on the situation instead of their opening line when you talk to them (even though they have no "!" above their heads). So it's worth checking in with your team when you're in a new area or something interesting happens if you want to get as much dialogue with them as you can. It's also worth resting fairly often for the same reason (otherwise you can miss extra interactions and cutscenes)

I was watchibng the D&D movie from last year and was struck that the Druid character is, in fact, a Tiefling. Like you! noice.

A nice surprise. Hope you enjoy it. This game took up too much of my time with 2 different playthroughs. I haven't touched the game in a month so I could focus on priorities but once things are taken care of I'm resuming my third playthrough.

You're doing so much better than me picking up the mechanics and paying attention, well done🙌 I'm very excited to see you fall in love with this spectacular game!!

I've spent several hours looking for a playthrough of this game that would fit my taste most. So far it seems that you are the best.

Well done Java, you're learning the game in a very thoughtful way. I'm about 500 hours in, finished three games and have several more on the go. What amazes me the most is that every time it's completely different. Race, class, and even the minor interactions can change so much of the game content. One small (non-spoiler) tip: Cast Guiding Bolt with Shadowheart instead of Fire Bolt. The former takes a wisdom check, and the latter dexterity. I'm off to see if you've uploaded more, this was so much fun 😊

I've never been so invested in another persons character creation in my life. I dunno how you made that interesting but you really did! Also yeah catching up on this series is gonna take me a bit lol

So fun to watch your first playthrough of this genre and this amazing game in particular!

"I don't know if I always want to add the guidance. I like a little chaos." Only barely makes the target 7 roll because of adding guidance. 🤣

Not investing points in order to purposely avoid passing skill checks was hilarious lmao

I haven’t been able to catch your streams lately so I’m so glad I can watch this now on KZfaq. So very excited for this Java! Let chaos reign! 😂

omg we went through the same journey. It also didn't catch my attention initially because I wasn't a fan of the turn-based combat and never played DnD before, but I saw so much content about the game and everything around its community that I decided to give it a shot and I'm currently playing it and having the best time.

For Gale, evocation is easiest for people new to dnd to play because of the sculpt spell ability. So many of the good combat spells have an area of effect that will hurt your allies as well as your enemies, so this is a safety valve for new players. But conjuration can be really good too.

1:02:33 Java has the perfect example of Low Int High Wis in real life. Had to pause so i didn't spit my drink out lmao.

Save often , although latest patch increased the auto-save points , u ll get into surprise circumstances quite often . and Long Rest as often as u can, it progresses the narative .

SO EXCITED FOR THIS PLAYTHROUGH

New viewer, I'm so glad you're playing a druid, one of my favorite classes to play in tabletop D&D. Glad your having fun with BG3.

@1:23:41. You can pick up this goblins body and carry it in your inventory.

Was deciding if I wanted to buy this game, so decided to go back and rewatch. And Java you got me sold going to buy the gift cards as I type this lol ❤

So psyched to see you play this! Also, that hairstyle is fantastic!

Watching people realize that Shadowheart always misses with Fire Bolt is endlessly entertaining.

Damn, you're doing incredibly well with all those new fantasy names :D Very impressive.

Yay, BG3! Glad you decided to play this :)

Been looking forward to you playing this for a while! Also, "a healthy amount of chaos" - Confirmed Java playthrough. 😅🎉

I’ve been a tiefling druid for most of the campaigns I’ve ever played and I just recently started playing a half elf rogue! I’m glad to see I’m not the only tiefling Druid in the world lol

The best early classes in the game are level 1-3 War Priest, 3-6 Gloomstalker, 6-8 Fighter after 9 the game really opens up into multiclassing I suggest one character going sword Bard for the talking to NPCs and picking locks and disarming traps also the bard should be multiclassing into fighter for ability surge and one other character should be doing Sorcerer level 6 or 10 multiclassing into Tempest Priest to level 2 or 6 so they can double haste and cast powerful lightning magic and being a healer in a pinch.

Pleasantly surprised to be wrong in thinking that you wouldn't enjoy this style of game! In before you and Basic start doing your own Crtical Role-esque stream

Woo! Here comes a 100 plus part series!

You seem to be good at all kinds of games, that's pretty cool

The way the thumbnail made you look like you got a pixie cut and I gasped it looked amazing!! 😂

New playthrough hype! 🎉🎉🎉

I’ve watched a lot of play throughs of this game and a lot of people who have never played a turnbased game and never played dnd or not familiar with it and yours has been the least painful to watch because you read the instructions and listen to your chat and your chat is actually helpful.

"The whip is what got me." Yes Java, we know. And that's why we love ya 😂

A tip for wizards non d and d players probably dont realize. They can learn spells from scrolls so if you want you can learn the spells from scrolls on your wizards.

I once watched a blooper of the big scene in which the main character Tav gets hit in the head and falls off the Nautiloid. The game glitched and the character model T-posed on his way out and it was so funny! 😂

Took an hour, but you cant deny she utterly beautiful..... And her character is pretty cute

Looking at the Chapters and seeing your character creation took an hour is so real 😂

my tav zira being an asmodeus tiefling circle of the moon druid with the shadow tattoo feels so seen right now

“I don’t want to increase my odds” Boy, are you going to regret that! 😂

Ooooh, this is going to be fun. Fireball. Always cast fireball. (seriously NEVER cast fireball!!!!!)

Hey, I also made a tiefling druid with the same eye and tattoo on my first playthrough ^^

Fantastic stuff, can’t wait to watch this series

"illuminates a 9 mile radius" now that would be a nice cantrip.

Omg i love your cat. Hes totally a githyanki with the face lol.

1:52:46 yes, thats a yes. with a plus 3 biiig YES!

MS. JAVA!?! could you be any more stunning?? Enjoy the game, see you in stream!

I don’t typically run Druid myself, so this ought to be interesting!

Rolls are not different between the various settings. Enemy HP and their number and the dmg they deal will vary. For dice, you pick karmic dice on or off. Karmic dice seem to produce more fail streaks.

Rogue, backstab whit bow and finesse weapons...fun.

Hello! Welcome to D&D🙂

Hey, found you from the raid Mike did today on your Twitch channel. The moment you said you're shamelessly romancing Astarion I knew I simply had to follow, great minds and all that lol Found your YT to catch up on the playthrough and am enjoying it immensly thus far, thanks so much for doing such wonderful content

let’s goooooooo!

Haven't commented in a while, but still lurking on all your streams! Also, Goblin is the loml

Watched on stream, but here to boost the algorithm!!!

"I literally can't lose this" lmao

Hope you're enjoying the game, I'm having a blast on my own playthrough. Wish you could create your own squad like U can in Solasta though. Also wish I had a crew of 06, like in the older BG games. Apart from those 2 nitpicks, Larian Studios hasn't let me down yet.

Misty step, OP spell

this was back when java was a baby bg3 player!

This game is fantastic! I hope you enjoy all its glorious chaos!!

Humans are good races to. They have amour bonuses and more weapons and can wear medium and heavy armor. So if you were to do a mage human will help a little. And with a more armor bonus is the dragon bloodline. Because mages don’t have a lot of armor so if you go that route mages have better armor. But I believe heavy armor will be restricted 🚫 with the mage but I believe light and medium armor will have. Just saying humans are good races to

Hope you enjoy the game. I have played all of the older ones, need to get this for the ps5. or a new computer which I really need to get anyway. as for tips.... some of which you may have figured out already, watch your encumbrance and distribute the weight among your party members. Be sure to check new items, armor and weapons when you pick them up to see if it's and improvement or someone in the part can use it. in combat, concentrate on one enemy to kill it faster, if you can't kill the bigger ones quickly, then take out several smaller ones to limit the number of enemy attacks.

My favorite part of any game is always character creation

I mean on your character creation, don’t think your character is all that crazy, I mean in the movie their Druid is also a tiefling

oh my god Goblin is so precious ♥

i cant wait to go on this adventure with yooou, lets goooo

Love your channel. You're awesome.

Don’t forget to click off the karmic dice in game options

First time I watch your channel and you look soooo much alike a character in the game XD A receptionist close to the end of the game so can't say who xD

"I literally can't lose this" Rolls a 1 Ya jinxed it lol

Ok, so after the short, I gotta see this. Btw, looking fire Java!

Your graphics look so good is that all on ultra? which AA do you use? TAA, DLAA, or FSR options? :) p.s. episode 1 was awesome. I loved your Elden Ring playthrough but this game is right up my alley and I cant wait to binge watch you playing this :)

Wow never tempt the dice gods. Saw that nat 1 a mile away.

Heh I will catch up on this, just got a current platform a few days ago, it came with spider man 2 and then I instantly got Baldurs Gate 3, my first time as well, have watched a lot of DnD but never played anything myself, heh I think I spent almost 2 hours in character creation

Press Alt, highlight your surroundings

Well, it's been nice knowing you Java, but once you're into this we may never see you again! 😂 Enjoy the total chaos!

after critically missing five times in a row you'll be like, maybe i could use some advantage after all😂😂

It's divinity 3. BG in name only.

i love ur cat, make this a series ❤

Gonna go ahead and guess she went with tiefling

Not that odd a combo thats what they picked for a character in the movie lol

Great now I have to create another character for the next 3 hours 😂

I wonder if Larian have any statistics over how many womenfolk play race elf on their first playthrough?