I feel like this could be a social commentary of sorts.

I think you missed the point of the narration, he was forced into that path by always failing rolls. Look at how things are presented and acted from the perspective of someone who can't influence the world. Besides the Githyanki storyline is on point.

@@Domaik_ it’s not that I missed the point, I just don’t agree with it. Don’t get me wrong it’s an amazing video and I enjoyed it thoroughly but he is effecting the world by making everyone hate and mistrust him. He said it himself, it’s unnatural and impossible to roll nat 1 for everything so he is changing the outcome of 95% of everything since he should statistically roll 1 5% of the time.

What I found most intriguing was that the druid grove turned out to be abusive racists while the goblins accepted you as you are.

just like real life

For comparison, that's the same intelligence as an ape. And one lower than a giant ape, which is still an animal that's incapable of using language.

It reminded me of the old school rpgs, like playing Fallout as an utter unga-bunga man.

"Gopher Everitt?"

@@zomburgerchef9587 😉

I died laughing

Ah yes, "Do unto others before they do unto you"

The oldest cliche in storytelling. When your introduction to someone is them betraying someone, they are guaranteed to also betray you in the future.

lol thank you! That was an actual response from the guy when I asked in the BG3 mod channel and I found it hilarious

Trying to find a logic in the request was their first mistake.

@@hhdhpublicdude has no vision, clearly 😂

@@eilzmo it was dark and he's a dragonborn

​@@ProxyGateTactician i can see over 181 000 bits of logic behind this request.

Just goes to show who the actual bro of the bunch is in the NPCs.

I think those were the only ones you can bringwith this challenge? Gale is sucked into the wormhole, Wyll and Karlach leave if you raid the grove, Shart and Minthara attack you. You could replace Laezel with Shart I think but can't have both

​@@exantiuse497 if he hadn't killed Laezel on the night they are sick does she kill him or they have a fight? Because then he would have lost her too!

​@@exantiuse497I think there are ways to side with the Grove and/or the tieflings instead of the goblins that don't require rolls.

may i ask who is the 3rd githyanki? i'm in act 2 in my game and don't care about spoilers so in the many vids on bg3 gameplay i never learned of the other gith. is she a hireling?

lol it's happy but also unlucky tbh if you know what happens spoiler below: Vlakkith kills them immediately after this

Exactly my thoughts, I'm sure Vlakkith will reward them handsomely and ascend them like they deserve 😄

vlaakith ending was actually bad, all ascended gith was actually killed by her as she absorb their power. I guess when you roll all 1. it's only natural.

@@minyaksayurI'd guess if you're as brainwashed as they are then it's a happy ending for them (but yeah very bad)

@ProxyGateTactician As you said in the video, they would never face misfortune in their lives again. Vlakith saw to that

After all, bad luck is still technically a form of luck!

@@VidiriIn a way, you have to have incredible luck to have such bad luck 🤣

@@xTwilightWolvesxnext challenge: 1s and 20s with no inbetween as her cleric

real

Thanks! I just try to find ones that don't only change combat. Makes it more interesting for myself.

While I agree this is refreshing, 'challenge' can also just be used as a reference to 'limiting myself to x for a good time'.

@@rimworldmoment Yeah, like the videos about Fallout that are like "can I beat Fallout 3 as Abraham Lincoln?" with silly self-imposed restrictions

“I Like your content but I don’t like other people’s content” is what you meant to say

Minecraft for 100 days all over again 😭

I swear that was like forced during release. She would walk into opportunity attacks and get herself downed before you even get a turn

@@ProxyGateTactician Sounds just like Devella

And thus u learned initiative is OP

@@ProxyGateTacticianIsobel be like “ah yes, how shall I spend my turn, I will walk into an opportunity attack, walk into another opportunity attack, walk into another opportunity attack and then I shall cast healing word on Jaheira. I am of much use to the battle”

Same, dude was a fucking nightmare.

Ohh that’s really interesting. I love when they made the failures better than some of the other outcomes

*Kagha

Being a druid with the speak to animals spell also gives you a roll-free way to save Arabella. By getting the snake to talk down Kagha. Though the snake only listens if you're a druid.

@@Gran69 She doesn’t deserve her name to be spoken correctly

@@bodfe34 that's fair but it made reading that sentence a lot more confusing initially

It wouldn't necessarily be that long. It's a pretty simple quid pro quo, the hammer in exchange for the crown, plus maybe something about the consequences for breaking the agreement. Raphael doesn't need to trick you with that deal, he gets what he wants with the terms as they are

​@exantiuse497 Doesn't need to isn't the same as won't.

@@exantiuse497 yes, but raphael loves inflicting pain and misery on people so he would make the paperwork as terrible as possible on purpose.

​@exantiuse497 Infernal pacts and contracts are all about the fine print and legalese to make it sound like you're getting an amazing deal, when in reality you're screwing yourself over.

@@exantiuse497 Except, there's all sorts of clauses and subsections. Like how he says that, upon arriving in the House of Hope, uninvited, that your presence here gives him instant claim to your soul and results in a game over.

Githyanki cannot overcome their violent nature

Theirs a specific hatred their im guessing that has alot to do with it.

I thought it had something to do with whatever Balthazar was doing to them. Gale said he's using the same magic that created the curse, and I assume he was just using pixies because they give off a lot of magic light. Though I guess that doesn't explain why the pixie herself knows how to protect the party from the curse.

I mean it makes sense to me. God magic is one thing, but Fey magic is super weird.

It’s because Selune and Shar are sisters so their powers are similar in a way, so Selune cannot completely block the strong dark magic, but she can help counteract the milder dark magic with her blessing. But Fey/Pixie magic is completely different and comes from another realm, so they are able to completely block dark magic as it is so different to their own (it’s why it’s such a bad idea to piss off Fey)

I guess the Shadowfell was directly anti-selune and made to spite her powers, but other powers could wriggle around it, like fey magic.

I see you're a man of culture as well.

Looks like this is one of the changes they made. In D&D, a natural 1 is not an automatic failure on a skill check.

@@DanielLCarrier yeah 5e 1 and 20 is only a fail or success on attack rolls extending it to other stuff makes stuff weird

I suspect that as soon as Vlaakith understands her mistake, she'd try to "wish" herself out of this situation. Only to fail miserably due to *cough* unfortunate wording.

technically, it had *her* dying

@@elmatilda lmao

He literately killed her to save her life and destroy her soul.

That last fight was nearly impossible. I had to use extreme cheese. I tried for like 3 hours to get through it without using invisibility, and every single time I got stunned by something at a crucial moment lol

@@ProxyGateTactician You definitely went seventh level gorgonzola with you cheese. I couldn't be happier.

In my run I sided with the Emps, so I gathered all my party together, hasted them all with a throwable speed pot from Wyll, cus I forgot to short-rest him and he is of not very much use without his slots, then, used my sorc and Shart to transport Karlach and Emps to the other side, blasted 3 out of 4 Illithids on my first turn - with a combination of Karlach and sorc's twinned disentegrate, but first I had to "disarm" flayers with some cheap spell to force them to use their reaction ability. If you count your attack properly, your sorc can cast a Karsus' Compulsion on the first round after defeating 3 hentai monsters. If you go on the first turn, then the countermeasures will probably jackoff down there and not attack you, you have to survive a pretty potent blast from the Netherbrain iteslf and a dragon - the mirror image helps with that, I just popped that on my sorc hoping that she won't die as quickly, and so she did. Then, I just healed her and gave the Netherbrain hell. Disintegration, fireballs, inflict wounds, melee attacks and Illithid magicks, I unleashed everything I got and quickly dispatched the brain.

I summoned all the allies I had (Zevlor, City Watch, Aylin, Guild) and focused on the Mind Flayers on the top. Once Orpheus was near the crown, I cast globe of invulnerability on him. Buffed jumps, misty step, dimension door and fly are all very helpful to getting there quickly. If you have good spell DCs, fear, confusion, banishment and polymorph can put problematic enemies out of commission. The House of Hope boss was way harder in my first playthrough.

U can Jump at the gm's throat, prob at larian studios cackling whenever he sees comments like this xD

Where in game does she do that??

@@healinbeet Meeting with Vlaakith in Githyanki Creshe in Monastery Rosenmorg you can choose not to bow to the queen and give her a wave instead 😘

Shadowheart slays if you respec into a tempest cleric though

@@BigBADSTUFF69 So I've heard, but it never made sense story-wise so I never did that; the most I've done is respec her to Life Cleric after she finally tells Shar to pound sand, which is also surprisingly solid.

glad to hear it! That specific hammer that blocks healing was insanely good. So many enemies would have just outhealed all my damage otherwise.

lol it sounded pretty Githyanki to my ears and wanted to leave an easter egg for you

It got me really goofy

@@ProxyGateTactician Dieser Chat ist ab Sofort Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!

lol it always drove me crazy too that people don't include a disclaimer

I had it in the background and didnt see thedisclaimer and i was so confused on why i was getting ghost notifications

And I expect Selune simply isn't allowed to. Protecting her cleric and immediate environs is the best she can do, otherwise it might risk all out conflict with Shar on the mortal plane which is forbidden.

I've gotten many advantage crit misses, but never in a row haha that's crazy

I genuinely thought there had to have been a bug that caused it. It was with Karlach on a throwing build, rest of my party was dead and she was on the LAST enemy.@@Dorumin

Pseudo RNG is really weird sometimes, so I don't think it was actually a 1 in 160000 chance, but that was probably still VERY unlucky.

quest and explore until level 4. cheese grym by throwing stuff at it from high ground. forge/get 3 pieces of equipment that prevent crits. negate 75% of this challenge's difficulty.

@@O_RLY They're still rolling max damage though, so that would help but it won't negate the difficulty entirely

@O_RLY Always 20 means every attack lands. And afaik there are only 2 crit negating items before act 3 so half your party would still get double damage

I was trying this myself actually a few weeks ago. Since the crit dice bonus is as easy to add as the tactician stat boosts, every enemy did crits 100% of the time, including against each other. It took a ton of save scumming but I managed to get the first grove battle to result in Zevlor dying, but there was no special acknowledgement that it happened (fair, it's basically impossible unless the goblin mage and bugbear repeatedly crit him and roll well)

Well I wish I knew that before lmaooo. I should have realized that when I got to act 2 and I was like I swear these maces that drop off the mobs near Kethric that have tenacity normally do 4 damage... That should have been my clue. It's not an ability i'd ever relied on in the past

Oh, woah! I would have assumed that Tenacity is once per short rest like (all?) other special weapon actions, but if the wiki I'm looking at is right, it doesn't. It reportedly costs a Reaction, but that seems like a fair deal under normal circumstances (and obviously very helpful under in this special case). Neat, I learned something today.

@@ProxyGateTacticianyeah I was wondering why you thought the feats were useless when you could just max out your strength with ASIs and do solid damage!

Glad to hear that

1033.7 Hours according to Steam. But i don't know if that tracked properly. i had to play offline without steam open to finish this challenge on patch 5 so my mod wouldnt break

Absolute unit @@ProxyGateTactician

I'd been checking for months to see if any mod would be posted for it then hopped in the channel to ask and was shocked they just agreed to make it right away lol

Yeah or I was thinking max out strength for max Tenacity damage on weapon misses

That would certainly be more fun to play as

Thanks! I'm just glad I finally got 2 videos posted within the same month

@@ProxyGateTactician and it was the shortest month of the year! You really didn't make it easy for you! Ahahah

Glad you think so!

Thanks!

they patched it, every fight that begins with a cutscene will now have you visible. so you do have to go invisible when the fight actually start after climbing the brain stem (but be careful of counterspell from the sorcerer/wizard countermeasures). idk for other modes other than honor after patch 6, but the brain also do a psychic damage zap that bounces off nearby allies when you're near the crown too.

@@user-zx8xc8tw2j did they? That sucks! Why not just have one party member engage the cutscene and the rest hang back. Ticks still happen outside the cutscene during the cutscene Also potions of invisibility bypass mage counter-measures

@@KirstenlyArt the one party member trick doesn't work with the final fight since it transfers everyone there, but work in other fights. and the latter is why i said just be careful about spell casting, potion is still fair game.

thank you!

lol that’s where the majority of the challenge was! That and no saving throws. Saving throws are so much more important than I ever realized

thanks!

The channel name is a Starcraft reference! Come on fellow Protoss guy :) Zertatul

At this point im confident someone on their QA team is taking notes. Everything I post videos about gets fixed in the next patch lmao

@@ProxyGateTacticianThe QA team probably has a notice on their wall. "What would Proxy Gate Tactician do?"

Ahh there is a ring near balthazaar in act 2 which adds radiant damage to magic missles, and magice missles each damage instance gets rid of a stack of Orin's unstoppable. So magic missles melts here insanely fast. Good feedback i'll keep it in mind for the future thanks