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I remember in the early patches, throwing fog/darkness on NPCs wouldn't cause any hostility, so I would cast it on the shopkeeper to both make them run away AND give me cover to loot all of the items sitting on their shopfront in plain sight and then run away before the spell wore off so there...

If you're playing a traditional LG Paladin, it may not be long before the cracks between you and Astarion start to show... ;)

I echo this advice. :) I actually recommend that your first playthrough should be as a Custom character, and play through the game doing what YOU would do in those scenarios. It will feel a lot more personal that way.

Ultima? I know of the games and setting only in passing, but I know it's a highly beloved IP as well. I haven't heard of any info that would suggest an Ultima game though (but in fairness, I haven't been following Larian's announcements much outside of BG3 stuff). Do you know something I don't?

The first part of your post really resonated with me, and I think you are absolutely correct. :) In a lot of fandoms and gaming communities, there is a highly competitive spirit where if somebody expresses confusion or ignorance about an aspect of the game, they are immediately pounced upon and...

I've never played Arcanum so I can't really give a proper comparison between the two, but I will say that DA:O is by far the BEST of the Dragon Age games in my opinion in terms of lore, character development, writing and world-building. It very much does feel like Bioware's spiritual successor...

Hmm, I wouldn't say they shouldn't be able to cast healing spells. Instead, I'd give Bards a healing spell, but it wouldn't be "Cure Light Wounds" (maybe something like "Mending"?) In terms of game effects, it too also cures xd8 HP per casting, but the way it works would be different in terms of...

With any long-running RPG, I'm curious to know if this means that CDPR has officially adopted a "canon" story (since Ciri being a Witcher strongly suggests that her Empress ending did not take place, unless something dramatic happened to have Ciri abdicate the throne.) I do agree that it seems...

For me, I see Charisma as "force of personality and self-will". It differs from Intelligence (which is your ability to learn, problem-solve and remember) and Wisdom (which is your ability to sense and interpret and be insightful) in that while the other two mental stats are more passive or...

Oof. This is sounding more and more like Veilguard may be the first DA game that I completely give a miss to. :/

There's even been early talk of modders unearthing data/files for planned areas like the Upper City section in Act 3, some areas that were cut from Act 2 etc. that could potentially be brought back into the game via large modding projects. :)

There's one mod I use for Scratch called "Scratch and Shovel" and it basically beefs up/rebalances the special summons (Scratch, Shovel, Us and Boo) so they're more resilient and capable in combat, allowing them to be viable summons all the way till endgame. :) It's not on the official mods list...

Spent a long, long time in Character Creation, I see. ;)

Yeah, I also feel like Larian's not being completely truthful with us. I still think the root cause is that WotC/Hasbro probably either got greedy and wanted to shove in stuff like microtransactions or season passes that Larian didn't want to do, OR they wanted more creative control over the...

That is SUCH disappointing news. :( On the other hand though, it does sound from what Sven said that BG/D&D burnout was starting to hit Larian pretty hard, so maybe it might have been for the best. Maybe it's better if they back off and take a break from D&D for a while and revisit this again in...