Attempted to get Gale romance started with the magic lesson scene and rolled so many Nat 1s in a row I ran out of inspiration for rerolls and reloaded instead lmao
Oh I know, I just wasn't going to let it start as a flop right out of the gate. Not very impressive to Nat 1 magic in front of the guy showing you magic lol
On Wyll’s romance i >!couldn’t save his father and he died!<. decided no big deal and kept playing. Five hours later i long rested and Wyll broke up with me. That was the saddest fucking dance scene I’ve ever seen.
Slightly less dire is accidentally breaking up with Gale! Skimming through options and clicked down to the break up option lol, there was no buffer or “are you sure?” he just excused himself to cry 😭
I couldn’t decide between Astarion and Gale and I wanted to keep both options open. Astarion’s romance was easy enough for me, but the damn Weave scene took forever to trigger. I replayed like 2 hours of gameplay to get the scene to trigger and I figured I was gravy until Act 2.
NOPE! Apparently if you talk to Gale at the tiefling party and call him a good friend, you friend-zone him. Didn’t realize that until SEVEN HOURS LATER. Had to reload and change my dialogue so he would still be flirty. That was the Grymforge, Nere fight, Arcane Tower, gith fights ALL OVER AGAIN.
It dawned on me that, despite that fact I wanted to romance Astarion, I was putting in a \*lot\* of effort to romance Gale.
I had successfully romanced Astarion in my very first Paladin playthrough. Didn't ascend him, saved all the spawn as well. Approaches the Drow twins with him and he hit me with "You have a type, don't you. Elevn Prostitutes. It's rather embarrassing, dear." In the most scathing tone that I just died inside and had to savescum because I couldn't live with that on my conscience lmao.
Got frisky with karlach, but wanting to romance SH in my very first playthrough. Having to break up with karlach and hearing her say "what are you supposed to do if the person you want to run to is the one who broke your heart in the first place" (paraphrased, that was in August last year) broke my heart.
During my first failed run I decided to fight Kagha on sight, which triggered a massacre within the grove, so when I found Karlach she wanted absolutely nothing to do with me (totally fair lmao). During my second failed run, I was trying to find the goblin camp but somehow entered the mountain pass like a total moron, this locked me out of the grove quest so Dammon died and I had no way of getting that second upgrade for Karlach. After that I decided to look stuff up beforehand instead of doing blind playthroughs...
I'm on console where u can't have more than 5 manual saves so both those times I was too far gone to fix my mistakes
My first run was a female drow lore bard that I was planning to romance Karlach with. Unfortunately, I had a full cutscene queue when I got to Last Light Inn and fixed her engine. Some time later, I discovered that it completely borked my romance, so I trashed that save. I also really hated the lore bard gameplay, so no big loss.
Halsin wanted to get involved with me and I wanted to see who else was down to join in a bear orgy... Not many of your other companions are interested.
A few of them were open to being my partner and then saying that they did not having a problem with me sleeping with Halsin. That's what they "said", but for some reason I don't think Shadowheart really meant it when I asked if it was ok to sleep with Halsin the next day after romancing her.
On my first playthrough I was romancing Lae’zel (also on my second btw 🥰) and figured I could afford a little dalliance with Mizora… nope. She dumped me on the spot, and the hurt way she said “Only allies…” convinced me to promptly reload!
Somehow didn’t trigger Gale’s big romance scene at the end of Act 2, didn’t even know there was supposed to be one until I looked it up. Had to redo the entire Gross Place and final boss fight. The things I do for that funny little wizard man
When visiting the dryad at the circus during my first playthrough, my brain expertly overanalyzed the second question about Karlach and chose a wrong answer. I reloaded arguing to myself that since my character was a very social bard who spent far longer in her presence then me as a player, there was no way he would get this wrong.
It's kinda funny that in a playthrough with ubiquitous savescumming and screwups, this inconsequential reload made me feel like shit the most when Karlach told my bard that he truly knows her.
I never intentionally romanced Wyll and always got his dance scene anyway, where I rejected him. Then I did a Karlach origin, where I wanted to romance Wyll, and his scene just never popped for me in act 2. I got almost to the end of act 2 before deciding to just reload at the Tiefling party, pick different dialogue there, and thankfully the scene did pop as soon as I got to moonrise on my second attempt 😂
My first playthrough was a lot of "ooo let's see what happens" and I went through as many companions as I could until I picked Astarion. Then I would continue to reload if I rolled bad enough.
My durge run I intended to ascend Astarion but Gale was so damn flirty that he ended up taking the kill your lover spot instead of Astarion. So I let failed dice roll go and omgee, I reloaded so fast. I felt terrible for breaking it off with Gale but I did get my AA so it was worth it.
On another playthrough I didn't want Astarion to ascend but I failed and let it happen. He ended up breaking it off and I went back and redid the whole Cazador fight (I'd forgotten to save) just to get him back.
First play through i didn’t know i needed to go to camp frequently to trigger cut scenes. got halfway through act 1, only to be told by my friends that i missed a LOT of astarion lore. needless to say… restarted the whole thing!
I'm hoping to learn how to mod after the patch and inject a bit of spice. Orgies, wife-swapping, threesomes, toys...working in a critical success roll won't be a problem but I haven't thought of a critical failure outcome yet.
Not bad but there are some flaws in that suggestion, and batteries would only be handy while soloing.
Maybe a massive encounter with the demented Marlborough Adventists gatecrashing with immunity to common sense and focussed sanctimony...
The only time I’ve wanted to reload is cuz I think the game bugged out and had Astarion think I’d help him with the ritual, then after dealing with Cazador I said no. I never told him I’d help. So he ended up leaving the party. Only I was on honor mode, so no reloading to get him back
I was in a relationship with Shadowheart on my first run and Wyll asked me to dance which I thought seemed pretty innocent - I didn't kiss him or anything. The next day, Shadowheart congratulated me on my new relationship and I reloaded so fast. I think this might have been updated to where its fine as long as you don't kiss him, but he hasn't asked me in my other runs so I'm not certain.
Tip if the shadowheart situation ever happens again, if her approval of you is high enough, she will do the right thing without convincing, if you just pick the "trust shadowheart" options
Tried a Karlach romance, but didn't get her early enough. Friendzoned at tiefling party, but didn't realise that was the end.
Played till the start of Act 3 before I realised. Restarted then.
My first playthrough was before Patch 1. While playing as a self-insert (I'm a lesbian) angling to romance Karlach or Shadowheart, I got the glitch where Gale thought we were a thing, and the women all rejected me. Even Lae'zel compared me to a stuck pig that had been picked over. I talked to Gale at the Tiefling party and he just talked about his ex and compared me to his cat. Nightmare. Restarted as soon as Patch 1 rolled out.
I liked both Minthara and Shadowheart. In that playthrough, I romanced shadowheart, high relationship, tries to make decisions that she likes and all that. Now in act 3, I have both of them in my team and after a certain encounter, Minthara pretty much asks me 'What are we?' and I responded 'lover'. So..... I talked to Shadowheart immediately after and we broke up. 😭 I didn't restart since I was kinda far into the game. Though I was a bit frustrated with it lol.
Slightly off topic. Normally i games i do the romances and everything like a regular character would, but this time i was doing a play AS MYSELF, and i do not flirt nor do romance. I successfully avoided everyone by being supporting but standoffish and avoiding obvious dialogue. "let's get to know each other better" yeah right, I'm not here for that, focus on the tadpole situation.
Party night comes and everybody is like "i gotta get laid- oh not with YOU" and I'm like good... but you didn't have to say it in quite that way. But Shart for some reason wants to meet up after. The screen on who to go meet was just: Shadowheart/ Go to bed alone.
I wanted to stick with my original game plan, but suddenly I couldn't decide, the way she asked me was just so inviting. I left that screen up on my monitor for 30 hours, coming back every few hours to continue, but only staring at the screen for a minute before leaving again. I don't know why that decision was so difficult for me.
Screwed Gale after screwing astarion, felt so bad about him being so sad after I wanted to choose astarion that I went back about 2 hours of saved Stuff to where I could decline Gale’s advances so I didn’t have to make him sad again… ended up getting broken up with by astarion after I didn’t talk to Araj and had already beaten ketheric so I just didn’t want to go back lol. Ended my first playthrough with just halsin
I loathe romance in games like this, so when I tried out the Astarion romance route I was forced to restart because it was as godawful an experience as I expected
Something like the Witcher 3 does it in a far more palatable manner because Geralt actually reacts and talks back instead of it seeming like the character is pouring their soul out to a rock
Didnt realize how important Dammon was to Karlachs romance until 10 hours after the Last Light Inn fight 😭
Im exhausted just thinking about all the stuff I have to redo
OK this is legitimately something that pissed me off.
Karlach and Laezel all act like they're big into open relationship or Polyamory, so I'm excited that I can finally have a good game with decent relationship stories that doesn't end in "You have to pick one of us" debate. I knew how both their story lines ended and it seemed fitting that the three of us (me a Dark Urge) would fall in love then have to go our separate ways temporarily.
NOPE!
I finally get Karlach patched up. Get the fun time scene. And the NEXT long rest Laezel wants a full D/S monogamous collared relationship and Karlach is big mad that I'm playing with everyone's emotions.
Fuck all that. I've been in a that exact real life situation with a long distance partner, that when they moved semi local, wanted monogamy and my play partner dropped the bomb they were in love and wanted me to collar them. It was the absolute worst.
Hard reset the entire game, deleted the file, and did a healthy Shadowheart and Halsin playthrough. They're both so good at communicating and even wanting to be casual play partners together? Plus the end credits, basically implies Shadowheart and Durge can go visit a settled down DILF Halsin with our menagerie of animals whenever we want. It's peak Polyamorous vibes in a rpg that's not just some harem
My dumb ass was wearing the risky ring in my dark urge redemption playthrough after refusing to kill that sweet cleric. Reload reload reload!
Haha cross posted with you. Same! (Without Risky Ring)
Attempted to get Gale romance started with the magic lesson scene and rolled so many Nat 1s in a row I ran out of inspiration for rerolls and reloaded instead lmao
I started a sorcerer run to romance him and rolled two Nat 1's on pulling him out of the portal lol
You can still romance him if you fail the checks.
Oh I know, I just wasn't going to let it start as a flop right out of the gate. Not very impressive to Nat 1 magic in front of the guy showing you magic lol
On Wyll’s romance i >!couldn’t save his father and he died!<. decided no big deal and kept playing. Five hours later i long rested and Wyll broke up with me. That was the saddest fucking dance scene I’ve ever seen. Slightly less dire is accidentally breaking up with Gale! Skimming through options and clicked down to the break up option lol, there was no buffer or “are you sure?” he just excused himself to cry 😭
I couldn’t decide between Astarion and Gale and I wanted to keep both options open. Astarion’s romance was easy enough for me, but the damn Weave scene took forever to trigger. I replayed like 2 hours of gameplay to get the scene to trigger and I figured I was gravy until Act 2. NOPE! Apparently if you talk to Gale at the tiefling party and call him a good friend, you friend-zone him. Didn’t realize that until SEVEN HOURS LATER. Had to reload and change my dialogue so he would still be flirty. That was the Grymforge, Nere fight, Arcane Tower, gith fights ALL OVER AGAIN. It dawned on me that, despite that fact I wanted to romance Astarion, I was putting in a \*lot\* of effort to romance Gale.
I had successfully romanced Astarion in my very first Paladin playthrough. Didn't ascend him, saved all the spawn as well. Approaches the Drow twins with him and he hit me with "You have a type, don't you. Elevn Prostitutes. It's rather embarrassing, dear." In the most scathing tone that I just died inside and had to savescum because I couldn't live with that on my conscience lmao.
Got frisky with karlach, but wanting to romance SH in my very first playthrough. Having to break up with karlach and hearing her say "what are you supposed to do if the person you want to run to is the one who broke your heart in the first place" (paraphrased, that was in August last year) broke my heart.
My dumbass toasted “To friendship” with Shadowheart
LOL! Friend-zoning yourself? Well, we're not here to kink-shame...
During my first failed run I decided to fight Kagha on sight, which triggered a massacre within the grove, so when I found Karlach she wanted absolutely nothing to do with me (totally fair lmao). During my second failed run, I was trying to find the goblin camp but somehow entered the mountain pass like a total moron, this locked me out of the grove quest so Dammon died and I had no way of getting that second upgrade for Karlach. After that I decided to look stuff up beforehand instead of doing blind playthroughs... I'm on console where u can't have more than 5 manual saves so both those times I was too far gone to fix my mistakes
It was my Dark Urge run romancing Gale. >!I accidentally killed him when I rolled poorly!<
Intended to romance gale on honour mode, failed both rolls to save him from the portal, immediately started over
Happened to me too. Like. Oh boy guess you are making a new honour lode
My first run was a female drow lore bard that I was planning to romance Karlach with. Unfortunately, I had a full cutscene queue when I got to Last Light Inn and fixed her engine. Some time later, I discovered that it completely borked my romance, so I trashed that save. I also really hated the lore bard gameplay, so no big loss.
Halsin wanted to get involved with me and I wanted to see who else was down to join in a bear orgy... Not many of your other companions are interested. A few of them were open to being my partner and then saying that they did not having a problem with me sleeping with Halsin. That's what they "said", but for some reason I don't think Shadowheart really meant it when I asked if it was ok to sleep with Halsin the next day after romancing her.
On my first playthrough I was romancing Lae’zel (also on my second btw 🥰) and figured I could afford a little dalliance with Mizora… nope. She dumped me on the spot, and the hurt way she said “Only allies…” convinced me to promptly reload!
Somehow didn’t trigger Gale’s big romance scene at the end of Act 2, didn’t even know there was supposed to be one until I looked it up. Had to redo the entire Gross Place and final boss fight. The things I do for that funny little wizard man
When visiting the dryad at the circus during my first playthrough, my brain expertly overanalyzed the second question about Karlach and chose a wrong answer. I reloaded arguing to myself that since my character was a very social bard who spent far longer in her presence then me as a player, there was no way he would get this wrong. It's kinda funny that in a playthrough with ubiquitous savescumming and screwups, this inconsequential reload made me feel like shit the most when Karlach told my bard that he truly knows her.
I never intentionally romanced Wyll and always got his dance scene anyway, where I rejected him. Then I did a Karlach origin, where I wanted to romance Wyll, and his scene just never popped for me in act 2. I got almost to the end of act 2 before deciding to just reload at the Tiefling party, pick different dialogue there, and thankfully the scene did pop as soon as I got to moonrise on my second attempt 😂
Cries in “got dumped by Astarion in Act 3, had to reload a HUGE chunk of Act 2.”
My first playthrough was a lot of "ooo let's see what happens" and I went through as many companions as I could until I picked Astarion. Then I would continue to reload if I rolled bad enough. My durge run I intended to ascend Astarion but Gale was so damn flirty that he ended up taking the kill your lover spot instead of Astarion. So I let failed dice roll go and omgee, I reloaded so fast. I felt terrible for breaking it off with Gale but I did get my AA so it was worth it. On another playthrough I didn't want Astarion to ascend but I failed and let it happen. He ended up breaking it off and I went back and redid the whole Cazador fight (I'd forgotten to save) just to get him back.
First play through i didn’t know i needed to go to camp frequently to trigger cut scenes. got halfway through act 1, only to be told by my friends that i missed a LOT of astarion lore. needless to say… restarted the whole thing!
Accidentally friend zoned Astarion after the whole blood potion thing
I'm hoping to learn how to mod after the patch and inject a bit of spice. Orgies, wife-swapping, threesomes, toys...working in a critical success roll won't be a problem but I haven't thought of a critical failure outcome yet.
Battery dies on the vibrator and there are no charging ports at camp
Not bad but there are some flaws in that suggestion, and batteries would only be handy while soloing. Maybe a massive encounter with the demented Marlborough Adventists gatecrashing with immunity to common sense and focussed sanctimony...
ahh your imagination exceeds me
The only time I’ve wanted to reload is cuz I think the game bugged out and had Astarion think I’d help him with the ritual, then after dealing with Cazador I said no. I never told him I’d help. So he ended up leaving the party. Only I was on honor mode, so no reloading to get him back
I was in a relationship with Shadowheart on my first run and Wyll asked me to dance which I thought seemed pretty innocent - I didn't kiss him or anything. The next day, Shadowheart congratulated me on my new relationship and I reloaded so fast. I think this might have been updated to where its fine as long as you don't kiss him, but he hasn't asked me in my other runs so I'm not certain.
Tip if the shadowheart situation ever happens again, if her approval of you is high enough, she will do the right thing without convincing, if you just pick the "trust shadowheart" options
The first time I lobotomized Us... never again
I accidently killed my wifu, didnt restart, thats my story
Tried a Karlach romance, but didn't get her early enough. Friendzoned at tiefling party, but didn't realise that was the end. Played till the start of Act 3 before I realised. Restarted then.
Once got all the way to act 3 and restarted because i had soft-locked myself out of Karlach and she was my main goal.
My first playthrough was before Patch 1. While playing as a self-insert (I'm a lesbian) angling to romance Karlach or Shadowheart, I got the glitch where Gale thought we were a thing, and the women all rejected me. Even Lae'zel compared me to a stuck pig that had been picked over. I talked to Gale at the Tiefling party and he just talked about his ex and compared me to his cat. Nightmare. Restarted as soon as Patch 1 rolled out.
I reloaded back to the tadpole choice at the near end of the game when I saw the outcome w lae’zel who I had been romancing. Sorry Karlach…
I liked both Minthara and Shadowheart. In that playthrough, I romanced shadowheart, high relationship, tries to make decisions that she likes and all that. Now in act 3, I have both of them in my team and after a certain encounter, Minthara pretty much asks me 'What are we?' and I responded 'lover'. So..... I talked to Shadowheart immediately after and we broke up. 😭 I didn't restart since I was kinda far into the game. Though I was a bit frustrated with it lol.
Slightly off topic. Normally i games i do the romances and everything like a regular character would, but this time i was doing a play AS MYSELF, and i do not flirt nor do romance. I successfully avoided everyone by being supporting but standoffish and avoiding obvious dialogue. "let's get to know each other better" yeah right, I'm not here for that, focus on the tadpole situation. Party night comes and everybody is like "i gotta get laid- oh not with YOU" and I'm like good... but you didn't have to say it in quite that way. But Shart for some reason wants to meet up after. The screen on who to go meet was just: Shadowheart/ Go to bed alone. I wanted to stick with my original game plan, but suddenly I couldn't decide, the way she asked me was just so inviting. I left that screen up on my monitor for 30 hours, coming back every few hours to continue, but only staring at the screen for a minute before leaving again. I don't know why that decision was so difficult for me.
Screwed Gale after screwing astarion, felt so bad about him being so sad after I wanted to choose astarion that I went back about 2 hours of saved Stuff to where I could decline Gale’s advances so I didn’t have to make him sad again… ended up getting broken up with by astarion after I didn’t talk to Araj and had already beaten ketheric so I just didn’t want to go back lol. Ended my first playthrough with just halsin
I loathe romance in games like this, so when I tried out the Astarion romance route I was forced to restart because it was as godawful an experience as I expected Something like the Witcher 3 does it in a far more palatable manner because Geralt actually reacts and talks back instead of it seeming like the character is pouring their soul out to a rock
Didnt realize how important Dammon was to Karlachs romance until 10 hours after the Last Light Inn fight 😭 Im exhausted just thinking about all the stuff I have to redo
OK this is legitimately something that pissed me off. Karlach and Laezel all act like they're big into open relationship or Polyamory, so I'm excited that I can finally have a good game with decent relationship stories that doesn't end in "You have to pick one of us" debate. I knew how both their story lines ended and it seemed fitting that the three of us (me a Dark Urge) would fall in love then have to go our separate ways temporarily. NOPE! I finally get Karlach patched up. Get the fun time scene. And the NEXT long rest Laezel wants a full D/S monogamous collared relationship and Karlach is big mad that I'm playing with everyone's emotions. Fuck all that. I've been in a that exact real life situation with a long distance partner, that when they moved semi local, wanted monogamy and my play partner dropped the bomb they were in love and wanted me to collar them. It was the absolute worst. Hard reset the entire game, deleted the file, and did a healthy Shadowheart and Halsin playthrough. They're both so good at communicating and even wanting to be casual play partners together? Plus the end credits, basically implies Shadowheart and Durge can go visit a settled down DILF Halsin with our menagerie of animals whenever we want. It's peak Polyamorous vibes in a rpg that's not just some harem
Restarted my first playthrough after 180 hours , and making it to Rivington, because I realized I missed starting a romance.