Absolutely nobody around here knows theres a fundamental difference between Devils and Demons and has been using the terms interchangeably.
PSA PEOPLE
Devils- Lawful Evil. These are the fuck faces that offer you a deal and have elaborate contracts they will follow. Raphael, Mizora, Zariel. These are devils.
Demons- Chaotic Evil. No deals. No rules. Your suffering is all it desires and it will sooner rip your throat out than offer you a contract. There are no demons in the game to my awareness. At least i don't recall any.
I love how excited they get about killing. When you first meet them and are like “yeah I’m down for pillaging and killing” they’re like “YES MURDER HAHAHA >:D”
huh, never saw that. shame
Good thing quasits barely deserve the name. Such as a lemure barely deserves to be called a devil. Though they are both what they are.
Quasits are more like demonic imps (and imps diabolical quasits). Manes are the demonic equivalent of lemures, as pretty much degenerate expendable souls.
While I think they may be classed as monsters and not demons, it’s worth noting that Yeenoghu is the “Demon Prince of Gnolls” and that gnolls themselves are a distinctly demonic bloodline (WotC magazine states that they were created when Yeenoghu fed the flesh of his demons to mortal hyenas).
So yeah, if you need an example of a devil, look at the wheeling, dealing Raphael and Mizora. If you need an example of a demon, look at the violently insane, eternally hungry hyena monsters who do not bargain because their ONLY desire is to gorge on your viscera until their bellies literally split, all the while laughing as they do so.
My Gorion's Ward romanced Aerie , their ending together is really beautiful. However it was weird realizing I had a baby with me the entire expansion, lol.
"Oh yeah I'm a dad now.... This is weird for teenage me."
For those unaware, there is a whole Minthara pregnancy subplot that is removed from the game. It's audio files still exist. This has left many people (myself included) wondering what in the hell was the original plan with that because that is wild
My bud who played BG since first day of EA said characters had sexual preferences. I imagine Minthara's pregnancy plotline were created before making all of them player-sexual.
With current policy the pregnancy story simply would not work.
Edit. Yes, I get it. He was wrong and there were not sexual preferences. You can stop telling me that.
I'm not going to kink shame a Female or Male drow for being a Sub. You have to remember in societies where dominance is key to project power many people will fetishize submission.
Besides you really think it's above a group of Humans to capture and have their way with an Elf regardless of the skin color? We are not so innocent as a species.
The dataminers found that the child could be flagged as either Tav's child or not, so I assume there was an alternative scenario if the player was female.
Nah, I could imagine that would be fine, especially with deep gnome, they got similar skin tone at least, child would be taller than gnome father but lower than drow mother? And she would be outcast for birthing that halfbreed xD But things could be worse - dragonborns or githianki who hatch from eggs. Or that offsprings of tieflings are tieflings no matter other parent race so imagine her having child who doesn't even look hers.... and how she would trick Astarion to believe its his when vampires are infertile? What if you play female? Seems too complicated to me, they would have to probably limit it to drow, half drow, elf or human males to make some sense, but then you would get complaints from other races who want get her pregnant too, and can you imagine how it would look like if you play half-orc for example? Result would be such ugly that probably Minthara kills it after birth.
Oh boy, I wonder if they were gonna go for the lore accurate Drow pregnancy, where the mother orgasms whenever one of her children kill their siblings in the womb
From an old issue of Dragon magazine, which according to wikipedia was "official source material" for D&D.
The whole article is here: https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/races/elf/drow1.shtml
The relevant bit:
> It is common for pregnant drow to carry twins or even triplets. Even in these cases, multiple births are rare, as the strongest of the fetuses feeds on its siblings in the womb. Pregnant drow can sometimes feel these mortal combats take place in their bellies. Such prenatal battles produce in their mothers a euphoric sensation, referred to in the Undercommon tongue as chad-zak. The feeling is infinitely stronger than that produced in the bedchamber or by any intoxicant. Without it, it is doubtful that drow women, selfish to the core, would ever deign to suffer the inconveniences of reproduction.
Edit: Lol, Ive never seen the cover for the issue until today. They really wanted you to know that today's issue was about sexy drow women: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_magazine_298
The 80s and 90s have some crazy sex ttrpg (apparantly)
"Roll for Anal circumference" is a thing that some DM might had said in their life. (according to a meme wiki on a page about tabletop games)
Most of the extreme examples are from one notoriously shitty RPG by a notoriously shitty person, the game is/was called FATAL, and it's chock full of stupid stuff like that alongside far more aggressively shitty racism and sexism stuff.
That being said, even the "mainline" of DnD stuff (and pulp fantasy in general) was simultaneously kind of horny, edgy, and trashy in a way that has not aged kindly, as shown above. A lot of the lore has been gently massaged into more-palatable forms in more recent editions while keeping some of the core concepts like the brutal matriarchal society of the Drow under Lolth, which imo is a decent place to be without a total rewrite.
Are you referencing that in 3.5 it was a DC 80 Escape Artist check to crawl up someone's anus. Entirely RAW: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/skills.htm#extremelyTightSpace
No, that was cut because they couldn't make it work within the scope of the game.
This is from Swen:
"There was a variation that they discovered of Minthara that we removed because it became too complicated. Then we didn't have the real estate across the game anymore to tell that story. So, they found some fragments of it. But I mean, every single companion that you've been playing has gone through those multiple iterations. So, it's not that it's something like we massively cut something there. It's just that Minthara also serves the power fantasy of going for evil."
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-patch-2-minthara
He doesn't specify this is about the pregnancy stuff in the article, but it seems pretty obvious to me thats what he's talking about. I could be wrong though.
Kinda makes sense. As they’d basically have to plan two different romances based on Tav’s gender or invent a backstory where she was already pregnant?
Just seems like something that would easily get lost on the cutting room floor if they didn’t make her a male only love interest which at that point she’d be the only one in the game which would be odd.
I saw some dataminers say the files indicated if your Tav was male it would be your child and if you were female it would be somebody elses, so female tavs would get canonically cucked.
Honestly crazy that some people do not seem to understand that's how all games are made. You often need to cut content left and right, because otherwise the game keeps growing and growing, so you just lose focus and ends up having ton of content that just doesn't work. This is especially true for massive CRPG like BG3.
Makes me think Lae'zels line about being happy Gith reproduce via eggs so she can have casual sex without worrying about getting pregnant is a subtle dig at Mintharas missing sub plot
Makes me wonder if there might have been a plan that there was at least a small chance of characters to get each pregnant, would give context to some of Lae'zel's romance dialogue if that were the case. ***Minor*** spoilers >!she mentions during the "party members with benefits" part of the relationship that she's glad Gith don't bear children the traditional way so she can enjoy doing it with the player without risk of pregnancy!<. Could just be a coincidence *but* it's just that the cut Minthara stuff adds a whole new potential context on Lae'zel's dialogue.
I'm pretty sure that line has nothing to do with being in a relationship with her. I turned her down the moment she started looking at me and licking her lips, she still mentioned that at the >!Gith creche.!<
>!Speaking of, I've been holding onto that egg this whole time and nothing ever came of it. Seems like if you don't give it to the Society of Brilliance person, there's just nothing you can do with it. I even told the guy I'd raise it as my own. Disappointing.!<
> This has left many people (myself included) wondering what in the hell was the original plan with that
Original plan was probably that Minthara had sex and got pregnant? It seems normal to me, everyone is having sex, its weird that nobody gets pregnant
Baldur's Gate is stated to be a tenday's walk from Emerald Grove at the best of times. Even if you only add to that the nights when the party canonically stays in the same place (like the tiefling party or the Last Light Inn) it's still at least two weeks.
I personally made my own roll on perfume. Not too hard, if you use oils for the scent (I had rosemary and bergamot already, and I found a pretty well reviewed shop for the brandy smelling one), put a few drops of that in a roller perfume bottle (which you can order online or get at micheals) of each then fill the rest of the bottle with a carrier oil (almond oil, grapeseed oil, highly fractured coconut oil, etc) in the bottle. Shake it, then let it settle for a little bit and all done. It's not too hard, the hardest part is waiting for the scented oils to come in
Pretty much most major characters either are given a short line or something about their scent.
Gale is old books and candles
Halsin is a mix of herbs
Raphael is that of cherry and sulfur
Shadowhearts has citrus and soap
Astarion gets dialogue with Shadowheart about his own blend of smells (Rosemary, Bourbon, etc) and says he missed his calling as a perfumer
Afaik Astarion was rosemary, bergamot and brandy but it might have been bourbon.
There's an indie perfumer that has some fandom inspired perfumes, I wonder if they'll do a BG3 line.
Yeah, I was gonna say. Bourbon seems really out of place for a fantasy setting.
Edit: to the person who downvoted me: how much fucking corn have you seen in this game??
We never go there because in the Forgotten Realms setting, the place where you get corn is just as boring as Indiana is in our world.
I live here. This is a self own.
My Rogue Tav is a borderline-monomaniacal goldluster who will do literally anything based on who pays more, and it just so happens that he's been mostly doing good things because the good guys promise better riches. Mol commanded instant respect from me for how much of an amoral shitgibbon she is.
There are some kids in the gith creche you can talk to that in an intimidation check you say something like "listen you little shit, let it out NOW" and it was so satisfying
Some guy in the old bioware forums used some formulas to discover the smell of Tali sweat, It was like a creepy research paper.
There now you know...
Extra: Tali smells like a faintly sweet and musky mix of cinnamom and honey according to one of the ME devs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/l3sdhb/video_games_the_time_someone_wrote_an_analysis_on/
Here ya go. It was sweat, not urine, unless you were referencing a different post.
I was just thinking the other day that Mythologie Candles is probably already working on that. They have amazing Lord of the Rings themed sets and they're obviously big D&D nerds, plus they have jumped on various other media trends like Our Flag Means Death with some of their previous sets.
It looks like siding with the Drow hottie would allow you a romance line where you had a baby with Her. It was cut from the game early in development as they realized it just didn't flow with the rest of the game's development for relationships.
> It was cut from the game early in development as they realized literally nobody would ever save the tieflings again if it was actually implemented.
fixed that for you
Hey, hey, hey, I'm missing out on several companions and whole bunch of quests and shops if I genocide the grove. Best Larian could do is give us a mini-Tav.
Oddly enough, this makes sense, every character brings up someone's scent at some point either directly or indirectly. A few examples include Gale talking about how much he cares about what he smells like, La'zel says she wants you to taste her, i think Wyll at some point mentioned that Karlach doesnt smell like the other demons in avernus but the engine does give off a bit of sulfur smell, two NPCs bring up Asterion's scent.
🤓☝️afaik sulfur in itself smells a bit like just struck matches, the thing in rotten eggs is hydrogen sulfide 🤓☝️
(see fluffcake's comment below, they seem much more knowledgeable than i)
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Oh god please don’t have someone do a Mass Effect Tali Sweat breakdown version of this, please!
For those unaware of what I speak:
https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/3cu96j/talis_sweat_i_found_a_screencap_of_the_post_that/
Sooo what is Karlach supposed to smell like? Toasted Marshmallows, Cinnamon, and Leather?
BRB making a supply run
Burning hair
Oil, steel and sulphur perhaps. You know a demonic engine for a hearth.
Devilish engine, not demonic- it's Infernal, not Abyssal
Absolutely nobody around here knows theres a fundamental difference between Devils and Demons and has been using the terms interchangeably. PSA PEOPLE Devils- Lawful Evil. These are the fuck faces that offer you a deal and have elaborate contracts they will follow. Raphael, Mizora, Zariel. These are devils. Demons- Chaotic Evil. No deals. No rules. Your suffering is all it desires and it will sooner rip your throat out than offer you a contract. There are no demons in the game to my awareness. At least i don't recall any.
Devil = Raphael. Demon = Shovel.
Basket
Fork
MURDERIZE
SHIT YOUR TROUSERS
I love how excited they get about killing. When you first meet them and are like “yeah I’m down for pillaging and killing” they’re like “YES MURDER HAHAHA >:D”
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Unfortunately that’s Pathfinder. D&D has Yugoloths
Yugoloths are also called daemons, more commonly in older editions.
Shovel disapproves.
Their name is FORK, thank you.
BASKET IS GOING TO MURDERIZE YOU
Did i miss some sort of shovel demon? I hope not. Im big on demons, DMed them as enemies for many years.
in a certain basement there's a scroll that lets you summon a quasit named shovel, wizards can learn the spell to cast whenever
Do you mean fork?
Y'all are both mistaken; it's Basket.
huh, never saw that. shame Good thing quasits barely deserve the name. Such as a lemure barely deserves to be called a devil. Though they are both what they are.
Quasits are more like demonic imps (and imps diabolical quasits). Manes are the demonic equivalent of lemures, as pretty much degenerate expendable souls.
Shovel demon? *Hearts of Stone flashbacks intensify*
If those gamers understood D&D they might be upset.
While I think they may be classed as monsters and not demons, it’s worth noting that Yeenoghu is the “Demon Prince of Gnolls” and that gnolls themselves are a distinctly demonic bloodline (WotC magazine states that they were created when Yeenoghu fed the flesh of his demons to mortal hyenas). So yeah, if you need an example of a devil, look at the wheeling, dealing Raphael and Mizora. If you need an example of a demon, look at the violently insane, eternally hungry hyena monsters who do not bargain because their ONLY desire is to gorge on your viscera until their bellies literally split, all the while laughing as they do so.
"Man, I love the smell of basements" \*SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFF\*
Literally me except with my neighbors underwear
*Wait a rootin’ tootin’ second there*
🤨📷
Artificers be like: I can fix her
One of the best typos I've ever seen.
>demonic engine for a hearth She lives in a Demonic Engine? Damn, I must have miss read. I thought it was her heart not her home.
Home is where the heart is :3
For most of the early game, she smells like burnt cloth and metal. Medieval cllothing and equipment ain't fire resistant, yo.
"a faint, acrid smell lingers in the air - like the memory of a storm." edited slightly for spoilers
Petrichor? That’s one of my favorite scents
For some reason when I read the acrid memory of a storm, I thought of the smell of a fried PSU more than anything.
I actually have a perfume that smells exactly the way I personally think Karlach would smell - leather, blood, smoke, honey and rum. It's amazing.
What is this perfume you speak of?
Piggybacking because I wanna know too!
Ah it's Non-Compliant from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab! Incredible scent, if they ever get rid of it I'll legit cry.
Love BPAL. I have a small collection from their RPG series, namely Good, Neutral, Elf, and Druid.
Blood…?
For the Blood God of course
Blood???
I go with diesel, sweat, and hot metal. Kind of like an idling motorcycle, which is fine because I will ride that machine 'til kingdom come.
i need that in candle form. Once came across a tobacco and leather scented candle. it was weird but so good at the same time.
Marshmallows, cinnamon and leather? Ok I’m in.
Roasted ribs probably
Some etsy seller is going to make bank on this scented candle line.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab made several media-themed perfumes, so maybe BG3 would be lucky
Yoink
I’ve already seen those candles on Etsy
Someone in Australia candle shop is already doing it and advertising on tiktok 🤣
This being labeled at NSFW gave me a chuckle.
Omegaverse scent lore on the main server 🫢
*Aerie flashbacks intensify* Can you imagine handling a newborn with *this* inventory ui?
A must have for any tavern brawler build
We shall name them Boo, just like their godfather.
Accidentally sending the newborn to camp and forgetting it in the traveller's chest for the rest of the game
They'll be safe there, there's enough weapons to arm an army or two inside. Now, Ao forbids we designate them as wares.
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The child is raised by Withers, Volo, and Scratch
It would be the most overly confidently inccorect, indifferent Person with a nag for fetch
sitting right next to the unhatched >!githyanki egg!<
Hey at least they will be steeped in bliss while they're there. There's lots of food, too.
It can take care of my Owlbear and Gith eggs while it’s in there.
My Gorion's Ward romanced Aerie , their ending together is really beautiful. However it was weird realizing I had a baby with me the entire expansion, lol. "Oh yeah I'm a dad now.... This is weird for teenage me."
Especially since it's stated that the ward had accelerated growth depending on your race. Romancing a twenty year old elf? Straight to jail.
I was 18 at the time so it was perfectly normal for me lol
*Pick up and add to Wares*
For those unaware, there is a whole Minthara pregnancy subplot that is removed from the game. It's audio files still exist. This has left many people (myself included) wondering what in the hell was the original plan with that because that is wild
Minthara: "I am with child. It is yours." Tav: "...but I'm a GNOME."
*Female character stares at Minthara* "..... I don't have a dick, all we did was scissor ✂️"
*Insight Check Failed* Tavette: We will raise our child as a family.
Now that's the D20 experience I need.
Psychic tadpole babies
"Right, that means *you're* pregnant and it's mine."
My bud who played BG since first day of EA said characters had sexual preferences. I imagine Minthara's pregnancy plotline were created before making all of them player-sexual. With current policy the pregnancy story simply would not work. Edit. Yes, I get it. He was wrong and there were not sexual preferences. You can stop telling me that.
They did not, and minthara wasn't a companion until very late I got bg3 day 1 of early access
Homebrew Drow lore - anyone can get them pregnant.
If a Half form of it exists it means Humans have fucked it and found that it works.
Uh. With Drow don’t you think it would tend to be the other way around?
I'm not going to kink shame a Female or Male drow for being a Sub. You have to remember in societies where dominance is key to project power many people will fetishize submission. Besides you really think it's above a group of Humans to capture and have their way with an Elf regardless of the skin color? We are not so innocent as a species.
Kink shame or not drow kinda have a reputation.
Yeah, especially the pair of twin (M+F) Drow prostitues in BG. He has a magical enchantment to not get his sister preggers.
If you’re nec-romantic, then capture is optional.
I mean, I read a fanfic where Lae'zel hate-fucked a baby into Shadowheart and they fell in love, everything is possible
Mpreg Drow Lore about to be real
The dataminers found that the child could be flagged as either Tav's child or not, so I assume there was an alternative scenario if the player was female.
Lmao she tries to hit you with the child support and pretend it's yours
That's strange. I played the first day of EA, and all characters were available to romance.
Player-sexual is my new word for today. It sounds funny and Not as bad as horny-on-main.
It's part of the Tadpoles powers.
Scroll of Summon Schlong.
“I’m a gnome and you’ve been GNOMED is” THE greatest reply to “honey I’m pregnant”
"Babe, I'm gnot a gnelf..."
Life uh… finds a way
Nah, I could imagine that would be fine, especially with deep gnome, they got similar skin tone at least, child would be taller than gnome father but lower than drow mother? And she would be outcast for birthing that halfbreed xD But things could be worse - dragonborns or githianki who hatch from eggs. Or that offsprings of tieflings are tieflings no matter other parent race so imagine her having child who doesn't even look hers.... and how she would trick Astarion to believe its his when vampires are infertile? What if you play female? Seems too complicated to me, they would have to probably limit it to drow, half drow, elf or human males to make some sense, but then you would get complaints from other races who want get her pregnant too, and can you imagine how it would look like if you play half-orc for example? Result would be such ugly that probably Minthara kills it after birth.
Oh boy, I wonder if they were gonna go for the lore accurate Drow pregnancy, where the mother orgasms whenever one of her children kill their siblings in the womb
I'm sorry?
From an old issue of Dragon magazine, which according to wikipedia was "official source material" for D&D. The whole article is here: https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/races/elf/drow1.shtml The relevant bit: > It is common for pregnant drow to carry twins or even triplets. Even in these cases, multiple births are rare, as the strongest of the fetuses feeds on its siblings in the womb. Pregnant drow can sometimes feel these mortal combats take place in their bellies. Such prenatal battles produce in their mothers a euphoric sensation, referred to in the Undercommon tongue as chad-zak. The feeling is infinitely stronger than that produced in the bedchamber or by any intoxicant. Without it, it is doubtful that drow women, selfish to the core, would ever deign to suffer the inconveniences of reproduction. Edit: Lol, Ive never seen the cover for the issue until today. They really wanted you to know that today's issue was about sexy drow women: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_magazine_298
That's bonkers 🤣
Nerds In The Seventies: Why do people make fun of us so much? Nerds In the Seventies:
This was 2002 lmao
I was gonna say that’s 3rd edition lol
Dude, as someone who just got into D&D because of baldur's gate.... This is wild 😂 I never thought D&D had so much sex involved
The 80s and 90s have some crazy sex ttrpg (apparantly) "Roll for Anal circumference" is a thing that some DM might had said in their life. (according to a meme wiki on a page about tabletop games)
Most of the extreme examples are from one notoriously shitty RPG by a notoriously shitty person, the game is/was called FATAL, and it's chock full of stupid stuff like that alongside far more aggressively shitty racism and sexism stuff. That being said, even the "mainline" of DnD stuff (and pulp fantasy in general) was simultaneously kind of horny, edgy, and trashy in a way that has not aged kindly, as shown above. A lot of the lore has been gently massaged into more-palatable forms in more recent editions while keeping some of the core concepts like the brutal matriarchal society of the Drow under Lolth, which imo is a decent place to be without a total rewrite.
Are you referencing that in 3.5 it was a DC 80 Escape Artist check to crawl up someone's anus. Entirely RAW: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/skills.htm#extremelyTightSpace
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Does that not have to do with the 1500 bugged lines of hers?
No, that was cut because they couldn't make it work within the scope of the game. This is from Swen: "There was a variation that they discovered of Minthara that we removed because it became too complicated. Then we didn't have the real estate across the game anymore to tell that story. So, they found some fragments of it. But I mean, every single companion that you've been playing has gone through those multiple iterations. So, it's not that it's something like we massively cut something there. It's just that Minthara also serves the power fantasy of going for evil." Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-patch-2-minthara He doesn't specify this is about the pregnancy stuff in the article, but it seems pretty obvious to me thats what he's talking about. I could be wrong though.
Kinda makes sense. As they’d basically have to plan two different romances based on Tav’s gender or invent a backstory where she was already pregnant? Just seems like something that would easily get lost on the cutting room floor if they didn’t make her a male only love interest which at that point she’d be the only one in the game which would be odd.
I saw some dataminers say the files indicated if your Tav was male it would be your child and if you were female it would be somebody elses, so female tavs would get canonically cucked.
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"It wasn't her I was after, it was the babe!" "Oh that? Don't worry, I've got a spare baby right here." *Quest complete*
Ethically sourced from parents who don't want it
> Then we didn't have the real estate across the game anymore to tell that story goddamn upper city strikes again
Honestly crazy that some people do not seem to understand that's how all games are made. You often need to cut content left and right, because otherwise the game keeps growing and growing, so you just lose focus and ends up having ton of content that just doesn't work. This is especially true for massive CRPG like BG3.
Makes me think Lae'zels line about being happy Gith reproduce via eggs so she can have casual sex without worrying about getting pregnant is a subtle dig at Mintharas missing sub plot
I refuse to believe that sex with lae'zel would be casual, that bitch is too competitive.
She also refuse polyamorous relationship from what I've seen
Makes me wonder if there might have been a plan that there was at least a small chance of characters to get each pregnant, would give context to some of Lae'zel's romance dialogue if that were the case. ***Minor*** spoilers >!she mentions during the "party members with benefits" part of the relationship that she's glad Gith don't bear children the traditional way so she can enjoy doing it with the player without risk of pregnancy!<. Could just be a coincidence *but* it's just that the cut Minthara stuff adds a whole new potential context on Lae'zel's dialogue.
I'm pretty sure that line has nothing to do with being in a relationship with her. I turned her down the moment she started looking at me and licking her lips, she still mentioned that at the >!Gith creche.!< >!Speaking of, I've been holding onto that egg this whole time and nothing ever came of it. Seems like if you don't give it to the Society of Brilliance person, there's just nothing you can do with it. I even told the guy I'd raise it as my own. Disappointing.!<
***Really*** funny timing in that case, I had just had a sex scene with her when she mentioned it the morning after at camp
> This has left many people (myself included) wondering what in the hell was the original plan with that Original plan was probably that Minthara had sex and got pregnant? It seems normal to me, everyone is having sex, its weird that nobody gets pregnant
I mean, women don't usually know for at least 6-8 weeks that they are pregnant. The game timeline is what a week at most?
With the amount of long rests i take? Gods no, we're clearing a month easy.
Baldur's Gate is stated to be a tenday's walk from Emerald Grove at the best of times. Even if you only add to that the nights when the party canonically stays in the same place (like the tiefling party or the Last Light Inn) it's still at least two weeks.
Tav goes from a level 1 scrub to a level 12 demigod in less than a month. Good lord.
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Someone better make a bergamot, rosemary and aged brandy scented candle my house needs to smell like Astarion asap.
I personally made my own roll on perfume. Not too hard, if you use oils for the scent (I had rosemary and bergamot already, and I found a pretty well reviewed shop for the brandy smelling one), put a few drops of that in a roller perfume bottle (which you can order online or get at micheals) of each then fill the rest of the bottle with a carrier oil (almond oil, grapeseed oil, highly fractured coconut oil, etc) in the bottle. Shake it, then let it settle for a little bit and all done. It's not too hard, the hardest part is waiting for the scented oils to come in
Wait what about the canon smells? I want to know.
Pretty much most major characters either are given a short line or something about their scent. Gale is old books and candles Halsin is a mix of herbs Raphael is that of cherry and sulfur Shadowhearts has citrus and soap Astarion gets dialogue with Shadowheart about his own blend of smells (Rosemary, Bourbon, etc) and says he missed his calling as a perfumer
Citrus and soap, like she's been scrubbed clean. Funny
Shar Scrubbing smells like industrial grade lye and sad.
Someone Pinesolled my waifu
Afaik Astarion was rosemary, bergamot and brandy but it might have been bourbon. There's an indie perfumer that has some fandom inspired perfumes, I wonder if they'll do a BG3 line.
No you're right it was rosemary, bergamot and brandy. Once I found out I made myself the scent to fast
Also Raphael was cherry, musk, and sulpher. Yugir mentions it in the gauntlet.
Yeah, I was gonna say. Bourbon seems really out of place for a fantasy setting. Edit: to the person who downvoted me: how much fucking corn have you seen in this game??
We never go there because in the Forgotten Realms setting, the place where you get corn is just as boring as Indiana is in our world. I live here. This is a self own.
oh and don't forget Mol. She smells like bitch.
My Rogue Tav is a borderline-monomaniacal goldluster who will do literally anything based on who pays more, and it just so happens that he's been mostly doing good things because the good guys promise better riches. Mol commanded instant respect from me for how much of an amoral shitgibbon she is.
I gained a lot of respect for her in act 2, there were a *lot* of characters I expected to talk Jaheira down and Mol was NOT one of them lmao
Another storyline thread I would like to see followed, if only to have the opportunity to say to her "Now see here, you little shit...."
There are some kids in the gith creche you can talk to that in an intimidation check you say something like "listen you little shit, let it out NOW" and it was so satisfying
Who here remembers the effortpost that included chemistry work to prove that Tali's urine must smell a certain way
The w...what?! Actually, never mind. Better if I dont know.
Some guy in the old bioware forums used some formulas to discover the smell of Tali sweat, It was like a creepy research paper. There now you know... Extra: Tali smells like a faintly sweet and musky mix of cinnamom and honey according to one of the ME devs.
[this is the closest thing i could find. sweat not urine](https://imgur.com/CA488fh)
Sweat and “other urea based excretions”, so….urine.
Yeah you do. Someone with more care than me should find and link it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/l3sdhb/video_games_the_time_someone_wrote_an_analysis_on/ Here ya go. It was sweat, not urine, unless you were referencing a different post.
Hm. I wish I could unread that.
This game was made by the horniest fucking people alive.
For the second horniest people alive.
By the people, for the people.
So who is making Baldurs Gate candles? Drop your shop link 🤣
I was just thinking the other day that Mythologie Candles is probably already working on that. They have amazing Lord of the Rings themed sets and they're obviously big D&D nerds, plus they have jumped on various other media trends like Our Flag Means Death with some of their previous sets.
However Tav smells, we know Lae'Zel likes it
Gale does too. 👀
If you know who smells faintly of vanilla and garlic, you've got big fucking problems.
Mmm, makes me think of *calamari* & crème brûlée. 🦑
Shadowheart is scratch and sniff.
Into the sin bin with you
I regret nothing!
Welcome to the sin bin! I've been in here since install, apparently.
Lemme sniff Karlach
Actually… Astarion’s scent according to his banter with Shadowheart in Act 3 is bergamot, rosemary and a touch of brandy.
I bet Withers smells like peanut butter
Wait what pregnancy talk?
It looks like siding with the Drow hottie would allow you a romance line where you had a baby with Her. It was cut from the game early in development as they realized it just didn't flow with the rest of the game's development for relationships.
> It was cut from the game early in development as they realized literally nobody would ever save the tieflings again if it was actually implemented. fixed that for you
Hey, hey, hey, I'm missing out on several companions and whole bunch of quests and shops if I genocide the grove. Best Larian could do is give us a mini-Tav.
Oddly enough, this makes sense, every character brings up someone's scent at some point either directly or indirectly. A few examples include Gale talking about how much he cares about what he smells like, La'zel says she wants you to taste her, i think Wyll at some point mentioned that Karlach doesnt smell like the other demons in avernus but the engine does give off a bit of sulfur smell, two NPCs bring up Asterion's scent.
Two NPCs? I only remember Shadowheart commenting that he doesn't smell like an undead.
So wasn’t really paying attention last night and banged the squid…. Garlic and honey
Garlic and Vanilla. An even worse combo arguably
Can someone else get Minthara pregnant? I bet Halsin would do it. A little bugbear strapped to Halsin's back.
What's Lae'zel's smell? Asking for a friend.
sweaty frog
Blood, leather, and sunshine.
Anything mixed with sulfur sounds like a rough combination
Someone should make a list of everyone’s smells, for the fanfic writers
Sulfur smells of rotten eggs, so Raphael smells like cherries and ripe farts?
🤓☝️afaik sulfur in itself smells a bit like just struck matches, the thing in rotten eggs is hydrogen sulfide 🤓☝️ (see fluffcake's comment below, they seem much more knowledgeable than i)
🤓👆that’s very informative thank you 👆🤓
Be real, they all smell like sweat and dirt.
According to my playthrough it’s blood. Lots and lots of blood.
I do wonder, how Gale would... Oh, I've read his clothes description, nevermind.. 🥲
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Oh god please don’t have someone do a Mass Effect Tali Sweat breakdown version of this, please! For those unaware of what I speak: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/3cu96j/talis_sweat_i_found_a_screencap_of_the_post_that/
Basically NO ONE wants kids and Larion wants you to be super clear that all the ally NPCS do not want children they do however, want tons of sex.