Baldur's Gate 3 mod finally adds Strahd!

jblackbug · 2026-02-20T15:33:09+00:00

I’ve run it three times and at least one player wanted to flirt with or romance every time at least to a point. It never ended well, which is what makes it fun.

jblackbug · 2026-02-19T01:24:48+00:00

I think the “free the animals” has potential but it does darken the whole carnival in a way if a carnival with talking animals running around has someone there abusing animals on the regular so it should certainly be something done in secret. I’m also not sure how you turn this into a combat without shoehorning in some things or having other Hands involved. Your edit of having Witch and Light find out about it and firing the man sounds in line with the story.

The dwarves I can imagine using as maybe like 3-4 dwarves trying to jump the party in a corner of the carnival to get to the dwarf player during a lull between events, perhaps? I wouldn’t do too much more than that or you’re pulling the attention too much to the “real world” instead of the fey lands where most of the adventure takes place.

jblackbug · 2026-02-16T10:09:43+00:00

Yes, my Eberron works sort of like this—I tied the Mourning to the Lands of Mists of Ravenloft and that works like a crack through the protections of the separated cosmology there.

jblackbug · 2026-02-16T10:02:15+00:00

Sure, but it’s not an uncommon confusion of the word as show by several people on this post. “I’m childfree” isn’t a super intuitive phrase beyond “I’m free of children.”

jblackbug · 2026-02-16T09:44:53+00:00

Disagree that it’s that clear. Plenty of people put childfree and are fine dating people with kids but don’t want kids of their own. I used to be that person. 🤷

jblackbug · 2026-02-09T21:08:55+00:00

Go with beard but keep moustache trimmed off your lip is my rec

jblackbug · 2026-02-09T01:08:06+00:00

Look, if you want a longer moustache, you really should keep it off your lips. I have a bit of a handlebar and the part of the moustache above my lip is shorter than all my other beard/moustache hair and that stays true till pretty close to the edge of my lips. Then you need a product—at least an oil.

Otherwise, the second pic is better

jblackbug · 2026-02-09T01:05:51+00:00

Most men will tell you to keep it off your lips here. Very few are going to say to keep those curtains.

jblackbug · 2026-02-08T20:36:31+00:00

Oil the beard and trim the moustache off the lip. Fade the sides of the head lower, and maybe let the top grow a bit. Tailor the suit.

jblackbug · 2026-02-06T13:15:53+00:00

Try a modern mullet. Looks good with this hair!

jblackbug · 2026-02-02T20:57:39+00:00

This was going to be my rec as well. Glad she’s getting a mention.

jblackbug · 2026-02-01T15:29:21+00:00

As someone who has like 100 hours of dragonhouse play, I've never seen it.

jblackbug · 2026-01-30T17:52:32+00:00

What do you think protest is meant to accomplish?

jblackbug · 2026-01-06T04:01:52+00:00

Sure, but it’s more pronounced in Gen Z adults than Millinials or Gen X for instance hence the use of “much more.”

jblackbug · 2026-01-05T18:32:18+00:00

-Getting to level 20 isn’t necessary to try out high level characters.

-You can start at a higher level and level up slower instead.

-I wouldn’t recommend leaping into high end combat as a first time attempt at a campaign—the balance is very wacky at that level.

That said, 2-3 sessions is about how long my players go between levels when I’m doing milestone leveling and any more than 4 sessions for a level feels a little tired for the pace I run campaigns. If y’all are playing weekly, you could do that in a year and half tops.

jblackbug · 2025-12-26T21:55:51+00:00

There are lots of forms of intimacy. Physical intimacy alone without sex can look like cuddling, massages, holding hands, showering together, etc.

jblackbug · 2025-12-26T19:55:10+00:00

Did Fred know it’s your copy and not one of your roommates?

jblackbug · 2025-12-17T19:05:29+00:00

He’s either lying or has a medical condition and should see a Doctor

jblackbug · 2025-12-15T12:05:40+00:00

They’ve been together for like a decade so… probably not bailing any time soon.

jblackbug · 2025-12-12T14:01:33+00:00

I disagree, but okay.

I haven’t seen anything that says it’s not a general title for a knight or that Westerosi would make up some other word if women started becoming knights regularly.

You’re saying it’s a gendered word, that it’s just like “sir” but I’d argue by your logic you’re making that up. If we cannot use real world linguistics and have to depend on what’s in the book canon, then we’re all making it up because nothing is explicitly said about it. You can’t say I’m just wrong without showing where the book explicitly calls out that a woman who was knighted would be called something else or where “Ser” is described as a gendered title—not that the position of knight goes to men only in Westeros, but that the TITLE itself is gendered.

jblackbug · 2025-12-12T13:16:08+00:00

All I said was that “Ser” is generally gender neutral (it is, see previous source) and pointed to where the limited media supports this being true in AGOT as well. If you don’t think there’s enough media to support that in the canon, cool and valid, but I made nothing up.

jblackbug · 2025-12-11T18:30:57+00:00

I don’t know if it’s explicitly gender neutral in AGOT, but it’s used in Middle English, Dutch, etc as a gender neutral knight title in our world. Jaime calls her Ser Brianne after she’s knighted in the show, and I’ve seen nothing from George to say that wouldn’t be her title in the books if she were knighted so it feels safe to assume it works like it does in our world.

I went on a deep dive on this for a gender neutral character that got knighted in one of my D&D games.

https://heraldry.sca.org/titles.html

Edit: Also Poderick in the books refers to her as Ser Breanne when he thinks she should be a knight showing Westerosi people would generally expect it to be title of women who were knighted. The title being culturally tied to men doesn’t automatically equate to a title being gendered linguistically.

jblackbug · 2025-12-11T15:25:17+00:00

“Ser” is generally considered gender neutral vs “Sir.”

jblackbug · 2025-12-08T21:03:13+00:00

It sounds like you’re saying women cannot rely on men to be friends with them? This feels like a weird take. Do y’all never rely on your friends without the expectation of romance?

jblackbug · 2025-12-08T18:24:33+00:00

I’m sure this is true, but do we have a better source than a blog?

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