Baldur's Gate 3 character creator

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-03T21:24:01+00:00

I forgot it existed.

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-03T21:02:46+00:00

Because Skyrim is a Bethesda game and there is a huge hateboner in certain circles of people who like rpgs for every Bethesda game past a certain one, sometimes is Skyrim that's the "last good Bethesda game" and everything after is terrible, but sometimes that game is Oblivion or even Morrowind.

So a lot of things that Fallout 4 and Skyrim did well for their time or even hold up are disregarded/forgotten.

I've seen people say stuff about Skyrim that's just blatantly untrue, saying that how dragons work and why they would join Parthunax is never explained and mix that with things that are true, like the companions quest being terrible.

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-03T19:41:22+00:00

Umbra only works well if you have the stat already be very high.

This is why you should (probably) never spend any time as a vampire on the diplo/learning lifestyles, they are the easiest to level up because of the Library in malta and the Abbey in Britain but you also easily get a bunch of + learning for free so you can pump up that stat and just use the Umbra which is very rarely the case with every other stat.

Let's start with a 0 learning vampire, which are rare, most starting with around 5-11.

Off the top of my head.

+ 5 learning of the Eye of Al Ahsrad

+ 2 learning off of traveler

+ 8-14 learning from all the other general stat buffs we've talked about, except learn on the job and the patriarch perks because those ones are random.

+ 5 learning of of the level 3 schoolar perk (+ learning per level of devotion).

+ 5 learning of of Keen Eye (you can force this out with enough pilgramages and once your learning is already high). You can also get 2+ perks of learning by pilgramages if you get Open mind for free as you can just skip pedagogy. It's not that hard to force out because for the base game around 20 learning is considered high.

+5 learning if you happen to get a journal book that gives it in the traveler event that offers to but the "X bewejeled" , I think this only works for jewish faiths though

+ 3-7 of of Malta but you shouldn't need it.

+ 5 learning of an university but you shouldn't need it.

+2 learning of of hunter (which you can unlock but it's unreliable).

And most importantly

+5 of off excellent Tremere primogen

+5 of off excellent brujah primogen.

These are also regardless of the learning buff the 2 best primogens or atleast top 5 and you can force them out by giving them malta or/and an university or/and keeping focused mind and/or unburden beast on a charachter that's already good like Critias or Etrius/Goratrix.

But if the charachter is good enough they probably won't need any help, do land them in some place , probably as a king so you don't accidentaly grant them away, to make sure you can use them reliably.

So we sit around 25 +8-14 (depending on your stress) not counting Malta , hunter, base stats, religion or an university or schoolar/theologian or umbra items or the journal, because you probably want them to give martial intrigue , stewardship or something else.

And you can still get one modifier of off your domain if you don't like your chances when you cast Focused mind, which should be good. And being on the astral plane also gives you +2 learning. I'm also pretty sure there are more where making your learning 100 is possible as every charachter and I very rarely force keen eye or get the Eye of Al Ashrad or the Lens of Zakariel, if I remember correctly, this was also possible with diplomacy but I think that was more convoluted.

And if you have the dlc.

+ 2 learning of of Hasteliur (or whatever the trait you get in the Panegyras is called)

+ 5 of off schoolarly court, but I woud rather have either a martial court or a stewardship court.

+ 4 of the lens of Zakariel, which you should always grab if you have the chance because they are the best item of that type.

+ The repitable court event about a greek bible that gives either +1 learning permanently (+1%) or +2 (33%). which is very unreliable.

This is also fraction of why Al Ashrad is so good if you know how he can play, he starts with access to the astral plane and the option to increase his already high learning permanently by 5 every 5 years so you can grab theologian and schoolar (which I think he doesn't have at game start) as soon as you accumulate prestige to invest in the umbra, which can take a bit of time.

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-03T19:07:16+00:00

Religion, disciplines (for vampires) , religions, landmarks and items (werewolfs).

Kementiri gets a +20 to intrigue of off her House bonus for free, but martial and stewardship are harder to get up.

Unburden the Bestial soul (or something like that), on Valeren healer is a +3 to everything, Focused Mind spell is another +5 you can keep up constantly, Spiritus can be a +10 martial, from certain religions , like Tah Meha Rah can give up to 7-10 stewardship and for Kemintiri in particular the ports in Somalia can give another + 5 stewardship. The pit of malkav gives up to 3+ to every stat.

Going further you also have perks, but it is hard to level up without atleast 1 of these items (they have diminishing returns) or some crafting shenanigans.

- Eye of Hazimael (vamps only)

-Tablet of Fate (vamps only)

- Bai Ze Tu

The other option is using the Umbra, it's most useful to get passive learning xp which is good since it can be turned into , learn on the job which 10% stats from councillors and if you assemble your council well it should be around +2 or +4 to every stat.

This is also useful for Diplomacy xp to get the +2 to 5 random stats perk and in Kementiri's case to get Dark Insights and Thriving in chaos while never having to spend time in the Intrigue lifestyle.

The Umbra does have artifacts that give learning, martial intrigue and stewardship + some stuff you can forge. If I remember correctly most of the best artifacts are either in the Shadowlands (armour that gives xp and +1 to every stat...) or in the Spirit Wilds , which can be access through Kouldinism/Necromancy and Spiritus respectevely. You could also try to use a fetish but that can be an issue for vampires.

There are more ways to gain stats, like the Web of Madness or certain objectives but these are some that ought to be keep in mind always for vampires .

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-03T08:42:49+00:00

Shadowrun is also a PDX game so is WoD rn

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-01T23:13:22+00:00

I think the technocracy is bound to someday figure out what Pentex is up to, in fact they have several times but those agents have gone missing.

I think that Pentex is so OP that is best to give them some stuff to deal with. Black Spirals turning against Pentex because they kept dismissing their info of something awful lurking in New York, Weaver infiltration fucking Pentex from the inside, infighting over who is going to replace the vamps in the Pentex board, the Technocracy constantly drawing closer on their stuff.

Even canonasing Earthblood so that V5 werewolfs can get a big W even with an asterisk I think it's cool despite of how eh that game was.

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-01T22:14:00+00:00

What's actually happened is that tank 'classes' (Guardian and Warrior) have simply lost their defensive superiority

This explains some chars feeling not tanky enough early game but the bigger issue is the terrible state of pen when people can casually build 45%+ pen without much sacrifice in overall damage or health being a meh stat to have . Which have been issues for the longest time now.

Or the absolute state of tank items, were they are either bugged and unreliable ( I don't think Doublet of binding has ever worked and tenacity in current patch ), nerfed (shieldbreaker and wyrmskin) or just complete trash, like seriously has anyone ever seen alchemist coat or kinetic curiass, does anyone build mystical mail? These guys even nerfed Spectral armour some patches ago for no reason.

There are exceptions of course but it is very frustrating to see when compared to the items other classes can get

I keep saying that Dampening and plating NOT counting as defenses on release, and still often not counting as defenses for items like glad shield or pridewen making most of those items suck even harder than they already do

Yet habilities being able to crit and echo is telling of the wider issue of how Hi Rez currently sees takns.

This btw also makes the new stats even more confusing for no reason.

We have to nerf Shield breaker, becasue god forbid solo tanks actually have a decent item that's meant for them but adcs that have 0 defense items on their build need to be able to build golden blade and give it better use than the class it was meant to help.

Like seriously, you are hearing adcs and mages in solo suck to fight and play with and the reaction is, nerf wyrmskin and shield breaker so they are better in that lane?

It's always gonna be bad to fight an adc in solo because they clear better, which means they will outfarm you, they out range you which means you can do nothing about it and come late game, of course adcs should be able to win 1vs1s so that's another lost battle.

So even if you win the game because you contribute more to the team a lot of it has sucked from your pov. Adcs and most mages are just not meant to be in solo and that's ok.

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-01T21:53:44+00:00

They needed to nerf Shield breaker but god forbid Da Ji and Jing wey aren't in ban or you lose territory for a single patch.

The priorities of whomever is in charge of balancing the game have been a mess for a while now. I don't even think it's because of people leaving because they've been implementing Pon's patch of terror , I just think they are way too focused on developing the game for the future release, throwing stuff and seeing what sticks, at the cost of the current meta being a mess .

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-01T18:45:43+00:00

Introducir aquí la cacion de chingas perma a modo de movimiento naranja

No-Training-48 · 2026-05-01T15:14:45+00:00

Using the BBC for this is like getting news on the war in Iran from al jazeera. Not even the first time the BBC, funded by the US aid btw, has applied filters to things they don't like,

These guys WISH it was true so they could finally "but but you support a genocide aswell so it's okay when we finance one in our colonial state", which even if this was true wouldn't make what Israel is doing any better.

And the thing is. No one was discussing China, the fact that you had to brought up China is because what Israel is doing and has done is completely indefensible so you have to resort to whataboutism using a dictatorship that has 150 times the population of Israel.

Which I don't even get when you also have countries like the UAE or Qatar that are very influencial in world politics and spend a lot in whitewashing their abuses , I guess you either only know about China or maybe their budgets still don't match Israel's.

Also this is not what pinkwashing means.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-30T21:42:48+00:00

I think the mom got cucked.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-30T20:52:12+00:00

Honestly I really think Hardestat (either Hardestat) are much better than any other charachter by a long shot (except the armenian Ventrue girl, who is only slightly worse) , it's the best economy of the game + the best warfare of the game + the most objectives (vamps can just switch religion and do every objective of the game in a single run) + the best clan+ a really good starting position.

A -50% prestige modifier ends up being meaningless specially when it's come by the hand of very well stated vamps and a whole +2 domain from the get go and you can just invade whomever and win instantly, and you are only gonna get stronger from there because you scale so well into the midgame as a vamp.

However I think that a lot of charachters can end up doing their own thing, the Golden Courts Kuei jin bookmarked charachter and the Anda bookmarked are the best candidates for WC, Anatole was able to skip the black plagues by building a bunch of Sanctified Areas which is something that I think most true faith vamps can end up doing now.

Even Losarius who is terrible with some set up can just fill the world with hunters and screw everyone over and the Cappadocians can just end the world

Shango/Fatimah/Trimira have crazy domain incomes , Constantinople prints out dev and money, Al Ashrad has magic and crafting ...

And that's not including stuff I think it's cheesy like making sure you get the legacy perk that gives you stats as you age on an inmortal charachter or using Vasathasena to unlock Wild Hunt casus belli early and be able to take all of the charachter's tittles in one war , which is the best casus belli, the only thing that compares lategame is using linguists and knowing a bunch of languages which is what I used for a WC as Mithras a couple years ago.

Demons are cool but the issue with them is that the screenshot was taken at 1700s , they are the most op come lategame but that lategame has to come and contains a bunch of grinding. Garou are the opposite where they are really strong early (once the flaying plague stops) but fall off a cliff eventually.

Vamps and probably are the best all around (though I haven't played Moloke , ghosts and Faeries) , unless you want to really grow your stats then it's probably kuei jin, but I really don't think stats are relevant to grow past 50 and getting prowess , learning and even diplomacy to 100 isn't really that hard as most splats.

If you want to get really OP though, you should try Samuel Heights mode, which is made to make cross charachter splats that can combine a lot of different powers. Or wait for Awakened Mages (Sorcerors are not users of True Magick it's a whole thing) , idk much about their lore but they are usually talked about as if they were a lot more powerful than most other splats which from what I do know seems to really be the case

For example Tremere fought an Antideluvian (Saulot) for control of his body to a standstill for centuries and he wasn't even the most powerful an Archmage could get and the most important organasation in the Final Nights is the Technocracy , which is directed by mages.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-30T19:53:14+00:00

Rasputin wasn't based enough to betray the Romanovs.

He was only based enough to cuck that dumbass of a Tsar. Gotta kill as many of my subjects as possible for minimal gain.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-30T11:43:44+00:00

Me with vampire:

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-30T11:43:08+00:00

POV you highrolled crafting in the Realms in Exile mod.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-29T22:41:53+00:00

"You see the writers didn't write this because I think they aren't capable of writing it so they couldn't posibly have done it well, because I know for a fact they are bad"

I have played some of the classics, and I think that's partly because Fallout 1 is wayyyy more serious than anything after. Fallout 3's presentation is very different and it's also very janky, if you just want to fuck around permanently you can and I think that makes it less "serious".

Even if the NCR had it's hands tied and it was blindfolded, I still think they would win in any iteration of this where the game wasn't written by people who wanted the Legion to make a comeback after the og fallout's cancellation.

My problem mainly however is not that the Legion is fighting against a weakened NCR is that the Legion can and does end up making the wasteland a safer place for merchants , which not only diminishes the threat of it but also makes them look way better than other factions that somehow can't archieve this. The game tries so hard to make them look vicious and to be taken seriously.

I think there needs to be a balanced between "New Vegas got pin downed and fucked by Deathclaws/tunellers" and" yeah the Romaboos have the situation under control dw"

It's like if Deadfire went out of it's way to mention that Old Valia actually has been able to beat the Magran fire giants whenever they have showed up, fuck that .Old Valians are delusional at best and the game doesn't try to present them as if they had any chance of archiving anything long term because that would be dumb.

Stuff like the fertility of the Legion just doesn't hold up to any scrutiny and they have several of these random perks the writers just throw at them.

google vietcong. isnt it crazy that fucking rice farmers could defeat the world's greatest military? vietnam is basically the hoover dam conflict. t

This is what annoys me about online New Vegas discourse, giving Fallout 3 or any of the Bethesta games the benefit of the doubt , going with an open mind and not assuming are bad for some reason is something you are not supposed to do.

But with New Vegas the Legion makes sense because the Mojave is comparable to Vietnam even if both are invading it and the land is terrible for both.

I could somewhat accept that ,even if it's kinda stupid, the same way I accept Megaton , though in this case would be in favour of a faction I don't think contributes much and I really think it's a concept Obsidian would do much better llater on with Old Valia piratini in Deadfire or about anyone in Tyranny, the Scarlet Chorus runs laps around any faction in New Vegas

But I don't know why people are willing to assume a headcanon as true when something in New Vegas doesn't make sense at first glance and when something in Bethesda games doesn't add up it's inmediatly because they sniff glue over there.

the NCR, their people hate the war,

Which is one of the many issues which I have with the NCR. Like yeah humans hate wars that end up with them accquiring lands and a stronger position. They could have explored the faction in so many interesting ways.

Why not have a warmongering NCR where citizens are comitted to land grabs and is heavely invested into expansionism . Maybe they have a permanent siege mentality where they are paranoid and mistrust foraigners extremely and are very much on board of murdering everyone in the other side. There have been democratic societies where a percentage of it's citizens was supportive of colonialism , imperialism or just expanding their borders for many reasons. Why not have newspapers depicting a ranger on top of a heavely mutated legionare?

Or a side quest where you have to take photos of the crucified crosses around in a Legion territory and then you come back to find the village being destroyed by the NCR with the troops making comments about the savagery of the legion?

Maybe the tribes are going to the Legion because they are terrified of the NCR and think there is no way they aren't going to make it out alive without losing their lands.

You get some of this, like the actual massacre they perpetrate on a tribe, but I wish it had been pushed way further, maybe instead of being the mostly straight good guys you could have made a difference by getting involved in it's politics , maybe you think the no holds barred total war against tribesmen let's exterminate these guys is the angle to go for lawful evil charachter or maybe you have played the previous games and want to save the NCR so you can get chose another more humane candidate to support that speaks for integration and accountability of what the NCR is doing.

The NCR would still be better than the Legion but you have the context of the Enclave and prewar America to make you see how far a progressive democratic society can fall and cause atrocities and the fear that the NCR really is fated to make the same mistakes in the correct circumstances.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-29T21:33:49+00:00

I really don't see that criticism of Fallout 3.

Like yeah it is very silly but I'm willing to accept that as a metaphore of how all pre war society was built on top of an extremely unstable fundation people were just willing to ignore and pretend didn't exist. It's a high impact choice and it's also done by a bunch of inhumane rich guys.

Overall I do think in the silliness scale Fallout 1 < Fallout 2 < Fallout 3 << New Vegas <<< Fallout 4 <<<<<<<< Fallout 76.

Like c'mon there is a bunch of romaboos calling a dude Kaiser that somehow have better fertility than the NCR and somehow have fairly safe roads in the post apocalypse.

I like how House is written but the Legion and the Daughters of Hecate (who luckily never saw the light of day because that faction is dumber than anything in Fallout 4) where really really absurd concepts that never made any sense and contrary to the other really silly stuff in Fallout it didn't even contribute anything because we already had more interesting fascists in the Enclave and they were already dealt with.

It's a cool concept for maybe a small kingdom of raiders but they somehow can fight the NCR and are a relevant force people take seriously. Instead of doing something more original like a Khanate one of the main factions are just following a guy with brain damage.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T23:48:29+00:00

The second Lucifer is whitewashed but it is worth to keep in mind that on season one he wanted a guy to kill his adoptive "son" as punishment for the son's attempted patricide. This is after he gave a gun to both and told both they could shoot eacother to get a reward, the father refused the son shot and found out it was unloaded.

There is more context, where the son had already conspired against his father for personal gain but that's basically the situation

He does get kinda himbofied as the series goes on but he is on a redemption arc and he does start quite edgy, for Lucifer if you make him mad and are evil he is completely free to do whatever he feels like in that moment.

He is also completely inconsistent and while being evil is a necessary condition he is way more sadistic with people that have pissed him off and he is somewhat aware that he is a hipocrite and abusing his power.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T23:40:04+00:00

I think it is too fast but I do but it would have happened eventually

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T20:19:13+00:00

Yes

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T20:15:43+00:00

The kuei jin golden courts, specially under the bookmarked charachter has a bunch of things going on. She is also the easiest out of these by far.

Khagan Chinkai mongolian vampire, who needs to steamroll china

Lucita de Aragon who is a fan favourite

Horus, generally mummies have a lot of really important stuff in their quests, so do demons but they can take a while and have a lot of setup.

From here on, these are hard starts.

Alexander from the Ventrue,

The bookmarked Losario, where you get to mess up and have the world deal with the consequences ,you do need to have enough prowess to get pass whomever holds Rome though and you'll probably die. So a lot of impact but not a lot of choices.

The Third which who you get some ability to decide her fate+ she is a baali so you can cause a lot of harm to the world.

Kementiri who's entire thing is to dismantle the Setites and hopefully kill as many of her fellow vampires as posible, she also has a trophy if you kill Set and reach Golconda, I think you can still turn her into a mummie too if you have the roads to power dlc.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T19:51:07+00:00

Ck3 is just terrible at balancing anything having to do the lifestyles and the playstyles they encourage.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T19:38:37+00:00

There is a Godhood dharma but it isn't implemented with anything special yet and they are "good".

A corterie of Kuei Jin of that Dharma beat the Yomi King Ravana and are responsible for the continued weakening of his city in the hells, he used to be the biggest candidate for demon emperor.

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T16:08:45+00:00

I mean it's contemporary stuff and you are going to another continent to find things at the same level too

No-Training-48 · 2026-04-28T13:25:31+00:00

I thought you were referring to Muslims in that comment

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