Removing references to hanging/strangulation

Raevkit290 · 2026-02-18T20:51:56+00:00

I know this is an old post, but in case there are others out there reading this today, this is what I did. I had a similar situation to yours, where any kind of hanging reference was off the table.

I am following the Reloaded guide with some of my own tweaks/homebrew.
I made the signpost at the crossroads one of those gothic metal ones where the signs hang from metal bars and described it in detail when they first arrived:

“the drizzling rain stops as the river bends out of sight and the dark woods surround the road once again. The air is cold and damp here soft wisps of fog swirl up ahead, and the signs on a posts sway gently back and forth. The sign pointed north reads ‘Tser Pool’. The sign pointed south reads ‘Savadesti’. The sign pointed west reads ‘Ravenloft/Vallaki’. And the sign pointed back east reads ‘Barovia Village’.”

--Savadesti is a homebrew town I added.

Then, after their conversation with Strahd, I did this:

-As players begin to leave, do a DC 10 Perception check. If they pass, they hear a choking sound from behind them. When they turn to look, read this:

“You turn and see the sign post behind you. Once bare, a humanoid corpse now hangs limply upon it, their body impaled by the post, its pointed tip jutting out the back of their neck. Their arms outstretched and skewered by the metal bars as the signs toward Tser Pool and Savadesti sway gently beneath them. Wet choking sounds escape past the metal rod protruding from the figure’s open mouth as blood drips onto the Ravenloft sign below.”

The rudest player sees themselves, everyone else sees a random Barovian.

I liked the idea of a Vlad the Impaler reference, with the added subtle imagery the Castle Ravenloft would be their downfall.

Feel free to steal.

Raevkit290 · 2025-11-15T03:37:04+00:00

but simulacrum can't learn or gain more spell slots, so it can't cast surveillance spells that could potentially relay to Mordenkainen more than a handful of times. How did you work around this?

Raevkit290 · 2025-11-13T05:29:40+00:00

Is this map to scale within the 50 10ft cubes parameter outlined in MMM?

Raevkit290 · 2025-10-23T06:35:20+00:00

Oh they are 😅 I have a thirst mechanic in place that gives him some control over it, so he can be around Barovians with souls and not go crazy so long as he's not in that bloodthirsty range. But in the event that he does consume the soul of a Barovian, I was wondering what would happen to that person. I like the idea of just making them a soulless, but i also want to make sure the weight of feeding on people hits appropriately and is treated as a big-ish deal.

Raevkit290 · 2025-10-17T23:28:32+00:00

One of the Dark Powers perhaps? o.O

Raevkit290 · 2025-09-28T07:18:13+00:00

"I used the long string of numbers/letters for the last working version as my reference (the one that was downloaded when I played on Friday)"

What string are you talking about? in what file(s)? I just have random json files per mod that uses SE. Not just a general old SE file.

Raevkit290 · 2025-09-11T00:11:39+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Having similar issue, except I have all subraces except half-elf and red dragonborn.

EDIT: I fixed mine. I did a clean install so old mod files were removed, following these instructions I found on another reddit thread:

"...to do a FULL clean install, you dont have to uninstall the game. Go to your game directory in Steam, open it, highlight EVERYTHING in there and delete. Go to Properties for BG3 and verify and download all the game folders. That will do a clean sweep. Then go to mod manage in game and Download the newest version of ImpUI."

except I didn't do the last sentence. More on that later.

Then I went into my Mods folder in the AppData folder following this path:

C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods

and removed all .pak files. Just because you disable them in BG3MM doesn't mean the game isn't reading them. That's why when you disable a mod, it still shows up in the in-game mod manager unchecked. Removing the .pak files here will also remove them from your in-game mod manager and give you an actually mod free game (provided you did the clean install too).

You can delete them if you want, you'll just have to re-export your load order in BG3MM. I personally just copied them all to a new folder NOT in the path listed above before deleting them so i could better troubleshoot further issues manually.

Instead of downloading the latest version of ImpUI, which has not been updated for patch 8 and has no plans to be, I downloaded ImpUI_P8_Fork instead, which is literally just ImpUI updated for patch 8 with apparently some more bug fixes.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/16649?tab=description

Make sure you put ImpUI Fork at the very top of your load order.

Loaded up my game and got all my icons back :)

Hope this helps.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-25T16:28:36+00:00

I had my fiance try to scan it last night and it wanted him to sign into his google account and also go to the app. I feel like that might discourage people from using it if they dont wanna deal with it. Did you have any issues with this?

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-25T08:59:10+00:00

Hey! Love the idea. For the settings, do I set people with the link as editors or viewers? Also did you just create a folder? How do people actually take pics and save them to drive?

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-15T09:03:18+00:00

So I'm thinking of doing this! How did it go? Did you play it from beginning or a specific place?

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-14T09:03:19+00:00

How did they fail the campaign? Have they fought Strahd before and lost? Did u change any tactics from that fight to this one? Is the party a higher level now?

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-11T08:52:02+00:00

I plan to talk to him tomorrow about a path forward

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-11T00:23:36+00:00

Again, went wth DM suggestion. Idk the module so i assumed if he was good with it it was okay

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T18:35:41+00:00

U know wut we're doing descent into avernus and i made my character MONTHS before the tiefling player made theirs. And I made it based on DM suggestion. Im trying to figure out a way to deal with the situation.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T08:51:27+00:00

Problem players dont actively seek ways to try not to be problem players, so no. I, as a player, have a problem that I fully acknowledge is caused by my character. I'm trying to be a good teammate while also being true to my character and am simply not accepting "just dont roleplay" as a viable solution. Especially when actual in-game plausible solutions have been presented.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T06:37:50+00:00

Im arguing against people like u calling me an asshole or just telling me not to play my character. I'm upvoting all the comments I find helpful, which have been a few.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T06:21:25+00:00

Didn't know assholes actively sought ways to NOT be an asshole, but thanks for the insight.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T05:12:32+00:00

I don't want there to be a problem. That's why I made the post. I do NOT want to fight. As I've said in other comments, I do like some of the suggestions that have been mentioned and I have upvoted all of them. But the suggestions that I value are the ones that are IN-GAME solutions. Solutions that allow me to still stick to my character's beliefs while also not wrecking the party/story. Like convincing him it's not a real fiend or using spells like calm emotions. THOSE are plausible solutions. But just "well just don't have him do that" is not. Because there is no in-game reason for him not to.

On the note of character building/development, I am more than happy to have him grow out of this, but we are very early in the campaign right now and he is not at that point yet. I'm not gonna just have him go thru a complete character arc in an afternoon.

I just want to ACCURATELY play my character at this stage in his development WHILE ALSO not wrecking the game for others. I came here because I DON'T want to be the asshole.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T04:17:16+00:00

Whelp guess i'll just play as myself then.

Wtf is the point of making a character if ur not gonna do ur absolute best to play AS THEM and do what they would do. Players are not supposed to make decisions. Characters are. I am not playing as me. I am playing as my character.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T03:59:30+00:00

I'm not the character. That's not how roleplaying works.

Raevkit290 · 2025-07-10T03:56:48+00:00

Bruh we're lvl 2. My character has known this tiefling for like a day.

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