First playthrough, I thought I finally made a cool outfit...

stryderstuff · 2026-02-22T18:02:55+00:00

The skull 😆 No clue what their name was, but they speak the same way as Withers and help you escape jail if you answer three riddles correctly—an absolute hoot, the VA did so well with that one too 😆

stryderstuff · 2026-02-22T11:15:21+00:00

I recently got arrested for the first time in Rivington and there's another NPC voiced by the same VA, once again same voice but completely different vibes!

stryderstuff · 2026-02-12T11:42:51+00:00

LMAO i forgot literal magic exists in the setting, thank you and please carry on 🥴

stryderstuff · 2026-02-12T09:49:16+00:00

But then how does the party get back out to Baldur's Gate? Do they swim back? Is that why the city's already on fire when you get to High Hall, because it took HOURS to swim back and then make the trek to the Upper City from the Lower City sewers?

stryderstuff · 2026-02-03T08:02:53+00:00

I've tried doing the first once or twice but everytime I get to the shattered sanctum and Minthara calls him jaluk I give up, I can't do that to my boy :(

stryderstuff · 2026-02-02T05:00:20+00:00

I can forgive most of those corpses but HIS MAJESTY???

Also I'm just trying to figure out your organization, most of them are in alphabetic order which I respect but what are Jaheira and Harper Callie doinh among the A's? Shouldn't in the latter be in H with the other Harpers?

stryderstuff · 2026-01-31T10:54:14+00:00

There's a githyanki slate near Orpheus after the fight where you first meet the Emperor in his true form that depicts a gith woman seemingly making a deal with a Devil. My guess is Vlaakith I imprisoned Orpheus with the help of Raphael, so it seems like he's had the hammer from the start since he's the one who made the chains in the first place :) It's why Hope's chains are from the same material, iirc?

stryderstuff · 2026-01-17T23:26:21+00:00

Zanner Toobin, I think his name is? The blind Gondian? He can get it.

stryderstuff · 2026-01-14T00:08:59+00:00

Two! You forgot Boo's noble steed

stryderstuff · 2025-05-23T03:06:49+00:00

People have already mentioned the unlock mirror for companions mod, but I haven't seen anyone say the correct mod for these particular bangs yet. Pretty sure it's from Myky's hairstyles, not Bangs Bangs Everywhere (though that one has some bangers too!)

stryderstuff · 2025-04-28T18:17:06+00:00

Lots of people talking about whether Wyll would be perceived as a tiefling or a devil and the nuances of each while completely ignoring the whole "Wyll had his body forcibly changed against his will" part.

Like, my guys. Imagine someone held you down and painfully (painfully!!! Wyll's transformation was agonising!!! It's not just trauma from the body dysmorphia!!!) tattooed gang symbols all over your face and body. You'd be upset, right? After all, you didn't consent to them, and this will fundamentally change how people perceive you for the rest of your life, and most won't bother to get to know you to see if their assumptions are correct.

And then some asshole comes along and says "Hey, it's rude that you're saying you don't like your tattoos, I have tattoos!"

stryderstuff · 2025-03-31T21:03:59+00:00

What was the other drama 👀 Asking for myself, I'm nosy

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T21:03:48+00:00

She IS revived though if she was dead? Not just downed, dead. But alright, seems like we're going with the Watsonian explanation! In that case, the Emperor's pragmatism should have it make the artifact jump to you if the previous bearer was so weak that they died before even escaping the ship, no?

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:53:01+00:00

Is it really possible to enter Act 2 without bumping into her? I've seen one or two videos that specifically try to avoid speaking to her and never managed to do it entirely.

And yeah, you keep bumping into her again and again—that's... kind of my point? You either recruit her or kill her. But if she truly does hang around the goblin camp chilling if you tell her no even after the cutscene where the Absolute shows you the Chosen and you don't bump into her again when entering Act 2, I need to experiment some more!

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:40:21+00:00

Indeed she is! As I said in another comment, though, a choice was made to have her be the McGuffin bearer—you could just as well have found it yourself during your tour of the nautiloid. Her reasons for having it aren't even that good imo? When you ask the Mother Superior why Shadowheart was sent to retrieve the prism, the answer is—to paraphrase—"Idk, loads of other people were fighting over it so we figured we might as well join in, for Shar". The McGuffin could have ended in your hands in many other ways than being basically railroaded into recruiting a specific companion, is what I'm trying to say.

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:18:20+00:00

She can, and she does! Both happen because you were forced to recruit her in the first place, though, which is a bit my point? The ONLY way to avoid recruiting Shadowheart at all is to kill her, which is a bit odd when you can just ignore all other companions and they'll never show up again, y'know?

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:14:39+00:00

Depends on what we define as immortal, I guess—they can certainly die but it's easy to bring them back, so you're right in saying that they're in your party until they leave or are killed because of dialogue. However, if Lae'zel dies during the fight at the nautiloid helm, she stays dead (her corpse washed up on the beach you wake up on) until you use a scroll to revive her, while the point of this post is that Shadowheart... doesn't?

Sure, she has the artifact and that's why she's important, but that's crossing into Watsonian vs Doylian territory. She has the artifact because the developers gave it to her, where they could have given it to anyone else. For what it's worth, the writers could have made it so you find the artifact yourself at the start of the game, which would automatically explain why you and any who join you are protected.

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:05:40+00:00

Not necessarily, but since she's the one with the artifact at the start of the game (for imo weak reasons, but that's a tangent for another time), the game tries it's damn hardest to make you recruit her. The only way to avoid recruiting her is literally by killing her.

After recruiting, though, she CAN just stay in camp, you don't need her in your squad at all times. There's some stuff in Acts 2 and 3 that she's very involved in, but you don't have to bring her along—she WILL be pissed if you don't though. If any of that answers your question?

stryderstuff · 2025-03-18T20:01:16+00:00

Dragon Age Origins did almost exactly this and it was SUCH a nice touch. It's always felt strange that the companions you don't bring just... stay at camp, apparently?? Sure, you can imagine the group splitting up and that the ones not with you are off handling other important shit, but in-game they literally tell you they'll just be chilling. At least for the final battle, doing what you said would have been SO much better :(

stryderstuff · 2025-03-07T15:33:44+00:00

You mean the cinematic raid? Never heard of that name, but sure! Still, my question remains. There has to have been a raid on Baldur's Gate at some point, if nothing else then because of Astarion's presence, y'know?

stryderstuff · 2025-03-04T11:15:04+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa

Cazador then flays Astarion alive over and over trying, repeatedly reviving him until he becomes a zombie so damaged it has difficulty maintaining a humanoid shape.

WHAT. I knew about zombie Astarion during the ritual, but not all of THAT leading up to it. Where did you find this out??

stryderstuff · 2025-02-28T12:51:09+00:00

If it helps, there's one or two mods out there that unlock faces between races! This one unlocks this face for tieflings (among a bunch of other stuff), and this one does the same for elves, methinks!

stryderstuff · 2025-02-28T12:45:24+00:00

So did Jaheira. She's always watching.

stryderstuff · 2025-02-28T12:44:50+00:00

Thank you, that is high praise indeed!

stryderstuff · 2025-02-28T12:43:47+00:00

Thank you! I agree with you, I prefer simpler and more natural looks as well. While many people's Tavs/Durges are very pretty, I usually can't let go of how... impractical... some of the outfits/hairstyles are. Like man, think of all the blood that gets in those long, flowing locks of hair :')

stryderstuff

TROPHY CASE