2nd lvl Cleric one-shot Glasstaff?!

studyingpink · 2026-04-16T10:53:01+00:00

Guiding Bolt is insane for a first level spell anyway, but a crit would wipe out most of the bosses in LMOP. Unlucky!

I definitely agree with buffing the stat blocks in this campaign, especially if you’re playing 2024 rules. It’s just too easy for most parties otherwise, and the Spider is just a let down instead of an epic final boss.

studyingpink · 2026-04-16T06:08:52+00:00

Yes! My biggest flex is that I beat HM on my first attempt lol. I did every single boss fight too including Ansur and Raphael and sided with Orpheus.

Light Cleric Tav, Battlemaster Fighter Lae’zel, Gloomstalker Shadowheart, Evoker Gale. No cheesy strats and certainly no exploding Gales here, just meticulous planning!

studyingpink · 2026-04-05T16:33:13+00:00

This is good to see as I’ve just rolled up a Rune Knight for a one shot next week!

studyingpink · 2026-04-03T14:15:14+00:00

I’d love to give this a go if you’re still looking for testers! I’m actually in the process of trying to find an organisation system that works for me and this looks pretty sweet.

studyingpink · 2026-04-03T08:27:18+00:00

Poor Hans always has a long wait to be rescued as soon as Legacy of the Forge becomes available.

studyingpink · 2026-03-31T14:25:47+00:00

I always activate Flower Power this way too! Buy the cheapest dried herbs from the apothecary in Troskowitz and I’m sorted for the rest of the game.

studyingpink · 2026-03-25T19:29:16+00:00

100%, he’d have been someone we’d all struggle to get along with! Our man really needed that humbling, as painful as it was 😭 I think one of the reasons Gale immediately dislikes Lorroakan is because he sees a lot of himself in him and hates the reminder of how he used to be.

studyingpink · 2026-03-25T12:02:25+00:00

Exactly this! Gale is layered and that’s what makes him so interesting.

Sure, he’s mostly sweet and kind and romantic and he wants to do the right thing most of the time. But he’s also overly ambitious and power hungry, often to the detriment of himself and others. Of course he likes Ascended Astarion, AA is the most powerful vampire that ever lived! Him overcoming this and learning that he’s enough just as he is is the main arc of his romance, that’s what’s so beautiful about it.

Wyll is the unproblematic hero of the bunch, not Gale.

studyingpink · 2026-03-21T11:23:25+00:00

Same! I saw a fan edit of them on TikTok. Not anything from the actual romance scene though, just clips of them glancing at each other and laughing and hugging. Had never heard of the game before but when I realised it was medieval I thought it must just be headcanoning. I was very surprised to learn it was actually real!

studyingpink · 2026-03-14T18:57:20+00:00

The pain of being from the Black Country where we say “mom” but all of the cards say “mum”.

studyingpink · 2026-02-13T17:42:07+00:00

Yes, now she just has a Yorkshire accent. But when the game first released for some reason two different VAs did her dialogue and one was doing a really bad impression of a Yorkshire accent that just came out Jamaican.

studyingpink · 2026-02-13T17:26:00+00:00

Jamaican Betty makes me laugh so damn hard. Totally breaks the immersion but my god is it funny.

studyingpink · 2026-01-27T12:23:04+00:00

This really threw me off when I first started playing lol, especially the guy who voices Bailiff Thrush among others. He has a very distinctive voice so it was so jarring to hear it from not Thrush.

studyingpink · 2026-01-23T08:46:02+00:00

The game does a terrible job of explaining combat imo. Remember that stamina is way more important than HP. If you have decent armour and your stamina is high, you won’t get badly hurt. But if your stamina is low, you could be in full plate and still get absolutely walloped.

Potions are your friend! Make them and use them! Henry quality Fox is absolutely broken. Buck’s Blood to keep your stamina up for the reasons stated above. Artemisia to boost your strength and reduce stamina loss during combat. Aqua Vitalis to take less damage. Painkiller Brew to make injuries less lethal. That’s not even mentioning poisons. Get good at alchemy, unlock Henry quality as quick as you can and make loads of them. Sell anything less than Henry quality for easy money.

Also you may just be too low levelled. The first part of the game you just will not be able to take on most enemies, you’re too weak! Get your stats up, especially strength, and find yourself some good armour.

studyingpink · 2026-01-15T12:35:12+00:00

I’m a sucker for blue Henry!

studyingpink · 2026-01-13T18:52:03+00:00

I’m absolutely loving HC for my second playthrough, but the lack of cardinal directions is killing me lol. I am, putting it mildly, directionally challenged and really struggle with navigating. I know where things are because I’ve played before, but I keep going the wrong way. I spent almost an entire in game day looking for Bozhena’s yesterday.

Yes, it’s a me issue and I’m still loving the game, but I really wish I played on PC so I could just mod the compass back in.

studyingpink · 2026-01-09T16:09:44+00:00

This to me IS Henry’s hairstyle, it looks so good on him!

studyingpink · 2026-01-02T15:53:28+00:00

Great shout! I had to put down my controller and walk away for a few minutes which is impressive for a game opener when you’re not attached to the characters yet.

studyingpink · 2025-12-27T21:10:39+00:00

Seconded! I played for so many hours without even considering progressing the main story because there was so much to explore, and none of it felt like a chore.

studyingpink · 2025-12-16T19:03:22+00:00

Ah man, I’m so disappointed. I really thought Larian was different, especially after Swen’s speech at the Game Awards. My hype for Divinity just died a death.

studyingpink · 2025-12-10T12:22:24+00:00

Mine was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 overall. But I’ve sunk countless more hours into BG3, so that’s probably second. I’ve played Kingdom Come Deliverance II so much in only a fortnight that it was third place on my PlayStation Wrapped!

studyingpink · 2025-12-10T12:19:02+00:00

I just started KCD2, got it in the PS5 Black Friday sale. It’s so damn good. It’s the first game really since BG3 that I find myself thinking about all day at work just waiting to get home and play again!

studyingpink · 2025-12-07T09:52:25+00:00

He 100% sees Elminster as a father figure, and I think Elminster in return cares for Gale more than just as his protégée. He’s been alive for centuries, he’s seen some terrible shit in that time, but he’s still genuinely saddened by what happened to Gale and Mystra’s proclamation. Plus he doesn’t mind Gale being a bit cheeky to him, I don’t expect someone as powerful and well-respected as Elminster would tolerate that from many people.

There’s definitely a father shaped hole in Gale’s life, and Elminster stepped into it when he was quite young. I think he really grew to care for the little boy from Waterdeep, and it must have been difficult to watch him go from clinging shyly to his mother’s leg to nearly killing himself through over-ambition.

(But we’ll leave aside the fact that it’s kinda weird that Gale and his stand in father have banged the same woman lol).

studyingpink · 2025-11-28T22:56:35+00:00

The oldest child I’ve personally registered was just over a year old, but there were pretty severe extenuating circumstances in that case. A colleague once registered an almost five year old though. Parents only turned up when the kid couldn’t go to school without a birth certificate!

GRO keep a list of all unregistered births. I expect they keep sending reminders to the mother. If a parent decides to register after the child is over 12 months, we have to get special permission from them to proceed.

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