Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

I've not had a chance to play in almost a week but it's been lurking in the back of my mind the whole time. 
On more than one occasion, I laughed out loud. 

This was one was scripted:


Other times, it was just something random or unexpected that happened in a fight or in the world. 
There's some event worthy of retelling almost every play session. 

The last time I played, I accidentally got in a fight. 
Then I reloaded, prepared, got in position. 
Things went tits up again. 
Then I did all preparation and positioning again (and saved!). 
I think it didn't pan out as planned, so I reloaded again. 

3rd time I'm attempting this somewhat tough battle, I happen to cast crown of madness with a 30% chance but it sticks. 
The enemy run over to an ally and attacks them. 
But then they run up to the most powerful enemy in the bunch, shoved them right into an abyss.

It felt like watching an unexpected but welcome fumble and turnover in an NFl game or something. =)

I am approaching the adamantine forge. I think.

Yeah, I've suddenly realised it's half eleven when the last time I looked it was quarter to ten.

You can sneak around a lot. Climb a ladder or two and see if you can snipe away at a few folk to even up the numbers.
And save just before you try anything bold!

Just call me Arrowbutt.

But one day, I'm gonna be powerful. Then they'll see.

I'd sack them off: playing on normal difficulty and there have been enough healing potions, and unlike some of the spells you can actually use them in combat! Throw them at your friends and they'll heal in the splash damage.

I agree with this,  its strange that other spells seem to upgrade as you level up, from a 3 die roll to a 4 die roll but not for healing spells.
Shadowheart does have a buff that gives you maximum healing for 10 turns,  can't remember what it is called though.

Ok, sounds like I probably shouldn't bother with them then. Think I'll do a bit of a respec on my Shadowheart and focus on buffs to prevent damage in the first place rather than heals for after it has happened.

She does have an awesome Spirit Guardians spell that has been particularly handy in Act 2 with all the undead about (as long as she can keep her concentration going!)

Buffs and debuffs are where it's at.
Bane for example.
Although, remember that she can only support one Concentration spell at a time. Very good game design by WotC. Same with attuned magic items*, which doesn't seem to have made it into BG3.

*An item can be attuned to only one creature at a time, and a creature can be attuned to no more than three magic items at a time. Attuning to an item requires a creature to spend a short rest focused on only that item while being in physical contact with it.
Previous versions of D&D resulted in characters literally dripping with magic items and being somewhat overpowered as a result.

Larian definitely went with the divinity approach to magic items rather than the dnd

The benefit of the mace isn't really the Sunbeam (though that's awesome too) but that it automatically blinds all fiends and undead in the light radius (a few meters). So you can cast Turn Undead (which should be upgraded to deal damage around Act 2) and Spirit Guardians and just run circles around the enemies. I think (I haven't tested it) that you can even give yourself Sanctuary and run around with impunity while Spirit Guardians ticks away, as long as you don't cast anything else.

You can also give her the boots or necklace that lets her cast Misty Step for more mobility (run into one group of enemies with Spirit Guardians on, then teleport into another).

Then there's this ring, which puts a debuff on anyone you hit while they're illuminated, and the mace illuminates everyone in Spirit Guardians range. And these gloves, which put the same debuff on anything you hit with radiant damage. So now they're all Blinded and have a penalty to attacks, so they have a very poor chance of hitting you at all (and you have advantage on hitting them).

It can get pretty silly.

And me, although I may not get that deeply into the numbers, but it's interesting reading about how other people are handling certain functionality.

This is, all things considered, probably one of the best places to get your nerd on about game mechanics.

Although I mostly agree and I'm certainly not much of a min/maxer, I don't regret using that guide to make my Astarion a Rogue/Fighter mix. Seeing him suddenly deal 40+ damage will never get old.

The good things is by those numbers being there, you can read it, adopt the knowledge, with no need to do the maths yourself.

Congratulations you have become a better player without doing any hard work