Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

I mean yeah, it makes sense that you can't just run around while invincible and damage things by being close to them.

Yeah I dunno, that doesn't feel particularly intentional to me. The whole point of Sanctuary is that you get a big benefit (not being targetable) with a big cost (not being able to attack things). That's why it's a level 1 spell!

You get an extra attack from Swords Bard at level 6 (each of which is 2 ranged attacks with Bardic Inspiration), extra bonus attack from Thief at level 3 and Action Surge from Fighter at level 2, so you'd need to be lvl 11. You could get up to 12 attacks in a round from level 8 though (6 Bard, 2 Fighter).

I like it when sword goes stab

In BG3 Slashing Flourish gives you two separate attacks with ranged weapons and they can be used on the same target or two different ones. You get double attacks at lvl 6 as a Swords Bard, so that's four attacks for every action as long as you have Bardic Inspiration to spend.

With Haste, Action Surge and Bloodlust Elixir you can get four actions in a turn (if you kill something, which you will do with this many attacks).

Thief gives an extra bonus action, which you can use for off-hand attacks, so your two bonus actions give you two attacks per round (dual wield hand crossbows or strike with your offhand melee weapon).

Now that I think of it, you could ditch Thief and get 10 in Bard for 6 Bardic Inspirations and also cram out 15 attacks (4+4+4+2+1). There are better bows than hand crossbows though, so you'd likely be better off with a longbow and settling for "just" 14 attacks in the first turn.

To be clear I think this is stupid and I'm never going to build characters like this. My current PC is a Bard but entirely without this kind of cheese, but yes, the mechanics work.

Nah, passing skill checks is better than easy combat, and you get more cool spells.

I'm surprised by the romance with Lae'zel. In Act 2,

Minor bugbear, but I would like the long rest tooltip to include all the sodding food I've dumped back at camp in the total I have. Keeps saying I don't have enough but I've got like 500-600 food in my infinite box.

It throws up a warning that you don't have enough food when you end the day but the food in your stashes still shows up when you actually go to rest. You probably don't want to let it choose food automatically, because it selects whole stacks even if it ends up taking way too much. I've had it try to use nearly 200 camp supply when I tried it.

Most of the things I'd like to see changes to is quality of life and UI things.

Consumables often don't show their durations in the tooltip.
Why does the alchemy UI not show you what the things you can craft do?
I'd like to be able to send the entire contents of a container to another character or the camp stash at once.
Some way to preview class progression in game, so you know what spells and skills you'll get in the future.

I think I'm just about finished with Act 2! Loved the shadow lands vibe and the various NPC encounters throughout (don't want to spoil any).

Surprised that the narrative continues to keep me hooked. I typically lose interest/patience in lengthier games but I think the combination of 1) solid story/writing with 2) the pick up and play Steam Deck I'm managing to keep at this one! Reading all of the Bard builds above I realise how poorly I optimise everything as my bloke just wanders around cracking jokes and being shit in combat.

Now to see how far performance tanks and whether I need to pick up the PS5 version in order to continue once I reach the city...

Cross platform cloud saves really spoil me. Should I play this in the office on my gigantic ultra wide? The bedroom with the nice 4k? The living room with the nicer 4k? Steam deck? Steam Link? Remote play? The answer to all is yes.

Possibly.
2 questions though.
- what timezone?
- what does VTT stand for?

I just had gay astral sex with Gale. That was pretty wild.