#at least in bg3 his is vanilla

[shivasdarknight]

im begging people who do head mods to provide a side view. because im not downloading that unless i know its going to work for me, and with the severe lack of aquiline noses on nexus? yeah im not trusting your 100 mod previews that are all face on and extremely slender.

just like xiv, i s2g vanilla beats y'all out in Several regards.

[psalacanthea]

I'm doing that thing again where a random scenario is showing up in my modern AU fic and I have to think of everyone's preferences so: BG3 companions, ice cream edition.

Wyll: The only man alive who gets an ice cream cone and somehow never drips. He loves a good quality vanilla, but likes it with additions, like a handmade fudge ripple or butter pecan. Will eat an ice cream cone with a spoon, confusing everyone.

Karlach: She wants to go to the place where they mix in shit in front of you. Gummy bears and pretzels. Red hots candy and caramel corn. She's inventing flavor combos you've never heard of. Also likes the blue bubblegum ice cream.

Gale: Ooh! Well, since you're asking, he knows a wonderful place a scant thirty minute drive away that makes their own handmade ice cream. He's been known to indulge in a pint or two...perhaps with a nice glass of wine! Toppings? Well, that would ruin the experience.

Shadowheart: She goes to the same place as Gale, but she hoards her pints in her freezer and you're not allowed to touch them. They have a dark chocolate raspberry she's obsessed with. It's hers, though. You can have a bite. Just one. Fine, you can have another bite.

Lae'zel: She goes to the fast food drive through, orders a chocolate sundae, and leaves. If their ice cream machine is broken again, they will pay the price. Will climb through a drive-through window to fight your manager.

Astarion: Goes to the trendy, insanely expensive restaurant, orders the thousand dollar gold leaf covered, smoked white truffle and whisky ice cream dessert, takes a picture of it for his instagram, and leaves without paying by climbing out the bathroom window.

Minthara: She will take two scoops of chocolate ice cream. Nothing more, nothing less. If you fail to deliver exactly what was ordered, she will have your business destroyed on Yelp. Her prowess on Yelp is legendary. Sometimes Astarion helps her make video reviews of restaurants. She has millions of views, adoring fans, and has no idea.

Halsin: He'd prefer something else for dessert, but he's already here, so...maybe a scoop of pistachio on a cone? Will get distracted and end up with it dripping all over his arm. Whoops! Now everyone's staring at him while he licks his own hand.

Jaheira: She prefers a pastry, but fine. She'll let you know once she's tried every sample at least once. Hmm. Not bad. And...you know what? Never mind. She's full now. Thanks for the samples.

[positivelybeastly]

Can I ask about your bg3 Hank? What’s his class, who’s his guardian? Durge or no? Any romances?

You absolutely may ask about my Baldur's Gate 3 character who may or may not be Hank McCoy!

This is my most recent screenshot of him!

I have literally just finished Act 1, so please no spoilers, but at current, he is:

A Level 5 Bard in the College of Swords, with a Level 2 multi-class into Monk! I figured this made the most sense as a translation for Hank's high intellect and martial prowess while still maintaining a more pacifistic outlook - it also means he gets just as many funny answers in dialogue as he does wise ones.

A Half-Orc! This accounts for his incredibly cute tusks. The yellow eye make-up is meant to evoke his feline form's yellow eyes and give him a more striking look. The earrings are a holdover from Dark Beast, who has very similar rings in his art.

STR: 10 DEX: 14 CON: 12 INT: 14 WIS: 13 CHA: 16. These aren't necessarily what I think Hank's DnD stats would be, but frankly, Hank doesn't really have a dump stat, he'd be, like, 18-20 in everything, and you miss out on fun feats by doing that.

Currently wearing Gloves of Dexterity, setting his DEX to 18!

Currently wearing Warped Headband of Intellect, setting his INT to 17!

Not going Dark Urge for Hank. Doesn't feel like it'd fit - but I definitely plan on doing at least one other playthrough. I might do it as Dark Beast, who would definitely qualify - he might be a Rogue/Druid or something of that type? I know I want to mess with Druid at some point.

I actually didn't take any pictures of his Dream Visitor/guardian. Oops. Next time they appear in a cutscene, I will make sure to take caps!

Romances? Oh, hell yes. At the moment, I'm romancing Shadowheart, but flirting heavily with Halsin, since it's my understanding you can go poly with those two, and . . . honestly, I really like them both. Halsin's got the big daddy elf thing going on, and Shadowheart is honestly just sweet. She's nice. We cuddled.

Lae'zel craved Hank's moisture, but I did not relinquish it.

I'm also wearing Minthara's At-Ease Clothes dyed yellow around camp because they feel very classic Hank, not least because they show off his muscles and chest hair.

If you want the exact settings (colour tones, hair, etc) that I used to make Hank, then let me know and I can post them - I'm playing on PS5, so everything available there will be available vanilla on PC. Wish I could have mods to give him glasses, but tbh, I'm very happy with how he's turned out so far!

[csphire]

BG3 Patch 4 woes

Update: *waves a white flag* Puts all my mods back into the game and most of the old saves. Even after removing the mods, reinstalling the game, and updating my graphics card the damn kiss still doesn't work. So. I. GIVE. UP!

I only have the kiss on Anna so, after weighing all the pros and cons, I'm just going to keep my mods and progress. Given Anna's game was started waaay back when the full game dropped, and all the patches she's been through, I wouldn't be surprised if perhaps the kiss only glitched with just her. Cautiously optimistic Larian will fix the kiss for everyone eventually. Until then I'm just going to just play and try to enjoy the rest of the game.

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Previously:

(Just venting here. Feel free to ignore it.)

Yesterday, after I noticed we got hotfix for patch 4, I decided to load up my oldest save with Anna and tried to kiss Astarion. As usual, since patch 4 dropped, I got nothing. Frustrated, I changed Anna's hairstyle back to her old default one and tried to kiss him again. Nothing. I then created a new save and closed the game. After I removed all my mods I loaded up that new save and discovered I can't even click on anything now.

"Great, just fucking great!" I mutter to myself as I created another save after removing all the mods. I then shut down the game, booted it back up, and reloaded the "fresh save" in the hopes that would fix it.

Nope! Of course, it did not work. Again, I couldn't click on anything. I next tried to make a new game. I got the infamous half-a-dozen naked guys around the Dragonborn Durge chilling in the astral area bug. Never in my life have I been so disappointed at seeing so many pixel dicks at once.

So yeah, at this point, I'm pretty sure I've lost everything. Still, I try not to cry about it. Instead I look at it as a chance to start fresh. To widdle down all my Tav's and Durges I made to my top favorite five. Plus since I made a habit of taking lots of photos during character creation I figured, "Hey at least I can easily recreate them and this time avoid some of the mistakes I made in the past."

Silver lining and all, right? Before uninstalling, I did try to verify the integrity of the game's files, to no avail. So, I bit the bullet and reinstalled the game. I did back-up my old saves, but I doubt they will work even after the reinstall.

My only complaint is the waiting. It's been well over 15 hours, and the game has still not finished downloading. I'm currently at 61%. Yaaah for potatoe download speeds. If this reinstall doesn't work, I might cry then. As I'll have to uninstall again, dig into the folders, and make sure all files have been purged.

Due to this headache, I think I'm going to run a vanilla mod-free game for the foreseeable future, which sucks because at least two of my fav Tavs/Durges use mod heads.

Rest in peace my lovely favorite Tavs and Durges, at least for now. <3

Vincent: Mod head, hair, and gear. My grump Durge that I won't be able to recreate anytime soon. ;_;

Gustav: Mod hair and gear. I can recreate him, but I'll miss his lovely fluffy hair and fancy outfits.

Anna: Just mod hair with her and my oldest play through with the least amount of mods active. She also had the pre-patch 3 dye looks I will dearly miss. The one plus side is I can recreate her in my sleep since I've made her dozens of times over since EA. But she was the only playthrough I had in Act 3 with a repeatable kiss option.

Tav: Mod head and gear. My other playthrough I won't be able to recreate until BG3 updates slow down or at least stop breaking mods so damn hard.

"Dammon"

Dammit, okay for him... I might break down and install two mods-but only the two! One that unlocks his eyes for character creation and another that lets me turn any of the companions into him. My thirst is strong for Dammon. I need more of him in my game. This is not negotiable.

[rakofelo]

Thank you @saltierlibra for tagging me in this adorable "Writer vs OCs" prompt by @orlesianapologist 🖤

I made them with the picrew image generator, but I would love to revisit this challenge once they're all drawn!

It me.

Long-time tabletop player but a baby PC gamer, so here are my BG3 babies and a special 5e favourite. I've come to notice that I indeed love a good drow.

Zhephyrie - aka Noodle - is my first video game OC. He's a half-drow bard that spent most of his campaign accidentally Durge-running and facing the consequences of his own stupidity.

Finchvaer is my half-wood elf monk and also my current Dark Urge run. So far he's done much less evil than any of Zheph's shenanigans. Probably because René (@saltierlibra) keeps him in check.

Nicanderim (Nim) is my human ranger with a special affinity for pink, fluffy friends, and Karlach. This vanilla wafer is just here to have a good time.

Véls'gryff is my drow sorcerer. It's been intriguing to see all the dialogue options that open up with drows in BG3, and the sorcerer/wizard sass between him and Gale is iconic.

Last but not least, my very first OC ever, Haelra. She's my 5e drow paladin of Sêlune. Rivalling Zheph levels of stupidity, she tried to take down a halfdragon as a level 1 foetus because he was rude to her friends. Defending their honour got her a basketball-sized hole punched through her chest, but she's fine now.

This gorgeous piece of artwork was made by the lovely and talented JetRex Design (@jetrexdesign on IG) and adorns my favourite coffee mug!

I'm low on mutuals so I'm also tagging @vexatious-anamnesis in hopes that he wishes to take up the tag from @saltierlibra

[mrfancyfoot]

Raphael x Evie (f!OC) | Rating: E/Varied | Chapter 1 on AO3

My corner store is finally restocking my favorite soda again after being gone for months! I bought a bunch on impulse and got to thinking about miscommunications that could happen between a modern person of "our plane" and the BG3 gang - namely in relation to our favorite devil here. :]

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Chapter 6: Coca-Cola

The devil doesn't like being wrong.

Chapter Rating: T / SFW-ish Word Count: 403 Chapter Tags: POV Evie, Humor Chapter Warnings: Minor/implied drug discussion (cocaine/coke); Gratuitous world-building in such a way that presumes at least coca and/or coke (the drug) would refer to the same things there as here.

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Story Summary: All’s fair in love and war. Things are bustling in Baldur’s Gate as the city rebuilds. Life is looking up for Evie who has ambitions set on her (re-)inventions and business ventures as she juggles a certain vampire’s budding political career, the unwitting godhood bestowed upon her by a clan of fanatical fish people, and the increasing attentions of a devil who she believes woefully has no other friends. . Story Tags: Tags will update with progress, Fluff and Angst, Domestic Fluff, Humor, Manipulation, Eventual Smut, Modern Girl in Baldur's Gate, Canon-Typical Behavior, Varied Chapter Lengths, Not Canon Compliant, Possessive Behavior, Dubious Morality, Dubious Consent, World-building, Kuo-toa, She's not stuck with him he's stuck with her, Has plot-legs, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, Warning: Raphael, Raphael is obsessed, No sleeping with Haarlep, Girl has her shit together and that’s sexy, Neurodivergent OC, Lawful Evil meets Chaotic Neutral, Marriage Contract, Slice of Life

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Evie was laughing so hard her sides felt like they were going to burst as a bemused and increasingly impatient devil stood nearby with his hands on his hips.

A far cry from the smug smoothtalker he’d been mere moments ago, so assuredly trying to lure her into a new or updated contract…until she’d realised what had happened.

She backed into a chair to sit and covered her face with her hands in an attempt to control herself and wipe the tears from her eyes.  “I’m sorry,” she managed to huff out between giggles, “I think you misunderstood something.  Or didn’t have context.”  Not that she had any sympathy for him trying to use information from spying on her against her.  “I…I promise I have no addictions to any such illicit substances.  Or anything else, really.”

Raphael raised an eyebrow as though he had doubts about that claim.

Evie launched into an explanation, “I can only presume this came up because I was complaining about missing my beloved Vanilla Coke.”  She threw in her own dramatic gesture, pressing a hand to her chest over her heart with a giggly sigh.  “Which is a cola soft drink that’s ‘vanilla’ flavored - I don’t think it tastes like vanilla but whatever.  Coca-Cola - Coke - is a popular brand.  The drink used to have cocaine in it from the coca leaves they used but they, like, figured out how to get rid of the cocaine part somehow - in amongst the push to make it illegal in my country, which they wholeheartedly lobbied for with loopholes to protect their own business interests - so the drink hasn’t had it in it in several decades now.  Longer than I’ve even been alive.”

She paused a moment to think back on the original conversation she’d had nights ago with her companions around the supper campfire.  “If I said anything about being addicted, it was purely hyperbolic.  I just miss it.  Not enough to sign anything, though.”

“The attempt at a vice gotcha’s cute, though,” she teased, her grin barely holding back another fit of laughter.

Raphael let out a harsh breath through his nose though otherwise remained unnaturally stoic.  “That’s a pity.  It would have provided some explanation.”

Evie tsk’d at the insult but found herself engulfed in his magic on her way back to camp before she could retort.

Their fastest ‘meeting’ yet - the devil didn’t like being wrong.

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