trying to de-ab gale and astarion because i refuse to believe they'd actually look like that. Also it just looks better (<- humble opinion). astarion's is a little rougher because i've only edited the normal and not the. whatever the hell the other two are like I've started doing with gale (the way this game handles textures confuses me) But if anyone wants it i probably will upload this as a mod in a little while
Could I convince you to kill someone less useful? No one is getting killed, I swear. We're just two friends talking. So -in the spirit of theoretical questions- if you had to take a bite from one of them, who would it be?
— "After so long with Mystra, I have to say the pleasures of mortal love are much sweeter than I remember. Though perhaps that's simply because it's with you."
every so often I remember that faceapp exists bc my siblings and I will fuck around w it for a few hours and then forget. but anyways I put gale and astarion through the gender filter and goodness gracious
it does not get astarion’s hair. and it will never not look a little insane. but oh my goodness… Gail and Astarienne? Astor? Astarian?
okay was anyone going to tell me that ascended Astarion calls MC 'little love' and 'my treasure' in the smoothest most sultry voice I've ever heard or was I just supposed to get absolutely smacked around the head with that knowledge myself—
one of the more funny things that i've seen in bg3 fic, i think because there's a fair number of people playing the game for whom this is their intro to dnd, is the general assumption that astarion wouldn't be able to sire a child
ok genuine question, but how would that happen? is he not undead? because from what i unerstand it can oly happen if the mother is turned while she is csrrying the child.
so while i can't exactly answer why it works, one of the available origins for the dhampir as introduced in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft is the most straightforward way a dhampir would exist: one of their parents is a vampire. since this is in canon faerun and it looks like candlekeep is canon, i am operating on the assumption that the new ravenloft lore is also canon (would be cool to maybe go to a domain of dread in a future expansion or DLC; a run-in with azalin rex would certainly be challenging for even a party above level 12 and strahd could absolutely be tweaked that way in barovia; it'd be cool to see the grand conjunction come back into the lore but i digress)
now in fairness, there is also precedent in older editions of DND for some intelligent undead being able to reproduce; my best guess is that the difference lies in if the undead in question was resurrected from the grave directly and started at baseline dead or if they were somehow transformed and therefore started from baseline alive (eg vampires, liches, etc) but this is purely conjecture
so, yeah, no, you could definitely have a kid with astarion, the kid in question would be a dhampir which you can read more about at this link if you're interested
https://scormey.com/2023/08/asimovs-4th-law-loot-mechanics-336/
AI-derived content on DTRPG and Roll20 are now banned. This is great on the surface, but has some creators a bit upset. We discuss this and some Kickstarter drama with “Urban Shadows 2nd Edition”, on today’s show!
Intro (0:49) – Beoulus talks “Baldur’s Gate III”, and Scormey had another health scare.
Tabletop Gaming (5:31) – OneBookShelf (parent company of DriveThruRPG and Roll20) have banned AI content. Let’s discuss.
Wrap (23:40) – Fuckery is afoot at Magpie Games’ “Urban Shadows 2nd Edition” Kickstarter!