Baldur's Gate III: Pedz Meal Deals [PC/PlayStation 5/Xbox]

1x Special Fried Rice
1x Garlic Chilli Naan
1x Chicken Tikka Naan
1x Chips
1x Chicken Bhuna
1x Chicken Methi
1x Mushroom Bahji
1x Chicken Pakora

That is for me and my eldest. Total £35.13

1x 10" cheese pizza
1x 10" Chicken Tikka and sweetcorn Pizza
2x Cheesy Chips
1x Garlic Bread
1x Large Chicken Tikka Kebab Meal

For 3 kids and the missus is £27.70

Well, strawberry float gooseberry fool has got more expensive since I last ordered from the Kebab place. Never ordered an Indian curry from here before so that may be normal.

Total for 6 people £62.83.

strawberry float you guys.

Methi

Having curry tomorrow, will report back.

I have no idea what Methi is, so should be fun.

Having a Singapore vegetable chow mein tonight. My lovely wife is having a mushroom chow mein. Some satay tofu has bumped it up to £21 before delivery.

I would've left out the tofu but you don't mess with a pregnant lady.

This thread is just making me really hungry now, so I'm also now going to have a curry tomorrow :lol:

Read Metro's review for this, sounds like it'll be worth trying at some point, if I ever get enough time to play it of course.

All Baldurs Gate III posts now have to come with your last takeaway order and it's price.

1x Large American Hot Dominos
1x Large Meatball Mariana Dominos

£24 with delivery.

I'm concerned that my expectations for a D&D game are massively inflated now I've played a fair bit of real D&D, and may find my ability to do things quite limited. I may be better going back to OG BG and allowing the fact it is old to limit my expectations.

I only bought it back in the day as it was on 5 CDs, and FFVII was on 4 and my young brain had equated more CDs to more value. It seemed to correlate quite well.

Can you stop the mini map rotating?

Roti ate with it.

Hexx wrote:Can you stop the mini map rotating?

Yeah it's in the options menu

Now my Steam Deck just refuses to sync my cloud saves, just get an error every time it tries.

Started playing on my Deck, then switched to desktop which had my Deck save no problem and put a good few hours in, now on going back to my Deck it just says Sync Error in Steam no matter how many times I retry, and in game it just says "syncinc" forever on the main menu instead of continue

Edit - After restarting my Deck a few times it finally synced my cloud saves, but now my PC one's are marked as incompatible because apparently my PC has a different more up to date version of the game

It's been a long while since I played BG2, and I'm unfamiliar with D&D as a game, but I'm wondering how frequent or essential combat is in this? The last TTRPG styled game I played was Disco Elysium, which had zero combat, which was pretty refreshing, so I was curious if this was the kind of RPG where its possible to play without actually having to do much fighting, or is it like The Witcher, where even though everyone says it has a great story, the resolution for every quest or side quest still involves you fighting a monster or a bad guy or whatever.

How dare a professional monster hunter have to fight monsters!

I've not played this yet but Larian's previous games had plenty of opportunities for non combat approaches to situations. It's still a core part of the mix though

Met a beholder

It did not go well

After playing for a few hours, I felt like I understood the game a bit better and would have preferred to make some different choices at character creation. I heard you can respec eventually but I figured, since I wasn't far in, I would just roll a new character and speedrun to where I was.

Anyway, I got to the (tutorial ending) helm of the Mind Flayer ship and thought, ah, I bet if you're clever you can kill the devil commander, right? Well, by stacking up explosive barrels and blowing them up I did it -- and got an achievement! :toot:

One thing I do remember about BG2 is that's there's a ring of 18 Charisma you can get just after you leave the begining section so you can min/max the strawberry float out of your stats.
I allways had 3 charisma and have a super duper Mage character with 18's in Int, Wis, Dex and 16 in Con.

Hexx wrote:Met a beholder

It did not go well

Beholders have been nerfed in 5th edition and still kick arse.
They used to be able to choose which ray to hit you with and be able to use the anti-magic eye at the same time.
They also had a few extra super devastating eyes that they took out.

A few monsters have been toned down from 2nd edition that I played for ballance reasons.
The Tarasque was pretty much unkillable in 2nd edition and while still tough in 5th is something players can actually have a hope at before hitting stupidly high level.

Knoyleo wrote:It's been a long while since I played BG2, and I'm unfamiliar with D&D as a game, but I'm wondering how frequent or essential combat is in this? The last TTRPG styled game I played was Disco Elysium, which had zero combat, which was pretty refreshing, so I was curious if this was the kind of RPG where its possible to play without actually having to do much fighting, or is it like The Witcher, where even though everyone says it has a great story, the resolution for every quest or side quest still involves you fighting a monster or a bad guy or whatever.

Stealth will be possible as rogues are pretty powerful and mages can cast invisibility and other ways to be unseen.
You could always use illusion spells to distract enemies as well or just charm them.

Oh wow. They've not implemented 5e 1 spell limited between action and bonus action (or hasted action)

Sorcerer Fireball Spam a go go!

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Knoyleo wrote:It's been a long while since I played BG2, and I'm unfamiliar with D&D as a game, but I'm wondering how frequent or essential combat is in this? The last TTRPG styled game I played was Disco Elysium, which had zero combat, which was pretty refreshing, so I was curious if this was the kind of RPG where its possible to play without actually having to do much fighting, or is it like The Witcher, where even though everyone says it has a great story, the resolution for every quest or side quest still involves you fighting a monster or a bad guy or whatever.

I noticed no-one really tried to answer this. I'm not very far in, but here you go.

A lot of encounters can be resolved by talking to people, and some of your companions do encourage this -- at least, I've personally noticed that you get positive comments from both Shadowheart and Gale for avoiding unnecessary combat. You can also sneak around encounters (there's a stealth mechanic, and an early game spell "Invisibility").

However, you will still end up in fights -- that's just D&D. The combats you do end up in can be quite "immersive sim" depending on how you play. It's possible to shove monsters off cliffs, fashion impromptu explosive traps by moving oil barrels around, make pools of water and then electrify them, and so on. Stealthing to an advantageous position and surprising the monsters is also really strong and a good way to finish combats quickly.

The game isn't very much like Disco Elysium to be honest. The writing is fine, but it's supposed to be an epic swashbuckling adventure, not a communist manifesto ( :wub:

).

If you do play, I would suggest playing a Bard. You'll have good charisma (for talking) and dexterity (for stealth), and Bards are good at a wide variety of skills. At character generation, don't choose proficiency in Arcana (magic lore), Intimidation, or Sleight of Hand (thieving) because you'll pick them all up at level 3 (still early) by choosing the College of Lore option. Then it's just a matter of choosing spells and cultivating companions that complement your play style as you progress.

I assume this is using 5e's ruleset as closely as possible? I need to try BG1 again but I was playing a lot of D&D IRL when I first tried BG1 and the different rulesets kept clashing in my brain.

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