Videogame Shadowheart: doesn't open up to anyone if she can help it. Tabletop Shadowheart: this drow I just met will make a fine father for my new imp son.
Yeah, I can totally buy Astarion being a massive fan of Drizzt. I'd imagine he's read many of his tales over the past century. The guy is basically the embodiment of what Astarion had always wanted to be: a man who had the strength to break free of his chains and use that freedom to become a legend.
That's a really good point. Also while I don't think Drizzt was ever enslaved (I haven't read his first trilogy in years and then I didn't finish it) he was still controlled by the women of his houses. They're also both light sensitive, just to different degrees (I am reading the crystal shard right now, and Drizzt just straight up gets a photosensitive migraine including vestibular effects in one scene)
Also, Drizzt and Catti-brie sailed the Sword Coast as pirate hunters for 6 years (1358-1364 DR). Baldur's Gate, being one of the biggest port cities was surely their stop many times over that period. There's a large plausibility Astarion (on one of his hunts around the city's taverns) even saw Drizzt before, but due to being still under full control of Cazador, couldn't approach him as Drizzt would have cut a dangerous vampire spawn kidnapper to ribbons and Cazador, while cruel, wasn't one to put his toys in direct danger.
@@AbsolXGuardian I mean, enslaved for a male Drow is a relative term. They are a very misandric matriarchy and the men, essentially, are slaves in that society. So Dri'zzt very much understands the chains of slavery in his own right.
Drizzt Do'Urden is a heroic character from the Forgotten Realm novels (20 plus of them) that basically made a LOT of people play D&D around the 80's and 90's. Think of a combo Geralt or Rivia from the Witcher and in certain moments, Kratos.
And this comment made me laugh as I just NOW realized the height difference between my recent dnd and their romantic partner (a drow). Thank you for reminding me! It was an absolutely hilarious image 😂 (their height difference is also 9” much like the difference you pointed out, and also for context, my character is an exceptionally tall wood elf at 6’4” which is, again, why I laugh).
The "lavender eyes" and green cloak and twin scimitars were a dead give-away even before the GM mentioned the panther statuette. There's only one male non-evil drow with lavender-coloured irisis instead of red eyes.
I love the fact that he specifically chose to go after the Panther rather than the sword, rofl. Also, the _entire_ Drizzt fandom would have rolled Dark Urge playthroughs purely to kill Gale early and easily... as told by a friend of mine who is, in fact, a Drizzt fan.
So I have this headcanon that in some of the time Astarion had to himself between Cazador's abuse and torture, he'd think about the stories he'd heard of Drizzt and allow himself to fantasize about being rescued by him, even if he knew it would never happen. Then at some point after the events of the game and killing Cazador he realizes he HAS been rescued, just not in a way he could have ever imagined; not by a legendary hero but through his own determination, and the love and support of Tav and the rest of the party 🥲
@@VanNessy97same. Got a male drow Tav who's romancing Astarion xD For funnies, he probably harbors some jealousy for Drizzt. "All this talk about some stranger when you have an even hotter drow right in front of you"
Neil and Tim fighting over Guenhwyvar as Astarion and Gale will never stop being funny as hell. I’ve seen this clip maybe four times already and it’s STILL f**king HILARIOUS
My first playthrough I was a drow ranger because, honestly, I grew up with those books and am STILL a Drizzt fangirl at heart. This is honestly everything I never knew I needed and I want to hug everyone.
English isn't my native language but I can read with if I put a bit of effort. I'm into d&d since 3 years now, but never read any novel, book. Do you have a book, novel to recommend me ? Where to start ?
Indeed. apart from being a big BIG name around the Sword Coast, Gale would definitely know enough to recognize Drizzt, being a scholar who has read more books than probably everyone in the party. Karlach, since she knew Minsc, who was a legend over a damn CENTURY ago, would also definitely know & have her jaw dropped to the ground at meeting such a legend. Wyll, probably modeled his Blade of Frontiers persona after a good number of folk heroes, which definitely included Drizzt among them, so unlike his usual soft-spoken, cool, composed self, i'd imagine he would start stuttering as soon as he met Drizzt.
Fun fact: back in the day while playing Ultima Online and Everquest you would stumble upon many dark elfs / Drow that were based on Drizzt in RP, which became quite the running gag, because he was such a popular character. When I remember correctly this was also featured in the brilliant webcomic series "The Noob".
Total honesty, Drizzt is the whole reason i love DnD, reading his stories got me grabbing Dragon Magazine from the library and trying (and failing epically) to play Baldur's Gate 2 on my brother's computer
Okay. So my dad, who is a massive D&D nerd, now has some justification in naming me Drizzt lmao. Cuz this along with the joke in BG3 is fucking awesome to be able to talk about
Astarion and Shadowheart fangirling over Drizzt absolutely makes me love my accidental choice of Drow Ranger for my first Tav. That was way before I ever knew who Drizzt was. What's even funnier is she used a longbow and dual wielded scimitars because I thought it was cool. Since she was first, she has been my 'canon Tav' ever since. And yes, she was an Astarion romance. I wasn't introduced to the books until I was halfway through my third playthrough and as I started reading them I knew Nita was accidentally 'Drizzt but a girl'. Now I headcanon he was her childhood hero and she purposefully modeled her fighting style after him.
I was watchign this live and i remember having the EXACT same reaction as neil about a half second before and it was like the spiderman meme it was so funny
@@SuccubiSage why? The way R.A.Salvatore spelled it in his novels is actually the very old English spelling of the name. And we are English. She alternates between wanting to be called Guenhwyvar and wanting to be called Guen anyway. It’s her choice.
within the context of the game,there's a very high chance that your average character class would have heard of Drizz't Dourden,especially if the books are canon to your campaign. I would have made Astarion roll an insight check (like at a 3 or something)
I wouldn't bother to have him roll at all. Astarion is a High Elf, born to a high class so likely well educated, and has been a vampire for 200 years already. And when he's chilling in camp, what is he doing? Reading books.
1:59 - she would poke out his lavender eyes and make jewelery with them, I guess 3:05 poor Gale 4:05 - omg, he's out of breath 6:40 - insert "Fight" in Mortal Kombat voice
@@CodeeXD not necessarily, in the other 2 games you could encounter the entire Companions of the Hall and kill them an take their stuff. You didn't keep it for too long before an NPC would hunt you down and take it but you could still do it
@@XarkoCZ and? All you know is they met him, you didn’t have to know anything else lol it’s no different than a tv show, showing previews of the next episode. You still chose to click on the video and watch it. So, blame yourselves.
@@LightStreak567 No, he's describing Drizzt with the purple skin and white hair. But I noticed he was doing that for Tav, too, even though Tav is canonically a man, as well.
@@rainiermcbane2313 For Drizzt, I suspect he was trying to keep things vague so anyone knowledgeable in the party wouldn't immediately guess his identity (not that it stopped Neil lol). As for Tav, Tav is not canonically male-you can play them as any gender in the game. So, Mark likely used gender neutral terms so anyone listening could imagine their own Tav in the story.
@@hannahfreedman8295 Why keep Drizzt ambiguous. Why would the actors care if the elf was male or not? And Tav is canonically male. There is a picture of Tav in Blood in Baldur's Gate. He's a bald man (race unclear, but nothing monstrous; you just can't see his ears).
@@rainiermcbane2313 "Why keep Drizzt ambiguous?" For suspense, of course. And to make it more of a surprise when his identity is revealed. Why? Are you reading some nefarious nonbinary agenda into the DM's perfectly standard pronoun usage? Also, I really don't know what you're talking about saying that Tav is canonically a bald man. Have you had a chance to play the game yet? You can play a man, woman, or nonbinary person and there's plenty of options for hairstyle as well. You can even play a Dragonborn! If you haven't seen the character creator yet, there's a good guide to the different options here: ruclips.net/video/N28wqvPP0iE/видео.htmlsi=RgA4Xd9fMnZD-2x9 As you can see, you could create a bald man Tav if you want to. But there isn't really a default (unless you play Dark Urge, in which case the default is a male white Dragonborn).
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Videogame Shadowheart: doesn't open up to anyone if she can help it.
Tabletop Shadowheart: this drow I just met will make a fine father for my new imp son.
He would take a hard pass on that because he has a half-drow daughter to take care of.
This must be post-Act II Shadowheart.
@@charlesboots6508it's funny cus they set it as like... act 1 ish, but she does act VERY post act 2. Assuming the more positive outcome.
RIP Bing Bong lol
@germanblacksmith6216 he's a devil, he's fiiiiiine.
Yeah, I can totally buy Astarion being a massive fan of Drizzt. I'd imagine he's read many of his tales over the past century. The guy is basically the embodiment of what Astarion had always wanted to be: a man who had the strength to break free of his chains and use that freedom to become a legend.
That's a really good point. Also while I don't think Drizzt was ever enslaved (I haven't read his first trilogy in years and then I didn't finish it) he was still controlled by the women of his houses. They're also both light sensitive, just to different degrees (I am reading the crystal shard right now, and Drizzt just straight up gets a photosensitive migraine including vestibular effects in one scene)
Why is your comment making me cry. Stop it.
Also, Drizzt and Catti-brie sailed the Sword Coast as pirate hunters for 6 years (1358-1364 DR). Baldur's Gate, being one of the biggest port cities was surely their stop many times over that period. There's a large plausibility Astarion (on one of his hunts around the city's taverns) even saw Drizzt before, but due to being still under full control of Cazador, couldn't approach him as Drizzt would have cut a dangerous vampire spawn kidnapper to ribbons and Cazador, while cruel, wasn't one to put his toys in direct danger.
@@AbsolXGuardian I mean, enslaved for a male Drow is a relative term. They are a very misandric matriarchy and the men, essentially, are slaves in that society. So Dri'zzt very much understands the chains of slavery in his own right.
Well, shit, this brings a new flavour to the romance with him I got going on with my male Drow Durge
Don't know much about Drizzt as a character but seeing Neil (and then by extension Astarion) go full fanboy was amazing.
Drizzt Do'Urden is a heroic character from the Forgotten Realm novels (20 plus of them) that basically made a LOT of people play D&D around the 80's and 90's. Think of a combo Geralt or Rivia from the Witcher and in certain moments, Kratos.
@@Shindenize I've heard of him, I've just never read the books. I know he's a big BIG deal.
@@thestormwizard6447 He also appears in both the previous Baldur's gate games. You can beat him up and take his stuff.
@@lozm4835 Oh damn, makes sense why he appears here then. I need to play those more.
Drizzt is great. There's like 37 books centered around him in Forgotten Realms.
The funniest thing about this to me is that Drizzt is 5'2 and Astarion is 5'11
Astarion’s 5’9 but yeah, drow are the shortest of the elves
Wasn't he 5'4?
Short king
And this comment made me laugh as I just NOW realized the height difference between my recent dnd and their romantic partner (a drow). Thank you for reminding me! It was an absolutely hilarious image 😂 (their height difference is also 9” much like the difference you pointed out, and also for context, my character is an exceptionally tall wood elf at 6’4” which is, again, why I laugh).
Nope, 5'9.@@Dumpsterfiretruckster
I love how Astarion is literally fanboying over Drizzt and everyone else is just like "Who is that?". Adds an authentic touch.
I love that Neil immediately KNEW!!!
He is a big D&D fan from what I have read.
The "lavender eyes" and green cloak and twin scimitars were a dead give-away even before the GM mentioned the panther statuette. There's only one male non-evil drow with lavender-coloured irisis instead of red eyes.
@@AB-ez4rmHe does play D&D
“More like Drizzt Don’t-Urden! No that’s not funny…” - Astarion
When Gale almost ate Guenhwyvar I screamed "Gale no!" 😂 I'm glad Astarion jumped in and stopped him.
Not to mention he would have pissed of another goddess in the process!
@@brittanyanderson97 and drizzt
@@CodeeXD Yes, Gale would’ve seen first hand why the blade is called Icingdeath
@@brittanyanderson97 Guenhwyvar has been Drizzt's faithful companion since he broke away from the Lolth Sworn Cult.
I love the fact that he specifically chose to go after the Panther rather than the sword, rofl.
Also, the _entire_ Drizzt fandom would have rolled Dark Urge playthroughs purely to kill Gale early and easily... as told by a friend of mine who is, in fact, a Drizzt fan.
So I have this headcanon that in some of the time Astarion had to himself between Cazador's abuse and torture, he'd think about the stories he'd heard of Drizzt and allow himself to fantasize about being rescued by him, even if he knew it would never happen. Then at some point after the events of the game and killing Cazador he realizes he HAS been rescued, just not in a way he could have ever imagined; not by a legendary hero but through his own determination, and the love and support of Tav and the rest of the party 🥲
Wonder if Astarion's guardian would look like a small male drow with lilac eyes.
@@sunnyhill7919 oh that's part of the headcanon, 100%
This makes Drow Tav hit so different
@@VanNessy97same. Got a male drow Tav who's romancing Astarion xD
For funnies, he probably harbors some jealousy for Drizzt. "All this talk about some stranger when you have an even hotter drow right in front of you"
Watching Neil Newbon's face as he realizes who this man is while the others have no idea is such a delight
When Gale tried to eat Guenhwyvar I was like “No! You’ve upset one goddess don’t anger another one!”
Forget the goddess, there's a drow, two humans(and a 3rd maybe) and a dwarf alone who would wreck Gale!
@@JnEricsonx *ahem* I think you may be forgetting a certain halfling fisherman who'd be none too pleased himself?
@@jeremygilbert7989 Fair enough.
I love that "sucking them dry" got all the girls going off, but the guys barely reacted at all
Neil and Tim fighting over Guenhwyvar as Astarion and Gale will never stop being funny as hell. I’ve seen this clip maybe four times already and it’s STILL f**king HILARIOUS
my next Tav will be Drizzt so he can romance Astarion just for Neil
Ah yes, doing God's work.
My first character was a drow ranger, I was really sad my companion summon couldn’t he a black panther. Missed opportunity by Larion there.
@@MummyPipplesomeone will mod it in surely, especially since it's already in the game as a druid wildshape
@Ashen_Sparrow Being unfaithful to reincarnated Catti-brie and their daughter, eh?
@@LightStreak567 Catti-brie would understand. Happy open marriage 😂
My first playthrough I was a drow ranger because, honestly, I grew up with those books and am STILL a Drizzt fangirl at heart. This is honestly everything I never knew I needed and I want to hug everyone.
English isn't my native language but I can read with if I put a bit of effort. I'm into d&d since 3 years now, but never read any novel, book. Do you have a book, novel to recommend me ? Where to start ?
The Icewind Dale Trilogy@@torpote
Highly recommend "The Legend of Drizzt" series by R.A. Salvatore. "Homeland" is book 1 of that series.
Same
Found out Drizzt wouldn’t be in the game so basically first character I created
Neil fangirling over Drizzt is so adorable 😆
Disgusting might be more accurate. Drizzt prefers females, not males
@@Species5008 than it's a good thing he was admiring a hero, not trying to fuck one. What is wrong with you, bro?
@@Species5008anyone who wields two swords has to be *at least* bisexual. Sorry. I don't make the rules 🤷
I love the moment when Neil realized who it was and then Astarion had his fanboy squee!
Lovely moment where Neil shows his inner DND nerd. I’m loving this!
aw man if only Emma Gregory was also here in this part, for the Minthara reaction
Gale, Karlach, and Wyll would likely know who he is, but their actors didn't, so its a strange situation
Yeah. In this case characters are just not a fans I suppose.
Yeah if thy didn't all come from the sword coast it would make a little more sense but drizzt is very much a big name along the sword coast.
I mean, to be fair, Karlach's VA did go with it as soon as she realized the character would know. She was in line for the meet and greet too!! xD
Wyll would probably fanboying over him too.
Indeed. apart from being a big BIG name around the Sword Coast, Gale would definitely know enough to recognize Drizzt, being a scholar who has read more books than probably everyone in the party. Karlach, since she knew Minsc, who was a legend over a damn CENTURY ago, would also definitely know & have her jaw dropped to the ground at meeting such a legend. Wyll, probably modeled his Blade of Frontiers persona after a good number of folk heroes, which definitely included Drizzt among them, so unlike his usual soft-spoken, cool, composed self, i'd imagine he would start stuttering as soon as he met Drizzt.
Fun fact: back in the day while playing Ultima Online and Everquest you would stumble upon many dark elfs / Drow that were based on Drizzt in RP, which became quite the running gag, because he was such a popular character. When I remember correctly this was also featured in the brilliant webcomic series "The Noob".
1:10
I'm just going to accept a general headcanon that an Attentive Astarion will occasional activate Cat Mode like Neil 's doing right now.
Total honesty, Drizzt is the whole reason i love DnD, reading his stories got me grabbing Dragon Magazine from the library and trying (and failing epically) to play Baldur's Gate 2 on my brother's computer
I don't know much about Drizzt, heard little bits here and there on him. But I love how Astarion is fanboying out over him.
Lae'zel is projecting so hard.
I've been waiting for someone to animate Asterion's reaction here, of all the sequences from this game!
Gale losing the athletics check is literally soooo on point.
Okay. So my dad, who is a massive D&D nerd, now has some justification in naming me Drizzt lmao. Cuz this along with the joke in BG3 is fucking awesome to be able to talk about
If drizzt is in a place all fucked up you should just run
Astarion and Shadowheart fangirling over Drizzt absolutely makes me love my accidental choice of Drow Ranger for my first Tav. That was way before I ever knew who Drizzt was. What's even funnier is she used a longbow and dual wielded scimitars because I thought it was cool. Since she was first, she has been my 'canon Tav' ever since. And yes, she was an Astarion romance. I wasn't introduced to the books until I was halfway through my third playthrough and as I started reading them I knew Nita was accidentally 'Drizzt but a girl'. Now I headcanon he was her childhood hero and she purposefully modeled her fighting style after him.
It's crazy to hear them playing D&D 😁
Need animations for every moment Astarion fanboys over Drizzt Do'Urden. Those moments were too fucking precious! 🥹💖
This honestly was the most wholesome moments as a drizzt fan :)
I was watchign this live and i remember having the EXACT same reaction as neil about a half second before and it was like the spiderman meme it was so funny
Neil was start struck, like i would have been. love him! lol
“More like Drizzt DONT UDEN- no no that’s not funny..”
I named my daughter Guenhwyvar because of Drizzt stories I’d be fangirling too!
I feel bad for the teachers who are gonna have to call her name out at attendance lol
@@SuccubiSage why? The way R.A.Salvatore spelled it in his novels is actually the very old English spelling of the name. And we are English. She alternates between wanting to be called Guenhwyvar and wanting to be called Guen anyway. It’s her choice.
@@MummyPippleim clueless origin wise but it looks kinda like a Welsh name. Do you pronounce it Gwen-y-var?
@@nunpho The English version is Guinevere, so there you go...King Artus' and Lancelot's squeeze.
@@Muschelschubs3r oh cool, did I get the pronunciation right?
As soon he said green cloak i knew
Astarion is holding in the WE ARE GETTING GWENN!
within the context of the game,there's a very high chance that your average character class would have heard of Drizz't Dourden,especially if the books are canon to your campaign. I would have made Astarion roll an insight check (like at a 3 or something)
I wouldn't bother to have him roll at all. Astarion is a High Elf, born to a high class so likely well educated, and has been a vampire for 200 years already. And when he's chilling in camp, what is he doing? Reading books.
@@Sabbathtageespecially considering drizzt is pretty active in the sword coast and silver marches
This is the type of group that makes D&D fun. Also, seeing Neil/Astarion fangirl over Drizzt Do'Urden is adorable. ♥
People fanboying over Neil fanboying over Drizzt is an inception :D
Just checking, but when Neil said he's going to shriek, did anyone else picture astraion with the Finn the Human scream, or just me?
Astarion meets Drizzt and squees. So so valid. Me too, buddy.
I would lose my crap if a dm had me meet drizzt. My own character is kinda modeled after him.
1:59 - she would poke out his lavender eyes and make jewelery with them, I guess 3:05 poor Gale 4:05 - omg, he's out of breath 6:40 - insert "Fight" in Mortal Kombat voice
You just know that if they make any story dlc for this game, an adaptation of this will be right up at the top.
Call Liam O'Brian to voice Drizzt though!
Neil's reaction
The moment the penny drops
i had the exact same reaction of neil when drizzt said "a friend that i can summon"
I did not like Astarion until I saw Neil Newbom doing some videos now he's one of my favorites in the game.
Drizzit Dudden!
Jennifer English is precious.
3:47 for a personal timestamp. Feel free to use!
Wyll and Gale just happy to be there
Drizzt is oke of the most magical and wonderful characters ever created. I would have fan girles so hard.
Neil knew immediately who it was!
Me a 6,2 guy when I learned that drow my favorite race where 5,2 including drizz't
I thought you be bigger but your definitely the one
#BringBingBongBack
Well, he ain't dead, just went back to Hell so there's that
Drizzt!!
Fanboying over Drizzt, I so totally understand that :D
Neil is such a DELIGHT
Gwyn and Icingdeath!!
It rips my ears everytime someone pronounces his name Dritz.
I wanna say that's how Salvatore himself pronounces it lol
I believe it's pronounced dritst - the zz like pizza
Well that's how R.A. Salvatore pronounces it and it's his character so cope I guess you're just pronouncing it wrong
The moment I met Drizzt, I would roll initiative.
Attempt to kill a legendary hero for their loot? Valid.
Say the name Drizzt and immediately clicked.
Astarion is the best!
His real name is D. Rizzt
Spoiler? Are team kill him for his scimitars?
Im pretty sure if anyone else tried Astarion would bite their face off
Yeah I also think about it
Isn't Astarion would look him delicious lol
@@strifenineteenpretty sure if they tried they would get sand bagged.
@@CodeeXD not necessarily, in the other 2 games you could encounter the entire Companions of the Hall and kill them an take their stuff. You didn't keep it for too long before an NPC would hunt you down and take it but you could still do it
Theo always looks so lost in this clips.
Good old Jizz'T
Them fighting over magical items is why Tav has everything LOL they can't be trusted
😂
the faces of these players looks like they are forced to play this DnD session against their will
I wish the dm would get Astarions name right ffs
Same tbh
Nice getting this huge spoiler before I got a chance to watch the second part of the stream lol.
You didn’t have to watch it??? Lmao
@@nemofish3504It's in the title...
@@XarkoCZ and? All you know is they met him, you didn’t have to know anything else lol it’s no different than a tv show, showing previews of the next episode.
You still chose to click on the video and watch it. So, blame yourselves.
Keep crying 😎
I get it.
Dark purple skin? What?
Why does he keep calling Drizzt "they"?
Not Drizzt, the character we customize in the game
@@LightStreak567 No, he's describing Drizzt with the purple skin and white hair. But I noticed he was doing that for Tav, too, even though Tav is canonically a man, as well.
@@rainiermcbane2313 For Drizzt, I suspect he was trying to keep things vague so anyone knowledgeable in the party wouldn't immediately guess his identity (not that it stopped Neil lol). As for Tav, Tav is not canonically male-you can play them as any gender in the game. So, Mark likely used gender neutral terms so anyone listening could imagine their own Tav in the story.
@@hannahfreedman8295 Why keep Drizzt ambiguous. Why would the actors care if the elf was male or not? And Tav is canonically male. There is a picture of Tav in Blood in Baldur's Gate. He's a bald man (race unclear, but nothing monstrous; you just can't see his ears).
@@rainiermcbane2313 "Why keep Drizzt ambiguous?" For suspense, of course. And to make it more of a surprise when his identity is revealed. Why? Are you reading some nefarious nonbinary agenda into the DM's perfectly standard pronoun usage?
Also, I really don't know what you're talking about saying that Tav is canonically a bald man. Have you had a chance to play the game yet? You can play a man, woman, or nonbinary person and there's plenty of options for hairstyle as well. You can even play a Dragonborn!
If you haven't seen the character creator yet, there's a good guide to the different options here: ruclips.net/video/N28wqvPP0iE/видео.htmlsi=RgA4Xd9fMnZD-2x9
As you can see, you could create a bald man Tav if you want to. But there isn't really a default (unless you play Dark Urge, in which case the default is a male white Dragonborn).
#BringBingBongBack