Complicated? The combat in D&D is incredibly simple, it only gives the illusion of being complicated because the players only start thinking about their turn when it's their turn, eating up everyone's time.
@@VIixIXine you know, I think "complicated" is one of those words that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I think DnD's combat has a huge amount of "illusion of choice", where you think you have a choice as to what to do, or that there is a best option, but 9/10 times (or more) the "correct" choice is obvious. It is not "complicated", certainly not compared to something like Eclipse Phase or GURPS or Shadowrun, but it IS complicated compared to something like Fellowship or Strike. Really what I think is wrong with DnD combat, and this isn't really the forum, is that it is needlessly complicated compared to its quality. Being good and fully understanding DnD combat does not make it more enjoyable, and takes a fair bit of effort compared to the enjoyment. Trust me, I don't think it is unknowably complicated, I run 12 games a week right now.
You also have to take into consideration martial classes tend to be much less complicated than casters. Fighters & barbarians can just run in & hit things. Casters need to worry about their positioning, having line of sight to enemies while not getting TOO close since they're so squishy. Do you put down a control spell or just do raw damage? Is it worth casting fireball that will take several minions down to half health or an ice knife on the heavy hitter who only has a few HP left? Also, 12 games a week? That's impressive! Kudos to you man!
My first playthrough I attempted to flirt with everyone I could. Which was fun right up until act 2 when they all started noticing and telling me how bad I hurt their feelings. Which lead me to reloading a way earlier save and replaying around half of what I'd already played because I felt very bad for being mean to the video game people. Lesson learned.
Definitely would’ve done the same, especially for example with Shart in my first (solo) playthrough. Unfortunately no matter how hard I tried in my coop playthrough, I couldn’t get karlach to romance me 😭 when she said EW I died
5:07 The transition from Astarion looking dramatic and badass to right after the fight where it's obvious he got his ass handed to him is cracking me up
you jest but there is a category for how fast you can sleep with someone i think its called sex % and i think its either laezel or minthara who are fastest to sleep with?
Hey your video inspired me to try a shadowheart karlach lae zel romance for act 1, and i succeded a bit differently. For me karlach night visit wouldnt trigger, after the repair or any moment later.(at 50 ish approval) So what i did is playing the game how you want just dont repair karlach and dont use shadowhearts and laezels, "truly connect" and "see me differwntly" dialogurs respectively until i meet zevlor after defeating the goblin chiefs and saving halsin. Then what i do is repair karlach the day of party, then go to camp and talk to shadowheart to connect and before ending day i do the same for laezel telling to share bodyes. Then i end day and party night activates, i talk only to karlach confessing, then i rest and choose karlach as option and trigger romance kiss. When i wake up and after halsin talk i go straight to long rest two more times, wich trigger shadowheart and laezel respectively, i dont talk to any of the three before compleeting all three scenes, and now all three are complete for act 1. Took me 10 hours. And ended with 90 approval shart 40ish approval lae zel 50ish approval karlach
The funniest thing is making your dream visitor look like the Emperor of Mankind. Because you can literally larp and say “the Emperor Protects” And then when you find out about him…well then it’s “Death to the False Emperor!”
I think you can technically have one more night with Astarion before he breaks up with you if you don’t make him bite Araj. There’ll be a dialogue option that basically says that you’re only interested in him for the body count video and you’ll force him to have another night with you. I’m not sure how this affects your relationships with the others though, I saw it in a different vid.
I rejected like 6 people in my run(Gale Wyll Lae'zel Halsin Emperor and Mizora) but despite my Tav being ace I think if your video is anything to go off of they might have unintentionally "built sandcastles" with shadowheart and got a body count. Karlach at least was open about what she wanted and I was open about what I wanted and we just cuddled, I just love my video game girlfriends even when we accidentally make sandcastles
You should have so many more subs than you do. This vid is very well made, your quick quips and funny banter really makes it enjoyable. I'm definitely subscribing and hope to see more of your work. Also respectfully, I like your voice.
After you give your body to the incubus if you walk past a certain point in town it triggers a special scene, arguably worth half a point. Could have had an even 12!
This was literally my Dark Urge run🤣 she was resisting the urge but not her camp mates! This is how I did mine: I was able to get Astarion and Lae’zel in act 1 with early proposition. Gale, Karlach and Wyll in Act 2 all well before even going near moonrise, each time after I did the deed I would speak to them to get the romance dialogue after then go to Astarion say I want to be with him then speak to the other character after which would break up and I think that cancelled the others out? That’s how I was able to do Gale, Karlach and Wyll I think. Wyll I got his romance scene but no fun fun, I assume it’s an act 3 one if he has one at all which would mean Wyll would have to be the last one before Mizora and Halsin. Shadowheart I unfortunately wasn’t able to get. Then in Act 3 had Halsin, the Drow twins, Mizora and then I just did Haarlep. I didn’t do the Minthara glitch so I didn’t get her either.
This is what I wanted my first playthrough to be 😭 I played a bard and everything. Ended up with just Gale, Emperor and the twins. On my second playthrough I got Astarion, Halsin, Mizora, Emperor and the twins. Which now that I think about it is a lot more than I have previously realised
i love playing baldurs gate for the complex combat and the amount of little stories hidden throughout the entire game including all the romancing stuff
gale & minthara are possible, killed the grove & minthara sat on my face. my approval w/ gale was high enough that we got private time in act 2 & then i immediately broke up with him the next day.
@@delphara yea i forgot about wyll & karlach (rip), but i did romance astarion, shadowheart & minthara in act 1 & still got the gale scene in act 2. also great video! i need to give this a try my next run lol
14:50 If you leave raphael alive you are supposed to get a "feeling" someone is touchy as far as i know or smth from harleep. Soo basically that should add up too.
As someone who starting playing dnd at 14, im mildly imsulted. As someone who read way too much fanfiction growing and played well over a dozen dating sims, and adore that part of bg3, you have my respect and attention
I LITERALLY searched "highest kill count" for bg3 on RUclips and this was the first and top result 🙄 (Neat video idea, but def not what I was looking for.) In case you're wondering I wanted to see if anyone would keep asterion alive when being a murder hobo for the 7k sacrifices or if it someone evens out.
Hey your video inspired me to try a shadowheart karlach lae zel romance for act 1, and i succeded a bit differently. For me karlach night visit wouldnt trigger, after the repair or any moment later.(at 50 ish approval) So what i did is playing the game how you want just dont repair karlach and dont use shadowhearts and laezels, "truly connect" and "see me differwntly" dialogurs respectively until i meet zevlor after defeating the goblin chiefs and saving halsin. Then what i do is repair karlach the day of party, then go to camp and talk to shadowheart to connect and before ending day i do the same for laezel telling to share bodyes. Then i end day and party night activates, i talk only to karlach confessing, then i rest and choose karlach as option and trigger romance kiss. When i wake up and after halsin talk i go straight to long rest two more times, wich trigger shadowheart and laezel respectively, i dont talk to any of the three before compleeting all three scenes, and now all three are complete for act 1. Took me 10 hours. And ended with 90 approval shart 40ish approval lae zel 50ish approval karlach
0:50 Whenever you do something you expect someone not to like, you get insensitive! “Get used to it” “deal with it” HEY I HAVE NO PROBLEM! Stop being mean!
Mu first character is a monogamous, hopeless roamntic paladib that fell for Lae'Zel, largeky because, despite everything, ahe was one of the few people in his life that always had hia back. My second was a slutty gnome bard.
shes pretty free if you make an enemy out of mizora and do her full questline while generally being flirty the only extra approval i got for her was the grove snake encounter and helping guex train which are both next to eachother in the grove you do have to make sure you get her act 1 scene before activating the celebration but thats the only strict req outside of completing the quest
for the record i did do this but cut it due to it not affecting the outcome also cut a whole section about an exploit in gales romance because of complications in act 2 making his scene impossible also cut karlachs act 3 date because it was also redundant and the video was getting long
wait did you do Gale and Wyll??? Edit: in my first run i managed to date Gale and Astarion simultaneously mod free so def possible (I couldnt date anyone else tho) (and also when i slept with Mizora Wyll got mad at me instead of the love interest??)
i tried gale but getting him all the way through act 2 while maintaining everyone else isnt possible wyll could be romanced if you’re willing to do karlach early and then break up with her but he doesnt put out so that motherfucker got sentenced to the friendzone
Honestly, I'm just impressed you managed to get that many sexual encounters. Usually mine top out at 5 characters because I'll co romance Astarion and Halsin, then hit up the drow twins, and then sleep with Haarlep.
Me clicking the video: "oh another genocide run? sounds fun"
*a few seconds later* "Oh THAT body count"
SAME
Same mistake bro, I'm outa here.
Wasn't the bus I wanted but I stayed for the ride anyways
OH
oh, it took me a LONG time to realize that.
Fax
Rip to my boy Gale stuck in a fast travel point until he dies
If you leave act 1 with him still there can you then come back for him before entering the Gauntlet of Shar?
@@RedMage8BT If you try to go back to Act 1 the Elder Brain spots you and turns you into a Mind Flayer
@@st3vorocks290 that's only after you free/kill the Nightsong I thought?
its only after u kill ketheric@@st3vorocks290
@@RedMage8BTafter killing ketheric
To be fair, many people play Dungeons and Dragons as a huge dating sim hidden behind a complicated combat sim that you can ignore.
Who types out DnD? 💀
@@charlesl4370 I do when I am in communities and forums that may not know the game, or in places where I think additional clarity would be useful.
Complicated? The combat in D&D is incredibly simple, it only gives the illusion of being complicated because the players only start thinking about their turn when it's their turn, eating up everyone's time.
@@VIixIXine you know, I think "complicated" is one of those words that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I think DnD's combat has a huge amount of "illusion of choice", where you think you have a choice as to what to do, or that there is a best option, but 9/10 times (or more) the "correct" choice is obvious. It is not "complicated", certainly not compared to something like Eclipse Phase or GURPS or Shadowrun, but it IS complicated compared to something like Fellowship or Strike.
Really what I think is wrong with DnD combat, and this isn't really the forum, is that it is needlessly complicated compared to its quality. Being good and fully understanding DnD combat does not make it more enjoyable, and takes a fair bit of effort compared to the enjoyment.
Trust me, I don't think it is unknowably complicated, I run 12 games a week right now.
You also have to take into consideration martial classes tend to be much less complicated than casters. Fighters & barbarians can just run in & hit things. Casters need to worry about their positioning, having line of sight to enemies while not getting TOO close since they're so squishy. Do you put down a control spell or just do raw damage? Is it worth casting fireball that will take several minions down to half health or an ice knife on the heavy hitter who only has a few HP left?
Also, 12 games a week? That's impressive! Kudos to you man!
My first playthrough I attempted to flirt with everyone I could. Which was fun right up until act 2 when they all started noticing and telling me how bad I hurt their feelings. Which lead me to reloading a way earlier save and replaying around half of what I'd already played because I felt very bad for being mean to the video game people. Lesson learned.
real
Definitely would’ve done the same, especially for example with Shart in my first (solo) playthrough. Unfortunately no matter how hard I tried in my coop playthrough, I couldn’t get karlach to romance me 😭 when she said EW I died
@@kingofgrim4761 the game still managed to find a way to hurt emotionally AND prevent you from hoeing around. Devastating
@@AllergyPuppy incredibly, thankfully my next playthrough I was a hoe, and now I’m getting Bae’zeal
Easy, play as Astarion. Hundreds right off the bat.
hehe bat
HELP THIS IS SOO BAD (i giggled)
thousands lol... craz pimped him out
Ain’t laezel super old? She could potentially have more
@@dallinmerino3998certainly not
5:07 The transition from Astarion looking dramatic and badass to right after the fight where it's obvious he got his ass handed to him is cracking me up
I had a completely different idea of what the title meant by body count.
I think I’ve been playing Durge too much.
I was thinking something like an Undertale Genocide Run when I first saw the title.
IDA? IDAHO? IDA HOE??? 😭😭😭
my mind when they said the state hint😂
@@eesameesHi! this youtuber uses she/her and they/them pronouns only :)
@@lunardelos1210 oh! my bad
@@eesamees all good! Thanks for fixing it
she certainly is
new speedrun category " Hoe % "
you jest but there is a category for how fast you can sleep with someone i think its called sex % and i think its either laezel or minthara who are fastest to sleep with?
I came here to say this
omg the matching collar joke
really love your sense of humor Delph and the video ❤
I hope my girlfriend doesn't see this video
X2( she will try it )
I think she'll be fine with it, but your boyfriend, theyfriend, and magical-talking-bearfriend are all going to be pissed.
Hey your video inspired me to try a shadowheart karlach lae zel romance for act 1, and i succeded a bit differently.
For me karlach night visit wouldnt trigger, after the repair or any moment later.(at 50 ish approval)
So what i did is playing the game how you want just dont repair karlach and dont use shadowhearts and laezels, "truly connect" and "see me differwntly" dialogurs respectively until i meet zevlor after defeating the goblin chiefs and saving halsin.
Then what i do is repair karlach the day of party, then go to camp and talk to shadowheart to connect and before ending day i do the same for laezel telling to share bodyes.
Then i end day and party night activates, i talk only to karlach confessing, then i rest and choose karlach as option and trigger romance kiss.
When i wake up and after halsin talk i go straight to long rest two more times, wich trigger shadowheart and laezel respectively, i dont talk to any of the three before compleeting all three scenes, and now all three are complete for act 1.
Took me 10 hours. And ended with 90 approval shart
40ish approval lae zel
50ish approval karlach
Ew lesbian
So sorry your girlfriend is so close-minded. All of my girlfriends are happy to hear about my romantic exploits in bg3😂
It would seem this video is in fact not about killing everyone
When you dont have a date for valentines day but baldurs gate has your back
The funniest thing is making your dream visitor look like the Emperor of Mankind.
Because you can literally larp and say “the Emperor Protects”
And then when you find out about him…well then it’s “Death to the False Emperor!”
nooooo
I think you can technically have one more night with Astarion before he breaks up with you if you don’t make him bite Araj. There’ll be a dialogue option that basically says that you’re only interested in him for the body count video and you’ll force him to have another night with you. I’m not sure how this affects your relationships with the others though, I saw it in a different vid.
It's coercion tbh, it's such a fucked up scene
@@TenshiPrimeTo be fair, this entire run is about stringing along as many people as possible. We're already going to hell for this.
looks like the count was going off how many individual people are slept with, not how many times you have sex in general
"Don't be like Idaho." Having lived next to Idaho my whole life, this is always good advice.
I rejected like 6 people in my run(Gale Wyll Lae'zel Halsin Emperor and Mizora) but despite my Tav being ace I think if your video is anything to go off of they might have unintentionally "built sandcastles" with shadowheart and got a body count. Karlach at least was open about what she wanted and I was open about what I wanted and we just cuddled, I just love my video game girlfriends even when we accidentally make sandcastles
"Karlach is hot as fuck" Not a single lie was told
My first thought when I saw the tumb:
"In a fight, right? Right?"
HER 5'4 PUPPY GIRL ENERGY😭😭
So many things I didnt know about, baldurs gate is rlly a game you can have hundreds of hours on and only experience a fraction of anything
Was it Wyoming? Ida Wyoming?
Nah, it's short for "I'd a gone to New Hampshire if I'd known there were so many freaks there."
Ida Hoe 😏
Ida Montana... Hannah's freakier sister.
This script is absolutely fucking golden
Brilliant! Love your humor and delivery. Outstanding editing too.
You should have so many more subs than you do. This vid is very well made, your quick quips and funny banter really makes it enjoyable. I'm definitely subscribing and hope to see more of your work. Also respectfully, I like your voice.
Great video! Love your sense of humor and style!
After you give your body to the incubus if you walk past a certain point in town it triggers a special scene, arguably worth half a point. Could have had an even 12!
"God is lame and trans puppygirls are life"
FACTS! 🧐✨
hilarious commentary. Thank you
This was literally my Dark Urge run🤣 she was resisting the urge but not her camp mates!
This is how I did mine:
I was able to get Astarion and Lae’zel in act 1 with early proposition. Gale, Karlach and Wyll in Act 2 all well before even going near moonrise, each time after I did the deed I would speak to them to get the romance dialogue after then go to Astarion say I want to be with him then speak to the other character after which would break up and I think that cancelled the others out? That’s how I was able to do Gale, Karlach and Wyll I think. Wyll I got his romance scene but no fun fun, I assume it’s an act 3 one if he has one at all which would mean Wyll would have to be the last one before Mizora and Halsin. Shadowheart I unfortunately wasn’t able to get. Then in Act 3 had Halsin, the Drow twins, Mizora and then I just did Haarlep. I didn’t do the Minthara glitch so I didn’t get her either.
I really love your voice. It's so comfortable to listen to!
Ty for figuring this out for me, lol. Kinda disappointed that Halsing seems to be the only one that doesn't eventually ask for exclusivity
Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize what kind of body count you were talking about.
This is what I wanted my first playthrough to be 😭
I played a bard and everything. Ended up with just Gale, Emperor and the twins. On my second playthrough I got Astarion, Halsin, Mizora, Emperor and the twins. Which now that I think about it is a lot more than I have previously realised
Love your style, glad I found your channel ^_^
i love playing baldurs gate for the complex combat and the amount of little stories hidden throughout the entire game including all the romancing stuff
Incredible narration
Wait, don't be like Ida Hoe? Shit, I learned the wrong lesson from this video.
This is the kind of content I’m looking for
gale & minthara are possible, killed the grove & minthara sat on my face. my approval w/ gale was high enough that we got private time in act 2 & then i immediately broke up with him the next day.
if you kill the grove you get locked out of 3 other romances lmao
gale is locked out by act 2 if you romance most of the other companions
@@delphara yea i forgot about wyll & karlach (rip), but i did romance astarion, shadowheart & minthara in act 1 & still got the gale scene in act 2.
also great video! i need to give this a try my next run lol
I love your voice and every second of this video 🤣
i was wondering what kind of body count you meant, but when i saw the thumbnail i immediately understood
I love searching for Bg3 content and getting a video that basically asks the question, "How much of a bop can you be in Bg3?"
Finally someone’s asking the important questions!
Oh, I didn't know they included D&D in my Astarion Dating Simulator
14:50
If you leave raphael alive you are supposed to get a "feeling" someone is touchy as far as i know or smth from harleep. Soo basically that should add up too.
I totally thought this was a different kind of body count when clicking on the video, but now I'm very intrigued.
never really tried, but my record is 3 (being Astarion, Lae'zel and Harlep)... and somehow I stayed in line with a paladin oath during all this...
so you can trigger private times outside of the night at the party, good to know
The commentaries pretty freaking funny though😂
Now we’re asking the real questions
As someone who starting playing dnd at 14, im mildly imsulted.
As someone who read way too much fanfiction growing and played well over a dozen dating sims, and adore that part of bg3, you have my respect and attention
. . . My Ace ass thought this video was going to be about murder.
Came because I deeply misunderstood the nature of this run. Stayed because I didn’t realize it until 7 minutes in and I’m loving this
"little did he know that she''s into that sh*t" lmaoo literally everything astarion does..
I had this question boiling in the back of my mind since launch day.
You had me at “there are two kinds or bg3 players” I also am a watt pad girlie
Me, 4 minutes into the video: “Wait, where’s Gale?”
Me, after the video is over and thinking about Gale’s romance path: “Oh, right…”
I LITERALLY searched "highest kill count" for bg3 on RUclips and this was the first and top result 🙄
(Neat video idea, but def not what I was looking for.)
In case you're wondering I wanted to see if anyone would keep asterion alive when being a murder hobo for the 7k sacrifices or if it someone evens out.
Hey your video inspired me to try a shadowheart karlach lae zel romance for act 1, and i succeded a bit differently.
For me karlach night visit wouldnt trigger, after the repair or any moment later.(at 50 ish approval)
So what i did is playing the game how you want just dont repair karlach and dont use shadowhearts and laezels, "truly connect" and "see me differwntly" dialogurs respectively until i meet zevlor after defeating the goblin chiefs and saving halsin.
Then what i do is repair karlach the day of party, then go to camp and talk to shadowheart to connect and before ending day i do the same for laezel telling to share bodyes.
Then i end day and party night activates, i talk only to karlach confessing, then i rest and choose karlach as option and trigger romance kiss.
When i wake up and after halsin talk i go straight to long rest two more times, wich trigger shadowheart and laezel respectively, i dont talk to any of the three before compleeting all three scenes, and now all three are complete for act 1.
Took me 10 hours. And ended with 90 approval shart
40ish approval lae zel
50ish approval karlach
not the vid what I wanted but the vid I needed I guess
Bg3 for me is a character creator game it's time to explore dating sim part of his game.
You can private time Minthara, on screen, if you take out the goblin camp.
It's a remarkably decent D/S scene
me for half of the video wondering why you weren't killing everyone on sight
0:50 Whenever you do something you expect someone not to like, you get insensitive! “Get used to it” “deal with it” HEY I HAVE NO PROBLEM! Stop being mean!
Isn’t life a giant dating sim with a complicated combat system
Not me thinking this would be a Chaotic Evil build for, you know... shutting down NPCs... not getting down with NPCs... lol
This is not what I thought was meant by body count. I guess I know which group I fit into.
How does Delphi say this s**t and not immediately die laughing.
The gasp I gusped when I heard scratch 🤣
Mu first character is a monogamous, hopeless roamntic paladib that fell for Lae'Zel, largeky because, despite everything, ahe was one of the few people in his life that always had hia back.
My second was a slutty gnome bard.
I thought this video would be about some good ol' murderin'
This video has to blow up ngl!
Why did it take me 7 minutes to figure out they're not talking about killing as many people as possible....
Ida is a real name ok? :')
Me after massacring village after village:
Impressive! In my first playthrough it was 6.5
.5??
@@AddiePug 0.5 it's Naoise Nallinto
the fact you didn’t make her a bard is criminal
I am ever so disappointed Ida wasn't the stereotypical hornmeister bard
Watching this video as someone whose name is Ida was interesting to say the least 😂
This is not he body count I had in mind
I heard body count and I thought he was going to kill everyone 😢
I have had like 7 body's in my first play through I think...
the character was actually adorable tho :3
Ah, way different than my play through.
Absolutely no Gale mention lol💀
This was a sick run. And I don’t mean it in a good way
Broo I don't get how you manage to Rizz karlach so easily I've been trying to for so long 😭😭😭
shes pretty free if you make an enemy out of mizora and do her full questline while generally being flirty
the only extra approval i got for her was the grove snake encounter and helping guex train which are both next to eachother in the grove
you do have to make sure you get her act 1 scene before activating the celebration but thats the only strict req outside of completing the quest
Let's start counting 😏
I thought this was going to be about killing people. I am happily surprised 😂
0:09 immediate subscribe
What mod are you using for her face?? She's beautiful!
i am sorry to say most bg3 players are both fanfic readers and dnd players
It took me up til 7 mins in to understand this meant ROMANCE body count and not MURDER body count 💀
You can actually sleep with Astarion twice in act 1, so rip that
for the record i did do this but cut it due to it not affecting the outcome
also cut a whole section about an exploit in gales romance because of complications in act 2 making his scene impossible
also cut karlachs act 3 date because it was also redundant and the video was getting long
"SCRATCH" hold up
Me seeing the title
Okay is this a body count or a *body count*
wait did you do Gale and Wyll???
Edit: in my first run i managed to date Gale and Astarion simultaneously mod free so def possible (I couldnt date anyone else tho) (and also when i slept with Mizora Wyll got mad at me instead of the love interest??)
i tried gale but getting him all the way through act 2 while maintaining everyone else isnt possible
wyll could be romanced if you’re willing to do karlach early and then break up with her but he doesnt put out so that motherfucker got sentenced to the friendzone
I wonder why Gale was not included in this? I understand that he doesn't like polyamory but surely that's not an issue if he doesn't know?
theres no way to have him not know; its not based on what they see its based on global triggers
Honestly, I'm just impressed you managed to get that many sexual encounters.
Usually mine top out at 5 characters because I'll co romance Astarion and Halsin, then hit up the drow twins, and then sleep with Haarlep.
Yep, it is a dating sim with some extra stuff!
Oh i thought you meant killing. Ive never done romance in the game ha