He could be both. Whenever you're playing music, one of the random text pop-ups from the NPCs is "Know any Volo tunes?". His bumbling at the Goblin camp was because he was terrified lmao
Small thing for the grym fight: You can activate the valve with a bow shot so you can save yourself the jump and position before the fight and trigger the valve with an arrow.
Oh my god I thought that after the Fighter series a Bard series would be a distant dream. As a career DnD Bard I absolutely cannot wait to start watching this. Thanks for all your quality content as always!
In dead of night, out on the streets, I met a 7 year old highly articulate kid who likes to play chess and run marathons, named Bartholomew. Then when I woke up this morning, realised in my sleepy stupor I opened the playlist last night and fell asleep. 10/10, would watch again.
This is more like it! I've been watching various BG3 challenge videos, but they usually all make some cheesy respecced multiclass build, and use plenty of barrelmancy, which makes it kind of pointless. Your 8 rules is what all BG3 challenge videos should follow! You've earned a like from me!
Dude, you got roofied by Gut and thought you couldn’t hold your liquor? Man, you gotta be more careful around those cougars! They’ll do _anything_ to ride a young hog… (PSA: GET TESTED!) In less salacious news: your videos are freaking amazing! So well done, and entertaining. Too bad I’m 1/2 way through Act 2, and therefore can’t watch them all the way through, yet. Cheers!
I'm surprised you didn't pick up the wonderous gloves in the underdark. +1 to AC and an additional bardic inspiration dice. Either way this is going to be one crazy run and I'm here for it.
I think for an extra challenge you should turn on Karmic Dice so that they can guarantee your rolls being progressively worse despite existing to make them better.
@@Captain-Stink-of-the-VoidThign is, Karmic dice applies to the enemies as well. Meaning if you get hits, the more likely you will suddenly start missing.
Oh man i´m loving Bardtholomew´s story, can´t wait to hear him in the big leagues, and I still can´t believe you made the Spectator work, you´re a god gamer Truant, can´t wait for Act 2 and the next streams, keep it up dude! im loving the content 🧡
So entertaining how you do these runs and videos. Somebody may have mentioned this, but you can just send in Scratch to pop the mephit ambush while hiding above. It is then easy to pick them off with a bow. If he isn't your familiar yet, you can just long rest without supplies to advance things like that.
I loved the run. I've been watching the live stream VODs while working from home and they are very enjoyable. Wishing you all the best in your future challenge runs!
I played act 1 for 3rd time, just ran past everyone with invisibility as wizard into act 2 straight to moonrise towers with the spider. Goblin camp bypass to creche, avoid creche into shadow lands, call for bard without lyre. Level 3 into moonrise towers. Edit: So my point was act 1 is completely optional Act 2 has one mandatory fight, for the netherstone. Even act 2 can be cheese with invis + runepowder barrel to make it optional. Act 3 is optional if u have gale ending. :]
A fun tip, If you wanna grab the ring of protection you can complete the investigate kauga quest. if you do things right the ritual will stop meaning you can take the idol and get the ring consequence free!
I played a Bard Lonewolf (mostly) but focused on Shield/Sword combo in Act II and III. It hugely increased my survivability while my damage was still high enough.
It’s been so fun watching the livestreams and seeing Bardtholomew’s story uncut and at it’s rawest ❤ Convinced me to to do Bard after my Durge Oathbreaker/Warlock run 👍
I will say for the mephit fight you could drink an Elixer of Vigilance. It gives a +5 to your initiative and prevents you from being surprised. You still killed without it, but this might help you out with future runs.
I couldn't help but think of Dave Navarro the entire time looking at your character. The hair and facial hair combo was just too spot on to not be on purpose 😭😂
Sad to say I didn't realize that the key to the minthara structural damage approach was going into turn-based mode... I literally reloaded that moment over 8 times trying to do it in real time LOL great video though
For the mephit fight you can summon scratch from the broken bridge and he takes the aggro and surprised round. (I prefer doing this with mage hand for obvious reasons)
@@the_truant With any weapon-based class ( as opposed to something like a Sorc that HAS to long rest), I keep that bless along with bliss spores and morninglord's blessing throughout half of Act 1 and all of act 2. Also, the +5 shar's blessing to all mental stats. You just need to not have Laezel in your party so that Voss doesn't show up and force a long rest.
@@joseywales7463 It really depends on whether it is your first playthrough. If you aren't too familiar with the game and the encounters, it can be hard sometimes on 4 party normal. I only play solo tactician, after trying the game for a bit on balanced and with a party. Once you have a decent idea of the game, and especially if you know about a fight beforehand, anything less than solo tactician is trivial. With certain characters, like a gloomstalker, fire sorc, or fighter, it is realistic to never die once on solo tactician even as a single class with no respeccing and no barrel stuff.
I'm on my second lonewolf run as my first one got corrupted at the end of Act 2, and honestly it's so much fun. Granted I don't impose on myself the same limitations; I used a lot of barrelmancy on my first solo run, and now on my second I'm doing Durge with full illithid powers. On both playthroughs, I've discovered that invisibility is broken if you're doing lonewolf as you can keep resetting combat.
its a shame u didn't go college of lore bard, u can get some nice spell slot efficiency with call lightning, spiritual weapon and conjure elemental, plus the rest of the lore features are rlly good
*Sets incredibly difficult challenge for himself* Hmmm I need to make it EVEN HARDER, NO MULTICLASS, NO ILLITHID POWER, NO RESPEC, NO NOTHING, FI WE BALL
A tip for Nere and Brithvar, you don't ACTUALLY need to kill the scrying eye to get them to help in the fight. Personally I just talked to them about their plot, got to the step where you need to kill the eye, and then just attacked Nere anyways after freeing him. They'll automatically join in as neutral to you, but hostile to Nere and his allies.
About that pit fall in the overgrown ruins, the bunch of ruin raiders you encounter after falling down the hole can be easily annihilated by throwing a fireball or a lit torch at the red barrel in the middle of them :)
13:38 tbf, Mizzora was pretty racist towards the goblins, calling them "these creatures" to their faces and was their boss, so it is pretty realistic that the goblin guard would be more upset about having to replace the bridge.
I swear when bg3 was made its like youtubers actually wanted to put effort into editing again like all of these amazing youtubers I've been watching all have like 10k subscribers yet the make really good edits
my rolls were consistently worse with karmic on, probably something to do with it apparently also applying to enemies so maybe they were eating up all the bonuses it gave out. idk how it works so I'm just guessing
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So small fun fact: Volo isnt actually a bard. He's a Wizard. Which is why he is REALLY bad at poetry and songs when encountered in the Goblin Camp.
That makes so much sense
REALLY?! Huh…2 playthrough 400+ Hours and never thought that…Man, That does make sense
He could be both. Whenever you're playing music, one of the random text pop-ups from the NPCs is "Know any Volo tunes?". His bumbling at the Goblin camp was because he was terrified lmao
Nah then why would he need a potion of invis and not just cast a spell, and use a ice pick and not magic to get the parasite??
@@ImfrAfreak Oh thats easy. Not his trained area. Or Potions are just easier to do than spells. Same for the Ice pick, just a more hands on approach.
Small thing for the grym fight: You can activate the valve with a bow shot so you can save yourself the jump and position before the fight and trigger the valve with an arrow.
That makes a lot of sense haha
You know you're an Illithid when you're wrestling a goblin over a tadpole thank you. Great video king
Oh my god I thought that after the Fighter series a Bard series would be a distant dream. As a career DnD Bard I absolutely cannot wait to start watching this. Thanks for all your quality content as always!
Absolutely my pleasure, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
In dead of night, out on the streets, I met a 7 year old highly articulate kid who likes to play chess and run marathons, named Bartholomew. Then when I woke up this morning, realised in my sleepy stupor I opened the playlist last night and fell asleep. 10/10, would watch again.
This is more like it!
I've been watching various BG3 challenge videos, but they usually all make some cheesy respecced multiclass build, and use plenty of barrelmancy, which makes it kind of pointless.
Your 8 rules is what all BG3 challenge videos should follow! You've earned a like from me!
i love the commentary and the editing is fantastic!
Dude, you got roofied by Gut and thought you couldn’t hold your liquor? Man, you gotta be more careful around those cougars! They’ll do _anything_ to ride a young hog… (PSA: GET TESTED!)
In less salacious news: your videos are freaking amazing! So well done, and entertaining. Too bad I’m 1/2 way through Act 2, and therefore can’t watch them all the way through, yet. Cheers!
“she is in fact secretly sleeping” made me laugh out loud
The rockstar jokes were SOOO on point, the narration felt very "in character". 10/10, looking forward for act 2
I'm surprised you didn't pick up the wonderous gloves in the underdark. +1 to AC and an additional bardic inspiration dice. Either way this is going to be one crazy run and I'm here for it.
Yeah I'm a little surprised about that too, I forgot they existed cause I was so focused on getting the flawed helldusk gauntlets in act 2 haha
very clean content, definitely deserving of more views, thanks for all the effort you put in!
Thank you so much I really appreciate it!
28:30 The dream visitor gives you Bless once you leave them
I think for an extra challenge you should turn on Karmic Dice so that they can guarantee your rolls being progressively worse despite existing to make them better.
Karmic dice saved me
I rolled not one. Not two. But three DOUBLE ones in a row
Karmic dice saved me from my shitty luck lol
@@Captain-Stink-of-the-VoidThign is, Karmic dice applies to the enemies as well.
Meaning if you get hits, the more likely you will suddenly start missing.
Oh man i´m loving Bardtholomew´s story, can´t wait to hear him in the big leagues, and I still can´t believe you made the Spectator work, you´re a god gamer Truant, can´t wait for Act 2 and the next streams, keep it up dude! im loving the content 🧡
So entertaining how you do these runs and videos. Somebody may have mentioned this, but you can just send in Scratch to pop the mephit ambush while hiding above. It is then easy to pick them off with a bow. If he isn't your familiar yet, you can just long rest without supplies to advance things like that.
I played as a Lore Bard in my first ever BG3 run (also my my first experience with CRPGs and DND), and boy was it so fun!
I loved the run. I've been watching the live stream VODs while working from home and they are very enjoyable. Wishing you all the best in your future challenge runs!
Love it, bard is definitely a favorite of mine too, neat seeing how vers it is
I played act 1 for 3rd time, just ran past everyone with invisibility as wizard into act 2 straight to moonrise towers with the spider. Goblin camp bypass to creche, avoid creche into shadow lands, call for bard without lyre. Level 3 into moonrise towers.
Edit: So my point was act 1 is completely optional
Act 2 has one mandatory fight, for the netherstone.
Even act 2 can be cheese with invis + runepowder barrel to make it optional. Act 3 is optional if u have gale ending. :]
Volo is actually technically a wizard, he’s just a really stupid one. In the lore Elminster often fact checks his self published books lol
Go figure haha good to know, I just assumed he was a bard cause well, just look at him
A fun tip, If you wanna grab the ring of protection you can complete the investigate kauga quest. if you do things right the ritual will stop meaning you can take the idol and get the ring consequence free!
I played a Bard Lonewolf (mostly) but focused on Shield/Sword combo in Act II and III. It hugely increased my survivability while my damage was still high enough.
the series is back! this is exiting, good luck!
Just noticed that you're at 9.99K subs, so here's a subscription to get you one step closer to 10k!
Great MC build. I rolled something similar, but with a party. Using Karlach and Wyll as warlocks and Shadowheart as a Light Cleric.
karlach as a warlock seems so strange thematically
I'm really hyped for this one, good luck man!
It’s been so fun watching the livestreams and seeing Bardtholomew’s story uncut and at it’s rawest ❤ Convinced me to to do Bard after my Durge Oathbreaker/Warlock run 👍
Thanks for watching both, good luck on your run!
Fuck yesssssssss, happy to see you're continuing the series!
Keep up the video, your video is very high quality for a small channel. Cheers
Thank you, more to come!
Absolutely amazing vids boi keep it up waiting for part 2
Yay! I really enjoy your videos😊
I will say for the mephit fight you could drink an Elixer of Vigilance. It gives a +5 to your initiative and prevents you from being surprised. You still killed without it, but this might help you out with future runs.
The fight is even fully avoidable by just sneaking past them to the mythrill ore
Even tho I watched the stream the video was amazing to watch. Great editing!
Thanks for watching both!
How don't you have more subs this was hilarious lmao
I couldn't help but think of Dave Navarro the entire time looking at your character. The hair and facial hair combo was just too spot on to not be on purpose 😭😂
This was great, looking forward to the next instalments.
Sad to say I didn't realize that the key to the minthara structural damage approach was going into turn-based mode... I literally reloaded that moment over 8 times trying to do it in real time LOL great video though
laezel jumping off the nautiloid gets me every time 😂
Throwing up a salute and obligatory like just for virtue of honour mode probably coming out mid you filming this LMFAOO
Make more bro your video is so good and your storytelling are good too :D
For the mephit fight you can summon scratch from the broken bridge and he takes the aggro and surprised round. (I prefer doing this with mage hand for obvious reasons)
I will be doing this in every future run
You can sneak past the Mephits. Directly to the ore.
Loving this series! Consider doing monk next!
once again a banger video!
the bless comes from the dream visitor!
its their way of aiding you in the gith fight.
Oh thank god I'm so glad someone told me haha, that makes so much sense
@@the_truant With any weapon-based class ( as opposed to something like a Sorc that HAS to long rest), I keep that bless along with bliss spores and morninglord's blessing throughout half of Act 1 and all of act 2. Also, the +5 shar's blessing to all mental stats. You just need to not have Laezel in your party so that Voss doesn't show up and force a long rest.
For a party of 4 is normal Difficulty too easy?
@@joseywales7463 It really depends on whether it is your first playthrough. If you aren't too familiar with the game and the encounters, it can be hard sometimes on 4 party normal.
I only play solo tactician, after trying the game for a bit on balanced and with a party. Once you have a decent idea of the game, and especially if you know about a fight beforehand, anything less than solo tactician is trivial. With certain characters, like a gloomstalker, fire sorc, or fighter, it is realistic to never die once on solo tactician even as a single class with no respeccing and no barrel stuff.
@@davidmills1520 wow. So I'm guessing this game is much easier than DOS2?
I'm on my second lonewolf run as my first one got corrupted at the end of Act 2, and honestly it's so much fun. Granted I don't impose on myself the same limitations; I used a lot of barrelmancy on my first solo run, and now on my second I'm doing Durge with full illithid powers. On both playthroughs, I've discovered that invisibility is broken if you're doing lonewolf as you can keep resetting combat.
my favorite thing about beating BG3 is the fact I can finally fucking watch BG3 challenge run videos
Keep up the great work man
Thank you thank you, will do :)
Holy shit the view to like ratio is insane, congratulations man!
Thank you, I'm blessed by all the support!
I'd love to see this done with Permadeath. A chronicled death-free run that isn't a ranged gloom talker or some other variant.
12:10 The way that cut was done, it looks like volo killed you and dumped your body into the underdark
its a shame u didn't go college of lore bard, u can get some nice spell slot efficiency with call lightning, spiritual weapon and conjure elemental, plus the rest of the lore features are rlly good
Excited for this one!
You're a beast at this game 👍
*Sets incredibly difficult challenge for himself*
Hmmm I need to make it EVEN HARDER, NO MULTICLASS, NO ILLITHID POWER, NO RESPEC, NO NOTHING, FI WE BALL
Bardtholomew be wantin to party, BUT YOU GOTTA TELL BARDTHOLOMEW NO!!!
the ogres definitely were more of a hindrance than help with the Grym fight lol
Oh for sure
Love me some Bardtholomew in the morning ^^
A tip for Nere and Brithvar, you don't ACTUALLY need to kill the scrying eye to get them to help in the fight. Personally I just talked to them about their plot, got to the step where you need to kill the eye, and then just attacked Nere anyways after freeing him. They'll automatically join in as neutral to you, but hostile to Nere and his allies.
Please tell me that his group is called Caustic Band
Genius
About that pit fall in the overgrown ruins, the bunch of ruin raiders you encounter after falling down the hole can be easily annihilated by throwing a fireball or a lit torch at the red barrel in the middle of them :)
Yeah. Level two encounters are typically made quite easy by a mid game spell lol
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I Love this. Cant wait for act 2
in the trap room where withers is you can just press a button right next to the middle sacrophagus to deactivate the trap
I didn’t expect Barr next on the block, I thought he’d go sorcerer
It’ll be fun to see how this compares to the Fighter in the long run.
Let’s go! So ready to see this!
great stuff as usual
4:38 I had no idea you could fall into that pit without dropping the cargo on it!
13:38 tbf, Mizzora was pretty racist towards the goblins, calling them "these creatures" to their faces and was their boss, so it is pretty realistic that the goblin guard would be more upset about having to replace the bridge.
Indeed A'jak'nir Jeera is the ultimate gith waifu i would sell my soul to have her as a companion member.
barcus the mixtape recipient☠️☠️☠️
I swear when bg3 was made its like youtubers actually wanted to put effort into editing again like all of these amazing youtubers I've been watching all have like 10k subscribers yet the make really good edits
I just realized my dude isn't even using magic armor or weapons in every slot possible. My man is making it even harder on himself
You should try beating the game using a randomizer mod or something, would probably be a good challenge
That's a great idea, I'll add that to the challenge run ideas
Ahahaha I had to use the same Pokémon Strat when I massacred the crèche my first play through
OH YA some more bg3 challenge runs!!!
In druid's grove, over by Alfira, there's a hat that when you inspire an ally, you heal 1-6 hp, but I guess that doesn't really work with solo.
Alfira is the bard at the Grove, not Volo! Great video!
Withers: "dost thou know of Weezer?"
There are few fights you actually must do to finish Act 1. Getting through it solo is almost trivial.
Do druid next ^ ^
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Ive been playing for a few days now, you can save during combat???
I didnt even try...
People actually fight the magma mephits? I just sneak past them to the Mithril node and they never spawn...
Need to assert your dominance y'know
the spider just tps back up whenever i knock it off..
My first bard in BG3 was named bardtholomew lmao
The one true bard name evidently!
Great job!
22:25 you could say you went down with the sickness?
my rolls were consistently worse with karmic on, probably something to do with it apparently also applying to enemies so maybe they were eating up all the bonuses it gave out.
idk how it works so I'm just guessing
Only 8 hours is crazy impressive considering i spent more than that on a normal run
Haha well to be fair rounds are a lot shorter when you only control 1 character
please do druid next time ! its my favourite class
Great stuff.
I love how much more difficult it is than the fighter run lol...
Early game for bard is rough till extra attack which is later than martial classes
Tell me about it, it's a rough go
I play BG3 with explorer difficulty, with companion also AND still struggle lol
How is the Adamantine scale +3 dex bonus? You took 2 dex for your feat, not medium armor master, right?
Yeah sorry that was just me misspeaking, thanks for catching that!
I've yet to see Raphael... Not sure how I've missed him so many times
This would have been cool if you live streamed it
It was live streamed, all the VODs are on my channel
When are you gonna play Resevoir Dogs for the PS2
1 million sub reward
@chessquestionmark
i met you on the acds, small world huh!
now do it on honor mode
If you throw the spider queen in to the underdark, does her corpse show up there?
It does yeah!