The Diplomatic Druid - Baldur's Gate 3 - Ep 17

Darian interesting what if it's because he's a vampire that something different might happen interesting um I'm gonna try to open the book myself though oh he did want it earlier that's true steren disapproves oh because he really did want himself we'll try that on another save fail changed battered for having opened it suddenly you are capable of anything traveling mountains darkening Suns conversing with the Dead glyphs I can already Converse to the dead play before your eyes words slip into your mind onto your lips forming words you don't understand thing is trying to reply wisdom luckily is our best stat right we have plus three wisdom and we're proficient in the saving throw for wisdom so we're gonna have a plus five to these rules presumably we can also owl's wisdom ourselves which is going to give us advantage and guidance so yeah try to turn to the next page of this evil evil book that's interesting neither will nor myself can cast a spell and Eagles wisdom do I not have stat oh she might not have the stat uh Advantage spell uh memorized but why can't I do it thanks because it's saving throw not a check oh you're right right owl's wisdom and things like that is just for attribute like skill checks which this is not well I get to awarding bond because this will last through multiple things then we'll have the oh resistance right yeah it's not guidance it's resistance we'll do this first I know it's only a plus one but we'll be able to have resistance for the future things yeah we can only do one under there so we'll do this 18. what a great number to roll and then if if you're gonna take damage we'll share it with shadowheart it'll be fine am I reading it backwards like a manga dot Beneath Your Eyes wolfing and twisting resistance also lost in the country almost understand true I guess we could have cast it in either order um but I wanted this way because this was only dc10 so right now I'm like I'll just do the plus one um I guess yeah it doesn't matter either way it would come up to the same all right her in another page but now we'll add the resistance and we have I believe a lot of inspiration only an eight no problems the world around you is gone can only see those glyphs only hear those voices feel claws moving in the shadows pull at you dragging you closer I like how at this point it's a saving throw to close the book but I mean we've gone this far we've got to keep going right urge your hand to turn another page I need to know yes The Cliffs scream branding your mind with strange runes time Rewritten I like how we're doing a dolly Zoom done just running with power struggle to clean the clumps of what you know powerful necromancy you're sure but it Darts Away leaving only Hells screams the book snaps closed seem too much what profane knowledge is now seared inside of you you should never have known so unlock the engine's home we managed to read most the book absorbing Summit necromantic power but it's not shut before we could finish it there must be a way to reach the end that's it as far as I've ever gotten with this and we we got this far in the multiplayer game I have no idea what comes next other than maybe we give it to a Starion or something like that I don't know we'll have to see what develops as we go forward fine all right we got a goblin over there nice nice vantage point Guinea hole corrupted our sweet dial and Dale's been a little bit of a downward slide ever since this brain worm got in him it's proper scary so this is I think an old selling night Temple that has been taken over by these goblins and is apparently where um does it say they brought house in but I think Houston and the group adventurers had intentionally gone here specifically to see what was up and then got captured yeah a path over there I wonder no let's go we need we need house and we're gonna cross the bridge now now he's gonna walk through the front because that's what we do because I want to see what the conversations are but I think I might do the thing where I send a group up over oh there's someone over there sharp eyes nerd what now we could attempt to go there but it's brightly lit there is someone there keeping watch another path over this way I think it does make sense to at least put most people over here never mind this main gate or I'll play a player house okay I guess we're not going that way I would still think I'd leave some people here not climb up but leave them here so if the fight starts they can move up here and relatively quickly get themselves in a high ground position to do some stuff which I think might still be an okay idea people one move ahead I've got a long road ahead oh Auto saved always a good sign Goblin's ahead wardrobe one of those can summon Fighters far and wise war drum over there okay if a fight does break out let's try to not let them Reach The Ward from might be tricky hello unless you got another reason to be here fake site as the symbol glows power courses through and we rested so our lifted powers beautiful animal that should belong to the Northern war gotha family now we're going to use our listed Powers because that's getting darker and darker here I'm sorry what is this forbidden knowledge from partially deciphering the necromancy of Fae you gain a plus one bonus to wisdom saving throws and ability checks oh okay that works for me and yeah we do have this I may as well go ahead and just throw a guidance on because it'll last for 10 turns and it might be relevant uh if there's a combat critical success all right um damn cool Banco a shadow swims across your vision and a familiar voice tells you to be calm you are loved you see let's we got a true Soul coming through all right uh I'm looking for a druid named halson where is he I don't know any house in your exceleness I heard it was captured breaking into this very Camp oh one of them thieves if they ain't dead he's in the pits with the rest of them all right tell me what can I expect inside let's just celebrating the raid on where Cane's rest we kept it a joke we did all the way from the city I'm sure there are actual make sure you get the best of the spoils your ex illness the boss is in the temple inside of mythara too and and Priestess God can show you how many new recruits we got so a couple of things one uh in a multiplayer game because we did some things in different order I actually know where this Duke came from but we haven't actually done this I haven't actually gone in to this yet so I don't know what the deal is um the Priestess theoretically is the one that one Goblin in town was saying might be able to heal our mindworm issue I don't know if we'll trust the goblin Priestess to do it hello level up level four are we ah okay so this brings us to an interesting thing we're gonna pick a feed we do get um wild shape deep Roth or Roth a assume the shape of a dethrop that can cast Dancing Lights and charge this enemies deep broth has a starting health of 23 hit points and increases every two Druid levels we can also wild shape dire Raven ship a diary Raven that can avoid attention and blind enemies 13 hit points presumably it probably has a flying move as well as an option we pick a can trip here we could take poison spray and then use that staff of like bonus poison damage we could grab resistance in case we for some reason don't have Shadow heart in a party and then we'll still have the option of casting resistance I don't know how important that is but I don't really care for most of we could consider produce flame that way Dell would have an option of producing flame on command since he doesn't have um the Firebolt spell hmm I don't know you know what I'm gonna go poison spray let's get a little darker wouldn't spray very next time to me I mean I don't care for poison spray in the pen and paper version terribly much either but it's like it's a little different we don't currently have an ability to generate poison specifically on command and so I'm a little bit curious as to what this might do for us so I'm going to do that just because it'll give us some variety um we could consider changing some of our prepared spells I mean we don't have to do this on leveling but um in general okay I guess we got an extra spell slot which it just randomly filled with ice knife which I don't care about I am gonna go and get the um I already have enhanced stability memorized okay we could prep pass without Trace in case we do want to do some sneaky sneaky stuff no you're right the combat spells aren't as important as I'm often in Bear form and so maybe there's an argument for a different kind of Chan trip here um so like perusalem is a combat spell but could be a utility resistance but no I'm going to take this for some of the times when I'm not in an animal form for whatever reason okay so here's the thing with the level up I think that for most characters assuming you have even stats so therefore you're not looking for maybe a half feet to like fix it or if you had two odd Feats or hot odd stats then you'd still want ability proven um my belief is fairly that ability Improvement is probably the strongest thing you can do um and in general especially as a spellcaster I'd probably be most interested in increasing our primary spell cast means that now this might be less critical for Dell because he's not a primary spellcaster because a lot of times he does just shift to animal form for combat in which case his wisdom doesn't really matter that much because we don't care about the wisdom saving throw or anything um but the other thing is I was wondering if as a rule I should be like listen I'm not going to take ability Improvement despite the fact that I generally consider it to be the the best pick most of the time and force myself to take a feat just because it's somewhat more interesting although I hadn't gotten far enough to plan what that would be for Dell here right actor we get Proficiency in uh deception and performance I mean it doesn't really Vibe with me although we do have decent charisma and also it's a half feet so it increased our Charisma by one which doesn't wouldn't do anything for us right 14 to a 15 is kind of pointless alert's pretty cool initiative bonus can't be surprised we do like that a lot um yeah there are Feats that get plus one ability but a plus one right now won't do anything for us we could consider taking it and then taking another half feet at level eight that completes it and brings us to an even number if I had odd numbered stuff like let's add a wisdom of 17 if there's something in here that gets plus one to wisdom that would be very appealing but we don't so yeah got that we got athlete here which does give his plus one to a stat um and then uh when we're prone we stand up a little easier charger does give us weapon attack and shove charge move I don't know if that works in Bear form I suspect the answer is no we don't do crossbow stuff um defensive Duelists won't matter to us dual wield or what matters to us um dungeon Denver is interesting gain advantage on perception checks made to detect hidden objects we actually have a pretty good perception um and so getting advantage on us would make us very reliable at finding hidden stuff um trap resistance maybe matters a little bit less saving throws to avoid traps maybe matters left so you can spot it but there is potentially some benefit in us taking this for the advantage on perception checks that's interesting we could get something to give us plus one strength to get a 10 but we don't care about our strength really um going from a minus one to strength checks to a zero to strength checks isn't that relevant and most of the time we're in animal form where our stats like our strength decks and con turns into whatever form we're in um more strength to increase our carrying capacity but it's not like that's that important durable is interesting interesting uh we don't really the plus one to con again as is doesn't do anything unless we do it a second time um but you get full hit points when you take short rest it's nice but not a big deal animal and Elemental Adept I don't think is relevant for us great weapon Master heavily armored lightly armored Lucky's always nice I don't know how it like interacts in the game in terms of making pop-ups and stuff but you get the luck checks so we can get an advantage on Attack rules ability check saving throws or to make enemies reroll their attack rolls um this probably comes up as a buff you can use in conversations uh and maybe there's just a button you can click in combat that is interesting and sort of universally it's pretty good I actually really like this as a feat in 5e uh like tabletop and it might do good for us here main Slayer is interesting potentially for us because um it draws a we get advancers on saving throws we can use reactions to attack count Casters in melee combat which theoretically we're going to try to really um like hug casters and break concentration maybe so that's attempting I don't think we care about getting some bonus can trips or anything like that Marshall Adept I don't know if this is usable in animal form movement speed increases difficult terrain doesn't slow you down gain Proficiency in a saving throw category might be handy although um it's whatever ability we raise we get Proficiency in that uh stat saving throws so we've already got Proficiency in wisdom so yeah I don't know ritual Caster we could gain a couple ritual spells from like the Wizards or something like that but it's a Savage attacker this says when making weapon attacks now does it cast consider our natural weapons As Weapons like the Savage attacker work for this roll your damage Jack twice and use the highest result Savage attacker is thematically vary on brand for what we do yeah mobile lets you uh avoid a taxable opportunity that is true Sentinel um that's interesting so enemies within melee range when they attack an ally we get to do a free attack against that Target we are tanking that sort of work to that Sharpshooter Shield Master no skilled skill is actually fairly tempting um because we can just gain Proficiency in three extra skills and we have decent stats like we could go and do this so that we've got someone in the group with a decent medicine if we're going to get a little darker we might decide to use a little bit more intimidation um and or deception here which is a possibility um acrobatics maybe I don't know it's a possibility smell sniper no Tavern tough roller no tough gives you a bunch of hit points but again we don't care about that because of our animal forms uh warcaster weapon master I don't think is that useful so having looked at these things at a glance yeah I can see maybe um an an argument made for mobile lucky is pretty good skilled is kind of tempting or we could also we could still just take ability Improvement put into wisdom which would I believe give us an extra spell slot as well Reddit says Savage attack doesn't work in Wild form well there you go I'm even wondering if um like does mage Slayer and Sentinel work in our animal form I mean probably oh this is make a reaction to make a weapon attack again does our animal form count as weapon attacks for this probably yeah Sentinel does you know with no with obviously wisdom 17 doesn't do anything uh German but if we take ability Improvement we can do we put two points in the whistle so we go to 18 which does do something um and this is potentially good we do actually do a lot of wisdom checks right like I might not care about it that much in terms of improving our saving through DC but improving our perception Insight uh wisdom checks and saves for like reading this necromancy book um is still pretty valuable perception gets boosted here as well oh yeah Sentinel stops people moving away that's right if they draw an attack of opportunity and we hit it stops them from moving I think you know what I think we'll grab Sentinel yeah Sentinel sounds could fit the shapeshifter I think it really does work well with the role we're trying to do it's going to be that much more insight in uh incentive for for Dolores to continue to act as sort of a tank get up in people's face in Bear mode and this will help lock it down hell maybe maybe it's at level eight we did take the Mage Slayer and then we're like that much better at just you know locking people down in melee range so we're gonna go ahead and do that Robin take a stat Improvement even though I generally think the stat improvements pretty good until you get like 20. now Shadow heart could be a little bit different because she we do use her as a very Primary spellcaster in which case the extra wisdom might be that much more enticing umaturgy you cast on another people or is it just yourself you can cast on on other people that's described compared to the others oh yeah she only needs one wisdom that's interesting what half beat gives you that although what we might do actually with her is put a point to wisdom put a point to Dex I think that's what we have to do for her we have to fix two odd stats this will improve very C biased step because she's not wearing heavy armor improve very seat by step and a few other things we can't cast tomaturgy on others yeah I think I think it's just so strong with her because of her odd stats I think this is what we have to do thematically light's not a good fit for her because you know goddess of darkness and all that and I'm not too Keen she doesn't need produce flame so we'll take foam energy in case it comes up it might not but we'll take it anyway all right I think that's a pretty no-brainer fix for her sharp as ever now will I just interchanging domain fixed stats and respect well I'd probably keep the domain just because it's part of her story but we could respect her from scratch and reset all our stats that's true cantrip wise rents is interesting oh you know what we should have someone with magehand to give us a few more options and another spell we couldn't even consider doing a whole person uh you know what um I do like Misty step generally speaking but I think we don't need it on him I think I might take a mirror image to give us a defensive option on him although he does have the uh the cold armor you know hold on hold on hold on I take shatter instead we're gonna give ourselves an uh area effect spell yeah give shadow Heart Of War cast right I've been into saving throw for concentration it is pretty good although I think fixing the stats is pretty nice mine is pretty good yeah I mean it is a saving throw right so um a lot of times I get frustrated by the things that are save because if they make their save then it's like well I kind of feel like I did nothing at least here they'd still take half damage it's been good if we run into another little group of little spiders or something like that this game let warlock spend a feat for Eldritch Adept what's not everyone list no now four will it actually is going to be very useful if we can make his Charisma an even number because he does use his Charisma for his two-hit bonus with Eldritch blast plus bonus damage so it's really good now he only needs a plus one to come out to an even number which means we could consider giving something like um actor for example although we don't really use his skill checks for deception and performance so that doesn't matter too much um I don't know if anything else gives a bonus to Charisma specifically because what I'm thinking is we probably want to do ability score Improvement as well just to make his dexterity an even number because that's actually going to be super valuable for him so yeah so my assumption uh zledeli with all my characters all the time is I'm going to be doing ability score Improvement but I'm looking for a reason to do something else yeah you're right performer also does charisma gives us musical instrument proficiency but kind of sort of who cares a resilient doubles the same throw bonus does it says gain proficiency doesn't say anything about doubling it but maybe it do still how often do you do Charisma saving throws right now I think I'll ability score Improvement for the obvious equal out the Charisma equal out the dexterity it's a pretty strong move that we will not regret so let's do that still alive all right hysterian just defeat all right now that's interesting because with hysterian we definitely want to bring his dexterity to an 18. but there's not really another obvious choice I mean if I was going ability score Improvement um I could go dexterity I could go and equal out as wisdom just to improve a saving throw in perception checks but it's not as huge of a deal where something like dual wielder is very sexy yeah I agree because we can dual wield weapons that aren't necessarily light which means we could do double rapiers for example and we get a plus one bonus to AC when wielding a melee weapon in each hand which is very nice I mean half the reason we'd want to put a point into dexterity is to improve his

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Published: Mon Aug 14 2023