User:Chutiste

So glad that this resource exists! Updating and improving as I go on my first playsthrough.

My top games by hours played: BG3, RDR2, SC2

My top tips:

• Relax. Larian is bigger on choices than on consequences, often dialogue choices have the same in game effect
  • Let the dice decide. Save the buffs and rerolls for the genuinely important points, once you know what those are.
• Relax. You don’t need to find everything on this playthrough. Custom difficulty lets you hide failed perception roll notifications, which helps me with this.
• Choosing to play an Origin character lets you experience their story. Particularly good for the Companions that you never take with you.
  • Also, swapping out characters apparently gets you different banter for each pair
• Hirelings can be turned into bartering experts. Respec for High Charisma, High Strength, and Persuasion Expertise.
  • I always use Maddie for this, for Human carrying capacity
• A one level dip in Monk lets you dump Strength and focus on Dexterity
  • Monk Weapons include pretty much everything you're proficient in except the strictly Two-Handed weapons
  • But a Rogue's Sneak Attack still requires a Finesse weapon
• 12 monoclass is viable and fun too. Says me who has never done that.

Useful one level dips

• Barbarian gets you rage and unarmoured option
• Bard gets inspiration and musical proficiency
• War Cleric gives 3 bonus attacks per long rest, and heavy armour and spells too
• Fighter gives a fighting style, and equipment proficiencies
• Monk makes most weapons scale by Dexterity, and gives a bonus 1d4 unarmed attack (roughly analogous to offhand for dual wielders)
• Ranger gets Natural Explorer and Favoured Enemy, with the potential for Heavy Armour
• Rogue gets 1d6 Sneak Attack and an expertise
• Warlock gets you Eldritch Blast which scales by character level
  • The Great Old One potentially frightens on a Critical Hit
  • The Fiend gives a source of temporary HP

Remember that your Spellcasting Ability for scrolls (and items?) comes from your most recent Level 1 class

Resources

• User:TitanstringEnjoyer/List of discoverable locations
• User:Chutiste/Level 3 No Areas
• User:Chutiste/Locations exploration list