Real Lich Hours 55: The Temple of Bhaal
Added 2025-01-05 15:00:11 +0000 UTCIn this episode we turn Orin’s Orinsides Inside Orout.
Other Segments:
Complete Priest’s Handbook: Divine Intervention
Legends and Lore: Orin
Find Familiar: Baal Butlers
Comments
Orin's fight was a true triumph for me but not for the reasons anyone expected. I really found Orin's fight to be a wall for me until I came up with a genius plan. You see Orin had stolen away my boy Gale and I really just needed more action economy. So the strat was to free Gale immediately then win. Turns out I hadn't used Gale since level 5 so he was woefully underpowered and under geared. However he did has exactly the key to victory I needed: magic missile. Just enough hits to get through Orin's Unstoppable stacks so Minthara can Smite her down in one turn. Thanks Gale, now back to your room under the stairs.
Matthew Woodyard
2025-01-13 22:17:52 +0000 UTCIf you cast Speak with Dead on Yenna, you can ask, with a bit of pathos, "What can I do to honor your memory?" The answer: "Eat... Lots!" OK!
Joseph
2025-01-10 02:37:32 +0000 UTCIf that's a serious question then sure I don't mind, otherwise lol
Jordan Parfitt
2025-01-09 05:47:50 +0000 UTCOn my first play through, I saw the guy doing the Power word kill ceremony so my martial use arrow of transposition and magic user use misty step and got rid of him quickly. On one my subsequent play through, I read about the nice gauntlet you mention on the show so I went hunting for Luke. Finished him and small group there quickly and got over confident so decided to just run across the causeway to get to Ghislev thinking that they probably can’t hurt me that much. I was wrong. One of the Bhaalist came up to me and inflicted a knock back on me. It knocked me into the chasm and it was instant death for my Tav!
Andrew Leung
2025-01-08 22:30:25 +0000 UTCWould you mind if "Not Bhaal's Pawn" became a t-shirt that we sold?
Duckfeed.tv
2025-01-08 21:34:11 +0000 UTCOn a recent playthrough, I played a Durge who broke bad. I resisted everything for act one and two but slowly succumbed to the power offered by Bhaal. I killed Orin in a one on one dual, and then accepted the power of The Slayer. Once I'd persuaded my party that they shouldn't all leave, we left the temple and were confronted by Jaheira and some Harpers who said that I couldn't be allowed to live. Unfortunately for them, I had left Jaheira at camp for the whole game so she was still level 1 and only had 8HP. It was a really cool moment in the Dark Urge arc, even if the mechanics of her not being leveled up felt a bit silly.
Ben Green
2025-01-08 12:29:22 +0000 UTCEveryone talking about Bhaalsplain but no one talking about Bhaal's Pain. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2025-01-06 23:32:13 +0000 UTCMy first playthrough was a goodguy Durge abjuration wizard and my duel with Orin went surprisingly well. The water elemental I summoned beforehand was brought into the fight and on my first or second turn I landed Hold Monster on Orin's slayer form. She didn't make it.
Lucky McChancey
2025-01-06 20:41:28 +0000 UTCI was gonna come here to say something similar. My favorite part is the narrator's line. "After all you have not been turned *good*" Playing a Neutral Evil manipulative Durge was extremely satisfying and really cool in a relationship with Minthara who similarly rejected her gods and is supportive of it, we feel like a genuine villain couple.
Kerr
2025-01-06 17:01:49 +0000 UTCTwo follow up points: 1) After writing the phrase "a pawn of Bhaal" I now have the awful image of the Dark Urge with a shirt that says "I may be Bhaalspawn, but that doesn't make me Bhaal's Pawn." 2) I just looked up the actual option you get if you intend to keep on being a shithead, and it's a thought that says "Relish: With Bhaal gone, your sins will at last be truly yours" which is the perfect balance of 'cool' and dorky as hell that I was hoping for.
Jordan Parfitt
2025-01-05 19:44:07 +0000 UTCI might have alluded to it once in the comments for an earlier episode, but as someone who played Dark Urge on my second playthrough and did want to play an evil character but was worried the Dark Urge would railroad me into a very cartoonish style of evil (basically all the worst parts of what Orrin embodies as a character archetype), I appreciated the ways the game does allow for nuances in roleplaying. I had decided my Dark Urge, who has spent his life and the events of the game as a pawn of Bhaal (not to mention the Absolute, the Emperor, Gortash, Raphael and others all trying to play you to their advantage), would decide to reject Bhaal's power rather than submit again. Following my death and resultant resurrection, I was happy to see that one of the responses you can give to Withers after he brings you back basically amounts to "Excellent, now I can get back to being a piece of shit - on MY terms." It might sound like a small thing, but it made all the difference between playing as a villainous character whose motivations felt fun and interesting to me, and going through an entire game Joker-pilled. I'm still going for the Absolute ending, but if I'm going to mind control the entire Sword Coast, I'm going to be the one on top.
Jordan Parfitt
2025-01-05 19:39:14 +0000 UTCI saved my divine intervention on honor mode for the last boss. I did the nuke and it basically did nothing! Oh well.
Richard Cochnar
2025-01-05 18:16:10 +0000 UTC...what?
Joe Binson
2025-01-05 16:01:06 +0000 UTC
