Real Lich Hours 3: Emerald Grove Gates
Added 2023-12-31 18:00:05 +0000 UTCAh. Hellspawn. A pleasure to make your acquaintance.
This week, we stumble upon the druid village and help some hopeless haircuts versus a goblin warband and find a few avenues for ridding us of our parasite.
Other Segments:
* Arms and Armament: A primer on Soul Coins
* Legends and Lore: The descent of Elturel
* Sage Advice: Stealing. It's not just for rogues anymore.
* Find Familiar: Timber the Squirrel
Comments
Wait, is this real? Doing my first playthrough in tandem with the podcast and loving both a ton!!!
Joe B
2024-06-21 13:34:36 +0000 UTCJust finished my first BG3 playthrough as Dark Urge and am catching up here. Particularly since you know the BG series, Dark Urge is thematically a must-play despite some silly moments. The Strange Ox storyline runs through to the endgame and has a very funny payoff. I was skeptical about losing regular BFSC content, but this show fills that void for me and doubles as a deep dive into D&D 5e mechanics, which feels valuable for the network to have on hand.
Joseph
2024-03-08 18:10:47 +0000 UTCHey, thanks! The last time I checked it wasn't listing RLH. Appreciate it!
Matt
2024-01-22 22:05:13 +0000 UTChttps://www.patreon.com/duckfeedtv/posts
Bryant Ross
2024-01-22 22:01:59 +0000 UTCI would also like to know this
Bread Destroyer
2024-01-07 06:23:14 +0000 UTCLoving the show so far and thrilled that I get to look forward to you guys talk about any Baldur’s Gate, but especially this one, for the next year+. Fingers crossed I can finish my main playthrough before the show catches up…!
Patrick Galasso
2024-01-06 19:48:05 +0000 UTCIs there a patron feed for this show? Instructions for other shows point to individual websites but I haven’t been able to find that yet despite my hunting, so I’ve been listening to the public feed. Any help for this dumb-dumb would be appreciated, thanks! Loving the show so far
Matt
2024-01-06 16:09:06 +0000 UTCThose little tiefling scamps are great. I was like, ok kid, I respect the hustle and totally bought the ring of infinite wishes from him and wore that thing all the way till probably half way through Act II before I decided to let the bit go.
Limowreck
2024-01-05 01:26:22 +0000 UTCwait whhhhaaaattttt
Kyle C.
2024-01-04 19:58:57 +0000 UTCReplaying the game along with the show and putting my roomba hat on to explore all the corners I missed on my first play through. I loved the tiefling kids the first time around but only really interacted with the one who is selling junk and trying to pull a fast one on you. On this playthrough I’ve discovered that you can actually befriend Mol before sneaking into the kids hideout (which they actually call the dragon lair). There is a path near the courtyard where the druids are performing the rite of thorns that will take you down to a secluded beach where a tiefling kid is being lured into the ocean by some harpies singing a siren song. Save the kid and he’ll give you the password to their hideout. If you go talk to Mol after she’ll thank you for helping the kid and give you a quest to steal the idol on behalf of her gang, which was very fun and I found more rewarding than just stealing the idol to be a little shit. Constantly amazed at all the content crammed into this game in the nooks and crannies!
Kenny Bentley
2024-01-04 16:42:12 +0000 UTCRegarding the "degenerate" behavior with stealing from the vendors. You can steal from Withers (and he never gets mad if you fail) so you can have infinite resurrections and class changes. This really lets you freely experiment with builds (and respec Shadowheart immediately out of Trickery domain without penalty)
Angelus Solis
2024-01-03 15:21:08 +0000 UTCLoving this series because I cannot stop playing the game. I also cannot stop playing Charisma characters. I want to do Ranger, but the closest I’ve come is Gloomstalker/Assassin companion.
Jacob Davis
2024-01-03 13:22:25 +0000 UTCA good hint for the hag is if you talk to Pandirna further you can infer that it was Auntie Ethel that gave her the paralyzing potion. And if you play a warlock, you can figure out that Auntie Ethel is a masquerading Fey through dialogue. Love the hints they drop about her being off.
Ryan Bennett
2024-01-02 21:17:32 +0000 UTCSeriously if anyone is thinking of starting a couch co-op playthtough on PS5 as Gary is just go for it, I'm 150 hours into it with my girlfriend and can't imaging playing the game any other way. It's so fun and helps keep the temptation of googling or save scumming away if you're a terminal looker-upper of things as both of us are. I'll definitely do a solo evil/Durge playthrough sometime but canonically it'll always be my half orc swords bard, her deep gnome spores druid and our respective ride or die life partners Wyll and Laezel. With the caveat that the game hates it when both of you are in your inventory simultaneously, I can't recommend it enough.
Paul
2024-01-02 18:21:08 +0000 UTCI remember telling my friend that as soon as I finished the game with my custom character I couldn’t wait to go all Dark Urge so I could do absolutely everything different than my initial lawful good play through, and just to give myself a taste of what that might look like I decided to kick Timber. I thought it would be a playful little kick away and was not expecting a full-on punt where she would be left shallow breathing in a pool of her own blood while Astarion gets upset with me for wasting a perfectly good snack (Somehow even then I hadn’t put together that he was a fucking vampire, probably because I was too upset). I immediately reloaded my last save. It was in that moment that I realized I can never go full Dark Urge.
Scottmichael Farrey
2024-01-02 14:34:28 +0000 UTCStill loving the show. Listening to it, I have one question though: Do you recruit all companions (to your camp), or do you only recruit the ones you also bring with you? And related to that, do you switch partymembers for certain parts. I actually like roleplaying and not recruiting everyone, but since the game allows you to switch on the fly, it almost feels like I‘m punishing myself and locking myself out of content, since I could almost see all in one playthrough, by just always bringing the most relevant companions to missions. Personally, I think DOS2 handled this better, by having a definitive point in the story, where you had to decide what companion to keep. Thanks for your great work!
C. Guese
2024-01-02 09:47:42 +0000 UTCAuntie Ethel is my favorite antagonist in the entire game. Sorry, Absolute. Sorry Ketheric, sorry Goblins, Nere, and especially Baelen and so on ahaha
Mateus Silva
2024-01-02 02:16:50 +0000 UTCThe tiefling kids are the best. They’re so well voice acted and their attitudes about everything is great. I played an evil Druid, not durge, for my 2nd play through and I have to say that being a Druid that is evil is probably the least rewarding way to play this game, the idol of Silvanus gives +1 to nature to *everything and everyone* around you if you keep it like I have. The druids give no good Druid loot, you can’t join the shadowdruids, the three rats around Kagha, it’s very underwhelming. And I feel like any other combo of choice and class would be better which is odd. And it’s like the smallest of nitpicks but it’s just kinda weird.
Mateus Silva
2024-01-02 02:09:28 +0000 UTCOkay, damn. I missed an appalling amount of npcs in the Druid Grove. I just assumed that most of them would just have a canned sentence or 2. Fucking Larian, being exceptional and shit
Jonathan Scratch
2024-01-01 20:16:06 +0000 UTCJust want to add a slight correction: as of Patch 5 you can persuade Minthara to join your party without going against the druid Grove or doing the polymorph trick. Unfortunately that patch went live right after I killed her for being a psychopath...and perhaps her dope armor and mace. Look, I believe in reformation justice, but some people gotta go...
Jonathan Scratch
2024-01-01 20:13:48 +0000 UTCI was also largely a dragonlance kid! -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-01-01 19:28:43 +0000 UTCWhat are some of the beloved Forgotten Realms novels? I was a filthy Dragonlance kid growing up. e: Just remembered that FR was pretty much The Drizzt Show during my prime nerd-novel years. Never cared much for the fella back then, but I was also really into the Myst novels so I don’t put much stock in my teenage tastes.
Buster Friendly
2024-01-01 18:03:03 +0000 UTCI'm loving the show so far and look forward to each episode!!! I'm already tempted to restart just to be a sneaky boi
Futz
2024-01-01 14:56:31 +0000 UTCNo spoilers on playing Good Dark Urge, just an endorsement of it! After playing up through Act 2- I can't see myself playing a 'normal' custom character again. She is my fifth and favorite Tav!
Futz
2024-01-01 14:55:56 +0000 UTCThis is awesome, I didn't know that. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2023-12-31 20:25:37 +0000 UTCFor anyone who is cautious to spend the gold to respec a character with Withers, once you've paid him the 100 gold to change your class you can simply sneak behind him and pickpocket the gold back with no consequences - even if you fail, all you have to do is try again until the die roll is successful. (And Astarion is such a stinker, of course he would get the gold back from some skeleton: What does he need it for? They have tadpoles in their heads for goodness sake!)
David
2023-12-31 19:54:22 +0000 UTC
