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The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age)

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I was familiar with the name from Jaheira's tales of her old adventures. 'Minsc the Mad Rashemaar' was one of the old heroes of Baldur's Gate just like Jaheira had been, an instrumental part of the defeat of Sarevok the Bhaalspawn and the cult of Bhaal over a century ago. Jaheira had been oddly silent about his fate after that, and I hadn't pressed, but his presence here was inexplicable. He was human, not half-even like Jaheira, and still clearly in the prime of life. What, did we have three impossible resurrections after a century now, just like Ketheric and Isobel had been?
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Minsc's trail was easy enough to follow up to the lower level of the bank, both because the guards could tell us which way he'd gone and because there was only one real path to follow. We then diverged from the route we'd taken to head out the back door in the cellar, which led out onto the private dock the Counting House had in Grey Harbor. Minsc was on his knees at the foot of the pier, despairingly calling out to someone we couldn't see.
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This mostly makes sense, but might be a little clearer if you added a bit more, e.g. taken inwards to ... Having tried a few variants, I think I can now see why you'd go for shorter when clearer is so stubbornly difficult!

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The attempt on Nine-Fingers had apparently been the signal to start, because as soon as they'd kicked in her office door every Zhentarim in the Guildhall had appaerntly drawn weapons and gone on the attack. Jaheira's mutterings about Zhentarim treachery had proven all too true. Since they'd been the hired security in the first place they already had teams of men strategically positioned to control all the access points to the Guildhall and have clear fields of fire across most of the trading floor and the tavern pit. Very few of Nine-Fingers' thieves were cowards but they weren't all trained warriors either, and they'd been split up and relaxing all over their own home base. The Zhentarim surprise attack would have momentum-
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"RALLY TO ME, BOYS!" her confident voice shook the rafters. "PUSH 'EM DOWN TO ME! IF yOU BLACK NETWORK FUCKS WANT ME THEN I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE! SO YOU BASTARDS JUST COME ON DOWN AND TAKE YOUR SHOT IF YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT THE STONES!"
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Apparently if you play as origin Lae'zel and romance Shadowheart, then go off to the astral to fight in Orpheus' war of liberation at the end of the game, your Selunite gf goes a little stir-crazy sitting around her farm cabin waiting for you to get back from your overseas deployment.

"Four dogs, eight cats, nine chickens, four sheep, a milk cow named Daphne, a squirrel who's far too clever for her own good, and a wolf cub I found orphaned in some woods."

That last is particularly hilarious because part of Shadowheart's Shar brainwashing was a crippling phobia of wolves (her father is a werewolf, and her brainwashers apparently thought that would be funny). They couldn't even get that part to stick right. *g*

My own Tav romanced Shadowheart and at the epilogue party I met the grown-up owlbear, and invited him back to stay with us. Then I realized I hadn't asked my partner about re-adopting an adult owlbear first. The dialogue option when I went over and told her about it had her gushing about how she'd wanted to invite him back home after the battle against the Absolute but he'd wandered off before she had a chance to ask. *g*
 
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I got that same list from Shadowheart after romancing her with my Tav. She's just an animal girlie.

To this day, I don't know why Minsc is a Ranger. Well, I get it sort of, because he has an animal companion, but he's almost the perfect Barbarian. He's a massively strong berserker with a low Int and Wis. Aragorn, this man is not.
 
There is also the ( quite ancient ) lore that there was always a ranger with the witch ( which were the de facto rulers of that nation ), to protect her. I forgot what country was that, in any case... I suppose he was selected for his bravery, because surely it wasn't his WIS...
 
Firstly, WHOOHOO! Glad to see you writing again Cliff! I have an irrepressible grin on my face right now! Secondly, how did I miss this fic existing for months?! Gah.

While I only played Origins myself, I know enough of the other two, and I know at least enough of BG3, if not D&D in general to follow along. More importantly, I know you know both settings very well. I am stoked for a fic from you with this crossover! (Though I lament the impetus that caused it. Fuck Veilguard.)
 
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To this day, I don't know why Minsc is a Ranger. Well, I get it sort of, because he has an animal companion, but he's almost the perfect Barbarian. He's a massively strong berserker with a low Int and Wis. Aragorn, this man is not.
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As cliff said, there wasn't a barbarian class in the original version of the game he first appeared in (kits weren't a thing until BG2 and animal companions weren't a thing in those games either) - he was a ranger with the special ability to enter a berserk rage 1/day, which was actually super useful because even without the ability to control him, a +2 Damage/THAC0 bonus was a very nice buff at the low levels the game took place in - just make sure that he's in the middle of a bunch of enemies, because he turns into a walking chainsaw who automatically targets the closest being every round for two turns. Between his Berserk and his naturally high physical stats and morale, he's one of the best front line warriors in the original game for a non-evil run.
 
How different would the old Baldur Gate games have been if they had been made during the d20/3.5 era like say Temple of Elemental Evil was? Like would the mechanical changes between 2e & 3e have really changed up the games in gameplay or lore?
 
The fucking second Raphael showed up I started hearing his damn theme song in my head. It got stuck in my head off and on for two hours. I tried to take a break from the story to dislodge it, but I'd be doing something and fifteen minutes later in my head: "Lives, all mortal lives, expire..."

As if I didn't already want to punch him in his smug, prick face.
 
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