Baldur's Gate Canon
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Well, I'm not sure how many of you have seen this, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of those who haven't: http://media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/MiBG_Launch Weekend.pdf
For those who don't know, basically, it's something of a distant sequel to the Baldur's Gate series, featuring... Abdel Adrian.
Yeah, I can [i]hear[/i] your sighs from here.
That said, his portrayal here seems to be somewhat better than his novel portrayal, if only because he doesn't get to open his mouth too much.
So, better than it could have been overall, though it still absolutely ***** the plot of the games over.
For those who don't know, basically, it's something of a distant sequel to the Baldur's Gate series, featuring... Abdel Adrian.
Yeah, I can [i]hear[/i] your sighs from here.
That said, his portrayal here seems to be somewhat better than his novel portrayal, if only because he doesn't get to open his mouth too much.
So, better than it could have been overall, though it still absolutely ***** the plot of the games over.
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...I'm kind of interested in the whole Season. Now that Abdel is dead, it should just be a normal season about another tale of Bhaal trying to resurrect himself. My players might enjoy that. They tend to like dead gods adventures.
Anything that has anything to do with that character should be purged. I wrote something about this earlier and you can look that up. It makes me sick.
Bhodi "charmed" Abdel into having sex with her, Abdel apparently can't kill Ilasera without going into Slayer form, Jaheira and Imoen get killed off, Minsc is a red-head with a big beard who wasn't even in the first novel, and the wimpy teleporting bhaalspawn from Tradesmeet/Saradush kills Abdel in the end and becomes a vicious monstrosity, despite Bhaal's throne having been destroyed and therefore making this canonically impossible.
The books are a joke, and incidentally I name all of my male human characters "Adrian" as a sort of mockery to the novels.
Who cares what Wizards does with it, the fact is that the player-base of the already designed games knows what the canon is, and it was all left up to them and their choices. They can't change that, no matter how hard they try, and any attempts made will pretty much just be laughed at. Pretty much just a money sink PnP setting, but who cares? Real fans are either going to just play it for a nice PnP game, or not even bother with it.
Maybe this will convince people to read the novels and see how bad it is, though :P
It's like the fire giants, but a thousand times worse!
Respond them shoving Abdel at you with a quick "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
But laying siege to Baldurs gate with an army of charnames would be awesome, until the first one died and it all dissolved into bickering over reloads. I'm pretty sure I have my cheated lv 50 beserker, lv 50 cleric charname around here somewhere....
"It's almost like Bioware told Athans 'the books should be dark and gritty' and Athans interpreted that as meaning he should show people die gruesomely and have characters that think about sex a lot. And he somehow still pulled that off in the most juvenile way possible.
Athans comes off as a rank amateur...with his characterization, his storytelling, and his prose. The best that can be said IMO is that he does follow the general outline of the story of the games as far as where the characters go and why (though obviously he skips a lot).
To top things off, obviously neither Bioware nor WotC went and did a serious continuity check to make sure what Athans wrote matched existing material, or game material that could have been used in a more official capacity later."
For the most part I use the games in my personal Forgotten Realms storyline and reconcile everything as needed. I use the name Abdel Adrien, but he's certainly not Athans' Conanesque Abdel or whatever he was trying to emulate.
Anyway, if WotC wanted to put Bhaal back in play (something I'm not against, as I think a war fought in the shadows between the faiths of competing gods of murder would be awesome), bringing in Abdel Adrien and having him killed a century later to complete Bhaal's plan in a playtest module is a really lame way to go about it IMO. Instead, I would have gone for the essence in the Boarsekyr river where Bhaal was killed and the intentional attempted resurrection of Bhaal by someone foolish enough to try to use him to destroy Cyric.
That would be epic, but so bizarre. And actually probably pretty bad unless it were toiled on for AGES to get game balance down pat.
need rez plx
lf healer, have dps
res pls
need tank!!1
who here can cast raise dead?????