BG3: cleric-cleric update

[anghraine]

Still hoping it'll be cleric/cleric eventually!

But an interesting thing happened that I wasn't sure would actually happen—in addition to standard "Cleric" response options that she gets occasionally, Ilzara has started getting response options specific to her deity, Eilistraee.

For instance:

Instead of the standard Seldarine drow response to Kagha of stating she doesn't serve Lolth, she got a more aggressive response about serving Eilistraee tyvm. She got another with Volo when he was talking about the goblins' former god. And the most interesting is that she got an appalled cleric of Eilistraee response to Shadowheart. Cleric vs cleric is a go! :D

I still want to romance Shadowheart and am going to try to do so, but I think the strain between them as clerics of very different gods adds a really fun fillip of tension between them. :D :D

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

That's really interesting! I didn't get much of that playing a druid, even though religion seems important to druids story-wise it didn't come up much mechanically and they kept failing all their religion checks so I head-canoned them as not very devout haha.

[anghraine]

Interestingggg. I do think it's a bit silly (though a D&D issue rather than BG3's fault) for Religion to be an intelligence rather than wisdom skill, which basically ensures that the most religious classes will often fail. My super intelligent rogue passed all the religion checks, but my cleric fails a lot of them, too.

She does get specific cleric and cleric of Eilistraee options that don't always (or usually, thus far) require rolls at all. I didn't get any until I arrived in the grove, though, which makes it seem doubly strange that druids don't get much of it. I guess there might not be a mechanical counterpart to the choice of deity for druids, maybe?—clerics choose their domain (life, light, war, etc) that gives them their mechanical abilities and there's a choice of deity (which I'm guessing can have major consequences since you can serve full-on evil deities, but at this point is mostly flavor).

I love the game so far, but I am wondering if maybe it kind of defaults to treating more "churchy" approaches to religion with more attention to detail.

[alias_sqbr]

Oh I got lots of druid specific dialogue in general, especially in the grove! Just not really with Shadowheart specifically on the topic of religion.

[anghraine]

Ahh, I see. I guess I was thinking of factional druid options like the way Ilzara is appalled by Shar because of the particular deity she worships, rather than because she's a cleric per se. Do you get options related to your subclass or whatnot?

[alias_sqbr]

Hmm, not that I remember, but I might have missed it.