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@@Cerventous the cash only tells half the story. I also have an absolutely insane amount of value in scrolls and consumables that I was able to buy at fair value and could sell for fair value too, converting them back into another 50,000 or something in cash with nothing lost. Basically the key is just to know how prices work, which I talked about in a couple of videos. I only sold treasure with a character with maxed out persuasion, and only sold it to people who had 100 friendliness toward me. Thus getting the maximum amount of gold. This makes a huge difference. Likewise, I used my high persuasion character to do all the buying too. And in the early game where I couldn't max out my persuasion, I bought and sold as little as possible. Only selling enough treasure to buy things I needed immediately. Waiting until my persuasion modifier was higher.

@@Melth Impressive. I've noticed that in your videos. Mega-optimisations. I've taken a few leaves out of your book and am applying it to my own campaign. However, it seems that I've been very willy-nilly purchasing scrolls and arrows and probably won't end up using all of them! I find it hard to know what I will be needing, now I have 10 scrolls of planar binding haha and now am struggling for cash. I have really enjoyed your videos, your approach is ruthlessly efficient (when possible) and learning about the wider lore has made me enjoy the game a lot more so thanks!

@Cerventous I'm glad to hear my tips were helpful! The nice thing about extra consumable items is that, in the late game, if you can get a party member to have 15 persuasion, then you can sell those items for their fair value in gold. So if you realize you have too many of a particular scroll, nothing stops you from trading it in for gold or buying another more useful scroll or something with no money lost. To get to 15 persuasion, you'll want expertise (8), the ring of geniality you can buy from Barcus (1), and then usually a Cha modifier of +6 (attainable in act 2 with the Shar blessing or in act 3 with the hat called Birthright from Sorcerous Sundries or with the Shar mirror bonus or with Ulder Ravengard's sword.

@@HopTabletop thank you! I kind of did. I made a majorly reworked version of d&d 3.5 that redid all the classes and a lot of other rules. A lot of the players from my games liked it enough to start running my system for their own campaigns

As an additional thought: I'd been considering making a series on this channel about GMing advice and other tabletop stuff. The big obstacle is that although I have audio things I could talk about, I hadn't been sure what to actually fill the video with if I tried that

@@Melth You could talk about potential. Tips and Tricks for the gm, Also, certain equipment For Audio And video equipment. You could also make short stories Based around dnd, but not actually having a game just telling a story.

@@Melth Also you Could with ReStream Have your UA-cam channel connected with Your twitch channel so you could stream Live tabletop games, that Doesn't necessarily have to be strictly dnd.

@@Melth You could also have like 1 day a Is weak of story tutorials to make other people's sessions better for their campaigns.

Thanks! It's nice to know some people enjoy my playthroughs of less famous games like this one too

@@Etamalgren I haven't seen power rangers, but this IS basically how I always pictured it being

@@maelstrrom2824 thank you!

@@deandoubek3075 "love the elevator music" is certainly a rare quote! 😆 I'm glad you're enjoying the series so much! Today I'm working on my act 3 build video

We really out-necromancied Myrkul here with all these summons!

The shield definitely has some value for that reason. But act 3 is coming up, and act 3 has some staves that are WAY better than just granting +1 to spell DC. For example, Mystic Carrion's staff that can let you spam out Circle of Death for free. Ketheric's shield gives +1 AC compared to dual wielding and saves you a feat, but you don't get the potentially massive perks of dual wielding some of the crazy act 3 weapons. Meanwhile, I think there are some other shields that are just better overall anyway. So in my opinion, Ketheric's shield is decent but not great. There are certainly parties and characters for whom it is a good choice, but probably not the majority of parties or characters. And that's good design! It's healthy if many items are good for SOME parties and few items are good for ALL parties

@@konferansjer really showed Ketheric why he shouldn't have mistaken a quasi-deity for a real god!

It'll be tricky! But on the other hand, my party is very strong now. I think I can do it. Hopefully some battles going faster than they did in act 1 will cut down on the time required, but we'll see

​@@Melth oh, don't get me wrong, you can definitely do it! especially considering some of the items and ilithid powers you can get in act 3, improving your mobility, giving you extra spells and summons your party will surely be spectacularly powerful and it will be a blast to watch you blast everything in your Dark path

I was confused by it when I first played through the area, but just charging in with lights makes it easy

Yeah, that's pretty insane on his part! He must have 110% confidence that the brain will absolutely never escape control. Gortash at least recognizes the risk

I haven't seen power rangers, but that scene is basically how I imagine power rangers being. And then some giant robots or something probably

@@voon1032 I think it's less a betrayal and more the consequences of her actions finally catching up to her! Yes, I plan to side against her. I'm hoping to also find a way to battle Lorroakan at the same time, but I don't know a way to do that yet

No, the crucial tip is: Don't kill Ketheric until either AFTER his turn or right at the beginning of a new round when your whole team is ready to go. If you kill Ketheric toward the end of your turn, you won't usually have enough firepower to take out Myrkul, and then Myrkul gets to clobber you. But if you wait a round and then finish Ketheric when you're fresh, you can wreck Myrkul before Myrkul gets a turn.

Hm, I don't remember that. If so, that would get a Melth Approves from me when I get there

Yes, though gathering all the footage for it sounds tricky

I definitely thought about it. They're incredibly good if you happen to get an early drop of a scroll of Conjure Minor Elemental in act 1. But the trouble is 1) They have TERRIBLE initiative and would thus never get a turn 2) They're fragile, and if they die then they would explode and injure my own team. I decided that the risk of them dying and exploding half my skeletons was not worthwhile when they would never even get to attack in 95% of battles.

i hope. i hate aylin at this point. just did this fight on my challenge run and she randomly decided to attack me midfight? then after we won she acts like it was all because of her. (she did nothing but walk into her own moonbeams). no wonder she keeps getting kidnapped.

@ typical Aylin! Yes, I'll be handing over Aylin. However, I'm hoping to find some way to fight both Aylin and Lorroakan at the same time to have a harder fight. Haven't found a way to make that work yet

@@Melth You can side with Lorroakan but when the fight starts just attack him, I guess? But that kinda defeats the purpose, this way you get no allies from Nightsong questline. Also if you side with Lorroakan and he dies in battle but Rolan survives, there will be unique outcome (I saw on UA-cam)

​​@@cannyvalley8522I do kind of enjoy that unique Rolan outcome! I found that too while trying to fight both Aylin and Lorroakan. Sadly, Aylin will then murder both Rolan AND his siblings off screen and there's nothing you can do to save them Anyway, just killing Lorroakan while he's my 'ally' does kinda work, but he won't fight back so it doesn't feel fair

Jergal is barely willing to clean up HIS mess that he is 100% responsible though. This whole thing with the Dead 3, who have caused multiple catastrophes in the setting, is on him for irresponsibly and lazily giving them his powers. Also he's an evil or at best neutral god himself. One point I will acknowledge there though is that Jergal is only helping because Helm compels him to help. So Helm did a little bit to help. Indirectly. Very, very indirectly.

I think it's sort of only 'canon' that we read orange quest books. But that's weird and silly. They put books out in plain sight that spell out the whole plot, but then our characters get surprised by it because the book isn't orange. It just makes no sense and really gets in the way of RP sometimes

@@Melth that is indeed annoying.

Thanks, I hope you like the video!

She doesn't seem to have her unstoppable stacks there, so I'd put my money on Papa K XD

Doesn't that only apply as an actively used feature of the armor? "Reaper's Rigidity" I think it's called

@ yeah, after you beat him we saw that feature in the armor that you need to activate. Next time I fight him, I’ll “Examine” him and check to see if that feature is active If it isn’t, I’ll try throwing him in the pit to make sure if he can’t be moved

I'd love to see this as well

Me too, that would be awesome to watch!

I managed to complete it once with the thief - gloomstalker combo and the glitched shadow blade. And Myrkul was by far the most stressful part.

I think my next run (unless the new subclasses change my mind) will be... a Merregon Mask run. I don't think I've ever seen someone do one of those. It'll be a huge change to have all my party members be Str builds and do a lot of melee and very little spellcasting.

Undoubtedly! The Dark Urge would probably have gone with something like Raining Blood

Thank you, I'm glad you liked that!

That sounds like a neat idea in Phantasy Star III, with more characters represented with more instruments. I think I tried to play one of the Phantasy Star games as a kid, but it came as a pack with other games and had no instructions. And I'd never heard of it and had 0 knowledge of RPGs at the time, so it was too confusing to get into.

Enjoy!

I had a fun idea for my next run I think: Everyone will be a Strength build and wear a Merregon Mask to cripple our casting abilities. Should feel very different from this run! I'm not sure exactly what challenges I'll include. I think I'll try to fight everything and do few or no rests, but I haven't decided on the details

Getting to level 10 before Ketheric is fairly easy if you were at or close to level 8 in act 1. Just play thoroughly in the Shadow-Cursed Lands and when you're in the gauntlet of Shar, make sure to let the maximum number of undead Dark Justiciars spawn out of their portals. Also, attack Moonrise BEFORE going into the Shadowfell. Kill everything in Moonrise yourself. Once the harper attack begins, tons of the enemy are just instantly dead on the bridge, robbing you of XP. The tricky thing is getting to level 11 before the Myrkul fight. As for your question about BG3's leveling up and XP in general: No, going back to easy areas at high level does NOT decrease how much XP you get. Any given creature always provides *exactly* the same amount of XP under all circumstances. Your level doesn't matter. The only thing your level affects is that if you are higher level, you get MORE XP from exploring new areas. It also doesn't matter if the creature is an enemy or neutral, if you do the kill then you get the XP. As for the harpers, you *can* kill them for XP. Though I won't do so on my run because I don't think it makes RP sense. You can also save all of the harpers if you slaughter absolutely every enemy in Moonrise before freeing Aylin.

@@356z they both have a raven, 3 skeletons (from level 4 animate dead), and an air elemental (imo, the best of the level 5 elementals). Then Minthara also has a dryad which summoned a wood woad

@Melth ah ok thanks!

Hm, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure why the volume would be different since I think I remember making the same adjustments to it that I usually do

Thanks, I'm glad you like it

That's my beard. It naturally grows in two different colors

She's absolutely the worst!

I can understand why! It's so weird having his mouth suddenly not move for that laugh

The brain drain glove effect IS pretty good for landing crucial saving throws- but the trouble is that we actually got a pair of gloves back in act 1 which is slightly better if you're just doing one attack, or we could focus on inflicting Daze via the ring that does that, and so on. I just don't think the brain drain gloves, with their tighter conditions and requiring multiple attacks to outperform, are worth it in comparison on any of my builds