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EARLY ACCESS: Ranking Baldur's Gate Companions Again. While Green

The finale of this trilogy is here! Except this time... I'm green.

This will be dropping on YouTube next week, and the plan is to be very busy making things and giving you peeks at them in the coming months (my summer zoo job has ended and I am now drifting in a sea of Onceuponatime and Gravityfalls).

I hope you enjoy!!!

Comments

im fueled by hatred of the dark place!!!!

Haley Whipjack

how do you speed run act 2 in three hours !!! there’s so much to do!!!!

cheyenne 🌠

i made my own four lists :) https://www.tumblr.com/theology101/760993672424718336/bg3-companions-ranked

The Sheriff

barcus should be a romance option!!1 fuck wulbren he should be with me

ali xx

He’s friends with Gus?? What a wild connection hahaha

Devin Ehlert

It's so fun to do! And just creates alot of character discussion and thought! We have all the rankings saved.

Kazran

I actually love this so much, I need to make my home game groups start ranking themselves too

Haley Whipjack

Yeah!! He's longtime irl friends with my best friend/former podcast co-host Gus! And he stresses me out more than any other man alive, I love him.

Haley Whipjack

YOU’RE MUTUALS WITH DAN HENTSCHEL? HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN??

Devin Ehlert

I’ve felt that way about Ellyka since my first run through

Anyteller

I saw shopping cart and immediately knew where Astarion would be

Zane

I love watching these as a person who does not consume any other Baldur's Gate content lol

The Wizard Sea

PPS I'm not sure why, I was POSITIVE Dammon would make the extra companions list. Not as tragic, but he's enthusiastic and friends with Karlach and SO PRETTY, I don't even really want to romance him, he kinda has ace vibes, I just want to be able to look at him and see him be just kind and uncomplicated as often as possible. I think he'd be a sorcerer because he feels like the sort of guy who'd pull out a careful spell fireball at the perfect time and when everyone's like "HOW AND WHAT" he'd be like "oh, I mostly only cast that when my forge can't get hot enough, I didn't want to scare anyone but it seemed like you might want help."

Stephi Anne-with-an-E

Ps: I mostly agree about the grocery cart ranking, UNLESS at any point he witnessed a different customer returning a cart and a tired employee jokingly saying "thanks, you're my hero," THEN he would never forget again and anyone within 60' of him anytime he's in a grocery store would hear that TRUE HEROES return their carts!

Stephi Anne-with-an-E

Minsc doesn't return his shopping cart because he does not use a shopping cart. He doesn't even use bags. He is walking out of the store his arms full of dinochicken nuggets bags, space hamster chow, and already bruised tomatoes.

Mitchemditchem

I could write an entire dissertation on the parallels between Orin and the dark urge, and how by trying to gain the favor she viewed her sibling as having within the family (by removing them from the equation), she actually set them free to make their own choices in a way that she herself will never be able to become. Shes so fundamentally tragic to me and I just think I should get to keep her around to be a little freak in the background while I save the world!

Henri

My hypothetical companion I want the most would definitely be Orin. I understand that it would sort of negate the entire theme of inadequacy and failure in the eyes of her family who will never truly love her (which is all she really wants), but also I want to get her OUT of there!!!! Get her some oil paints and clay!!!! Stop trying to win the affection of your awful grand/dad and your even more awful murder god dad, Orin. Learn to kill for yourself for once...

Henri

I send these to the players of the D&D game I run, when you post them to youtube, and have them rank their characters in each of the categories you provide!

Kazran

he would be SUCH a bitchy barista and would learn nothing about being nice to people, you're very right for this

Haley Whipjack

OK so, I keep getting distracted and restarting late in the game so idk that much about this version of Minsc, but I'm very familiar with Minsc in 1 and 2 as well as the "fanon" around the character (lots of mods for 1 and 2 that add extra banter), and I feel like that version of Minsc could actually be a lot of fun as an origin character, but they would never actually write it, let me explain. The fanon Minsc I know isn't necessarily smarter or wise, but he is prone to random "well, Boo thinks [extremely wise and insightful advice], Minsc does not understand, but YOU, you are a smart one!" It's neat, and leads to fun fan speculation on whether Boo is actually a genius that only Minsc can understand, or whether Minsc is actually still wise (there's reason to believe in BG1 that his Minsc-ness is a recent change) and perceives his wisdom as coming from Boo. And I can't imagine Larian wanting to give a definitive answer for that because that would take the fun out of it, but if someone made a mod for playing as Minsc, I would play it!

Stephi Anne-with-an-E

I remain steadfast in my belief that you should make an infinite amount of increasing obscure BG3 companion ranking videos

Josh Mcbride

Astarion gives such "mean to service workers despite being a Starbucks barista who should know better " energy

Vesper Sinclair

My favorite part was when Baldur showed up to show everyone their third gate.

Kyle Richardson


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