ended up somehow losing about half an hour or so but it worked out in my favor, yes I had to redo some things BUT this time I did not, in fact, get poisoned by Nettie which was great!
Current party is angry punk lesbian (Lae'zel), moody goth lesbian (Shadowheart), my feral gay cat (Astarion), whose nerdy blorbo IS this he's so silly (Gale), and Oh No He Has Hero Syndrome (Wyll)
there were so many whoopsies while doing it but I did bamboozle the bandits into running away so I didn't have to fight the ones lurking outside the ruins
didn't find the owlbear but I sure did find the Best and Goodest of Boies and immediately had to suck my tears back into my tearducts about it because NOBODY TOLD ME HOW YOU FIND SCRATCH
which honestly, kind of grateful, but I just....I had to leave him there and told him if he wanted he could follow us later because I didn't have the heart to tell him that I don't think his dada is just sleeping
got lost again in the woods, found the goblin town of Bogrot, Barded so hard I got in without a fight, did the same thing with the ogres, am VERY proud of myself
so I'm super hooked and determined to find the large spouses AND my owlbear cub I KNOW THEY'RE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE I just don't!! know how to get them
smork alam
: Oh I have the quests I've been trying to beeline towards the markers but keep getting lost in the weeds on the way because I am...so very easily distracted by discovering what my buttons do and opening up my map
big woop
: TAKING FURIOUS NOTES okay okay okay so clearly I swoop out of the gobbo camp, sell off the extra loot I've gotten, dump some stuff in the camp chest then go skittering down the river
my personal beef is more to do with the fact that the last "playable monster races" book WOTC published before they started making a real effort to make the lore Not Be Weirdly Fantasy Racist was... Volo's Guide to Monsters
pls perceive them I love them SO much
You don't get Halsin until later