Baldur's Gate 3 - Bard's Critical Success Joke to Gnoll Warlord Flind

How boring

This reminds me of the mid-battle boss conversations in SMT IV, where depending on you responses, you could gain an advantage, or be disadvantaged.

Honestly the only thing that annoys me about this game is being able to only use your illithid dialogue powers once per long rest. That and the lack of slooty armor.

wait, you can "talk" to those gnolls? holy crap i did 3 runs of bg3 and had no idea

In older D&D games gnolls were more then dumb brutes that only want to eat. And the way they give brith now makes no sense. It would be more fitting for other races. I'm calling this "Dumb evil". Evil for the sake of evil which makes them look stupid. Even Baldur's Gate 1 had more context with them. Neverwinter Nights 1 had them seem more brain then stupid. I just can't take these gnolls seriously. And the worst part? You're forced to fight them no matter what you do. Same flaws as the goblin camp.

Illithids are the definition of order. A gnoll is barely sentient enough to be considered a person. Even the hyena that was before is more sentient than this thing.

I always found it amusing when you apply ability bonuses, but then naturally roll a 20 or 1.

The former makes me feel like a huge badass but probably makes my companions think I'm a show off. The latter is even more embarrassing; nothing like spending a spell slot only to watch your fearless leader break their fingers in a standard chest lock.

This game is so goddamn impressive. I've played the opening 5-10 hours at least a dozen times and didn't even know this interaction was possible.

Using deadly jokes, as British soldiers used to do I see

I have a friend who loves playing as a gnoll in D&D and is sad that gnolls aren't a playable race in BG3. (He also finds the way of Gnoll existence/birth is vile and prefers the Pathfinder version)

Huh, I never knew you could talk to these Gnolls.

hyena activities

AHAHAHA I would never imagine Larian had made gnolls with sense of (dark) humor

WHAAAT. YOU CAN TELL HER JOKES?! WHAT?!

Damn, karlach was the one in the middle of the fight to talk to her even though I played bard. Never got to see this😢

Moistcritical talking to a gnoll lol

Will we ever get to the bottom of the content in this game?

It seems like most people think this creature is actually named "Flind", but a flind is actually a more powerful type of gnoll. It's not a name or title. You fight loads of them in BG1.

Wait, that gnoll is female????

Savant?! Is that you?

I didn't know you can talk to them, wtf

"I roll to make the gnoll lol"
DM: "... Fuck it, I'll allow it"

Bard experience, AKA if you gave the comic relief mind magic and a mind controlling tadpole in their skull

This brings me an Idea. We need to Play Dark Urge, Bard and call ourselfs "The Joker". Because this was a killing joke :-D

Oh wow- I didn't even know this was an option! Well done you!

Wait... YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THEM?

Anyone else willing to admit they didn't know about this interaction until this video?

Amazing how by just choosing a different Class and Race you basically play another game.

Had no idea you could talk to them

Every day I curse Larian for not letting us get a big gnoll bf

mind blown...you can do that???

I swear Bard has the best conversation options

GOTY

Rolling a nat 20 on a shitty punchline to a joke has got to be every bard's dream.

Playing as Bard in BG3 is playing the comic relief

Basically the purest form of Bard

Fucking "Afflict all gnolls with Tasha's hideous laughter." was not the outcome I was expecting.

I swear there is dnd lore where if a gnoll laughs, it dies or something close to that. Idk, i'd need to find them in the monster manual.

I was able to something more, i made her kill her minions and thnen herself. So cheesy. And it gets evcen better, wait for some bosses in act 2 and 3. :D

i remember this fight at level 4 was brutal as fuck, only had Wyll left alive. was a big learning curve as someone who's never played a game like this before

how do I talk to him in the fight? I can't

Love the hat what is I call

Wish I could play as a gnoll, tbh.

If gnolls are born from a hyena's body (ripping it apart), who taught them common language to understand the joke?

I never considered talking to them. I always just crawled through the tunnel and opened the shippment before using the guys as bait.

I think I crushed this fight at level 3. I play an assassin rogue. You get two sneak attacks to start off (I didn't talk to Flind). That's about 30-40 damage. She fell the next round. But the ranged gnolls did put up a strong fight afterward.

Do you know what a man willing to be eaten says to a cannibal? Nice to meet you.

I love how they made a flind become leader of a pack of normal gnolls

Your Tav reminds me of m0istcrtical.

Where did you get the cowboy hat?!😅