I've been using glamping mods to make a tent for Halsin in Act 1 camps. So far, it's feeling less sad and I think I'm getting better at it.
I just wonder where theyāre getting all this stuff, in-game world. They all get kidnapped and put in those pods, with no storage beyond pockets. But once you get off the nautiloid, you can set up camp. Immediately, while still on the beach. And all youāve managed to loot from stuff on the nautiloid was weapons, armour and stuff like gemstones and weird mindflayer runes.
Where are they suddenly getting tents and torches and chests and practice dummies and sleeping bags??
I mean, it makes sense after you reach the Druid grove and the likes of the gith crĆØche, since they might well have supplies theyāll give you/you can buy/loot, but itās never explicitly mentioned. Especially weird since you can loot bedrolls and sell them. But you never need any in your pack, nor is there any dialogue about any of the early companions (Shadowheart, Gale, Astarion especially) commenting that they really should keep some of those bedrolls, or that they should maybe be concerned about rummaging through random crates on destroyed carts next to lots of dead bodies next to newborn gnolls for food.
Heck, every companion comes with a pack of food thatāll feed one person/the party/the whole camp for a long rest. Which makes sense for Halsin since he returns to the Druid grove before joining our camp. But not really anyone else (except maybe Minthara and whether you think the cultists would let her have food while imprisoned at Moonrise towers).
No, no, I'm with you. You've reminded me of how the first time I went to camp, I was immediately puzzled by how Gale, Astarion and Shadowheart all had these huge tents and furniture. Like, where did they come from? All of the stuff they had would have required a couple carts and horses/oxen to pull it and Tav's ambient point and click lines suggests they don't have a bag of holding to carry all that (unless the teammates do and they're not telling Tav which is a dick move). And you *know* that Astarion would never bother to carry all of his tent, table, stool and rock for his cup of blood over a long, rocky, uphill distance.
I know, I know, it's meant to be a suspension of disbelief and to let one see their personality in a place that was probably meant to be a place of refuge and you can't have that if you're given a depressing reminder that everyone crash landed into a homeless state with sticks and a sad arrangement of whatever is on hand.
Maybe Gale has a pocket storage dimension that he was building into a Leomund's Tiny Hut before his orb debacle happened. Though him being able to conjure up everything people need and want would immediately bring up questions about plot solutions.
Yeah, there are things that are easy to handwave away, or whatnot (like what are the rest of the party doing while me and my 3 friends are off doing the quests). But given the set up for BG3, and the big opening cinematic, the whole camp situation really sticks out like a sore thumb. And poor Tav/Dark Urge just gets a bedroll in the middle of camp. No expressing our personalities for us!
