I loved it. I would have preferred if it the POV stayed in Faerun the whole time but the bits with the trio weren't long enough to really bother me. Thanks for the story.

Thank you!

The last line really ruins the story. You have throughout the story great characterization of everyone, and some very well done scenes, transition between scenes could have been better but I understand that you're assuming people are already familiar with the game.
However Joan's line about killing them makes no sense. I assume what you meant is that she wants him to delete the characters, and that this would be amount to killing them however first Warren just said that he can't affect the game so her certainty that he can delete a character is odd. Second given her reasoning for thinking about getting the memories back I don't see her wanting the romantic interests killed - deleted so they never existed maybe, but not killed. Third if she sees them as people who can be killed I don't see her wanting to kill them.

This was a great story up to this point but I'm not at all sure I want to read anymore in this series because of that line.

Edit: If you're going to change the line I'd suggest using "delete" instead of "kill" to make it clear she doesn't think of them as actual people.

I see what you mean. I'm a gamer, and I naturally think in terms of killing characters even though they have no real existence, but you are right that Joan wouldn't think that way. I ended up over-dramatising that line. I will change it - perhaps to 'get rid of' - but I'll have to give it some thought and I'm about to go to bed and not capable of considering it in depth right now. Later.

Addition: I've amended it now to say
“Yes you can," Joan insisted. “Delete them, write them out of the script, whatever, I don't care how you do it. Just kill them off.”

Have you seen that a remake of the series is supposed to be released soon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate:_Enhanced_Edition

Maybe this time I'll play it - though I feel that I already know everything about the game from reading this series so many times :)

I'm awaiting it eagerly.

I'm a great fan of both Baldur's gate and Buffy and to find them combined in this story in such an amazing way was a great delight as well as a marvelous surprise.

I like the redeeming influence watching the game has on the Trio and the notion of the Scoobie gang permanently keeping the idientities from Tabula Rasa is intruiging in and of itself.

The way yoo address several inconsistencies in the SoA setting is very well done.

I thank and salute you.

Thank you very much!

*whistles low and long*

Damn. Wow. *whistles again*

My unfamiliarity with the Baldur's Gate characters didn't matter in the least in this after all, especially since you wrote them so vividly and as discreet individuals. Now I care as much for them as I do the Sunnydale characters and I really hope like hell that Warren isn't going to do as Joan has requested.

As for the redemptions, I see what you mean. My eyebrows climbed Everest all on their own (loved that running gag, by the way) at Xander becoming a Paladin, but he's keeping to the tenets after all, despite the canon character's weaknesses. Nicely done!

This whole thing is fabulously done, for that matter! The way you wrote the D&D specifics made it very easy for anyone not familiar in the least with the gaming system to get the gist of things. Magnificent work, all the way around! And I am very much looking forward to reading the rest of this story, especially with SG-1 thrown in. Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Color me surprised, I'd have thought Warren would be turned on. I'm quite glad to see that he wasn't though, and that he was, in fact, moved to destroy that cerebral dampener. Thanks for this, it was greatly appreciated.

Also, sorry, no rhyming review from me. It's this or nada.

This story (and the sequels and side-stories) will feature some unusual redemptions. It explores several 'roads not taken', in not only BtVS/AtS but in the Realms and Stargate SG-1, with dramatic effects upon character development. Warren's choice, at that moment, is just the first step.

Thank you! I'm not all that keen on the rhyming review concept anyway.

I'm familiar with the Forgotten Realms campaign setting but not the computer games; hopefully I won't get too lost in this story, all things considered. I greatly enjoyed the first chapter though, and I hope Warren manages to eventually get a sufficiently poetic comeuppance for pulling this stunt, and the same goes for Jonathan and Andrew (though to a lesser extent, as deserved).

As always, thanks for sharing your stories! I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of this!

Thank you!

Gotta say this sort of story is exactly why I love fanfiction. So far you've executed beautifully on the premise, and I just had to stop and review to give you a thumbs up!

Thank you very much!

I was only planning on reviewing at the end of the story but the command use of Masturbate and the setup got me laughing out loud! Loved it.

Thank you!

Win

Thank you!

Great story. Keep up the good work.

Thank you!

To be honest, I thought this would be *incredibly* lame, like history has shown me that almost all game crossovers are. I'm glad it kept coming up under random fic, and I finally decided to give it a shot.

Thank you! Baldur's Gate isn't like most games; it has a massive fanfic base of its own, including quite a few full-length novels (all of which are infinitely superior to the official novelisation).

OMG!!! NOOO! Spike is too cool for that! I mean, Buffy is such a bitch to him, and yeah I understand that she wasn't exactly the best of people to anyone in season 6 but she wasn't exactly a bitch, just distant. I hate how she treats Spike....and I really cannot see Spike falling out of love with Buffy, even for a hot drow chick....(and do drow even actually fully fall in love? I mean, I know they do, but Viconia is a follower of Shar and they are a bit amoral, not incapable of love, but usually a bit more 'open' in relationships) I mean, Spike is if anything, devoted and somewhat obsessed with whatever he puts his mind on...like Drusilla, and then Buffy.

I love the story, but I really dislike that aspect about it. I like the story anyway, but i REALLY hate that pairing....as well as Buffy's current love interest. I mean, she just ain't a normal people kinda gal. And this is set after the whole singing escapade, when Buffy and Spike have at least sorta realized their relationship, so her being a total bitca is really OC....

I don't mean to criticize, and I know I am only one person, but I just thought I should voice my opinion on the matter. I mean, I thoroughly enjoy the story and I love the idea, but I just can't get over that particular pairing choice...

I didn't want it to be a Spuffy story - it is Joan/Randy, and so I thought that Spuffy in the Faerun part would be slight overkill. Viconia always reminded me a little of Dru - although without the crazy - and I could see her appealing to Spike once they got to know each other. I must confess that I'm a rabid Viconia redemptionist and Viconia/Bhaalspawn shipper, a ship not available in this story with a het female Bhaalspawn, and Spiconia is what I chose to portray instead.

As for Buffy - there will be many changes to come for her; don't write her off because of who she's with at this point.

Awesome :)

Thank you!

one of the many, many great things about reading (re-reading in my case) this, I'm going through chap 15 at the moment, is nipping over to youtube and listening to the music mentioned in here!

brilliant stuff.

thanks for sharing.


ps oh and please, please, please! more updates on Book 2

Thank you! When I posted this on my LiveJournal I tried including YouTube links to the songs but they kept coming up blank after a short time as the songs were cease-and-desisted away.