Minsc and Jaheira were in both BG1&2, the big bad of BG1 was a Bhaal spawn as was one of the protagonist’s friends. There’s more characters from the older games, such as
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Shadowheart’s mistress/boss/whatever
Yeah, not sure who was in which games, but Minsc and Jaheira were grouped with one of the protagonists, and at least one of the games had another Bhal spawn.
Damage@feddit.it 18 hours ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 19 hours ago
minsc has been in a lot of games though yeah? I think he was in the neverwinter mmo.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Not sure, the only game I played before BG3 was Dark Alliance 2 on PS2 around 20 years ago. Well that and homebrew 3.5e/5e tabletop, but that obviously was unrelated story-wise.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Other than Jaheira, almost all of the connective tissue is found in Act 3, but that makes sense, because it takes place in the titular city. There are at least two characters in Act 3 that are not in your party that return from previous games.
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One is in the Shar temple, and one is in the Bhaal temple.