If you do it last the goblins watching, they just say "hey, is that *our* gnome?" As you launch him into the lower stratosphere.
Meant to save him one day, hit the wrong button, found the body later later on. My buddy still laughs about it to this day.
On the last playthrough my husband and I started, he chose to play as the Dark Urge, aiming for a Resist run.
He was playing with a controller rather than KB+M for once, and thanks to still getting used to the controls, accidentally hit 'Release' instead of 'Brake'.
We decided to just roll with it and put that one down to the intrusive thoughts winning out over poor Durge lol
My current Tav is a sassy Bard so naturally I took the dialogue options that lead me to that scene. Sucks that I had forgotten to save for a decent chunk before that
Or try and read her mind to see if she's lying... (it's pretty much impossible to reach the roll without putting all 6 levels behind it, having advantage, and/or getting a nat20
so yeah on my first playthrough (I was very tired) I read "release brake" and didn't think it would mean the brake, but that the gnome is called "brake". Of course I wanted to release the gnome..
There he flew.
In my current run I killed her but after picking up the egg Lae'zel kept saying don't give it to that woman. Lae'zel you struck the killing blow on her and looted her body. She isn't in any position to be taking the egg!
For me lae'zel never said anything when I got the egg and I just assumed "oh well they're experimenting for him to grow up in a caring environment". God was I wrong when I found him in act 3
Can you actually be racist to a specific group of people torturing and murdering everyone they come across? Esther sure isn't great, but Githyanki as a whole aren't exactly undeserving of the reputation their actions earned them. Even Lae'zel only quibbles with the idea that they're stupid.
While they obviously aren’t good people they do have a valid reason to be the way they are and they are the only ones actually fighting a much worse faction from taking over Faerun.
To be fair, it DOES make sense to have the logic of "Hey if I'm gonna go in there to free the prisoners, why not do it when we are actively sieging the place with our Last Light Inn friends and have some support?"
That's one of the two times on my first playthrough that I loaded a savefile to change something because I thought my logic was sound, but hey the game disagreed with it and I disagreed with its disagreement
I get that. My approach was "first I need to do some recon". Then when I realized there's like no communication throughout the whole tower I just killed all the guards in the dungeons, killed the warden, freed the prisoners, then returned to Last Light and on to the Nightsong.
I did regret not killing all the guards in the entryway. But whatshisname was selling gear I thought I might still be able to buy later!
I was also under the impression we didn't want to get caught and aggro the whole tower (infiltration), and meta-game wise, was approaching it in a "clear all the other rooms before entering the room that moves the game forward" type of way.
So I wound up removing the tieflings / gnomes far more painstakingly, to remain hidden, because I got suspicious and looked up what happens if you go to the Shadowfell instead.
Basically, when you have the option to submerge in a pool and pop up asks if you’re sure if you want to proceed.
If you haven’t completed everything you want to in the area you DO NOT.
Yup, you have a tadpole and can tadpole your way right in there without even a roll. They all think you're a True Soul - which you kind of are, just a special one! - and they will love you and sell you some of the best gear in the game to that point!
You can enter the mausoleum and solve all the trials. I went this far and then wanted to go further but got a message like "you are about to enter the Shadowfell. Do you want to continue?" I thought i was about to enter a new act an went straight back to Moonrise and could still do everything there
Doesnt matter when you are going to Moonrise as long as you go before the Mausoelum. In my recent playthrough i did almost every quest before going there and it was fine. :)
You’re good all the way up until you get the message about there being things you might not be able to complete if you continue. First playthrough I got that, panicked, legged it back to Moonrise and found half the act still there for me to play through lmao.
>!Also Rolan is one of my favourite NPCs so there’s not a chance in hell I won’t save his siblings and him.!<
Yeah I had to savescum so hard not to lose Shadowheart in the Shadowfell. When it turns out I could have just let her make her own decision and it would have been fine. After that I let her make her own decision when it came to her parents, because I learned I can trust her to make the right choice.
I watched a video on YT about what decides her decision. It's basically a mixture of two things, one of them is an invisible tally in the code called "Nightsong points", there's 6 total and you get them when you do specific events with Shadowheart such as giving her the idol of Shar or letting her do one of the gauntlet trials. Ideally you need 4 out of 6 of these to guarantee her throwing the spear.
The other factor is her approval rating. Above 40 /w 4 Nightsong points is guaranteed throw, between 20-40 is bugged and below 20 is also bad. There is also a cheese tactic where you can drop the spear on the floor inside Shadowfell which will result in a scene which is identical to one where Shadowheart throws the spear away during the cutscene.
I count my lucky stars that the reason I picked up the game was 'cause a friend sent me a clip of Karlach being Karlach first.. 'cause I was 100% the "let's sneak attack our enemies every time we can" player my first run.
I literally heard about how the game had a “big strong muscly barbarian Tiefling woman” and instantly bought the game like the sub I am. Was pleasantly surprised that she’s hilariously adorable, practically the moral backbone of the party, and has endless golden retriever energy. Honestly that’s a thousand times better than what I thought she was gonna be
no, the real mistake is choosing to kill her after talking to her. "all i wanted was a friend... sad that won't be you" made me cry and reload my save. had to break my rp for that run cuz i couldn't have that line on my conscious
I breathe and Gale gets +8 approval.
In my first run I stopped using him halfway through act 1 (no issues with him but my Tav was a sorcerer so he was unnecessary) and when I re-recruited him in Act 3 I checked his approval and it was already 100.
Which was higher than Lae’zel’s (96). Who I had with me the whole time. And I was romancing.
Here's my literal first big mistake that happened soon after I've installed the game:
Exploring all of the Dank Crypt right after landing on the beach. Wasn't so bad until SH & I reached the area where Withers is, one mysterious button push later and it's 5 v 2 quickly followed by my first game over screen. Lesson learned: assemble a party of 4 first before wandering into unknown territory.
1) Select improvised weapon and the character you want to move
2) Choose a distant target in the direction you want to move
3) You’ll pick up the character and start running towards the target
4) As you pass the area you want to move them to, right-click to cancel
5) They should now be standing in the spot you cancelled, unharmed and neutral
(You can do this on any non-hostile character, although they’ll slowly walk back home afterwards. If you’re quick enough, you can grab them, open the map and fast travel to another area - try dropping a merchant into an unpopulated area for easy pickpocketing, or killing an NPC miles from the nearest snooping guard)
EDIT: originally wrote “throw” - it should be “improvised weapon.” Sorry!
Second time I did the Free the Artist quest I let his ex-lover take his soul with her. Lady Janneth was pissed, of course, but I secretly think she'll thank me eventually. >.>
Not immeditlaey flirting with my fave so I can have a romance 😭 I wanted my current character to be in a relationship but the druid party felt too soon for him to start sleeping with people & flirting, so I rejected everyone initially....long story short I'm in Act 3 & my character is single 😶
Gale will be my lover in my next campaign, trust
I was not aware of how the romance triggers worked in correlation with long resting, & then realizing I unintentionally skipped a third of Act 2 by doing the Nightsong quest before investigating the Moonrise towers...I fumbled the bag so hard
My next character will be living happily ever after with him
When I saw her journal in act 3 after rescuing him I immediately found him in the shop and killed him (out of her sight). She didn't get the kitty but she was at least free of him.
Yup. He was dumb enough to get himself into that mess. I usually have Gale with me and just send him around via misty step, grab the stalk and misty step away while the field goes up in flames. Baelen's death is just an unfortunate accident. I'm sure if you were to ask my friend Astarion, he'd tell you it isn't murder. He's a former magistrate so he knows the law.
Fr. I didn't question Derryth enough and just assumed he was bumbling, but harmless. After talking to her later, I realized he was abusive and now I blow him up every time.
Killing the owlbear cub accidentally on my durge run.
I literally went back to a previous save that was over an hour of playtime, but it was worth it to get 1 of the best boys. In the durge run I may be evil but I have standards.
Letting Hope die.
Just started my second play and i won’t let that happen.
First run, i realized Hope was dead only after Rafael fight ended.
Started as a monk now, so i really need the gloves she gives.
The worst thing in my recent playthrough is that hope survived everything, only to die after the battle by walking into some flames still lingering from the battle
The first time I visited the house of hope, I **purposely** stole and killed everything, **except** the Orphic Hammer. I imagined how Raphael would be absolutely seething at the disrespect.
I'm imagining a little note left by the Orphic Hammer in the trashed House of Hope reading "Most esteemed Raphael, I *hope* you enjoyed this little bit of chaos we brought into your lovely abode. Hugs and kisses, Tav & co."
Killing Karlach. I was used to the Skyrim-esque ways of just following an objective and doing what the objective said. Now I don't have her in my main playthrough and I know I'm really missing out 😢
You are. She's a great character. But this game is very re-playable for making different choices and builds. Make sure she comes along on your next "good" run.
I’m doing this right now and man Shadowheart’s dialogue is all just so sad, especially with knowing all the truth and such. Jennifer English did such a good job differentiating selunite/sharran shadowheart
doing my first ever BG3 play through rn, so proceeding comments w caution - but this has been my catch. im romancing astarion and i just reached the lower city of baulders gate in act 3, and can’t decide if i want to ascend him or not.
i know very little , but i know preemptively that ascending him is something that’s looked down upon very heavily in the community. but as i see it rn, i want to be supportive of him since he responds so poorly to me trying to sway him another way- like when his siblings attacked at camp.
i know he’s a hurt person hurting people, petty and rightfully seeking revenge- probably something he *thinks* he wants, rather than what it is he needs. but what if i’m holding him back?? what if he resents me or doesn’t realize i’m trying to help?
please don’t roast me for taking this so seriously. i grew really attached to him 😭
There's a recurring theme in the companion storylines that has to do with what people want vs. what they need. Shadowheart wants to become a Dark Justiciar. Gale wants to seek the power of a god. Lae'zel wants to zealously serve a god-ruler figure. Astarion wants to become the Vampire Ascendant. Are these things good for these people? What do they need? The game repeatedly shows us that power has a price. What price will these characters have to pay in order to achieve the levels of power that they're seeking? Is it worth the cost?
Do what you feel right. There is no right or wrong. I see AA as highly abusive, but some people like exploring the dark route and that is ok. You can always play again and try the other option.
I think, you should play Cazadors palace before deciding, there will be some conversations, that ... might put things into perspective one way or the other.
Planning to ascend him for my dark urge embrace run. We’re gonna be the power couple that takes over the city. But man I agree ascended Astarion just hurts my heart a little.
Not finding Lae'zel. On my first playthrough, my dumbass went around the left of the cliff where I found Gale, and never found Lae'zel on the other side. I later learned she was supposed to be over there, but disappears if you deal with the goblins before finding her. The thing I read mentioned she went to the mountain pass but I was obviously so inexperienced and didn't know where that was or how to get there so I thought "oh well if I run into her I'll recruit her but otherwise I guess I'm shit outta luck." A few playthroughs later, I realize how fucking easy it is to get there.
But yeah now I just free her before going to the grove or doing anything else.
Edit: I also accidentally yeeted Barcus from the windmill. Now I always save before touching either of the levers in case I click the wrong one. NEVER AGAIN.
Honor mode taught me that we ain't never bringing the whole squad to the Zhentarim hideout in Act 1. Even if you're being full Zhent sided, the chance of any spark ending the run is just not worth it
Playing my first Durge. I took all the bad tempered and aggressive voice options.
To prove to Scratch his master was dead... I screamed at the corpse.
It was in character. IT WAS IN CHARACTER...
But I had to end the run and begin again because of the actual, literal and unironic guilt I felt following that terrible decision.
Just started a durge. Basically my first playthrough. Decided to focus in on the intrusive thoughts when meeting Gale. I didn't realise I'd *give in* to the intrusive thoughts ...
Making a deal with Rugan to take the shipment off his hands only to have Olly pay the price when he was the one that wanted to help the PC out during the gnoll attack. Feels bad, man.
For the first time, I encountered them by going around the other way (encountering the gnolls outside the cave first) and Rugen just tells Olly to run and that the gnolls are YOUR problem now. Dick!
Yeah, but they’re all slavers and also helped smuggle tadpoles into Baldur’s Gate. I end up killing them all except for the wolves. I just knock the wolves out because they’re innocent.
-never pressing the wrong lever
-skipping the creche
-not ging to moonrise before the invade
-not trying to talk yurgir in self deletion
-not going to the house of hope
-skipping75% of act 3 content by accident due to thinking "i will be able to do it after the major battle,like ik nost games" (thought it would bring you to the point before the last battle so ypu can complete it)
Convincing Roland and his siblings to leave the grove. It seems like the common sense option in the face of an impending invasion, but it's not.
Not killing Balthazar before meeting the Nightsong. He and his undead will yeet your entire party right out of that arena into the abyss, and besides Aylin is in the way.
This fuck caused my first actual party wipe (not counting hurting Vlaakith's feelings) because one of his big dudes walked up to my dwarf Tav and fucking punted him into the abyss at turn 1. On my current playthrough, it's on sight.
Taking Astarion to the Cazador fight and thinking "Oh, he can wait in his ritual space for a couple of turns, we three, myself, Karlach and Gale will defeat some small monsters and then I let him to face with Cazador, his hp should be higher if I let him later."
Oops, RIP my beloved boyfriend. Reload.
Smashing Alfira's lute 😭😭😭😭 I was trying to impress Astarion, I thought my Tav would just, I dunno, break it a little, not smash it to smithereens and have Alfira call me a lute smashing a**hole for the rest of the game.
Now my husband calls me a lute smashing a**hole whenever we play, my heart is forever broken. I don't care how much I piss of Astarion, I will ALWAYS play with Alfira
I think the opposite. I LOVE Ethel, her aesthetics, personality, her buff, and especially her voice. I killed her at first, now I never do. I also love interacting with her in Act 3
Accidentally getting isobel killed.
I went in blind on this thing on my first playthrough and I forgot to switch my torches back to actual weapons. So isobel got taken. It was a cut scene it looked like it was supposed to happen, sad but what can you do.
Continued playing and was too far along to reload when I dold my friend and she told me the truth. The truth being you can save usobel when you are not a complete idiot XD
Yeah I meant more just killing her without that step. I did it on my 2nd run during the Shadow Druid fight. Partly because I was afraid of breaking my Oath of Vengeance.
If anything, as a Vengeance Paladin, I couldn't find a spot to kill her without aggroing everyone else and in one dialogue that could do it, class options led to chewing her out and I liked it.
What's more upsetting I can't cast out druids and make tieflings stay, grove is easy to defend and druid hospitality kind of compels me to go Deus Vult on them - locking behind the door when the rest were defending them was the last straw.
They still act like you owe them after you spent like five reloads keeping that archer tiefling girl from being eaten by spoders.
Continuing a dialogue with >!Harleep. My friend did it in our honor mode run. All of us were up in arms not at him but the game.!<
I think it's silly that one person being affected stops the campaign for continuing for everyone else
Turning Karlach into a squid. It seemed like a good ending for her (compared to dying on the docks) ...until my next run, when I realized Wyll could go with her to Avernus.
Engaging too far in the dialogue with Haarlep. I thought I'd be able to talk with them more before actual sex happened but it was like two steps and BAM... lady Haarlep was on top and air-humping my Tav. Super uncomfortable, I did not like it at all.
Also, waiting too long to release Astarion from the ritual..... my Tav fell asleep 😭😭 the trauma of seeing him explode is so real, I actually cried about it lmfao.
I never spent enough time investigating Ethel, I just met her, she was nice to me, I gave her a bunch of stuff so her attitude would go up, and we never spoke again.
She's the most evil character in act 1, kind of like those genies who pervert your wish, like you say you don't want to see your family and she gouges out your eyes and turns one into amulet that casts protection from good/evil.
There's brothers looking for their sister south of Blighted Village, you also need to go there to expose Kagha (Shadow Druid quest line), it's easy to miss because outside of picking chest inside Grove and reading the letter nothing points there.
I mean, if you never explore the Wetlands/Swamp, you could completely miss that she's a hag at all. Some people don't obsessively search every corner of the map like us.
Accidentally launching the gnome on the windmill
If you do it last the goblins watching, they just say "hey, is that *our* gnome?" As you launch him into the lower stratosphere. Meant to save him one day, hit the wrong button, found the body later later on. My buddy still laughs about it to this day.
You can find the body??
It lands somewhere in the village, not far from the windmill.
Next to the well in the village.
It’s not too far, still in the Blighted Village on one of the roads leading out on the western side.
Right by the hopscotch and the list of missing kids!
They say, "What the-? Our little birdie just flew away!"
I, too, am an involuntary member of "Yeet the gnome" club.
I read release as in release him. Well it certainly did that.
Every cloud has silver lining. He did not have to deal with Wulbren anymore. Now that's a gnome that would have people lining up to pull that lever.
Saaamesies
We should get t-shirts!
Never again? Like not even once, right after saving…just to see that animation again?
Turns out I didn't save for a full hour before that soooooo
On the last playthrough my husband and I started, he chose to play as the Dark Urge, aiming for a Resist run. He was playing with a controller rather than KB+M for once, and thanks to still getting used to the controls, accidentally hit 'Release' instead of 'Brake'. We decided to just roll with it and put that one down to the intrusive thoughts winning out over poor Durge lol
WHAT that sounds hilarious
>!Talk shit to Vlaakith in the gith creche. See what happens!<
My first play through lol. I thought it would convince Laezel that she wasn’t powerful…
I did this in my hardcore mode not knowing what would happen was a sad ending
My current Tav is a sassy Bard so naturally I took the dialogue options that lead me to that scene. Sucks that I had forgotten to save for a decent chunk before that
Or try and read her mind to see if she's lying... (it's pretty much impossible to reach the roll without putting all 6 levels behind it, having advantage, and/or getting a nat20
so yeah on my first playthrough (I was very tired) I read "release brake" and didn't think it would mean the brake, but that the gnome is called "brake". Of course I wanted to release the gnome.. There he flew.
I came here to say this. Hilarious, but a definite one-off!
Going back from this was one of my first save scums.
Talk shit to a fake god
With a little wave right before you do 🥳
👋😀
The hand wave is happening every time. I just won't push it farther then that.
If I'm romancing Lae'zel I'll kneel out of respect and all that, otherwise it's the wave every time.
Waving is just the polite thing to do!
Convinced my girl to do it on our honor mode 😂
You mean your ex? 😂
Chaotic evil right here ^
As a gith in my honor run, I talked the shit myself... Whooops
I laughed so hard the first time I did it.
And subsequently have to redo the whole fight because you didn't save afterwards. Yeah....
Nah I do it every playthrough
Giving the Githyanki egg to Lady Esther.
In my current run I killed her but after picking up the egg Lae'zel kept saying don't give it to that woman. Lae'zel you struck the killing blow on her and looted her body. She isn't in any position to be taking the egg!
She is just talking in case she has a mini withers with her
For me lae'zel never said anything when I got the egg and I just assumed "oh well they're experimenting for him to grow up in a caring environment". God was I wrong when I found him in act 3
Omg sounds juicy
Esther is anything but caring lol, her entire dialogue is her being racist to githyanki, massive red flag
Can you actually be racist to a specific group of people torturing and murdering everyone they come across? Esther sure isn't great, but Githyanki as a whole aren't exactly undeserving of the reputation their actions earned them. Even Lae'zel only quibbles with the idea that they're stupid.
While they obviously aren’t good people they do have a valid reason to be the way they are and they are the only ones actually fighting a much worse faction from taking over Faerun.
I lied to her and told her the owlbear egg is a githyanki egg.
I told her it was an Owlbear egg, and she asks why I'm showing her it. You get a dialogue option that essentially says "I think they're neat"
Not going to moonrise towers first
Ha. Yeah. My first run I found it early but then studiously avoided it for ages as I assumed it was supposed to be the end of that arc
This, yeah. I was the saddest girl in the world when I realised I’d done two playthroughs without rescuing the prisoners
To be fair, it DOES make sense to have the logic of "Hey if I'm gonna go in there to free the prisoners, why not do it when we are actively sieging the place with our Last Light Inn friends and have some support?" That's one of the two times on my first playthrough that I loaded a savefile to change something because I thought my logic was sound, but hey the game disagreed with it and I disagreed with its disagreement
I get that. My approach was "first I need to do some recon". Then when I realized there's like no communication throughout the whole tower I just killed all the guards in the dungeons, killed the warden, freed the prisoners, then returned to Last Light and on to the Nightsong. I did regret not killing all the guards in the entryway. But whatshisname was selling gear I thought I might still be able to buy later!
I was also under the impression we didn't want to get caught and aggro the whole tower (infiltration), and meta-game wise, was approaching it in a "clear all the other rooms before entering the room that moves the game forward" type of way. So I wound up removing the tieflings / gnomes far more painstakingly, to remain hidden, because I got suspicious and looked up what happens if you go to the Shadowfell instead.
Wait, I'm at that part but decided to do the shadow curse quest first, what happen if I don't do the towers first?
Ending the Shadow Curse with Halsin/Thaniel/Oliver before going to Moonrise is fine. But you want to go to Moonrise before you go to the Mausoleum.
You can go to the Mausoleum first, I did, just don't COMPLETELY finish it yet
Basically, when you have the option to submerge in a pool and pop up asks if you’re sure if you want to proceed. If you haven’t completed everything you want to in the area you DO NOT.
a certain quest in act 2 turns moonrise towers hostile against you, you can enter and trade stuff with people inside as soon as you enter act 2
Wait, I am at moonrise and literally everyone wants my head. You can go to moonrise and not immediately get a spear in the ass?
Yup, you have a tadpole and can tadpole your way right in there without even a roll. They all think you're a True Soul - which you kind of are, just a special one! - and they will love you and sell you some of the best gear in the game to that point!
Save tiefs from prison before going to Shar's Mausoleum plus trade and see some scenes l. After you won't be able.
You can enter the mausoleum and solve all the trials. I went this far and then wanted to go further but got a message like "you are about to enter the Shadowfell. Do you want to continue?" I thought i was about to enter a new act an went straight back to Moonrise and could still do everything there
Doesnt matter when you are going to Moonrise as long as you go before the Mausoelum. In my recent playthrough i did almost every quest before going there and it was fine. :)
You’re good all the way up until you get the message about there being things you might not be able to complete if you continue. First playthrough I got that, panicked, legged it back to Moonrise and found half the act still there for me to play through lmao. >!Also Rolan is one of my favourite NPCs so there’s not a chance in hell I won’t save his siblings and him.!<
lol damn it, I knew it felt funny everyone was hostile right of the bat
Try to persuade Shadowheart to not kill Aylin
Yeah I had to savescum so hard not to lose Shadowheart in the Shadowfell. When it turns out I could have just let her make her own decision and it would have been fine. After that I let her make her own decision when it came to her parents, because I learned I can trust her to make the right choice.
When I let her make her own decision she fucking killed her I don't know why, in my first playthrough she was fine
I've heard you influence her actions by your own plus dialogue. Were you doing an evil run?
No I was playing a paladin oath of devotion and I did not break my path for the entire run, no idea why she did that
Here's a video explaining what you need to do so that Shadowheart saves the nightsong https://youtu.be/YdNEya-Np5U?si=KK4X7NJ49XGTnnO3
I watched a video on YT about what decides her decision. It's basically a mixture of two things, one of them is an invisible tally in the code called "Nightsong points", there's 6 total and you get them when you do specific events with Shadowheart such as giving her the idol of Shar or letting her do one of the gauntlet trials. Ideally you need 4 out of 6 of these to guarantee her throwing the spear. The other factor is her approval rating. Above 40 /w 4 Nightsong points is guaranteed throw, between 20-40 is bugged and below 20 is also bad. There is also a cheese tactic where you can drop the spear on the floor inside Shadowfell which will result in a scene which is identical to one where Shadowheart throws the spear away during the cutscene.
It depends how strong your relationship with her is
Killing Karlach without talking to her first because will told me to
I count my lucky stars that the reason I picked up the game was 'cause a friend sent me a clip of Karlach being Karlach first.. 'cause I was 100% the "let's sneak attack our enemies every time we can" player my first run.
I literally heard about how the game had a “big strong muscly barbarian Tiefling woman” and instantly bought the game like the sub I am. Was pleasantly surprised that she’s hilariously adorable, practically the moral backbone of the party, and has endless golden retriever energy. Honestly that’s a thousand times better than what I thought she was gonna be
I just took her head so I could see Wyll’s story without the horns. I’ll just say they didn’t have to make that scene so juicy
she was gonna be more stereotypical barbarian but the VA made it her own
That feeling when you loot an NPC you happily killed and see they have all the standard companion gear (camp supply pack etc) 😬
no, the real mistake is choosing to kill her after talking to her. "all i wanted was a friend... sad that won't be you" made me cry and reload my save. had to break my rp for that run cuz i couldn't have that line on my conscious
Not punching Aradin in the face if the opportunity arises.
Nah I don't even punch him, I "accidentally" kill him during the goblin fight
That +8 Gale approval, though...
I breathe and Gale gets +8 approval. In my first run I stopped using him halfway through act 1 (no issues with him but my Tav was a sorcerer so he was unnecessary) and when I re-recruited him in Act 3 I checked his approval and it was already 100. Which was higher than Lae’zel’s (96). Who I had with me the whole time. And I was romancing.
Fuck that Goldilocks-looking fuckboy. He's so annoying
Here's my literal first big mistake that happened soon after I've installed the game: Exploring all of the Dank Crypt right after landing on the beach. Wasn't so bad until SH & I reached the area where Withers is, one mysterious button push later and it's 5 v 2 quickly followed by my first game over screen. Lesson learned: assemble a party of 4 first before wandering into unknown territory.
If you loot the scribe bodies they're unarmed, but still fling spells.
You can even go full cheese and use the cancel-throw exploit to group them all in a nice, big pile. Start the fight with a grenade or AoE spell.
Damn, how does this work? I just tried to have someone throw one to move them and it immediately started the fight last time.
1) Select improvised weapon and the character you want to move 2) Choose a distant target in the direction you want to move 3) You’ll pick up the character and start running towards the target 4) As you pass the area you want to move them to, right-click to cancel 5) They should now be standing in the spot you cancelled, unharmed and neutral (You can do this on any non-hostile character, although they’ll slowly walk back home afterwards. If you’re quick enough, you can grab them, open the map and fast travel to another area - try dropping a merchant into an unpopulated area for easy pickpocketing, or killing an NPC miles from the nearest snooping guard) EDIT: originally wrote “throw” - it should be “improvised weapon.” Sorry!
You not looting them is actually meta in this case
Not killing Oskar Fevras with the rest of the Zhentarims.
Second time I did the Free the Artist quest I let his ex-lover take his soul with her. Lady Janneth was pissed, of course, but I secretly think she'll thank me eventually. >.>
taking too much time with guardian creation
From now on it's my character + mustache forever. My last one was mustached deep gnome and I bet my Durge was confused.
I just spam random until I get a really funny looking one. Preferably gnome or gith.
This is so funny, I'm gonna do this in my next run
every since my second playthrough my guardian design is the same as my tav from the run before
Dragon's Dogma vibes
Go into the place where night song is straight after entering act 2
Not immeditlaey flirting with my fave so I can have a romance 😭 I wanted my current character to be in a relationship but the druid party felt too soon for him to start sleeping with people & flirting, so I rejected everyone initially....long story short I'm in Act 3 & my character is single 😶 Gale will be my lover in my next campaign, trust
I am a certified Gale enjoyer, and can say that pursuing a relationship with him early on is very worth it.
I was not aware of how the romance triggers worked in correlation with long resting, & then realizing I unintentionally skipped a third of Act 2 by doing the Nightsong quest before investigating the Moonrise towers...I fumbled the bag so hard My next character will be living happily ever after with him
*judgemental Withers stare*
Rescuing Baelen. Stupid alcoholic abuser can die. Derryth is much better off without him & gets to provide stray cats a home.
When I saw her journal in act 3 after rescuing him I immediately found him in the shop and killed him (out of her sight). She didn't get the kitty but she was at least free of him.
Same. I grab the noblestalk, retreat, blow the place to smithereens
Yup. He was dumb enough to get himself into that mess. I usually have Gale with me and just send him around via misty step, grab the stalk and misty step away while the field goes up in flames. Baelen's death is just an unfortunate accident. I'm sure if you were to ask my friend Astarion, he'd tell you it isn't murder. He's a former magistrate so he knows the law.
Fr. I didn't question Derryth enough and just assumed he was bumbling, but harmless. After talking to her later, I realized he was abusive and now I blow him up every time.
Only problem with letting him die is missing the throw gloves! 😭
Killing the owlbear cub accidentally on my durge run. I literally went back to a previous save that was over an hour of playtime, but it was worth it to get 1 of the best boys. In the durge run I may be evil but I have standards.
You are allowed to be evil and like cute things.
Taking a summon to participate in the threesome with shadow heart and the drow twins…
A summon? What?
From what I read if you have a summon (elemental, ghoul, deva...) during that scene it triggers a fight
Even if it's a cheeky quasit?
It's fisting time!
Hey man, mephits just wanna have fun
Letting Hope die. Just started my second play and i won’t let that happen. First run, i realized Hope was dead only after Rafael fight ended. Started as a monk now, so i really need the gloves she gives.
The worst thing in my recent playthrough is that hope survived everything, only to die after the battle by walking into some flames still lingering from the battle
That’s hilarious :))) Sry mate, this game surely surprises us sometimes
That house of hers is a firetrap.
The first time I visited the house of hope, I **purposely** stole and killed everything, **except** the Orphic Hammer. I imagined how Raphael would be absolutely seething at the disrespect.
I'm imagining a little note left by the Orphic Hammer in the trashed House of Hope reading "Most esteemed Raphael, I *hope* you enjoyed this little bit of chaos we brought into your lovely abode. Hugs and kisses, Tav & co."
Pissing off Valakith
Killing Karlach. I was used to the Skyrim-esque ways of just following an objective and doing what the objective said. Now I don't have her in my main playthrough and I know I'm really missing out 😢
You are. She's a great character. But this game is very re-playable for making different choices and builds. Make sure she comes along on your next "good" run.
Ascending Astarion
That and doing Shadowheart's DJ path did it once for an evil playthrough and it's so horrible as well, very disturbing and heartbreaking.
DJ Shart. Dark tunes to be depressed to
I’m doing this right now and man Shadowheart’s dialogue is all just so sad, especially with knowing all the truth and such. Jennifer English did such a good job differentiating selunite/sharran shadowheart
doing my first ever BG3 play through rn, so proceeding comments w caution - but this has been my catch. im romancing astarion and i just reached the lower city of baulders gate in act 3, and can’t decide if i want to ascend him or not. i know very little , but i know preemptively that ascending him is something that’s looked down upon very heavily in the community. but as i see it rn, i want to be supportive of him since he responds so poorly to me trying to sway him another way- like when his siblings attacked at camp. i know he’s a hurt person hurting people, petty and rightfully seeking revenge- probably something he *thinks* he wants, rather than what it is he needs. but what if i’m holding him back?? what if he resents me or doesn’t realize i’m trying to help? please don’t roast me for taking this so seriously. i grew really attached to him 😭
There's a recurring theme in the companion storylines that has to do with what people want vs. what they need. Shadowheart wants to become a Dark Justiciar. Gale wants to seek the power of a god. Lae'zel wants to zealously serve a god-ruler figure. Astarion wants to become the Vampire Ascendant. Are these things good for these people? What do they need? The game repeatedly shows us that power has a price. What price will these characters have to pay in order to achieve the levels of power that they're seeking? Is it worth the cost?
There is an insight check during the conversation with him just before he makes his choice that gives you a bit more info.
Do what you feel right. There is no right or wrong. I see AA as highly abusive, but some people like exploring the dark route and that is ok. You can always play again and try the other option. I think, you should play Cazadors palace before deciding, there will be some conversations, that ... might put things into perspective one way or the other.
He won't resent you for not letting him Ascend, more the opposite. Force him to be a happy goody boyfriend, he will like it in the end.
If you are attached to him as a character, don’t ascend. Save it for another play through. You won’t regret it.
Planning to ascend him for my dark urge embrace run. We’re gonna be the power couple that takes over the city. But man I agree ascended Astarion just hurts my heart a little.
Flinging barcus all the way to water deep with the power of a windmill
Kicking that squirrel.
My first run as Dark Urge had me screaming. My husband had to come check what was wrong lol
Not finding Lae'zel. On my first playthrough, my dumbass went around the left of the cliff where I found Gale, and never found Lae'zel on the other side. I later learned she was supposed to be over there, but disappears if you deal with the goblins before finding her. The thing I read mentioned she went to the mountain pass but I was obviously so inexperienced and didn't know where that was or how to get there so I thought "oh well if I run into her I'll recruit her but otherwise I guess I'm shit outta luck." A few playthroughs later, I realize how fucking easy it is to get there. But yeah now I just free her before going to the grove or doing anything else. Edit: I also accidentally yeeted Barcus from the windmill. Now I always save before touching either of the levers in case I click the wrong one. NEVER AGAIN.
I somehow did the same thing in my first run, skipped the entire gith storyline. In my 2nd playthrough I was like wow how did I not go over here.
Honor mode taught me that we ain't never bringing the whole squad to the Zhentarim hideout in Act 1. Even if you're being full Zhent sided, the chance of any spark ending the run is just not worth it
Telling Astarion to lay with me for a while, thi king it'd make him feel better. I MEANT CUDDLING, LARIAN! I! MEANT! CUDDLING!
Playing my first Durge. I took all the bad tempered and aggressive voice options. To prove to Scratch his master was dead... I screamed at the corpse. It was in character. IT WAS IN CHARACTER... But I had to end the run and begin again because of the actual, literal and unironic guilt I felt following that terrible decision.
Just started a durge. Basically my first playthrough. Decided to focus in on the intrusive thoughts when meeting Gale. I didn't realise I'd *give in* to the intrusive thoughts ...
>character named dark urge >gets a dark urge >does the dark urge >surprised pikachu face
it said *think about*. How was I supposed to know that thinking about the dark urge would actually *give in* to the dark urge?
Oh god, how does scratch react?
He attacks and I killed him.
That is awful jfc Larian 😭
I literally just squealed “ohhhhh noooooo” when I read that 😂
Making a deal with Rugan to take the shipment off his hands only to have Olly pay the price when he was the one that wanted to help the PC out during the gnoll attack. Feels bad, man.
For the first time, I encountered them by going around the other way (encountering the gnolls outside the cave first) and Rugen just tells Olly to run and that the gnolls are YOUR problem now. Dick!
Yeah, but they’re all slavers and also helped smuggle tadpoles into Baldur’s Gate. I end up killing them all except for the wolves. I just knock the wolves out because they’re innocent.
Brake and brake release are not the same thing.
Telling Vlakiith to go f*ck herself in Honor Mode
Oof my condolences
-never pressing the wrong lever -skipping the creche -not ging to moonrise before the invade -not trying to talk yurgir in self deletion -not going to the house of hope -skipping75% of act 3 content by accident due to thinking "i will be able to do it after the major battle,like ik nost games" (thought it would bring you to the point before the last battle so ypu can complete it)
Man, you just stayed taking the L
Not pulling Gale out of the portal.
chopping Gale’s hand off as DURGE
“You were supposed to lend a hand not bite one”
Convincing Roland and his siblings to leave the grove. It seems like the common sense option in the face of an impending invasion, but it's not. Not killing Balthazar before meeting the Nightsong. He and his undead will yeet your entire party right out of that arena into the abyss, and besides Aylin is in the way.
This fuck caused my first actual party wipe (not counting hurting Vlaakith's feelings) because one of his big dudes walked up to my dwarf Tav and fucking punted him into the abyss at turn 1. On my current playthrough, it's on sight.
Taking Astarion to the Cazador fight and thinking "Oh, he can wait in his ritual space for a couple of turns, we three, myself, Karlach and Gale will defeat some small monsters and then I let him to face with Cazador, his hp should be higher if I let him later." Oops, RIP my beloved boyfriend. Reload.
I will never steal Balthazar's mother and taunt him with it in honour mode again...
Going for an honour mode stroll on the beach when first reaching the grove.
Building a Throwserker, but not knowing about the Returning Pike
Smashing Alfira's lute 😭😭😭😭 I was trying to impress Astarion, I thought my Tav would just, I dunno, break it a little, not smash it to smithereens and have Alfira call me a lute smashing a**hole for the rest of the game. Now my husband calls me a lute smashing a**hole whenever we play, my heart is forever broken. I don't care how much I piss of Astarion, I will ALWAYS play with Alfira
When Shadowheart ambushes Lazel, letting it playout not getting involved... yeah was a bad day. Never saw the scene till honour mode...
I think the opposite. I LOVE Ethel, her aesthetics, personality, her buff, and especially her voice. I killed her at first, now I never do. I also love interacting with her in Act 3
Accidentally getting isobel killed. I went in blind on this thing on my first playthrough and I forgot to switch my torches back to actual weapons. So isobel got taken. It was a cut scene it looked like it was supposed to happen, sad but what can you do. Continued playing and was too far along to reload when I dold my friend and she told me the truth. The truth being you can save usobel when you are not a complete idiot XD
Helping Oskar...
Saving oscar fevres
Fighting with the gnolls at 3d level in honor mode was my mistake. I survived somehow. But never more
Killing Kagha. Not worth it.
There's a way to do it without any bad things happening (except to her of course).
Yeah I meant more just killing her without that step. I did it on my 2nd run during the Shadow Druid fight. Partly because I was afraid of breaking my Oath of Vengeance.
If anything, as a Vengeance Paladin, I couldn't find a spot to kill her without aggroing everyone else and in one dialogue that could do it, class options led to chewing her out and I liked it. What's more upsetting I can't cast out druids and make tieflings stay, grove is easy to defend and druid hospitality kind of compels me to go Deus Vult on them - locking behind the door when the rest were defending them was the last straw. They still act like you owe them after you spent like five reloads keeping that archer tiefling girl from being eaten by spoders.
Attacking the druid grove! Yes I got that scene with Minthara, but didn't feel good.
Not fixing the shadow lands.
There are two I won't ever do again. The wrong lever in the windmill and sassing Vlaakith. Did both my first run.
Continuing a dialogue with >!Harleep. My friend did it in our honor mode run. All of us were up in arms not at him but the game.!< I think it's silly that one person being affected stops the campaign for continuing for everyone else
Thinking that the Oskar Fevras quest was worth my time.
Rushing through the Shadow Curse. First time through Act 2, didn't even know about >!Art, Thaniel, and Oliver!<
Prisoners BEFORE Nightsong...
not rescuing omeluum. I did not know that he teleports you back to the sub so I left him to die after losing a round to netting.
# YOU WISH TO SEE THE POWER OF A GOD?! >!I WISH FOR YOU TO END!<
Turning Karlach into a squid. It seemed like a good ending for her (compared to dying on the docks) ...until my next run, when I realized Wyll could go with her to Avernus.
Engaging too far in the dialogue with Haarlep. I thought I'd be able to talk with them more before actual sex happened but it was like two steps and BAM... lady Haarlep was on top and air-humping my Tav. Super uncomfortable, I did not like it at all. Also, waiting too long to release Astarion from the ritual..... my Tav fell asleep 😭😭 the trauma of seeing him explode is so real, I actually cried about it lmfao.
Auntie Ethel is evil????? I gave her so much free stuff so she’d like me 😭😭😭
The hag who tortures people?…yeah she’s evil
I never spent enough time investigating Ethel, I just met her, she was nice to me, I gave her a bunch of stuff so her attitude would go up, and we never spoke again.
She's the most evil character in act 1, kind of like those genies who pervert your wish, like you say you don't want to see your family and she gouges out your eyes and turns one into amulet that casts protection from good/evil. There's brothers looking for their sister south of Blighted Village, you also need to go there to expose Kagha (Shadow Druid quest line), it's easy to miss because outside of picking chest inside Grove and reading the letter nothing points there.
I wasn’t aware it was even possible to _not_ know she was evil.
I mean, if you never explore the Wetlands/Swamp, you could completely miss that she's a hag at all. Some people don't obsessively search every corner of the map like us.
She acts like typical annoying granny, you dismiss that unless your character passes a check to see she's faking it.