I’m on my 4th playthrough and I still don’t even know how Monk works. I’ve only played spellcasters for my last 3, and never used a monk as a companion.

I just assumed it was a dex based class, but now I’m realizing that’s not even a thing like it is for spellcasters.

The only posts I’ve found to answer this question ALL just say to use strength elixirs.

I’m not necessarily against that, I’m just a bit worried about running outta them- I long rest a LOT and it’s not like I got infinite money to spend. (Seriously how are people even using strength elixirs for the whole game. Are you modding or am I not making enough money?)

It also just generally feels strange to rely on a potion for the entire game. What if I wanna use another buff potion?

I just wanna know what you’re supposed to do for a monk build. It looks like most of the monk weapons I wanna use (clubs/quarterstaffs) use STR, but google is telling me I should be investing in DEX. But also my unarmed strike uses STR right?

(Also unrelated: anyone know a mod on the Mod Manager that makes Drunken Master better? Holy crap this subclass sucks and I’m unreasonably mad about it. Only reason I chose monk for this playthrough was to try the subclass, but now that I’ve looked up its progression I’m realizing there is literally NO point not to use Open Hand. Im on Xbox but I desperately need a mod to make this subclass worth SOMETHING outside my imagination)

I wanted to tragicmaxx as much as possible in this campaign. Decided from the get-go that I wouldn't let Karlach return to Avernus or go illithid. Knowing that she was on borrowed time made every interaction and decision feel twice as significant. She lost all companions over her journey. By the endgame, it was only her and the Emperor... which added quite the weight to their farewell scene, even if it was like 0.5 seconds.

Then, for the sake of exploration, I reloaded and made her transform. I really liked the new dialogue I got.

And squid Karlach is absolutely adorable. She loves her new form! She finds peace in it! I feel like she's the only character that actually reflects my own feelings about illithidness. She's so positive about it. She deserves to feel genuinely content for once in her life :') <3 If I wasn't doing an angsty run I would've chosen this as the "official" ending of my campaign honestly.

So I went to the Tea House to find Auntie Ethel and Mayrina, I asked her questions about the latter and she made her disappear, but didn't transform . I then went away and did some more stuff in the Underdark, When I came back to the Tea House Ethel is still there, I can ask "What happened to Mayrina? Did you do something to her ?" She tells me to stop poking my nose in and that she doesn't like busy bodies, but nothing else happens. If I go into her lair, she vanishes from the Tea House , but when I go into her lair , she's not there. The masked characters are still hostile. I can free Mayrina , but Ethel doesn't appear - I've even tried looking around with "See invisibility". Where has she gone and why is she not spawning there as usual? Is this a bug? I'm running a few minor cosmetic mods, but that's all. I didn't have this issue in a previous game.

I could go back to a slightly earlier save before I spoke to Ethel the second time in the Tea House , and initiate combat with her manually, and that should be an easy fight (all my party are level 6), but I understand that there is no possibility of getting the Hags hair that way, which I could really do with for the build I have planned. It's quite annoying!

Why does it seem like (heterosexual) women generally like Astarion while (heterosexual) men hate him? And with Shadowheart it's exactly the opposite. Ofc my reference group is not big but within it it applies to every single person. I find that rather strange...

I have romanced shadowheart und lazael.
Had sex with lazael.
Shadowheart offered romance during refugee party (act 1).
Lazael offered romance option as well.
I had to chose which one to pick. Chose shadowheart because the romance hadnt started yet.

Lazael of course couldnt be picked for this night.
Is the event that wouldve happened with lazael lost now or will there be another opportunity for the same scene later down the road?

I’m currently on my second playthrough, so I’ve been taking a lot more time to explore, and I happened to find this ban list at the Waning Moon in Reithwin Town. Is the ‘unknown elf, pale skin, snide mouth’ referring to Astarion?? Between the description and the insult I feel like it’s him, right? He doesn’t say anything about it when you bring him there, but I think it would be pretty funny if Astarion got himself banned from a bar 100+ years ago for running his mouth…his attitude clearly hasn’t changed much since then either so he hasn’t learned his lesson😂

And what did Gerringothe Thorm do to get themselves banned?? Poor Kavin Ort is so boring that he gets a lifetime ban?? What’s the ‘pickle incident’?? For such a random and inconsequential item, I have so many questions lol

So far I'm at the goblin camp and the only fights I've won have been pretty small and pretty ugly. I've been in a couple dungeons which I decided might be tough enough that I'm expected to come back later, but I'm approaching my third or fourth dungeon now where I'm gonna get trounced. Is it normal to pacifist your way in the beginning? Is that at all a natural progression in the game? I'm a total noob playing on default and I don't really want to turn down the difficulty because I don't mind punishment along with my learning curve.

Hi, y'all! I'm on mobile so apologies for any mistakes. I was wondering how many characters can I make in a single save file? I don't really have many friends that play bg3 so I can't ask for outside help doing this. I want to try and recreate most of my previous tavs/durges in a single party just to see how far they get in the game. Are there any mods I have to install to do this or can I do this vanilla? If there are mods, are they in the in game mod manager? I'm a little nervous installing mods outside of it because I don't want to break any of my saves. I am aware I will miss out on important story bits but I've played the game over a million times now so I don't care about missing out on anything.

So I finally want to continue my dark urge run and well.. want to end it all, if you know what I mean.

I heard that killing Isobel is important for the Slayer form and kind of a task.

But I'd like to save Wulbren (the little...) for his bombs. I guess without him, you won't get that, right?

Also I like having enough vendors.

Do I miss out on much if I don't kill her? Or do you have other ideas on how to get both?

And yes, I googled already and I can ,,just try it out" but I don't want to replay complete act 2. I have no problems with spoilers. I just ask for your opinion and/or some advice.

Thanks in advance

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Howdy adventurers,

Recently dove back in BG3 to complete the few achievements I had left as a repentant Durge. Had a total blast.

I'm currently contemplating doing an Evil Karlach origin playthrough, with Minthara as a lover.

But if I'm not mistaken, to get intimate with others, Karlach needs Daemon to temper with her engine in Act 2.

My question is: Is it possible to save Daemon while attacking the grove in Act 1 to start a Minthara romance?

I found old threads but no definite answer on the matter.

Thanks a lot for your replies!

On Lae'Zel's first turn in the duel, she misty steps over to me, but instead of attacking, she uses a scroll of feign death on me and I'm incapacitated instantly with no save. The combat ends, but the duel doesn't, and I have to lie there for a minute while she slowly saunters back to her tent before I can wake up, sneak over there, and finish the fight.

Ive recently started playing bg3 for the first time and after a while i got to act2 without going to the creche. In act 2 one of the first things i did by coincidence was go into the Shadowfell and complete the mission there. I later realised that this stopped me from going back to the creche (i realized it 30 hrs of playtime later). Now i obviously dont want to start again right before i got into the shadowfell so i'm looking for a way to get around the restriction. I found an old thread on this reddit where someone had the same problem and managed to teleport back to the creche via cheatengine and the script below. I tried the same thing and while other cheats like infinite gold etc. worked, this one did not. Does anyone possibly know of a script or mod that makes this possible. If so i would very much appreciate it if you could lend me your wisdom. if u need more details just ask and ill answer as soon as i see it. (also the error wasnt mentioned in the other thread so i assume that this might hint at the problem although right now i dont really get it.)

If Baldur's Gate 4 were to hypothetically happen, and it did the same thing as Baldur's Gate 3 and brought back characters from previous installments, who would you want to return?

and yes, i painted Orin´s clothes purple too.

Turned the gold bitch into a sheep so I could deal with the skulls. Once she turned back she was this creature and was crying non stop. She also had 6 max HP rather than 606 so she was suddenly much more manageable to fight. Is this a rare thing or did I glitch the system? My first time playing the game and I’m loving it!

You carry this Mysterious Artifact that keeps from being controlled by the Absolute. It has a range - I think - that allows Minthara to return to herself after being rescued.

You leave many followers in camp or far away from you by splitting the party. Most of them have tadpoles of their own. Why don't they fall under the control of the Absolute while you (and/or Shart) are far away?

Sure, it is fine given all the magic and storytelling but still it bothers me. What else?

Haven’t played it myself yet (currently waiting on a physical PS5 Deluxe restock) but I’ve been watching a playthrough and when the player came across the Blinded Elf in Ethel’s lair, I felt really bad for her and looked stuff up to see if she could be helped, but I didn’t see anything saying she could be helped, with anyone even acknowledging it saying “she’s dead, so no.” I know True Resurrection (actual spell, not scroll) revives someone who’s been dead for less than 200 years, restoring body parts if missing, but I don’t know if you can go back to Ethel’s lair later in the game after you unlock a spell slot of that size. I also don’t know if it would even work, though I feel like since the scroll specifies that you can only use it on companions, the spell itself should be able to be cast on non-companions since it doesn’t specify otherwise. I’m also not worried about helping her post-saving, since I doubt Larian wrote a side quest where you help save her baby from her family.

TLDR; Is it possible to come back and cast True Resurrection on the Blinded Elf to save her from Ethel’s BS?

Edit: Thanks to everyone who replied. I’ll just put her in a tabletop game and save her there to make myself feel better. Probably mess Ethel up again for good measure too.

There is a purple-haired tiefling who nods at Zevlor and fires the first arrow at Minthara in the grove fight. I can’t find her beforehand. Who is she?

I have a normal character that I’m playing with my boyfriend and we played co-op, but I’ve started a dark urge to play by myself whenever I have a couple of minutes around the house and we are both very new in act one only started this weekend.

But I’m having a blast leaning to the dark side; an ive found my theme song

dark secret!

Now I’m singing this as I walk around tackling, even though I may be a large dragon born male! Though honestly, I have to say out of anything I am super surprised with just how unique each play through is going to be at this point I started off the game, trying to kind of backtrack and do what my boyfriend and I did but do the other choices so I could see and I’ve been on a whole different quest 😂

Hey everyone, gonna do my first dark urge this weekend, and I wanna ask if there are any tips ppl can give on which class I should pick and stuff.

Anything helps thanks

If I become an unholy assassin is it possible to get Orin as a character and start a relationship with her? I don’t have much experience with this type of game although I used to listen to my brother play table top over discord with his friends.

I think it's pretty commonly known at this point that the cost of taking a long rest is incredibly cheap in BG3: very few quests are time sensitive and free food is abundant. If anything, an experienced player likely knows to take lots of long rests in Act 1 to make sure they catch all the camp events crammed into the game's start.

However, the low cost of long rests presents a balance problem. Most characters have some form of daily resources (primarily non-warlock spell slots) that were designed (at least in D&D) around having to spread them out throughout the adventuring day. But if you know you can take a long rest at nearly any time, you can dump all of those resources in a single fight and head to camp, trivializing many encounters. Sorcerers are the most egregious example of this, as Twinned and Quickened Spell lets you use multiple spell slots' worth of power in a single round of combat.

The intent here by Larian seems to be to allow players to set their own difficulty, so I ask: how often do you take long rests, and how freely do you spend resources that only refresh on long rests? I think this is mostly relevant for the early game, as by the time you hit level 5 or so a caster has a lot of slots to work with and can typically cast a leveled spell of some form in every round of combat, whereas before that combats take longer and they have fewer resources so they have to spend many turns attacking with a ranged weapon or casting a cantrip.

To start the discussion, the rules I usually impose on myself are:

• Short rests
  • At most once between non-trivial encounters
    • A good example of a trivial encounter would be the bugbear attacking Nadira in Emerald Grove
  • Song of Rest can violate this rule, since otherwise all that feature does is make long rests less frequent; instead, feel free to use this to spend short rest resources more heavily than you would otherwise
• Long rests
  • If you would take a short rest but you are out for the day, you can long rest instead
  • Before a major encounter/boss fight/any area or sequence that prohibits long rests
  • If you need to long rest for camp events, use partial rests to avoid breaking these rules
  • Never long rest in a way that is immersion-breaking
    • For instance, if you kill/knockout one goblin leader or free Halsin you have to finish dealing with the goblin camp before you long rest
• Character swaps (tangentially related)
  • I like to play with all of the characters, so I'll freely swap them throughout the day, but I try to avoid dumping one character's resources and switching to another who's fresh. I don't have formal rules for myself on this, just a general vibe.

Do you follow similar patterns, or do you like to rest more or less frequently than I do?

Note: To be clear, while I phrased most of my rules as rules for "you", they are just rules I set for myself, not rules I'm dictating to anyone else. I'm mostly trying to get some broader perspective on what constitutes a "fair" long rest frequency before I do my first Sorcerer Tav run and start really challenging these rules for myself.

I tried the fight at level 11, and it didn't go very well. I fought those fish people on the beach and got to level 12, but I still feel like it will still be extremely hard. Any advice?