In Baldur’s Gate 3 you can die. And often. Sometimes a single dialogue option is enough to meet your end.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, you will face a variety of choices. Some significantly determine how the story will progress, while others are just small side pieces of information that you can gain.
However, some answers or decisions have particularly drastic consequences: They lead to the death of your character and often to an immediate “Game Over”.
We present to you some of these decisions that can directly lead to death.
Spoiler Alert: This covers some devastating decisions from Baldur’s Gate 3, so there will be spoilers. You have been warned.
1. A kiss with the Mind Flayer
Right after the Nautiloid crashes at the beginning of Act 1, you can make a fatal misdecision. For in the wreckage of the ship, you find an injured Mind Flayer. When you speak to him, he tries to impose his will on you. Or more directly: He wants to make you love him.
If you do not resist the urge and give in to this feeling, your character ultimately bends down towards the Mind Flayer to give him a kiss – and is killed in the process, with brain and thoughts consumed. A premature but very fitting end that once again highlights the threat posed by Mind Flayers.
2. The Masks of the Hag
A second method of “Game Over” can be found when you first confront the Hag. If you do not kill the witch immediately in her house, she flees to her secret hideout, which is guarded by a series of protective mechanisms. One of these mechanisms is a large door.
You have multiple options to get through the door, but the “most obvious” one is on the table next to the door: 4 masks.
When you put on the mask, you hear the Hag speaking in your head, slowly extending her mind control. If you do not resist or quickly take off the mask, you will be controlled by the Hag and attack your teammates.
If all 4 teammates put on the mask and succumb to the Hag, then the adventure ends in a “Game Over”.
3. Death by Lae’zel
If you have made use of your special Illithid powers a few times, you will be particularly weak one evening. If Lae’zel is still in your camp, she will take notice. She sees it as the first signs of your transformation into a Mind Flayer.
Lae’zel then offers you a “solution”: She will first kill you and then herself, so that no one becomes a Mind Flayer. If you agree or simply say nothing, she will carry out this plan: She slits your throat and kills herself afterward.
This is only a “Game Over” if Lae’zel and your protagonist were the only characters in your group. Otherwise, you can simply resurrect her.
4. Death by a vampire
After you have picked up Astarion, you will have a special scene in your camp the following night. Because Astarion turns out to be a vampire and tries to drink from you.
This is generally not problematic as long as you stop the vampire after a few seconds. However, it becomes increasingly difficult, because as Astarion’s greed grows, you will become weaker and have to pass harder dice rolls.
If you fail to stop Astarion three times, you die.
Interestingly, you can then be resurrected by the other characters and throughout the rest of the playthrough refer back to the fact that Astarion has killed you once. These resurrections are actually part of the planned story.
5. Vlaakith’s wish
On the way over the mountain pass, you can delve deep into an abandoned monastery that the Githyanki have made their home. Here you come into contact with Queen Vlaakith, who speaks directly to you. If you are rude to her and show her no respect, she will become angry. If you are still cheeky, she casts one of the most powerful spells from Dungeons & Dragons: Wish.
That Vlaakith uses such a powerful spell to kill you instead of simply wishing for the fulfillment of her original goal is somewhat silly – but it also fits excellently with her character.
Have you found any other decisions that led directly to your own death?
Your wish is for your group to die. And that is exactly what happens.
That Vlaakith uses such a powerful spell to kill you instead of simply wishing for the fulfillment of her original goal is somewhat silly – but it also fits excellently with her character.
Have you found any other decisions that led directly to your own death?
