With a furry trick, you can be truly brutal in Baldur’s Gate 3, but the companions will still stick with you.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game full of serious decisions. Almost every action you take is evaluated by your NPC companions, who have their own values and moral standards. While some have no problem with one or the other massacre, others may feel slightly offended and betray you.
But there is a way you can be really terrible and still keep all your companions.
What is this trick? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, stwabewwie revealed a trick that allows you to destroy the Druid Grove without losing Karlach and Wyll.
This is how it works:
- You kill Karlach and Wyll – by letting them jump off a cliff (of course completely voluntarily).
- Now you complete Minthara’s quest and attack the Druid Grove, causing the druids and tieflings to die.
- Next, you recruit the dog Scratch and pet him.
- Now you can resurrect Karlach and Wyll.
As a result, you will have completed Minthara’s quest, but also have Wyll and Karlach still in your group.
Why does this work? When you attack the Druid Grove, the approval rating of Wyll and Karlach actually drops to an all-time low. This means they would leave your group immediately. However, since they are currently dead, this is not triggered.
Petting Scratch is an action that is approved by all companions – everyone loves the dog. Therefore, the approval of the dead characters Karlach and Wyll increases again. Thus, their approval now sits just above the point at which they would actually leave you.
This works because companions who are only “gameplay-wise” dead can still be influenced by your decisions.
However, you should be careful afterwards to make decisions that Karlach and Wyll like – otherwise they could still leave you.
What does this bring? The big advantage of this method is that you can have both Karlach and Wyll as well as Minthara in your group. This is otherwise only possible with some detours or even exploits. Furthermore, you can have one of the most interesting love scenes in the game (with Minthara) without having to miss out on important companions like Karlach and Wyll (and thus also Mizora).
Others criticize such an approach as well. Because sometimes decisions and their consequences are simply part of a game, and negative impacts should be respected. This is the view of the streamer Josh Strife Hayes, who does not allow the community to dictate how he plays Mass Effect.
