Baldur’s Gate 3 impresses its players time and again with all the different possibilities in the game that Larian Studios has thought of, no matter how rare they may be. However, amidst all the attention to detail, a rather banal thing has been overlooked, which players find very disappointing.
What do players find so disappointing? In the third act of Baldur’s Gate 3, when you’ve already made it to the namesake city, you are quickly overwhelmed by the crowd of people and other races. The streets are filled with merchants, travelers, but also very poor people who crouch by the roadside.
Two of these poor NPCs are a mother and her child, who stand near the Heapside Beach and ask passersby for some gold. The mother says that she only needs a little gold to take care of her sick child, who seems very weak when you speak to it.
Unfortunately, players found out that there is no way in the game to help the mother and child with a small donation. Many in the community find that really disappointing, but it also makes them become creative.
Here you can see the animated short film for Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3:
Larian forgets a banal mechanic amidst all the diversity
How do players still want to help the needy? Players find it disappointing that certain NPCs with “simple” problems cannot be helped. In a Reddit-Post in the subreddit of Baldur’s Gate 3, for example, a druid is mentioned who is worried about a small tree in the city, and the players would simply like to help him.
In exchange, the begging mother is also mentioned. Player Ripkord77 asks if there is any way to help her (via Reddit), which is denied by spacey_a: “Unfortunately, there is no way to help them that is recognized by the game. I find that disappointing. […] Normally, I secretly slip them some gold in their pockets and pretend they could buy a cure with it” (via Reddit).
What spacey_a means by that: By stealthily trying to pickpocket the target and opening the inventory of the robbed (or in this case “gifted”) person, you can place items from your own inventory into theirs. The mother won’t recognize it, but it seems to give the player some peace of mind.
Can the druid and his tree also be “helped” indirectly? So far, players have found no solution for the druid and his little tree. Even if you approach the druid as a druid yourself or with Halsin or Jaheira, there is no way to help. Nevertheless, players have ideas about why the tree is doing so poorly.
It is located right next to Mystic Carrion, an undead mummy that lets enough ghouls and corpses (or corpse parts) reside in the adjacent estate that could affect the health of the surrounding fauna (Atlas_Flynn via Reddit).
Players find it quite disappointing from the comments that not all inhabitants of Baldur’s Gate can be helped. Meanwhile, Larian has considered nearly all possible actions of the player – even if they are actually impossible to achieve: One ending in Baldur’s Gate 3 you actually can’t reach, although it is in the game
