Baldur’s Gate 3 offers you a multitude of options for your current run – some of which are quite morally questionable. Players are now discussing on reddit that it might actually be the good solution
to deceive and betray everything and everyone as early as possible – if you are already evil.
Warning, Spoilers! The following contains spoilers for all acts of Baldur’s Gate 3.
Why is there a discussion on reddit? User WizardAndRogueCandle posted on reddit about his current evil run on the platform. The run is actually quite overwhelming for him. Here is a selection of his horror:
- The tiefling leader Zevlor reacts with absolute despair to the murder of his wards.
- The tiefling children around Mol are killed in their makeshift thieves’ guild.
- Karlach is beheaded and her head is gifted to Wyll.
The player’s conclusion to Act 1: It is super rare for a game to make me care so much about its inhabitants as Baldur’s Gate 3 has. This game is simply a masterpiece.
In the comments, other players try to comfort him. And their responses are quite something.
In fact, you are doing her a favor
: The sooner, the more evil is better?
What are the positive outcomes of an evil run? In the comments, other reddit users try to comfort WizardAndRogueCandle. haresnaped is very pragmatic and writes that if he is already really evil in Act 1 and deceives everyone he can, there won’t be many left for Acts 2 and 3. The horror would thus slowly diminish.
MaximDecimus comments on the murder of Karlach. If you kill her, she would retain her soul: “So in fact, you are doing her a favor.” Karlach’s endings are quite sad except for one specific one. Either she becomes a mindflayer and loses her soul, or her mechanical heart overheats and kills her.
reddit user StoneFoundation sees it very pragmatically: The sooner you kill people, the better, because they then retain their souls and go to their well-deserved afterlife. Depending on the god the people worshiped, that could also be quite pleasant compared to the possible fate of being a brainless and soulless worker bee under the rule of the Absolute.
The five most important story decisions in Act 1 have been summarized for you.
What other tips do players have up their sleeves? In the discussion, tips are also shared on how to play as evil but also cleverly:
- If you want to free Lady Aylin in Act 2, Isobel must survive. However, if you want the Slayer form as Dark Desire, you must kill her. reddit user Effective-Feature908 and infidel11990 recommend freeing Aylin and simply killing Isobel just before the attack on the Dawn Towers.
- Killing the owl bear family makes Lae’zel absolutely horny, writes Horror-Dimension1387.
- You can condemn Wyll to live forever as a lemur. To do this, simply do not save Mizora. xHenkersbrautx thinks, however, that it is much more evil to keep Wyll alive and in the pact until Act 3 and kill his father in the Iron Throne before his eyes.
- sanon441 suggests that you could make Shadowheart good and then return her to the Cult of Shar and have her memories erased.
Overall, it seems that players enjoy playing Baldur’s Gate 3 as evil as possible. For instance, a YouTuber has made it his mission to test as many terrible strategies as possible: Baldur’s Gate 3: YouTuber shows the worst strategies – And you will love them
