While experimenting with a few special abilities in Baldur’s Gate 3, players have discovered that they can almost recruit NPCs for themselves – albeit involuntarily. And a few particularly cruel players even take it a step further …
Who can I recruit?
- Actually, there are only 10 companions in Baldur’s Gate 3 that you can recruit. And here there are exceptions: If you want to recruit Minthara, you usually cannot have Halsin with you.
- As Dark Desire, you even get the popular Alfira as a companion, but only briefly and … well, you’ll find out for yourselves.
- Players have now found another way to get different NPCs as companions. Practically any character in Act 1 can be recruited. However, this is not really planned.
This is how you get the NPCs as companions: On Reddit, a user shared a picture where he has the druid Kagha, but as a completely mushroom-infested zombie servant. This is a well-known strategy, for which you need the mushroom ruler Glut.
Glut can resurrect almost anything and anyone as a mushroom-controlled servant. These zombies are actually quite useless meat shields because they can no longer cast spells since Patch 4. Additionally, Glut only accompanies you in the Underdark. But there are tricks, as a user explains:
- Simply take the corpses of killed NPCs with you to the Underdark.
- Alternatively (as with the spider matriarch): Push them through holes that lead to the Underdark.
- Let Glut resurrect the NPC as a mushroom servant.
- Cast Death Ward (Level 4 spell) on the servant.
- Let it die.
The infestation will then be removed and the companion will regain their full range of abilities. Players explain that the high priestess Gut of the goblins possesses useful, unique spells.
Through a few additional tricks and exploits, it is also possible to lure Glut out of the Underdark and Act 1 and keep him throughout the game to resurrect later bosses as servants. However, it’s easier if you acquire the ability yourself via a mod (via Nexusmods).
The strongest companions are … children
Which NPCs are worth it? Kagha and Gut are already good examples of useful NPCs that can accompany you, at least temporarily. However, the absolutely strongest companion is Arabella. Yes, that’s right, the little girl.
Players have discovered that Arabella is the strongest weapon in the game. Children cannot die in battles in Baldur’s Gate 3 and do not even participate in them, making them almost unstoppable killing machines.
And yes, Arabella has to die for this method as well, and you have to steal her corpse. Whether you really want to do that, you have to decide for yourself.
In any case, deaths and resurrections seem to somewhat contradict the developers’ plans. In the past, fans have found several ways to bypass prohibitions
and circumvent the rules of the game: With this trick, you can get one of the most popular characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 as a companion
