This just missing an owlbears at the top lmao

What the hell was this

>shows up
>catches player
>throws them back to safety while maintaining piercing eye contact with the cosmic fucking threat that just nearly smoked all of our asses
>drops a foreboding statement
>refuses to elaborate further
>smoothly exits

I'm not accepting any slander and fraud accusations. He's badass as shit.

Let me take this further actually, because the Netherbrain's line, "I only needed one stone, and you brought me all three," got me thinking about how insane it is that we even made it this far, and how much of it was possible because the Emperor simply refused to give up.

Yes, he was ultimately a part of the Netherbrain's plan. But the Netherbrain loosened its' leash precisely because it knew he'd scheme, manipulate, and claw his way toward freedom against overwhelming odds. This motherfucker found allies while under magical house arrest, crafted elaborate illusions tailored to each of them to convince them to fight gods and eldritch horrors, kept up that illusion for most of the journey, dominated Orpheus and siphoned his power, fought his ancient elite soldiers non-stop (those guys put me on my ass 7 out of 10 times before I get a single hit in), guarded against the brain to ensure the psychic protection was always sufficient, while carefully feeding us info to nudge us in the right direction. Was he even sleeping? Was he eating? He remarks that he would've liked to find a brain to sustain himself when we visit his hideout, suggesting that he's hungry. In Act 2, he's in visible pain and trying to hide it. In Act 3, he busts a psionic nut, and both his Dream Guardian illusion and his psychic control slip, revealing just how thinly stretched he is. Hell, his focus slips the moment he becomes emotionally distraught over Stelmane's death, allowing you to unexpectedly show up inside the prism. Imagine how locked in he had to be for months.

I don't care how he did it. The fact that he pulled it all off is genuinely admirable. I'm a sucker for characters with an almost pathological refusal to submit, the kind who could be backed into a corner with every possible avenue of escape cut off and STILL find a way to fight back. I think that might be what really hooked me on the Emperor. Fuck, what a fantastic character trait that is.

(Works on Patch 8, good-aligned route possible)

This is for players like me who like Kar’niss and want to protect him.I posted a similar guide here in 2024. After that I didn’t play Baldur’s Gate 3 for a long time, and the method in that old post no longer works. I’ve received a lot of DMs asking for a working solution, so I decided to rewrite a guide that works after Patch 8 (the method is different from the 2024 one). I tested it in-game a couple of days ago and it works.

Please confirm these points first:

1. This cannot be done in Honour Mode, because it requires fast hands + constant save/load attempts.
2. Your character must be at least level 7.
3. You have never attacked Kar’niss and have never tricked him out of his lantern.

If you want to ask:

1. I want to do the good route. I don’t want to harm the Harpers, and I don’t want to harm Kar’niss either. Is it possible?
2. Can I have both the Pixie Blessing and Kar’niss at the same time?
3. Can Kar’niss be controlled? Can he be brought all the way to the end of the game?

The answer to all of the above is yes. See below ↓

### My process (Upper half)

1. After taking the elevator out of the Underdark forge area (the place where two duergar were drinking earlier), walk to the position shown in the picture. You will encounter the Harpers. Help them in the fight. After the fight they will return to Last Light Inn first.

2. Continue walking to the next marked position. You will meet Kar’niss and his group. Choose the friendly dialogue options and let him escort you toward Moonrise Towers.

3. Stop at this position. Do **not** go any further forward!

4. At this point, return to camp and ask Withers for a Druid hireling (the hireling **must** know Dominate Beast) and a wizard companion who knows Polymorph (I used Gale).

1. (Turn on turn-based mode) Have Gale polymorph Kar’niss into a sheep, then immediately have the Druid hireling cast Dominate Beast on him. There is a chance it fails on the first try, so save and reload as needed until it succeeds.

2. (Everything from here must be done while Kar’niss is still a sheep) Immediately send everyone back to camp. Have your main character talk to the Druid hireling in camp and tell the hireling to wait in camp (**do not dismiss him**). Then immediately add the Druid back into the party. The sheep will successfully become your pet and will turn back into Kar’niss.

3. Save and load.

4. Kar’niss successfully joins the party. Send the hireling back to camp. Kar’niss will automatically bind to your main character.

9. In camp, double-click Kar’niss’s portrait and have him examine the lantern. Release the pixie inside. The pixie will give the whole party the blessing buff. After that you no longer need the lantern.

10. Return to the main story. Trigger the cutscene normally at that location. After the cutscene finishes, Kar’niss will simultaneously pull everyone in the party up to the top of the tower. From there you can play however you want.

**Q: The pixie gave Kar'niss the bell. How can we get it back from him?**

**A:** Have a companion sneak around behind him, crouch, and right-click to pickpocket it. You’ll get it that way!

1. After this you no longer need the Druid hireling. However, this same method can be repeated with a Druid companion. I used it this way to give Ketheric’s dog to Halsin.

### Lower half:

1. After going to the Shadowfell (Shar’s domain) to meet the Nightsong (Aylin) and finishing the scene, the entire party except Shadowheart may get pulled up to the top of the tower by Kar’niss to fight Ketheric. If you don’t want everyone pulled up, leave your companions waiting on the rocks outside the cutscene trigger range. This way only Kar’niss and Squire will be pulled back to the tower top. Everyone else can then go out normally and fight their way up from the bottom of Moonrise Towers to reunite with Kar’niss and the dog. Don’t worry — Kar’niss and Squire will also help you fight Ketheric. After that comes the usual mid-fight scene where Ketheric kidnaps Aylin again.

1. During the Act 2 final battle, after defeating Ketheric, Aylin may flag Kar’niss as an enemy and trigger her temporary hostility, causing her to attack you. Have any companion touch Ketheric’s corpse to trigger the cutscene. Watch the cutscene, save, then loot Ketheric’s body. If Kar’niss disappears, don’t worry — just reload and he will reappear. After that, leave one by one through the portal. There is no need to fight Aylin.

2. Return to Moonrise Towers and finish everything in the tower. Aylin and Isobel will come to your camp. Aylin may have a bad attitude toward you at this point and refuse to talk. You don’t need to give her any gifts. Just take a long rest. When you wake up the next day her temporary hostility will be gone and you can talk to her normally.

3. Kar’niss can be brought into Act 3. As everyone knows, on the first night in Act 3 you get ambushed by the Githyanki and need to enter the Astral Plane. Kar’niss may disappear before you enter the Astral Plane. Don’t panic — once you’re inside the Astral Plane, save and reload and he will reappear.

### Known issues:

1. After Kar’niss joins the party he will follow you everywhere. He cannot be unbound, and he also cannot level up.
2. Try not to let him die.
3. I cannot guarantee that Kar’niss will never be mistakenly flagged as an enemy by someone in Act 3 and trigger combat. I recommend getting into the habit of saving often. However, I can guarantee that he can be brought all the way to the final battle (he will not appear at the epilogue camp gathering).
4. This method should work on other NPCs as well, but I originally learned it from players who like Kar’niss, and this post was written specifically for him. I haven’t tested it on any NPCs other than Kar’niss and the dog , so I'm not entirely sure what would happen if you used this method on other NPCs.

**Easter eggs / Bonus tips:**

1. You can change Kar’niss’s weapon. Cast Heat Metal on him so his sword drops, then place the weapon you want him to use on the ground and control him to pick it up.
2. Kar’niss can be healed normally. He’s also very useful in combat and can automatically apply an extra damage buff to teammates. Please take good care of our little spider.

If you try it and succeed, please let me know. Feel free to ask me any questions anytime. If this post can no longer be replied to, you can DM me

Enjoy

I made this drawing and i want to put a funny description but i cannot thimk of one, what would suggest?

When you‘re at Last Light Inn, talking with Isobel and Markus comes in, when Isobel asks you what‘s going on, you have three options: tell Isobel Markus wants to kidnap her, stay silent, or telepathically agree to help Markus.

During my Honour Ruleset run, I got curious what the second option will do.
What happens, is that Isobel (&rest of LLI) becomes hostile and Markus turns ally.

All your companions react as if you consciously chose against Isobel.

On the other hand, my Durge now has a new set of jim-jams.

Hi everyone I was wondering if you guys have ever run into this glitch? And if so does anyone have tips on how to deal w it? I've tried loading a previous save, editing her character, respec thru withers, and have her leave and rejoin the party, but it never goes back >.< Any help would be appreciated, thanks!! <333

I stole powder barrels from nearby storage, surrounded his throne with them, and dropped an Alchemist’s Fire from the rafters. The fireworks show ended him right there, but it also caught the attention of the whole camp, so I had to fight my way out.

How did you dispatch him? Did you discover a quieter way? Or did you just start a good old fashioned scrap?

Very simple question that i’ve always wondered.

If you are playing durge and are mostly evil apart from not raiding grove back in act 1, why would they still follow you if since act 1 you’ve just been fully evil on most part. Especially after you become chosen again, why? Why would they ever follow and fight with a literal chosen of bhaal, who is pure evil?

I understand it’s for gameplay reasons too, but i’ve always wanted to have a valid headcanon to why they or other companions don’t turn on you as you’re arguably just as dangerous as netherbrain.

Doing my first full playthrough on an enchantment bard build! And all the bosses are just laughing til their death.

I'm playing on tactical mode and feel bad, like i'm circumventing the challenge.

Orin and now Raphael have both fallen without taking a single turn not under the effects of Tasha's Hideous Laughter. Raphael had an ability that seems he wasn't supposed to resist control spells after 1 turn? Infernal ambition or something? But the giggles seemed to bypass that and my crew just took out turns bopping him to death. One level 1 spell slot and what I heard was a very challenging fight was finished!! (the adds were easy to focus down quickly or got banished by Hope)

Is this a bug or my build is OP (or both)?

I started playing a month ago and I've been so addicted. I've not had enough time to sit and finish the whole game, nor do I want to rush it.

But wow, as I read tweets and posts about it, it's insane how much more different everyone's experiences are, in terms of what their game looks like.

I've never played a game like this, so I wasn't aware that approaching NPCs as much as possible would change your game. I didn't bother with anything except the main story for the first act. Here's what my game looks like:

- I don't even have Laez'el. She died after the Nautiloid crashed and I didn't know I was supposed to rescue her.

- I don't have the Owlbear cub because I just happened on their cave and killed them both.

- The only reason I have Karlach and Astarion is because I actively searched up how to find them.

- I don't have Minthara. I killed her in the encampment because I didn't know you could recruit her.

- I don't remember what exactly, but I made some decision about the Nightsong and Shadowheart got mad and left my party. Didn't know that could happen.

- I did get Scratch though, thank god. He's okay.

- I've had absolutely no interactions with Githyanki except for Orpheus, who i turned into an Illithid

- I did rescue that Goblin guy on the windmill but accidentally blew him up in the prison later. Did not know he was important.

- I killed the Strange Ox but apparently he has some importance later?

- Had no idea about the Necromancy of Thay

My mistake was not actually exploring the world and interacting with everyone. I got better at that once I reached Baldurs Gate but it was kinda too late. Well, it's only a lesson for my next playthrough!

Are there any other things that you think I would've missed? It's very likely tbh I was an idiot initially.

I am hooked on this game and realized it's a difficult game as it's not my usual genre to play (e.g. Dungeons and Dragons?). Certain mechanics are probably not straight intuitive to me and I gotta admit I google a lot almost every other step.

And this. This! I realized a day after getting this achievement that I was supposed to kill it with that? No wonder it was SO difficult. Not to mention that I managed to spawn the "firelings" enemy because I took too long and still failed. 300 HP and not to mention the immunity and resists. Anyway, all good. The fun continues. Glad I got this game.

So in the fight with Myrkul, I noticed that the necromites that endlessly spawn drop loot, seemingly anywhere from 1-20 gold, plus gems. Do they ever stop spawning with this loot? It seems like a fairly simple way to get infinite gold at the end of act 2.

For reference I'm doing my first ever honor mode run, and I farmed these necromites for like an hour and a half, got nearly a thousand gold worth of goodies from just the necromites, and I felt like I could have kept going for awhile longer.

on honor mode btw!! He does not have a Blinded debuff at all.. Does it have to be cast totally over his body or something? The spell had him highlighted when i cast it.. Did they patch this or something?

I see this image every time I boot up this game but I never really clocked that I have no idea what kind of sword Lae’zel is wielding? It’s not a Gith Silver Sword or any other two-handed sword I have seen in the game.

Hey everyone i just completed the for the first time but im doing another playthrough and im open to tips

In the spirit of Halloween, what is the creepiest or scariest section of The Shadow-Cursed Lands? Which boss in The Shadow-Cursed Lands is the scariest?

My heart is so full and I’m so so happy 😭

At his signing I told him Astarion’s story means a lot to me, he asked me three times during our conversation if I’m well and safe now, that he’s really proud of me for overcoming things and was glad I had the story to help me process things and heal. He also gave me a hug 🥹 I don’t typically cry when I’ve met other people I look up to but I actually ended up sobbing as soon as I left his table LMAO.

He’s genuinely one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking to! If you ever have the chance to meet him I cannot recommend doing so enough ❤️

Missing stuff includes

- Sussur Dagger and Sickle
- Everburn Blade
- Adamantine Mace
- Adamantine Scimitar
- The Spellsparker and The Sparky Points
- Shar's Spear of Evening
- Spear of Night
- Blood-Bound Blade
- Moonlanterns
- Staff of the Emperor
- Kurwin's Cauteriser
- Staff of Interruption

- Ring of Evasion (Gale only)
- Ring of Protection (Requires stealing the Idol of Silvanus)
- The Myconid amulets

If there are console commands, I do not know how to activate them. I would quite like to complete my collection of armor.

How would you build your character if you wanted a lot of asshole dialoge options?

Origin should would be Durge I guess. ​

Only Gith, Duergar and Drow have lots of asshole/evil dialoge options afaik.

At least one cleric level for an evil deity. After Shar a Shadowheart exclusive Lolth has the most evil deity options followed by Vlaakith.

I have done a Paladin of Shar(Oathbreaker) playtrough as Shadowheart and remember quite a few evil options so a Cleric/Oathbreaker multiclass might be the way to go(only Shadowheart gets the Paladin of Shar tag without cleric levels).

Are there other classes that get some interesting evil dialoge options? Necromancy wizard maybe?