Baldurs Gate 3 Tickle (2024)

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Should I destroy the brain Baldur's Gate 3? ›

If you roll successfully on either three options, you'll whip the brain out. If you fail the roll, you can always load back and try again, or be faced with either destroying or leaving it. If you destroy it, you'll squash it with no chance to fail. Leaving it in the body ends the quest and Us won't join your party.

The Upper City Is Missing From Baldur's Gate 3

The most noticeable missing content from Baldur's Gate 3, and the one causing most of the contention with the community, is the entire Upper City of Baldur's Gate.

Baldur's Gate 3 has eight romancable characters, which includes all of your Origin characters and three potential companions you may meet along the way. These are: Astarion, Gale, Halsin, Karlach, Lae'zel, Minthara, Shadowheart, and Wyll. There are two companions you are unable to romance: Minsc and Jaheira.

Mutilating the Intellect Devourer may sound like a safety precaution, but the only consequence we know of is that if you fail, you'll have to fight it - and there's no positives to succeeding mutilating it at time of writing.

The talking brain is an intellect devourer, something the character may find out with an automatic Arcana check when they engage with it. In this universe, they are evil entities. This specific one is named Us. A purely good Paladin or Cleric may wish to destroy the brain on the spot.

Karmic Dice, which are enabled by default, avoid failure streaks, while keeping the results mostly random. It's a sort of bad luck protection in Baldur's Gate 3, a setting that effectively manipulates dice rolls to prevent characters from having long streaks of good or bad rolls.

To silence the Nightsong you'll need the book you can find in the Silent LIbrary. After defeating the justiciar duellists, disarm the trapped bookcases all around you and search the second bookcase on the right as you enter.

This means that, out of the female Origin Companions, Lae'zel is the least romanced character. Minthara is less romanced than the githyanki fighter, but getting close to her involves making a series of evil decisions, which are not often taken by characters aligned with a good playthrough.

🧀 A number almost equaled by those of you transformed into a wheel of cheese. But let's talk romance: while Baldur's Gate 3 has a number of intriguing romance paths, Shadowheart's is easily the most popular, with 51.3% players completing her romance arc (which you can find a walkthrough of here).

If you're wondering about the Baldur's Gate 3 Raphael romance, then the answer is "no." To be more specific, you don't actually get to sleep with Raphael himself, but there's an incubus that bears a striking resemblance to him. The incubus' name is Haarlep, and you meet them in the devil's domain in Avernus.

Should you control the Elder Brain in BG3? ›

If you choose the 'submit to the Elder Brain' option at any time, the game will end. This is technically one of the multiple ending options, and it's certainly not one of the best options, but it's worth doing if you're trying to see every possible outcome - and if you have a recent quick-save to go back to.

If the Mind Flayer is fed, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will later re-appear in the Lower City, killing a couple of NPCs. The Mind Flayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it at this point will not grant an additional illithid skill point.

Unless you're doing an evil playthrough and don't care enough about the advantage on Intelligence saving throws that the Githzerai Mind Barrier provides, it is highly advisable that you purge the Waking Mind's consciousness rather than consume it.

To summarize, players should side with the Emperor if they don't want to become Mind Flayers, and they should free Orpheus if they don't mind risking having tentacles on them or their companions.