Baldur’s Gate 3 can be a very dark game at times, but one thing that it won’t let you do is kill children. Well… that isn’t strictly true. It won’t let you kill children outside of story decisions, so you can’t just go into combat and start slaughtering kiddos. Apart from goblin kids, oddly. But I digress.
This inability to kill kids in combat has the unintended effect of making them amazing allies, if only they’d follow your commands. Usually, this is impossible, but finally, two years after launch, someone has made this a reality.
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My actions shouldn’t have consequences… right?
Baldur’s Gate 3 content creator Morgana Evelyn has come up with an exploit that lets you permanently recruit an army of child followers – who don’t even have to follow the usual rules of combat. Unlike their adult counterparts, child followers can move around and use abilities as much as they like, letting them tear through your enemies, as long as you leave your morals at the door.
A Baldur’s Gate 3 Exploit Lets You Recruit Unstoppable Companions, And Swen Vincke Loves It
Morgana Evelyn pulled this off for her challenge run: beating the game without letting an enemy take a single turn. Through some very out-of-the-box thinking, she pulls this off with various exploits.
As spotted by GamesRadar+, one of these is recruitable children. Morgana explains it best, but essentially, by following these steps, you can trick the game into making various child NPCs your permanent companions.
While this is absolutely not the way Larian intended for us to play the game, CEO Swen Vincke approves of this method. “I salute you Morgana Evelyn,” he writes. “You should’ve been on one [of] the panels from Hell.”
Morgana deployed a slightly different method to recruit Arabella at the start of the run, and it looks like that involved playing as The Dark Urge and tricking her into getting herself killed. Then, you can resurrect her using the Animated Spores ability you get from recruiting Glut, and then using another exploit to keep her around for good. Yeah, surprising no one, you have to really throw everything and the kitchen sink at your game to make this run work.
The Baldur’s Gate 3 community is full of wild challenge runs like this. In fact, while very few of us have beaten Honour Mode, there are a bunch of people who have done it at level one. How?
- Released
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Engine
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Divinity 4.0
- Multiplayer
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Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
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Full cross-platform play.
