Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players explain why betraying NPCs early is a morally better choice Larian StudiosBetraying Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 NPCs in an evil run can be hard, but according to some players, this can be equivalent to doing them a \u201cfavor.\u201d One of the challenges of doing an evil run in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is betraying and slaughtering characters that you\u2019d normally help in a good playthrough. Hence, it\u2019s not for the faint of heart, as there are just so many vile choices you can make throughout the game. This is exactly what one player is going through. Sharing their story in a Reddit thread, they claimed that their evil playthrough is already \u201ccrushing\u201d them despite only being in Act 1. Seeing Zevlor\u2019s reaction when you betray him, the Tieflings getting slaughtered, and Karlach being beheaded, among other things, made it \u201cincreasingly harder\u201d to keep going. However, despite that, some players in the comments assured them that betraying and killing these characters early is actually a morally better choice than doing it later in the run. One user wrote, \u201cAlthough if I understand it correctly, anyone you betray and murder in Act 1 is someone you won\u2019t get to betray and murder in Acts 2 and 3, so presumably, it levels off at some point.\u201d \u201cI read it once \u2018don\u2019t think of it as dying, think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush\u2019 \u2013 Death, the day before the Apocalypse,\u201d they added. Following this take, a different user claimed this is \u201cironically true if you\u2019re taking control of the brain.\u201d They explained, \u201cIf you kill people, they go to the afterlife, and if they fulfilled some easy requirements while they were alive, they get to go to a relatively nice afterlife because in Forgotten Realms there\u2019s a million gods all with their own custom afterlives.\u201d Meanwhile, if those people are still alive by the time you dominate the brain, \u201cthey become a part of the Grand Design, either as thralls or illithds\u201d \u2013 leading them to a fate worse than death. Other users brought up some of the fates of their companions. \u201cIf you let Wyll die before Act 3, you can\u2019t tell him to continue his pact and then kill his father in front of his eyes, which is probably the most targeted and vile decision against Wyll,\u201d commented one user. A similar thing applies to Karlach, according to some players. \u201cIf you kill her she keeps her soul. Otherwise she becomes a mindflayer. So actually, you\u2019re doing her a favor.\u201d While playing an evil playthrough can be hard for some players, seeing the additional content you won\u2019t normally see in a good run can be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players explain why betraying NPCs early is a morally better choice Larian StudiosBetraying Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 NPCs in an evil run can be hard, but according to some players, this can be equivalent to doing them a \u201cfavor.\u201d One of the challenges of doing an evil run in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}