Baldur’s Gate 3 has decisions—oodles of ’em. Selections that Larian’s accounted for, for probably the most half. In my current playthrough, as an alternative of taking a sure character to a sure physique for a narrative quest, I picked up the corpse and dumped it again in camp like a cat bringing their proprietor a useless chicken. The dialogue nonetheless labored (although I needed to have them in my social gathering) apart from one or two out-of-context strains.
Nevertheless, one participant has discovered an edge-case state of affairs that the sport does not account for in any respect, and it is truthfully fairly affordable while you break it down. Spoilers for Act 1 and Gale’s storyline to comply with, in addition to a minor Act 3 spoiler.
As outlined by ThePawn08 on the sport’s subreddit, reverse-pickpocketing a useless wizard onto the satan incarnate is not on the listing of issues Larian thought to program. For context: Gale of Waterdeep (ponderer of orbs and all-around dweeb) has a sphere of Netherese magic in his chest that’ll act like a nuke if he dies.
The vary of it is not infinite, although, as he insists he’ll discover a cosy, distant spot to go all nuclear ought to he turn into unable to regulate it. There’s additionally later affirmation that that is the case, however I would must dole out one other spoiler warning for that. If Gale dies and you do not resurrect him, he explodes and also you get a sport over after two Lengthy Rests.
Because it seems, there are literally a few methods to place Gale’s physique in numerous planes of existence—or a whole lot of miles away. One such concept was examined by ThePawn08 after they have been visited by Raphael:
“I had Raphael in my camp as a result of he did not get to speak to me close to the Blighted Village, and since I used to be travelling to a special area he appeared in my camp to speak to me … I reverse-pickpocketed Gale’s corpse into Raphael’s stock earlier than I talked to him and he disappeared.”
In concept, this could imply that Raphael brings Gale’s entire useless corpse (with out noticing he is carrying it) again to the 9 Hells and the Home of Hope. Gale explodes, wiping out the schemer with him. Solely when ThePawn08 took an extended relaxation, they have been rewarded for his or her ingenuity with a “prolonged black display”, adopted by a sport over.
Raphael may have seen the physique when he obtained dwelling, and dumped it again on the fabric aircraft—however I determine that the absence of any cutscene in any respect implies the sport’s simply throwing its palms up and doing the perfect with the code it has.
Particularly since a singular cutscene can be hilarious: A pissed-off satan simply bamfing in, dumping Gale 5 metres from the place your social gathering’s sleeping, then bamfing out with out one other phrase. It isn’t like Larian’s averse to creating bespoke scenes for uncommon conditions—heck, Minthara’s a fully-developed companion character, and numerous gamers miss her on their first run.
One other participant tried to check this with a singular Act 3 interplay that may ship Gale’s physique to a different continent—as Misaka9982 writes: “I despatched Gale to Chult by way of the Djinni specific and let him die there. Nonetheless a sport over.” They’re referring to Akabi’s Wheel of Wonders, a minigame on the Circus of the Final Days. Name the genie out on dishonest and he sends you to Chult, a distant jungle that is a whole lot of miles away.
That is such a singular edge-case state of affairs that I am unable to actually blame Larian for not masking it. Vaporising Raphael would additionally blow up a number of late-game story arcs that’re very important—and when it comes to issues which might be arduous to foretell, ‘sneaking a whole useless physique into the pocket of a satan’ is definitely one in every of them.