Baldur's Gate 3 can be a very dark game at times, but one thing it won't let you do is kill children. Well… that's not entirely true. It won't let you kill kids outside of story decisions, so you can't just walk into a fight and start murdering kids. Except for the goblin children, oddly enough. But I digress.
This inability to kill children in combat has the unintended effect of making them wonderful allies if only they would follow your orders. It's usually impossible, but finally, two years after launch, someone has made it 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 allows you to 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 and use abilities as they please, letting them rip 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 nailed it on her tough run: beating the game without letting the enemy pass a single turn. Through some very unorthodox thinking, she manages to do this using various exploits.
As noted by GamesRadar+, one of them is recruitable children. Morgana explains it best, but basically by following these steps you can trick the game into making various child NPCs your permanent companions.
While this is certainly not the way Larian intended to play the game, CEO Swen Vincke approves of the method. “Hello Morgana Evelyn,” she writes. “You should have been on one [of] panels from hell.”
Morgana employed a slightly different method of recruiting Arabella at the beginning of the run, and it looks like it involved playing for The Dark Urge and getting her to get herself killed. You can then resurrect her with the Animated Spores ability you get from recruiting Glut, and then use another exploit to keep her forever. Yeah, you won't surprise anyone, 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 challenges like this. In fact, while very few of us have beaten Honor Mode, there are plenty of people who have done it at level one. As?
- 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 game.
