Baldur's Gate 3 player summons roughly 88 minions to conquer Honour Mode with a glorious army of spore zombies, elementals, and Scratch the best boy (2024)

Baldur's Gate 3 player summons roughly 88 minions to conquer Honour Mode with a glorious army of spore zombies, elementals, and Scratch the best boy (1)

In Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, it's generally considered polite to check in with the DM before you build a character around summoning creatures—this is because the rules system doesn't exactly handle large swarms of enemies well, needing you to laboriously roll through each of your minion's turns one by one. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a DM, however, so you can do whatever the hell you want—as Real-Business6593 on the game's subreddit has.

When you take honor mode too seriously... from r/BaldursGate3

Under any other circ*mstance, I would've simply assumed this was some modding shenaniganry and moved on, but the master summoner in question laid out how they pieced together this army of the damned (and some elementals, and also a dog) step-by-step and… yeah, everything checks out.

Combing through their comment and putting it into list form, Real-Business6593 has summoned, in total:

  • Two mummies (Create Undead).
  • Two devas (Planar Ally).
  • A Cambion (from the Infernal Rapier).
  • Four myrmidons (Conjure Elemental, upcast at 6th level).
  • 13 undead (Animate Dead).
  • Eight mephits (Conjure Elemental).
  • Three spiritual weapons (from the Cleric spell of the same name).
  • Four flame spheres (from the spell Flaming Sphere).
  • Shovel, a unique quasit you can obtain from Act 1.
  • A second quasit, presumably so Shovel doesn't get lonely.
  • Us, from the mind flayer ship in Act 1, freed from the colony in Act 2.
  • Connor, a zombie from a questline in Act 1.
  • Five ghouls (from the Necromancy of Thay).
  • Two Dryads (Conjure Woodland Beings).
  • Two Wood Woads (summoned by the Dryads).
  • Five baby spiders from a spider egg sac you can find in Act 1.
  • A Shadow from the Shadow Lantern item.
  • Boo, who is a miniature space hamster and friend to Minsc.
  • Scratch, who is a dog and the best boy.
  • A host of spore zombies. Real-Business6593 says they think they had "like 28".

Reading through this list feels like the world's strangest rendition of "Twelve Days of Christmas".

What really strikes me as impressive, here, is how several of these summons are pulled from either hyper-specific quest rewards or certain items. The Infernal Rapier, the Necromancy of Thay, the Crypt Lord Ring, the book Sights of the Seelie, the Shadow Lantern—this isn't just some whacky build, it's a set of circ*mstances that demands a huge amount of setup.

In total, Real-Business6593 has summoned (by my count) 60 summons baseline. Which, if their counting of spore zombies is to be believed, brings their army to a total of 88. They also bring up the Spirit Guardians spell, but because that's just a spell effect that deals damage, I've decided not to count it here.

I should point out that this (mercifully) wouldn't be possible in D&D 5th edition, and is a quirk of Baldur's Gate 3, since many spells like Conjure Woodland Beings are "concentration" in the tabletop ruleset, meaning you can only have one active at a time—bringing them into direct conflict with spells like Conjure Elemental. In the game, however, few of these spells are concentration, allowing you to stack them to your heart's content.

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I did something similar in my recent honour mode playthrough, combining both a druid and a war cleric's summoned undead together, then buffing them all up with Longstrider and Aid. Doing that every Long Rest was exhausting enough, so I have to assume that Real-Business6593 isn't going through the same torture here. All this to say, this army is magnificent: but it may be vulnerable to a well-placed fireball.

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How to get rid of bloodless debuffs? ›

You can remove the Bloodless status effect by taking a long rest at camp with supplies. A short rest is not sufficient to remove Bloodless, nor is a long rest without supplies. If you don't wish to rest yet, a Paladin can use Lay on Hands to remove Bloodless, as can anyone with the Lesser Restoration spell.

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After letting Astarion take a bite from you, you'll be afflicted with the Bloodless condition. This condition gives you a -1 penalty to Attack Rolls, Saving Throws, and Ability Checks, which is nearly every interaction you'll run into in this game. It's a heavy penalty you take for allowing Astarion some of your blood.

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Scratch will then wander into your camp after your next long rest and be a part of the team – he can't be an active partner, but you can pet him at camp and will occasionally retrieve useful items.

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Withers also lets you revive dead companions for 200g, and eventually, recruit up to 3 Hirelings for 100g each iif your party isn't full - these characters don't have the story flavor that Companions do, but they're useful for filling in gaps in your party.

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The biggest reason to accept the risk of Astarion's bite in Baldur's Gate 3 is to improve the protagonist's favor with the high elf rogue. Refusing the bite won't spell disaster for an Astarion romance in Baldur's Gate 3, providing only a minor setback, but accepting it is a good way to advance a bond.

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If you allow Astarion to complete the ritual, he'll become much more abrasive, though he gains an improved bite and extra necrotic damage on his spells. Power corrupts absolutely, and it's no different for Astarion, who failed to break the cycle of torment established by a vampire ages ago.

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Highlights. Astarion's character development is lost if he becomes the Vampire Ascendant, reverting back to his manipulative and power-hungry self. Ascended Astarion becomes power-hungry and strives for dominance, resembling the vampire lord who controlled him for centuries.

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Companions you can romance as in have a relationship with:
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Can you romance multiple characters? – BG3. You can have polyamorous relationships in Baldur's Gate 3, but only with certain characters. Some companions are open to polyamory, some are closed to it, and some will only accept it with certain characters.

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1: Yes, going evil will have some companions leave you (specifically Karlach, Wyll, and Gale... though I think you can persuade Gale into staying.). In return you do get a couple evil companions. 2: While it is entirely possible to do an evil playthrough, doing so cuts out a massive portion of the game's content.

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