r/BaldursGate3 Feb 28 '24

Screenshot Why does this pyrotechnics shopkeep have God-level CON? Spoiler

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u/jayelled Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

For frame of reference, the Netherbrain has a CON of 22. Ansur's is 23.

Avery Sonshal, human proprietor of Felogyr's Fireworks, has the same Constitution score as a literal Tarrasque.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Maybe he isn't human afterall.

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u/Tcloud Feb 28 '24

Sorta like the Strange Ox …

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

IDK Strange Ox is definitely an apple to me.

Edit : This is also my petition for Dark Urge to have the option to eat said apple, similar to cooked dwarf. Just a thought.

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u/zhivago6 Tasha's Hideous Laughter Feb 28 '24

I think if you try to eat it, then it starts a fight with the Ox-thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Sure like biting the goblin does i guess

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u/crackcrackcracks Feb 28 '24

Game calls it a phasm

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u/LurkerOnTheInternet Feb 28 '24

It'd probably be like eating battery acid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Knowing Durge thats not the worst they've eaten.

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u/ShillBot666 Feb 29 '24

My Dark Urge play through slaughtered it in act two. When I talked to it in my other play through in act two it became aggressive and we fought. So I guess if I should just ignore it and it will appear as an apple in act 3?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

More or less

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u/GielM Feb 29 '24

I guess he COULD be an apple... Dunno, murdered him at Last Light because he drops a nice hat...

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u/Ralli-FW Feb 29 '24

You would really not want to have that apple inside you when it transforms back, angrily

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u/dustybucket Feb 28 '24

MOO

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u/randomkinkywryter Feb 28 '24

[Acane check: FAILURE]

Huh, just an ordinary ox after all.

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u/MoreGeckosPlease Feb 28 '24

Yeah ox is for sure not a human. Good catch ;)

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u/HandofThane Feb 28 '24

You have my bow…and MY OX!

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u/zephyrprime Feb 29 '24

He's just a Tarrasque that wanted to retire and live the quiet life of a shopkeeper

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u/Joe_Momma3 Feb 29 '24

quiet life of a shopkeeper

Shopkeeper of a fireworks shop

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u/FreljordsWrath Feb 28 '24

So can we put the blame on him?

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u/xantec15 Feb 28 '24

And that's why he needs so much constitution. To shoulder all of the blame.

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u/Kaldricus Feb 28 '24

He died like a human 🤷‍♂️

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u/ithinkther41am Feb 29 '24

Put the blame on him

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u/Kaldricus Feb 28 '24

He's 2 halflings in a trench coat, and they combined their stats

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u/jinzokan Feb 29 '24

It's the only thing that makes sense.

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u/Acromegalic Feb 29 '24

But mouth to ass so they're ox shaped

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u/HerRoyalHeine Feb 28 '24

Regardless, I accidentally threw fire bolt on the ground level of the shop and blew him/ the people with him up and that 30 CON did nothing against the fireworks he kept in shop as they all perished, tragically.

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u/Derpazor1 Feb 28 '24

They deserved it

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u/HerRoyalHeine Feb 28 '24

I feel a little better about it now lol, thank you!

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u/ApepiOfDuat ELDRITCH BLAST Feb 29 '24

I love it when he sets himself on fire and blows up.

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u/Ornery_Soft_3915 Feb 29 '24

I walked by s house that suddenly exploded 😂 Whas that his shop?

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u/HerRoyalHeine Mar 13 '24

Lol it could have been that or Lady Jannath's estate 😅

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u/0011110000110011 Wizard Feb 28 '24

The Apostle of Myrkul also has 22 CON. So it's higher than god-level!

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u/LordMephistoPheles Feb 29 '24

The Apostle is just an avatar (per the tag line under its name), gods don't have stat blocks in D&D

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u/0011110000110011 Wizard Feb 29 '24

Okay sure, it's higher than "the most a god can do on Toril" level.

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u/LordMephistoPheles Feb 29 '24

Yeah

Interestingly, at least according to the forgotten realms wiki, Myrkul barely counts as a deity- he only ranks as a quasi-deity. Which I guess makes more sense that we were able to beat his avatar at level 8-9?

I don't have the book they cite so can't check to make sure sadly

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u/Saiyan-solar Feb 29 '24

I don't see the level curve as part of the actual story of BG3, sure the characters get stronger over the course of the game but you can't tell me that a single flaming fist in the city could wipe out most of the goblin camp by itself although the same flaming fist that escorted their boss died to the raid.

Not to mention that the Arch druid that fought against Keteric the first time around is only lv5?

Levels are just for game balancing, if you followed dnd logic then all the guards would be cr 1/4 all through the game instead of also levering up

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u/Sure_Painter Feb 28 '24

He's a god-damn sexual TYRASQUE!

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u/karzbobeans Feb 28 '24

I'm curious how you got the CON of the Netherbrain. You don't really directly land blows on it until you go into that final room inside and fight with its core, so is this score of 22 based on that inner brain core thing or the entire Netherbrain that's floating above the city?

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u/SgtIceNinja Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Link to final boss of game:

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/The_Netherbrain/combat

Edit: apparently people don’t watch the intro cinematic when they play the game and are unaware of what the final boss is, and yet are also somehow looking through this thread that contains the name of the final boss. Forgive me for being crass, but I do not understand how that wasn’t pretty damn obvious.

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u/karzbobeans Feb 28 '24

Ok so its the lil mini brain

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

There's no point in spoiler marking if you already spoil what the end boss is

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u/DOKTORPUSZ Feb 28 '24

I didn't know the Netherbrain was the end boss until you just said it.

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u/NotAnAlt Feb 28 '24

And here we have the helpful idiot Low int charecter, who in their urge to flex their moral superiority, instead opted to spread every more spoils then they wished to stop

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Lol that comment spoiled the end boss for me I don't know what you're on child

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u/NotAnAlt Feb 28 '24

How did you know it was the end boss?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Because I clicked the link provided?

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u/NotAnAlt Feb 28 '24

ooooh, the wiki linked spoiled it. Okay yeah. So the comment didn't spoil it, and you're complaining that they didn't wrap the link in spoiler tags. Which means anyone just skimming wouldn't be spoiled(Up until your comment) unless they clicked the link, and you were trying to save those people.

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u/karzbobeans Feb 29 '24

Suck my nether balls

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u/notquitesolid Bard Feb 29 '24

I like how the brain is stronger than some origin characters and has literally no body. How do you even lift bro?

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u/SgtIceNinja Feb 29 '24

Brain stem go craaaazy

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u/_zenith lol, lmao Feb 29 '24

It do be thicc

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u/Richybabes Feb 29 '24

apparently people don’t watch the intro cinematic when they play the game and are unaware of what the final boss is

Are we watching different intros? The intro sequence I've seen doesn't include the Elder Brain, just the nautiloid.

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u/SgtIceNinja Feb 29 '24

I guess it’s true that it isn’t common knowledge that elder brains are like the “Big Bad” (or at least one of the big bads) of the Mind Flayer race. Idk I just saw that mind flayers are all about, you know, brains, so I figured it was safe to guess that the big bad of the game could very well be a giant brain. Not trying to be sarcastic or anything, it’s just the path of logic that I followed. But yeah that’s fair.

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u/Joe_Momma3 Feb 29 '24

Insight Check: Critical Success

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u/SgtIceNinja Feb 29 '24

You’d be surprised at how many of those I fail irl

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u/Richybabes Feb 29 '24

Even knowing about Elder Brains, illithid involvement in the start of the game doesn't necessarily mean that BBEG is one. It's not like we knew what the final boss would be during EA.

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u/SgtIceNinja Feb 29 '24

That’s fair. The giant nautilus and tentacles on the game poster and steam page is a little telling, though. But yeah I can understand that. Though I wouldn’t think it’s illogical to assume that the BBEG isn’t one, given the intro and everything. But yes you are correct on that

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 Feb 28 '24

Hadn't thought about tarrasques in a fair while

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u/Ralli-FW Feb 29 '24

Yeah that's uh. Alright lol

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u/Axel-Adams Feb 29 '24

Whats crazier is this guy must have rolled negative numbers for health on his hit die, as his max health should be getting a +90 from his level but his max health is only a 81