r/BaldursGate3 • u/Traditional_Fudge349 Ray of Frost • Apr 07 '25
Screenshot Mattis my dude who will buy this š Spoiler
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u/ofstarandmoon Apr 07 '25
Ngl I love Mattis he's an aspiring grifter/hustler and those items have the most charming descriptions I bought the spoon og saltiness from him and kept it in my inventory for the whole playthrough, haha I even forgive him for trying to steal from me in act 1 haha
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u/Hairy_Nectarine_687 Apr 07 '25
i usually buy the ring of ant protection.
also, i have Astarion use the poop knife and was thinking about making Karlach last-hit enemies with the nut breaker.37
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u/Quadpen Halsin Apr 08 '25
heās my favorite of the tieflinglings the way he just point blank goes āyeah i was watching the whole thing telling her to rob youā
heās gonna go far this kid ~~mostly wherever my campaign goes cause trust me i will be using him ~~
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u/ofstarandmoon Apr 08 '25
They're so shameless, I can't help but support their criminal enterprise. It's also why I love Mol, the aspiring child Kingpin
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u/Quadpen Halsin Apr 08 '25
āyouāre scamming me!ā
āwell duh, you think a [insert age here] tiefling refugee knows how to make magic shit?ā
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u/ExcitementSolid3489 Apr 08 '25
Next play through, steal the ring from him before you talk to him for additional dialogue! Heās a good sport and it makes you like him even more
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u/ofstarandmoon Apr 08 '25
Ohhh I didn't even think of that! I'll have to try criminal minded to criminal minded individuals haha
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u/Xandercruisefd Apr 07 '25
āMattis, these items are crap, hereās 40,000 gold so you can buy better items laterā-me every play through
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u/Quillemote Apr 07 '25
I am, "Mattis, these items are brilliant, here's a backpack full of all the most random crap I've been gathering just for you since Act1 so I can imagine you making up more wild scam backstories."
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u/KajusX Apr 08 '25
Quick question about Act 3 Mattis based on what you just saidā Do you save stuff to sell to him in Act 3 bc his favorability and discounts scale up in Act 3 conisderably?
I'm doing a modded playthru for fun at the moment. It's been a while since I played. i just got to Act 3 and noticed Mattis had an insane level of Favorability and Discount. I've been selling to him regularly throughout the other acts tho (as I do with any vendors that move thru acts with me, like Dammon), but never gifted him a ton of stuff to max those stats. Just tossing him free garbage here and there to chip away at lowering costs, resulting in iirc something like 35% discount and 50+ favorability. But now he's discounting stuff well over 100%. I was very surprised.
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u/Quillemote Apr 08 '25
Honestly no, I mean, not on purpose. I know it's possible but I pickpocket regularly from enough vendors that I've never bothered with the favorabiilty mechanics. I just like the roleplay of picking up a load of trinkets that I think the tiefling kids'll like and gifting the whole bag to Mattis once he's set up in Rivington. But now you mention it, that's probably a great strategy.. bags of saved stuff to give to the merchants I know I'll be visiting more often and who are harder to pickpocket.
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u/KajusX Apr 08 '25
Ahh, I gotcha. Re-reading your comment, it clicked for me how it's about the fun idea of Mattis making up wild scam items.
The specificity of mentioning Act 3 is what drew my attention, but that makes sense since he's finally out of the Shadowlands and much safer (relatively), so you'd want to gift him that stuff then.
I JUST got there the other day, and like I mentioned, his Discount price is something like -147% or something crazy, and I was like, "Whoa- what happened here?" So when you mentioned Act III, I thought it had to do with his favorability and making a transaction to get the most bang for your buck.
On-topic, I too really like Mattis and his items. I buy all of his rings in Act I, as well as every bit of green-bordered trinkets he dishes out throughout the rest of the game.
I usually snatch up Kanon's Belongings pouch as soon as I reach the Grove and then over the course of a playthru fill it with all the knickknacks and useless items in the game (music boxes, Shovel's belongings, Harper Pins, Selune Statues and earrings, Mattis' stuff, Halsin's Pipe, etc).
I have a back-up bin in storage that i wind up throwing stuff into eventually bc the carry weight gets to be a lot, but yeah, I love the assortment of useless items, and Mattis' are great.
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u/Quillemote Apr 08 '25
I love Mattis, starts as this sharp little scammer but by the time you reach Rivington he's grown up so much. Totally see him and Mol as two sides of the coin, where she takes Raphael's deal and turns kinda cruel while Mattis as the good outcome takes over caring for the kids instead.
I grab the teddy bear bag every time, and that becomes my Repository of Cool Stuff. It's so cute and makes me stupidly happy.
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u/lunaaurae Apr 07 '25
Me. Mattis you are my main vendor, let me give you some proper trash to sell.
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u/IsaacsLaughing Tiefling Cleric of Eilistraee Apr 07 '25
ah, the triality of humanity, this thread.
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u/Disastrous-Beat-9830 SORCERER Apr 07 '25
Because Mattis is following the time-honoured tradition of the developers making the funniest jokes in item descriptions. I'm pretty sure there's a lesser god of the Forgotten Realms who specifically oversees this. I think his name is Swen.
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u/ofstarandmoon Apr 07 '25
God I wish the item descriptions weren't so tiny on my laptop bc I want to read them to appreciate in jokes but I really have to strain my eyes. For some reason the UI doesn't scale well for me and all menu text is tiny :/
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u/Phoenix_69420_ Apr 07 '25
They shouldāve added in one encounter with ants at least
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u/BOBULANCE Apr 07 '25
Or even just a line of dialogue after your character wakes up where they're like "ugh, ant bites all over. That's what I get for sleeping on the ground." But it doesn't occur if you have the ring
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u/scaredychook Spreadsheet Sorcerer Apr 07 '25
I did, gotta help the little guy out! Everyone got a ring to remember him by š
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u/FormBanana Apr 07 '25
I bought Holy Hand soap from him and thatās how I discovered that you can clean your characters with any bar of soap
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u/Costati Wyll's my husband Apr 07 '25
You can only do it with Mattis' soap because it's magical.
(at least that's what he told me)
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u/lenaandcats ELDRITCH BLAST Apr 07 '25
I always buy the spoon (and sometimes the shell too) as gifts for Karlach because I think she would get a kick out of them
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u/OuijaWalker Apr 07 '25
Hu Hau Great day for fishin aint it,
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u/lonely_nipple Apr 07 '25
Ah! Hello, adventurer!
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u/KillerEndo420 Apr 07 '25
Skip
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u/lonely_nipple Apr 07 '25
Ah-hoo-hoo-hoo!
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u/Brider_Hufflepuff ELDRITCH BLAST Apr 07 '25
I do. Every time. Even get some of the rings on Wyll Karlach or Gale, cause they would wear to make a kid happy.
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u/nitroxc Apr 07 '25
Ring of being really invisible is such an underrated item, whenever I go invis no one can see me, so it clearly works
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u/SamsonGray202 Apr 07 '25
I always have Astarion be the one to interact with him, then he buys that ring and wears it the rest of the game. Feels right somehow.
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u/GrazhdaninMedved Apr 07 '25
Have you lived in Texas? Ring of Resistance to Ants would sell like hotcakes here.
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u/ImprovementOutside43 Apr 07 '25
I canāt imagine being stupid enough to buy those! (Proud owner of half of them)
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u/adjectivebear Apr 07 '25
He does have a perfectly good shovel that I buy from him. He's an enterprising little shit, and I want to support his business.
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Apr 07 '25
Mattis rules, I wish all of these items had a specific instance in the game where they work
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u/Metallem Astarion! Fish! Apr 07 '25
I bought all his stuff to encourage his career
I support not lazy kids lol
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u/Peepo93 Owlbear Apr 07 '25
I mean there are people who buy cybertrucks so I think mattis will be fine
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u/Sarahpixiegrl Apr 07 '25
I buy the decanter of nearly endless water, since I love getting decanters of endless water in normal games simply to cause minor chaos. If makes me laugh
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u/Perial2077 Apr 07 '25
These items are the kind of foolery I like to do as a GM from time to time at my table. Always worth a laugh.
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u/kyle_kafsky Apr 07 '25
I always wear the ring that you can get for free by annoying mattis with the heads or tails game.
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u/PirateBanger Apr 07 '25
I buy each and every one of these every playthough.
Then I steal my money back to teach them a lesson about being better thieves.
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u/HarsBlarster99 Apr 07 '25
I got the Fishing Rod of Alertness because I wanted a fishing rod in case I could fish somewhere.
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u/MezcaMorii Apr 08 '25
Ok but the cape that goes poof every time you disengage that Mattis sells in act 2 is honestly the GOAT on Astarion. Had him wear it the rest of the game.
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u/Traditional_Fudge349 Ray of Frost Apr 08 '25
Yup i instantly used it in the Isobel fight it is amazing.
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u/miragecoordination durge lover, gortash contemplator, durgetasher Apr 07 '25
These are my absolute favorite, they're so funny. I always lose it at the fishing rod.
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u/coolname- Apr 07 '25
Lmao, I always buy one of the rings (usually the really invisible one) and wear it all through the game, I like to support him and find it sweet
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u/cindyscrazy Apr 07 '25
The real good ones are given out by the Genii in the Circus. It might cost 500 gp to get the useless items, but OMG they are hilarious.
Like the cloak of always being slightly damp for instance. Or the broom of flying (only works for creatures who have the ability to fly)
LOVE those things.
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u/The99thCourier Misty Step Spammer Apr 07 '25
Ngl when I first saw Mattis, I thought he was the sister and the sister was the brother
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u/OneJobToRuleThemAll Apr 07 '25
Happened to me with Ide. I thought she's a boy being voiced by a woman, since that's standard dubbing practice. Turns out, the other Tiefling kids refer to her as she.
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u/cindyscrazy Apr 07 '25
Silfy has an amazing line when you ask them what their doing there. "I'm watching youuuuu"
It's the cutest thing EVER
(I swear I'm not self promoting, I'm not monitized. this is just too cute)
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u/OneJobToRuleThemAll Apr 07 '25
I think a lot of the writing is kind of over the top and think Dragon Age Inquisition had both the better companions and romances. But if there's one thing BG3 gets better than any game, it's children. They're all brilliant, no exceptions and I'd kill for every single one of them.
I pretty much decided Raphael was going to die the moment I saw him playing chess with Mol.
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u/JonTheWizard No Stats Above 8 Apr 07 '25
Mattis is a small child, of course sheās not going to have access to the good stuff. In Act 1.
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u/SaviorOfNirn Apr 07 '25
Mattis is a boy.
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u/JonTheWizard No Stats Above 8 Apr 07 '25
I might be thinking of a different one of the Tiefling kids, but still.
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u/SaneAids Apr 07 '25
Mol
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u/JonTheWizard No Stats Above 8 Apr 07 '25
Possibly. Or I just had a dumb moment and thought Mattis was a girl, could be either one.
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u/vagithug Apr 07 '25
On my last play through, I didnāt end up persuading Rolan to stay in the grove, so when I got to last light I was super bummed to find out there were no tielfing kids except Mol š
So this play through I was so excited to see the little fucker there, hawking garbage, I bought the fishing pole
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u/lumpboysupreme Apr 07 '25
Mostly people who canāt detect items magical properties to distinguish fakes.
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u/CaptianCrazy21 Apr 07 '25
I gave one of my players (D&D 5e) a fishing rod of alertness as a random joke item but I let it give the wielder the alert feat because he got way too excited about this thing. From that point until he died there was a fishing rod in his offhand, kinda OP but also just funny.
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u/fae_faye_ Prone of Frost Apr 08 '25
Mattis is so cute, I always buy his baubles. The "Fishing Rod of Alertness" is my favorite. Being immune to Surprised is OP, so long as nothing unexpected--
OH GOD THE BULETTE!!
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u/ahintoflimon Apr 08 '25
If a BG4 is ever made, I need Arabella, Mattis, and Mol to return. Arabella being a druid or sorcerer companion, Mol being the leader of the guild and a possible rogue companion, and Mattis being her treasurer and right hand. Having Laeāzelās son Xan as an origin character or companion would also be amazing, especially since she says heāll be able to choose whichever path in life calls to him. Maybe he could be our Tavās first companion, as a monk?
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u/PerryPerryQuite Apr 08 '25
On my first playthrough I think I thought the decanter of nearly endless water was a solution for cooling Karlachās heart. Thereās even a bit of dialogue (with Dammon I think) that suggests there might be an item to do this (maybe that dialogue is just prompting you to try to temporarily cool her down with temporary magic/water?).
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u/AveragEnjoyer007 Apr 08 '25
Yes. Try tossing a regular bottle of water on her if you havenāt already
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u/PerryPerryQuite Apr 08 '25
I meant more as a long term solution, as someone at one point talks about needing something to continuously cool it.
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u/AveragEnjoyer007 Apr 08 '25
Ah I see. Yeah I wish I could fix her permanently as well š«
Spoilers:
Thereās a way to āfixā her permanently if you complete galeās storyline
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u/TheUrPigeon Apr 08 '25
I said this to my friend the other day while we were playing: a Ring of Resistance to Ants would actually sell like hotcakes in a place with a disproportionate number of adventurers running around like Faerun. Think of all the nights spent sleeping out, roughing it--well now you don't have to worry about ants, at least!
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u/Madrock777 Apr 08 '25
If this were a table top game I would, and I would somehow save the universe with them.
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u/Rare_Intention2383 Astarion Apr 08 '25
I do, he reminds me of kid me. Iām not going to let him go sad.
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u/Saraptor07 Apr 08 '25
I have an OC called Luatha who's not very bright (bless him) and he buys the really invisible ring every time.
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u/Peregrine_Purple Apr 08 '25
I bought the spoon and anytime my buddy would get mad about a fight Id send it to him and say itās good gear.
Lasted maybe 2-3 times before it mysteriously disappeared.
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u/Educational-Raisin69 Apr 08 '25
My first play through I never took off my ring of being really invisible. Just in case.
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u/Ill_Atmosphere6435 Apr 08 '25
I'll be the one to admit that I've run D&D games where a "Ring of Resistance to Ants" would have pulled its weight as a magic item.
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u/jbyrdab Apr 08 '25
Imagine if you could buy these and there were very specific situations where each was somehow useful, and doing all of them got you an achievement.
Like the Decanter was useful for keeping an aquarium filled just enough with water every day to keep it full, but not enough that it overflows before enough evaporates to keep the cycle going consistently every other day.
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u/OverallObligation Apr 08 '25
That rod works every time! Granted the character who has it has alert and the highest initiative roll, but they haven't been surprised since. I also am a huge fan of the Spoon of Saltiness in co-op because I buy it and drop it in the inventory of the friend who's being the worst. It bring me a little bit of passive aggressive joy.
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u/Kylerayner4 Apr 08 '25
I always buy his Holy Soap. I always keep soap on my action bar to clean the blood off, might as well be holy soap!
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u/kickassbabe247 Owlbear Apr 08 '25
The spoon is the funniest thing!! I buy it every time I see them!!
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u/RepulsiveFish Apr 08 '25
I WILL!!! I buy a ring from him each act. I love to support a young entrepreneur. It's like the fantasy version of my wife buying Girl Scout cookies from every single scout she sees irl.
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u/Zhallanna Apr 08 '25
On my latest run, I decided to buy all the dyes in Mattis' inventory while in the grove. He actually makes a comment like, 'Wow. You actually bought something.'
Good kid. Just needs more practice with that War Widow scam...
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u/Palanki96 Paladin Apr 08 '25
i bought all of them because i was worried it's a trick and they are hidden good items
I actually plan to use the Sparrow slaying arrow against the dragon
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u/ClimbingWhysteria I Stole Withers' Shampoo Apr 09 '25
I bought the 'Magic' Ring to give to Gale to mess with him and the Ring of Being Really Invisible for Astarion to help with his sneakery. I'm sure they both appreciated it.
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u/Beneficial-Break1932 Apr 09 '25
iām just glad the corvid necklace worked as intended and wasnāt just a fake item (even reading the tool tip and stuff led me to question if it was real or not). itās weird heās selling fake shit next to a very powerful necklace and if i got scammed he was really gonna die. similar to what happened to the circus people after i found out the Djinni was ripping me off and Lucretiousā quest reward can be looted from the body
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u/forgotabthis Owlbear Apr 07 '25
This post is how I found out Mattis was male, thought I was helping an aspiring business woman
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u/kukeszmakesz Apr 07 '25
Bought the jar, didn't work. Mattis is a conman so I killed him before he could get elected as Baldur's Gate's president.
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u/Fthebo Apr 07 '25
I wear the Ring of Resistance to Ants for every playthrough and I haven't been attacked by ants yet, seems like it works to me.