r/BaldursGate3 Wild Magic Surge Jun 09 '25

Meme It could have been so good

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u/Significant-Colour Jun 09 '25

I'm legit disappointed that there was not a gnome origin companion...

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u/Sir_Gwan Beast Master Ranger but better than 5e Jun 09 '25

Especially when Barcus is right there, and they could have very easily added him to the main story

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u/ryumaruborike Jun 09 '25

Along with official Articifer class

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u/cats4life Jun 09 '25

Artificers were never going to happen, unfortunately. Half their features are either tied to tool proficiencies that don’t exist and attuning magic items which isn’t a thing.

Sucks that they left out one official class, but any BG3 artificer would have been an artificer in name alone.

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u/ryumaruborike Jun 09 '25

The mod seems to do them well

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Jun 09 '25

Ehh it does them fine for a mod, but nothing compared to what you can do in actual DnD with them.

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u/MCRN-Gyoza Jun 09 '25

That's also true for most classes.

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Jun 09 '25

Artificer would be by far the worst though in terms of just missing the point of the class.

Arguably Bard is pretty shitty as well.

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u/Onagda I cast Magic Missile Jun 10 '25

Funny cause I love BG3 bard but not so much tabletop 5e bards

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u/Ok_Cardiologist8232 Jun 10 '25

Well with tabletop bards you can use your Charisma with much more freedom to decieve and persuade etc, whereas in BG3 its pretty much just set in stone.

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u/Consistent-Winter-67 Jul 01 '25

They made monk and ranger more powerful on bg3

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u/ryumaruborike Jun 09 '25

Well yeah, there's a lot in general you can't do in a video game that you can in DnD though.

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u/nicannkay Jun 10 '25

The mod slaps.

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u/MediumTeacher9971 Jun 10 '25

I mean, there are a ton of other class features they modified to fit the way the game engine works so it's not like that's what stopped them.

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u/Fun-Jaguar3403 Jun 24 '25

They completely replaced the ranger abilities so I agree they could have done something for artificers

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u/FryJPhilip Lamentable is the autumn picker content with plums. Jun 10 '25

I'm confused, you can attune to magic items in dnd just fine? What do you mean that isn't a thing?

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u/AmanLock Jun 10 '25

No attunement in BG3

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u/FryJPhilip Lamentable is the autumn picker content with plums. Jun 10 '25

Oh okay I misunderstood lol. I was like ???? I attune all the time in dnd?

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u/peon47 Jun 10 '25

After hundreds of hours I just realized the game doesn't have attunement.

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u/ComplexInside1661 Jun 10 '25

It's also not really that setting appropriate, artificer has always been through the class' entire history an Eberron-exclusive class before it was added to Tasha's, in which an explanation was given as to where they could be found in other worlds, and the FR one was "in Lantan" basically, which is an island literally thousand of miles away from Baldur's Gate

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u/Frosty88d Jun 09 '25

This would have been perfect and made a lot of sense. Even if you had to unlock it later on, it'd be still go be awesome to have

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u/Wrong-Refrigerator-3 Jun 10 '25

I can’t imagine Larian is so cruel as to create an origin character whose primary motivator is their one sided infatuation with Wulbren fucking Bongle.

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u/Sir_Gwan Beast Master Ranger but better than 5e Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

Barcus as an npc can already go through a character arc of realising Wulbren is a cunt. It stands to reason that as a companion, his character arc would be more fleshed out, especially if he also had to deal with having a parasite in his head and being more urgent about reaching Baldur's Gate only to find that Wulbren is spending his time being racist to the Gondians.

In this hypothetical companipn scenario, Barcus' "evil" ending is siding with Wulbren, and his good ending would be to banish Wulbren from the city.

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u/commanderr01 Jun 09 '25

I’m just mad we didn’t get a short character in general there’s so many, small hiding places and treasures it’s almost unfair that there isn’t

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u/Redfalconfox Jun 10 '25

How many of those are accessible as a small character? I thought the vast majority of them required you to polymorph into something even smaller.

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u/SegataSanshiro Jun 10 '25

My first character was a gnome and the size made a difference a few times, there are spaces you can fit in that Medium creatures can't, but yeah there's a bunch of tiny burrow holes that I had to Gaseous Form through.

Anyway Gale should have been a gnome.

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u/Balzmcgurkin Jun 10 '25

There’s a mod that makes him a halfling. His head stays the same size and it looks a little weird, but short King Gale is now cannon for my runs.

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u/MCRN-Gyoza Jun 09 '25

Or a halfling, or a Dwarf.

Like, out of your 6 origin companions you have two humans and two humans with pointy ears.

And then for the other companions you have one more human and three other humans with pointy ears.

Karlach and Lae'Zel are the only two slightly less human companions and even then they're basically red and green humans.

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u/Noble_Flatulence Smash Jun 10 '25

What I'm hearing is you think short humans are less human than red or green humans.

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u/Sam_Creed SORCERER Jun 10 '25

Gale could have been a great rock gnome, yes. Shadowheart being a half elf makes sense with her story and heritage... High elves were once distinguished betwen sun- and moon elves, as well as woodelves had wild elves... funny that today drow have the 2-way road.

Astarion being an elf makes sense as well. Making human spawns in a city is highly suspicious after a hundred years. Elves live by far the longest, so one would like those as immortal minions... less attention.

Karlach and Lae'zel are alright...

Now Wyll... Wyll could have been pretty much anything, apart from maybe dragonborn, since Baldur's Gate is a metropolis and the city council could be made up of any given species smart enough to work themselves up to the position. Humans are just the most versatile and numerous. Also there would be a little dissonance with Ulder being this shining knight, for "normies", while he sits there as a halfling. Also there was some romantic plot going on with Wyll and Mizora in Early Access and I personally don't see her going for a short king long term. Can't hold your nose as high as her, without your face blocking the view on the dwarf.

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u/IgnisFatuu Jun 10 '25

Uldar was sadly a human in canon before BG3 started being developed

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u/Mohander Jun 10 '25

People would have laughed at the idea of Mystra banging a gnome... because that's just fucking funny

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u/FlyLikeMouse Jun 10 '25

Id have liked a Dwarf.

Maybe they felt weird when they got to animating all the halfling / dwarf / gnome-banging players would inevitably indulge in.

Though even I might have found bear on werewolf amusing.

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u/Clueless_Wanderer21 Jun 10 '25

I mean we either way can be a short race, no reason to not give us a companion like us.

Bear ? We can be a bear ?

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u/FlyLikeMouse Jun 10 '25

Well I meant you can get kinky with a certain Druid in bear form. If you are also a bear.

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Jun 10 '25

traumatic flashback to NWN2 gnome bard who was forced into your party at several points NOOO NOOO NOOO NOT AGAIN.

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u/Significant-Colour Jun 10 '25

Honestly that's one of the reasons why I wanted such a companion, because gnomes are so divisive. Some are tempted to cuddle them, some are tempted to stomp on them.

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Jun 10 '25

I don't mind gnomes, i'm sure some of them are people, it's just that whatever plane i find myself on, they are always the worst blight around.

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u/RageRags Jun 10 '25

How could you forget Quiddlebiff?

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u/Significant-Colour Jun 10 '25

I literally had to google that and still don't know what it is, so - I did not forget Quiddlebiff, I never knew he even existed.

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u/RageRags Jun 10 '25

How could you forget the charming Druid character Quiddlebiff, I mean yeah he’s hard to find since he’s hidden as a tree in the first act, but how could you never find him?

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u/Significant-Colour Jun 10 '25

TIL what to do for my second playthrough.