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 strictly true. It doesn't let you kill kids outside of a story decision, so you can't go into battle and start killing kids. Except the goblin kids, weird. But I forget.
This inability to kill children in combat has the unintended effect of making them wonderful allies, provided they follow your orders. Normally, it's impossible, but finally, two years after the launch, someone has made it a reality.
Baldur's Gate 3 players figure out how to kill Isobel without losing Tieflings to the dark urge.
My actions shouldn't have consequences…right?
Baldur's Gate 3 content creator Morgana Evelyn has come up with an exploit that lets you permanently recruit an army of child followers – who don't even have to follow the normal rules of combat. Unlike their adult counterparts, child followers can roam around and use abilities as much as they like, letting them tear through their enemies, as long as you leave your morals at the door.
A Baldur's Gate 3 exploit lets you recruit unstoppable allies, and Sven Vinke loves it.
Morgana Evelyn turns it off for her challenge run: beating the game without letting the enemy take a single turn. Through some very outside-the-box thinking, he pulls it off with various exploits.
As shown by GamesRadar+, one of these is the Recruitable Children. Morgana explains it well, but essentially, by following these steps, you can trick the game into making various child NPCs your permanent companions.
This is absolutely not the way Larian wants us to play the game, CEO Sven Vincke approves of this method. “I salute you Morgana Evelyn,” he wrote. “You have to be in one [of] Panels from Hell.”
Morgana used a slightly different method to recruit Arabella at the start of the run, and it seems to involve playing as Dark Orge and tricking her into killing herself. So, you can resurrect him using the Animated Spores ability you got from Glut Recruit, and then use another exploit to keep him around for good. Yes, to no one's surprise, you should really Throw everything in your game and the kitchen sink to make this run work.
The Baldur's Gate 3 community is full of wild challenge runs like this one. In fact, while very few of us have beaten Honor Mode, there are plenty of people who have done it at the first level. How?
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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 play.
