Baldur's Gate 3
Larian's D&D 5e CRPG. Class and subclass builds, companion and origin guides, multiclassing, act-by-act walkthroughs, and Honour Mode strategy.
August 2026
10 posts
Baldur's Gate 3 Approval: Thresholds and Romance Numbers
The approval bar on a companion's character sheet shows you a category. The scripts behind it check integers, and the two do not line up — Gale's Mystra scene wants 36, Minthara's romance wants 31, and neither number has a band boundary anywhere near it. Here is the threshold table, the per-companion romance numbers the wiki documents, and the things that quietly cost you ten points.
Baldur's Gate 3 Reactions: Why Yours Did Not Trigger
Every creature in Baldur's Gate 3 carries exactly one Reaction charge and gets it back at the start of its turn. What that charge can answer is narrower than the tooltips suggest: the game decides which reactions are eligible for an event before any of them resolve, and whole categories of damage and saving throws are invisible to the system entirely. Here is the reaction list by source and cost, the rules that gate it, and the bugs the wiki has documented on top.
Baldur's Gate 3 Weapon Actions: One Use Per Short Rest
The little icons under your attack button are not free. Unless the action says otherwise, a weapon action in Baldur's Gate 3 is capped at one use per short rest, the charge belongs to the character rather than the weapon, and it is spent even when the attack misses. Here is what each weapon type actually hands you, and which of them are worth the charge.
Baldur's Gate 3 Coatings, Grenades and Arrows: Carry These
The elixir slot gets all the attention, but Baldur's Gate 3 has a second consumables budget nobody spends: the things you smear on a weapon or throw at a formation. A 3-gold bulb that yanks a whole enemy line into one spot, a 40-gold oil that cuts an enemy caster's save DC by 3, and a paralysis poison whose victim loses a turn before it can even roll to shake it off.
Baldur's Gate 3 Accessories: The Slots That Set Your Ability Scores
Your chest slot is a solved problem. The six other things you wear are where builds are actually decided — and four of the items that go in them can overwrite an ability score outright, refunding points you spent in character creation.
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 Subclasses: Which of the 12 Survive the Level Cap
Patch 8 gave every class a new subclass. The level cap is still 12, and three of those subclasses put their signature feature at level 11 — so you get it for the last two levels of a hundred-hour campaign. Here is all twelve, sorted by when they actually pay you.
Baldur's Gate 3 Status Effects: The Combos That Win Fights
A first-level spell slot can double every point of lightning damage your party deals for the rest of the fight. Larian bolted an entire condition and surface layer onto D&D 5e, and most of it is undocumented in-game. Here is the whole system, with the numbers.
Baldur's Gate 3 Best Armour: The AC Math Nobody Explains
Armour Class is the only defensive stat in this game whose value accelerates the higher it climbs. Going from 19 to 20 buys you almost twice as much as going from 15 to 16. Here is what to wear, act by act, and the feat that silently deletes 3 AC off your best medium armour.
Baldur's Gate 3 Companion Recruitment Guide: Where Everyone Is and Who You Can Lose Forever
Half the companion roster can be permanently missed by doing things in the wrong order, and the game never warns you. Here is where all ten companions are, the two non-lethal knock-outs that matter, and the deadlines that quietly delete people from your run.
D&D's Gen Con 2026 Roadmap, Read Through a Baldur's Gate 3 Lens
Wizards used its July 30 Gen Con keynote to map D&D through 2027: World of Warcraft in November, Dark Sun and the returning Psion class, a Greyhawk vampire queen, and Star Wars. Here is what it all means if BG3 was your first character sheet.
July 2026
10 posts
Baldur's Gate 3 Elixirs and Potions Guide: The Buff Slot You Are Wasting
Every elixir in the game ends with the same line: replaces effects from other elixirs when drunk. That makes your elixir slot a loadout choice, not a consumable — and a 30-gold bottle can outperform a rare weapon on the right character.
Baldur's Gate 3 Best Races Guide: A Tier List That Respects Your Time
Since BG3 detached ability scores from race, the only thing a race gives you is a bundle of traits — free armour proficiency, a Misty Step, an extra weapon die on crits. Some of those bundles quietly reshape a build. Most do nothing. Here is which is which.
Baldur's Gate 3 Illithid Powers Guide: Which Tadpoles Are Worth Eating
Most players eat two tadpoles, get spooked, and stop. Here is the full skill tree with real numbers, the two free powers that cost nothing, and the spending order that gets you a guaranteed crit by Act 2.
Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge Guide: Every Fork in the Bloodiest Origin
The Dark Urge is a custom character with a knife taped to the back of it. Here is every forced event, every check DC, and why Slayer form is worse than the cutscene makes it look.
Baldur's Gate 3 Best Legendary Weapons: What to Actually Chase
There are 28 legendary items in the game and most of them are weapons you will pick up two hours before the credits roll. Here is which ones are worth building a character around, and which are just shiny.
Baldur's Gate 3 Best Feats: You Only Get Three of These
Three feats. Four if you are a Fighter or a Rogue. That is the entire budget for a hundred-hour campaign, and most players spend at least one of them on something that does nothing. Here is what each pick is actually worth.
Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode Tips: How to Survive the One Save
Honour Mode is not just Tactician with a scary save file. Bosses get Legendary Actions, enemies hit +2 harder, and one party wipe deletes the run. Here is how to actually finish it.
Baldur's Gate 3 Beginner Guide: What Nobody Tells You
The tutorial teaches you to move and attack. It does not teach you that advantage is worth more than any weapon you will find in Act 1, or that Withers will rebuild your entire character for 100 gold. Here is the actual onboarding.
Best Baldur's Gate 3 Classes for Beginners, Ranked
Fighter gets four feats by level 12 while everyone else gets two, and it never runs out of resources. That is the whole beginner-class argument in one sentence. Here is the full ranking, with the numbers behind each call.
Baldur's Gate 3 Multiclassing Guide: Rules and Real Builds
BG3 dropped the ability score prerequisites tabletop 5e uses, which means nothing stops you from building a Barbarian who casts. The level 12 cap is the only real brake — and understanding Effective Spellcaster Level is what separates a build from a mess.