You can recruit a lot more NPCs as companions in Baldur’s Gate 3 than you think, but you have to be really evil to do it

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While experimenting with a few special abilities in Baldur’s Gate 3, players have discovered that they can essentially recruit NPCs to themselves – albeit unwillingly. And some particularly cruel players even take it a step further…

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This is how you get the NPCs as companions: On Reddit, a user shared a picture in which he has the druid Kagha with him, albeit as a zombie servant completely infested with fungi. This is a well-known strategy for which you need the mushroom ruler Ember.

Embers can resurrect just about anything and anyone as a mushroom-controlled minion. These zombies are actually pretty useless flesh shields because they can no longer cast magic since Patch 4. In addition, Ember only accompanies you in the Underdark. But there are tricks here, as one user explains:

  • Simply take corpses of killed NPCs with you into the Underdark.
  • Alternatively (as with the Spider Matriarch): Push her through holes that lead to the Underdark.
  • Ember resurrects the NPC as a mushroom minion
  • Casts death protection (level 4 spell) on the minion.
  • Let him die.

    • The fungus will then be removed and the companion will have its full range of abilities again. Players explain that High Priestess Gut of the Goblins, for example, has useful, unique spells.

    Using a few other tricks and exploits, it is also possible to lure embers from the Underdark and Act 1 and keep them throughout the game in order to resurrect later bosses as servants. However, it is easier if you get the ability yourself via mod (via Nexusmods).

    The strongest companions are… children

    Which NPCs are worthwhile? Kagha and Gut are already good examples of useful NPCs who can accompany you, at least temporarily. However, the absolute strongest companion is Arabella. Yes, exactly, the little child.

    Players have discovered that Arabella is the strongest weapon in the game. Children cannot die in battles in Baldur’s Gate 3 or even take part in them, making them essentially unstoppable killing machines.

    And yes, for this method Arabella has to die first and you have to steal her body. You need to know whether you really want this.

    In any case, deaths and revivals seem to go a bit against the developers’ plans. Fans have previously found several ways to get around bans and undermine the rules of the game: With this trick you can get one of the most popular characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 as a companion

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