Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Phalar Aluve - Missed opourtunity for most badass weapon in whole history of Forgotten realms.

I can imagine many of you will find it silly ... most likely even stupid.

But i LOVE the idea.
And it really pisses me off that i didnt step on this joke sooner.
(seen on twitter today)

I now like to think that's how Thor interpreted his Hammer. "Look, I'm worhty!"

In a table top game I would absolutely allow it and find a way to reward the Barbarian for thinking of it

That's the kind of spontaneous storytelling I play DnD for.

That looks like something from the Dark Souls/Elden Ring game lol

Amusing

It's from Bloodborne.
That monstrosity is called the kirk hammer.

Definitely not the craziest weapon in the game by a mile. Look up beast cutter, amygalan arm, whirlgig saw, stake driver, church cannon... that's the real good shit.

It would be a great idea that to have it as a hammer instead, but in terms of greatest weapon ever, I don't think much else comes close to BG2 TOB weapons.

Just started TOB on my solo BG2 replay. swinging around the Carsomyr on a F/M/T, and backstabbing with staffs, OH look, a big evil lich, lol dispel, dispel, dispel with every hit, bye bye protections and interrupt every spell cast.

Also Grandmastery for multiclass hacks, 5 pips in 2H swords and Quarterstaffs. 10x Greater Whirlwing and Critical Strikes, then loading up on epic spike traps next.

I'm not looking forward to soloing the demogorgon on Legacy of Bhaal though, +200 HP and the only thing with timestop immunity.

This strikes me as some weird humble brag that has very little to do with the coolness, inventiveness, lore or flavor factor of a weapon itself. You only spent half a sentence on Carsomyr itself, none on its history, design or significance, and sully it under meta expressions of combat effectiveness that mostly apply to any weapon.

Perhaps most egregious is that you aren't even a Paladin and are apparently leveraging Use Any Item (UAI). About as silly as doing the same for the OP heavy block of stone as a little thief, though you MIGHT be able to conceive of an interesting reason why and how a thief would be doing that with UAI. You haven't mirrored the flavor of the amusingly stupid and stupidly strong Barbarian who ripped the thing.

I mean congratulations on breaking a party based role playing game down into a Diablo game or whatever, but that's a little off topic and OP has certainly presented a more compelling story.

So... what makes Carsomyr interesting and what am I supposed to imagine by a highly meta F/M/T wielding THE HOLY AVENGER, a holy blade restricted to non-evil aligned Paladins?


Exactly!

Then one day the Barbarian is fighting a hoard of evil monsters so valiantly and nobly the sword slips free. Barbarian is sad because Tavern Brawler no longer works.

BG3 Tavern Brawler is so busted and is a complete Larian balance-shattering homebrew. Normally you shouldn't WANT to always be using an improvised or thrown weapon the way you do in BG3. That being said, we still have a couple options:

1. The sword can't slip free! It's held in place by magic and the blade itself would sooner snap in half than be freed from its stone by non-magical means.

2. I now have a sword AND an improvised big stone block of slaying with which to throw and bash people about!


In the spirit of this kind of campaign running, for #2 I'd do something like saying the stone and the blade are still magically linked and drawn together so that the stone block returns to the blade when thrown! Or simply make it a magic stone that deals additional Force or Radiant damage or something.