Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks Question about Gale and his approval system (spoilers)

I'm playing as a true neutral character. So it means some NPC are getting their butts kicked others are getting kisses. You know how it is. 4 of the 5 companions opened up to me, but I have a problem with Gale.

I wouldn't know about this if I did not come across it by accident on the internet. Gale doesn't want to tell me about the quest to find magical artifacts.

After killing the Goblin Leaders he said something like "Enjoy yourself tonight and I will tell you the truth tomorrow", and nothing.

Can someone tell me to how to check if the trigger for his quest fired or not? Or maybe playing as a neutral locked me out for good from this quest?

Like I said I didn't have any problems with the rest of the companions.

Some of the companion quests and dialogues are still a bit wonky.
I know some of them only trigger once you've used the tadpole's powers in dialogue (which means you very easily can miss out on them altogether) but I don't know if Gale's dialogues are one of them.

Have you tried getting him killed and resurrected?

Someone said you have to get his approval high and camp often + resurrection done to get his weave scene. Idon't think its gated behind the tadpole because people can romance them with non tadpole run too. I fed him with artifacts but never got the weave scene.

Ok so:
- Gale has been resurrected, but he only thanked me for it.
- I don't usually use tadpole spells (I used it maybe once)

About the approval thing. I checked. Wyll, Shadowheart and Gale (my current team) have the same level average/medium (sorry I'm not playing in English) But I was able to convince Wyll and Shadowheart to open up to me.

The problem here is that... Gale doesn't have any new dialogues and it's been that way for hours of gameplay already. It's like the trigger that fires his latter convos got stuck.

Same here. His approval is "high", but I have no idea what this "weave scene" is since I've never seen it in either of my two playthroughs despite resting at camp ridiculously often. I gather it's a conversation you get with him after feeding him the first artifact, but before the celebration?

Quite ironical that the only companion with above average approval only wished me a nice evening at the celebration, but I could have slept with one who was indifferent and one who cordially loathed me (both feelings were entirely mutual, which led to me being one of those 1.38% solo sleepers).

I never fed him any artifacts (I hope that necromancy book he agreed to take care of doesn't count) and I still got the Weave scene in the camp. It is probably just bugged. I am waiting until they do another major patch with gameplay fixes to continue with anything. It seems to be a waste of time otherwise, unless you are seriously into testing and bug reporting.

Yeah I'd also just expect that it's buggy. I did resurrect him, and I did get the scene where he explained his past with the god and his need for magic items, but this was quite late and I never actually had him ask me for a magic item, which from what I gather is sort of in the reverse order. I chalked it up to the fact that I only camped about 3 times until the celebration, so maybe 4 total?

I've started my second playthrough on 3 days ago after reading that Gale's scenes can be triggered only before gatting his approval "Very high"...
Didn't help me. I got his artufacts quest convo twice (same thing happened on my first playthrough) before I got the sword from Anders and after. So I kept it wit h me to see if anything else comes up but no. Now whatever I do (even pet the dog) his approval will go "Very high" so I'm stuck again XP

Ok, guys. Taking all your advice into consideration. I became a super decent person today in my game. (I didn't like it, but I had to check) So I got my approval score with Gale way up.

And the quest about the magical artifacts became unlocked.

SO, in my case the thing that had to be done to unlock that dialogue path was: (I remind you I'm playing a true neutral character, so I'm not getting tons of positive approval very fast)

- High approval
- Killing off all the gobbo leaders.

...And now I'm wondering how to feed those magical items to Gale because I already know I have two of those in my inventory. If I investigate this further I'll report in.

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And you know what? I like Gale and his quest but this how I feel right now analyzing what I have to do so the guy will trust me and tell me what I have to do so to stop him from exploding. Come on, magic man. I just want to save your ass.

TBH being super decent doesn't fix the problem neither. I always play good: Ihad the highest approval "Exemplary" ?(anyway, it was higher than Very High) And that's thanks to giving him like 3-4 artifacts. I was nice bla bla and I the final scene is supposed to be after fixing the goblin problem during celebration at camp. I didn't get that- everyone else wanted to bed me, but not him XPPP

Ok, so here is the continuation of my adventures with Gale and trying to prevent him from exploding.

Gale in my playthrough suffers from an acute case of amnesia.

Like I wrote earlier - during the party he finally admitted to his problem, but I couldn't give the artifacts he needed. Today he FINALLY had a yellow marker above his head that allowed me to give him the items he required.... The problem now is that the current conversation was almost the repeat of the conversation I had with him during the party with the exception that Gale changed his approach and now he tells me he needs the artifacts but doesn't want to tell me why he needs them. Thing is he already told me why during the party, but now acts like he is telling me this for the first time and still does not trust me.

Am I still doing something wrong?

...No idea.
I didn't play much after the party, I will check it out today. All I know is that the romance has to start before the party