Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Gale and his condition [SPOILERS]

Come now, Larian.
'Consuming magic items is one thing. Expensive, but doable.
Artifacts though?.. Those are very rare, and simple wizard wouldn't be able even to acquire one.

I know story of Simbul and her condition after collapse of Weave is... inspiring. But that's Simbul. Old and very powerful Chosen of Mystra. Almost as famous as Elminster himself.
Gale is just a mortal wizard. Whatever his condition is - don't make it overly too dramatic. Make it more believable.

And yeah...

let's just use term "magic items". "powerful magic items" if you must. Faerun is not "full of artifact" no realm is.

Faerun kinda is, though -- it's a ridiculously high-magic setting. Artifacts kickin' around everywhere isn't far off. I think your point stands, though!

Full of magic items - sure. But not artifacts.
Even Eberron not a setting like that.

Frankly I think the character concept is ridiculous and I would much prefer a regular but genuinely cool character and not a stupid gimmick to "make him interesting". But hey, that's just me.
I'm pretty sure it stays though, so any magic item should be on his menu. There's lots of scroll around.

It's a good point but

If so, that still doesn't make any sense, as

It's in the third conversation or so. That's his story

As much as I like Gale, his two major detriments (the artifact chomping and necrosis cloud upon death) make me seriously reconsider giving him one of my already premium party slots. Since there's only three (hint-hint).

Whether or not Faerun is literally filled with artifacts or not is irrelevant to me. I (as a compulsive hoarder in games) don't like to part with objects that have special names and histories. In Skyrim, they go on display in my houses. Other games, they waste away in a storage chest. Never sold unless I'm desperate, because they're special and, I dunno, maybe I'll use them eventually? (I won't but that's besides the point.)

Asking me to throw them away on a character who's 50% likely to take me out should he fall in battle is a lot to ask. I already have to position Gale away from the rest of the party during combat. Don't make me sacrifice my preciouses to him as well.

In that case it goes even more weird...

I don't like Gale anymore. He died then his corpse was sent to my camp. Then his corpse killed my dog :C

I suspect Gale was "chosen" in his mind only. Even stripped of spells, the "chosen ones" had plenty of higher end skills, contacts and allies to fall back on if need be. And as noted, by this point in FR time, the weave has been repaired, at least to a degree, and chosen have regained some measure of spellcasting ability.

Or he is just addicted, like heroin or cocaine and its all show. Maybe its just fuel for his very powerful illusion spell and he is a lich or worse, he steals the items for him self to sell them later as the naive and stupid player would do everything he can to save him. Easy pickings and a fortune to be made.

I agree that, at bear minimum, he's too expensive a companion. I feel like magical items would be better, rather than artifacts. I didn't feel great stealing from the Druids to keep him going and, after everything we had to do to earn that hood, I didn't want to give it to him just so he could eat it.