Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Patch 8 introduced the first time I've ever been tempted to use the tadpole.

I'm definatly for an alternate way to free shadowheart over the tadpole even if its a harder roll.

That said I don't want yet using the tadapole is automatically evil or "giving into the dark side" A game that comes on top of my head that also does this is "Neverwinter Night 2 Mask of the Betrayer" You get saddled wih a soul eating curse and everyone you first meet tells you tsi an evil curse....your first instinct as a goody two shoe or not a psychopath is "Oh ill just NOT use the power" however its not possible as not using the power at all keeps giving you debuffs that makes progressing through the game impossible. The best you can do is decide whats gets its soul eaten or not and through the story progression you develop new powers that reflect your decisions. Good natured things that even some older beings say " No other curse bearers were able to do this before."

My point is we don't know what using or not using the tadpole does long terms. They definatly already showed that you can resist the influence of the dreams and whatever dark presence in you at the same time.

Maybe you need to strike a balance between using it so it dosent go berserk later during an event.. or maybe your only supposed to use it until you get the tadpoles powers then stop using it entirely.

Reminder if you do not use the tadpole at all but still take The Potion from the Illithid in the underdark your character gets his tadpole power instantly alongside the ring to stop it from getting stronger.. I don't think this is a coincidence that they give you a ring that stop the tadpole's progression.