Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback The Failure of Astarion's Bite Scene

From a game development perspective reviving yourself always seems stupid to me. I think I will eat a lot of hate for this, but I agree with how pathfinder wotr solved the issues.

The solution: your MC goes to 0hp go into limbo in the form of Down. If that goes below X/Y you die, and it’s game over. I think reviving your Mc should be impossible… the MC being either you origin character or the custom one.

Now 5th edition does not really use this system, which is why we should home brew it in. And it could fixe the cutscene because if Astarion drinks your blood, every time you reject to intervene you loose X hp, and you must make a strength check to yell to a companion or a will check to cast a cantrip in his face to knock them off.

Yes it requires to rework the scene and requires more work. However it could fix a lot of issues, since the tadpole could have its own DR and be physically placed in our heads. Us dying would not kill the tadpole unless our brain took enough damage also.