Wow, that's just...wow. Thank you for your report on this.
Some of the commentary made me laugh 😄
That is indeed weird and wonky and, I would say, shows that, without meta gaming (including weird gymnastics and Long Rest spamming), it's not really possible to enjoy the story, and in this case the romance with Gale, in a way that's coherent and sensible. Which is not ideal 😐
Side note : I also truly wonder if the romance would have continued after the party (Path 2) 😶 But I won't blame you for having enough at that point 😅
That was a lot of work!
Thank you!
I agree it would have been good to see if path 2 actually led to lurve with Gale, but that would have involved doing the whole goblin camp again which, much as I'm enjoying playing around with my moon druid, I couldn't face!
Now that I know a bit more about what may or may not move things along, I'll try on a future playthrough to see if I can get the romance flowing a bit more naturally and without rest spamming. But you're completely right that this will involve (a lot of) meta-gaming, which very definitely shouldn't be required!
On the plus side, if you don't care about romance with Gale and just want his quest to progress, it looks as though that
might now trigger at some point anyway without you needing to do anything fancy. As long as you don't mind some dialogues happening in the wrong order, anyway!
