Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion [END SPOILS WARNING] Addressing Karlach (PLEASE PUT SPOILERS IN TAGS)

Exactly, and now I figured out, that there is completely missing some cutscene with her old times friend blacksmith from Lower city. They wanted to go to dinner together also with you if you are in romance, but I'm expecting due to lack of the good ending, this was deleted too.

as someone who loves Karlach Id say bittersweet ending is a strong and emotional ending. The only thing Id add is a short stroll of us - player and her - in Avernus or her visiting us as "vacation". But a complete way to save her would feel like we forced developers to bend their vision to our caprice. I prefer to respect the way developers decided to write their story, meanwhile I also dont like how some characters I saved without even trying hard, but the one I cared the most had no way to be saved. I was ready to give up almost anything for her to stay and be happy

I am fine with the tragic end. What I dont like is the complete lack of build up, like after act two when you learn she is dying it's basically never mentioned again, so whe we get to the end it feels completely random. why not some scenes on the way to the final fight of her struggling, let me know there is a problem.

True, in act 3 you have everything you need to save her, but you can't because the game don't allow you to do that in current state. When BG3 has 17000 endings, I'm sure that at least one if you have a romance and if you complete the missing upper city quest should let you save her and live together somewhere in cottage in BG or elsewhere. When you don't care and play as evil, actual endings make complete sence, but not if you play a good character and do everything to save her. Not in game where almost everything should be possible

The cut content surrounding the Upper City as well. Hopefully we'll see more in the future.

Beside the different infernal irons ingame, the gondians and the foundry, there are these soulcoins. In my playthrough I've found 14 of them. In the dialogue with the one tiefling woman, who is attacked by a bugbear in the grove, the narrator tells (if the historycheck is successful) to the player, that these coins are very valuable to every demon and devil in the nine hells. My idea here is, when Mizora is showing up in camp after her rescue from the mindflayer colony, that we could ask her about the blueprints of the infernal machine and she want some of these coins as a price for that (and these offer is a "thank you for rescuing me" from her). With those blueprints we could go then into act III, meet Dammon, show him the blueprints and he tells us, that he need the gondians or the ironhands to aid him and some of the infernal iron and the superior infernal iron.

I'm not familiar with the d&d universe or any pnp-games, so I don't know if my idea is just daydreaming or a "realistic" solution for this kind of problem inside this world.

isnt Karlach emotional breakdown basically means to say she is done and better spend time doing things while she is still with us, rather than mourne?

Speaking of dropoffs. Im now obsessed with Minthara character. Not only she is the only paladin and I need a good reason for 2nd playthrough (never tried pala and want a fresh class expirience), but also quite interesting. But from what I gathered her romance is broken and doesnt work. So not only Im forced to side with filthy goblins, but lose 3-4 characters and a lot of content while she doesnt even provide much in return. Same problem here: I dont want us to force developers and writers into make THEIR game into our fanfic, but I really wish we could had her without such tremendous losses. And evil playthrough doesn offer an equal expirience or amount of content really too.