10 Instant Death Cutscenes in Baldur's Gate 3 (Acts 1 and 2 Only)

vlaakith's ending fun because she uses wish, which proves that she isn't a god, just a high level caster

Vlaakith using Wish on you after mouthing off to her instead of just using it to accomplish whatever she wanted done in the first place sums up her character better than any lore piece possibly could.

If you let Astarion bite you as Gale, he doesn’t kill you because your blood tastes awful due to magic.

Apparently a funny addendum to the Gale Nuke is that if you killed him somewhere else and left him lying out in the world, his corpse just mysteriously teleports back into your camp for the explosion. "Ohhh no, I want you to SEE this, you bastard!" - Gale's ghost

Fun fact: if you let Astarion drink your blood til you die, the next morning he's like "Oh no there's been a terrible accident!" If youre then revived, you can confront him and have the option to punch him in the face. He agrees he deserves it and asks if that made you feel better now 😂 I said yes and forgave him after that.

If you let Gale go through with blowing himself up to kill the Absolute you also get a slightly different game over screen. "This is an ending, of sorts, but not the one Fate intended."

If you don't pet Scratch in camp then you instantly die of depression

The mask in the hags den can be really helpful for getting to the hag, if you can protection from good and evil first.

I still think when the gnome is treating to blow up the spark powder in the underdark and Astarion says "Easy now, let's not do anything hilarious..." is one of the best lines in the entire game 😂

I rolled a natural 1 on resisting the trapped Mindflayer at the start and got the instant game over. The next time I just killed them before I even entered the cutscene.

Okay but surely the 5th time I kiss the mind flayer he’ll kiss me back 🥺👉👈

if you let Astarion die in the creche laserbeams explosion and then revive him, he has some hilarious dialogue about how you're an absolute menace to society

I just realized how lucky I was to be playing a Paladin. For example, you can resist the hag's mind control by reciting the words of your Oath in your mind. I played with the mask on for about 2 entire hours before I realized I forgot it equipped 😅

I love that you make Vlaakith mad enough she actually casts Wish on you.

"What in the sweet hells were you thinking, activating that lance? I was RIGHT there!"

As long as you don't progress too much into act two you can safely go back to act 1.

I got that lae’zel cutscene, managed to convince her not to kill me, and then the next night she decided to sleep with me

Funny story about the jump into the Underdark. I did it the first time without game overing because I had used Feather Fall on myself, saw the cutscene, saw the Feather Fall effect, and I assumed it was the magic of the Underdark protecting me on my fall (and not the Feather Fall that I had cast). So, wanting to preserve that spell slot, I reloaded and save and jumped in without Feather Fall, thinking the Underdark would save me. Oops.

What’s funny is the Laz scenario, I killed her and then later in the game she miraculously comes alive for a “her and shadowheart conversation” in which Shadownheart kills her again.

Astarion's "Careful now, let's not do anything hilarious." always gets me.