Baldur's Gate 3 Player Loses Honour Mode Run By Stealing Scratch's Ball

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The new Honour Mode in Baldur's Gate 3 is tough as nails. Only 0.1 percent of players have beaten it so far, as the rest flail about and die in the worst of ways. But Renilas' run-ending fight might just take the cake... or the ball.

"Me and my friends were in Act 1 about to do a long rest so that we could continue on into the goblin camp," Renilas posted on the game's subreddit. "One of my friends throws Scratch's ball and I grab it so I can toss it for the pup. This turns the ENTIRE CAMP hostile. Now, we hadn't leveled the other companions as we had no need of them, so overall this might have been fine. Except for one tiny little detail... THE OATHBREAKER KNIGHT HAS JOINED THE BATTLE. 12 levels of PAIN came our way. [They] killed us all in four rounds and that was that."

Honour Mode only uses one save file, so you can't cheat bad dice rolls or reload upon death. Once everyone in your party's HP hits zero, it's game over.

Camp is supposed to be safe, the typewriter at the end of a dingy corridor littered with Nemesis' victims, the jingle of a bonfire after a gauntlet of unrelenting Hollows, but a game of fetch gone wrong cut that assumption short for Renilas. It's unclear if it was the mere act of taking the ball or if they had accidentally hit Scratch, but in upsetting the little pup, Renilas broke their oath as a paladin and invited a terrifying level 12 guest whom they also upset.

Paladins make different vows to different gods in Dungeons & Dragons. When you break those vows, you become an oathbreaker. In Baldur's Gate 3, a knight also appears in camp who you can pay to restore your vow, otherwise, you remain as an oathbreaker paladin. This knight is level 12 (since you're not meant to fight them), so if they aggro,