Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Baffled By Halsin’s Inability To Transform While in Prison

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While exploring the Goblin Camp during Act 1 of Baldur’s Gate 3, most players will stumble across Halson. He’s a recruitable Druid with the power to transform into an animal, but he’s trapped as a bear in a ramshackle prison. Now, players are confused about why Halsin hasn’t escaped long before they meet him.

While there should be an easy solution to Halsin’s depraved situation, the game’s mechanics and his actions make it difficult to understand what’s going on. The only reasonable solution seems to be that Halsin likes being battered with rocks by Goblin children as he slowly rots behind bars.

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Players Don’t Understand Why Halsin Doesn’t Escape From His Prison Cell in the Goblin Camp

A recent post on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Subreddit has questioned why Halsin, a recruitable Druid, hasn’t used Wild Shape to transform into a small creature and escape the Goblin Camp by the time players arrive there. Most believe the Goblins can’t watch him during every waking moment, so there must have been a few seconds where he could have slipped out. Yet instead, players find him locked up while Goblin children throw stones at him.

The comments on this post cover every possible angle of the argument. It’s already been established that at some point, likely a change of guard, Halsin could have transformed and escaped. Some fans believe it could be an in-game logic problem, “He’s already used his two wild shapes, and the goblins won’t let him get even a short rest.” This suggests that Halsin is sleep-deprived and physically cannot transform.

However, as others point out, and we have experienced ourselves when murdering poor Halsin, he transforms multiple times