Yet another Baldur’s Gate 3 Honor Mode run has been lost because a player couldn’t resist the temptation of a ‘romance’ scene.
For the uninitiated, Baldur’s Gate 3’s notorious Honor Mode ratchets up the difficulty with beefier enemies and more difficult combat encounters. It also limits you to a single save so that your game is over for good once your party bites the dust.
It’s not uncommon to end an Honor Mode run thanks to a minor miscalculation in combat. Of course, Baldur’s Gate 3’s D&D-inspired mechanics can also kill you with a conversation.
As such, it’s always best to be extra careful when experimenting with unseen dialogue options in Honor Mode. Unfortunately for one player on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Subreddit, they threw caution to the wind in an effort to experience a never-before-seen romantic encounter.
“Being horny lost my Honour run”
The moment in question came all the way in the third act after 9 hours of flawless play when entering the House of Hope. This Baldur’s Gate 3 player desperately needed a key that only the Incubus Haarlep can provide.
Rather than initiating combat and prying it from her corpse, they elected to enter into a subtle dance of seduction to acquire the key with guile. Hopping into bed with the Incubus in a steamy encounter that involves offering up your soul. Sounds pretty precarious in an Honor Mode run, and it was.
“I knew from spoilers that this would kill me, but I had plenty of revive scrolls, so I just planned to use one after,” the player explained. “Well, I play along and give my soul to them, and then the lost Honor Run screen pops up, and I can see the rest of my party still alive in the background.”
While contemplating if finally viewing the raunch scene was worth it, the result was an emphatic “no” . Looks like it’s back to the drawing board to see if they can replicate that 90 hours. Maybe in their next Baldur’s Gate 3 Honor Mode run, they’ll take care of Haarlep the old-fashioned way.