r/BG3 • u/ErrorqTheGlitch Cleric • 1d ago

OC I didn't mean for this to happen!!! 😭 Spoiler

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I didn't even want to romance anyone my first playthrough becuase i was just so enamored with this game and wanted to focus solely on gameplay and the story.

But APPARENTLY, Gale is like STUPID easy to romance. I didn't even have to do anything. He just started talking about our "bond" and "wanting me" the second act 2 started. Even though i have never given this man any indication that I'm interested.

But then I was like "Okay, I guess I'll romance him why not?" And now I actually kind of like him. I've never been a fan of Gale until this 😭

Guess I have a boyfriend now

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 Fighter 23h ago

They are all stupid easy to romance, so long as you're playing as a semi decent rpg player, they will all throw themselves at you. 

I laugh hard at the people who are posting "help I can't figure out how to romance X, at the end of act 1, they hate me!"

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u/OldLove8431 22h ago

Same. I've had to turn down the whole damn camp before at the Tiefling party because I was trying to trigger the Wyll romance 😂 usually it's two or three but apparently I was spicy/good enough that playthrough

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u/LunarOberon 22h ago edited 21h ago

Astarion never liked me because I was a goofy two shoes. Apparently having a good moral compass is very unsexy.

Edit: I meant *goody two shoes, but goofy two shoes is quite funny.

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u/OldLove8431 22h ago

Well he does have standards 😂

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u/Emceelilspaghetti 21h ago

That line made me so mad I went as far the other way as possible and now I have the cutest giant red girlfriend and a huge beary boyfriend and all is well with the world.

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u/BackgroundSquirrel5 13h ago

I never got this tbh. I've played several 100% good Tavs, going around helping all they can and not asking anything in return and each and everyone of them had 0 issue getting him close to or to max approval by the end of act one.

Like all you have to do is show him the same support and understanding you do everyone else and he'll love you within a few conversations. No matter his tiny little annoyed eyerolls at you wasting precious time or dragging up unwanted memories of no one ever helping him in the past.

I actually had a harder time getting his approval up on my evil run than I did the good ones.

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u/jinxkmonsoon 8h ago

I actually had a harder time getting his approval up on my evil run than I did the good ones.

"Approval."

Could just be performance anxiety on his part.

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u/TheCrystalRose Sorcerer 58m ago

I was alternating between a goody-two-shoes run and a Chaotic Evil run (because I needed a breather from being that Evil every so often). Astarion took 10-15 minutes longer of actual play time to proposition Miss Goody-Two-Shoes (finished recruiting Karlach after leaving the Grove for the first time) as he did Miss CE Murderhobo (somewhere around talking to the True Soul siblings after leaving the Grove).

Most of his high approvals are locked behind long rests, not being an evil jerk, though obviously those +1s will add up pretty quick, especially since there are a lot of them very early on. But getting 20-25 points alone for the bite scene and morning covers a multitude of "sins".

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u/DolanMcRoland 12h ago

Well, some are also super easy to screw up, hence all the "help me romance X or Y". Especially Astarion with those two specific act 2 interactions.

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 Fighter 9h ago

And I laugh 

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u/Tavdan 9h ago edited 6h ago

Except Karlach, that requires some specific steps before the tiefling parry. Unless they fixed her. Her romance even has an achievement.

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 Fighter 9h ago

Fixed.

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u/Tavdan 6h ago

Good, thank you

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u/DestinovaEthereal Bard 1d ago

What did you choose for dialogue during his Act 1 cutscene where he gives you a magic lesson? That’s where you triggered his romance most likely.

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u/ErrorqTheGlitch Cleric 1d ago

I chose the friendship option. I can't remember the exact words, but something about "friendship between you two"

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u/Accomplished_Area311 23h ago

You should NOT have gotten anything romantic with him if you chose the platonic option during the Weave scene.

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u/CrazyCatLushie 20h ago

Can confirm. I locked myself out of his romance in my first playthrough because I wasn’t yet 100% sure who I was going with and chose the friendship option during the Weave scene. OP must have inadvertently chosen one of the romance options instead.

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u/RowlfysHere 13h ago

I actually had a run where I chose the platonic option because I was romancing astarion, but by the time I got to act 2 gale still wanted me BAD

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u/ErrorqTheGlitch Cleric 23h ago

I don't know how it happened, it just did 😭

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u/TheCrystalRose Sorcerer 46m ago

If you got the Weave scene outside of the party, generally by long resting often enough, the game gives you a "second chance" to start the romance at the Tiefling Party. At which point his dialog tree is a veritable minefield with a good 2/3rds of the responses all setting the "Dating Gale: True" flag, even the rather innocuous sounding ones. Basically if you get him talking about Tara, and don't follow a very specific path through, you end up with a set of responses that are essentially "take your pants off now!" (clearly starts the romance), "let's be friends" (not friendly! Gale does not hear 'friends', he hears 'friends, with benefits'), and "OMG will you shut up about your bloody cat, I hate animals!" (most people aren't really wanting to RP as 'That Guy', but it's the only way out).

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u/Lilin_ 10h ago

IDK, I nat 1'd my way through that scene and it got cut short. Avoided him during the party and he still got mad at me when I locked Astarion lol

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u/NocturnalFlotsam 18h ago

If you got that scene before the tiefling party, it's possible you accidentally ended up on his romance path with the dialogue you chose at the party.

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u/TrainingFancy5263 20h ago

I accidentally romanced all male companions in my first play-through while trying to get with Karlach. I found out that she doesn’t like it when you sleep around but I already been frisky with all the boys at the camp. Oh well, ended up romancing the Emperor too so I guess my main guy just liked to get around.

But yeah Gale’s full romance is excellent. The love scenes are incredible. I like to believe I am straight but I don’t know anymore.

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u/ErrorqTheGlitch Cleric 19h ago

I like Gale I lot more than I thought I would. I went into the game ignorant, thinking he was just a whiney fool, not over his ex. How wrong I was. He's so much more than that. They all are. All the Companions have so much more depth than I thought they would be

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u/TrainingFancy5263 19h ago

Gale is one of my favorites so I am biased but they are all great in their own way. Lae’zel is one I didn’t think I’d like as much as I do. First two acts I couldn’t stand her but once she softened by third act, I fell in love with her. This is some really good writing.

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u/ErrorqTheGlitch Cleric 19h ago

I've truly fallen in love with the characters of this game. I went into Bg3 completely blind, and the second I met a character, I thought "Ah, I see who you are." But gods no. There's so much to every individual character and it really does suck you into the world. I think Halsin, Wyll, and Karlach are all tied for my favorites

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u/MidnightPractical241 Bard 18h ago

We’re never a fan of Gale until it’s too late and we’re all married to him. That’s how the Gale pipeline works.

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u/FalmerEldritch 12h ago

He's not the most obviously or outwardly impressive guy but when you look at the label he's manufactured from 100% husband material.

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u/tyricgaius 21h ago

Kinda makes sense in-game since you're dealing with severely traumatized people in a perilous situation, where if act decently to them, they feel a more intense bond.

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u/LemonMilkJug 17h ago

Welcome. He has some of the sweetest lines, so feel free to giggle like a little schoolgirl girl with the rest of us.

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u/Macncheesy1266 17h ago

Ugh i wanna appreciate this gale love post but im still salty that i messed up and he chose ******* over me and that i had no say other than fine go for it. 😭😭

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u/SolidarityCandle 12h ago

Gale is currently upset with me because I danced with Wyll (ok, kissed him too) 😂

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u/mortalitasi473 18h ago

protip to not romancing gale: play magic users like sorcerer. my first run was a sorcerer and he could not have given less of a fuck about me

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u/maynguene_banana22 13h ago

I exclusively romance him with sorcerers. You get additional dialogue and can call him out when he's full of himself. Romancing him as a wild magic sorcerer is especially fun.

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u/Palanki96 15h ago

I think i maxed all my companion approval in Act 2, they are all super easy to romance. You can just be nice to them and they will all swoon

Except Lae'zel, had to spray her with water she was so horny just because i was strong

And Astarion, little shit dislikes everything. I'm a vengence paladin so i'm not even a auper good guy

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u/Unhappy_Fly_9265 13h ago

I also accidentally started romancing gale my first playthrough with intentions to romance no one 😂 I did not follow through however I am on my current playthrough however, romanced astarion last playthrough and minthara on another think I might end up collecting them all by the time I finally stop playing the game.

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u/KaleidoscopeNo5392 10h ago

I still recall the first time he tried to do the weave scene with me. I have a diabetic sister so when Gale came out and said that he needed to regularly consume expensive items to keep existing, I understood him. Imagine my surprise when my platonic friend whom I had been supporting suddenly wanted to properly enchant me with his spells. I failed the arcana check so he got cucked by fate but it was still a slight shock all the same.

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u/Unholy_Godfather 7h ago

While it's easy to romance most of the characters, I feel like Gale practically throws himself at the player. Just because I kept him alive by giving him a couple of magic items doesn't mean I want to commit to a relationship with him. Whenever I play a campaign with my friends, I ignore Gale and let someone else talk to him.

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u/UsernametakenIdk 9h ago

I was actively trying to romance Gale on one play through, but the game kept throwing Karlach at me 😭 I love Karlach, but I just wanted my Oath breaker Durge to have a wizard bf I did finally get Gale, it just took a lot of reloading to avoid a camp cutscene with Karlach

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u/TheCrystalRose Sorcerer 36m ago

You know you can politely turn her down during that first scene right? Like they all take "no" for an answer very well (except when they're completely bugged out, in which case the game treats you picking "image Gale's head on a pike" as "image giving Gale head" and nothing is ever safe again). Until her romance got bugged with Patch 6, so that scene no longer triggers at all outside the party, my Durges frequently had tell her "sorry, not interested" and became her best friend by Act 2.

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u/Dramatic_Shower_4624 15h ago

if you like him good for u, i hate the dude and he keeps making a projection of himself to lure me into a date