Baldur’s Gate 3 has a plethora of hard decisions that must be made with great impact on the story. Even something as simple as knowing which items to sell or keep can sometimes be stressful without looking it up, and the owlbear egg that players find early in the game is a great example of this. During Chapter 1, the party will encounter a giant owlbear and its cub while exploring near the Blighted Village. Even obtaining the owlbear egg itself leads to a moral dilemma: party members can decide to kill or spare the owlbear and her cub.
While this decision to kill a living thing seems more difficult to make than whether to sell an egg, it proves that every decision made in this expansive RPG is an important one. Like other items randomly found throughout the campaign, it’s natural to ponder whether the owlbear egg is important enough to keep for future quests or whether it should be sold for the enormous sum of gold it provides.
In the vast world of the Forgotten Realms, there are a lot of terrible decisions that can be made in Baldur’s Gate 3, and the owlbear egg is actually a source of one of those bad choices. Rather than ruining the campaign by failing an ability check or angering the wrong NPC, this choice often doesn’t get noticed until it’s too late.
The owlbear egg is a surprisingly good camp supply, providing 40 camp supplies for the egg alone. By using the auto-select option when going for a long rest in BG3, it’s more than possible to fill the supplies with the egg, consuming it and losing it in the process. While this wouldn’t be that big of a deal with other supplies, there are much better uses for the egg, making this one easy-to-make mistake a pretty costly one.
Indeed, there are camp supplies littered all across the in-game world in BG3, so using this coveted egg like a cheese wheel is certainly not making use of what it can do. From a lore and storytelling perspective, it’s also strange, as most people wouldn’t consider cracking open a highly valuable egg to make an omelet for dinner.
2023-08-11 17:48:03
Original from screenrant.com
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