You’ve activated my trap card. It’s me, I’m the trap card.
I just wrapped up my first honour mode playthrough in Baldur’s Gate 3—and whenever I roll those golden dice, I feel a sense of pride. So of course the universe sends someone along to take a greatsword to my sense of self-worth by pulling off an even tougher challenge. Typical.
Bouch on YouTube has set themselves an absurd task: complete Baldur’s Gate 3, on their own, while every single enemy has a +99 to their attack rolls. Oh, also, they can’t have party members. Because obviously.
While they make it all the way to the Githyanki creche on Honour Mode before finally dying and switching to a ‘dishonourable’ playthrough, it’s the strategies they employ that are the real star of the show. I’m just going to highlight one of them here, but it’s a build I hadn’t even considered until now: you hit me, you die.
Bouch switches things up to conquer the final boss of Act 2—”Time for a complete makeover,” they proudly announce. Firstly, they pick up one level in Warlock for Armour of Agathys, which deals cold damage to enemies who hit you in melee while its temporary hit points last.
