No blood sacrifice!

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Is is it possible to complete the game without sacrificing blood in the Gauntlet of Shar?

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Originally posted by HandyVac:

You can skip doing the trials for the orbs by using the Knock spell to open the door instead.

Alternatively, you can get straight to the Illithid colony from Moonrise Towers jail by jumping down the corpse disposal pit and never go to the temple of Shar at all.

But the door is magically locked and the description of the Knock spell says it works only for mundane locks. I have no character who could cast that spell and only a single scroll with the Knock spell, so I have only one try. I've been thinking about using it on the door at the place where Balthazar is; there's one door that could be lockpicked but you'd have to cast 30.

So you're saying there's another way to proceed? In that case, I'd keep trying.

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Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

don't you end up killing people with swords and get covered in their blood all game?

why is that ok but the temple of shar thing isn't?

Right, you even have to go ahead and kill everyone/-thing once you don't need them anymore so you can level up your characters. The game is a killing spree and I already sent some feedback to larian about this. There need to be more other ways to level up. This game is really bad in many aspects.

When you can't see the difference between killing enemies that are trying to kill you, killing non-enemies to level up so you can find a cure, and sacrificing your own blood, I can't help you. There are things I do and others I don't, and sacrificing my blood is one of the ones I don't do.

[Lord Despicable (Allegedly)]

No. because Shar is an evil & bloodthirtsy goddess, and her followers are all murderers and scum.

[Escapist]

Originally posted by test:

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

don't you end up killing people with swords and get covered in their blood all game?

why is that ok but the temple of shar thing isn't?

Right, you even have to go ahead and kill everyone/-thing once you don't need them anymore so you can level up your characters. The game is a killing spree and I already sent some feedback to larian about this. There need to be more other ways to level up. This game is really bad in many aspects.

When you can't see the difference between killing enemies that are trying to kill you, killing non-enemies to level up so you can find a cure, and sacrificing your own blood, I can't help you. There are things I do and others I don't, and sacrificing my blood is one of the ones I don't do.

Fiction is a hard concept for you, I guess.

[FuzzyDragon]

Originally posted by Akabi, Destroyer of Planes:

No. because Shar is an evil & bloodthirtsy goddess, and her followers are all murderers and scum.

your post has been reported to your local Justicars for Selunite misinformation.

[Lord Despicable (Allegedly)]

Originally posted by FuzzyDragon:

Originally posted by Akabi, Destroyer of Planes:

No. because Shar is an evil & bloodthirtsy goddess, and her followers are all murderers and scum.

your post has been reported to your local Justicars for Selunite misinformation.

To quote the first boss of Rikumaru's story in Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins if he-somehow-kills you:
"HA HA HA HA! The Heavens need better servants."

[FireGryph]

Originally posted by test:

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

don't you end up killing people with swords and get covered in their blood all game?

why is that ok but the temple of shar thing isn't?

Right, you even have to go ahead and kill everyone/-thing once you don't need them anymore so you can level up your characters. The game is a killing spree and I already sent some feedback to larian about this. There need to be more other ways to level up. This game is really bad in many aspects.

When you can't see the difference between killing enemies that are trying to kill you, killing non-enemies to level up so you can find a cure, and sacrificing your own blood, I can't help you. There are things I do and others I don't, and sacrificing my blood is one of the ones I don't do.

What? You don't need to kill anyone for the sole sake of xp. By the time the game finishes, if you actually take the time to explore, look around and do some side quests, youll have far surpassed the XP needed to hit the level cap.

[Kryldost]

What the ♥♥♥♥…

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Originally posted by FireGryph:

Originally posted by test:

Right, you even have to go ahead and kill everyone/-thing once you don't need them anymore so you can level up your characters. The game is a killing spree and I already sent some feedback to larian about this. There need to be more other ways to level up. This game is really bad in many aspects.

When you can't see the difference between killing enemies that are trying to kill you, killing non-enemies to level up so you can find a cure, and sacrificing your own blood, I can't help you. There are things I do and others I don't, and sacrificing my blood is one of the ones I don't do.

What? You don't need to kill anyone for the sole sake of xp. By the time the game finishes, if you actually take the time to explore, look around and do some side quests, youll have far surpassed the XP needed to hit the level cap.

I've been doing that and found that the people who were sent after Karlach couldn't be defeated before leveling up, and there wasn't anything to do but killing everyone left to get more XP. Only later I found out that simply blocking a passage with a few crates can be devastating against enemies because the NPCs are too stupid to deal with that. I'm wondering if that's intended (since it's fundamental) or one of the many oversights that make me think that there's been no real testing before release. In any case, it's what I do since that.

Still I'm wondering if the game can be completed without sacrificing blood or not. At least one poster seems to say it can while everyone else says it can't. Which is it?

[Imperator]

Khorne spits on your weakness.

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Originally posted by HandyVac:

You can skip doing the trials for the orbs by using the Knock spell to open the door instead.

Alternatively, you can get straight to the Illithid colony from Moonrise Towers jail by jumping down the corpse disposal pit and never go to the temple of Shar at all.

Thank you very much! Following your advice, I figured it out eventually --- and to be clear: without blood sacrifice. Unless it becomes a problem later (which I doubt it will), it is not mandatory. Without your pointer, I'd probably just have quit.

My complements to the developers.

[Bloodwest]

ngl with how bloody this game gets, OP's hemophobia seems rather weird to me

[CorwynCorey]

The OP obviously didn't read the game's ESRB rating.

Ok, so... ahem....

Attention Religious People!

This game is rated M. This means there will be things you WILL object to if you are unable to separate your real life from fiction in a game.

That is all.

[sarjenka.aeristan]

I want to add that I also feel a bit rail-roaded by this ICly. I have two characters. The first is my wizard, he is romancing Shadowheart so the first time through he was like, "Yes, my Dear, do your thing here." But my second character is a Selûnite cleric who refused to allow Shadowheart in the party at all. Now we are in Act 2 of that, I would say that my character and her party members would never make a blood sacrifice at Shar's altar, but, we don't want to give up on rescuing the Nightsong either, so we're going to grab the hireling wizard just to get the Knock spell [we sent Gale packing] in order to get around this, hope it works...

[petr3pan]

Originally posted by Sir_Baldur:

Originally posted by test:

I killed Shadowheart when she tried to kill Lae'zel for no reason and decided to keep her secrets to herself. I'd have sent her away like I did with the vampire after he tried to suck my blood, but there was no option to get rid of Shadowheart other then killing her. I won't have someone around who's lurking to kill party members in their sleep. She's been rotting at her tent since ages and there is no resurrecting her.

It does not matter which character I'd force to sacrifice blood. It is an abomination and putting it into a religious context makes it even worse. If there is no alternative then this game has the worst story ever; having to kill Shadowheat was bad enough already.

Hey, good morning. It's not right for you to apply your bronze age mythology dnd setting to this digital dnd setting. Most "rituals" that you associate with your religion were taken from other peoples cultures & religions through genocide, and torture by crufixion.

But, go off about "blood sacrifice" and how it violates your dnd campaign given to your ancestors by colonizers.

Lol, I kinda had to log in to say this, but you have no idea what religion OP is. And most non-colonial religions object to blood sacrifices. You're being hella Eurocentric and also Abrahamic-centric in your reply here, which is pretty inappropriate when OP just asked if they can play the game a different way.

I work with indigenous populations in South America for whom blood sacrifice is much more serious than it is to you colonizers, and quite frankly who would be pretty insulted for you to call that belief Bronze Age. For them/us, it's not really something to joke about because it's part of our/their real theology.

So how 'bout we not yuck on someone else's yuck? People complain all the time when a game doesn't have their fav se xy pairing and even get offended when game doesn't have their favorite pronouns--a specifically European and American phenom--so I think it's reasonable for someone to get annoyed for something that literally most of human history has felt had meaning.

The judgement up in here!