Karlach romance bug

[Anonymous2013]

So I started a new play to try out a new race+class and romance Karlach this time (she was my first choice, but I went for Shadowheart instead).

Since she's overall a chaotic good kind of character, it was rather easy to get a high score but I couldn't trigger the scene where Karlach visits you at night despite a decent amount of approval like other people did. I got that scene during the party after ending Act I.
After that I cooled her off with a jug of water and ran out of talk options and kept going through the story, talking with her whenever that ! showed up and kept checking each time I did a long rest.
During Act II after I visited Damon to get the second upgrade, I talked to Karlach where she was eager to get to camp. But I didn't get anything; no cutscene, no options to talk about anything in particular. Weirdly enough other stuff triggered during long rests, like Mizora showing up, talking with Gale, even Voss showing up waaay later, but nothing involving Karlach directly (by then, I maxed out her approval).

Has this ever happened to anyone? Did I bug out the romance by any chance? I'm willing to replay Act II if I did miss something or bugged it out.

[Garfield233]

I think i might have a similar issue. I did the infernal iron stuff, but there was never an option to proceed to a romance option at night. Then i went into act three and the romance cooled off.

[[CGF]Fozzie]

Karlach romance needs more rests prior to Damon in act 2, just make sure you get the Mizora\ Wyll scene before you use the infernal iron on Karlach. That's how it worked out for me. It's not bugged just you need to long rest more times than you really need.

[seeker1]

Karlach romance guide
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Karlach/Romance

[Favonius]

I had a similar glitch but it was a bit long ago and i thought it was solved in a patch.

Anyway, if you have a save before meeting dammon at Lasr Light Inn :
- Check you're not already engaged in another relationship and if so, break it
- Perform a couple long rests before metting Dammon, so your Night Event queues are empty (In my case, i had the ogres from act 1 blighted village coming instead of Karlach... funny but not so sexy)

If none of these work or you don't have a save, i guess only the multiromace mod can help you : you can force the romance this way, you'll miss that one night cutscene but will have access to the next ones.