What's the conseq. of not feeing Gale?

[River Victor]

Topic. I have a lot of precious items, and I don't want to keep feeding him. Is there anything gruesome or significantly dangerous if you don't?

[Raz]

There is more junk items in the game than times you need to feed him. You feed him three times. If you don't free him, he just dies in the rock, and that's that.

[River Victor]

Originally posted by Raz:

There is more junk items in the game than times you need to feed him. You feed him three times. If you don't free him, he just dies in the rock, and that's that.

Thank you kindly for the answer, and thank god for the limited times I need to feed him. I'll get it over with.

[seeker1]

That info is at the BG3 Wiki, BTW.

As are the results of not feeding him when he asks for items. The short answer: his condition will worsen. The longer answer: wait really long, and something very bad can happen.

(that "something very bad" will be something he will reveal to you later, spoilers)

[River Victor]

I don't want to risk reading the whole page and got spoiled by something I accidentally see. Happens too often that I learn the crucial plot twists that way, so I'll just ask for specific scope of answers.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by seeker1:

That info is at the BG3 Wiki, BTW.

Why would anyone want to jump on the wiki in their first playthrough?

[seeker1]

Then you have the vague answers I gave you.

Don't feed him, he goes through three stages of "Arcane Hunger". As Arcane Hunger gets worse and worse, he gets more debilitated.

Once he hits Severe Arcane Hunger (third stage), if something isn't done about that soon, ... the very bad thing can happen.

[seeker1]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Why would anyone want to jump on the wiki in their first playthrough?

I did. Don't get me wrong, many people view a proper first playthrough of a game as going into it with no pre-knowledge whatosever. Maybe it is the right way to play. For them.

It isn't the way I play. I already knew how many companions were in the game, and what classes they were, and how soon they could be acquired, so I could plan what my Tav should be.

Generally, I care very little about spoilers in movies as well as games. I have no problem already having SOME foreknowledge. No I don't spoil everything for myself, but ...

It is possible to use the Wiki without spoiling everything, but I agree it means being careful about not reading what you don't want to know.

I AM saying though that everything I'm telling him is described here.
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Arcane_Hunger_(Condition)

Entirely spoiler free and pretty technical.

You will find out Arcane Hunger has three phases: Arcane Hunger, Greater Arcane Hunger, Severe Arcane Hunger. Severe is the last phase before: very bad things.

There are many folks who would answer this question with: play the game and find out what happens yourself. I am not one of those people. Nor do I think it's wrong that this question was asked. I just decided to answer it. Keeping it as vague as I could, and can, because if you want to know what happens, you ARE asking for some level of spoilers. No?

[Budoshi]

feed him green items.

[seeker1]

Correct. Gale only needs three, and you will find very early on a bunch of "trash" green items to feed him. Don't give him any "blues" (the better quality) ... early "trash greens" (lowest quality of magic items) are everywhere.

The incredibly useless Komira's Locket is often one of my first choices to serve up to him.

[wtiger27]

Good things happen. You don't have to deal with his annoying personality.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Budoshi:

feed him green items.

the color is irrelevant. Several items are worth less than 100 coins, including the ring from the harpy nest and the blue talk to the dead amulet. There are plenty of items, just find something worth about 50-75 gold and use that.

[Budoshi]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by Budoshi:

feed him green items.

the color is irrelevant. Several items are worth less than 100 coins, including the ring from the harpy nest and the blue talk to the dead amulet. There are plenty of items, just find something worth about 50-75 gold and use that.

ya i mean green items are worthless 90% of the time.

[Mike Garrison]

To be clear, the items you feed him have to say "This item can be given to Gale". You can't just give him any old generic +1 sword or something.

But there are so many that you can give him, that it's not really a problem. Most of the time I give him items that are only useful for classes I'm not running anyway. Like there is a cap you can find in a chest by Alfira that is only for bards, so if you aren't using a bard then its only use is to give it to Gale.

[seeker1]

Originally posted by Budoshi:

ya i mean green items are worthless 90% of the time.

Yes ... generally speaking, as green magic items are of lower and inferior quality to blue magic items, they tend to be worth less at merchants.

Not all green items are worthless, but on average, they are worth less.

There are plenty of useless blue items too, often (again it can be situational), but they will sell for more at merchants.

As noted above, Gale is picky, and can't be fed ANY green or blue items, but only the ones the game notes can sate him.

[seeker1]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Good things happen. You don't have to deal with his annoying personality.

Sooo .... whether or not you care what happens to Gale, fine I'll spell it out, under spoiler tags.

from the wiki ...


In order to sate his arcane hunger, Gale must consume magic items periodically for a total of three times. If he does not then he will be afflicted with "Arcane Hunger" which has three different stages of severity:
Arcane Hunger
Arcane Hunger gives him disadvantage to Constitution saving throws.
Greater Arcane Hunger
Greater Arcane Hunger gives him disadvantage on all attack rolls and saving throws.
Severe Arcane Hunger
Severe Arcane Hunger gives him disadvantage on all attack rolls and saving throws and his movement speed is halved.
After reaching the third stage, if not fed Weave, Gale's netherese orb explodes leading to a Game Over screen.
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I believe most players view a Game Over Screen as a very bad thing. I It's not just that Gale's Orb erupting kills him, as he explains, the eruption is massive enough to destroy you and your party as well. It will finish you off in Act 2 and the only reason it doesn't in Act 3 is he teleports you far away first.

Yes... leaving Gale to die inside the portal has no consequence ... presumably his orb erupts inside some pocket plane, or wherever it happens, but it doesn't kill the player.