Can You Ace This Baldur’s Gate 3 Trivia Quiz?

You wake up on a crashing mind flayer ship with a squirming tadpole implanted behind your eye, and the only thing anyone around you seems to agree on is that becoming a full illithid is a horrifying way to go. That opening sets the tone for Baldur’s Gate 3, a game that hands players an enormous amount of freedom and then consistently makes sure the choices matter, right down to the specific companions who wash up on the same riverbank and the parasite now shared among all of them. Built on Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition rules and set in the Forgotten Realms, it lets players fight, sneak, talk, or improvise their way through nearly every encounter, and the game keeps track of almost all of it.

Three Chosen run the cult of the Absolute, and they answer to gods rather than to each other. Ketheric Thorm, blessed by Myrkul, cannot be killed while his soul remains anchored in the Shadow-Cursed Lands beneath Moonrise Towers. Orin the Red, a Bhaalspawn who shifts shape at will, murders people the party has already spoken with and then wears their faces for hours before revealing herself. Lord Enver Gortash, servant of Bane, spends most of the story installing himself as Archduke of Baldur’s Gate through paperwork and politics rather than violence. Each carries a Netherstone, and the three stones together are the only leash on the elder brain the cult worships, freed by the Crown of Karsus and eventually named as the Netherbrain.

The companions arrive carrying problems that predate the tadpole by decades or centuries. Shadowheart guards a relic for the goddess Shar and has had her own memories deliberately stripped from her. Astarion spent two hundred years as the vampire spawn of Cazador Szarr, luring victims back to a palace in the city under compulsion. Karlach was sold to the archdevil Zariel and came back with an infernal engine where her heart used to be, one that will eventually burn her out. Gale keeps a Netherese orb lodged in his chest and has to consume magical artifacts to keep it stable. Lae’zel believes, wrongly, that Queen Vlaakith can cure them all, and Wyll’s warlock pact with the cambion Mizora costs him more each time he tries to behave decently. Approval moves in response to specific decisions, and companions will leave the camp permanently rather than accept certain ones.

Larian Studios, working out of Ghent, put the game into early access on October 6, 2020 with only the first act playable, then shipped the finished version on August 3, 2023 with roughly two million words of dialogue and more than 170 hours of cinematics. It took Game of the Year at The Game Awards that December along with four other prizes, including Best Performance for Neil Newbon’s Astarion, and repeated the sweep at the BAFTA and DICE ceremonies the following spring. Jaheira and Minsc both return from the BioWare originals of 1998 and 2000, and Minsc still travels with Boo.

The rules underneath all of it stay close to unmodified fifth edition, so a twenty-sided die decides lockpicking and persuasion alike, failed rolls stand, and inspiration earned by playing to a character’s background buys a single reroll. Questions below cover the nautiloid crash, the standoff between the Emerald Grove druids and the goblin camp, the Shadow-Cursed Lands, the Wyrmway trials under the city, and the true identity of the Emperor, with the full answer key underneath for checking any half-remembered detail.

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