Don't worry about resting too often in Baldur's Gate 3⁠—except when a quest tells you otherwise (2024)

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Is it bad to long rest often in BG3? ›

You can long rest as often as you'd like, provided you have the resources. However, long rests move "time" forward and may affect the outcomes of quests, the availability of NPCs, etc.

A lack of rest can be disastrous, leading to a swift end to the campaign. However, the resting mechanic may confuse those new to the Baldur's Gate franchise, leading to an underutilization of the feature.

Sleeping can trigger scenes related to the main quest, but what we've found is that the quests themselves rarely advance without your input, unlike the notoriously time-limited companion quests of Baldur's Gate 2. There are exceptions: Sometimes characters will tell you that there's a time limit on their offer.

When you're low on HP or Spell Slots in Baldur's Gate 3, you'll need to rest. Resting is split into two types: Short and Long Rests. Short Rests are more useful for a quick break between fights, while Long Rests will send you back to camp and allow you to have some evening chats before tucking yourself into bed.

Taking a long rest passes the night, and costs 40 (80 in tactician or honour difficulty) camp supplies. If the party lacks the required supplies, they may instead take a partial rest, which restores the following: Restore hit points up to half of their maximum.

Should you Let Astarion Bite You? Letting Astarion bite you is an easy way to get approval with him. The simple answer is yes, as the only downside is gaining the Bloodless debuff, while Astarion gains the Happy buff and his approval rating of you increases.

Your new eye gives you +1 on intimidation, but a disadvantage on perception checks and attacks against hags. Perception is an important stat in Baldur's Gate 3, so it depends on whether or not your party can pick up the slack or not.

Long resting is pretty much necessary in Baldur's Gate 3 since it restores health, resets skill slots, and y'know, is mandatory for progressing through multiple quests.

1: Yes, going evil will have some companions leave you (specifically Karlach, Wyll, and Gale... though I think you can persuade Gale into staying.). In return you do get a couple evil companions. 2: While it is entirely possible to do an evil playthrough, doing so cuts out a massive portion of the game's content.

Gale does seem to be a bit of a love-hate character in terms of whether he comes across as charming, or an absolute creep, but either way, he is a romance option. Unlike a lot of the other characters, Gale's romance is a bit of a long haul, and you won't properly seal the deal until act two.

Does Sleeping progress the story in BG3? ›

Larian has confirmed with IGN that the time in which you decide to take Long Rests can have an impact on the story and events in the game.

yes! The owlbear can be recruited as a pet/ally, and while it's not quite a companion on the level with the others, finding the nest and the creature's mother starts a little chain of events that can have impact all the way to the very end of the game.

But a simple gameplay progression of 2-3 battles before every long rest should be fine. Ideally, you do battle, short rest, battle, short rest, battle, long rest. After a particularly difficult battle (say, a boss battle), you may need a long rest, which is fine. What you shouldn't do is long rest for the sake of it.

Using a Short Rest is the best way to recover hit points and Spells to continue with your adventures and engage in new fights without needing to retreat from the area. You can only use 2 Short Rests before using a Long Rest after which all uses of Short Rest will be restored.

The question is unanswerable by mortals as a life's worth is determined by the individual and all those who were affected by the life of the individual, and we don't have the weights on those factors. Of the available options I lean towards the infinite value one.

The story isn't timed but some side quests are, they'll only trigger the countdown when you get near them so like with that burning building you have to go up towards the Gnoll area to trigger it's countdown, the Druid Grove does have a timer but it's like somewhere around 15 long rests before it closes off.

* From the wiki: "Although Rescue Orin's Victim appears to be time-sensitive - it is not. The party can take an infinite amount of Long Rests without Orin killing her kidnapping victim. The companion's life is only at risk once Orin is spoken to in the Temple of Bhaal."

If you rest more than three times at the camp: Karlach mission is failed and the grove gets sealed.