History Trivia / BaldursGateIII

** One of the biggest complaints regarding Minthara was the lack of a legitimate way to recruit her without resorting to siding with her during the raid on the Emerald Grove, which would otherwise cause a good chunk of valuable [=NPCs=] to be killed off as well as some companions to permanently leave the party, as even defeating her non-lethally would still consider her by the game as dead. As of Patch 5, players can now knock her unconscious and kill the other goblin leaders to finish the Emerald Grove questline in favor of the tiefling refugees, and she will still be present at Moonrise Towers in Act 2 for the party to rescue and recruit (although players will [[MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers still have to choose between her and Halsin to stay with the party]]).

** Beamdog, [=InXile=], and Obsidian [[https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06/18/obsidian-and-inxile-both-tried-to-get-the-rights-to-baldurs-gate-3-a-e3-2019 all made attempts]] to acquire the ''Baldur's Gate III'' rights, though they lost out to Larian.

** Astarion's voice actor Creator/NeilNewbon was already a veteran D&D fan, so when the cast of ''Baldur's Gate III'' did a promotional one-shot with [[WebVideo/HighRollers2016 High Rollers]] playing their characters, he was the only one who didn't require explaining the mechanics to. He was also able to recognize and identify [[spoiler:Drizzt Do'Urden]] before DM Matt Hulmes even needed to say the character's name.

** Before it was decided the Dream Guardian be a rogue Mind Flayer, it was originally a person simply named, "Daisy". They would've been a representation of the tadpole and try to tempt the player into evolving their illithid powers, with the goal of becoming a mind flayer.

** Minthara's earlier characterization was more straightforwardly evil, with her not just admiring the Dark Urge's Slayer form, but outright chewing them out and breaking up with them for refusing to reclaim their mantle as Bhaal's chosen, emphasizing her PsychoSupporter nature and undercutting the PragmaticVillainy and disdain for gods she developed in the final release. This legacy dialogue was accidentally enabled in Hotfix 21 before being removed in the next hotfix.

** It was originally possible to fully redeem Ketheric via speech checks, following which he'd complete his HeelRealization and become an ally. This was changed to a HeelFaceDoorSlam in the final release as part of rescoping Act 2.

** The Upper City of Baldur's Gate and Avernus were meant to be full areas to explore with their own quests, enemies, and NPCs. The Upper City is instead reserved for the final battle and is very small, and Raphael's House of Hope is the only part of Avernus the player can access.

** Larian briefly teased the idea of some kind of expansion or DLC after the game was released, with some later patches adding hints of potential directions it could go. However, post release Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast began making controversial business decisions that soured the team's idea of continuing to work with them, leading them to announce they would not be doing so.

** Shadowheart is bisexual, and voiced by Creator/JenniferEnglish, who met her girlfiend Aliona Baranova during the game's production.

*** While the game was in early access, Wyll held an immense distaste toward goblins; the creatures not only tortured him, but also destroyed his hometown. This is what partly led to him making a pact with the cambion Mizora. In the full game proper, however, Wyll's backstory has been completely reworked and his hostile attitude towards goblins was toned down significantly (although not removed entirely).

* MultiDiscWork: In the [[Main/LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Deluxe Edition]] (excluding the Japanese release with one disc requiring patches to play the game), the Platform/PlayStation5 version of the game is distributed on two [=4K=] [=UHD=] discs (100 [=GB=] for the data disc, 66 [=GB=] for the play disc), while the [[Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS Xbox Series X]] version is distributed on four 50 [=GB=] discs, the first time Series [=X=] reached that amount of discs.[[labelnote:reason]]Originally it was supposed to be released with three discs. However since it requires 500 MB more to placed as a fourth disc, they did this to avoid players dealing with one-time patches.[[/labelnote]]

* MultiDiscWork: The Platform/PlayStation5 version of the game is distributed on two [=4K=] [=UHD=] discs (100 [=GB=] for the data disc, 66 [=GB=] for the play disc), while the Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS version is distributed on three 50 [=GB=] discs, the first time Xbox Series reached that amount of discs.

* TheDanza: Creator/JenniferEnglish plays Shadowheart [[spoiler: whose birth name is revealed to be "Jen". [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] somewhat as it's short for Jenevelle instead of Jennifer but close enough.]]

*** Originally the player Cleric could have the Dead Three: Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul as well as Shar as their patron diety with unique dialogue for each as well. These 4 were removed in the full release however due to potential conflicts with those deities' roles in the story..