narratively justified as having his magic fucked up when Mystra dumps him and then getting swole in response

highly recommend bg3 reddit in general, they have stuff ranging from "huh, TIL" to... wild magic barbarian Gale.

or the playthrough someone apparently did where they only had three combats the entire game.

From the BaldursGate3 community on Reddit

somebody on there suggested Gale is ripped because he spent his Orb Year eating boots and doing P90X in his tower and Astarion is ripped because he was some rise-and-grind 'twenty miles on ye old treadmill before dawn' motherfucker when he was alive and I've adopted both as my headcanon

omfg

the comments also include "Durge: Anyway, here's Wonderbhaal" and as someone currently playing a bard Durge, lol

i'm intrigued by the three combat playthrough, that sounds like real planescape torment hours where you can play it with a combat focus but why would you

lemme see if I can find that post again

I'm having trouble tracking it down but I did discover this video in the processCan You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 Without Killing Anythin...