One Baldur's Gate 3 player retaliated against Act 3's annoying wizard street performers with a frame

What's the most you've ever overreacted to an annoyance in a game? I'll quicksave before murdering an NPC who sent me on a fetch quest to the dungeon I just came from, sure, but Baldur's Gate 3 player jakethebrick_ took things to a whole new level: Killing off the Lower City's somewhat obnoxious street performers with a doom stack of over 100 oil, firewine, smokepowder, and runepowder barrels, producing the [[link]] biggest explosion I've ever seen in the game.

If you've been sleeping on abusing BG3's many explosive barrels⁠—the forbidden art of "barrelmancy"—it's time to up your game. They're heavy, but you can easily right click and send them to your camp stash, building up a war chest of the things to deploy ahead of difficult fights. It's how I always take out early boss Dror Ragzlin these days, but I'm also saving some smokepowder barrels for Raphael's fight in my current Honour run: They should help with taking care of his pesky soul pillars.

As for the performers, you probably remember them from just outside Sorcerous Sundries. They're a bit of local color that helps the world feel a little more vibrant, but their act⁠—casting a couple cantrips in sequence once every minute or two⁠—can get old on your fortieth trek from one end of the Lower City to another. Divinity: Original Sin 2 had that "Keeping it together, Bree?" lady in Driftwood, Original Sin 1 had Mr. "No one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!" And BG3 has these guys. I wouldn't trade them for the world, but sometimes you just have to vent.

So, revenge. "I've been hoarding every single barrel and explosive I could find since Act 1. All for this moment," jakethebrick_ declared on Reddit and X, "The Everything App." I counted at least 100 in their explosive edifice, and jakethebrick_ also confirmed that there were a few jars of the extra-potent, plot-critical runepowder in the mix. After setting it all up amongst [[link]] the placid NPCs, it was just a matter of taking cover under a Globe of Invulnerability and setting the thing off with an Alchemist's Fire.

And boy does it turn the game into a slideshow⁠—the goddamn opening of Akira but at about 3 fps, with [[link]] a sea of damage numbers inside the Big Boom. "I'm honestly surprised the game didn't crash bc I was expecting it to," jakethebrick_ admitted in the comments on Twitter. "Very satisfying tho. 100% worth it."

Elsewhere in the thread, they declared: "The culmination of 100+ hours of gameplay. I hate those fucking fraud ass wizards."