Larian is done with Baldur’s Gate 3, but Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t done with Larian. The studio just put out the game’s 23rd hotfix, fixing a bunch of crashes and bugs and, notably, declaring “No more free lunches!” which is—in the case of this specific patch—metaphorically true, but entirely inaccurate in a literal sense.
That’s because, amidst all the ho-hum patch notes you’d generally expect, Larian has implemented two key fixes in hotfix #23. The first is that you can no longer hornswoggle the game’s merchants with a Matryoshka doll-style trick, and the second is that the game will no longer collapse under its own weight if you throw a Black Pudding Platter at someone.
Prior to this hotfix, BG3 players had been getting one over on the game’s merchants by…