Update for today's playing, I was exploring one of the last zones I haven't gone to yet. Got attacked by a weird frog I was vibing with. Given the hag stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a person, that's a lot of magic for a frog. So I ran away into a building. I think it's the hags house. Will update soon.
No but seriously, I have to explain what I experienced or i will never have closure. To set the scene, this is my first play-through and I’ve watched NO content about BG3 because I didn’t want spoilers in case I decided to get it.
I entered the evil swamp and was very cautious the whole way through because I know better than to assume a hag wouldn’t crop-dust the region with magical arsenic. When I saw the frog I was like “no way this is actually a frog. Probably is the monster that killed those three campers but just in disguise.”
Dialogue scene started when it spotted us, and I did a successful animal handling check. I thought “oh maybe this poor frog is just suffering from magical arsenic poisoning and I can get a little friend for Scratch.” Then the frog spat a baseball sized wad of poison on us and combat started. I saw the 5% chance to hit and was like WTF so I thought “ok, I’ll use AOE attacks and force it to make saves instead.” And I threw a bottle of alchemists fire at it.
THE BOTTLE BOUNCED BACK AND LIT US ALL ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY.
Ok, not a great start. I begin moving people out of it and I halved its health with Astarion’s bite because it has a guaranteed hit. I wasn’t sure why the bottle bounced back because that was the first time a throw failed for me, so I assumed that if you miss a throw then the enemy redirects it.
A couple missed melee strikes happen, and two sacred flames did nothing. Finally it’s Gale’s turn and I think “yeah ok, so magic missile always hits and I want this to be done. Plus I’m not throwing anything, so it won’t bounce back.”
ALL 3 MAGIC MISSILES BOUNCED BACK AND HIT GALE.
At this point my husband heard me say “THATS NOT HOW THAT WORKS” from across the house. I’m over here thinking this thing is a tarrasque in disguise the way it’s immune to magic missile.
Eventually I got a lucky stab from a 25% chance to hit (with advantage) and idk if I had nonlethal damage on or something, but the frog was just knocked out not dead. It was still ribbiting and it had stars swirling.
In a fit of rage and pettiness, I picked up the unconscious frog and threw it against a tree to try and finish it off.
