# What's the best way to play through Baldur's Gate 3 for the story? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games, rpg-dnd-wargames\ **Created:** [April 22, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-play-through-baldurs-gate-3-for-the-story/1017350 "2025-04-22T05:23:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-play-through-baldurs-gate-3-for-the-story/1017350/21 "2025-05-01T15:40:08Z")
Maybe stated earlier, but bears repeating: don’t be afraid of taking long rests, even if you don’t really need them. You’ll miss out on a lot of the story by minimizing them. The writing makes things feel so urgent that you shouldn’t long rest, but mechanically you have to take long rests in order to get all the story. There’s like maybe two events in the game that change if you take a long rest at the wrong time. For everything else, it doesn’t matter except that _not_ taking a long rest skips some of the story. I use a mod that indicates when there’s long rest content available. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-play-through-baldurs-gate-3-for-the-story/1017350/22 "2025-05-14T13:55:40Z")
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