Baldur's Gate 3 is an incredibly complex game. It's the kind of experience where interesting bugs are adopted by the community as features, as we've seen with the infamous Minthara recruitment exploit. Safe to say, you can do a lot with Baldur's Gate 3's engine - like transporting explosive barrels a large distance to dramatically explode the Netherbrain, for one.
Well, there may be no way around killing the bulbous final boss of Baldur's Gate 3, but you can skip another difficult late-game fight using an ingenious trick. Anyone who has thoroughly explored the third act of Baldur's Gate 3 will be aware of the dragon Ansur and his connection to the Emperor. Once you start down this plot thread, you'll eventually encounter the gargantuan rotting corpse of the dragon beneath the city.
As discovered by Wolfaxth on Reddit, you can actually avoid the fight with Ansur through a clever manipulation of the game's engine. Normally, approaching the corpse will cause dialogue to trigger and make a fight with the resurrected dragon unavoidable. However, if one were to initiate combat before approaching the skeletal remains of Ansur, the fight can be circumvented while still granting the party the...
