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Declan Duffy

Incredible Achievement: Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Complete the Entire Story as a Wheel of Cheese

A YouTuber Plays Baldur’s Gate 3 as a Wheel of Cheese

A very talented Baldur’s Gate 3 YouTuber, Brouch, has today decided that BG3 isn’t easy (or apparently cheesy) enough, and so has designed the RPG’s latest challenge: Polymorphing into a cheese wheel to beat the three-act adventure.

For veteran players who have beaten BG3 multiple times since its release midway through last year, playthrough-altering mods have become essential to new adventures, unlocking more creative avenues and creating difficult challenges—such as polymorphing into a literal wheel of cheese and having to travel across Faerûn.

cheese wheel in shar's gauntlet bg3
To gain admission to Nightsong’s prison, you must first become human. Screenshot via Brouch on YouTube.

So, how did Brouch complete this cheesy challenge? Nacho’s everyday build. The YouTuber released a video on his gouda build on June 4, revealing he became a Monk dedicated to unarmed cheesy combat. It turns out that when you polymorph into cheese in BG3, you still have access to your class’ passive abilities. Given that Monks have a whole subclass dedicated to unarmed attacks, his adventures as a semi-solid curd were plausible.

The Challenges of Being a Cheese Wheel

  • Your rolling attack deals one damage until you level up.
  • You only have one health throughout the game.
  • You cannot equip any items or gear.
  • You leave behind a cheesy odor that deters critters from taking action.
  • Transforming into a cheese wheel changes your characteristics. Your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution stats are reduced to 10, and you lose all your abilities. This implies no weapons, abilities, or reactions.
  • Not only do your characters turn into wheels of cheese, but so do your Baldur’s Gate allies.
  • NPCs will not communicate or trade with you.
  • Withers would also refuse to speak with you (he must dislike cheese), thus no summoning or respecting departed comrades.

Brouch certainly encountered a lot of issues early on, including not being able to free Shadowheart at all—a particularly brutal blow—as well as being shunned by merchants, having to scavenge spell scrolls to actually deal damage, and having a difficult time releasing his cheesy toxic gas to prevent enemy actions.

Playing as a wheel of cheese is not for the faint of heart (or nose), but this is one of the most unique playthroughs I have seen, and nothing beats it.