Baldur's Gate 3 players can't figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there's a mod that fixes it

An image of Astarion watching the player sleep, while wearing a grinch-like smile that hides his top lip.

One baffling result of Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch—which arrived with plenty of bugs and subsequently a bunch of hotfixes—is, well, Astarion turning into the Grinch. It's only happening under certain mysterious circumstances, but it is certainly happening. Act 3 and Astarion spoilers to follow.

This whole debacle kicked off after footage of Astarion's new Act 3 epilogue scene (shared by skarsghardy on Twitter) caused a swathe of memes to surface about Larian's new 'Astarion Jumpscare', wherein everyone's favourite vampire watches you while you sleep, looking as if he's been devising devious plans to steal Christmas.