"Less poo, more Shakespeare": Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke had to ask the RPG's writing team for more variety over Vicious Mockery's many silly insults

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale male elf with short curly white hair and red eyes, looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face.

During a new livestream about Baldur's Gate 3 today, junior writer Martin Docherty revealed that the RPG's Vicious Mockery insults were initially too… er, poopy.

Yes, you read that right. According to Docherty, Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke pointed out as much after a plethora of insults were compiled and given to him to look through. "All of these insults are being put into the sheet," explains the writer, "so I was like, 'Amazing, I'll collate these' – and then Swen had a look at them and was like, 'Ah! Hmm… Why are so many of them about poo?'" A valid point, apparently.