Reputation represents the general perception of the party as a force for either good or evil. It affects interaction and outcomes with the NPC's and creatures you meet, how your party members treat you, as well as the price of goods in shops. There are many ways to manipulate reputation in game.

Reputation is expressed as a number ranging from 1 to 20, however, the lowest reputation means you are infamous for being a villain, not that you are not known - that would be a value of 10: people cannot tell if you're good or evil through your (documented) actions. A reputation of 10 either means people have not heard of you or you've been operating very balanced - doing both evil and good deeds.

If the party's reputation is very bad, the authorities will assume that it has acted unlawfully, which means that guards and enforcers in large cities will attempt to arrest or execute the party on the spot, even though it is possible to reach such a terrible reputation with a Lawful Neutral behavior.

Effects of reputation

Companions' reaction

Companions react to the party's reputation according to their alignments, making comments to indicate their mood, and may even leave the party if pushed far enough. During the Baldur's Gate campaign, if you manually remove them when they're "Serious" or if they leave after "Break", it means their permanent disappearance; during the Siege of Dragonspear and Shadows of Amn campaigns, they'll temporarily depart to their usual waiting spots after "Break"^{[verification needed]} until they find the party reputation suitable again to join.

Companions from the Enhanced Edition will break up under usual conditions if you ask them to wait. In Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, evil companions do not permanently disappear upon breaking point due to reputation or if manually removed while being "Serious" (though a journal entry will be made, like "Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish"). They simply go back to their waiting point and can be recruited back once a suitable reputation is achieved. A safe way to lower reputation in order to keep an evil companion is killing an isolated neutral creature.

During the Throne of Bhaal game portion, the Reputation value won't affect recruiting or keeping a companion under any circumstances. For instance, good or evil companions may be summoned through the Fate Spirit and be recruited regardless of the current Reputation value, additionally, picking up Viconia DeVir for example won't decrease the party's reputation by 2-points either. Companions can safely be released in the Pocket Plane (area), and recruited again later as well, if desired.

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

Civilians' reaction

Higher reaction means better attitude, sometimes it's used in conversations to open more dialogues trees, yielding better quest outcomes, even unlocking new quests when the value is high. Charisma also adjusts reaction further.

In Shadows of Amn, instead of Flaming Fist soldiers, a group with very low reputation will be attacked by four Amnian Legionaries, an Amnian Centurion, and two Cowled Enforcers.

Unlike Flaming Fist soldiers, these authorities can be killed without further reputation loss. You can also use arcane magic in this encounter without being warned / attacked by the Cowled Wizards.

A beginning or middling experienced party may find this group a challenge. Beware dropping below reputation 4 at that stage of the adventure.

It is also possible the party will be sought out by the Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart - Enforcement Group of Knights when the party's reputation falls to 3 or less, and the Ward's experience level 1s 14 or more.

The group can instantly appear after a message display on the combat log reading "Guards approach. Obviously, word of your misdeeds have reached the authorities."

Note that this group is quite powerful. Should the party best the knights in combat, the last remaining member will vow that this isn't finished, and they'll hunt the party down again.

That Knight of the Order will then quickly disappear off the map. And true to their vow, they'll be looking for the party again on different areas of Athkatla's streets.

It might be prudent to donate sufficient coin at a temple and improve reputation - just to get these knights off the party's back.

Shop prices

Shopkeepers start selling their items at a lower price (markdown) when the party reaches reputation 15, and keep lowering prices at a constant pace until the maximum reputation of 20. Conversely, they sell at a higher price (markup) at reputation 9 and below.

Shopkeepers will alter the reputation multiplier based on the Charisma of the character whose portrait is in the uppermost position (party leader). This modifier will never increase prices - only lower them from 16 Charisma and up.

On top of this charisma & reputation markdown (or markup), each shopkeeper has its own store sell markup, usually 150% of the initial price displayed in an item's wiki article. In any case they never sell for less than 1 Gold Piece
Currency in the Baldur's Gate series.. The full formula is:

${\displaystyle \lfloor {\text{Initial price}}\times {\frac {\lfloor {\text{Store sell markup}}\times ({\text{Reputation mult}}+{\text{Charisma mod}})\rfloor }{100}}\rfloor }$

Example: A party with 8 reputation (Reputation mult 1.2) and 16 charisma (Charisma mod -0.05) will receive an extra 15% markup in all shops. Should a specific store sell at 150% of the Initial price (Store sell markup 150), the party will pay 1.72 times the Initial price, rounded down. (e.g. 8668Gold Piece
Currency in the Baldur's Gate series. for an item with a Initial price of 5040Gold Piece
Currency in the Baldur's Gate series.)

When it comes to buying items from the party, shopkeepers don't let charisma or reputation affect the price they offer. But they do have their own store buy markdown: They will usually buy at 50% of the initial price in Baldur's Gate I, and 30% in Baldur's Gate II.

Dream abilities

In Baldur's Gate I, reputation also determines which special abilities Gorion's Ward can gain though dreams, with the "good" abilities unlocking with reputation of 10 or above, and the "evil" abilities with reputation 9 and below. All the special abilities from dream will eventually be replaced by the one and only Slayer Form, and none of the Bhaalspawn abilities can be used in both of the Black Pits.

Minimum for paladins and rangers

If the main protagonist is a Ranger or Paladin (except Blackguard) and the party reputation drops below 8, they are permanently stripped of their status and become a Fallen Ranger or Fallen Paladin, respectively.

Doing so leads to a permanent loss of all class-related and special abilities. In Baldur's Gate I, there's no way to revert this state, although in Baldur's Gate II the protagonist may seek and attain redemption by completing their class-specific stronghold quests: Protector of the Umar Hills or Paladin Stronghold Duties, respectively.

Starting reputation

Whenever you start a game either by generating a new character or by importing an existing one, your starting reputation will be adjusted by the alignment of the first character you created.

Ways to change reputation

Actions and deeds

Reputation is lost whenever the party commits a crime, ranging from theft to trespassing. For the serious crimes, such as assaulting, murdering and killing innocents and authorities, reputation will drop even if they go unwitnessed. How high this loss is will depend on the party's current reputation. "Injuring innocents" in the table below excludes non-lethal attacks without witness. Trying to bribe members of the Flaming Fist incurs a -1 penalty.

Reputation can be gained by donating gold at temples, up to a score of 18.^[2] A donation can only increase reputation by 1 at a time, no matter how much is donated.

Current reputation	Stealing	Injuring innocents	Killing innocents	Killing authorities	Donation for an increase of 1
					Baldur's Gate (1998) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast campaign.	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn campaign. Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (2001) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal campaign.	Baldur's Gate I & II: Enhanced Editions This icon indicates content from all Enhanced Editions of the Baldur's Gate games. May situationally encompass Siege of Dragonspear and The Black Pits I & II content as well.
20	-1	-2	-10	-10	–	–	–
19	-1	-2	-10	-10	–	–	–
18	-1	-2	-9	-9	–	–	–
17	-1	-1	-8	-9	500	5000	5000
16	-1	-1	-7	-9	400	2500	2500
15	-1	-1	-6	-8	300	2000	2000
14	-1	-1	-5	-8	300	1500	1500
13	-1	-1	-5	-7	200	1200	1000
12	-1	-1	-5	-7	200	900	800
11	-1	-1	-4	-6	100	700	500
10	-1	-1	-4	-6	100	500	300
9	-1	-1	-3	-5	100	400	200
8	0	-1	-2	-5	100	300	100
7	0	-1	-2	-4	100	200	150
6	0	-1	-2	-3	200	400	300
5	0	-1	-2	-2	200	500	500
4	0	0	-1	-2	200	1000	600
3	0	0	-1	-1	300	1000	1000
2	0	0	-1	-1	400	1200	1200
1	0	0	0	0	500	1500	1500

Accepting Companions into Party

The following companions will decrease the reputation when joining and that loss will be returned once they leave:

• Viconia (±2) Baldur's Gate (1998)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. Baldur's Gate:
  Enhanced Edition (2012)
  This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Baldur's Gate:
  Siege of Dragonspear (2016)
  This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. Baldur's Gate II:
  Shadows of Amn (2000)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn campaign. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition – Shadows of Amn (2013)
  This icon indicates content from the Shadows of Amn campaign of the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. Baldur's Gate II:
  Throne of Bhaal (2001)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal campaign.
• Baeloth (±2) Baldur's Gate:
  Enhanced Edition (2012)
  This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Baldur's Gate:
  Siege of Dragonspear (2016)
  This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.
• Dorn (±2) Baldur's Gate:
  Enhanced Edition (2012)
  This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Baldur's Gate:
  Siege of Dragonspear (2016)
  This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.
• M'Khiin (±2) Baldur's Gate:
  Siege of Dragonspear (2016)
  This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

In Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, initially recruiting Dorn Il-Khan causes a one-time -1 reputation loss which is not regained when he is dismissed from the party. His questline also involves reputation losses of varying amounts.

Quests

See also: Quests that alter reputation

Baldur's Gate

Area refers to the starting location of the quest where applicable. The table is sorted first by reputation gains/losses, and then in rough chronological order that a player might encounter each one.

Quest reputation changes in Baldur's Gate

Collected?	No.	Rep Change	Area	Quest	Action	Notes
	1	+2	Wyrm's Crossing	The Seven Suns	Save Jhasso from doppelgangers for Scar
	2	+1	Friendly Arm Inn	Joia's Flamedance Ring (quest)	Return Joia's Flamedance Ring to Joia
	3	+1	Beregost	A Book for Firebead	Deliver History of the Fateful Coin to Firebead
	4	+1	Beregost	Half-ogres Near Beregost	Kill four Half-ogres for Bjornin the paladin
	5	+1	Beregost	Vai's Bounty Upon Bandits	Clear out the Bandit Camp for Officer Vai	Starts in Chapter Three
	6	+1	Red Canyons	Melicamp the Chicken (quest)	Cure Melicamp the Chicken	50% chance of success
	7	+1	Nashkel	Oublek the Bounty Officer	Be honest with Oublek
	8	+1	Nashkel	Prism the Sculptor	Protect Prism from Greywolf
	9	+1	Nashkel	Brage's Life Spared	Escort Brage to the Temple of Helm	Specific ending to The Tale of Captain Brage
	10	+1	Nashkel	Troubles in the Region	Bring Mulahey's symbol or letter to Berrun Ghastkill
	11	+1	Lonely Peaks	Xvart Raids	Save Hulrik's cow from the Xvarts	Timed
	12	+1	Gibberling Mountains	Samuel and Lena	Take Samuel to the Temple of Wisdom	Timed
	13	+1	Dryad Falls	Drienne's Cat	Return Pixie the cat's body to Drienne with reaction score 15+
	14	+1	Dryad Falls	Dryad of the Cloud Peaks (quest)	Help the dryad protect her tree from Caldo and Krumm
	15	+1	Lighthouse	A Child in the Lighthouse	Rescue Ardrouine's son
	16	+1	Fishing Village	Farmer Brun's Missing Son	Talk to Farmer Brun again after completing his quest and give him 100 Gold Piece Currency in the Baldur's Gate series.
	17	+1	South Baldur's Gate	Cordyr and the Sirines	Kill sirines for Cordyr with reputation < 8	Baldur's Gate (1998) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast campaign.
	18	+1	South Baldur's Gate	Ghorak the Diseased	Bring the Skull of Kereph to Agnasia for Ghorak
	19	+1	South Baldur's Gate	Noralee's Gauntlets	Bring Noralee her gauntlets
	20	+1	Southwest Baldur's Gate	A Ring for a Lady	Bring an Angel Skin Ring to Fergus
	21	+1	Central Baldur's Gate	Nadine and Euric	Deliver The Protector to Euric for Nadine
	22	+1	Northwest Baldur's Gate	Quinn's Friend	Return Nester's Dagger to Quinn
	23	+1	Northeast Baldur's Gate	Brielbara's Baby	Give Yago's spellbook to Brielbara
	24	+2 or -2	Cloakwood Mines	Flooding the Cloakwood Mine	Either give Rill 100 Gold Piece Currency in the Baldur's Gate series. to evacuate the slaves before flooding or fail to do so
	25	+1 or -1	North Nashkel Road	No associated quest	Graciously return an amulet to Mr. Colquetle, or demand payment/say you profited from his son's death	Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign.
	26	+1 or -1	Mutamin's Garden	Tamah Rescued	Cure Tamah's petrification and either ask for no reward or demand payment
	27	+1 or -2	Archaeological Site	No associated quest	Either help Charleston Nib or give the Idol to Gallor	Killing Nib incurs the normal murder penalty
	28	-1	North Baldur's Gate	Petrine's Cat	Tell Bheren that you killed Petrine's cat with reputation > 7
	29	-1	North Baldur's Gate	Petrine's Cat	Tell Petrine that you killed her cat
	30	-1	North Baldur's Gate	A Contract Killing	Blackmail Areana	Repeatable every 2 days up to 6 times
	31	-2	Beregost	The Silke Dilemma	Kill the merchants for Silke	Also results in loss of Garrick as a companion
	32	-2	Northwest Baldur's Gate	No associated quest	Threaten Sarah at the Helm and Cloak Inn
	33	-1 to -10	Southwest Baldur's Gate	No associated quest	Kill Phandalyn in self-defense at the Tavern and Inn	Normal murder penalty

Siege of Dragonspear

Gain reputation (+)

• (+1) In the quest Bar Fight refuse a reward from Nantrin Bellowglyn
• (+1) In the quest The Vanished refuse a reward from Herod
• (+1) Rescue the refugees attacked by wolves / displacer beasts in Dead Man's Pass
• (+1) Help the good druids at the outside of the entrance to the Underground River
• (+1) Convince Julann to not join the crusade
• (+1) Gain the help of the Dwarves of Dumathoin in the defese of the Coalition Camp

Gain or lose reputation (+/-)

• (±1) Praise or condemn the Flaming Fist Enforcer outside the Ducal Palace for his treatment of citizens
• (±1) In the quest Meeting of the Minds kill the conspirators and tell Schael Corwin you were only defending yourself or dispensed justice
• (±1) When leaving Baldur's Gate address the crowd as a savior or as a Bhaalspawn
• (±1) Return Kendra's Chain: either demand payment (-1), ask for payment but then decide to give the chain for free (0) or give the chain for free without asking for reward (+1).
• (±2) In Bridgefort, either sabotage the drawbridge (-2). or push the crusaders away from Bridgefort (+2).
• (±1) Safana's companion quest: Incorrectly accuse Helvdar and kill him (-1) or prove Malden Col is the traitor and accept the reward (0) or decline a reward (+1).
• (+2/-1/-2) In the Uncommon Cold, heal the wounded soldiers without demanding a reward (+2), Demand a reward (-1), or demand a bigger reward (-2).

Lose reputation (-)

• (-1) In the quest What? Get Out! provide Ithtyl Calantryn an unconvincing excuse for killing Bartleby
• (-2) In the quest Glint Gardnersonson (quest) by wounding Glint's uncle Pritchard

Shadows of Amn

Gain reputation (+)

• (+1) Speak to the Amnian Soldier who's guarding the Circus Tent after clearing it.
• (+1) Rescue the slave girl in the Slaver Stockade room with trolls.
• (+1) Solve the "skinner" murders in the Bridge District.
• (+1) Deliver the head of Neb to Chief Inspector Brega.
• (+1) Seek Out and Investigate the Fallen Paladins.
• (+1) Investigate and Destroy the Cult of the Eyeless.
• (+1) Speak to High Merchant Logan Coprith after dealing with the Trademeet genies.
• (+1) Take Logan's path in The Mantle of Waukeen.
• (+1) Speak to Tiris' parents after helping Tiris in Trademeet.
• (+1) Report the end of the Shade Lord, after investigating the deaths in the Umar Hills, to Imnesvale's mayor.
• (+1) Free the slaves from the Mind Flayers in Underdark.
• (+1) Set the slaves you buy free in Ust Natha fully armed and armored.

Gain or lose reputation (+/-)

• (±1) Free Hendak and the slaves or take Lehtinan's side and kill Hendak.

Lose reputation (-)

• (-1) Demand every bit of coin from the village Imnesvale and threaten to destroy it unless the mayor forks over the money.
• (-1) ×3 (repeatable); Use the slave killing entertainment device in the Ust Natha Tavern during Chapter 5.
• (-2) In Dorn's quest at the wedding in the High Hall of the Radiant Heart, enter the wedding hall despite failing to convince the bride's brother that you are the bride's friend. Another (-1 Rep) for killing the bride afterwards.
• (-2) Accept the ransom when you find the kidnappers who buried Tirdir (Buried Alive).
• (-2) Kill Saerk's daughter in Anomen's companion quest.
• (-2) Command the recently purchased slaves via the Slave Leader in the Ust Natha Bazaar to "Go to the temple of Lolth and tell them Veldrin is offering them sacrifices. They can feed you to the spiders or... whatever."
• (-4) When recruiting Jan Jansen, goad Trax to call the Amnian Guard.
• (-4) Threatening Daleson by choosing the dialogue option "Best you start running and hope for the best. Don't make me say it again" when talking to him inside De'Arnise Keep.

Throne of Bhaal

Gain reputation (+)

• (+1) In Saradush, revive a boy's father who died from a siege catapult missile. (See Tazit's Dead Father article)
• (+1) ×3; Releasing each prisoner in Castle Saradush Basement gains you 1 point. There are 3 prisoners in total so you can gain 3 points.^{[Notes 1]}
• (+1) Save merchant Karthis al-Hezzar from Yaga-Shura's soldiers and do not demand a reward when talking to him.
• (+1) In Amkethran, donate 1,000 gold to a priest of Waukeen after helping him in his fight against a heartless monk.
• (+1) Outside the tavern in Amkethran, rescue the mayor's daughter who stole money to feed the poor and is about to be executed for theft.
• (+1) Help restore Malla's soul in The Graveyard Lich quest.

Lose reputation (-)

• (-1) In Saradush, scare or refuse to resurrect a boy's father who died due to the siege. (See Tazit's Dead Father article)
• (-1) In Saradush, Refuge for the Elves encounter. (optional outcome)
• (-1) In Saradush, Lazarus's missing spellbook quest. (optional outcome if you don't warn Hectan before potentially using Lazarus's Teleport Scroll)

Console Override

In the enhanced editions, reputation can be manually incremented with C:Eval("ReputationInc(X)") and set to a value with C:Eval("ReputationSet(X)").

Notes

Gallery

The Ward refuses to answer Trax's questions - repeatedly - Trax calls some hostile enforcers - 4 Reputation penalty incurred for being disobedient.

Reputation penalty for paying 100 gold to watch a slave explode in the Ust Natha Tavern. A curious entertainment indeed.

Gorion's Ward has a "Despised" reputation - and as he encounters Hareishan the vampire in the Athkatla Docks, the situation is made worse when a Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart enforcement group arrives on scene to kill the bhaalspawn.

The formerly untarnished virtue of the Ward takes a hit when he allows Jan Jansen to pick the lock on a family's personal chest - but he's seen.

A party rogue is caught attempting to steal from a shopkeeper in Saradush - the wizard turns hostile, and an immediate 2-point reputation penalty occurs.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Hero BG1

Acquire Heroic reputation during Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition or Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear.

Villain BG1

Acquire Despised reputation during Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition or Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear.

Hero BG2

Acquire Heroic reputation during Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

Villain BG2

Acquire Despised reputation during Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

Mod content

This section is about unofficial content that is only available via fan-made mods.

Mods:

Sword Coast Stratagems mod gives an option to install a component that can do the following: Decrease the rate at which reputation improves

• In general, if you're playing a half-way honorable character, your reputation fairly rapidly reaches 20 and stays there. The idea of this component is to slow down the rate at which you gain reputation: you can choose the degree of slowdown.

• In more detail: any time you would have gained 2 or more reputation points, you gain one fewer point than you should have. Any time you would have gained one, it's decided at random whether you actually do gain it, according to the probability you choose at install time.

References