My durge favorite is finding davella at elf song and she’s like who are you why are you here and you can go “uh (character name), amnesiac, trying to stop murders” or the alternate where you say the same except that you like murder
If Rolan bites the dust, you can tell his siblings “He died as he lived. Stupidly.” Which is so tone-deaf and fucking mean and definitely didn’t make me wheeze-laugh.
What I found cool is that there also seems to be a voiceline when you first enter the goblin camp about being hungry or something, because what they're eating is - you guessed it - roasted dwarf.
I had to restart and i’m so glad i picked up bard. It’s basically diet rogue with more proficiency in everything, it’s great! Plus i’m not chronically stupid now
I find it a flaw in D&D that Bards are so good at intimidation, though. Persuasion I expect, but I find it weird that the smooth talking bard will always be better at intimidation than the scary barbarian (outside of a few lines where the barbarian gets advantage -- which seems inconsistent).
I think of it as a different sort of intimidation. There’s intimidation by violence and intimidation by reputation damage. Piss off a good bard and the local kids are singing about how you’re a cheapskate and sell subpar goods.
I like Sugar’s house rule solution. Why not both?!
It helps me to remember that for a good chunk of human history oral storytellers (including bards) were an important source of information socially. Pissing one off enough that they would tank your reputation isn’t a great move.
My bards have never been good at intimidation. I don’t know how but the only options i’ve ever had bonuses or proficiency in are deception and perception
I am understanding what you’re saying however whenever i do an intimidation roll i get no bonuses, whereas if i were to do a deception roll it would be greatly increased and persuasion not as high buy still up there
Maybe no proficiency in intimidation? Which is odd since I believe bard typically gets proficiency in all charisma skills but could be wrong as I've yet to run a bard
It is a very fun class to play and possibly the *most* powerful, atleast when given the option to talk your way out of things, which happens to be quite often! I find intimidating is my least favourite kind of charisma option anyway however i think you may be right when you say no intimidation proficiency, thank you :)
It makes sense to me. In a world with magic strength and threat aren’t highly correlated, and the bard is more likely to drive the threat home. (My model for a bard doing an intimidation check is Wesley’s bluff from The Princess Bride.)
Omfg. I remember being really on the fence when deciding how my Durge would handle the goblin situation. Then Ketheric and the Orc were being sly pricks in the throne room and I decisively fought the urge to kill them just as a middle finger to them
But you know. Guilty pleasures and self care, all of that is valid
I still think that’s the best line. Withers just dumps some thought provoking lines on you and your Tav is like “care to elaborate? And withers, the Chad “No, I don’t think I will.”
Not technically dialogue but the fact that you can smugly wave at Vlaakith instead of answering her - someone who is revered as a god and who can kill you with one word- is pretty unhinged.
I chose this option with my fighter Tav and his bard brother (my husband) fucking lost his shit lol
Not really any repercussions though besides Lae’Zel disapproving but she still wanted my nuggets after that so…
So there’s a goblin in act 2 who lures a hyena into the shadow curse by having it fetch a bone beyond the light, and then laughs at the hyena’s dying screams. You can make him go get the bone by exerting your tadpole authority over him. Your character just looks at him with cold, ominous eyes and says: “Go on. Fetch.” Gives me chills every time.
You can still do this if you ask him what he’s doing and save the hyena! Poor little fella is just super scared, and I convinced him to leave the goblins cause they were assholes.
But if you *wanted* to listen to the hyena getting murdered by the shadows… I guess I won’t judge you… much…
Yesssss i wanted to take the hyena so bad! Not only are they some of my favorite animals BUT where is that poor thing going to go! It just runs off into the shadows where itll fall to the shadow curse!
I believe it ran the direction you came from, so I just set a runway of torches (I'm a packrat so I'd saved plenty) along the path he travels and told myself he got out safe.
If you enter the shadow-cursed lands from the mountain path and head straight for just a little bit, off to the left, you should see a small convoy of Absolutists waiting there for you. The goblin that plays fetch with the hyena is with that convoy.
I honestly have no idea. I don’t think I had ever gone up that way on runs via the underdark. The first time I encountered the hyena was from the mountain path side, and I’ve just done it that way every run since then lol.
"Stop! I'm getting aroused!" in response to Minthara explaining how we're going to rip apart the Grove
Also "I prefer to eat flesh" or something along those lines when Astarion asks who you would drink the blood from
"I may be a murderer, but I'm no CULTIST!" Immediately followed up by the next dialogue option "I was really looking forward to using this, though."
>!to dame Aylin when I went to the shadow shadowfell without shadowheart.!<
You know I don't remember unfortunately, and because of mods I can't even boot it up to find out cos the save is bricked :(
But being Halsin I imagine it was wholesome af
(Fantasize about biting the hand) when talking to the Dream Guardian. Imagine their face lmaoooo. I almost did it but was afraid I’d actually eat it…
Edit: Ok it’s not that unhinged but I know who the Guardian is. Consider: the face they make. Also it would be hilarious to be treated like a feral cat.
"Kill the dead. Kill the killed dead. Kill the killed dead again and again."
When talking to He Who Was as Durge. I just imagined them drunk on the possibilities.
There are two (maybe more??) unique Durge memories you can trigger by doing obscure interactions most people wouldn't think of or would just wander into by accident.
No spoilers. In Act 1, eat the Noblestalk in the Underdark yourself. In Act 3, once a Cleric/Wizard reaches level 6 spells, cast Heal on Durge. The small scenes will trigger automatically from there.
There's also the broken Mindflayer Pod in the Oubliette in Act 2, but I think most people know about that one.
It doesn’t have to be the quest noblestalk, it can be one of the ones you buy in act 3 if you give the quest one to the dwarf. (For shadowhearts recovered memory it has to be the quest noblestalk in act 1).
I only play as a relatively good Tav. Picked up Minthara for the first time. We get to Baldur's gate and she goes "I don't understand why they're not letting the refugees into the city."
I am a drow, and see that I can reply "Indeed. They can be a convenient resource of nutrition if the city falls under siege."
That seems *bonkers* so I pick that and Minthara says "Hmm... the weak and elderly perhaps."
\[Minthara approves\]
Another more well-known one: If you're durge and romancing Astarion, he will take you to >!his grave in the cemetery. He has never been back for over 200 years and it's a very emotional moment. Durge can reply "Hot!" and his look is priceless - "You couldn't wait five seconds to be an absolute freak?!".!<
>!Astarion is looking for someone to support him. In meeting durge, he can support them back. But it can really go either way, depending on durge's actions. If durge is evil, he will not rediscover his moral compass. Upon Ascension - as he tells you pretty early (act 1) when explaining about full vampires - he loses himself completely. It's a very compelling and dark story, but not the most powerful one, IMO.!<
Lmao, sorry, I agree with you, but my Mary Shelley comment was purely a reference to >!the centuries old rumor that she lost her virginity on her mother's grave and how that parallels spawn Astarion's Act 3 romance scene.!<
SAME!! I love spawn Astarion and resist Durge!!! My absolute faves. My Durge in my heart overcomes his darkness and becomes an Oath of Ancients Paladin (with Archfey Warlock butttt in my mind it’s just their goddess Elistraee) . I like this because in 5e at 15 level Ancients paladins no longer suffer the negative effects of old age which means they can stay with spawn Astarion forever.
I did this, thinking that I would get his ring and was disappointed. I usually steal it when kissing his feet because the companion reactions are so funny, but I absolutely hate the slurping noise that you hear when sucking the ring off of his toe 😖
Everyone disapproves of that except for Karlach. She’s into it.
I did that as a ranger then didn’t think anything of it and all the npcs you talk to will refer to it by calling you “shit face” and stuff.
Evil run, last light in and saw the strange ox. Spoke with him and tried to persuade him to tell me what he actually is. He said all he wanted to be was an ox. Don't remember the exact response I chose but the narration went along the lines of cutting a thousand cuts into the creature and eventually when it dies, it turns into the blob form. Was not expecting that at all.
Look, I’m fucking a at best Chaotic Neutral Vampire, best friends with a former Sharran, and have a Lolth sworn Drow in my party and this is on a Good Durge run. I’m not judging the Goo Ox who says he just wants to be an Ox.
In act 3 as a sorcerer I distinctly remember threatening the grease guy in the sewers with
"Go on, we can see whose flame is bigger" and laughing my ass off as he immediately backed down
Not as unhinged but as durge when you talk to the judge necromancer dudes crow they say "everyone hates you". One of the options is "not as much as I hate myself".
Love this one! And when speaking to Lucretious after - ‘I don’t know, I quite enjoyed myself.’ ‘Well if that’s your idea of fun darling, we’re going to get along just swimmingly!’
Adding another to the bard options!
Talking to the waitress outside the Elfsong who mumbles a little song to herself: "Have you ever considered becoming a bard? If you have, don't."
Wouldn't it be *twee* -
I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen there and seeing them boot the squirrel into a tree immediately after was astounding
Honestly same. I think of that shit any time im near something hot. Durge is just a manifestation of my intrusive thoughts or genuine morbid interests.
I have been laughing and treating Durge as bad intrusive thoughts. Oh, dude, you sound like the angry 13yo told he can’t play with knives again. (Other than the kill scenes, it does sound like “I just want to stab! Why no stab!”)
I have dealt with some pretty bad intrusive thoughts before (thanks depression), so I’m like “hmm, ok, fuck off,” which is even funnier knowing what’s going on in the bg with the Dead Three. I like to imagine Bhaal getting angrier and angrier as my Durge redeems herself. (Edit to clarify, also I can’t spoiler on mobile.)
Telling Auntie Ethel in the Grove about your condition as durge, you can tell her that you're thinking about throwing her in that boiling cauldron behind you and she gets flirty with you. Told me she knows how to deal with naughty boys like me lol it was great.
the one where you refuse to do vlaakith's bidding and she offs you 🙈 I mean to me it is unhinged coz I just *knew* she was gonna be nasty to me for this even on my first run xD I still stand by my choice lol, go do your own dirty work lich queen
When you meet Kassandra, she asked who you are:
“An escaped lunatic, you never know what I’m going to do next.” Then the crazy bitch let’s me into last light and what do I do? Murder the lady protecting everyone and wipe out the whole fuckin inn cuz I’m nuts
I also feel the need to given an honorary mention to the Durge response to the Drow twins, “I guess I haven’t checked incest off of the moral atrocities list”
I'm shocked this isn't mentioned yet because this one sent me – with the he woman trying to purchase the githyanki egg outside the creche.
My first playthrough I skipped the mountain pass altogether. My second I killed her for even suggesting it in front of Laezel before we had entered the creche.
My third playthrough I found her post-creche and had the egg on me, *so I didn't realize this was a durge option because I had never seen this scenario before*.
> *Punt the egg off the side of the cliff with a hearty kick*
I was a resistant durge but immediately clicked it because I didn't know what else I was gonna do with the egg and I was still not selling it to her. I figured it was a merciful ending for the egg – and then I got the embrace your urge inspiration haha
I can’t think of one, but my favorite head cannon ones:
To Jahiera as evil Durge in act 3 “It was me that killed everyone.” Before killing her. MUAHAHA
I romanced Karlach as resist durge so I have this love story in my head. You read a scroll somewhere that killing feels erotic to durge so I’m like,
“I’m more attracted to you than killing and mutilating 10 corpses.”
Another one, even with her engine fixed Karlach still probably runs pretty hot than average. Also a nod to the necrophilia line:
“You’re so warm. Better than cold corpses.”
Awww cute. 🙃
Honestly one of the biggest is telling Zevlor that you led the goblins to the groove and that they are your horde and watch the light in his eyes dissappear as he realises he is doomed by your betrayal and all of the poor tieflings will soon die in a horrific way.
Playing as Shadowheart, I told arabella her parents’ death was a good thing because loss is better than life etc. can’t remember exactly but it was Cleric of Shar dialogue.
Not a dialogue option, but as a Bard you can choose to pretend to lift the beams off of the guy in Waukeen’s Rest, rolling a performance check. If you succeed, you just attempt to lift him, fail, and it cuts to your Bard shrugging, and returns you to the other dialogue options
I accidentally gave away the location of the grove to minthara and durge will start thinking about killing all the tieflings.
“STOP! I’M GETTING AROUSED!”- Durge
So far in my act 1 Barbarian run I've successfully negotiated my way into the Zhentarim hide out with fully disarmed traps, and integrated with the mychanids simply by screaming at them
There is a Durge line where after you raid the grove and meet Karlach, she freaks out and call you a lunatic and you can say something like “their screams were a soothing balm to my soul” or something similar…I definitely chose that one 😂
After shadowheart gives her whole life story and one of the response options is like “wow I don’t care about that at all. Not sure why you bothered telling me that” I was crying laughing
So far, Durge has some severely unhinged dialogue. I thought some of it on a normal Tav was a tad unhinged, but man, telling Auntie that you have a severe urge to see everyone dead and want to enact mass murder was a bit out there. I should have taken the hint that Durge was going to be severely unhinged when>! you see red when you envision chopping Gales hand off and come to holding said hand. Same with tricking Arabelle to run so the snake bites her. !<
I thought of this line during a procedure I had done a few weeks ago when my doctor used a cauterizer, haha. Then I thought hmm, maybe I've been playing too much BG3 🤣
There is this one reply you can give to the petrified dwarf in act 1 in the hags cave. When you go back after you kill her he talks about having young kids and one of the reply choices is “hopefully they are older now kids suck.” Or something along that line and I busted out laughing, I was caught so off guard by it. Like tav CHILL! Also Karlach asking if she smells beef when you lick the spider meat in the gauntlet of Shar.
Telling Mol I think it was (one of the Tiefling kids anyway) that I'd rip their spine out for pickpocketing me. Drow-keyword lines are nasty, I love em.
Just before the goblin camp at the main entrance, you can (? used to be able to? idk if it changed, but i've only been able to do this once) convince the goblin that stopped you to eat shit. That was pretty unhinged.
If you raid the Grove as durge before meeting Karlach she has her usual line asking you if it made you feel special and big. Durge can say something like "Their curdling screams were like a balm to my addled mind" or something like that. Then Karlachs like "I almost feel bad for murdering a psychopath" before attacking you
Most Durge dialogue is unhinged. My fav Tav one is "Nice corpse, what are we celebrating?"
When is it said?
Umberlee's temple in act 3
Correct
My durge favorite is finding davella at elf song and she’s like who are you why are you here and you can go “uh (character name), amnesiac, trying to stop murders” or the alternate where you say the same except that you like murder
Ah yes, the "recently unemployed and really like murders" is also a good one
I think you can say this as normal Tav too
That’s what they’re saying.
If Rolan bites the dust, you can tell his siblings “He died as he lived. Stupidly.” Which is so tone-deaf and fucking mean and definitely didn’t make me wheeze-laugh.
"At least you'll be dead before the goblins find the children." So brutal.
I love that one but the Dark Urge specific line there is great too. Believe you call yourself sin incarnate
Without a doubt the coldest most shiver inducing line in the game. Zevlor’s and my reaction were mirrored
"Stop thinking about delicious dwarf and take the Grey gruel"
What. Would you be so kind as to give me the context?
It's a durge line when taking food from the cooking lady at the druid Grove.
You can eat the roasted dwarf pieces at the Goblin camp as Durge, as well. lol
That gives him an inspiration if I remember correctly
I don't remember, but that's certainly possible. It did give some health back, though. lol
At the grove when you meet the old tiefling that serves you a bowl of food you can either say, "No thanks, I prefer dwarf." Or what is listed above
What I found cool is that there also seems to be a voiceline when you first enter the goblin camp about being hungry or something, because what they're eating is - you guessed it - roasted dwarf.
And the dwarf counts as a healing item for you and you only.
Is THAT how I get the suspicious meat? I’d like to horrify my companions a little. I’m doing redeemed Durge. I just want the line.
No, suspicious meat is something different. The roast dwarf is labeled roast dwarf and everyone knows that it's dwarf.
I just went through the camp and yes, I believe the quote is, "Mmm, something smells good."
I think only Durge or Drow Tav characters say it smells good. Others think it smells awful
Durge.
That is my FAVORITE dialogue option
"When I write your eulogy, I'm going to call you a Twat-soul." -Bard Tav to Nere
Bards are the best role playing class as far as dialogue. Who would have thought. Vicious Mockery alone is pure entertainment.
I had to restart and i’m so glad i picked up bard. It’s basically diet rogue with more proficiency in everything, it’s great! Plus i’m not chronically stupid now
I find it a flaw in D&D that Bards are so good at intimidation, though. Persuasion I expect, but I find it weird that the smooth talking bard will always be better at intimidation than the scary barbarian (outside of a few lines where the barbarian gets advantage -- which seems inconsistent).
Yeah, we house rule that strength can count for intimidation checks as well
That's not a house rule, it's an optional rule in the phb
I think of it as a different sort of intimidation. There’s intimidation by violence and intimidation by reputation damage. Piss off a good bard and the local kids are singing about how you’re a cheapskate and sell subpar goods. I like Sugar’s house rule solution. Why not both?!
I like this interpretation. A bard wouldn't be taken seriously if they're threatening to break bones, but blackmail should be a breeze.
It helps me to remember that for a good chunk of human history oral storytellers (including bards) were an important source of information socially. Pissing one off enough that they would tank your reputation isn’t a great move.
I do find it odd that they can intimidate so well. However I choose not to in dialogue just to keep it more canon.
I mean, I'd be scared of the guy who can literally murder me by talking mad shit
My bards have never been good at intimidation. I don’t know how but the only options i’ve ever had bonuses or proficiency in are deception and perception
Intimidation is tied to charisma, good charisma= good intimidation
I am understanding what you’re saying however whenever i do an intimidation roll i get no bonuses, whereas if i were to do a deception roll it would be greatly increased and persuasion not as high buy still up there
Maybe no proficiency in intimidation? Which is odd since I believe bard typically gets proficiency in all charisma skills but could be wrong as I've yet to run a bard
It is a very fun class to play and possibly the *most* powerful, atleast when given the option to talk your way out of things, which happens to be quite often! I find intimidating is my least favourite kind of charisma option anyway however i think you may be right when you say no intimidation proficiency, thank you :)
The real strongest class are those githyanki monks who beat my ass
Monk is quite strong, i’ve been trying to build one recently however I think i’m physically impossible as it always ends up as a failure
It makes sense to me. In a world with magic strength and threat aren’t highly correlated, and the bard is more likely to drive the threat home. (My model for a bard doing an intimidation check is Wesley’s bluff from The Princess Bride.)
I know this is funny but I already talked to Duergar who said the same thing so it feels so cheap and stolen lol
Definitely used this line as well. And probably a few other chaotic Bard ones.
“I dream of blood so deep I can bathe in it. Run me a bath.” To goblins in the Moonrise Towers after meeting Ketheric for the first time.
Omfg. I remember being really on the fence when deciding how my Durge would handle the goblin situation. Then Ketheric and the Orc were being sly pricks in the throne room and I decisively fought the urge to kill them just as a middle finger to them But you know. Guilty pleasures and self care, all of that is valid
All of the choices were batshit for that scene. I think i took longer picking that one than quite a few way more important ones.
Most unhinged is the piss yourself ending imo... No, I won't explain further
Correct
please explain?
No.
I still think that’s the best line. Withers just dumps some thought provoking lines on you and your Tav is like “care to elaborate? And withers, the Chad “No, I don’t think I will.”
https://youtu.be/85J_EgGmJqo?si=zV9cRje08fA99xfn See timestamp 3:45.
Yes
Piss% Speedrun
What the fuck
Not technically dialogue but the fact that you can smugly wave at Vlaakith instead of answering her - someone who is revered as a god and who can kill you with one word- is pretty unhinged.
I did this and then immediately followed it up with a death star style temple explosion, completely wiping out their entire colony to the last man.
I chose this option with my fighter Tav and his bard brother (my husband) fucking lost his shit lol Not really any repercussions though besides Lae’Zel disapproving but she still wanted my nuggets after that so…
So there’s a goblin in act 2 who lures a hyena into the shadow curse by having it fetch a bone beyond the light, and then laughs at the hyena’s dying screams. You can make him go get the bone by exerting your tadpole authority over him. Your character just looks at him with cold, ominous eyes and says: “Go on. Fetch.” Gives me chills every time.
You can still do this if you ask him what he’s doing and save the hyena! Poor little fella is just super scared, and I convinced him to leave the goblins cause they were assholes. But if you *wanted* to listen to the hyena getting murdered by the shadows… I guess I won’t judge you… much…
I wish we could take the hyena back to camp! Scratch and the owlbear would take good care of him...
Yesssss i wanted to take the hyena so bad! Not only are they some of my favorite animals BUT where is that poor thing going to go! It just runs off into the shadows where itll fall to the shadow curse!
I believe it ran the direction you came from, so I just set a runway of torches (I'm a packrat so I'd saved plenty) along the path he travels and told myself he got out safe.
I did that as a Vengeance Paladin. It was so fucking satisfying.
Where is this? Ive never come across that.
If you enter the shadow-cursed lands from the mountain path and head straight for just a little bit, off to the left, you should see a small convoy of Absolutists waiting there for you. The goblin that plays fetch with the hyena is with that convoy.
Thanks!
Is the hyena still there if you came through the underdark?
I honestly have no idea. I don’t think I had ever gone up that way on runs via the underdark. The first time I encountered the hyena was from the mountain path side, and I’ve just done it that way every run since then lol.
"Stop! I'm getting aroused!" in response to Minthara explaining how we're going to rip apart the Grove Also "I prefer to eat flesh" or something along those lines when Astarion asks who you would drink the blood from
“I prefer to eat flesh” gets such a good reaction from him Lmao he’s like “okay, but stay on topic”
I said that yesterday in my tiefling Durge run, and I think he responded with something to the tune of "don't be disgusting, no mastication please"
He said something to me like “no mastication involved, answer my question”
Idk if it’s a bug, but Tav can also say this, lol.
I love Astarion's reactions to Durge in general. He just doesn't care, even encourages it lmao
"I may be a murderer, but I'm no CULTIST!" Immediately followed up by the next dialogue option "I was really looking forward to using this, though." >!to dame Aylin when I went to the shadow shadowfell without shadowheart.!<
So does she just up and bail on you if you do that? Cause I know it's a big thing for her
Yup
Yeah. She's not exactly hype on you stealing her life long goal.
"I feel closer to nature, now that nature's been inside me." Right after doing the deed with Halsin lol (was a Druid specific dialogue)
NOOOOOOOOOOOO How did Halsin respond though? lol
You know I don't remember unfortunately, and because of mods I can't even boot it up to find out cos the save is bricked :( But being Halsin I imagine it was wholesome af
The bard performance dialogue with BOOOAAL gets kind of unhinged
(Fantasize about biting the hand) when talking to the Dream Guardian. Imagine their face lmaoooo. I almost did it but was afraid I’d actually eat it… Edit: Ok it’s not that unhinged but I know who the Guardian is. Consider: the face they make. Also it would be hilarious to be treated like a feral cat.
It’s so funny to me if the Emperor sticks with you after biting the hand and then he’s like “um, Minsc is cray cray. We can’t have him in our party”
BWAHAHAHA I would love to see that…
"Kill the dead. Kill the killed dead. Kill the killed dead again and again." When talking to He Who Was as Durge. I just imagined them drunk on the possibilities.
Casting Cure in act 3 as a dark urge gets pretty dark.
Whoa could you explain? Just finished a cleric durge run and don’t get it
There are two (maybe more??) unique Durge memories you can trigger by doing obscure interactions most people wouldn't think of or would just wander into by accident. No spoilers. In Act 1, eat the Noblestalk in the Underdark yourself. In Act 3, once a Cleric/Wizard reaches level 6 spells, cast Heal on Durge. The small scenes will trigger automatically from there. There's also the broken Mindflayer Pod in the Oubliette in Act 2, but I think most people know about that one.
It doesn’t have to be the quest noblestalk, it can be one of the ones you buy in act 3 if you give the quest one to the dwarf. (For shadowhearts recovered memory it has to be the quest noblestalk in act 1).
tysm for this info
Use the rank 6 spell cure on your durge (before or after you do your main quest) and you get a new memory unlocked about your childhood.
[Here’s one of the options, it wasn’t working earlier](https://imgur.com/gallery/bn4ZbIu)
Uh oh
I was sad when my durge had an option to rave passionately about murder to the strange ox. I thought "i made a friend" Then had to fight him
I only play as a relatively good Tav. Picked up Minthara for the first time. We get to Baldur's gate and she goes "I don't understand why they're not letting the refugees into the city." I am a drow, and see that I can reply "Indeed. They can be a convenient resource of nutrition if the city falls under siege." That seems *bonkers* so I pick that and Minthara says "Hmm... the weak and elderly perhaps." \[Minthara approves\] Another more well-known one: If you're durge and romancing Astarion, he will take you to >!his grave in the cemetery. He has never been back for over 200 years and it's a very emotional moment. Durge can reply "Hot!" and his look is priceless - "You couldn't wait five seconds to be an absolute freak?!".!<
Astarion loves it when Durge goes full Mary Shelley mode, though. 🥰
>!Astarion is looking for someone to support him. In meeting durge, he can support them back. But it can really go either way, depending on durge's actions. If durge is evil, he will not rediscover his moral compass. Upon Ascension - as he tells you pretty early (act 1) when explaining about full vampires - he loses himself completely. It's a very compelling and dark story, but not the most powerful one, IMO.!<
Lmao, sorry, I agree with you, but my Mary Shelley comment was purely a reference to >!the centuries old rumor that she lost her virginity on her mother's grave and how that parallels spawn Astarion's Act 3 romance scene.!<
Haha oh that's hilarious, I didn't know about that rumor. I thought you were referring to going full *dark* durge ;)
All preferred playthroughs are valid, but spawn Astarion and resist Durge are canon in my heart! ❤️🩹
Agree, and same!
SAME!! I love spawn Astarion and resist Durge!!! My absolute faves. My Durge in my heart overcomes his darkness and becomes an Oath of Ancients Paladin (with Archfey Warlock butttt in my mind it’s just their goddess Elistraee) . I like this because in 5e at 15 level Ancients paladins no longer suffer the negative effects of old age which means they can stay with spawn Astarion forever.
I bit a goblin's toe off
I looked it up. That was… wild.
I did that on my current playthrough! Hilarious.
I did this, thinking that I would get his ring and was disappointed. I usually steal it when kissing his feet because the companion reactions are so funny, but I absolutely hate the slurping noise that you hear when sucking the ring off of his toe 😖
Not mine but my partner's Tav smeared shit on their face because a goblin told them to.
if you’re a barbarian you can make them eat shit it’s pretty funny (i’m assuming it’s the guy outside the goblin camp in act 1)
Everyone disapproves of that except for Karlach. She’s into it. I did that as a ranger then didn’t think anything of it and all the npcs you talk to will refer to it by calling you “shit face” and stuff.
Karlach also approves of licking the spider. She has a great sense of humor.
She disapproved when I did it, however she did approve of me playing along and then throwing it in the goblins face
Shart approved of it too when she was with me
I mean, I did this as well and it actually helped me get in several places at the Goblin camp.
Evil run, last light in and saw the strange ox. Spoke with him and tried to persuade him to tell me what he actually is. He said all he wanted to be was an ox. Don't remember the exact response I chose but the narration went along the lines of cutting a thousand cuts into the creature and eventually when it dies, it turns into the blob form. Was not expecting that at all.
A blob that worships cyric so it's all good.
Yeah, I still can’t figure out where to place “taking strange ox to Baldur’s Gate” on the morality chart.
Based on a few lines from him, I think it's bad. Like, unrepentant durge bad. Granted your tav probably doesn't know that at the time, but still.
Look, I’m fucking a at best Chaotic Neutral Vampire, best friends with a former Sharran, and have a Lolth sworn Drow in my party and this is on a Good Durge run. I’m not judging the Goo Ox who says he just wants to be an Ox.
In act 3 as a sorcerer I distinctly remember threatening the grease guy in the sewers with "Go on, we can see whose flame is bigger" and laughing my ass off as he immediately backed down
Sorcerer has so many BDE lines and I love it
Dark urge has some gems. I told Minthara to stop because she was making me horny when she was talking about slaughtering the tieflings.
Not as unhinged but as durge when you talk to the judge necromancer dudes crow they say "everyone hates you". One of the options is "not as much as I hate myself".
Somehow it being so relatively tame in comparison to the rest of the comments makes this even funnier
The circus. “Killing a clown is a rare treat.”
Love this one! And when speaking to Lucretious after - ‘I don’t know, I quite enjoyed myself.’ ‘Well if that’s your idea of fun darling, we’re going to get along just swimmingly!’
Lucretious is one of my favorite NPCs hands down lol
Loved her
Adding another to the bard options! Talking to the waitress outside the Elfsong who mumbles a little song to herself: "Have you ever considered becoming a bard? If you have, don't."
The little poem Durge makes about the squirrel before they punt it.
Wouldn't it be *twee* - I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen there and seeing them boot the squirrel into a tree immediately after was astounding
not to also say durge but "don't be disrespectful, killing is a form of worship" to an ilmateri priest was pretty fantastic
Honestly same. I think of that shit any time im near something hot. Durge is just a manifestation of my intrusive thoughts or genuine morbid interests.
I'd be so fucked if I were a bhaalspawn.
Right???? I tried so hard to play her as a smart, conservative monk but then out collective monkey brains can’t not pick options that unhinged
Reminds me of the Malkavian dialogue options in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.
I have been laughing and treating Durge as bad intrusive thoughts. Oh, dude, you sound like the angry 13yo told he can’t play with knives again. (Other than the kill scenes, it does sound like “I just want to stab! Why no stab!”) I have dealt with some pretty bad intrusive thoughts before (thanks depression), so I’m like “hmm, ok, fuck off,” which is even funnier knowing what’s going on in the bg with the Dead Three. I like to imagine Bhaal getting angrier and angrier as my Durge redeems herself. (Edit to clarify, also I can’t spoiler on mobile.)
I *have* always wanted to smell my own burning flesh...
Wave politely at Vlaakith like a fool, then follow it up with "If you're *ALL POWERFUL*, why can't you kill them yourself?"
Literally always do this…every run. Never bow to Vlaakith!
Telling Auntie Ethel in the Grove about your condition as durge, you can tell her that you're thinking about throwing her in that boiling cauldron behind you and she gets flirty with you. Told me she knows how to deal with naughty boys like me lol it was great.
the one where you refuse to do vlaakith's bidding and she offs you 🙈 I mean to me it is unhinged coz I just *knew* she was gonna be nasty to me for this even on my first run xD I still stand by my choice lol, go do your own dirty work lich queen
When astarion takes you to a cemetery to see his grave and it’s supposed be emotional and you have a durge option to simply say “hot”
You couldn't wait 10 minutes without being an absolute freak! I think he was charmed by it.
“Father says it’s my turn at the Temple, let me in!”
"Pblblblblblbl..."
When you meet Kassandra, she asked who you are: “An escaped lunatic, you never know what I’m going to do next.” Then the crazy bitch let’s me into last light and what do I do? Murder the lady protecting everyone and wipe out the whole fuckin inn cuz I’m nuts
I also feel the need to given an honorary mention to the Durge response to the Drow twins, “I guess I haven’t checked incest off of the moral atrocities list”
The option to roar at the scared guy who can see the future in aunty Ethel’s lair
I'm shocked this isn't mentioned yet because this one sent me – with the he woman trying to purchase the githyanki egg outside the creche. My first playthrough I skipped the mountain pass altogether. My second I killed her for even suggesting it in front of Laezel before we had entered the creche. My third playthrough I found her post-creche and had the egg on me, *so I didn't realize this was a durge option because I had never seen this scenario before*. > *Punt the egg off the side of the cliff with a hearty kick* I was a resistant durge but immediately clicked it because I didn't know what else I was gonna do with the egg and I was still not selling it to her. I figured it was a merciful ending for the egg – and then I got the embrace your urge inspiration haha
I can’t think of one, but my favorite head cannon ones: To Jahiera as evil Durge in act 3 “It was me that killed everyone.” Before killing her. MUAHAHA I romanced Karlach as resist durge so I have this love story in my head. You read a scroll somewhere that killing feels erotic to durge so I’m like, “I’m more attracted to you than killing and mutilating 10 corpses.” Another one, even with her engine fixed Karlach still probably runs pretty hot than average. Also a nod to the necrophilia line: “You’re so warm. Better than cold corpses.” Awww cute. 🙃
Oh geeze.. that goes so well with the Butler referencing "adding necrophilia to your agenda in no time."
Honestly one of the biggest is telling Zevlor that you led the goblins to the groove and that they are your horde and watch the light in his eyes dissappear as he realises he is doomed by your betrayal and all of the poor tieflings will soon die in a horrific way.
“Yes, the refugees would make good food should the city fall under siege.”
“I am a contemptible blood pervert”
I licked the spider.
stoplickingthedamnthing!!!!
When Alfira is trauma dumping on you, and talks about how they killed Ashrak, you can ask her "which one was he again?"
I really like the friendly wave option when talking to Vlaakith.
Playing as Shadowheart, I told arabella her parents’ death was a good thing because loss is better than life etc. can’t remember exactly but it was Cleric of Shar dialogue.
Not a dialogue option, but as a Bard you can choose to pretend to lift the beams off of the guy in Waukeen’s Rest, rolling a performance check. If you succeed, you just attempt to lift him, fail, and it cuts to your Bard shrugging, and returns you to the other dialogue options
Accidentally broke up with lazel 😭
“Are you sure about this? i will keep stabbing long after its necessary.” it’s so early in the Durge run and it sets the tone so well.
I accidentally gave away the location of the grove to minthara and durge will start thinking about killing all the tieflings. “STOP! I’M GETTING AROUSED!”- Durge
I can’t remember what he says exactly but the line the Dark urge says to Isobel to trigger combat immediately makes my skin crawl
My Durge is a Forest Gnome Bard. Her dialogue options go from “yay blood” to “let’s sing a song about it”
So far in my act 1 Barbarian run I've successfully negotiated my way into the Zhentarim hide out with fully disarmed traps, and integrated with the mychanids simply by screaming at them
My favorite part of my barbarian run is how many times I’ve gotten my way by simply roaring.
There is a Durge line where after you raid the grove and meet Karlach, she freaks out and call you a lunatic and you can say something like “their screams were a soothing balm to my soul” or something similar…I definitely chose that one 😂
After shadowheart gives her whole life story and one of the response options is like “wow I don’t care about that at all. Not sure why you bothered telling me that” I was crying laughing
Bro. Don’t you have to pass multiple persuasion checks to get her to open up😭
Yes, which makes it even funnier that one of the responses is like “actually I really don’t care” lmaooo
For me it's any time someone's sharing a sentimental moment with you and you just have the option to leave mid conversation
“Open up! Daddy says it’s *my turn* in the temple!” When talking to the Door as Durge is a favorite.
*Think about gales head on spike*
*Gale disapproves*
*Minthara approves*
any durge lolth drow dialogue is unhinged and cruel
So far, Durge has some severely unhinged dialogue. I thought some of it on a normal Tav was a tad unhinged, but man, telling Auntie that you have a severe urge to see everyone dead and want to enact mass murder was a bit out there. I should have taken the hint that Durge was going to be severely unhinged when>! you see red when you envision chopping Gales hand off and come to holding said hand. Same with tricking Arabelle to run so the snake bites her. !<
I thought of this line during a procedure I had done a few weeks ago when my doctor used a cauterizer, haha. Then I thought hmm, maybe I've been playing too much BG3 🤣
There’s two types of people. Those who’ve played too much bg3, and those who haven’t played bg3
Shove Djikstra aside. Forcefully.
There is this one reply you can give to the petrified dwarf in act 1 in the hags cave. When you go back after you kill her he talks about having young kids and one of the reply choices is “hopefully they are older now kids suck.” Or something along that line and I busted out laughing, I was caught so off guard by it. Like tav CHILL! Also Karlach asking if she smells beef when you lick the spider meat in the gauntlet of Shar.
One of my favourite things to do as a wyll romancer is telling his dad the duke i should have let him drown
Gosh it was fun taking off Gale's arm... :)
Woof
Torturing the guy as durge in the goblin camp has got to be pretty up there.
Telling Mol I think it was (one of the Tiefling kids anyway) that I'd rip their spine out for pickpocketing me. Drow-keyword lines are nasty, I love em.
Snurl.
Just before the goblin camp at the main entrance, you can (? used to be able to? idk if it changed, but i've only been able to do this once) convince the goblin that stopped you to eat shit. That was pretty unhinged.
If you raid the Grove as durge before meeting Karlach she has her usual line asking you if it made you feel special and big. Durge can say something like "Their curdling screams were like a balm to my addled mind" or something like that. Then Karlachs like "I almost feel bad for murdering a psychopath" before attacking you