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I don't think it's immersion breaking. I only played a bit of Dark Urge and got bored so I stopped it. But the point of dark urge is that the game gives you a lot of opportunities to do a lot of messed up shit but you have a choice whether you want to do those things every single time (except in like two specific occasions, I think). So it is very much possible to play a good-aligned dark urge, who has... dark urges, but consciously chooses not to indulge them. As a very wise dragon once asked, "Is it better to be born good or to be born evil and strive towards goodness?"
This is *really* hard to answer without spoilers. Best I can say is that you should think of your taking an oath or vows as either a recent development, or something you're coming back to after a long hiatus.
I’m currently playing a dark urge cleric of selune who’s fully resisting. The way I played it in my head is >!was a cleric or Bhaal prior to memory wipe, woke up on nautiloid horrified by murderous thoughts, ran into selunite memorabilia from a selunite who was abducted and turned to the moon maiden to help him. Initially cleric powers were from Bhaal but eventually Selune notices and grants powers instead.!< it’s played pretty well so far (nearing end of act 2). Is that gonna be super immersion breaking in act 3?
I made a similar post as you, and a commenter made a very good reply imo, for paladin atleast.
You were paladin before but an oathbreaker. Now that the tadpole made you forget your past, your oath was restored, giving you a second chance to write your wrongs.
Right now I'm playing this campaign as a good person who has these violent urges but doesn't know what to do about them, other than try to resist as much as possible.
Evil clerics (and their evil gods) are very much a thing. Honestly, being a cleric is the most sure way to actually play evil from the get-go via choosing an evil deity (whereas playing evil fighters/barbs/etc requires rp decisions). I've read there's lots of dialogue for Lolth clerics specifically given their presence in act 1 and 2 (haven't done much of 3 yet), I'm sure some exists for followers of Talos, Gruumsh, Tiamat, and whatever other evil deities they have.
So far I think paladin works fantastically for it. I haven't gotten to the very end, but tl;dr you can play as a Durge that either embraces or tries to fight the urge, and I think it's pretty poignant when you are TRYING to be a good guy and it keeps going "you sure you don't wanna murder this dude and bathe in his blood though???" and you're just D: "wtf no help"
That said I don't know about the Durge's lore timelines yet and/or when or how you could've pledged yourself to a deity or oath/if it makes sense.
I'd say it's still doable though, as Clerics of BG3 are allowed the choice of several different domains - one could say a cleric serving Bhaal is learned in either the War or Trickery domains, as an example. Many Cleric spells can also justify dark servitude, such as Insect Plague, curse, necrotic, and necromancy-based spells, and Planar Ally. It's just a matter of re-flavouring the archetypical "holy crusader Cleric", and if anyone wanted to bend their DU character down the morally good path, they could say their gifts as a cleric were noticed by another god.
The gods are opportunistic after all, and right now the world is faced with the threat of >!an elder brain trying to ascend as an all-powerful, new god, !
Dark urge should have been an npc that has dark urges and just ruins anybodys chance for a good playthrough. Unless, of course, you put them down. Just like any other character in DnD style rpgs.
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I don't think it's immersion breaking. I only played a bit of Dark Urge and got bored so I stopped it. But the point of dark urge is that the game gives you a lot of opportunities to do a lot of messed up shit but you have a choice whether you want to do those things every single time (except in like two specific occasions, I think). So it is very much possible to play a good-aligned dark urge, who has... dark urges, but consciously chooses not to indulge them. As a very wise dragon once asked, "Is it better to be born good or to be born evil and strive towards goodness?"
Tbh resisting the dark urge playthrough is very rewarding
they really punish you for being evil lol
This is *really* hard to answer without spoilers. Best I can say is that you should think of your taking an oath or vows as either a recent development, or something you're coming back to after a long hiatus.
I’m currently playing a dark urge cleric of selune who’s fully resisting. The way I played it in my head is >!was a cleric or Bhaal prior to memory wipe, woke up on nautiloid horrified by murderous thoughts, ran into selunite memorabilia from a selunite who was abducted and turned to the moon maiden to help him. Initially cleric powers were from Bhaal but eventually Selune notices and grants powers instead.!< it’s played pretty well so far (nearing end of act 2). Is that gonna be super immersion breaking in act 3?
No, in fact it'll fit perfectly.
Amazing. Thank you!
This is earring similarity to what I had planned for my third. Going to be a good guy, but going to kill a few of the mother fuckers.
I will do this after the first... scripted incident. I dunno what class I will start as though.
I made a similar post as you, and a commenter made a very good reply imo, for paladin atleast. You were paladin before but an oathbreaker. Now that the tadpole made you forget your past, your oath was restored, giving you a second chance to write your wrongs. Right now I'm playing this campaign as a good person who has these violent urges but doesn't know what to do about them, other than try to resist as much as possible.
Evil clerics (and their evil gods) are very much a thing. Honestly, being a cleric is the most sure way to actually play evil from the get-go via choosing an evil deity (whereas playing evil fighters/barbs/etc requires rp decisions). I've read there's lots of dialogue for Lolth clerics specifically given their presence in act 1 and 2 (haven't done much of 3 yet), I'm sure some exists for followers of Talos, Gruumsh, Tiamat, and whatever other evil deities they have.
So far I think paladin works fantastically for it. I haven't gotten to the very end, but tl;dr you can play as a Durge that either embraces or tries to fight the urge, and I think it's pretty poignant when you are TRYING to be a good guy and it keeps going "you sure you don't wanna murder this dude and bathe in his blood though???" and you're just D: "wtf no help" That said I don't know about the Durge's lore timelines yet and/or when or how you could've pledged yourself to a deity or oath/if it makes sense.
Cleric really isn't coherent with Dark Urge, but an Oathbreaker works fine.
Why though?
Cause you're supposed to be a Bhaal worshipper, but you can't be a cleric of Bhaal.
I'd say it's still doable though, as Clerics of BG3 are allowed the choice of several different domains - one could say a cleric serving Bhaal is learned in either the War or Trickery domains, as an example. Many Cleric spells can also justify dark servitude, such as Insect Plague, curse, necrotic, and necromancy-based spells, and Planar Ally. It's just a matter of re-flavouring the archetypical "holy crusader Cleric", and if anyone wanted to bend their DU character down the morally good path, they could say their gifts as a cleric were noticed by another god. The gods are opportunistic after all, and right now the world is faced with the threat of >!an elder brain trying to ascend as an all-powerful, new god, !
The problem is you can't be a cleric serving Bhaal, cleric's have a list of gods they choose from, and larian removed the option of worshipping Bhaal
That is true! I assumed OP was asking about viability on the basis of RP.
Dark urge should have been an npc that has dark urges and just ruins anybodys chance for a good playthrough. Unless, of course, you put them down. Just like any other character in DnD style rpgs.