Baldur’s Gate 3 is full of secrets and details. Some of them you will only learn if you commit to the dark side of the game and endure that it can get … pretty rough. However, it can definitely be worth it to not always be one of the good guys.
Spoiler Warning: This is about the Dark Urge and some of the special interactions the Origin has with the world of Baldur’s Gate 3.
What kind of item is this?
- In the goblin camp in Act 1, you will find various body parts of dwarves that have been expertly roasted.
- For most characters, these pieces of meat are useless and count as “junk” – not so for the Dark Urge.
- If you are playing as Dark Urge, you can eat the dwarf meat and it has several benefits that a regular healing potion does not offer.
That’s why roasted dwarf is so strong: For each body part, you get 4d4 healing, which is between 4 and 16 hit points. This roughly corresponds to a potion of greater healing (which provides 4d4+4). Swallowing a potion costs a bonus action. Eating dwarf meat is a free action, which doesn’t actually exist in the rules of D&D.
Practically speaking, this means: You can eat as much roasted dwarf per round as you want and still act afterwards – similar to the dozens of cheese wheels in Skyrim and The Witcher. Another bonus: You gain an inspiration from the first dwarf snack.
This makes dwarf meat extremely valuable because you heal without having to give up actions that you could use for attacks or spells. Disadvantage: You can throw healing potions and heal multiple people, but that doesn’t work with the meat.
If you are not playing the Dark Urge or don’t want to eat dwarves, you can also eat raspberries. They have the same effect but heal less. However, you can easily overlook raspberries because they count as storage supplies.
The Dark Urge has several great advantages in Baldur’s Gate 3
Another advantage of dwarf meat and any other healing item is that you can more easily do without a healer in the group. Veterans know, that healing just isn’t worth it in Baldur’s Gate 3, more damage is usually more useful.
If you play the Dark Urge, by the way, you also have several other advantages that other origins or the tavern do not get, including:
- one of the strongest spells in the game
- a special cloak, for which, however, you must betray a popular NPC
- numerous unique interactions, such as with Orin, the Elder Brain, and your personal butler who visits you from time to time
You don’t necessarily have to be evil for the dwarf meat and many of the interactions. A “Resist Durge” run is based on denying your origin and resisting the urge to kill everything and everyone. For that, you also receive a special ending. In our overview, you will find all the important details about the origin: What is the Dark Urge in Baldur’s Gate 3 and why should I play it?
