It’s absolutely worth playing Baldur’s Gate 3’s Dark Urge campaign

polygon.com:

Baldur’s Gate 3 is such a dense and rich game that completing the campaign even once is a feat. But doing just one playthrough means you inevitably miss out on certain paths and branches in the game. There are few differences so extreme as doing your next playthrough as the Dark Urge. The Dark Urge is an origin character, found in the same part of character creation as our good friends Shadowheart, Astarion, Lae’zel, Wyll, and Karlach. Now that Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for long enough for fans to compare and contrast between campaigns, it’s worth taking the time to recognize how dang cool the Dark Urge is.

The Dark Urge — or Durge, a portmanteau used on social media, à la “Shart” for Shadowheart — is an albino dragonborn by default, but can be customized to look however the player likes. In fact, going with an adorable halfling Durge can make more sense than the intimidating draconic figure. You see, the Durge comes with one hell of a problematic footnote: They are afflicted with a sometimes uncontrollable — one might even say a dark — urge to murder everyone around them. This starts early. When Gale sticks his hand out of a portal in Act 1, asking for help, you can simply chop his hand off and let him die. Yes, it means he can never join your camp. But you do get to run around with his hand in your inventory for the rest of the game!

i love the moments of durge saying unhinged things but nobody in the party has any comment about it pic.twitter.com/Ug8ppx7Iqy

Just like every other playthrough, the player has choices — the Dark Urge can be a multifaceted protagonist too! Sometimes, you can choose to resist your affliction. Other times, uh oh! You wake up and you’ve done a fucky-wucky and put someone in the forever