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Im Thinking about Taking a Custom Charater and Making him a Dark Urge Pally That Succumbs To the Evil...... What Happens when he does?????

oathbreaker

We do not know, but I suspect it won’t be pretty. EDIT And I expect Regulator is right that, especially if we’re talking about Devotion/Ancients paladins, giving in will lead to the Oath Broken condition.

There’s some speculation about the Dark Urge origin over at https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=858441#Post858441.

Insert obligatory Paarthurnax quote here:

Succumbing to the dark urge as a paladin will

I've said it before, but IF, and it's a big IF, redemption is possible, and doesn't simply mean not engaging with the content, then yes, that could be cool. But I don't trust Larian for a minute to have a proper redemption story line. I think this is their "let's be super gross" path.

Are you doing a revenge pally? Someone who committed absolute atrocities as part of his understanding of his oath?

Does that really break it?

To be fair here I fully believe that playing as the Dark Urge with the intent to fight it every step of the way with the intent to escape from it will be a legitimate and interesting way to progress through that origin arc and will almost certainly have its own rewards and an interesting ending. I don't think the dark urge is just there to be evil or not progress through the origin story arc.

Vengeance Paladins have an oath to justice.

A palladin that resists the dark urge in every other dialog seems like an interesting idea. Or chew off Gale's hand and become an oathbreaker

That's interesting, thank you.

In BG series paladin must and only start from LG, however, there also another type of paladin---- fallen paladins.
Fallen paladins are LE , they have same or maybe more powerful fighting ability than before. But they lost connections with their Order. These maybe a bit different to book rules in 5th or 4th when playing physical dnd games.

Indeed, BG3 uses a variation on D&D 5e so paladins are handed quite differently than in BG1/2. It's still possible to play a typical Lawful Good paladin (which from what I can tell probably maps best onto the "Oath of Devotion" paladin in 5e), and there's also a type of "fallen" paladin subclass called an "Oathbreaker" (I don't recall this as a class in BG1/2, though I think it was the Extended Edition that introduced the "Blackguard" subclass which I guess could map to either Oathbreaker or Oath of Vengeance depending on how you wanted to play it). In BG3 we can't start as an Oathreaker, though we can as a Vengeance paladin, but we can become one pretty quickly. In the initial release we'll also have Oath of Ancients paladins, who would be good but not necessarily lawful.

It's actually my plan to do just that for my first Urge. Be a true and just Pally, play it no-reload and resist as much as I can until death or dishonor.