Baldur's Gate 3 - The Deadly Dream (Sleep/Dark Urge Build)

Is this a dream or a nightmare? Let's find out with this build based on the sleep condition!
The Deadly Dream (Dark Urge Sleep Build)
Lore Bard 12
Weapons:
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then
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Armour:
bg3.wiki/wiki/Studded_Leather...
then
bg3.wiki/wiki/Bhaalist_Armour
bg3.wiki/wiki/Helmet_of_Arcan...
then/or
bg3.wiki/wiki/Hood_of_the_Weave
bg3.wiki/wiki/The_Deathstalke...
bg3.wiki/wiki/Abyss_Beckoners
bg3.wiki/wiki/Boots_of_Speed
Accessories:
bg3.wiki/wiki/Amulet_of_Selûn...
bg3.wiki/wiki/Crypt_Lord_Ring
bg3.wiki/wiki/Band_of_the_Mys...
Important Spells:
bg3.wiki/wiki/Sleep
bg3.wiki/wiki/Blindness
bg3.wiki/wiki/Silence
bg3.wiki/wiki/Glyph_of_Warding
bg3.wiki/wiki/Animate_Dead
bg3.wiki/wiki/Eyebite
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[@heathengypsy]

Dissonant Whispers, sleep spells, Sir this is an ASMR build 😄

[@EclipseFactor]

Im about to become this games worst nightmare. The lullaby of Bhaal

[@BuckysKnifeFlip]

I like to imagine the lullaby of Bhaal is Bodies by Drowning Pool but whispered gently.

[@HirokazuTakeda]

Crown of madness = Night Terrors Hold person = sleep paralysis

[@ritabuba4831]

The Eepy Urge: "Long rest? No guys, it'll be just a short nap, trust me!"

[@MundaTheDrow]

wait... YOU WHISTLE AS A BARD when you're instrument isn't equipped? Dude, its been a year and I'm still learning new things about this game

[@micahangello]

Looking at this build, I wonder if there is a Pied Piper type build. Basically a bard who uses a flute to summon or gain control of enemies or something like that. I think that would be sick.

[@chloenelson3951]

As a person who's had insomnia for as long as I can remember, your justification for Confusion is EVIL. I love it XD Dark Urge torture technique. You're tired? No sleep for you. Suffer in insomnia while I torture you for my daddy. These builds are so cool XD

[@raydaveed]

I love that soft and sweet murder vibes on the Durge

[@biasedfan]

You ever think about a volo build? In bg3 he’d be an obvious bard but his dnd lore might throw in some wizard or wild magic sorcerer

[@jameshill2450]

I think Slow is very underrated. For a level 3 spell, you can pick 6 targets to cripple. They lose half their move speed, so melee targets potentially lose half their turns (also this negates Grym's Honor bonus, making it much easier to get him in place for the hammer). They can also only attack one time, so melee enemies lose any extra attacks. They only get either an action or bonus action, so a lot of enemies will just jump somewhere and end their turn. Going along with it, the Heightened Spell Metamagic from Sorcerer is also underrated. It gives disadvantage on saving throws against any spell - to all targets, no matter how many. That's generally about 25-30% extra success chance. Not just for Slow, but for Hold spells, Dominate Person, etc.

[@zimattack9994]

La petite mort Always wanted to make a pc dream assassin that uses dream to eliminate there target with nightmares

[@frederikw4028]

The Cherished Staff of Necromancy seems like a good pick for a off hand weapon due to how many necromancy spells you're going to use, while also getting 1+ AC from the Dual Wielder trait. Excellent build I think i'll try it on my next Durge playthrough!

[@Blackheart7310]

I’ve been sitting here thinking about making a character inspired by Banshee/siryn from marvel/X-men or black canary from dc comics. This build kinda fits, just need to trade out a few sleep themed spells for what I could head canon as sonic attacks, like thunderwave, shatter, silence, etc and it might work. Thank you.

[@jonnyso1]

Actchually, colour spray also has a hit point treshhold

[@mineflameblade8788]

I had a thought. If instead of a Drow. You make a human that looks like his face is burnt with Janath's hat. This build could work for Freddy Kruger with a few levels of monk and vicious mockery. [Especially because of his one liners]

[@justinbloomfield2010]

Hypnotic Pattern seems like a good fit

[@RobThePrincess]

The amount of times that you had to clarify that this is NOT a Bill Cosby build. Lmao

[@Wyvernmir]

What a very cool idea! I’ll definitely be using this in muiltpayer dark urge play through

[@aidanru.2469]

I'm definitely pairing this with my Honour Mode roguelock Tav.

[@Ravach0l_]

Thematically it would be great for Astarion.Luring people to sleep near/with him only to feed on them once they're asleep. After all isn't it exactly what he's doing to tav?

[@jpperron1835]

I can’t remember if I brought this up before so I apologize if I have. But I thought of a build concept! I’ve thought of it a couple times but have never gotten around to it. Thought I’d jot it down here. This concept involves the weapon that drops from the head gnoll in act 1, iirc it’s a flail? and the ring that makes you rise after being downed but you are cursed. It’s madness! MADNESS I SAY!

[@jpperron1835]

PS, sending positivity your way ❤

[@InnocentLock-er6et]

Love this idea! By the way, what is the background music? It makes me think of a song from Bloodborne

[@HoboZone]

Yeah it's the wet nurse theme

[@obergruppenfuhrersang-froi8203]

Sleep is a useful cc from spells like glyph of warding and others. The downside is that they wake up the moment you do damage to them.

[@Georgegamerz9950]

Rwby vale of darkness 2: inescapable fate

[@firstswordcorvus7368]

Oh, that's why I thought sleep was useless. I thought it was MAX HP adding up, I didn't know it was remaining HP 😅. I've refused to use sleep because I thought it did what it doesn't actually do, but I still find it hard to use cause my characters crit/kill at random and usually unexpected times. Tactician or honor mode are probably the best difficulties to use sleep to always use it. And in story and balanced difficulties it often feels useless in Act 1 cause things often die too quickly to bother

[@ThatReplyGuy]

Surprised you didn't go half orc for the delicious crits.

[@shikaruakuma5176]

Hey hobo. Random build idea. If you want I can try to put it in the discord but discord isn’t working for me right now. So the build idea is like a storm of necromancy and poison and stuff. Like a storm of death kinda. It would mainly focus on storm sorcerer but maybe would have some necromancy wizard levels in there. It would use spells like cloud kill and circle of death for the kinda storm feel. Disintegrate would be cool and it would act as a kinda thunder. Storm sorcerer’s heart if the storm would also be cool because it creates a small storm that as a head cannon would be poison. OOOO LIKE ACID RAIN!

[@theatheistpaladin]

I don't think this what they meant. A sleeper build.

[@balduri45]

I want make charismatic pirate style build which background you suggested?😅

[@drunkinoni1902]

My main problem when I think about playing a build like this is I don’t know how well it would work in boss fights like Raphael or the Dragons. I feel like builds like this are really fun in fights where you are fighting normal enemies like goblins but when you are fighting bosses it would probably be almost completely useless. So if anyone has tried a build like this one out and have used it against bosses could you tell me how well it worked please?

[@DonutDude717]

What mod do you use to change the Level Up screen? Present at 0:14

[@HoboZone]

It's more of a bug that comes up from my mod list. Not sure what causes it.