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Urchin is a character background with skills and inspirations themed around street smarts. The hireling Maddala Deadeye has this background.

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After surviving a poor and bleak childhood, you know how to make the most out of very little. Using your street smarts bolsters your spirit for the journey ahead.
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Background features[edit section | visual editor]

Background goals[edit section | visual editor]

Performing certain actions that align with this background rewards Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4. Completing an inspiration event also grants experience to characters with this background. While not necessarily all-inclusive, listed below are known events which grant inspiration points.

Location XP Reward Name Description
Act 1
Multiple locations 20 Hunger Never Fades Fill your plate at Raphael's House of Hope.
  • On the first introduction cutscene, choose the option Ignore him and fill your plate.
Blighted Village 20 Pyramid Scheme Convince the ogres to work for you without giving them gold.
Emerald Grove 20 Artful Dodger Earn Mattis' respect by taking his ring.
20 Family Comes First Encourage Meli to tell the truth about the amulet.
20 Idolatry Help Mol steal the Idol of Silvanus.
20 Not On My Watch Save Arabella from Kagha and her serpent.
  • This is earned as soon as Arabella safely runs away.
  • Shared with Snake Whisperer⁠Snake Whisperer inspiration.
20 Paying It Forward Give Mol money to found a guild in Baldur's Gate.
  • Saving or helping tiefling childen in the Grove eventually leads to this option. The party must find out about the kids' thievery spree (either witness Meli stealing from Barth or let themselves be robbed by Mattis and Silfy)[1], then find a way into the Tiefling Hideout and speak with Mol.
  • Confronting any member of Mol's gang, or allowing Arabella and / or Mirkon to die locks the party out of obtaining this inspiration[verify], as Mol turns hostile to them and cannot be convinced otherwise.
20 Protect Your Own Protect the child who took the locket from Barth.
25 Slaying the Piper Rescue Mirkon from the harpies.
Goblin Camp 25 Born Innocent Save the owlbear cub from the goblins.
25 What Price Dignity? Steal the toe ring from Crusher without getting caught.
  • This must be done through the skill check while kissing Crusher's feet; this ring cannot be obtained through normal pickpocketing.
  • Shared with Anything for a Profit⁠Anything for a Profit inspiration.
  • Mutually exclusive with Give Them a Show⁠Give Them a Show inspiration.
Grymforge 50 You Can't Take It with You Loot the dead gnomes in Grymforge before their corpses are thrown into the river.
Risen Road 30 Hero for Hire Get some coin out of the Zhentarim survivors.
Act 2
Gauntlet of Shar 75 Good Deed of the Day Free Nightsong.
75 Rebellious Phase Betray Balthazar.
75 Strength in Cowardice Convince the orthon to spare you, for now...
Last Light Inn 50 Orphan Camaraderie Help Mol win the game of lanceboard.
Mind Flayer Colony 95 Amateur Optician Find Mol's eyepatch.
Moonrise Towers 50 Gone Feral Free the mind-controlled gnolls from their master.
50 Newly Downtrodden Spare the goblins from Ketheric's wrath.
50 No Peeking! Block out True Soul Z'rell from reading your intentions.
60 Will Not Be Forgotten Escape the Oubliette.
  • This inspiration is awarded when you leave, not when you enter.
Moonrise Towers Prison 60 Bugging Out Help Wulbren escape Moonrise.
60 Twice Scorned, Twice Abandoned Rescue Minthara from her captors.
Shadow-Cursed Lands 60 Alley Cats Meet both the lordly cat and the tadpole-hunting cat.
  • The inspiration is given after talking to both of them, regardless of the order.
50 Child at Heart Play both games of hide and seek with Oliver.
Act 3
Lower City 170 A Dish Served Cold Destroy the Steel Watch Foundry.
220 Cherishing Family Convince Jaheira to let her family stay in the city.
220 Cunning Code Crackers Discover the secret passphrase and enter Avery Sonshal's secret workshop.
220 Down with the Steel Oppressors! Defeat a Steel Watcher.
220 Estrangement of Ethel Defeat Auntie Ethel permanently.
220 Finding Vanra Find and free Lora's abducted child.
170 Good Intentions Help Nina with her ritual.
170 Home Sweet Home Delve into the Undercellar of Baldur's Gate.
170 Part of Life Convince the coffin maker to make an exception.
170 Proper Lodging, Finally Obtain a room at the Elfsong Tavern.
Rivington 135 Finders Keepers Help the squatters keep their temporary abode.
135 Give Nothing Back Take donations from the big barn.
  • A party member must take items from the locked chest specifically.
135 Spare What You Can Give a donation to the big barn.
Wyrm's Crossing 135 Child Safety Expose Arfur for his booby-trapped toys.
170 Through Nooks and Crannies Enter Wyrm's Rock without pass or invitation.
Wyrm's Rock Fortress 170 Easing His Leave, and His Pockets Blackmail the Flaming Fist deserter.
170 Never Trust Those Above You Defeat Gortash without making a deal with him.

Inactive Background Goals[edit section | visual editor]

  • Wary of Strangers: Does not trigger as of game ver 4.1.17209685.

Notes[edit section | visual editor]

  • Artful Dodger⁠Artful Dodger can be obtained in two other ways but doing so prevents Made You Look⁠Made You Look:
    • When Mattis gives the interacting party member the ring and asks for it back; the player character can choose "Thanks for the free ring." and then "I don't have to do anything. Goodbye." After speaking with Mattis again and apologizing, the interacting party member must give the ring back.
    • The ring can be pickpocketed from Mattis before the first interaction, and then returned to him.
  1. ↑ Of all encounters, only these two events set the flag DEN_Thieflings_Knows_KidsThieves, which leads to the needed dialogue option
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