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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.

The inspirational events are grouped according to the place where they are awarded. If an event can be earned in more than one location depending on the party's playthrough choices, it is placed in the "Multiple Locations" (general or belonging to the specific Act of the game).

Location XP Reward Name Description
Act One
Multiple locations
in Act One 		20 Hunger Never Fades Fill your plate at Raphael's House of Hope.
  • On the first introduction cutscene, when Raphael briefly takes the party to his demesne, 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.
  • Requires passing a DC 20 Persuasion check to convince ogres.
Emerald Grove 20 Artful Dodger Earn Mattis' respect by taking his ring.[1]
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.
  • The interacting party member must pass any ability check or use any class-based dialogue option to convince Kagha (or Teela, for Druids only) to release Arabella.
  • This is earned as soon as Arabella safely runs away.
20 Paying It Forward Give Mol money to found a guild in Baldur's Gate.
  • The party must find out about the tiefling kids' thievery spree (either witness Meli stealing from Barth or let themselves be robbed by Mattis and Silfy)[2], 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.
  • Mutually exclusive with Family Comes First⁠Family Comes First.
20 Protect Your Own Protect the child who took the locket from Barth.
  • Stand up to Meli when Barth accuses him of stealing his locket.
  • Mutually exclusive with Family Comes First⁠Family Comes First.
25 Slaying the Piper Rescue Mirkon from the harpies.
Goblin Camp 25 Born Innocent Save the owlbear cub from the goblins.
  • Speak to the cub to invite it to your camp. Then, win a tour of Chicken Chase by any means, and make Krolla pay your due. Lastly, talk to her again and tell her you're taking the cub as well. Siccing the cub onto goblins locks the party out of this inspiration.
25 What Price Dignity? Steal the toe ring from Crusher without getting caught.
  • Must kneel to kiss Crusher's feet, then pass a DC 15 Sleight of Hand check to steal it. Rogues roll the check with advantage. This ring cannot be obtained through normal pickpocketing.
  • 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.
  • Must pass a DC 10 Perception check to notice the ring, then either steal it or deceive the duergar to leave.
  • Purchasing the ring from Brathwen does not give the inspiration.
  • Despite the decrtiption, there is no time limit to earn the inspiration.
Risen Road 30 Hero for Hire Get some coin out of the Zhentarim survivors.
Act Two
Multiple Locations
in Act Two 		60 Alley Cats Meet both the lordly cat and the tadpole-hunting cat.
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...
  • Must succeed the passive Insight check when Yurgir recites his contract to avoid the immediate fight, and offer him help. Bards and Warlocks pass the check automatically. The orthon still can be killed afterwards.
Last Light Inn
[See: Bugs] 		50 Orphan Camaraderie Help Mol win the game of lanceboard.
  • This inspiration is granted if using any available method, including rigging the board.
  • Available only if Mol survived the events if Act One, and only before Marcus assaults the Last Light Inn.
Mind Flayer Colony 95 Amateur Optician Find Mol's eyepatch.
  • On the workbench in Balthazar's Necrotic Laboratory, near the scroll. Might require item highlight function to be found.
Moonrise Towers 50 Gone Feral Free the mind-controlled gnolls from their master.
  • If failing the skill check in the conversation, the inspiration can still be obtained through straight up combat.[verify]
  • Mutually exclusive with Danse Macabre⁠Danse Macabre inspiration.
50 Newly Downtrodden Spare the goblins from Ketheric's wrath.
50 No Peeking! Block out True Soul Z'rell from reading your intentions.
  • Pass a check to either close your mind or distract her, when she is searching the proof of your loyalty to the Absolute.
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.
  • Deceive or kill the questioners, then escort Minthara out of the prison, dealing anyhow with any guard who questions you.
  • Granted upon speaking to Minthara outside the Moonrise Towers.
  • Mutually exclusive with Soulful Lobotomy⁠Soulful Lobotomy.
Shadow-Cursed Lands 50 Child at Heart Play both games of hide and seek with Oliver.
  • This inspiration is given for participating in both rounds, winning is not necessary.
Act Three
Multiple Locations
in Act Three 		220 Down with the Steel Oppressors! Defeat a Steel Watcher.
  • Unlike similar inspiration for Soldiers, this one does not require reducing the Watcher's HP to zero, Self-Detonate counts as well.
  • Can be gained retroactively by adding an Urchin character to the party after the fact.
135 Child Safety Expose Arfur for his booby-trapped toys.
  • Accuse Arfur of donating the dangerous toys. Works regardless of demanding anything else from him.
  • The exact location (Arfur's Mansion or Sharess' Caress) depends on how the party solved Arfur's argument with the squatters.
Lower City 170 A Dish Served Cold Destroy the Steel Watch Foundry.
  • This is granted regardless of the particular way the party eliminates the foundry.
220 Cherishing Family Convince Jaheira to let her family stay in the city.
  • No actual convincing is needed. Granted upon talking to both Jaheira and Rion in their house, regardless of the chosen course of dialogue.
220 Cunning Code Crackers Discover the secret passphrase and enter Avery Sonshal's secret workshop.
  • Must specifically tell the password wrested from Arfur to Avery or Feloguard Sigurd. Sneaking upstairs updates the quest, but does not grant the inspiration.
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.
  • Despite the description, granted if passing any check in the initial dialogue either to encourage Nina or to dissuade her from raising the dead.
  • Reporting Nina to the Mortarch prevents from obtaining this inspiration.
170 Home Sweet Home Delve into the Undercellar of Baldur's Gate.
  • This is granted upon entering the Guildhall for the first time, regardless of the way and direction.
170 Part of Life Convince the coffin maker to make an exception.
  • Speak to the grieving parents, then pass any of ability checks on Ulkov or pay him.
170 Proper Lodging, Finally Obtain a room at the Elfsong Tavern.
  • Granted regardless of the way the party obtains the rooms from Alan Alyth.
Rivington 135 Finders Keepers Help the squatters keep their temporary abode.
135 Give Nothing Back Take donations from the big barn.
  • Must take anything specifically from the locked Donations Chest (X: 76 Y: -111).
135 Spare What You Can Give a donation to the big barn.
  • Must give Nestor food, items or gold through the barter menu, any amount.
  • Can be earned only before Nestor sees the explosive toys.
Wyrm's Crossing 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.

Bugs[edit section | visual editor]

  • Wary of Strangers: Does not trigger as of game ver 4.1.17398727. Should be awarded for refusing to drink the wine Jaheira tampered with at all (regardless of knowing whether it is spiked)

Notes and References[edit section | visual editor]

  1. ↑ Normally, this inspiration can be earned along with the Made You Look⁠Made You Look (Entertainer Entertainer background). However, there are two courses of action which grant the Artful Dodger but prevent from earning the second one. These are as following:
    • Thank Mattis "for the free ring" and refuse to return it, then speak with him again and give the ring back.
    • Pickpocket the ring from Mattis before the first interaction, and then return to him.
  2. ↑ Of all encounters, only these two events set the DEN_Thieflings_Knows_KidsThieves flag, which leads to the needed dialogue option with Mol.
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