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Latest Baldur's Gate 3 Custom Campaign Adds New Companions

Baldur's Gate 3 Gets Another Custom Campaign, A Dream Of Silence

Astarion talking to the player in Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur’s Gate 3 fans have another custom campaign to get stuck into: A Dream of Silence. Split into three acts, the parts for Acts 1 and 2 were already out, and this Act 3 release completes the collection, letting you play it all at once.

A Dream of Silence is based on a text-based adventure of the same name, created by Abigail Corfman. It centres on Astarion, with the player tasked with saving him from a nightmare. This mod makes the text-based game playable in Baldur’s Gate 3 itself, with fully realised environments and characters. That includes all-new companions who you’ll meet throughout the story.

A Dream Of Silence, The Astarion-Centred Baldur’s Gate 3 Spin-Off, Is Now Fully Playable In Baldur’s Gate 3

  • A screenshot from the A Dream of Silence custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, showing multiple characters surround an enemy who is dazed. Everyone has their weapons drawn.

  • A screenshot from the A Dream of Silence custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, showing Cazador standing close to Astarion, resting his head on his. Cazador says If you discard what I have taught yo

  • A screenshot from the A Dream of Silence custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, showing Astarion and the player looking through a ledger. Astarion says Gods, we go through a lot of alcohol, don't we

  • A screenshot from the A Dream of Silence custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, showing Astarion on a throne, surrounded by vampire spawn.

This adaptation of A Dream of Silence was put together by Nexus Mods user zardphunk. It is free to download now if you’re on PC, although you’ll have to do it through Nexus rather than Larian’s built-in mod menu. That means there's no way to play it on console just yet, and the mod author says it's unlikely to get approval for a console release.

“The Bastellus Sigh has its teeth in you. You are now a prisoner of the Nightmare,” reads the mod’s description. “Will you save Astarion – or will you betray him? Is the Bastellus your downfall or a friend? Are you alone in this Dream – or is someone else listening?”

The description tells us that there are up to six companions for us to meet, new weapons, and plenty of new combat encounters. That’s a hell of an undertaking, but it is exactly the kind of passion we’ve come to expect from the modding community.

You are encouraged to play through A Dream of Silence as your custom character. You can play as one of the origin characters too - just not Astarion, for obvious reasons.

We’ve already seen a few custom campaigns go live, including one that adapts the popular Curse of Strahd Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The one many of us have our eyes on is Path to Menzoberranzan, which is so huge that it’s been in development for the better part of two years now. We recently got a new look at the upcoming demo, so hopefully, it won’t be long until we can play it ourselves.

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