Disguise Self | Baldurs Gate 3 Wiki

I saw this nowhere, so i put it here:

It can be used to manage reputation with traders.
You can give stuff, cash, with your real identity, so you increase your reputation, then disguise, attempt to steal things.
If it fails, any subsequent drop in reputation (kills, guards, fleeing...) will be charged to your current fake identity.

Drop the disguise (or change to another one), come back, your reputation will be either neutral (new identity) or friend (if you managed to be with your real identity).

Does not work with companions at camp it seems.
But the other NPCs are good.

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I cant ever get this spell to work (except when using that shapeshifter ring for the free guidance-until-long-rest), I might be using it wrong though so I'm mentioning it here. I disguise myself, kill a goblin, hide, dispel the disguise and everyone is still aggro'd on me. No idea whats happening so I humbly ask for some clarification.

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Why settle for one race when I can have them all?

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Nimblefinger Gloves now Work

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There’s a ton of parts in the game, especially in act 3, where it feels like you SHOULD disguise yourself to avoid being recognized. But it never works.

Literally the only scenario in the entire game that lets you fool someone into not recognizing you is when using Speak with Dead on someone you killed.

If it was too much trouble to actually make alternate dialogue for disguised characters, then they really shouldn’t have included this spell at all.

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Spell made me realize just how many Githyanki-unique items are in the game. Makes sense given the central conflict and setting but you're leaving serious money on the table if you're not rolling Githyanki or using Disguise Self to look like the default Githyanki. A little corny.

With that said this spell activating racial requirements seems nonsensical from a flavor perspective. It's an illusion that doesn't hold up to any physical scrutiny, why the hell would it fool a magic sword?

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I already have the Mask of the Shapeshifter. I am assuming it does everything this spell or the disguise kit or the face painting kit do?

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Too bad you can't turn into a duergar and a deep gnome.

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It’s extremely useful to disguise yourself as a particular race in some areas.
Act 1 for example, pretty much the whole goblin camp will act helpful and subservient if you’re a drow. You don’t even need to free the goblin in the grove.

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So from my understanding if you use disguise self and g4et caught in a crime you can enter your real form and have no reputat ion loss?

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Bug or not, but disguise Self blocks reactions on my char except opportunity attack

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Great spell!

>Ritual cast , i.e. infinite casts while out of combat, doesn't use spell slots out of combat and has until long rest duration

>No Dispel Magic in Baldur's Gate 3 (although "Silence" can be used as a dispel magic adjacent/ alternative) --> enemies can't really turn this effect off (except by downing you)

>Resets dialogue --> Assault (non-lethal damage) NPCs without the hit to reputation (e.g. Dark Urge "saving" Alfia with non-lethal damage), useful when stealing, and useful for Speak with Dead (the dead will not speak to their killers --> kill while disguised or disguise after killing and you can interrogate them)

>Ring of the Shapeshifter synergy --> +1d4 to ALL non-damage checks! Potentially from Act I !

>Magic item race requirements --> enable additional magic item function for certain items (e.g. Drow only functions or Githyanki only functions with some weapons starting as early as Act I)

>Enter child sized entries --> open additional points of ingress to some maps (haven't found any small person exclusive zones though --> there's always another way in)

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Put the shapeshifter ring that gives +1d4 on ALL check, cast this, profit

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This spell will also change your character's base weight. So if you're in a people chucking mood. Have your Humanoid projectile Disguise Self into a halfling or gnome which has a base weight of 35kg. Hurl them into your enemies for FUN.

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is using that spell allow to benefit from race related perks on items? Aka "in hands of drow elf deals additional 1d4 acid dmg" and other things like that?

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Use this to reset the dialogue with npcs which you've failed to skill check with. You also can acquire race specific dialogue choices depending on the disguise which can help you pass the skill checks.

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Im playing a warlock and took the "Mask of Many Faces" Eldritch Invocation, and when i took off my clothes (I was curious, nevermind!) in the form of a Githyanki femail, I noticed she has male genitelia, is this a bug? or is this intended?

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this spell is neat! every companion can learn it on lvl1-4 so you can run around with party of tieflings or halfling or whatever you like

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Can apparently also be used to disguise yourself while using Speak with Dead on someone you killed.

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Using it to disguise as a Drow is really useful to freely walk pretty much everywhere.

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So far I found aside getting specific racial reaction it also give you a few advantages. For example entrances too tiny for other races can be entered if you use it to turn into a halfling.

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Whenever I try to use this spell it just says "invalid target" no mater where or when i use it. Not sure if this problem is just me or not because I can't find anyone else talking about it.

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Its a shame I can't use this to look like a specific NPC. Wanted to look like a NPC to sneak through, but it seems this only lets you change race and gender.

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