Baldur’s Gate 3’s Astarion returns as digital-only DLC for physical D&D books

The characters of Baldur’s Gate 3 keep popping up in official Dungeons & Dragons content, but the lovable vampire Astarion is by far the biggest offender. 

As it just so happens, the Neil Newbon-voiced blood-sipper is back, again, this time as digital DLC for physical Dungeons and Dragons books. 

Astarion is digital D&D DLC 

Wizards of the Coasts’ new Forgotten Realms books, Heroes of Faerun and Adventures in Faerun, can both be purchased in a bundle that gives you both physical and digital versions of the books as well as additional digital DLC. 

Heroes of Faerun is a new campaign sourcebook that includes lore details on organisations across the region as well as new subclasses, feats, backgrounds, and spells. It also has Baldur’s Gate 3’s Karlach on the cover! 

Adventures of Faerun is a campaign sourcebook that is designed for Dungeon Masters with campaign ideas, monster information and details on magic items. Essentially, if you’re getting one, you should probably get both.

The aforementioned bundle, which costs an eye-watering $159.99, comes with Atlas of Faerûn, a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent, a Dallabad Oasis Animated Map for Maps VTT and three digital-only expansions. 

One of these expansions is Astarion’s Book of Hungers which adds the option to play as a half-vampire dhampir with three vampiric backgrounds, stats, feats and the pièce de résistance: several short adventures where you team up with Astarion. 

Additionally, the Astarion expansion comes with a “fully detailed map and backstory for Astarion’s favorite tavern from before the events of Baldur’s Gate 3” as well as “some very flirty letters” from the smug vampire companion. 

Wizards of the Coast has previously committed to keeping the brand of Baldur’s Gate 3 going, although that previously resulted in some rather horrendous figures. With Larian leaving the series and Baldur’s Gate 4 seemingly planned by parent company Hasbro, these characters could be around for a long time.