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Larian Studios tells Baldur's Gate 3 players to stop being so boring with the character creator
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Pretty sure they're designed after ones that show up in one if the source books.
*raises hand*
I always play a human for my first run through in every RPG where it's an option. For me it's just the personal fantasy that I enjoy, I like to play as if I get to be the powerful wizard or cunning rogue and put myself in those situations.
In my real tabletop DND group I'm a human wizard and in BG3 I'm a human wizard lmao.
I always play a human for my first run through in every RPG where it's an option. For me it's just the personal fantasy that I enjoy, I like to play as if I get to be the powerful wizard or cunning rogue and put myself in those situations.
In my real tabletop DND group I'm a human wizard and in BG3 I'm a human wizard lmao.
Yeah, I guess 5e goblins look weird is a better way to say it. They're like chunky kids rather than small-sized creatures.
Everyone's pretty hot. Even the goblins have spent a good amount of time on their hair care.
That's more than ok. I don't do early access and am waiting on the full release.
They're so tiny but god it would be beautiful. Goblin's my favorite race.
Maybe they'll add Bullywug as a race one day.
Same If it's a choice I'll always go Goblin as well.
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can you really metagame at character creation? and its a convenience thing rather then a min max thing. You need a light source to see shit or you just let your many dark vision party members do the perception checks.
Let me introduce you to the Locathah
Best 5e can do is the Tortle.
I mean, it's the same reason the "reader/viewer insert" character is so prevalent in fiction across all genres. People want to experience things imagining that they're there, or that someone reasonably like them is there. The reason The Count of Monte Cristo is so satisfying to read is because Dantes starts the book as a totally normal guy. He could be any given reader, easily, and he ends up executing an amazing power fantasy. David Copperfield, Peter Parker, Arthur Dent, Bilbo Baggins, the Stark children, the Time Traveller in The Time Machine, you could list characters all day. Almost every "fish out of water" character in fiction is supposed to be you, at least at a subconscious level.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if a vast majority of first-run characters made in all games with a character creation feature look as much as possible like the person playing.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if a vast majority of first-run characters made in all games with a character creation feature look as much as possible like the person playing.
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Tortle's are massive boys, Tortle would be a rad race to add though.
Thankfully, the people making these generic characters aren't the ones on twitter showing off their thicc amazon women. Stats may say one thing but that doesn't mean it's the most trending on social media
Generic male humans are #1 on FFXIV but there's plenty of cat girls being shown off
Generic male humans are #1 on FFXIV but there's plenty of cat girls being shown off
HAHAHAHAHACome on, folks! Get creative!
This is AMAZING lol
I have been rocking a purple faced lass with horns, short green hair and bright red eyes. They really nailed the alien eyes on those devil things (I am an old school 2nd edition player so no idea what the new races are).
I really like the female dwarf character models, but I want to run a warlock as opposed to a fighter class, and it looks like dwarves are more suited for melee builds.
I really like the female dwarf character models, but I want to run a warlock as opposed to a fighter class, and it looks like dwarves are more suited for melee builds.
I will play my generic brown hair white male human warrior until you put Dragonborns into the game, Larian. Get back to work!
it should go without saying, but because people on here have no clue what sarcasm is I should make it clear that "get back to work" is a joke and I am in no way actually pushing a "lazy devs" argument. I appreciate Larian's hard work thus far.... but I'll appreciate it more once dragonborn is a race :)
they look how you would expect them to look
All the different DnD worlds have different looking Goblins. Really like the look of the 3e Goblins.
I mean I want them to look like this:
they look how you would expect them to look
But I understand that this is on Wizards of the Coast rather than Larian.
when given a lot of choices, people tends to go for something familliar.
I see the list of race in BG3 and I don't know 70% of them. Even if they look cool, I'm not sure I want to play something I don't know, even if it has horns and blue/red skin.
Same thing happened with Mass Effect, where when presented with starting classes : soldier, engineer, infiltrator, vanguard, adept, people freaked out. Wtf are these. And an OVERWELMING % of players choose soldier because wtf is an adept. Well, adept manipulate element zero. Ok, wtf is it. IT IS SPACE MAGIC, HERE. HAPPY ?! Too late, everybody chose boring ass soldier boy with a variation of burning ammo, cryo ammo or poison ammo....
Maybe changing names of even not presenting the vanilla choice first could help a lot (having human and fighter as further down choices)
Yeah, it always bums me out to hear that most people just make a regular human in games like this, especially knowing the work they put into those systems.
I like to play as the most visually interesting or badass races I could find. Why I want to be human when I could be a tiefling?
I always worry this kind of thing will make some devs feel like expansive and diverse character creation choices aren't worth it.
I like to play as the most visually interesting or badass races I could find. Why I want to be human when I could be a tiefling?
I always worry this kind of thing will make some devs feel like expansive and diverse character creation choices aren't worth it.
BG3 is single player, no? I tend to roleplay as female characters when I play even though I am male. It's just a preference I've had since I was a kid.
That said, in online games, ESO excepted (I play a Khajiit), I tend to play this exact character except with stubble on some pounds packed on because (spoiler) that is exactly how I look irl. Idk, I don't want to give online players the wrong impression.
Ultimately, what matters is that people have fun playing. If that means putting yourself in the game then great. If it means making a horned 7 foot tall lizard dude with 2 tails and rainbow scales, go for it!
That said, in online games, ESO excepted (I play a Khajiit), I tend to play this exact character except with stubble on some pounds packed on because (spoiler) that is exactly how I look irl. Idk, I don't want to give online players the wrong impression.
Ultimately, what matters is that people have fun playing. If that means putting yourself in the game then great. If it means making a horned 7 foot tall lizard dude with 2 tails and rainbow scales, go for it!
lmao this is hilarious. I really enjoyed DOS2's character creator, can't wait to play around with this at some point.
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Sadly there's no rat-people race at all in any of the legal material so far.Put ratfolk in. I loved the Skaven in Vermintide.
I don't know dog maybe your character creator sucks from a usability and visual design standpoint so people don't want to engage with it.
I always try to make my character Nathan Fillion (Mal Reynolds) So I'm probably part of the problem.
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You might just have bad taste, I feel for you tho. I'll keep you in my thoughts.
In most create your character games i generally just hit the random button 3 times then select accept. I have never really cared what my icon looks like.
Agree with what they are getting at but don't a lot of players essentially make themselves in a lot of these types of games?
D&D table top sometimes has the same problem as Humans get a bonus feat (if you play with the variant version), making them one of the strongest races in the game when it comes to a pure stat view point. They can also put their +2 into any stat they want.
It's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to the new race rules in Tasha's in November.
Do Humans have this feature in BG3? (I have only played the game I haven't made my own character, my PC can't run this shit lol)
It's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to the new race rules in Tasha's in November.
Do Humans have this feature in BG3? (I have only played the game I haven't made my own character, my PC can't run this shit lol)
If I can't play my gnome ska bard, annoying my fellow characters by playing ska playlist on youtube to bother my fellow players, what's even the god damned point?
And yes, when someone gets disarmed, you damn straight I give them bardic inspiration to "pick it up!"
And yes, when someone gets disarmed, you damn straight I give them bardic inspiration to "pick it up!"
You'll sure show them
But it is just a light jab. This is a comical level of fragility. And I say this as someone who tries to recreate herself with character creators whenever I can and doesn't care for adding excessive horns and tails and stuff.
I'm revoking your gamer card and banishing you to forever play boggle like the basic bob you are. /s