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I like sliders, but I guess that requires a graphic engine that is adapted for armour and outfits. But as an alternative, they could provide "components" of faces and bodies (like eyes, mouths, noses, or necks, shoulder, torso, boobs, legs...) that can be selected separately and combined, instead of predefined faces and bodies. It would increase the available options and be easier to handle with respect to armour because every choice is predetermined.
I have several face and hair and colour mods active, but still I often think, I would love the nose from that face with the mouth of this other one etc...

And, of course, there should be a magic mirror that allows you to change "on the way".

I just wanted better muscular bodies, and GLUTES for men!

I'm tired of men with very skinny or " V " shaped bodies lacking thighs/glutes.

Men also have thick thighs, big glutes, big chest, bulge. Big attributes are not exclusive to women. 😒

To be fair, the same is true for all of BG3's cast besides Lae'zel. (Karlach's being a Tiefling is only relevant in that it gives a reason why she could survive in Avernus and the burning heat of her Infernal Engine heart - Beyond that, she could be anything).

Heck, even the Emperor being an Illithid feels kind of phoned in, even if it makes it into story it doesn't have any real relevance to the character (Especially given his stance of not being interested in becoming human again, so it's not as if his transformation has given him something to overcome...). Like, they could have literally have kept him as your Guardian throughout the entire game and nothing would really change for his characterization (If anything it might have improved things because then the choice between Emperor and Orpheus would be less ridiculously one sided, because instead of being a decision between Mr Evily McEvilface and Mary Sue, one of the characters is just a plain old adventurer who helped you out instead of an evil mastermind manipulating you for their own purposes)

It's one of the disappointing aspects of BG3's writing.

Though, DOS2 was much better in that regard. Fane being an Eternal, The Red Prince being a Lizard, Beast being a Dwarf and Sebille being an Elf were much more integral to their characters and stories (Of course, Lohse and Ifan both being human was, as is typical, completely irrelevant)

So it's not as if Larian cannot write race relevancy into characters. They just opted not to for BG3 outside of Lae'zel.

Hi there!

So, I have been playing the DirectX11 version of this game on my PC on GOG and Steam (GOG as download, Steam as boxed version that sits on my shelf) since August without any problems or crashes; up until last Sunday that is. Somehow I had the idea to update my graphics card driver and also update the game, and ever since then, the game crashes every few minutes to the desktop, without error message or blue screen. At this point, troubleshooting BG3 feels almost like testing luck in a casino, where you try one option after another hoping something finally works. I even caught myself reading about alternative payment methods like paysafecard vásárlás sms el telekom while taking breaks from debugging, just to clear my head before trying the next fix. This happens for the DirectX11 version as well as for the Vulkan version, it happens whether I use the GOG launcher or Steam launcher or start bg3.exe or bg3_dx11.exe directly. There is no error message at the moment of the crash, no log entry in the bg3\bin folder after the crash, no entry in windows event log at that point in time.


What I already tried in order to fix the issue:
- I reverted back to both, the previous graphics driver and the previous version of the game => crash still happening. I used AMD's cleanup utility but apparently it does not in fact fully clean up any remains of the driver, some remnants in the registry remained
- I then used DDU to -again- uninstall the graphics driver, the reinstalled it again => crash still happening
- Then I found a restoration point from last week before the update and restored to that point => crash still happening. Apparently the issue seems to persist even through the loading of a restoration point
- I then noticed that there was a TPM-WMI error reported in my event log, regarding a certificate that had been updated but not yet applied. Since October. After some research I found a way to have that update successfully applied (https://www.elevenforum.com/t/how-t...ted-two-methods.42366/page-6#post-680898) => crash still happening though, so that wasn't the culprit either
- I lowered the BG3 graphics setting to low and disabled VSYNC => crash still happening
- I uninstalled BG3 completely (including the Larian sub folders at %appdata%\local) and tested if the issue presisted in a new game installation, in a new game, without any mods installed => crash still happening
- At one point since Sunday I suspected AMD Adrenaline to be the culprit so I left it uninstalled the last time of driver installations around (used ASUS driver hub for driver installation instead of the Adrenaline installer) => crash still happening
- Since nothing else presented itself as possible reason for my issue, I visited https://larian.com/support/faqs/crashes-during-gameplay-pc_61 and tried out each and every one of the suggested fixes => crash still happening.
- I physically checked the graphics card as well as other components in my computer case; no issues there.
- I can play other games without any issues: E.G. Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2, SWTOR, X4 Foundations, Skyrim, Pillars Of Eternity, Fallout 4, etc. The only game showing these CTD's is BG3.

Now I am at my wits end and am strongly considering to reset my Windows completely and hope for the best that this will hopefully purge any underlying hidden issue that causes these CTD's in BG3.


If I find a way to attach files to this post/thread, I can also provide a dxdiag report as well as network.2025-12-19T22-05-58-663968.log.

I apologize for this wall of text, but I really hope to find a solution for this issue here in the forums, since I absolutely love this game as well as all its predecessors and have still so many romance and other options to try out!

Diversity and options to explore widely different concepts is fun in and of itself. It cannot be measured in popularity or as some market survey because it is fundamental to the creative process of character creation, even to those who ultimately choose something traditional. The existence of variety around your character provides the sense of your character being someone unique.

The formula isn't to simply fill every space with something that satisfies the majority, because in doing so you destroy the illusion of things being unique and special and the entire storytelling you are trying to get people to engage with.

Homogenizing races is sadly an ongoing trend in entertainment for various reasons.

1. Some people started to virtue signal by accusing WotC that D&D race X represent ethnicity Y (they could not even agree on which one) and that them being different is racist. Sadly instead of ignoring them WotC caved and thats the reason why suddenly everything in D&D is a multicultural utopia.

2. After WotC drove away all their old role player customers they only survived because Stranger Things attracted a lot of casuals to the game. But they were far less interested in storytelling and role playing and instead only wanted combat and "numbers go up". So they build their characters to be good in combat and nothing else. I literally have been told by them that it is impossible to play an orc archer because they can't get a 16+ Dex at level 1 when races still had fixed ASI.
So with the primary target group of D&D being people who never in their life would play something not optimized WotC caved again and removed all differences between races.

For video games there are additional factors.

3. Motion capturing is expensive, but can easily be reused as long as the skeletal structure remains the same. So for cost cutting the number of races with different skeletons get reused. And its not only animation, also all the equipment and clothes would have to be remade to fit a new skeleton.
That the reason why halflings in BG3 are just scaled down humans with the same proportions or why Blizzard invented a new humanoid dragon race for playable dragons for which they used the elf skeleton instead of making the long existing dragon race playable.

4. Thirst. As mentioned Larian worked hard to attract the Romfantasy crowd and thirsters as that brings the money as the success of the Hojoverse and BG3 shows.
But while some people are ok with romacing something alien or furry, most want conventional pretty human and (tolkien/anime hybrid) elven waifus. And as BG3 made Lariant into the gooning studio as far as all the new players BG3 attracted are concerned, this is what Larian will likely deliver to not disappoint them.

I have no problem with adult content. I appreciate it, but only when the adult content is BALANCED for men and women! Equality.

I hate games that only sexualize girls, the "male fantasy".

Will the game feature hot female characters? Female fanservice? Female sexualization, nudity, jiggle physics?

Okay... but also include hot male characters! Male fanservice! Male sexualization, nudity, jiggle physics!

EQUALLY