Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Will Tabaxi be A Race?

I completely forgot if someone made a list of all races that will be in BG3, so I will just ask; will Tabaxi be a race? Even if they are not in EA?

There is no official word,or even a hint, that tabaxi will be a playable race, unfortunately.

Not for EA, but we don't know what the full list for official races will be.

Not for EA and while I love the more the better option, I doubt they will be in for final release either

I love Tabaxi

theres a chance that they have a bunch of races there just in case.

Of course, if anything that seems the most likely given how varied and difficult to animate the selection on display right now is.

Khajiit thinks not

Unfortunately Larian has been super hush hush about what races will be in the final game. Likely because they themselves don't actually know. I imagine they'd like to get all the playable races from 5e in, including Volo's Guide races and such, but that would be pretty much impossible. Or at least need extensive DLC.

So they need to be selective and haven't figured out exactly what will get in.

Tabaxi aren't an impossibility, but I'd rank them as fairly low on the priority list as far as which races are likely to get in.

I think it's more because they don't want to lock themselves into promises they can't keep. Firstly, there is a lot of dialogue to write and record for the races and classes; don't underestimate how much work that is. Then. Regular 'humanoid' works fairly well, because they use the same facial/bone structure, therefore it makes it less hard to differentiate between animations. Making that work for someone as foxy as a tabaxi... That takes quite a bit of effort. Since they're still working on including the PHB and making all that work, don't get your hopes up for the first release of the full game. Perhaps in a DLC.