Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Just some questions

Divinity Original Sin 2 has a laughably small range of customization options when making your character. Baldurs Gate 3 is better but that isn't saying much in comparison. From what I gathered the interesting looking characters are accomplished only through modding the game. I know they're still tripping over themselves trying to fix the game to fit into the 5e rulebook and focusing their efforts elsewhere but this should all be elementary for a modern day RPG.
Surface-level cosmetics don't typically beget role-playing, actually giving the players a unique role incentivizes role-playing.


Is there confirmation on sliders for the faces? Is the engine even capable of that?

What about body types? Does everyone in Faerun have a gym membership?

What about the races? Did Larian say anything on the additions of Aarakocra, Goliaths, Tabaxi, Tortle, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Firbolgs, Aasimar, Fey'ri,...? Why is the Gith race missing a subrace?

What about the deities? So many are missing... why is the option to choose one available only to the cleric class? Why does the choice feel like it doesn't matter?

Will we be able to choose our starting equipment? What about the color of the clothes and armour? Will there be an option to dye our equipment down the road?

What about character backgrounds? Will we be able to choose a point of origin? eg. I don't want my character to be a Baldurian but I have no choice in the matter.

Will there be classes/subclasses that are not from the Players Handbook? muh Artificer

Searching the internet didn't give me any answers on these questions so I thought to come to the forums, surely there would be some official FAQ thread or something of the kind here. Nothing here either.
So I turn to you people.
Thank you for your answers in advance.

*laughs*

Sorry to disappoint you but none of these questions have been officially answered.

And no one will probably answer, except patch notes ofc...

I believe we were told by Swen quite litteraly that they dont plan to implement sliders for facial customisation.

all PHB classes/subclasses and races/subraces can be expected. Other than that, you shouldn't put much hope on content outside of PHB. Also about Gith, unless githzerai has something to do with the whole story, we probably will not see them in the playable race. Githyanki is here is because they take a huge part in the game.

I'll try to address everything as far as I know, off the top of my head.

Body sliders - There won't be. This was answered in a Reddits 2020 AMA

Body types - This is a request from the community that's been circulating for a few months and making noise, I think, due to the different body types that have been datamined. There's no official word on it...

Races - We only know that PHB races will be available, anything beyond is speculation, but Githyanki are not a PHB so Larian is willing to expand beyond it. Swen likes surprises, so MAYBE he'll pull a few races out of nowhere.

Deities - I don't think this was mentioned in any interviews or panels so far. I've seen maybe 3 threads about it in the past 6 months.

Starting equipment - It's a community request, there are a few mods about it, but no official word as far as I know.

Character background - Again, I don't think this was mentioned; but I speculate there might be other options. Swen likes surprises, so if it even IS a plan, I'm guess it won't be an EA thing.

Classes & subclasses not from PHB - I think Swen said that they're trying to implement all the subclasses from the PHB in a Malaysian interview in Dec 2021; keyword is trying. Again, anything beyond is speculation.