Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Character creation: suggestions, diversity, etc.

What you're saying, without needing to dip into social commentary, is that the races have defining characteristics and given ranges for certain things. A pot-bellied human or halfling is a thing whereas a 350 pound, 5 foot tall, couch lounging, elf isn't. Humans in particular have the greatest variability and you get less so within the other races such as dwarves, who were forged by their god as perfect in their form and were literally created by a god to be unchanging in both form and thought. By necessity, diluting or removing these defining characteristics removes the ability to have defining characteristics resulting in an amalgamous society with a uniform and restricted set of customs and abilities as many current races have contradictory practices. Furthermore, staying within the canonical universe provides the material to have narrative consistency with abilities and relationships re custom and personal. Combined, the the prior reasons would lead one to reasonably conclude that it would be better off to stay in canon for the purposes of establishing a believable, consistent, diverse, and true-to-source world. In this case, increasing diversity would, in a more global sense, reduce it.