Originally Posted by Drath Malorn
Originally Posted by Dez
Honestly, in the end I would be happy if they just made our backgrounds matter more than just being a stat stick. :[

Same here.

I am really hoping that Larian will make nice Fully Custom Characters, free of writing assumptions. And yet that they don't feel like a sub-optimal choice because all the "roleplay" is about a character's backstory (whether it's full-on, as is the case for the Origin Characters, or you-can-fill-in-the-blanks, as is the case for a Semi-Custom Character like Gorion's Ward in BG1). So I'm all in favour of having backgrounds matter, and ideally give dialogue options, among other things.

To echo the Opening Post, yes, the very concept of Origin Characters feels so antithetic to a Dungeons and Dragons experience. Expectedly, there were many threads about it back in October-December. I guess it would work if a JRPG like FF7 proposed you to play as Cloud, or Tifa, or Barret. But DnD is pretty strongly about creating and roleplaying your character, so it feels weird to have the GM (Larian) hand out character sheets.

I mean, I guess it would have been all fine if they had just made 1-3 of these OC, spent the rest of the resources on improving the roleplay across the board, and communicated more details about their plans for Custom Characters. Currently, it feels as if the main reason there are Origins Characters in BG3 is that, well, Larian is used to doing these in their games, this is a game they're making, and that's it. But anyway, we'll see eventually (at least when v1.0 is released) if they created a good Custom Character experience.


I would love some more info from Larian on this like I wrote above. If at least they gave us clear understanding of what differences there will be in the gameplay and roleplay department when playing as PC or their origin character. I dont want to feel like im missing out on options because I want to play as my created character, that is such an awful thing to feel in a BG game. As it is we dont really have a clue and going from how it worked in D:OS 2 the custom characters were decidedly inferior. Imo its stupid to bring Origin characters to BG in the first place, but the least they can do is to not make it seem like its such a huge difference.