Originally Posted by Alexandrite
Also, weren't the original BG games created by Bioware? So what's wrong with having Bioware/Dragon Age fans become Larian/BG3 fans, exactly?

There is no One True Pathway to this game...
Some people arrive here with a DnD background, some have played Larian games before, some have played the original BG games, some just enjoy RPGs in general, such as Dragon Age series, etc, and some people are trying this sort of game for the first time ever.
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Thank you so much for pointing this out. I have been scratching my head over this one too. As one who discovered Dragon Age via recommendations from pals who loved BG1…idk…I thought we were all on the same team. In fact, at the moment, my complaint with the characters are that they are not as well written or empathetic as the chars from DAO…a game that is old af now.

Also, one can play the “character is just a reskinned x” with any character in any game ever. I consider the entire argument about Asterion being too much like Dorian incredibly cheap. Comparing Dorian and Asterion sounds to me like “well groomed, sassy, articulate? Must be a conspiracy!” As if creating characters based on a Byronic archetype is somehow novel or part of an agenda. Lmao. Watch some movies from the 80s…at least half of the bad guys were written like this.