Originally Posted by ash elemental
Originally Posted by Maximuuus
The only solutions for Tav to become interresting and special are to :
1) create a real background story for him that have consequences on his personnal story / quest.
2) write a special story for him that is not defined by his past actions.

I don't want Tav to have a background like Origin companion's have.
I think our characters past actions should not be defined by devs. In such a game every players should choose which character he wants to play.

But he should definitely have a story that only belongs to him.

In the old games he was the Bhaalspawn....
Being a Bhaalspawn was not a story that belonged only to the main character in the BG saga. The opposite in fact, since the story was built on the premise that there was a score of them, and they would all kill each other bringing chaos to the world. The main villan in BG1 was one too. And if I had to name a unique Bhaalspawn, that would be Imoen, since she could be resurrected, while all others (including the main character) would upon death turn to dust and return the essence to the Throne.

It only belongs to him in the party you control.
And even if that's not 100% accurate considering the whole saga, his story and the events arround him were unique even if he was not the only Bhaalspawn in the world.

Sarevok and the other Bhaalspawn (included imoen) didn't have the same story.

If every companions had started in candlekeep, were a bhaalspawn, were attacked by Sarevok's assassin's, were captured by Irenicus for its power, became the slayer and so on... charname would not have been interresting at all in the story.

Originally Posted by Boblawblah
The problem is it's impossible for Tav to have a unique background that is more connected to the main story than the origin characters because the whole point of the origin characters is to play AS them for the main story. The story has to be written as if there is no Tav. So we're either left with having a background story as good as one of the origin stories, which then makes Tav essentially a customizable origin character. Honestly, I'd take that over what we have now, because right now I'm just a random person that for some reason all of these people are following around like puppy dogs even though i have no personality (head canon aside) and no background.

Something like what Dragon Age did, with a selection of background stories would be awesome, it would make you feel connected to your custom character more while also giving a more fleshed out backstory that you actually had control over.

It's not a problem at all.
They can create a background / a story that can suit the origin character.

Then the player's choices is :
1) to create a custom character that have it's own story (in comparison to it's companions) but a self made/imagined background OR
2) a predefned origin character that react events according to it's defined personnality + has the same unique story as Tav + it's sidequest.

Last edited by Maximuuus; 22/08/21 08:21 PM.

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