No, it’s not.
Not even a fan of convenient respec, in general, let alone of the idea of recreating the main character at will mid-play through.
That aside, didn’t that “feature” in WOTR break the game is some fairly horrible ways?
Which isn’t even surprising, given that a “save game” is usually a collection of variables that summarize (among other things) all your past choices, decisions, things you looted or unlocked, major dialogue choices you made, etc.
Pretty damn obvious that altering that type of data mid-run would mess things up.
I agree it's not *necessary* but from what I could tell so far, the game doesn't even seem to recognize your character's sex in any way, which means changing it shouldn't affect anything. It seems to be a cosmetic choice as trivial as choosing your face type, hair color, etc., so I guess it would be trivial to allow changing it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
A bit weird for sure that every potential companion we come across just so happens to be bisexual, but eh, I'm not complaining. Once you give any recognition at all to sex, gender, sexual orientation, etc. in the game, you will invariably get into politics, which probably nobody wants. I know I certainly don't. So IMO it's wise of Larian to pretend that these things just don't exist.
There's actually two places I can think of where the game still recognizes the existence of sex/gender at all, just not in ways that affect gameplay:
1) When choosing a character model, you click on a gender symbol (venus/mars) to choose a female or male model. If they really wanted to completely pretend that sex doesn't exist, they could have just called them Model 1 and Model 2 or something. (And if there's going to be more body types in the future, you could put them all into one shared pool, just like with the voices you can choose from. The voices are just called 1, 2, 3, and 4 with no limitation based on your body model, even though clearly two are female and two are male.)
2) When casting Disguise Self, you choose between "feminine body shape" and "masculine body shape" or something. (The game uses this really awkward wording instead of just "female/male" but I sincerely don't understand why.) Assuming that your sex really doesn't affect NPC reactions at all, I guess they could make the spell choose randomly every time? But then I guess it would decrease RP potential so they wanted to give you the choice? Maybe that's why they ended up using that weird wording with "feminine/masculine body shape" instead of just female/male? Because they're trying hard to pretend that no such thing as female or male exists? LOL
