You say there will be an "*" or another type of notification? A banner on the floor of the screen?
Are you talking about me saying this :
The ones interested in the lore will know*.
Lol, this was an invitation to keep reading the "footnote" :
*That being said, I'm all for giving a lot of liberties to players but (!) it would be nice to indicate in a better way what's typical or not.
Granted, it's a long footnote, so maybe that wasn't clear. Sorry 😅
Another would be an elf that had their bloodline cursed by another elf that really hated their ancestor to be as hairy as those "ape people". Now other elves doubt their elvish-ness. How is THAT not lore friendly?
I agree that this is possible in the story of the world
But this is a storyline for a companion or another NPC. The story is for the character that the world reacts to
Says who? I don't see why that needs to be the case. No, it's not necessary to have NPCs/Companions react to it. So no additional dev needed.
If it's a question of immersion, you don't have to pick those options anyway.
In any case, I still don't see any reason to make this a basic feature of the game. Why not add naked tits then?
How to compare apples and oranges.
Also, I did see people ask for it 😅.I'm telling you - as soon as the game starts, there will be hundreds and thousands of videos where there will be JUST such a character - a bearded elf. Guides and walkthroughs will be filmed with such characters. And this will certainly affect many players who don't like this. For example, it will definitely affect me. I like to watch guides on the game, how to build a character class, how to complete a particular quest in the game, compare with how I did it... And I know for sure that such an assumption will destroy Lore Baldur Gates 3 for me. This is a fact. Describing a similar situation, I want to point out that a PARTICULAR case of a certain player's desire will negatively affect the OVERALL feeling of the game. In this case, this is due to the possibility of changing the color of the eyes, skin and hair, which has previously reached the point where a reasonable assumption turns into an unreasonable, destructive one. Red line for BG 3.
This is the murder of the lore of the world, at its core
Man...you are being very dramatic about all this. I understand feeling passionate about thing but it's not a big deal.
D&D does have a lot of lore, but also a lot of homebrewing. A lot. Homebrew can affect spells, combat mechanics…and sometimes things as trivial as physical appearance. It's a world of magic and a game that invites imagination.
And I doubt it will be as "disastrous" as you make it sounds to be. In fact, I can already say this since there's plenty of guides and videos where to characters are not that eccentric in terms of appearances. And those were not necessarily made by people that knows the Dnd lore.
Is ok to not support OP's suggestion of course. It just...this reaction seems excessive.
For god's sake, we're only talking about the facial hair about fictional characters 😩 (hence why I will retire from this thread after this…)
because an elf has a beard - this means he had a human in the genealogy, and if so, then it is a half-elf. There is no other way.
It's the lore. Yes. But about "There is no other way", Sarien and I have offered good examples of why that not necessarily the only reason.
That is a lot of "You"'s in that. I'm debating for the addition of choice and player agency, not the murder of lore. They still design and include every NPC in the world.
+1
However, I will point out that you very neatly undo your own argument.
If there WILL be mods for this, and people WILL stream them, you WILL see them and have your lore murdered whether Larian allows us to easily do so, or not.
Exactly.
