Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Poll: Which of these character creation features do you want?

There's a lot of changes that I would like to see made to the character creation system, but it's unlikely they'll all make it in. I just want to see what the public thinks.

Of these, I think bonds and flaws would be the most unlikely. Because in order for them to matter at all, they'd probably have to require unique dialogue options.

Character creation features poll multiple choice, up to 3 choices
	More face presets
	Body type options (Thin, Medium, Muscular, etc)
	Height options
	Face/body scar options
	Choose starting weapons and armor
	Tasha's custom races
	Rolling for ability scores
	Bonds and Flaws
Votes accepted starting: 20/12/22 01:31 PM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

I voted for more faces, bodies and scars.

However hair customization is missing from the poll, along with a more proper way to customize colors.

Yeah I should've included that; there's already several mods for more hairstyles so it wasn't something I thought to add.

If I can't have a full-blown face customisation than at least let me have more than 4-5 faces to choose from

Also voted for height. I am a shortie, let me be short in my games too, please

If nothing else it would be cool if we could choose a defult height preset of an another race. Like, we create a human but want them on the shorter size, so we choose the elf body. Or we want our tiefling to be a walking mountain, so we choose an halforc body for them.

Aside from my vote choices, I'd really, really like it if they actually refined the character creation UI itself - having to flick through things one at a time is the most archaic, unfriendly system imaginable; we need to be able to view icons for for available options to pick form at a glance for what we roughly want, and to be able to jump back and forth between any options we want, to compare them. This is super basic stuff, and it's unthinkable that this game is so backwards that it's not giving us this. Even Monster Hunter has a better character creator than this game, at the moment.

I voted the same. I’d probably have gone for better hair options over scars if I was forced to pick. (Though I don’t necessarily need more hairstyles, it’s just that I find so many of the existing ones unusable with pointy eared races because of clipping, which could be fixed with what I’d hope would be some relatively minor tweaks.)

I like the idea of height variation, too, but would prioritise build and the lack of height variation might not be so noticeable if there was variety in body shape.

I like the idea of bonds and flaws, but wouldn’t really expect the game to respond to them. It’s already incredibly ambitious. But a free text biography like in BG1 & 2 where we can fill in details of our characters, including bonds and flaws if we like, would be welcome.

Omg right? Even the character creator on Roll20 is better than this.

More faces, more body types and height options.

I'd like to have more customizable equipment too, but that would be much easier to fix by just adjusting the loot in the early areas.

Does face/scar options include the ability to have your character look older? Not everyone wants to RP a main character that looks like they're 21.

Since I could only choose three options, I also voted for faces, bodies and scars (or wrinkles, freckles, a missing eye etc). But I would like height options and being able to choose a starting armor as well.

As for the bonds and flaws, I think it would get too complex to really take everything into account, even if only the premade options of the PHB would be available.

Personally, adding a wider range of dialogue options to choose from would be fine for me. Most times, this might not even require new lines for the NPCs, but they would help a lot in roleplaying a character.

Currently, I write my character's traits, bonds, ideals and flaws down on a character sheet, and try to roleplay accordingly.

Im not sure wich races are "Tasha custom" ... so maybe i should have picked that, since i really want as much races as possible ... but i presumed it was about fluid starting scores?

Anyway my votes were:
Rolled stats
Starting gear
More faces

In this order.

Yes, for instance, instead of +2 DEX and +1 INT for High elves, you can to put +3 abilities score wherever you want (max +2 per ability, max 20 total), like +2 DEX and +1 CHA.

Personally, I've picked :
- Body type options (the current male one is too muscular for how I would envisioned non-STR based characters, especially casters, like Gale).
- Choose starting weapons and armor (I don't normally play STR based characters but players that do should be able to pick heavy armor)
- Tasha's custom races (I just think it's better and makes more sense to me)

But honestly I also like the others, especially "Rolling for ability scores " (although...I would abuse it 😅), "More face presets" and "Face/body scar options".

Thank you ...
In that case i voted just as i wanted to. :3

I mean, i dont want to start discusion about it, but purely my own opinion ...
If i can start with 18 in my primary score ... i dont really mind to have +2 from race set to something i dont really need that desperately.

Definitely with you that there should be more options for older characters, either through being able to age preset faces through customisation or just by having more presets with more mature features. There’s the odd one at the moment (there’s certainly a more mature dwarf male and halfling male preset in EA) but I agree we need more options.

Good news, one of these options has been datamined :

Yes 🥰! Nice, thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing! This is very good news indeed 😊

I know it’s a bit off topic, but just one extra point about more face presets, face customisation options, hairstyles, body shapes and heights is that these are not only useful for character creation, but can also be used for NPCs where they can go a long way to helping the world feel more real. It’s weird when everyone of the same sex and race has the same shape and everyone has a variation on just a few features.

Though for me, a nice to have if Larian continue to use the CC options for (most) NPCs, which does seem efficient, would be for NPCs to each have an alternative face and perhaps hairdo which they would use to prevent them sharing the face and ideally hairstyle of my main character. Kind of like the alternative portraits in the original games, though I accept this would be more costly!

All of it honestly.

Same, it's not easy to play a Gandalf-looking wizard when your skin is silky smooth.

Also it might be a bit weird when all the young and hot party members are horny for some 90-year old dude.