Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General If the main hero dies, and you don't revive them, can you still finish the game?

Fair point that Larian’s approach of making a number of potential origin characters who are also companions, and giving high priority to the multiplayer experience, leaves them with multiple characters tied in the same way to the plot and therefore no compelling reason for the player character to be the leader. I hope they can actually make a virtue of this, and I for one would be totally up for a single player experience in which “my” character isn’t obviously the leader (at least to begin with) but is convincingly just one of a party of individuals who have been thrown together by circumstances.

It’d be a tricky illusion to pull off, given BG3 isn’t a game like IWD or Solasta where the player is effectively acting as the party rather than an individual, but would need to have elements of this where they step into the shoes of other party members or direct the party’s story as a whole, without losing their identification with their insert character. But I do think BG3 sometimes almost pulls this off, and it is the way I try to interpret this initial act: not as the rest of the party members following the lead of my main character but as the party as a whole (more or less) agreeing on a course of action.

I will easily admit the way EA plays doesn’t always make perfect sense when read this way, but if Larian could find a way to fix their problem not by giving our main character reason to be the leader early on, but by *not* making them the leader at least until that had been earned, then for me that would be a more interesting and novel dynamic.