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?

First off you can have more than one main character, I don't think they need a certain amount of screen time or dialogue. I'm sorry I put us onto a little bit of a tangent, the fact that this is coming up is because of how Tav feels compared to the rest of the characters with relation to the story. Seeing Tav as a side character in his own story is an unintentional consequence of having to interact with other characters who are experiencing the same story but with more areas of contact.

I'm sorry to bring up the other thread a third time, but I think the idea behind having a party of origin characters is interesting, it's potential is to tell an adventure story with a fellowship of characters. It could be like Lord of the Rings or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and maybe it will feel like that if you play an origin character. But playing like Tav doesn't feel like it puts you on same level as the origin characters.

Robert brought up how the origin characters' personal stories in DOS 2 amounted to side-quests, but from what I remember they were enmeshed with the main narrative, if you can't avoid it while doing the main plot I don't know if it qualifies as a sidequest. I think the same will be true, more true, for the origin characters in BG3, mostly because we've already been given the arrows pointing to how every companion might be tied to the central plot.

Regardless I've never considered side plots to be a distraction, I'm sorry games put in more content to distract you from mainlining the 'real' story :p