My point is merely that Larian needn’t bother with the extra work involved in the latter for my sake, as it just isn’t important to me.
The extra work on starting gear would help improve the role play experience by a lot. One of the cRPG's core features is the character creation, many cRPG fans put a lot of times, hours, into character creation.
Besides, the starting gear matter can be solved in a very cheap way, which is to make everyone every class start with casual clothing. Because the player char Tav is a Baldurian who got kidnapped during a normal day. There is no good reason behind for a high dex low str fighter to wear scale armor during a normal day. But he or she wearing just some normal shirt on that normal day would be most logical.
As for the starting weapon, just place a few weapons on the ground or some dead corpses or some chest in the tutorial chapter for player to loot.
I’m not really following you here. Yes, agreed many cRPGs players, myself included, spend hours on character creation but I’m not sure what that has to do with starting gear, particularly as your suggestion for dealing with it seems to be pretty much what I meant when I said above …
I’d be perfectly happy if I just started with no weapons (or even items) at all and had to find them as I went.
Perhaps you’d not seen that, or I wasn’t clear about how I saw that working. Or I’m still misunderstanding your point.
(Though as a matter of fact I’m fine with the starting armours, and don’t see any real need to change them as they are pretty generically suitable for their classes even if not ideal, whereas weapon choice feels more individual. But I’d also be fine if our characters were put in generic clothing or nothing at all. Though as a side note, hopefully the game will actually leave it up to us to determine what our PCs were doing when they were kidnapped rather than assuming they were doing something that called for civilian gear.)
