I don't recall our discussion of custom characters or your particular opinion of them, sadly, so I can't say on that point. I think part of our diverging opinion is that I already don't really think the BG3 custom character is actually all that free or flexible as it stands. They're blank, but not really flexible, and really only allow us to play moderate variations on a couple kinds of character. So might as well be more honst about the limitations in this area, given that paladins are already explicitly more hemmed in in their choices anyway, because of the oaths. I absolutely WANT the character to be more flexible, but I think actually achieving that would require more work across the board than Larian is interested in doing.
I think the kinds of character I've been able to play in BG3 have been less varied than who I've been able to make in say, the Pillars of Eternity games. There I played a firebrand monk who went into self-imposed exile out of guilt for the atrocities she had to commit during the rebellion to free her city state, and who had an arc centered around regaining her will to fight for a worthy cause and set aside her guilt in order to find passion and be of service. And then I played a haughty, entitled noblewoman who started out trying to pick her life back up after her family fortunes were squandered, and who started off entirely self-interested, but who eventually grew to still be haughty, but to take on a sense of nobless oblige responsibility that led to her essentially supplanting the main villain at the very end and agreeing with his ultimate goal, which only continued into the second game. The characters I've made in BG3 have yet to feel like they can really support that range of diversity at all.
Last edited by Gray Ghost; 11/04/23 08:21 AM.
