Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General New video on character creation

It's a different world now. For me, I'd much rather have more time spent on NOT-genitalia, but a number of people seem to think it's important, so here we are.

There are still race traits and attributes.

And yeah when elves are the most popular non human race and Corellon is a deity choice its kind of important yes.

Wondering if there will be sliders for length, girth, and angle.

The people that played at the PFH said you don't, you seem to have 3 vagina options and 5 penis options.

There are just three options for each set of genitals.

I am honestly confused about taking out alignment and how it's supposed to "help with roleplay". My boi. You are literally taking away a big part of roleplay here. Big part of why we choose alignment is to roleplay as that specific character and not only that, but it can be used very well to create a basis for a character and use it for instance to show character growth like in WOTR. For fuck sake.

Also I want to add that I also want to do something like that. My character started as Chaotic Evil. Now is Chaotic Neutral as he tries to become someone better and maybe end up in Chaotic Good as he redeems himself or goes back down to Chaotic Evil because of his vices he can't escape from. Now I can only imagine it.

I thought you said polyarmory at first, and it actually made sense in context.

I personally wouldn't care at all if I never got to see my character's genitals, but other people enjoy having these choices, and some players are looking forward to the inclusivity options this game will offer. And my guess is that the team in charge of making these additions is probably not the same team working on other features players like us are more interested in.

In a game with progression, stats are largely defined by progression - not the starting creator. It would be helpful if you could describe what those "3/4 different ways to choose stats" are. That said, I think the main issue you're talking about isn't stats, it's gear, and for that I would agree that the slots available are quite minimal... but somehow I doubt modeling genitalia was the reason for that. A studio can have different groups of people working on different things, after all - and generally the gear is going to conceal whatever's underneath. Also, unless I'm mistaken, we do actually have a belt slot.

Honestly that whole article reads like the interviewer came at the Larian dev with a ton of baggage and the Larian dev was a bit put off by it, just sort of nodding and smiling with "yes... we want our players to have options" and "yes, because of the way these product development cycles work, I could see a lack of inclusivity being baked in from the start because it's so hard to change later" and the article writer essentially veering into a blog about their baggage with a few bits of BG3 information put on top of it. It's very telling (and very Kotaku) that the "lack of 'black person' hair" cited doesn't mention that the primary reason it was not often included is the same technical reason that any highly curly hairstyle is harder to include: technical limitations of 3D graphics being most compatible with straight or lightly curved hair that can be approximated with layered translucent texture sheets of mostly parallel hair strands. The "all-inclusive" alternative - especially if you want the hair to not be frozen solid - is an impossibly taxing follicle simulation or a struggle to approximate one with POM (which is itself computationally taxing) or other shaders. It is legitimately only quite recently that hardware and rendering software has gotten to the point where it could give curly hair that doesn't... well, look like shit. Seriously, the earliest 3D game hairs were often a solid part of the character's head geometry. Realistic curly hair is a significant technical challenge.

It doesn't really tell me anything about Larian or BG3 except that they seem to have set out to make a character creation system that they and their players would enjoy using, which I can't fault at all. Certainly doesn't seem like a "lean into sexuality" - any moreso than including sex scenes does - and definitely doesn't make me suspect that the character creation options were gained at the expense of "stat customization", since the latter is much, much less technically challenging and can be much more freely altered after release if it is felt to be lacking.

In BG3 you can get a 15AC Medium armor for free by recruiting a single character, liberating your ability scores by needing only 14 Dex to have a 17AC by 2nd level. This lets you boost your Con without hurting your AC and still keep some other attributes above 8 (woohoo!) which is good because you'll probably want your Str at 10.

It is a really good racial ability, but it still sucks that they took the extra attribute point away from them.

Medium armor proficiency is the best racial feature for wizards, warlocks, and sorcerers. In BG3, characters have access to half-plate armor early in the game, which sets base AC to 15. For a modest investment of 14 DEX, you can maximize your primary spellcasting ability and CON while still having an AC of 17. You’ll even have a few points left over for other abilities. Mage armor cannot match that. You would need a DEX of 18 to get an AC of with mage armor.

I don’t think it was an accident that all of the 5E races that were given medium armor proficiency did not have a +2 bonus to any primary spell casting ability.

Oh, by Helm. I didn't consider that You just might romance someone and find something you did not expect. My game will be safe for all ages, just in case. I don't want to know.

Now that I don't mind at all. One can play a character as any aignment one desires, it needn't be on the character sheet for that. Regardless - that is a 5E thing, not necessarily a BG3 thing.


Judging by the most downloaded mods for Skyrim, most everyone wants nudity in games. And yeah, if you can model a Dragonborn face that's rigged for in-engine use and can support a variety of textures, a few private parts is hardly a chore. I am now wondering if the Dragonhorn is scaled, too.

THIS IS BULLSHIT

WE DEMAND MORE GENITAL SLIDERS

Fextralife did claim that bears existed was carefully orchestrated the day before.

Swen is as shrewd as Elminster, he knows what gamers at our core want.

Dragonborn can have tails in this game, Dragonborn never had tails in D&D, that's usually reserved for Half Dragons which look like Dragonborn with tails.

yeah, where is the both option?

Dragonborn can have tails in 5e but it's rarer.

I believe the critical roll ones have tails

I have to admit that everything I really wanted to see on a character creation video they completely ignored. All of my biggest current questions are about ability points:

Is a 27-point buy the only option or can we go with 24 or 29 points or some other number if we prefer?
Can we roll for stats, or is it just point buy?

Its 27 point, with +1 +2 floating and you can't roll for stats.

More genital shapes then body shapes lmao