Originally Posted by celestielf
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Seriously Larian, solve this. You won't want to make "making old characters punching bags in the next game" a tradition, the number of players you lost is building up. Right now I have little faith that the writers would do Viconia & Sarevok right, so just remove them, or change their names, or make them doppelgangers. You can write whatever new characters you want, nobody will stop you, is it so hard to just leave old characters and good things alone?

Even though I don't think Larian will actually change anything, if they did at least offer an out for why these characters are so OOC I would look much more favorably on BG3 and actually bother to finish it. Just saying.

Also, I know this is probably radical, but I do think if you're making what's supposed to be the continuation of a beloved game series, giving some slight respect to player choice is probably a good move, no matter how old the preceeding game is. (Looking at WotC here, too).

This might be a case of trying to have their cake and eat it too?

MortismalGaming points out that Saverok literally just exposition fairy's an attempt to paper over the holes in the Baldur's Gate continuity the game made and does so poorly. The Emperor being Balduran "reveal." Vic and Sav's characterizations, and I'll include Minsc to some extent here as he feels more internet meme version than anything else. And IIRC, in WOTC's canon, isn't Jaheira dead? IIRC, "BG3" was advertised as a sequel to the games. However, it turns out that it's actually a sequel to the Descent into Avernus module by WOTC in a clown suit, which is why literally all of the tie ins to the games are clunky at BEST.