but anyway, you understand what im suggesting is literally what the devs intended right?
Do you know what else is intended? Being able to respec at Withers.
Hence it's in the game.
The option to NOT DO SO is still there for those that wish to play the pre-selected stuff.
let me put it another way: shadowheart having 0 levels of cleric makes as much sense as lae'zel not being a githyanki.
Nothing about Shadowheart explicitly requires her to be a Cleric. Her only schtick is being devoted to a goddess, not necessarily being a Cleric of one.
Not to mention, I'm fond of using Archfey Warlock on her with headcanon of it being a Sharran as Archfey Warlock provides skills more fitting for the theme of a Sharran (Namely; Darkness, Hunger of Hadar, Devil Sight and the ability to go for a Gish build with Pact of the Blade to utilize all the Shar equipment that is melee focused)
in fact, all the points you guys are making could be applied to appearance too.
"the option should be as it is!! if you don't like it just dont respec them!!"
okay, then give us the option to change the appearance of origins. if you don't like that, then just don't change it.
Sure. Except, such a suggestion would be about adding something into the game as opposed to taking something away. If such a capacity existed already and someone tried to make the same argument about "Locking Origins appearances" then I'd pull out exactly the same argument of "Don't want to change them? Then don't"
Not to mention there's a plethora of ways to make "Lore friendly" off-class Origins characters.
From little things like Gale not being locked into Evocation subclass (Which he has no basis for preferring one school over another). To more significant things like Shadowheart as mentioned above can use Warlock with a dash of headcanon for a great Sharran build.
Astarion and Lae'zel have literally nothing dictating what class they are (I'm fond of making Lae'zel a Monk similar to Orpheus' elite guards) with Karlach only being suggestive of Barbarian (Though, Fighter can suit her too and even Paladin given her ideologies).
Some things are more difficult to play around, like Wyll not being a Warlock (Though you can headcanon that you forcibly ended the pact after Act 2 instead of having to wait that 6 month timeframe) or Gale not having something Arcane related.
But those are problems for players to decide how relevant they are.
Larian implemented things in a way where there was a lot of freedom for players. Thus allowing respecs of Origin characters (Including full respecs, unlike many other CRPG's that will hamstring companions, only respecing down to the level you met them at so in games like WotR you're stuck with companions with attrocious stats and questionable feats or you have to go and use hirelings and miss out on story quests and dialogue)
With this freedom, there's also the freedom to NOT do that if one wishes. Allowing everyone to be happy. Those that want to respec Origin characters can do so and those that want to keep them with their original classes with their original (Garbage) stats can do so.
Removing freedoms, by restricting Origin character respecs, helps no-one. People who already are keeping the Origin characters unchanged don't get anything from the restriction. While it needlessly upsets everyone who DID want to change the characters.
