But as so many of us keep pointing out, you don't need to have any backstory to still have reactivity of the "blank slate" player character to the other characters and world around them. Many other RPGs have already very successfully done exactly this without any controversy or problem.
Using the conceit of the BG3 story, what would you have changed to allow us to play our version of Tav without having him or her be a blank slate?
For starters, it could just have been exactly like it was in the original BG games, made 23 years ago. Charname was a blank slate, and yet was central to the story of those games. That's all I am asking for, though after 23 years surely Larian could've come up with even more than that. But if it had been just like how Charname was done in the original games, that itself would've made me so much more happy with BG3.
