Which Play Styles Have No Content In Baldur's Gate? *Video*
WithinAmnesia
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I watched this video about Utility and Balance by Joshua Sawyer (The guy who works on Pillars of Eternity):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGv_-a8GBhY
Then it got me really thinking..
Question: What character play-style options (available to a player when creating their character) do NOT have a lot of depth and or reward for choosing said option(s) represented in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition's setting from start to finish?
TL;DR/Watch Video Version: What Race-Classes Combinations/Features have realistically No Specialized Content and Rewards throughout Baldur's Gate? (e.g. Ranger with Carrion Crawler Racial Enemy or High Stealth-Low Strength Characters>.>)
*Planning to make Mods for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGv_-a8GBhY
Then it got me really thinking..
Question: What character play-style options (available to a player when creating their character) do NOT have a lot of depth and or reward for choosing said option(s) represented in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition's setting from start to finish?
TL;DR/Watch Video Version: What Race-Classes Combinations/Features have realistically No Specialized Content and Rewards throughout Baldur's Gate? (e.g. Ranger with Carrion Crawler Racial Enemy or High Stealth-Low Strength Characters>.>)
*Planning to make Mods for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition*
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Evil characters who aren't planning to axe-murder everyone they can.
Like it really isn't a wise choice at all because of the ring in BG2:EE
I guess after watching the video I was thinking about his sort of "fake vs real options" for characters and thought how Charisma is a definite "psshtt, why in a million years would I take high, or even average, Charisma?"
As for evil content, I'd honestly just like to be subtle, manipulative options presented. Not necessarily entirely new evil-specific content, but content with definite evil paths. For example, let's say the party needs to win a tournament. For whatever reason. Now, obviously, any character of any alignment can just fight in the tournament and win. But an evil character might be able to cheat, poisoning or blackmailing the other combatants before fights to gain an edge. Maybe you could gain the trust of another combatant, and then use that trust to frame them for your own misdeeds. That sort of thing.