Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 characters are unrealistically hot despite their stats Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 encourages you to romance your gorgeous party members but try not to pay attention to their stats, as they don\u2019t reflect their physical appearance nor how charming they are in conversation. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 uses the D&D 5E rules, which means it runs into one of the tabletop game\u2019s issues \u2014how to reflect physical beauty accurately. In the old days, D&D had two stats to address this, with Charisma focusing on personality and Comeliness gauging a character\u2019s attractiveness. These were later rolled into Charisma. It\u2019s no secret that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 party member stats are poorly optimized. This is also shown in their appearance, as pointed out on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Reddit, as Halsin is incredibly hench yet only has 10 Strength, which is meant to reflect someone of average build. One user pointed out a prime example: \u201cSame deal with Minsc. This legendary warrior, jacked as hell, pries himself out of a Mimic\u2019s jaws and has Strength 10.\u201d This is especially bad, as Minsc had Strength 18\/93 in Baldur\u2019s Gate 2, which is almost the highest you can get without magic enhancement. \u201cAstarion, Wyll and Gale all have visible abs and pecs but their starting Strength is 8 lmao,\u201d one user wrote, while another said, \u201cOne of my few big complaints about this game \u2013 stats are totally removed from the narrative. Mechanics are one thing, story is another.\u201d Notably, Shadowheart, a character half the size of her male party members, has a Strength of 13. It seems Lady Shar has a way better gym than the other churches of the Forgotten Realms. And while she might be the most conventionally attractive female party member, she has 8 Charisma. Astarion also has 10 Charisma, meaning he\u2019s about as handsome\/charming as the average person in the Forgotten Realms. Where can I get a Spelljammer ticket to this twink paradise? Ultimately, stats had to be displaced from the narrative in order to stop the creators from having to influence the story to accommodate the D&D nerds. The stats are vital when it comes to dungeon delving and fights, but they need to be ignored if they\u2019re going to get in the way of the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 characters are unrealistically hot despite their stats Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 encourages you to romance your gorgeous party members but try not to pay attention to their stats, as they don\u2019t reflect their physical appearance nor how charming they are in conversation. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 uses the D&D 5E rules, which means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}