Baldur's Gate 3 Player Makes Huge Character Creation Mistake, Instantly Regrets

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  • Players customize the Guardians in Baldur's Gate 3, which can be crucial to the game's story.
  • A Baldur's Gate 3 player turned the Guardian into their mother, instantly regretting their decision.



A Baldur's Gate 3 online player made a massive mistake while creating his Guardian early in the game, with other players pointing out the unfortunate error. The Baldur's Gate 3 the player was ready to begin their adventure before being forced to regret the mistake.

At the beginning Baldur's Gate 3players can customize their own character as well as a Guardian who will help them throughout the game. It is intentionally vague about the purpose of the Guardian until later in the story, causing many players to spend a lot of time customizing them alongside their Tav. Some players even do one to complement the other, with one Baldur's Gate 3 player creating Barbie and Ken as Tav and Guardian. The Guardian is eventually revealed to be an Illith, which can shine the relationship between players and their Guardians in a whole new light.


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That's exactly what happened to Redditor Northfroster, who tried to do a Baldur's Gate 3 Guardian representing their character's mother. It's a nice idea in theory, but there's a problem. Later in Baldur's Gate 3when the Guardian is revealed to be the Emperor, they make advances on the player, making him one of the game's love options. A lot of players in the thread were quick to point this out to Northfroster, who simply said, “So… I kind of forgot about that…”


Baldur's Gate 3 Players make Tav's Guardian their mother, regret

Taking that obvious obstacle out of the equation, this is actually a great concept for a Guardian. With Northfroster's Tav being both a Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge character, as well as a Drow, “killing their mother will be natural”, according to the user. Needless to say, they clarified this as well Baldur's Gate 3 run will be “very anti emperor/guardian”.


Although Larian still has some features like crossplay and photo mode where they come from Baldur's Gate 3the studio has largely moved on from its 2023 success, with no confirmed DLC on the way. It's an interesting but respectable choice from the studio, which is moving on to its own projects. Earlier this month, Swen Vincke confirmed that Larian's next game might not be released until 2029, which will surely come as sad news for fans of the developer. It makes sense though. Games of the scale Larian is trying to create should take years, even with a large team, and the studio has never seemed like the type to rush products out the door.

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