One Underrated BG3 Character Can Totally Transform Tav & Other Origin Characters
07.01.2024 - 20:11
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Customizing a character at the start of the game can be a daunting task, but this initial round is only the first foray into a world of rich choices and extensive freedom to tweak and retool. Some of the later ways to edit characters are obvious, like selecting new spells and feats when leveling up, but others can be a little easier to miss. Most importantly, it isn't only a custom Tav protagonist that can be the recipient of major overhauls, as offers opportunities to overhaul the whole party according to personal preferences.
Fundamental changes to characters in 'sinspiration, can vary between groups. How much freedom players should have to go back to the drawing board is ultimately up to the dungeon master in some regards. Multi-classing is officially supported, as is rolling a new character after one dies, but retconning a character's unique attributes is often best determined on a case-by-case basis. For, of course, there has to be one universal set of rules, and developer Larian Studios has chosen to err on the side of more liberal possibilities.
Withers is a particularly mysterious presence in any camp, with a dried-up undead appearance and a refusal to answer too many questions that can gesture toward an unknown backstory that begs to be told. Even for those who find him unwelcome, however, his utility is what really makes him hard to ignore. Although he's happy to criticize the protagonist or scorn certain ideas, Withers is also willing to provide some extraordinary help, and he can be a saving grace for any campaign that's going poorly.
Resurrecting party members and recruiting hirelings from Withers are particularly memorable possibilities, which can respectively boost fighting power going into a battle and recover tragic situations coming out of one. His most transformative skill, however, is the ability to change the class of a character and reset them to Level 1 for customization purposes while maintaining their XP. The service costs only 100 gold, which seems like a nominal fee considering just how transformative it is, and comes in at half the cost of one of his resurrections.
doesn't exactly hide Withers's respeccing prowess, but it does make it fairly easy to ignore or forget about. In dialogue with Withers, it's listed beneath other options, and the description merely mentions changing class in a way that could just as easily refer to general multi-classing. Anyone who doesn't much care for hirelings might also end up leaving Withers alone by the time they might want to respec and change classes in , and the undead figure isn't the sort of character to seek the protagonist out to complain about general neglect.
Respeccing a Tav character is a good way to patch up character creation