Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Break Down Every Playable Race

oh yeah they they hate mindfulness more than anybody else nobody particularly likes mindfully well some of us do but it seems like them a little bit too much but no judging [Music] hi my name is Sam Wenger I'm the game director on Bald skate 3. I'm Adam Smith lead writer Baldur's Gate 3 larion Studios I'm Nick the channel I'm a lead systems designer at Labyrinth thank you I'm on the story side for elves we had a lot of discussions about how they fit into the world the one the more common races um their reactivity is often about how long lived they are they're very long-lived race so we don't assume how old your character is but they often reflect on things with a lot more um fast sightings Elsa actually the most picked race in the Early Access of Boulders Gate 3 followed closely by hafels and by tifflings for release we're updating the human a little bit we're giving them a few features so that they feel as interesting as other races to play and for the human in terms of narrative the actual opposite to the elf so humans in feroon are relatively short-lived they live as long as we do which isn't very long sadly so they experience change in turmoil much more often where 100 years after bg2 the humans don't remember it it's a previous generation for them for a lot of the other races it's within their personal memory it's hard to say something about them because they're just very very popular they're a bit of Elf and a bit of human so I feel like players find it really easy to connect to half Health it's a bit of fantasy but it's also relatable enough that you see yourself being a bit of a half elf probably even more popular than the elf and one of our Origins is a half of Shadow heart the bit I always remember is I think it's byzel at some point refers to as an elf in Shadow heart is like half health I love it oh tickling is my favorite race in dg3 actually I love their pointy pointy horns and I just overall I don't know I just like two things a very important class uh because there's a lot of uh tiefling specific characters in the game they're very Central to our story you meet a lot of them in act one and partly that's because we are sequentially after the events descent with Venice so a lot of tieflings are fleeing some of the first refugees because of events that have already happened in the world so you meet a lot of them they're Outsiders outcasts often we have an origin character tiefling as well Carla um they're great yeah uh my favorite most likely because they're the aliens on this world the alien monk race of gifianki um in DND there's actually two races but we're representing gifianki once uh Lazelle the origin character is a gif Yankee they're marshall-like and some of them have access to astral plane this is where they hunt mine flares mine flares are kind of the the mortal enemies I think yeah right yeah oh yeah they hate Minds players more than anybody else nobody particularly likes mindful well some of us do a little bit too much no judges the cool thing about huffling is that if you're a huffling barbarian and you have other friends for hustling barbarians you can throw each other uh like this ball of rage um because you have enough strength and so you can play this Cannonball build that I really recommend I always think of Lord of the Rings one of my favorite cards in the game is a halfling I'm not going to say who it is it's an NPC and we have this image of halflings that comes from d d it also comes from Hobbits it's hard to avoid them but they are the Cozy people they stay at home by half and fire and want a peaceful life this one does not oh my favorites hello drought um yeah I mean the they're my favorites and again it's the uh it's the the outsidiness of General I find really interesting uh we don't have only evil draft we represent different kinds of drought uh but my favorite adult Swan I like playing evil characters um one of my favorite things in the game which people will see in Early Access we've improved it a little is uh the reactivity to drow you walk around and sometimes people avoid eye contact with you they're afraid of you and it's really cool uh I love the reactivity we have to draw in the game in fact there's some extra activity to drowse in the game that we decided to split them off into uh being represented as a separate race in character creation a lot of people pointed out that droughts should be technically a kind of Elf they are elves but for us there was just so much gameplay behind being a drama that we really wanted to highlight it and don't tell the draw that we got beards visit everybody yeah the dwarves are the first so I love randomizing characters because the carrots created just throws up really cool things pretty much every time it froze up a dwarf at me and I'm just like wow what the heck are you because they're so Broad and they're they're kind of square like you know um dwarf barbarians just rock they're also very tough in gameplay a really good pick if you want to go for like a really tanky uh build heavier than they should be is when you try to throw them around and you're not that strong it doesn't work uh very throwable nums are the inventors of of DnD world and one of the good things is that if you pick a certain Amish sub race you actually start with a little music box that it's implied that your character created kind of tinkered into and if you click on that music box you will hear the theme of Baldur's Gate 3. and and there are another one that's very Central to a plot we have a couple of known factions and yeah I mean it goes into the invented nature of them it also goes into the history of the salt Coast so they're very Central to our story finally it's a big Community favorite the half works the half arcs really well incentivize us to include these strong body types for all over races I think if we wouldn't have half Forks we might not have shipped it but now thanks to half Works everybody can be buff uh as buff as you want much cooler than I expected them to be I think the art team did a really good job on them he had half foxes and PCs a long time before we had them as playable characters in The builds we'll be developing on and uh you know you run into them and you see them and you go when when can I be a half org and now we can't uh Dragonborn um I have a lineage that goes up to dragons at least they say so and you can pick what color of a dragon uh your ancestors were this changes what element you can resist in the game and what kind of dragon breath you have as well as some high level stuff as well this is quite a bit of reactivity the Dragonborn they're uh throwing's a strange Place full of strange people so nobody's aghast to see one but uh but people do find you unusual um you know the the most common race um the thing about them is you just have to look at them I think they're the most gorgeous race I've ever seen in a video game like they're incredible yeah definitely what I'm gonna play I mean like they are the the the most badass characters that we have there are they're just really really cool and a sorcerer Dragonborn with dragon blood has like this special Sheen of his ancestors inside of them it's fantastic foreign 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Published: Sat Jul 15 2023