I don't want to be "Tav"

[Goadfang]

I know this is just me being terrible about renaming my character, but it is incredibly disappointing to design the perfect character, start the game, and while the nautiloid is loading realize that your name is Tav. I don't want to be Tav. Tav is a really terrible name. Either randomly generate the name when you select your race from a pretty expansive list of cool names, which can be changed if desired (preferred) or have a prompt to confirm your name.

[Gingy]

In recent games I played, they have you name your character at the end of creation and sometimes with a prompt. Another awesome design decision!

[Shadow♥]

you can change the name

[Marcos_DS]

If you missed naming your character at chargen, you should be able to recreate your character with a good name in no time - since now you don't have to choose anything unless you forgot your previous choices.

[Clynol]

But Tav wants to be you.

[KDA Seraphine]

Originally posted by Clynol:

But Tav wants to be you.

[Megiddo]

I would love it if they added an optional name generator that had a decent variety of names using Forgotten Realms lore.

[Locklave]

Shut up Tav.

[mila]

This is literally a game about player choice... Just look up some fantasy names on google my dude. It ain't that hard.

[MIxINGitUP]

Originally posted by Communist Bot:

Originally posted by Clynol:

But Tav wants to be you.

[Admod, the Equivocal]

"Tav" Is a nice royal name. Fit for both males and females.

[Trotzki's Strongest Soldier]

Are you ... complaining about missing the naming option, which is literally on the first page of character creation? Yeah, they could have done it better by just asking you to name the character at the end of character creation, but it's really not that hard to just see the field where you can enter any name you want. This is entirely your fault.

[Goadfang]

It's not that I missed it, I named each of my characters. I just feel that it is also not incredibly difficult for them to include a fantasy name generator for the character creation screen. I mean sure, I can just come up with names, ♥♥♥♥, I've been running D&D for 30 years, I've got fantasy names coming out of my arsehole at this point.

It's just that when I'm making all these choices about race and class, and skills and spells and appearance, I tend to forget that one little box up at the front that says "Tav". So I've got my beautiful Zariel Tiefling Fighter and I'm so excited and I click start and the game loads and... ♥♥♥♥! I forgot to change that stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ name! Now I'm Tav. What a dumb name.

So I go back to the main menu, recreate my character, and this time stop and name him Magarah. Problem solved, except, it shouldn't have been a problem at all. Why is the name just one tiny little box? Many games have a prompt after character creation where they ask you the name you would like to be, and you fill it in then. That's been a thing for a long time.

In addition, why not have a random name generator built in? I mean, that's not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard to do, and it could be based on the chosen race, because again, that's not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard to do.

Now, I'm not really complaining, after all, I said that this is my fault, in my haste I tend to click start without thinking about this one crucial field which they have so helpfully prepopulated with "Tav", but If they left it blank and it were a required field then the game could prompt you to fill it in and there would be no Tavs running about at all, but who needs logic right?

What I'm doing is, as requested by the devs in the end cut scene of the early access (seen that twice now with two different non-Tav characters), providing feedback on things I think could make the game better, and that is: 1. Leave the Name field blank and prompt when the player hits start if they haven't filled it in. 2. Go the extra mile and have a random name generator based on race and sex that will help people not steeped in 30 years of Forgotten Realms lore pick a suitable name for their awesome new creation.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[MIxINGitUP]

Originally posted by MIxINGitUP:

Originally posted by Communist Bot:

Tav wants to be you

Yes, but

[SertanDoom]

In new fan fiction about Baldur's Gate- all Adventurers will now have the nickname "Tav".

Even changing the default order of each screen during creation would help here and I have been manually tabbing between them in preferred order with background being the last.

[sethmage]

Originally posted by Goadfang:

What I'm doing is, as requested by the devs in the end cut scene of the early access (seen that twice now with two different non-Tav characters), providing feedback on things I think could make the game better, and that is: 1. Leave the Name field blank and prompt when the player hits start if they haven't filled it in. 2. Go the extra mile and have a random name generator based on race and sex that will help people not steeped in 30 years of Forgotten Realms lore pick a suitable name for their awesome new creation.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Tav disapproves :)