Tav?

[Chaosolous]

Why called Tav? Is there some significance to this?

I didn't see a way to rename my character when I went through the tut real quick, but I was breezing through it. I'm assuming you can, in fact, change your character name?

[mutantbeth]

yes u can change it

[cire87]

yes u can change the name and i have no idea why that is the default

[VolcanoSheep]

I don't think it can be changed in EA but full release will definitely allow it.

I'll be giving my tiefling a more lore friendly name myself.

[This is me]

Its just default, like "NPC" or "Name", you can change it in EA and of course in the full game.

My bard is called Dancing Fool and i get to introduce myself as it in game. :D

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

everyone always forgets to change their characters name because for some reason your name is on the very first page. the page you dont even look at. this is really really bad design and i cant believe it hasnt been fixed yet (name should be the last thing you enter when you hit venture forth)

[VolcanoSheep]

Originally posted by This is me:

Its just default, like "NPC" or "Name", you can change it in EA and of course in the full game.

My bard is called Dancing Fool and i get to introduce myself as it in game. :D

Interesting, my tav option has always been greyed out for some reason but I've never spent long in character creation in EA preferring to wait for full release to but serious effort into my character.

[Detective Costeau]

All baldur's Gate protagonists are actually called <CHARNAME> in my headcanon.
(now that's a joke that makes me feel old)

[jonandbeth]

Quick side question.... Did I read right that you can either create your own character from scratch (like most rpgs), OR I can choose to have my "PC" be asterion or gale or any of the companion characters in BG3?

[VolcanoSheep]

Originally posted by jonandbeth:

Quick side question.... Did I read right that you can either create your own character from scratch (like most rpgs), OR I can choose to have my "PC" be asterion or gale or any of the companion characters in BG3?

This is correct, you can choose to play as a character created by larian or origin characters as they're called.

[Detective Costeau]

Originally posted by jonandbeth:

Quick side question.... Did I read right that you can either create your own character from scratch (like most rpgs), OR I can choose to have my "PC" be asterion or gale or any of the companion characters in BG3?

More or less. I think there's a few companion characters that can't be the MC, but most of them can if you want.

[This is me]

Originally posted by VolcanoSheep:

Originally posted by This is me:

Its just default, like "NPC" or "Name", you can change it in EA and of course in the full game.

My bard is called Dancing Fool and i get to introduce myself as it in game. :D

Interesting, my tav option has always been greyed out for some reason but I've never spent long in character creation in EA preferring to wait for full release to but serious effort into my character.

Most likely because how its built in EA, not very logical and can be missed easily. Also i think some action reset it, i think race change. It should be fixed at release, the rebuilt the whole character creation.

[MrSoul]

Cos nintendo would have sued if they set the default name for UI field to be Link.

[Mister Inadequate]

Originally posted by VolcanoSheep:

I don't think it can be changed in EA but full release will definitely allow it.

I'll be giving my tiefling a more lore friendly name myself.

Really? I never used Tav as my character's name in EA.

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Why called Tav? Is there some significance to this?

I didn't see a way to rename my character when I went through the tut real quick, but I was breezing through it. I'm assuming you can, in fact, change your character name?

Swen's dog is named Gustav and before it was announced BG3 was known as 'project Gustav'
Tav is just the shortened version of Gustav. So basically it's an homage to Swen's dog.

[jonandbeth]

Originally posted by VolcanoSheep:

Originally posted by jonandbeth:

Quick side question.... Did I read right that you can either create your own character from scratch (like most rpgs), OR I can choose to have my "PC" be asterion or gale or any of the companion characters in BG3?

This is correct, you can choose to play as a character created by larian or origin characters as they're called.

Holy crap, that is awesome. Larian has done so many things right with this game, makes you wonder why no one did it before.
Now I ahve to decide origin character or created one....

Seems like origin would be more interesting with another story line possible, where as a created character would allow me to role play, but not have a voice actor or a storyline.

Hmmm....