Companions / Origin Characters *Spoilers*

[Kasa]

Is it just me or do they seem a bit much for level 1 characters?
I mean off the back in the first hour of gameplay we have:
- a 200 year old vampire
- a renowned hero of Baldur's Gate who apparently wrestles Giants for fun
- a wizard who is loved by the goddess of magic and apparently a supreme archmage
- a paladin so holy and powerful they have fought ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Baphomet

Like if these were the backgrounds my players gave to me starting at level 1 I'd tell them to go re-write them. I'm not a stick in the mud but for real my dude you're seriously trying to tell me your level 1 wizard sleeps with the goddess of magic on the regular because your that cool and ultra special?

Mean while if you make your own character your super special chocolate covered back story is.... You're from Baldur's Gate.
Holy hell Larian I think you need to take it down like... 30 notches on you DMPCs.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Originally posted by Kasa:

Is it just me or do they seem a bit much for level 1 characters?
I mean off the back in the first hour of gameplay we have:
- a renowned hero of Baldur's Gate who apparently wrestles Giants for fun
- a paladin so holy and powerful they have fought ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Baphomet

I don't see those characters as the starting option for the player to play. I'm guessing those are companions further in the game?

As for the character backgrounds it's fine. It's not that interesting to have Billy Joe the farmer and his dog spot who have done nothing and the alien craft lands in their backyard with mindflayers and they have to go hit their shotgun wand to go defend humanity.

Okay well that is kind of fun. But a party of farmers that have done nothing, orphans and so on is also pretty bland. It can be done but it doesn't really add any interesting story lines. And half the options you mentioned are characters you can play for yourself and discover their own story through their eyes.

[Kasa]

@Mathias Giovanni
Those are the starting origin characters you can choose if you don't make a custom character, alternately the ones you don't choose to play as are the companions you recruit through the game that's my point, you're basically traveling with mythic heros that are all at level 1.

If you don't choose one of them then YOU ARE the farmer with a shotgun. It's like these companions were all written with level 15 adventures in mind, hell Gale is such a super special boy that if he dies and you don't revive him in two days you game literally ends and you have to reload.