BG3 needs a cute tabaxi companion to succeed

[N/A]

This is an inarguable fact.

Consider this: Morrowind gave you a possible catfolk wife and is widely lauded as one of the pinnacles of RPG design, launching the Elder Scrolls franchise out of obscurity and cementing Bethesda as one of the undisputed titans not only of the genre, but of game development on the whole.

The general decline in the RPG genre has less to do with stagnation and developers like Bioware and CDPR basically cratering and more to do with the frankly inexcusable absence of romancable catfolk.

引用自 An actual philistine：

I need a wife who's basically a human wife except she's purple and hates sunlight and bullies me

引用自 Person who unironically drinks tap water without Brita filtering technology：

I need a wife who's basically a human wife except she's 3ft tall and raids innocent villages and bullies me

Sorry, drow enthusiasts, goblin fanciers. Tabaxi must come first for the health of the game. The facts don't lie.

引用自 Person who doesn't meet their required intake of Omega 3 fatty acids：

They can't make one of the main characters a beastfolk!

Exhibit B, one of Larian's, and indeed the RPG genre's, most widely celebrated creations: Divinity: Original Sin 2. Notice the red lizard on the cover, the Red Prince, who, if you pay close attention, qualifies under our contemporary definitions as a beastfolk, by nature of having a clearly inhuman skeletal structure. Indeed, his presence could well explain the resounding success that game has enjoyed since release.

I want to see this game succeed and flourish, and it should be clear by this point that there's really only one clear avenue to accomplishing this. I recommend replacing Shadowheart to make room for this new tabaxi character. Make it happen.

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

I miss the days when it was only the classic races with a few additions on top (like the planetouched), and when they came with disadvantages so the choice was a lot more meaningful...

They really switched their target demographic with 4e and haven't really adjusted it since, only adding more over-the-top options that are mostly ridiculously out of place in the parts of FR the modules/games normally take place.

That said, the githyanki being in BG3 is actually a brilliant addition, given their ties to the plot, and there's effort being put into giving you a lot of options to roleplay one. Still, though, they aren't bird people. Or turtle people. I'd rather have a Genasi, honestly.

[Panic Fire]

引用自 Ereghor the Enigmatic：

I miss the days when it was only the classic races with a few additions on top (like the planetouched), and when they came with disadvantages so the choice was a lot more meaningful...

They really switched their target demographic with 4e and haven't really adjusted it since, only adding more over-the-top options that are mostly ridiculously out of place in the parts of FR the modules/games normally take place.

That said, the githyanki being in BG3 is actually a brilliant addition, given their ties to the plot, and there's effort being put into giving you a lot of options to roleplay one. Still, though, they aren't bird people. Or turtle people. I'd rather have a Genasi, honestly.

Genasi just got buffed in 5e actually. Fantasy races being playable has always been a thing in D&D. Every enemy creature people fight in D&D has been over the years asked for to have a playable version of. If you look at old homebrew the vast majority of it is simply player versions of different races and creatures. 5e has been out for a long time now actually. 5e dropped in 2014, so its been out for 8 years now. They've add tons of player creatures to it over the years. (and the homebrew for player races is crazy high) People do want to just play crazy things. Gamers tend to power game rpg's a lot. Which is why they generally put there player race as just one option on there goal to create there build, while others see race as what they want to play and build around that. While others have a build and just want to pick a specific race to go with it.

http://oganm.com/dndstats/

Human of course is still the most popular race (human variant being probably the most powerful player race in 5e excluding the races like Yaun-Ti pureblood that most dm's refuse to let players run)

[cl656]

引用自 BigAlzBub：

引用自 Panic Fire：

Um base race makes sense because they were obviously picked up by the mindflayer ship lol.

And then everyone will want the Aarakocra, Tortles, Leonids, Satyrs, Centaurs, Owlin, Bugbears, Changelings, Fairies, Firbolgs, Goliaths, Harengons, Kenkus, Lizardfolk, Minotaurs, Shifters, Tritons, Yuan-Ti, Kaleshtar, Warforged and god knows what else, and the game will never get finished because they have to a) do the models for them, and b) do the interactions for them. If you limit player characters to just the PHB, and possibly things which are native (and common) to the Swordcoast, then that is a sensible limitation.

The Mindflayers had no shortage of targets to infect when they were grabbing people from cities, are they really going to jump their ship thousands of miles just to pick up some Jaguar people? Yes, the ship did end up jumping about all over the place, but they didn't stay anywhere long enough to start grabbing targets of opportunity. They were literally fleeing the avenging wrath of the Githyanki.

Now you understand the toxicity that is fan service. It has the potential to ruin things.

[N/A]

引用自 BigAlzBub：

And then everyone will want the Aarakocra, Tortles, Leonids, Satyrs, Centaurs, Owlin, Bugbears, Changelings, Fairies, Firbolgs, Goliaths, Harengons, Kenkus, Lizardfolk, Minotaurs, Shifters, Tritons, Yuan-Ti, Kaleshtar, Warforged and god knows what else, and the game will never get finished because they have to a) do the models for them, and b) do the interactions for them.

Regardless of whether Larian becomes compelled to include every exotic race option to BG3 upon implementing tabaxi - a stretch, even before considering any race option besides tabaxi is extraneous and completely unnecessary - the fact remains that the benefits of tabaxi inclusion vastly outweigh the costs, however high they are. The facts simply do not lie.

引用自 BigAlzBub：

I'm not opposed to the idea...however Tabaxi are native to Maztica, which is basically in the same sort of place as South America, where as the Sword Coast is...well basically in the same sort of place as Europe. Now stranger things have happened (In BG2 you can find Halflings from Athas, which is not even on the same prime material plane as Faerun), so it is going to need an incredibly good story as to why they are there, and how you can even understand them (although if they have a parasite, maybe language won't be an issue?). So, having one as a companion, sure, why not (providing there is a decent reason), but making them a base character race, that seems a bit...implausible.

引用自 BigAlzBub：

The Mindflayers had no shortage of targets to infect when they were grabbing people from cities, are they really going to jump their ship thousands of miles just to pick up some Jaguar people?

A tabaxi's presence in Baldur's Gate is hardly an unusual coincidence, as official material goes on to elaborate:

引用自 Volo's Guide to Monsters：

Hailing from a strange and distant land, wandering tabaxi are catlike humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world's wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost.

This is not to say there are a colossal number of them in any given place, but even if most tabaxi are homebodies, a handful's presence in a major civilian center is not, in fact, so extraordinary as to warrant a complicated personal explanation.

Hopefully the folly of tabaxi exclusion, and inversely, the wisdom of their inclusion, has been laid bare.

[Dizzy]

Larian, give this man his furries

[Silverthorn]

It is more about something.. Exotic. Bg1 you really didn't have anything like w awaifu. Bg2, Viconia {AND ONLY VICONIA!!!} ahhem there were others I suppose. You could bring her to the light side as LN cleric of ellestree. Damm awesome. Haer Delas tiefling for the ladies. Back then Tieflings were rare as rocking horse doodoo.
In Never winter, your love intrest as a lady was also a tiefling, this one with a tail. While for the guys a reborn human into an asimar paladin, anti paladin, into an avatar.... It was complicated. Exotic to say the least.
Morrowind 1 2 3 :P, you had vampire and were-wolf-bear etc love intrests.

A tabaxxi might be too close to the furry land. Def would be a great sticky finger thief though. Similar to a kender.

Long story, as long as it is well written and not shoe horned.

[Wes]

引用自 N/A：

BG3 needs a cute tabaxi companion to succeed

If it was a half-tabaxi, would Bg3 only half succeed?

And what if Larian added a "Leonin" race instead somehow, would that be considered Tabaxi-worthy?? They aren't labeled as Tabaxi though...but look like lions. 😽🦁

Personally I don't mind any cat-folk race to exist in BG3,, & always felt that Laezel would make a great looking cheetara too. (With the help of modding of course.) https://youtu.be/gZkPsJqDuis