Baldur's Gate 3 developer has made a strange choice for the RPG's 'canon experience', a combination of character and class that I certainly would never have considered

A Baldur’s Gate 3 developer has a particular tone for the game’s “canon experience” – a combination of character and class that I admit I’ve never thought about.

The answer to which of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Origin characters is most closely tied to the game’s story has been a hotly contested topic of discussion since launch. However, publishing director Michel Douse has an unlikely pitch.

Playing BG3 as a durge bard is the canon experience, I’m happy to debate thisSeptember 27, 2024

Now the Dark Urge is as reasonable a choice as any – their attachment to Act 3 characters like Orin and Gortash means the character is quite involved in the story, and there are plenty of Durge-specific cutscenes and dialogue actions that definitely make them normal. as sensible a pitch as Astarion or Shadowheart.

But where Douse goes off-piste, for me anyway, is in his choice of class. The Dark Urge is fully customizable, meaning you can choose the race and class you like for your version of the character. Bard might therefore be a completely worthy suggestion if it weren’t for one key detail: the default Dark Urge is a Dragonborn Sorcerer, which is why you so often see the character depicted as a white lizard in long, flowing robes.

The choice of class is also a matter of personal opinion more than anything, and while my bard may have been at the heart of the best possible Baldur’s Gate 3 party(and I also acknowledge the validity of Paladin, which seems to be everyone’s most popular class), the idea of a bard being the default urge is strange. Douse suggests that he enjoys debating his choice with anyone, although his cowardly decision to lock his answers suggests otherwise.

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio wanted to make two RPGs at once, but the developers “got consumed by the ambitions of the one we want to release first.“

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