Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you customize your racial bonuses
A Baldur’s Gate 3 screenshot has sent many number-crunchers into overdrive as one player spots the potential for more deeply customizable attributes in the RPG game. As Baldur’s Gate 3 draws ever closer, one recent snap of the Dungeons & Dragons game’s character creation screen reveals deeper options for how you’ll be able to build your Baldur’s Gate 3 races, and it looks like we might be getting the popular Tasha’s ruleset.
By default, your character’s ability scores in Baldur’s Gate 3 are determined somewhat by their race. Each race comes with specific bonuses – Gold Dwarf characters, for example, get two bonus Constitution and one additional Wisdom, while Drow characters get two Dexterity points and one in Charisma. They’re a nice way to both add some lore-driven flavor and help shape where your character excels.
Analyzing a screenshot of a Tiefling Rogue shared to the PlayStation blog, a player on the Baldur’s Gate 3 Reddit remarks that the character’s ability score balance isn’t using its default bonuses. Instead, they note, it appears they’re using one of the most popular ruleset alternatives.
Called Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, or TCE for short, this basically allows you to sweep up those stat point bonuses and plonk them wherever you like. So instead of having your Zariel Tiefling’s usual bonuses of two Charisma and one Strength, you could put those two points into Dexterity and one into Intelligence – in fact, that appears to be exactly what has been done in the screenshot below.
As thread creator ‘LuCasteles’ notes, it’s not possible for a Zariel Tiefling’s Dexterity stat to reach any higher than 15 naturally, or for their Strength stat to fall below 9. However, the character shown has 17 Dexterity and 8
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