Baldur's Gate 3 will let you respec your characters: 'We want the players to really experiment with what is possible'
Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot going on, and that applies to character classes and subclasses as much as anything else. That kind of choice can be intimidating, especially when the unknowable consequences of a poor decision has the potential to leave you unhappy (or straight-up screwed) 40 hours in. The good news for anyone worried about being hung up by a bad call is that developer Larian Studios has confirmed that players will be able to respec their characters if they want to.
«We wanted to avoid players having to restart the whole game, because it's a very heavy narrative experience,» Larian's Nick Pechenin said during today's livestream. «There's a character you might meet—you will most likely meet—that will allow you reset your class, and reinvest all of the levels.»
And it's not just about recovering from mistakes in character creation. Support for multiclassing in Baldur's Gate 3 will enable players to mix up classes pretty much as they like—if you've ever wanted to be a berserker-bard, here's your chance. Multiclass characters can be extremely powerful, but they can also be, well, the opposite of that. Pechenin said support for respeccing gives players an opportunity to be really creative with their builds, because if their cool idea turns out to be not so cool after all (like, say, a berserker-bard), they've got an escape hatch.
«In multiclassing, there are a lot of really cool combinations, there are some combinations that don't quite work, and we want the players to really experiment with what is possible,» Pechenin said. «And respec really helps with that.»
Personally, I don't think respeccing belongs in Dungeons and Dragons: You put thought into who and what you want to be, and then you carry the consequences of
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