Larian teases the future option to change your Baldur’s Gate 3 character appearance

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If you, like me, immediately regret any decision you’ve ever made - well, at least in terms of video games - and have found yourself longing for a different face to stare at for hours and hours of conversations in Baldur's Gate 3, there might be good news on the way. Larian has teased that it’s working on a future way to change your appearance in its hugely popular D&D game.

The current inability to change your character appearance in Baldur’s Gate 3 is perhaps a strange one, giving the freedom provided by the rest of the RPG, from shagging bears (and pretty much anyone/thing you meet) to surrounding NPCs with explosive barrels before turning them into a bunch of warmed-through goop. Even the game’s character creation is replete with a welcome buffet of options, from genitals to gender, and you can respec your class, spells and cantrips.

All this is to say that it’s a noticeably odd omission that you can’t change how your character looks once you’re past character creation - not just in terms of their actual physical appearance, but even more cosmetic things like hair, makeup and piercings.

That might change in the future, if a tweet from Larian’s publishing director Michael Douse is anything to go by. (Well spotted, PC Gamer.)

Douse replied to Twitterer TheTrustedTitan’s desperate plea to “please let me change how i look in the game. I'm BEGGING!!!!” by teasing: “Things are being cooked”.

Things are being cooked

Larian’s previous game Divinity: Original Sin 2 allowed characters to freely change their appearance after the game’s first act by visiting a mirror in their home base. (The only things you couldn’t change were your character’s race and gender, and even the former could be sidestepped eventually using