Baldur’s Gate 3 Fans Want An Option To Change Character Appearance

You can respec at any time in Baldur’s Gate 3, but you’re stuck with your mug, ugly or not. At least, for now. Fans on the subreddit are calling on Larian Studios to let them change their appearance like they can their stats, rerolling for a better jawline.

„I created a Tiefling to start a co-op game with my friends and I kind of rushed its appearance because they wanted to start the game already,“ Omega2307 posted, garnering over 1,300 upvotes in only nine hours. „I’m sure there are more people in my or a similar situation that want to change their character appearance after testing it out. Surprisingly I haven’t seen a way to respec looks after the option was there in Divinity: Original Sin 2.“

Plenty in the comments agree and are calling on the community to make themselves heard on Reddit and in the official Discord, asking Larian to consider the option for a future update. In DOS2, you can use the green mirror in The Lady Vengeance to change the appearance of you and your party members at any given time. Fans are hoping for something similar in Baldur’s Gate 3, and the equivalent spot to add that option would be in the camp, where you can respec your stats.

As of right now, the only option in Baldur’s Gate 3 is to use a disguise spell or item to shapeshift or enlarge. It’s a crude method that isn’t permanent and doesn’t allow for as much precision as the actual character creator. In all likelihood, modders will beat Larian to the punch, so there’ll be probably an option at some point. But we’ll no doubt see console players making the same request when it hits PS5 next month and Xbox in future–mods won’t work there.

There’s also the Guardian elephant in the room. You don’t just customise yourself at the start of the game, but your better half who pops up in your dreams and helps keep the tadpole at bay. Therefore keeping you from becoming an eldritch monster–that’s a different kind of changing appearance.

There’s no way to alter your Guardian once you get stuck in, so like your own mug, theirs is fixed. DOS2’s customisation options let you alter your party members‘ looks mid-game, so it wouldn’t be unprecedented for Larian Studios to let us mess with our Guardian after we hit play too.

We’ll have to wait and see, but it’s clear that fans are itching for an option to change their look during their adventure, rather than having to start all over again just out of cosmetic necessity.