You still have a great deal of choice – their appearance and class are entirely up to you – but they have pre-defined personalities for you to role-play. Pre-built characters are really interesting. During our hands-on there were four to choose from, and Larian promise there will be more to come, too. While you are free to create any character you want in Original Sin 2, you can select from a set of pre-built heroes, too. Pre-built characters? What do you mean? Like Geralt in The Witcher?Īlmost. There are also special tags that are only available for pre-built characters, too. There are ten tags, and they really help you build a character that’s unique to the personality you want to role-play. If you take the ‘jester’ tag, for instance, you’ll be able to select unique dialogue that’s based around practical jokes or being a bit daft. When creating your character you can pick two aspiration tags, such as ‘scholar’ and ‘villain’, and these unlock relevant options during conversation. ‘Nature’ tags, based on your gender and race, dictate how NPCs react to you (for example, lizards don’t much enjoy the company of elves), while ‘aspiration’ tags take this to a more personal level. Yeah, they dictate how you interact with the world.

The biggest addition though is tags, which are really what make your character unique.

The points and talents-based RPG system makes a return in a familiar but improved guise, and you have a strong level of control over this when building your character. You can even pick an instrument that will play a little melody when your character achieves something. You can choose a race – human, dwarf, elf, or lizard – and a class from a huge selection including battlemages, witches, shadowblades, and clerics. But there’s so much more to creating a hero this time.

For one, you’ll only be creating a single character, although they do default to Roderick or Scarlett depending on your gender. What’s character creation like? Is it Roderick and Scarlett again?

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