Tavern's gallery of Tavs (a.ka main character display)

[Cahir]

Please post your main character ideas (with shiny screenshots from character creation if possible). Since we're still before release, here's just an idea for my first character. Not sure if ultimately this is the one I will play, but it will definitely be one of the choices. It's totally headcannon, with use of canonical characters.

[Dalamar the Gold] - half-elf gold draconic bloodline sorcerer. An offspring and an apprentice and of famous gold dragon Larendrammagar, also known as "Nexus". Nexus happened to visit Evermeet frequently in disguise a couple of decades ago, posing as sun elf mage Rhiannon, where he got involved in an affair with a strikingly beautiful sun elf sorcerer Amaril Sunglow. Unknowingly to Nexus, Amaril got pregnant and didn't say anything to Rhiannon, because she accidentally learned, that he is in fact a gold dragon, and no other than Larendrammagar himself. She was furious he was able to deceive her so easily, while also afraid of the reaction of her people, when they learn, that she gave birth to a child of the dragon. She was not able to hide this secret before Nexus too long, though, and when the dragon learned about it, he offered Amaril to take the soon-to-be-born boy to his home, to raise him and teach him magic. Amaril reluctantly agreed, and Nexus took an infant boy to his secret lair in Desertmouth Mountains to train him as a powerful mage. But rather than mother's talent to traditional magic, the boy inherited an innate affinity to the Weave, more akin to his father's own abilities. Because of his heritage, he also acquired dragon-like abilities of his father, like fire breath. Before he took his son with him, Nexus and Amaril named the boy Dalamar, after the (in)famous mage from Krynn, who Nexus had the privilege to met a couple of times in the past, through their mutual acquaintance, Elminster of Shadowdale.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

I'm impressed how much thought you have put into the details!

I'm not familiar enough with Forgotten Realms lore to come up with such a detailed backstory, and I thought I'll wait until I actually see and read all the details in character creation, but then I thought maybe it's fun to compare what I thought I'd play and what the real outcome would be.

I don't have a name in mind yet, because I'll have to see her to know what she will be called (if that makes any sense) but my idea for now is an Asmodeus Tiefling, maybe one who was born into a human family (that can sometimes happen if devilish blood was thin in both parents and the traits only dormant).
Her backstory and personality are still vague concepts but I'm thinking something like that she liked to watch performers and admired them both for their dexterous talents and their charm to catch a crowd's attention to the extent that it's no longer relevant what you are, but what you do. At some point in her youth she ran off with a troupe and trained to become a bard, drawn to music but also flashy and fast knife performance, so it's going to be College of Swords for her.
I intend to play her as someone who is good at heart but also doesn't pretend that the fiendish blood isn't there.

And then I might show off the screenshots that turn out to be a high half-elf rogue who goes Arcane Trickster after all, who knows

 

[Antimatter]

Because of this topic, I got so excited that launched BG3 for the first time since Oct 2020 and spent more than 4 hours just with the character creator alone thinking about possible characters and their appearances. It was only in the Early Access build, so it's outdated and limited, but still.

Probably after these hours, the number of options for my possible Tavs got decreased from ~12 to ~6. Getting there!

 

[Cahir]

Behold, Dalamar the Gold

 

[Antimatter]

Meet Lucius the Warlock, subclass The Great Old One, about to start escaping the Nautiloid ship. He's a Seldarine Drow with an Aristocrat background.

 

[Xzarloxara]

I have no idea what I am doing since I didn't play during EA, but I eventually made a female Forest Gnome Druid character.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

Here is Calliditas, Bard, Asmodeus Tiefling, Entertainer background. She's still struggling how to get Shadowheart out of her pod .

 

[shmity72]

I have no idea what I am doing since I didn't play during EA, but I eventually made a female Forest Gnome Druid character.

I really think that's a neat one.

 

[Black Elk]

Photis

"Well, I was a curious person..."

She's mostly in it for the storm robes and a new haircut hehe

 

[cookiecup]

Woah! You guys created amazing characters... I'm feeling inspired! I'm leaning towards creating a Rogue, Arcane Trickster. Updating here once I made one. ^^

 

[Serg_BlackStrider]

Grim Face: ever-curious Lightfoot Halfling Warlock with The Archfey subclass and Sage background, focused on solving things with Arcana, History, Nature and Investigation skills whenever possible.

 

[Zaxares]

I created my usual (and beloved) Human Male Wizard (no sub-classes. I like being able to cast ALL the spells!) Tek'ran Al'Hazrad who basically is my alter-ego in most fantasy RPGs, although I'm not sure yet if I'll keep his current look. I might go back and recreate him and some point. So far I created him just to poke into the game and start exploring.

Btw, I've heard it before, but what's the story behind the "Tavs" name?

 

[Antimatter]

BG3 was codenamed Project Gustav. Gustav was the name of Swen's dog. It became 'Tav. By default, your character in Early Access was called Tav, and the place where you could change it, wasn't apparent enough, so thousands of players started to play the Early Access build with their characters named Tav (I was one of them as well). It's changed in the release version now.

 

[Zaxares]

Ahh, that explains it. I had a feeling that Tav was the default name for all characters since I saw it in the Name field, but I still had no idea how it came to be, so thanks for the explanation.

Also, I just reached Level 2 and apparently you HAVE to pick a Wizard specialization? But at the same time, it looks like Specializing no longer locks you out of being able to cast spells from other schools. Not sure if this is a 5E thing or if it was a change Larian made for BG3. Anyway, had a hard time choosing between Evocation or Necromancy, but I ultimately went with Evocation because being able to just freely chuck Fireballs right into the middle of your party without harming them sounds like an amazing benefit. XD The Necromancy benefit sounds super cool (once per turn, if you kill an enemy you gain back 2x the damage you dealt to the enemy in health, 3x if it was a Necromancy spell) from a roleplaying perspective, but on the other hand, healing is what I've got Clerics for.

 

[Nimran]

That’s a 5E thing. Specializations don’t take anything away from you anymore, they just add some cool bonuses to your character every so often as you level.

 

[Nimran]

I’ve started several characters already, trying to figure which one will be fun to play. I’m taking it slow though, since I can’t seem to handle playing these games for very long. My latest attempt is a wood elf monk named Ina (short for Inalia). I plan to follow the Way of Shadows, while taking two levels in Great Ol’ One warlock, both for role playing reasons, and for Devil’s Sight. It should let me see through the magical Darkness I’ll pick up at monk level 3, and give me an edge over the foes I will face.

 

[alice_ashpool]

Unarmoured, Dex-based Dual-wield Eldritch Knight - also Gnome.

 

[Xzarloxara]

For some reason unknown to me, I decided to make a Gold Dragonborn Oath of the Ancients Paladin with The Dark Urge origin. I probably won't use it much with my Druid around, but he sure looks good!

 

[Xzarloxara]

After a while, my Dark Urge got a bit too dark for my liking so I think I will give up on him. In his place, I made Simyaz; a Githyanki Sorceress with Blue Dragon blood. Extra credit goes to whoever can figure out the origin of that name, btw.

 

[Black Elk]

I also had restart andromeda syndrome and made a Gith sorceress! hehe I did her with 1 lvl in Bard for my red witch wild card...



In my head cannon Tav'itha forms an astral metal band with Lae'zel, and even though they're not really that great they still manage to keep it wild. They mostly play Dance with the Dead covers lol

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Just wanted to see the dialogue options there mostly. I kinda know I don't really have it in me to go all the way with Bard as my main class, but it synergizes alright with the prime in CHA. Kind of a self nerf I guess, but I figure in the early game being one level off the curve isn't too bad. Like I just got the shatter, and replace spell is pretty powerful. There's always some competition there between misty step, mirror image maybe invisibility, or cloud of daggers and scorching ray. Seem to be my mains, the others are like too situational.

Healing word is a nice touch from Bard though, and some flourishes to make use of the instrument slot and such, just to make it feel a bit more like a Bard run. Plus I get the better robes which was another major factor there for me. Of all the starting outfits, I think the Sorcerers' robes are the only threads that look sufficiently Githyanki for my taste hehe. I had some weirdness with my Balanced saves, exclamation points and such, so I started over on Tactician, since act 1 is pretty meta now for me. I figure goofing around with Bard is a bit of flavor boon but a power malus, to compensate for the awesome power up of sorcerous meta magic. Anyway we can Withers our way to pure class Sorc if it's really necessary to smash a big fight towards the end, but the Bard flavor was a fun touch.

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I don't think Wyll is fooling anyone with his hat hehe.






Then a wild magic surge turned us all into cats and dogs...

lol






Clutch!

Pretty good times so far!