Character creation
When starting a new game, the player is presented with the character creation screen, where they may either select an origin character, or create a custom character.
"Who are you?"
Origins
Who are you?
- Origin Characters
Backgrounds
Your history and what shapes you as a person.
Race
Your lineage and innate abilities.
Starting class
What you can do and the potential to grow as an adventurer.
Ability scores
Abilities represent aspects of creature's physical and mental attributes, represented in numerical ability scores, from which ability scorer modifiers are derived from – these affect most dice rolls.
Baldur's Gate 3 uses a point buy system, with 27 points available to spend on your ability scores. The following rules apply during character creation:
- You may not reduce any ability score below 8.
- You may not increase any ability score above 15.
- Each ability score increase up to 13 costs one Ability Point; 14 and 15 each cost two Ability Points. 15 is the maximum that can be purchased.
- Two bonuses are applied at the end, one at +2 and another +1. This allows a starting ability as high as 17.
At higher levels (4, 8, and 12), you can increase these ability scores via the Ability Score Increase feature. You may also find certain magical items that can increase or decrease an ability score.
Skills
Your talents and abilities to interact or adapt with the world’s surroundings.
- Choose 2 to 4 skills to be proficient in, based on your starting class and background.
- Skills and their corresponding abilities
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