Lidgar
Gongfarmer
Personally I'd like BG 4 to start in Baldur's Gate perhaps 10-20 years following BG 3. Some of the NPC's from BG 3 are there - Shart, for example (and can be recruited similar to Jaheira and Minsc), but are not the main NPC's, who are all new.
From there I'd like it go Spelljamming or planer, perhaps to Avernus for a confrontation with Zariel. Something to get the story away from the Realms proper.
For game mechanics, I'd like something closer to Solastra, which does a pretty faithful intepretation of the 5e ruleset. The Larian mechanics, while fun a fun take on some of the 5e mechanics, also went a little to far afield for me at times (barrelmancey for example).
From there I'd like it go Spelljamming or planer, perhaps to Avernus for a confrontation with Zariel. Something to get the story away from the Realms proper.
For game mechanics, I'd like something closer to Solastra, which does a pretty faithful intepretation of the 5e ruleset. The Larian mechanics, while fun a fun take on some of the 5e mechanics, also went a little to far afield for me at times (barrelmancey for example).