A dilemma of great importance

[anghraine]

I'm really loving Baldur's Gate 3 and I absolutely adore my paladin, Alexandra (see icon!).

But. I also really like four of the companions—Shadowheart, Gale, Karlach, and Wyll—and I want to bring them all along to have fun conversations and explore their stories and such. But there's only room for three. :(

Originally, I was going to play as Shadowheart before I got lured by the siren call of appearance customization, and that would give me the four characters I want. But Alexandra, my girl :(

Damn Larian for making their characters too engaging, lol.

Comments

[anghraine]

Hah, that makes sense! I'm also torn because I want to romance Shadowheart but also Karlach is so great, so another playthrough is definitely in my future.

[alias_sqbr]

If my experience with Bioware games is any guide I am going to want to romance EVERYONE, or near enough. This may take a while...

[anghraine]

LOL, just maybe! Are you planning on playing as any of the companions?

[alias_sqbr]

I'm not sure! What's it like?

(icon is of my favorite D:OS2 origin character to play!)

[anghraine]

I've only played Shadowheart a little, but I almost always played Larian's origin characters in D:OS2. That was initially for romancing purposes, lol, but I really liked having a more focused character arc with character-specific choices and dynamics. Also, I haven't seen it yet in BG3, but in D:OS2 you'd periodically get a dialogue option specific to your chosen character, or more than one for that character, and not just based on your class/background/species/stats/just generic options. So you could really choose how edgy (or not) you wanted that iteration of the character to be (for me, not very). As a result, I only realized how abrasive some of the origin characters can potentially be when I took them as companions, because they could be so much nicer as PCs.

I'm not sure exactly how much of that holds true in BG3, though the mechanic is definitely inherited from D:OS2. But I'd imagine quite a bit, so I'm interested in how Shadowheart as PC plays. Thus far she already has more character choices to make than Shadowheart as companion gets—like, one right as she gets out of her pod. However, it's worth noting that it effectively shrinks your party size without a custom character along. There were only two of us instead of three on the ship, and my Shadowheart is basically forced to include either Astarion or Lae'zel in the party, neither of whom I like, until I can get to Karlach. I've already gotten some disapproval from Astarion, lol.

Re: (icon is of my favorite D:OS2 origin character to play!)

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, it sounds pretty good now I understand how it works. And the limited party is less of an issue when you have cheats ;)

Re: (icon is of my favorite D:OS2 origin character to play!)

[anghraine]

Hah, true!