BG3: Larissa's party is not exactly optimized, so—

[anghraine]

—the idea came to me that the difficulties facing my cleric-cleric-wizard-fighter party could perhaps be pretty easily resolved by doing the unthinkable and ... replacing Shadowheart with Astarion. It's probably a good idea, and it's not like Larissa was ever going to romance Shadowheart or anything (L only has eyes for Mystra and Gale, lmao).

Downsides:

+losing Shadowheart!!!
+specifically losing the Shadowheart-Lae'zel chatter
+losing the cleric-cleric dynamic
+enduring Astarion in two games >_>

Upsides:

+having a rogue with all that entails (fantastic sleight of hand, sneak attack...)
+more mechanically balanced party
+Gale and Larissa being the only nice people in the party could be pretty funny

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