As Inquisition was mentioned elsewhere just now, I'm reminded that a couple of NPCs got a lot of flak mostly because you couldn't brow-beat them into following your point of view, which I found a little surprising. Although I may inevitably play the main character as little more than an avatar of myself, one is enough: I don't need an entire party of me, that would be dull.
I'm also reminded of someone proposing elsewhere that it should be possible to talk around even a character's core personality traits with enough persuasion (I mean obvious stuff that wouldn't ever work) and I couldn't really understand why anyone would really see that as a desirable thing to have.
