While I'd live to adventure with Minsc again, I think his personality would jar significantly with the edgelord-ish tone that the other NPCs all seem to have. He would either feel ported from another game (because he had been) or they'd "deepen" him in such a way as to make him completely different from the original Minsc. Viconia would work just fine in the setting they put together. Even Jahira. But Minsc is just too innocent and lighthearted of a character.
I don't mind the idea of a Teifling in the party, but why does it have to be Karlach? There were plenty of perfectly nice, good-aligned seeming Teiflings in the refugee camp. I'm really sick of the number of evil-ish female characters in the game.
I would presume the werewolf is actually going to be a Druid shapeshifter or something? Cernd sucked, but I'd like to see it done right.
