Yea I assume they want to distance from this unpopular series of books.
I haven't read those, but I found some list of weird stuff going on in the books when searching for the article... I don't know if it's exaggerated, but... oh gods. I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist.
(Just quoting you below, but we should tag datamined things.)
I really don't even like fan service like Minsc being an origin but that's me nitpicking a marketing decision.
Yeah, me too. I hope the datamining is (somehow) wrong and he's just a temporary companion for a questline. I just don't think they can do the old characters justice, especially one so iconic. 20 years later, different studio... and writing other people's characters is always iffy. Don't get me wrong though, I'll be happy to see Minsc (and Boo!), just not as origin/full companion. Cameos and old characters as NPCs? Yeah. Unless they get Xzar and Montaron treatment or are written out-of-character.
