Originally Posted by Warlocke

I’m not sure how having a unnecessary 3rd party offer the person you dream of to you allows for more varied plausible relationships.

“Unlock your powers and I will give you your friend / sibling / whatever but only in your dreams” is weird. The point of the Dreamed (which I will now be using as a shorthand for the one you dream of) is to seduce you with power. I don’t see why this requires a second entity to be manifested in your mind.

I will play again to see more of these dreams but I have yet to see how the dream person was seducing me with anything. The point of the third party would be to have more freedom with the purpose of the dream person. Wouldn't even need a third party if they could modify the creation of them a bit.

Originally Posted by Warlocke
I’m all for headcanoning the hell out of RPGs, but why you would apparently headcanon that the Dreamed is anything other than an object of potential romantic desire for your character when that’s pretty clear what they are intended to be seems strange to me. It would be like headcanoning a backstory for Sarevok as soon as you meet him in BG1 and then getting annoyed when you find out his actual background doesn’t match this.

I am good at headcanoning a lot of stuff but romance is not one of these things. In every game I have played, whether DnD, LARP, or video games, none of my characters have ever had desire for anyone. In games like the DA series I would pick a favourite character and do the romance stuff with them because I felt locked out of content if I didn't. Never felt any attachment to any of them more than friend or someone to help. This stuff doesn't offend me or make me uncomfortable, it is just that my brain is not wired to understand or feel it.

I haven't played that far in BG1 but I do know who Sarevok is, and I never headcanon anything for existing characters if they have an actual story. Not seeing the comparison either because he is introduced to you far past character creation. We are being told here at the start that we have to have a romantic desire and to basically deal with it, this is very limiting.