It would be nice to see some positive portrayal of bdsm. All the characters who are into it seem to fall on the evil side of the alignment. I know people are leery about sex scenes in general, but if larian are going to insist on including them, it would help if they tied into character arcs. Like if shadowheart or astarion end up redeemed, you can roleplay to help them come to
terms with their past trauma. The sex feels less like a reward given to a player at the end of a companion quest or whatever (with an option to opt out, of course, for people who aren’t interested) and more like an actual intimate moment between characters.
Edit: Or at the very least a ‘good’ npc that practices healthy, loving bdsm. I have a hard time buying abdirak as anything other than evil (in a fun, charismatic way, sure) given that he hangs out in a goblin fort with slavers next to a man being tortured for information. And lae’zel treats sex as conquest/purely in pursuit of pleasure, which is fine, but there’s more to kinks than blatant hedonism.
Last edited by MyriadHappenings; 02/02/21 11:16 AM.
