Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Do you guys like Astarion as an NPC?

Well... I enjoy pretty much all BG3 followers, even if I do admit that I believe they all have their flaws (regardless if it is character flaws or what I'd consider writing flaws.)

Regarding Astarion in particular, I really enjoy his snarky attitude as a player, however my character is hardly as impressed. The main issue with Astarion (imo) is that his character SCREAAAAMS vampire, but the PC (regardless of intelligence and/or Wisdom) is way too stupid to figure it out. You have the running water where he goes like "OH NO RUNNING WATER... OUCH, OWH, EWH" as we go across, we find the boar that he goes super defensive about and then you have his entire appearance. Including fangs. Yet, some time after that the game goes "AND THERE YOU SEE HIM FOR WHAT HE REALLY ISSS" and the PC goes "Oh damn, how did I miss this!?" .... I mean, that pretty much makes any player go "Yeahh... Surely my character could not have figured that out earlier. Nu uh, no way." irl - but that is a writing problem, not a character problem for Astarion. Stuff like that is bound to happen when you don't have a live DM that can allow the players to react.