My wish was that shorty player characters (gnomes and halflings) be provided with more dialogue options, specifically when this companion -
for whom additional dialogue options have already been added in later patches - insults them to their face.
Someone pointed out that Lae'zel is insulting and you can't call her out on it. I disagree. You can. You can tell her to stand down, shut up, stop talking about tieflings that way, you can take control of the conversation away from her in many instances.
You don't have to. It always results in companion disapproval so I assume they're not popular, but the lines are there. There are dialogue options where you let her espouse the gith's superiority, or even ask for more information. You can retort whenever Gale is acting even slightly arrogant towards you - with comments that are twice as biting. Hell, you can actually kill Gale for joking that he '
saw you lying in a crucible's worth of blood, an intellect devourer nibbling at your ear'. You can kill someone for being flippant.
I am certainly not arguing for the removal of those options. I hope I made it clear in my first post: I believe that Lae'zel, Astarion, Gale, and the others' character concepts are fine. But I believe that all Tavs should have the option to not be a doormat when they are insulted, not just the popular races.
@Fisher, cognitive recalibration (Avengers-style) is a strong knock to the head, which would be very in-character for some classes and character types.
If everyone can punch drop Aradin, why can't we punch drop someone else who is equally or more insulting? '
Because the Forgotten Realms are racist and we don't need to cover it in glitter' is not a good answer, since BG3 has already implemented the option - Tavs can punch, curse out, or even kill people who displease them. Tavs can fling poop at the goblins who wanted to humiliate them - this is the sort of thing that makes things fun.
This post is getting overly long so I'll just end it with a couple of questions: without a varied range of replies, how are they going to have the Origins play out? Should Origin Lae'zel swallow every pointed gith comment from Shadowheart? Should Origin Helia (halfling werewolf) swallow every pointed comment from Astarion?
The option should be there to disapprove - with words, with childishly blowing a raspberry, with a good buttkicking, heck, with something ridiculous. Whether we use it or not, I believe it should be up to
how we want to roleplay not
what we are missing.
