So far, we have too many humans, elves, half elves.
Aha around zero, Astarion is vampire spawn first of all.
He is an elf first. Plus we might Halsin and Minthara as companions - two more elves.
My baseline was, that the 'normal' races are overly represented, while there is no one from the small races for example. Possible dragonborn and halforc companions won't probably be announced until those races are implemented in the game .
Drow are not a "normal" race. They are still a rarity. Also, having an overwhelmingly human party makes the non-human party members stand out a lot more, so if you want to preserve the uniqueness of other races, I think at least half of all the companions should be human.
In a party of 5 humans a single elf seems special, even a half-elf stands out. But if you have a tiefling, a githyanki, a drow, a dragonborn and a tabaxi, nobody's race stands out because there is no established baseline.
If you want races to have any singificance, there must be a vanilla baseline to be different from. But if everyone is different, then everyone is the same.
Naturally I think it's okay to have special companions, but the only reason they are special is because they are unusual, but if you are making most of the companions non-human, you are making the unusual the standard.
This will make humans the most interesting race for not being like everyone else. It's super interesting, that when the marginal becomes the center, the center becomes cooler by becoming the marginal.
I'm going to play humans in this game a lot because they are just so unusual in this world of unusualness that they actually stand out lmao.
Point in case: The NPCs in this game are overhelmingly non-human, making the human the most unique and interesting race to play for me.
