Thats what i thought ...
As it seems most followers in BG-2 just wanted to go with *you* specificaly.
That will be the main difference between it and 3.
Okay, I realise this is another off topic digression (apologies) but I’m not sure exactly what you mean by that. Most BG2 characters would feasibly join anyone that helped them, and it wouldn’t need to be our Charname at all as, with the exceptions outlined, they don’t have any connection to the main story arc.
Or is that actually what you’re getting at? That they mainly don’t have their own connection to the plot, so it’s only because they came across our party and we helped them that they got involved? If so, yes I agree (obviously, as I already made a related point above
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As an aside to an aside though, I have occasionally pondered in the course of EA on the fact that our BG protagonist actually isn’t the only person in their particular boat, and the saga could feasibly have been the story of one of the others, or of working with (some of) them rather than generally against them. And in fact it turns out in BG2 that one of those others was part of our party from the start of BG1, and though that’s always felt retconned to me (might there actually be some confirmation one way or another?) I do wonder if one of the no doubt many things in the Larian writers’ minds when shaping the BG3 story was a kind of “what if” BG1/2 could have been her story instead. Particularly as we potentially get another in the BG2 expansion, so there can be three of us in the same party, which I always enjoyed and to which working together with other tadpoled party members in BG3 gives me a similar feel.
