Originally Posted by snowram
Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by snowram
Considering the focus on making every single companions "attractive" romance options, I rate the chance of a small race companion very low. Halsin easily could have been an old halfling but Larian and its audience are more interested in buff and young half elves.

Well, I hope it's not true that the writers are compromising the companion selection for the sake of romanceability. Which would be, in my view, both creatively disappointing and almost certainly futile, as if characters are well written and engaging then players will want to romance them regardless. I say again ... Garrus.

But, even if that is happening, I don't know why shorter races shouldn't be considered attractive romance options by more than enough players. And while of course love should not be limited by size, my gnome, halfling and dwarf PCs in particular tend not to be naturally drawn to all these galumphing giants and would be more tempted by potential love interests of a proper size.
I am in no way implying that small persons can't be attractive, just that it is far removed from the trend that BG3 seem to follow. They made a fearsome tiefling warrior with a pretty young woman face on an athletic body, a 200y/o vampire as a romanticizing young half elf, a very experienced wizard as your quite good looking human from our society standard and so on... The only companion that I would consider not conventionally attractive is Laezel because her race is very foreign even for DnD standards, but even that is debatable.


I would love if astarion was more old lich like in appearance instead of typical teen vampire
Some guy wanting to find a way to not die, buf i suppose the point in a spawn is to attract victims, I suppose with that point id have preferred a full vampire over a spawn