Originally Posted by Vitani
Also never seen Khalid as a comic relief character. I mean, he was a kick-ass warrior with his kick-ass warrior-druid wife, all he did was stutter smile

I think a kick-ass warrior who was actually kinda nervy and panicked and ran away when things got too tough was definitely meant to be funny. That said, I think pretty much all the BG1 companions were played for laughs at least to some extent. Perhaps Kivan and Viconia are exceptions? Oh, and maybe Faldorn and Yeslick? I tend to forget details unless I've had them in my party very recently.

Originally Posted by Edvin Black
I don't think there has ever been a female dwarf, halfling or gnome with a romance anywhere in the history of all RPG games.
All romances options are always humans, elves, and half-elves.

Originally Posted by Vitani
My dislike for the smaller races stems from the fact I didn't see a single compelling character that was either a dwarf, gnome or halfling in any RPG. And after 30 years of consuming media where they all are a monotonous sea of jolly drunks or, worse, comic reliefs, I just can't see them any differently.

Sounds to me as though there's a real opportunity for Larian here grin. I hope they'll take it, especially as I think they already have some great shorter race characters in the game already, with Barcus being perhaps my favourite NPC so far. So wanted him to be a companion frown.

Though, while I'd admit that shorter races have not been done great service in the past, I do think there are some good examples. Varric in DA2/DA:I is friendly and humorous but I'd not call him comic relief. And Regill in WotR is deadly serious (admittedly almost amusingly so). Not that I personally have any objection to comic relief characters anyway. Tiax rules all!!!

Last edited by The Red Queen; 04/07/23 02:46 PM.
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