Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Are you dissapointed with companions variety?

One might think so, but really, elves are just humans with pointy ears and a few extras, dwarves are stocky humans with a few extras, and so on. None of the races are non-human in any way that counts, unlike DOS2's lizards and elves. And even those with some claim to it, like half-orcs and dragonborn, appear about as non-human as the rubber forehead aliens in cheap TV shows. Which is why I will avoid them.

So apart from min-maxing considerations, race is just a choice of human-variant (do not mix up with the technical term) appearance and typical background culture. Humans are more popiular than elves because elves have a typical background culture that you either like or not, while humans do not have that. And for purposes of romance, Shadowheart is as human as Gale. As a guideline, if you do not ask yourself "How the heck would sex with them work, and would anyone even want that?", it's human and any variation is superficial - case in question: as a rule, humans do not want sex with bears . Unless they *think* in a non-human way, and that's even harder to write.