Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General The Inevitable Romance Poll

I never got warm with Shadowheart’s personality during the Early Access nor do I fancy her looks. Actually there isn’t a single attractive female origin companion. If you’re not particularly into freaks, you’ll give Lae’zel or Karlach a hard pass. (No problem with fantasy races, after all this is D&D, but that doesn’t mean you have to find them attractive.) I really wished for a romanceable pretty human or half-elven female in BG3, but as it seems I got disappointed. The original BG series got way better options for romances as a straight male.

In general heterosexual female players in BG3 have better (in the sense of more attractive) choices than hetero males in my opinion. So far the only options are Shadowheart and Minthara. But if you don’t want to kill the druids, that only leaves Shadowheart, which is a pity.

I’ve taken a look at the hirelings. If possible, I’d rather romance the bard Brinna Brightsong, but I very much doubt that hirelings will have enough story or scripted dialogues to really romance them. All in all I’m rather disappointed about the lack of lovely and romanceable female companions/npcs for the time being.