Overall, they (romances) do feel a little rushed in Act 1..
Yea understatement of the year.
Yeah, well, it depends on how you play really. The romances will feel more rushed in the following cases:
- if you get to the Grove Party really fast. - if you don't long-rest and talk to people enough. - if you recruit certain characters very late or don't have them in your party often.
If you avoid these things, you will have a much better experience.
In may playthrough it all made kind of sense. For example, it makes total sense for Lae'Zel to just ask for sex. In my playthrough, it also made sense that Gale came on to me and Shadowheart asking for a private moment and a bottle of wine. It also made sense that Halsin, Astarion and Wyll were less interested.
So I guess I was just lucky that my playstyle lead to a more natural feeling progression than for othe rplayers.
Still, I'd like some tweaking:
1. Make it so that approval is not the only measure of when romances are possible. I think there should also be a timer involved if there isn't already. "Time spent in camp / active party" should also determine of a romance is possible or not.
2. Don't have a sex scene for every character at the Grove Party. It makes sense for characters like Lae'Zel and probably Astarion and Gale, but not so much for Karlach, Wyll, Halsin and Shadowheart.
3. Make it possible to have a ONS with characters other than your party members. If you play a bard and helped Alfira, why can't you hook up with her? Even in my non-bard playthrough, it would have been more believable for my PC to hook up with Alfira than with Kalrlach.
4. Make it so that if people rush through the game and have the Grove Party early, nobody (except maybe Lae'Zel) is interested. In that case, make the romances start later on inthe story.
5. In fact, make it so that people are not locked out of romances if they didn't start them back in Act 1.
6. Make it possible to start new romances if you break up with someone.
