Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Why no dwarf?

Pewter figures by Ral Partha!!! And can you guess which one I picked up? It was this dude!

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Now I don't know, maybe he's not a dwarf, or maybe he was, but she let me hold onto it. Like a true gift, in the highest spirit of xenia. Then later my grandma would get me another one for my birthday from the hobby shop that was in the same strip mall. The guy with a boards head, and then later a Dragon! But his wing got bent in the move, like did tend to happen hehe. Not the Dwarf though. He had some kinda constitution I guess.

Anyhow I think that was the first in for me. Like the legit first hook. Before the artbooks, and the actual tomes, before Pools of Radiance or the floppy days, or Hobbit cartoons and later Ultima and BG and such. There was that dwarf with his battle axe lol. So, of course, you know I'm going to be on the look out for that callback. I mean if we can! How could I not?

Granted the argument is pure pathos, but I want a Dwarf! You can't wrong there haha
 
Also I totally agree, Korgan had has he own thing going on. It was just amusing to me cause their names were so similar, and if you didn't know better you might have even mistook him for a returning character, like 'oh no?! did they recast Kagain? But then realize you don't care cause the new one still does the trick. So yeah, I think they could do that again more or less, and it'd be enough of a nod for me. Here's pulling for any kind of shorty. You gotta have an anchor and touchstone.

[quote=Black_Elk]Is it too much to ask for just a regular old dwarf with a beard down to his knees who isn't pushing any envelopes? I think this would be an interesting challenge for their writers. Just hewing traditional, for tradition's sake, I'd like to see a standard brawler who's mainly in it for the gold and the gemstones...

Ideally with his preferred weapon built right into his name, like Koragain Bloodhammer or Kragain Shieldaxe...

I could really go for that. Again lol

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Actually I always thought Korgan was interesting for how atypical he was. He's a chaotic evil dwarf berzerker, and yet he's wordy to the point of having a strange eloquence. He also has an unusual number of positive interactions with good characters, and even gets a crush on a lawful good character and writes poetry to her.

By the way, a modern game is a constructor, like lego. It consists of an engine (everything is fine with it) and individual elements, which are not as difficult to edit as it might seem. You can take a different 3d model or a different texture, reassign the link - and the game will pick up the change without difficulty. Adding a new character is not so difficult. If there is already a plot for it, then the longest and most difficult is the animation of cut scenes. It may take several days. Larian showed that they have enough good specialists to produce cinematics. Therefore, adding one companion is two weeks of unhurried work, maximum. Based on the adaptation of the model, textures for a unique character, writing a grid of dialogues, introducing a number of characters for an individual quest, etc.
It would have been difficult in 1996. It would be difficult for an indie developer. It would be difficult if many new locations and hundreds of characters were required (DLC). One companion is not difficult.