Originally Posted by Conrad Curze
It's not a place to discus Gale so I'll be quick about it. I don't find him particularly interesting either, but he's supposed to be pretty powerful wizard who happens to date a goddess of magic. Whether we like it or not, he'll have quite a lot more options to solve his issues than just a slave that escaped hellish army. The contrast is pretty realisitic and gives a nice flavor to the story, at least for me
Yeah, it's not a thread for Gale, so I won't comment further on that front. The thing is that, while it's understandable that Karlach's circumstances are tougher than his, Karlach has friends and allies available to help her (including Gale himself) - and, as many have commented, those allies include master inventors who may owe us a debt of honour in a lot of playthroughs.

(They certainly do in mine! The number of reloads I needed to save every last one of them from their own terrible AI was preposterous!)

To not even be able to bring that up - to not have the option to even try, when Karlach can be a really important person to our characters - is quite jarring. Even if it could be discussed, and they said they would try to fix her engine, but we simply ended up not having enough time... That would at least respect the care involved. And I think in a version of the game where the developers had as much time to polish Act 3 as they did Acts 1 and 2, that probably would have happened.