Which is, unfortunately, a continuation of the media trend of deligitimising and denying smaller people their right to be acknowledged and treated as mature adults... **continues to grumble inarticulately**
I completely agree.
Sadly people are very basic with their beauty standards. I made a dwarven cleric of Selune a few days ago and instantly fell in love with her , because she is so pretty in my eyes. Same with my little halfling bard (whom I might play again) and my gnome rogue. I posted my dwarven lady a few days ago, on a server, that is currently very dedicated to BG3, because someone wanted to see our dwarven characters, and I kid you not, the first answer was: 'That face is too pretty, it should be available for elves'. When I argued , that there are enough mods out there to make any kind of pretty elf (and signifikant less mods for the smaller races), that person went all Karen on me about how no one cares about the smaller races and therefore everything should be available for the races, people want to play, e.g., elves and humans and to a lesser degree tieflings. That made me really sad and angry at the same time.
I still hope, we might see a small race companion. And a dragonborn and an half orc.
I had to Google Helia.. it's too bad she got scrapped, sounds like she would have been an interesting companion. Larian should have kept her and left Halsin in the Grove. Ah well, something to hope for from a future expansion or a "definitive edition" release, I guess.
Yeah, it is very sad. I don't think, Helia was scratched for Halsin, I think, they scratched her way sooner, but if not for all this Halsin thirst, there would have been teh chance to get a decent companion from one of the underrepresented races, with an actual storyline and involvment.
Originally Posted by JandK
I can't claim to be heavily invested in this issue, but I think one of the better short characters to have a potential romance with would be Thulla.
As for Barcus, I can see the appeal of having him as a companion, but I don't know. Part of his thing is that he's not a qualified adventurer, which is why he needs to be rescued by the players. Also, I wouldn't want him as a companion unless there happened to be some class mechanic that allowed for the creation of smoke powder bombs and inventions in general.
That would be the artificer, which should honestly be in the game, given, that basically the whole act 3 plot resolves around artificers and their creations - from Gortash to the Gondians and teh Iron Hand and even Dammon would work well as an artificer.
Thulla or one of the other Iron Hands even tell you, they are artificers from Baldurs Gate.
