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Who are your favorite side characters (non-companions)?

Mine are:
1. Barcus Wroot
2. Rolan the Tiefling. Loved the character development. 3. Emperor.
4. Withers.

Honorable Mentions
Naaber (Cohhcarnage = Amazing)
Quill Grootslang (Dragon Throat Singing)
Facemaker, because he gives me 60% discounts.

Barcus Wroot - my best pal

Omeluum - best squid pal (and he should be the mindflayer ally in the end)

Hope and Korilla - the tragic sister duo

Raphael - he is my second favourite baddie

Ethel - my favourite baddie

Rolan and siblings

Mol

Arabella

Abdirak

Apart from the ones already mentioned:

Sazza, Drenn - All goblins deserve some love!

Dolly
Dolly
Dolly


Nine-fingers

Hands down, I think the best writing and acting goes to animals. The Spiders in the Gobbo base, the various Cats and Dogs across Baldur's Gate, Scratch and Owlbear Cub - it all fits *SO* well. Even the disguised Redcap Sheep in the Swamp and the happy frog are hilarious. I found it especially cool to find out from a *cat* that there was a devil in the Brothel, or learn some of my own background from Steelclaw.

Perhaps they are too 'main character' but, Raphael and Auntie Ethel are personal favorites.

Alfira, Lakrissa, Lia, Arabella, are some of my favorites <3

Hmm, the goblins. I hadn't thought too much of. I think my favorite goblin is the one cooking dwarves, wearing blue jeans. I also liked Goblin Klagga I think his name is, because LOL. The Kuo-Toa. I forgot about Thisobald.
My favorite animals (aside from the obvious):
Myshka the cat His Majesty

You specifically mentioned Sazza,

Sazza has
As for my faves:
Alfira and Lakrissa. Mol, I love that little shit. The Thorms were very fun as well.

And honorable mention to - some durge spoilers if you manage to knock out a certain someone:

Edited my initial list as I can't believe I completely forgot to mention Us.

A cute and impactful little fella

I certainly did! On my first playthrough, got to save my Sazzy sister.

Grub.

Justice for Grub!

Araj Oblodra. (The Drow blood-alchemist from Moonrise, but she gets really fun when you meet up again in the lower city)
Not only is she crazy, but I find her attractive also. Wish she were a romancable campmember.

She is pretty - that is my favourite elven face from the CC - , but she is one sick lady. Found her botched experiments in teh cellar the last playthrough (she died in Moonrise in teh first one)

If you want to expand BG3, it would be interesting to add more character strands for good and evil playthroughs etc. or even create new companions for the sides.

It would be a lot of fun to have a goblin like Sazza with you.

There are many generally interesting characters in BG3.

I would like to see an expansion of the depth and breadth of the game.

Breadth means that currently less represented races like dragonborn and orcs are developed more. But also more possibilities to play more evil races like goblins or to have companions like Dro'Ragzlin.

There is also room for improvement in terms of class depth. Let's take the typical Lolth dark elves and the worship of the spider deity. This can also be used to create a class of its own. A mixture of cleric and assa and warrior with a penchant for spider magic, spider conjuration, dark ritual magic, shadow magic and also being able to deal out a bit of damage with weapons.

Again, would be particularly good for an evil path.

An expansion of a druid class that focuses on the bestial path of the werewolf would also be conceivable. A companion that didn't make it into the game has also been leaked.

I could also list plenty of characters that I found interesting in the game or would have liked to have as companions because they appealed to me straight away.

But putting random characters into the game isn't that interesting in the end.

Just continue to expand on what already exists and refine it to make it even cooler.

Volo is fun. He's what I consider the quintessential Bard. Loud, funny and... Not very good at things.

Khaga. Most Druids in the game make Druidism feel like some sort of hippie cult. Khaga brings into things the Shadow Druids, dealing with moral dilemmas between protecting sacred ground and helping others and her own repentence. I honestly wish she joined our party instead of Halsin... Make it her penance where she has to go with you and reflect on her actions. I'd imagine her seeing the Shadow Cursed Lands in person would be a significant shock in regards to her decision to embrace shadows.

Lump. An articulate Ogre isn't something you see every day. The contrast of brute force and base instinct of "Just eat everything" and the intellect and spell casting he has is neat (Also cool to see that the reason he's so smart is because of the headband he's wearing). Shame that he won't follow you outside of Act 1 and that killing him for his headband is too good to pass up... I wonder how he'd react to the player licking the Spider corpse in Act 2?

The Monk Spirit from the pendant. A very minor character, but interesting nonetheless. Kind of want to see how a conversation between him and Volo would turn out honestly...

Hands down, Us.

Honorable mentions to Malta, Steelclaw, Squire and Crimson.

Hmm. They are all animals. Perhaps I don't like people much.

That is quite an understandable sentiment

But the animals in BG3 are really well done. I care about Scratches and Owlys well being more than about my own character.

I also do not like her. I generally have Astarion in my party and she makes him extremely uncomfortable. Not just the smell of her blood, but the way she treats him. She's a drow from a matriarchical society, so she objectifies him and refers to him as a belonging/posession. The second time I chose not to speak to her and the third time I killed her to see what loot she drops
I think if Astarion were not in my party and I just met her normally, I think her potions would be interesting.
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Oo, for those of you who really liked Us

Yes! And Chop has dialog about him and why he is in the cage. We truly saved him. Well, not the brain donor but he was a lost cause anyway.