Originally Posted by Marielle
Originally Posted by Anska
No, why should I? (Unless you mean the very moment of the dock scene.) He is a big boy.

Ok, maybe I just love him too much smile Perception, of course, depends a lot on the temperament of the perceiver.

You seem to be very protective at least. I hate the "I will protect you" idea, no matter who says it.

Originally Posted by Marielle
Yeah. I actually enjoyed developing him more as an Assassin. He likes when "his hands are covered in blood" and enjoys fighting, judging by his lines. By the way, it works out really great if you take Astarion's medium armor skill (you can buy medium armor in Baldur, which allows you to add a dexterity bonus to AC). As a result, he really becomes my defender with AC 25 (more than my Tav-tank), does whatever he wants on the battlefield and can make his "cut" even without any "run" already. smile

My favourite version to date is having him as a Thief/Sword Bard, so he can can stab, mock and shoot at his leisure. Though I keep him in Light Armour because he rarely gets hit anyway and it looks cuter. He also has boots that prevent him from slipping on ice, so Gale can ice knife anyone who bothers Astarion too much and make the offenders slip and lie there like a pile of presents waiting for Astarion's daggers to slice them open.

Originally Posted by Marielle
I think that playing as a character with his own history and personality (as you played as Gale) allows you to "distance" yourself more from what is happening and look "from the outside" as a story of two, while "immersing yourself in the game" and creating an "alter ego" immerses you more "inside" the situation and perception becomes more subjective and emotional (depending on the emotionality of the player, of course), problems are let "through" and it is impossible to "accept" something, especially considering that Tav has too many opportunities and powers not to "do everything as it should be done".

The "alter ego" never works for me in video games or in P&P. The story always remains in "third person". With a normal Tav, I'd just have a deeply boring main character. So I like having a main character who has a background, to immerse myself more because I care for my main character just as strongly as I care for the rest of the gang.

Originally Posted by Marielle
And when I was walking around with the Spawn and imagining a possible future with him if nothing could be done about his condition, I had that "still feel scared all day long because they only think about what could go wrong" feeling, exactly as you described, and that it would haunt them quite regularly.

I think that has to do with attitude a lot, like you mentioned. For me it's more a question of whether being an Evocation Wizard still prevents Spawnstarion from taking damage from the sunbeam spell or if Gale better drops his favourite nuke from the list of prepared spells. But that could be tested. Right, Astarion, you are up for a little science experiment, aren't you? ^^ Everything else: They'll deal with. They are both smart, resourceful people, who like a bit of a challenge. They'll be fine.