'Down came the claw!' for your playthrough if Ralphy is that broken for you grin

How'd you even manage to break him that much? He works fine for me (his sanguine line included), even bullied him at camp to get his ACT I Helldusk Armor (but gave it back because who wants to wear that hideous thing the entire playthrough).

And yup it is quite liberating not to worry about achieving perfect outcomes and just letting the chaos unleash, it's why I love my 2nd playthroughs a lot each patch. Though naturally after playing a truly dedicated evil playthrough in the past - some evil outcomes are an absolute no-go anymore due to how much they suck (like letting the druid ritual complete, joining Minthara, Nere or Marcus, letting Shadowheart spear a certain someone). Too much lost content for absolutely nothing of value, so it's much more enjoyable to just roleplay a calculating power-driven character (who also creates chaos but 'waits for the right moment').

Which is why I built the character specifically for Astarion, it is through his own power that she'll become safe from her own pact chains and be able to indulge in her sanguine lust. Merely looking to survive (just like him) through him, with 'plenty of talents worth exploring' along the way. But of course she also made a lot of captivatingly pretty corpses already, owns a walking corpse along with a quasit pet and snapped several toes like twigs (chewed some off too), even blamed one of her ACT I sanguine arts on Astarion grin

I love their partners-in-crime dynamic.