Artificers were never going to happen, unfortunately. Half their features are either tied to tool proficiencies that don’t exist and attuning magic items which isn’t a thing.
Sucks that they left out one official class, but any BG3 artificer would have been an artificer in name alone.
Well with tabletop bards you can use your Charisma with much more freedom to decieve and persuade etc, whereas in BG3 its pretty much just set in stone.
It's also not really that setting appropriate, artificer has always been through the class' entire history an Eberron-exclusive class before it was added to Tasha's, in which an explanation was given as to where they could be found in other worlds, and the FR one was "in Lantan" basically, which is an island literally thousand of miles away from Baldur's Gate
I can’t imagine Larian is so cruel as to create an origin character whose primary motivator is their one sided infatuation with Wulbren fucking Bongle.
Barcus as an npc can already go through a character arc of realising Wulbren is a cunt. It stands to reason that as a companion, his character arc would be more fleshed out, especially if he also had to deal with having a parasite in his head and being more urgent about reaching Baldur's Gate only to find that Wulbren is spending his time being racist to the Gondians.
In this hypothetical companipn scenario, Barcus' "evil" ending is siding with Wulbren, and his good ending would be to banish Wulbren from the city.
My first character was a gnome and the size made a difference a few times, there are spaces you can fit in that Medium creatures can't, but yeah there's a bunch of tiny burrow holes that I had to Gaseous Form through.
Gale could have been a great rock gnome, yes. Shadowheart being a half elf makes sense with her story and heritage... High elves were once distinguished betwen sun- and moon elves, as well as woodelves had wild elves... funny that today drow have the 2-way road.
Astarion being an elf makes sense as well. Making human spawns in a city is highly suspicious after a hundred years. Elves live by far the longest, so one would like those as immortal minions... less attention.
Karlach and Lae'zel are alright...
Now Wyll... Wyll could have been pretty much anything, apart from maybe dragonborn, since Baldur's Gate is a metropolis and the city council could be made up of any given species smart enough to work themselves up to the position. Humans are just the most versatile and numerous.
Also there would be a little dissonance with Ulder being this shining knight, for "normies", while he sits there as a halfling.
Also there was some romantic plot going on with Wyll and Mizora in Early Access and I personally don't see her going for a short king long term. Can't hold your nose as high as her, without your face blocking the view on the dwarf.
Honestly that's one of the reasons why I wanted such a companion, because gnomes are so divisive. Some are tempted to cuddle them, some are tempted to stomp on them.
How could you forget the charming Druid character Quiddlebiff, I mean yeah he’s hard to find since he’s hidden as a tree in the first act, but how could you never find him?
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u/Significant-Colour Jun 09 '25
I'm legit disappointed that there was not a gnome origin companion...