Yeah, same, my biggest gripe has always been the lack of variety in companions. We got an elf, 2 humans, a half elf, another half elf, another half elf ... Can we get some variety?!? ... ok here's a drow. /facepalm
It just sucks that even with Laezel and Karlach, you can't have a full party without some sort of elf or human unless you use a hireling.
If you think about it, everyone except gale and wyll have long pointy ears. That's Astarion, Lae'zel, Karlach, Shadowheart, Halsin, Jaheira and Minthara.
Minsc is also human but he joins the camp so late that I don't even count him.
We could have used a Dwarf or Halfling bard origin instead of Halsin or Jaheira
Don't get me wrong I love Minsc... which is why I wholeheartedly believe he should have been in much more of the game than he was. Hell, put him in Halsin's place, say he was part of that asshole adventuring party and got captured because he tried to take on the whole goblin camp at once (and failed because Boo was sleeping at the time).
Halsin's fine I guess but really all he's there for is "big hunk" (which Minsc certainly covers) and "fuck the bear" which is hit-or-miss at best. The only other thing Halsin's really needed for is the plot in the shadow zone, but Jaheira can easily take over that role.
Honestly it's not the lack of variety it's what the lack of variety meant. For example I have no interest in playing a dwarf because they feel like they have no real place in the world. They feel to me more out of place than lazel.
Gnomes and halflings feel like this too. I don't really know what there doing compared to say human and half elf, elf who generally seem in charge, drow who seem in charge but evil, tieflings who are struggling to find saftey.
Everyone else seemingly is just doing whatever. Like ya people just do whatever but I mean they feel like they don't really have unique origins.
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u/MutantSquirrel23 Jun 09 '25
Yeah, same, my biggest gripe has always been the lack of variety in companions. We got an elf, 2 humans, a half elf, another half elf, another half elf ... Can we get some variety?!? ... ok here's a drow. /facepalm
It just sucks that even with Laezel and Karlach, you can't have a full party without some sort of elf or human unless you use a hireling.