Baldur's Gate III - Non Spoiler Edition

I'm a little jealous. I wanted to do that too but he disapproves of so much I do. So is it possible to romance him when you're playing a nice character who rejects power then? Probably not early game or was I the only one getting rejected coldly? And do you have to become his snack for that? Would be a deal breaker for me. My girl ain't cattle!

In any case, unless he unexpectedly throws himself at my druid with puppy dog eyes I fail to resist I'm going for sweet Karlach, the only one who's not annoying or a jerk or both.

All these people going "Karlach is the only sweet/nice companion" and I'm here thinking she act like a jock who just want to start fight because she's bored or doesn't like someone without thinking of consequences.

I see good path Shadowheart as way nicer personally. Takes a lot more work to get there than Karlach thought.

In fact, I'm starting to think that my first character should have been an evil one. I'm supposed to make my Half-Orc Oathbreaker evil, I even put Evil into my save names to remember it! But I already know I don't have the will to do what it takes to get there. So I'm just going to murder every bad guys instead. I was a Paladin of vengeance, it's not because my oath broke that I can't be vengeful anymore.

She has the best "Petulant 9-year-old" response to being left in camp though...

Wrapped up Act II last night, closing in on Level 10.

Though with so many companions now, it's going to be a bit of a juggling act going forward. 

Also - no issues with the companions. I'd say Gale and Wyll are probably the least interesting, but honestly, they're fine.


Sharp-lookin' crew.

Here's to hoping they'll sell 10+ million and remain independent.

I'm actually a little disappointed now that they're heading back to Divinity for their next game. Which means it'll be ages before we see another BG.

Eldritch Blast with the Repelling Blast add on is utterly brilliant. The number of foes, including at least one really nasty boss, that I've blasted off ledges to their doom is not inconsiderable.

Is that confirmed? All I've seen is Swen saying that they'll take stock after BG3 is fully released and that he wants to go back to Divinity at some stage.

"Get back there at some point" doesn't necessarily mean straight away. Swen's also talked about doing something smaller than BG3. It's possible they might try to do both DOS3 and BG4 simultaneously, but I doubt it.

I agree that Wyll is a bit meh. He's a nice romantic guy, I guess. But he doesn't do much for me. It's not quite as bad as talking to Jacob in ME2 but it's a similar feeling of nice guy but boring (well, in ME3 he turned straight up jerk worst romance ever, but let's ignore that).

I have 3 different categories:
1. How much I like their personality by mid act 2:
Karlach> Halsin> Wyll> Gale/Shadowheart> Astarion> Laezel.
2. How interesting they are:
Shadowheart> Karlach/Astarion> Gale> Halsin> Laezel> Wyll.
3. Want to bang:
Astarion> Karlach> Halsin> Wyll> Gale> Shadowheart> Laezel.

Bonus category, would date in real life: Halsin because he loves nature and animals like me.

I still stand by that Karlach is the sweetest, she hums! She's always in a good mood and she loves it when you're nice to people. And she doesn't mope about her shitty fate. She hasn't had an easy life like all of them. But her situation and Gale's are the worst. While I totally get Gale's mood I prefer the way Karlach deals with it.
Shadowheart is a sad case of abuse so I should be understanding of her awful religious brain washing. But I just want to grab and shake her all the time. Like, do something other with your life, please! And the way she quickly worships your character is also questionable. Makes me a bit uncomfortable, like taking advantage of a confused teenager.

Oh, the party I do best with:
Karlach/Laezel/Shadowheart and my druid.
The companion I apparently don't know how to play is sadly Astarion. Would love to take him with me everywhere so I have something pretty to look at but I can't seem to get him to do much damage. I also don't really get warlock Wyll it seems. So I'm brute forcing melee, plus some spells. Works best for my simple mind, lol. Crowd control isn't the best though and I had to switch up my party for the waves battle in act 2.

Oh we're doing favorite companions? Well, I said before that I found the more evil-aligned companions the most interesting and that they were my favorites, so that would be Lae'Zel, Astarion and Shadowheart. I like them because they all have some great character growth when they trust you and you start to influence them to be better, I love a good redemption story.....Then we get to Karlach who is a cinnamon roll and the odd one out.....but I love Karlach! She's so damn fun and adorable. So Astarion and Bae'Zel never leave my party, and I switch between Shadowheart and Karlach. Gale is kind of buggy in my game but even still I'm not into him as much as I thought I would be, Halsin is great but doesn't beat out the walking disasters, and Wyll is nice with his more consistent writing, but he still doesn't quite make the top.

So it goes for me Astarion/Bae'Zel > Shadowheart/ Karlach > Halsin > Gale > Wyll > Minthara (who I'll probably never see)

A little disapproval is fine here and there imo. I play a good character that completely rejects power and got him at very high approval before the party, the main thing is you want it above neutral before the celebration to make things easier for you. But I'm also playing a good but mischievous wise cracking bard, (emphasis on wise cracking). If you're role playing a more stoic serious character, you might have a harder time. 

So this is what I would say if you ever play the game again, comical and playful answers get his approval up. I'll give some examples for the first act I didn't have to do one evil thing or reload....But if you're really worried about disapproval from helping someone, then don't tell the people in conversations that you'll help them right away, give a neutral response and then just help them anyway! Personally I like some of the disapproval because the darker characters have personalities that need to be challenged imo.