You can say Astarion, it’s okay.
(Seriously, any player who tried Astarion’s introduction at my table would be told to go get a different character, because what the fuck?)
It would be great if there was another way he could meet Tav without pulling a knife, like if Tav had a high enough passive perception to say "Hey I can see that knife of yours mate. You pull anything and you’ll be Eldritch Blasted into Avernus. "
He’s supposed to be this charming rogue, but he can’t try conning Tav into doing instead of violence
I kept an open mind despite the knife. What he did at camp, though: that was his death sentence.
One thing I haven’t figured out yet: Is someone teleporting Astarion’s body to each new camp we set up, or is he just playing dead and stealthily following us whenever we relocate?
Wyll is such a good boy he is just a bit boring. Despite his deal with Mizora, he really is on the straight and narrow.
imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they’re all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!
The fact that everyone has different characters that they love and/or hate suggests that the devs did a pretty good job.
The writing isn’t stellar, but there’s a wide range of character types, and one person’s favorite is another’s leaat. For me, Lae’zel and Astarion are insufferable (Lae’zel a little less so, but still annoying). But those are favorites of other people, so they’re presumably not objectively bad, it’s just a matter of taste.
My only wish is that there were one or two more, or at least that the others were introduced earlier in the game (hell no, I’m not changing my entire party dynamic in Act 3).
I mean, I hated everyone but Karlach at the beginning, and they rendered well the uneasy cooperation between the characters, then everyone just grew closer act by act and it was great.
Spoiler
Lae’zael describing her diplomatic plans in the epilogue was just great. Just like Astarion being happy about NOT becoming a vampire ascendant
I did my first playthrough as Karlach and romanced Gale for shiggles. After he abandoned her at the end. >!You know. Her last night alive before burning to death.!< Yeah. You can bet I left his ass in the portal the next time.
There’s a spoiler tag? Just showing in clear text on mine, didn’t even get the option of not clicking it…
Unfortunately in fallout 4 you can only send them into the ol red rocket exile
