>>149562082I didn't find the companions that annoying but I can understand how someone would find them annoying. Really what butt blasts me is how they're written. Shadowheart feels like a naive girl next door, and while the naive shit makes sense, she's supposed to be the cleric of a cruel and secretive goddess. She's supposed to be Shar's chosen, trained to be the first a new line of dark justiciers, and she just...doesn't seem like someone who was raised to do that. you know, except for the instances where she flips into a completely different character. Karlach just seems like a kid and not someone who was press ganged into 10 years of war, you don't just shrug that shit off. I don't MIND big kid who wants to smash shit, mind you, I just wish her backstory jived better with how she acts. Gale is...boring. Incredibly boring. This man was supposed to be boinking Mystra? Come on. I don't mind Wyll as much, he's just incredibly stupid, and a little boring. Laezel is actively the most annoying because she's just a straight up bitch and I refused to engage with her. Which leaves camp gay vampire who's actually...cool? Astarion is probably the most fun companion to have around. it helps that when he talks about escaping his vampire sire he puts some fucking emotion into and seems actually invested. Karlach makes the whole enslaved by Zariel thing sound more like an inconvenience, and Wyll doesn't seem nearly as invested in escaping Mizora as you'd expect. It's pretty wild how much a weak point the companions are all things considered, hell, most of the NPCs seem to be better.
>>149562605I mean Faerun canonically has spelljammers visiting from other worlds, so at least in theory cities like Waterdeep would probably have some anachronistic fashion. I don't mind the anachronisms, I just wish it looked cool.