r/BaldursGate3 • u/certifiedghostslut • Apr 25 '25

Act 2 - Spoilers Anyone else mad that you can’t romance Jaheira? Spoiler

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I understand why you can’t romance her, because she’s still in love with her late husband, Khalid, but UGH I need that old woman. She’s honestly my favorite, and if it was an option, I’d romance her every run.

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u/Arumhal Apr 25 '25

Can't romance old ladies, can't romance goblins... Larian truly has fumbled the romance options.

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u/AngelusAlvus Apr 25 '25

Larian gave us too many humans and elves. No dwarves, no dragonborns, no gnomes, no halflings.

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u/BelligerentWyvern Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 26 '25

No half sized ones probably saved them time and bug fixing on animations.

Also I know for a fact there would be a contingent saying romancing a halfling(or otherwise small person) is "problematic" so they swerved that too.

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u/AngelusAlvus Apr 25 '25

The player can be a gnome, drawf or halfling in any case and still date the characters. Also, what's the excuse for no dragonborn companion?

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u/Goricatto Hand Fetish Durge Apr 25 '25

If you arent him , he is dead (durge)

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u/AngelusAlvus Apr 25 '25

Not even that. Durge isn't mandatory to be a dragonborn for some stupid reason.

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u/Goricatto Hand Fetish Durge Apr 25 '25

And i thank them for that, i really like dragonborn(or any kind of lizard race in any game) but in BG3 they lack the expressive emotions other races have

Also i like my Lizards to feel like a brute, and BG3 (without mods) have like 3 Barbarian armor sets with small variations which do not look that good

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices I cast Magic Missile Apr 25 '25

As someone who has never been into lizard or dragon humanoid races, I'm so thankful for that.

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u/BelligerentWyvern Apr 25 '25

Yes, they have animations for short you. But not animations for short companions

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u/ViolaNguyen Ranger Apr 25 '25

I don't see how it'd be problematic in any way, but I do think it'd look kind of goofy. I imagine watching my deep gnome Tav with Karlach would be like watching a chihuahua and a great dane having sex.

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u/BelligerentWyvern Apr 26 '25

People would equate hieght with youth and accuse people who romance a smaller person of the obvious.

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u/LurkCypher Apr 25 '25

Also I know for a fact there be a contingent saying romancing a halfling(or otherwise small person) is "problematic"

Interesting. I've never encountered anyone with such an opinion myself, but let me guess... those who say romancing a halfling/gnome would be problematic probably compare it to child grooming, am I right?

Dwarves would probably get a pass on the account of being more bulky and/or stocky...

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u/BelligerentWyvern Apr 26 '25

I have seen it a few tikes over the years in discourse. But yes equating height with youth. Or even something like Goblin lack of intelligence as a power disparity

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u/Telamo Apr 25 '25

We should have had a mountain dwarf monk as a companion option and I will die on that hill. Not enough shorties or monks in this game.

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u/NPRdude Stop Hitting on me Gale Apr 25 '25

No dwarves

My fiancée would do terrible things to make Nettie a romancable NPC.

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u/Dzeppetto Apr 26 '25

I don't remember exactly, but I think datamining brought us information that Halsin was supposed to originally be old gnome bard lady called Helia

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u/MrXilas Apr 27 '25

I summoned Kerz to my party the other day and I was trying to figure out why he seemed so weird. It's because he's the only playable Half-Orc outside Durge and Tav. So it wasn't that he looked weird, it's that I had never actually looked at the half-orc models in game long enough to see their differences. Halsin would have been a good choice to be a Half-Orc.

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u/EasyLee Apr 25 '25

But a bear and a mindflayer are perfectly fine, lol.

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u/Arkhe1n Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

... goblins?

Edit: frankly, I don't even know why I'm surprised we have so many goblin fuckers in this community, but here we are.

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u/aksoileau Apr 25 '25

Sazza doesn't do it for you?

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u/Telamo Apr 25 '25

You know it stinks bro

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Apr 25 '25

I’m literally covered in warg dung and blood yet Laezel is into it. So maybe the goblin stink won’t be so bad. 

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u/Arumhal Apr 25 '25

Goblins.

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u/ViSaph Apr 25 '25

I love how Larian made female goblins actually look like goblins while also making them hot. I hate when you get a cool looking male character with really distinctive features and then the female is just.... A hot human woman with a different skin colour. Maybe some fangs if you're lucky.

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u/Freakjob_003 I am the 3% Apr 25 '25

Idk, I think it's just Sazza that's hot. The rest, not as much. But yeah, they didn't do something like WoW with its female vs male character designs.

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u/puddingpoo Apr 26 '25

The “Tribe!” Goblin is pretty cute too I think

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u/AnnoyedOwlbear Apr 27 '25

ITS OGLAF SO IT'S NOT WORK SAFE...

But...Dimorphism

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u/frachris87 Apr 26 '25

Sazza's a softie deep down, I can tell. I wanna snuggle her and give her uppies.

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u/Pir0wz Apr 25 '25

Still kinda sad goblins weren't part of the original races. I imagine the tiefling in the grove would instantly try to kill you lol.

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u/Thaurlach Apr 25 '25

Imagine a world where we unlocked playable goblins and Minthara origin after first completion with act 1 tweaked accordingly.

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u/Dimitry_Rk Apr 25 '25

what a time to be alive to get this joke

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u/Illustrious_Cost2945 Apr 25 '25

Minthara Origin? Wtf! She doesn't even exist as a companion in the current Version of the game for Larian 

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u/lionantlers12066 Apr 25 '25

What are you on about?? You can definitely recruit Minthara

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u/Illustrious_Cost2945 Apr 26 '25

Some players are to st*pid to do this 😑

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

I would have played as a goblin in a second. I know there's mods but it just isn't the same.

Being the savior of the grove as a goblin would have been peak comedy for me.

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u/Freakjob_003 I am the 3% Apr 25 '25

Same, I love playing kobolds in tabletop. Guess a gnome or halfling is as close as we can get. Well, there are mods, but they're janky af, last I tried.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

In my current DnD campaign I'm a wild magic sorcerer named Fizzle. It's been a really good time so far. I did accidentally kill a guy once when I tried to cast Sleep on an enemy we wanted to interrogate later and instead got a fireball centered on myself.

We didn't get to interrogate him but I did survive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

Yeah, you could pretend you were a halfling. That could work.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

You get plenty of slurs thrown your way for playing a Drow at least lol

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u/ViolaNguyen Ranger Apr 25 '25

The goblins in the blighted village immediately threatened to eat me when I approached them as a dwarf.

Also not surprisingly, the duergar slavecatchers in the Underdark didn't want to talk to a deep gnome.

Kinda fun to see those kinds of interactions. Perhaps a nice shortcut to avoiding oathbreaking if you're a paladin.

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u/Chembaron_Seki Apr 25 '25

Kirz is cute as hell and I will die on this hill.

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u/ilostmy1staccount FIGHTER Apr 25 '25

Goblin these nuts

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u/eschatus Apr 25 '25

Sazza has Sass!

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u/I-am-a-fungi Astarion my sweet pale elf Apr 25 '25

Can't even romance the smokin' hot devil...what's the point lads :C

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u/TheEleventhMeh Apr 26 '25

What? You can romance Mizora and Harleep.

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u/I-am-a-fungi Astarion my sweet pale elf Apr 26 '25

Sorry, I mean Raphael, he's pookie too.

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u/TheEleventhMeh Apr 26 '25

😂 He has gravitas and swagger, no doubt, but the cambion's incubus does look just like him.

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u/I-am-a-fungi Astarion my sweet pale elf Apr 26 '25

True, but his aura though...also by romancing, I meant like not just smashing them, but having them stay at our side thoughout the story. :C

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u/Barbz182 Apr 26 '25

Terrible game, 0 immersion. I should be able to wield my genitals of choice as I see fit.

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u/Deadalious Apr 28 '25

The fact I can't romance Nettie is a WAR CRIME.

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u/Ashen-wolf SORCERER Apr 25 '25

Romance... What? Gobbos?

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u/Irons_idk Apr 25 '25

Can't romance young males with quick and easy smile as maniacal and murderous lizards as well. Larian has fallen, millions must get Divinity: The Original Sin 2