#I wasn’t expecting like ‘here’s a lvl 1 companion that you can cart around for the rest of the game’ but like

[8-birdparagon]

I love Baldur’s Gate 3 but I do wish that there was a bit more diversity with the companions. Like they’re all generally well-written and interesting but also:

Out of the 10 total companions, only two of them are not some variation on a human or an elf

Every single origin companion has “I have spent a significant portion of my life in service to a powerful being” as a central part of their backstory

Half of the origin companions were either directly stated or implied to be extremely powerful but got reduced to lvl 1 bc a worm was put in their noggin

2 of the companions are druids (They also overlap a fair amount in terms of backstory)

Some of these points are probably a little nitpicky, but also there’s so many interesting characters that you only meet once who would be so cool as a companion. Let me recruit that one goblin who’s still faithful to Maglubiyet. Let me recruit Barcus and get to know him better while I help him find his friend. I want to bring stone mason Kith along so he can better investigate the Grymforge and also tell me about historical architecture. Z’rell or Aylin could both be really interesting act II additions to the party. The current companions are great, but in comparison to all the possibilities that are in the game they feel kinda bland.