#until then i'm stuck fulfilling my own dreams by making the dwarves I'd want to romance

[invinciblerodent]

Now that I'm also playing a standard height character alongside a dwarf, I'm honestly growing.... just a little bitter about how games in general are never really made to work right with shorter characters.

And I don't want to come off as if I'm complaining: Baldur's Gate did so, so much better than average on this! Especially scenes involving touching, many counter the wide range of character heights in very smart and effective ways: just from the ones I've seen, some characters float the player up to be at eye level to them, Wyll kneels down, in both Gale's major scenes I've gotten so far you're sitting/laying down/floating so you're roughly facing each other right, Astarion picks you up (lol) so his height controls the animation, etc., it's all quite smart.

But... Arvid's height and general size still fluctuates a lot. And dwarves are one of the most emblematic fantasy races, they're found in almost all fantasy franchises, but even so, I've yet to see one game where it's not very obvious that the shorter races are, in at least some scenes, a bit of an afterthought.

I get it. I really do. I know my preference to play a dwarf is kind of in the minority over all the tiefling/half-elf/human enjoyers. But just once, I wish I could be playing a human or something, and have my head clip through an animation that was clearly made for someone a solid foot shorter than me. Just once I wish I had a game with love interests who are all dramatically shorter so that they're all making intense eye contact with my nipples the whole time.

It doesn't have to be a big game. But... it would be kinda refreshing.