Originally, I was going to write something about charm dialogue (because I couldn't find that thread), but, as I wrote this out, I realized it was more about missed opportunities in character development.
This weekend, I spawned most of the recruitable NPCs and charmed them (except Viconia, which I didn't want to bother with because of her MR) and then spoke to them. Some of them, like Ajantis, are no different when charmed v. not. Some of them talk about themselves a bit (Garrick talks about his music, Xzar tells you he's Zhent and has been sent to figure out who is spreading rumors about their organization), some of them give you info (Xan will actually give you a journal update on the Iron Throne - he says he is a diplomat of sorts between Evereska and human lands, is investigating the Iron Throne, but was locked up before he could find anything out). Two kind of caught my attention, though:
Safana, when charmed, will say something about how you're the only person she doesn't have to pretend to be attracted to.
Kagain got me. When you charm him, he says something along the lines of "I don't have any friends, so I don't know why you're talking to me. I don't know anything." Heart-breaking!
Really, I wish they hadn't just thrown all these characters out in BG2. I wish they'd developed them more deeply because so many of them have these interesting backgrounds we get little snippets of. Safana could have been a romance option and you could slowly peel back the layers to find a rather fragile girl, who masks her insecurities with sluttiness. Could have also unlocked another triangle with Coran (and one that would be better than Aerie and Haer'Dalis - yuck).
Kagain, maybe a friendship, maybe even the ability to change his alignment. A sad dwarf who results to violence as a result of his loneliness.
What other characters do you wish got more development? Recruitable or not.
This weekend, I spawned most of the recruitable NPCs and charmed them (except Viconia, which I didn't want to bother with because of her MR) and then spoke to them. Some of them, like Ajantis, are no different when charmed v. not. Some of them talk about themselves a bit (Garrick talks about his music, Xzar tells you he's Zhent and has been sent to figure out who is spreading rumors about their organization), some of them give you info (Xan will actually give you a journal update on the Iron Throne - he says he is a diplomat of sorts between Evereska and human lands, is investigating the Iron Throne, but was locked up before he could find anything out). Two kind of caught my attention, though:
Safana, when charmed, will say something about how you're the only person she doesn't have to pretend to be attracted to.
Kagain got me. When you charm him, he says something along the lines of "I don't have any friends, so I don't know why you're talking to me. I don't know anything." Heart-breaking!
Really, I wish they hadn't just thrown all these characters out in BG2. I wish they'd developed them more deeply because so many of them have these interesting backgrounds we get little snippets of. Safana could have been a romance option and you could slowly peel back the layers to find a rather fragile girl, who masks her insecurities with sluttiness. Could have also unlocked another triangle with Coran (and one that would be better than Aerie and Haer'Dalis - yuck).
Kagain, maybe a friendship, maybe even the ability to change his alignment. A sad dwarf who results to violence as a result of his loneliness.
What other characters do you wish got more development? Recruitable or not.