Grym suddenly got eerily smart and was avoiding the Crucible in the Adamantine Forge. With a nervous laugh, we dumbed him back down a little.

Probably for the best, since the whole thing is a gimmick fight and it needs to be winnable. Though I will say that having it all planned out and seeing my target avoiding it and choosing to attack from behind me, directly opposite where he was supposed to be if I had any hope of killing him, was one of the most memorable moments of that battle.

The amount of ice in my veins when I had to lure the damn thing into place by climbing on the forge myself and just hoping I could run really fast before I had to bring it down on my own skull or he got wise and fucked off.

I can see the necessity, it was just...adrenaline-inducing.

Ranger Companions will not be summonable in combat.

Not a dnd player, is there a tabletop basis for this? Being able to summon Scratch in battle simply because he is a good boy but not being able to call a companion animal when doing so is your whole class feels weird to me.

Fixed the game thinking you're dating Gale instead of Karlach in one of the dialogues with Karlach.

Prevented Gale from demanding your attention after talking to Tara when he doesn't really have anything relevant to say.

Fixed a bug where, once you got serious with another Origin, Gale would always break up with you on the topic being discussed.

Not gonna lie, I kinda wish they just wouldn't even touch Gale. You'd think it would get in the way and I get that they technically should fix it because his behavior wasn't the devs' intention for the kind of person they seem to have wanted him to be, but how he's acting has actually added a lot to his personality to me.

Gale is unintentionally incredibly realistic as a Nice Guy,™ enough for me to recognize it instantly for what it is and build my perception of him around it, and his worst trait is being a walking teachable moment. Pointing to how uncomfortable Gale makes everyone literally helped me explain on a more visceral level how "fun" it is to put up with irl to someone last night.

He just sat alone in his tower for years with no normal interaction, so now his judgement is off and he makes a ton of sometimes insane assumptions because you didn't leave him to die and asked him about his cat once and now he won't stop. Even in the middle of the Shadowlands, he's entirely, awkwardly inappropriate for just zero reason.

Withers commented that I'm in a relationship now, and even my character had the option to brush it off as one night spent with a friend, just two buddies talking about magic, 6ft apart because it's not like that.

And I mean, I really didn't notice it wasn't a thing games ever did before I saw others pointing it out. Because between Astarion's dramatic fuckboy attitude and whatever tree Gale and his unholy libido are hiding behind, that's just how guys react to me when I talk to them. I didn't notice it was weird.

Please don't make Gale entirely normal, the jokes are hilarious and he's actually really believable without inherently being unlikable.