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[ElementalFury106]

So imagine the romances were completely up to you. How would they be different from what BioWare has done? You can have up to 8 within your companions/advisers. 

 

What you cannot do is change a character's sexual orientation. That is a character design, not a romance design. 

 

You can have as many or as little (or none) of race-gated romances as you wish.

 

For me personally I would've kept most of them as they are now; but I would take away two romances BioWare has given us and add in two more. Basically, it is as follows:

 

Who you can romance

-Cassandra --> Males only

-Cullen --> Females only --> Humans and Elves only

-Josephine --> Bisexual

-Iron Bull --> Bisexual

-Sera --> Females only

-Dorian --> Males only

-Varric --> Females only --> Dwarves only

-Vivienne --> Males only

 

4 straight, 2 gay, 2 bi romances.

 

Who you cannot romance

-Cole

-Leliana

-Solas

-Blackwall

 

Who is race-gated

-Cullen (humans and elves only)

-Varric (dwarves only)

 

So yeah, basically I would've scrapped Blackwall and Solas being romanceable and added Varric and Vivienne. Everyone (except Leliana and Cole) can have a justifiable romance, but I would've come up with good reasons as to why Solas and Blackwall are not interested in pursuing a romance.

[Jaulen]

So...pretty much, a Qunari female, gets NO male (female only) romance, only Sera.

 

Yeah.....

 

Nice way not to race gate any of the male romances there.

Super unbalanced list you made.

 

I'm actually going to say Super Unbalanced list again.....just for emphasis.

[Muspade]

Who you can romance

- Varric.
-Vivienne ---> Mage only

 

Who you cannot romance

-Cole

-Leliana

-Solas

-Blackwall

-Cassandra 

-Cullen 

-Josephine 

-Iron Bull 

-Sera

-Dorian 

 

 

Who is race-gated

- Varric --> Qunari only.
-Vivienne ---> Human/Elf

Viviennes Special Romance Requirements
-Fashionable attire.
-Orlesian accent.

- Grandmaster tailoring.
 

[AlexiaRevan]

 

 

What you cannot do is change a character's sexual orientation. That is a character design, not a romance design.
 

Then you change some companions orientations...wut ? 

[Ryzaki]

Oooh we get to make lists
 

Who you can romance

 

Sera (ungated female only )

Cassandra (ungated, male only)

Josephine (ungated)

Iron Bull (ungated)

Dorian (ungated, male only)

Blackwall (ungated, female only)

 

Who you can't romance

Varric

Solas

Vivienne

Cullen

 

So...I'd just nixed the bonus romances really XD

[ComedicSociopathy]

So...pretty much, a Qunari female, gets NO male (female only) romance, only Sera.

 

Yeah.....

 

Nice way not to race gate any of the male romances there.

Super unbalanced list you made.

 

I'm actually going to say Super Unbalanced list again.....just for emphasis.

 

Well it is his opinion so it really doesn't matter if its balanced or not to accommodating to a certain character or race/orientation.  

 

Still, I see your point though.

[ElementalFury106]

So...pretty much, a Qunari female, gets NO male (female only) romance, only Sera.

 

Yeah.....

 

Nice way not to race gate any of the male romances there.

Super unbalanced list you made.

 

I'm actually going to say Super Unbalanced list again.....just for emphasis.

 

It's my list, is it not? I could do things however I wish, as could you.

 

And just for emphasis...it's my list so I could do things however I wish, as could you.

 

EDIT: A Qunari Female can indeed get a male romance in my list, Iron Bull is bi. I guess you didn't read it thoroughly.

[sylvanaerie]

OOOH gotcha...i see what you did.

 

Being I'm a heterosexual female, and my options were pretty bare bones in the last two games--though i adored Alistair--I'm happy that I have a bunch more variety this time.  It doesn't bother me to swap out my gender for RP.  I'm content with the list as it is, with only one exception.

 

The only one I would have added to the list who isn't romanceable would be Varric because I'd love to try to roll with a dwarf and romance him, even if he were gated to just dwarves.

[Lingvort]

I would've restricted Blackwall to male Qunari only. Not because I would've loved to see it, but because the very thought of it amuses me.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I'd keep it the same, but throw Varric in there.

[Lingvort]

I'd keep it the same, but throw Varric in there.

"No one tosses a dwarf!"

 

Which is a shame.

[Jaulen]

It may be your list and an opinion at that, but I can call out unbalance if I want to.

 

Personally I would have kept the list as Bioware has it with one exception.

 

Vivienne, human male only (assuming she's straight that is) I just can't see someone from Orlais who's been described as a person interested in power going for an elf (servant race), Quanri (heretics), or dwarf (maybe if he was the king/kings son and the pairing would somehow solidify/give her more power/influence)

[Jaison1986]

Oooh we get to make lists
 

Who you can romance

 

Sera (ungated female only )

Cassandra (ungated, male only)

Josephine (ungated)

Iron Bull (ungated)

Dorian (ungated, male only)

Blackwall (ungated, female only)

 

Who you can't romance

Varric

Solas

Vivienne

Cullen

 

So...I'd just nixed the bonus romances really XD

 

That's jus about what I would do. But I think I would have been ok with Solas since he is an highly restrictive romance. And I would also make Leliana an special option for those who didn't romanced her in Origins.

[ElementalFury106]

Then you change some companions orientations...wut ? 

 

Whos orientation did I change..? Their orientations are exactly as BioWare made them...

 

Are you talking about Varric or Vivienne? We were never given a definite answer of their sexual orientations, so I made a judgement call. Varric has expressed many times that he is into women (dwarves specifically), and Vivienne is straight as Blackwall was made straight.

 

What's your deal? 

[Samahl]

I would add in Vivienne, hopefully as a bi option, non-race-gated.

[Generic Guy]

It's funny cause, every romance I had intended to do for my three Inquisitors has been rendered impossible.

 

I wanted my good/naive female human mage to romance Cassandra.

 

I wanted my amoral (at first) female qunari rogue to romance Cullen.

 

And I wanted my ruthless authoritarian male human warrior to romance Sera.

 

With the revelation of who is straight and who is race-gated, not a single one of these is possible . 

 

So the changes I would make:

 

Cassandra bisexual (preferably a lesbian).

 

Cullen straight and open to every race.

 

Sera straight.

[Samahl]

Vivienne is straight as Blackwall was made straight.

 

Where did you get this idea? We have absolutely zero information on Vivienne's sexuality.

[ElementalFury106]

It may be your list and an opinion at that, but I can call out unbalance if I want to.

 

Personally I would have kept the list as Bioware has it with one exception.

 

Vivienne, human male only (assuming she's straight that is)

 

Well you went out of your way to be particularly nasty with your "emphasis." Not necessary. But thanks for participating. 

[Icy Magebane]

Hm...

 

Who you can romance

Sera (females only)

Cullen (females only, humans and elves only)

Blackwall (females only)

Dorian (males only)

Cassandra (males only)

Vivienne (bisexual)

Josephine (bisexual)

Iron Bull (bisexual)

 

Who you cannot romance

Cole

Leliana

Solas

Varric

 

Who is race-gated

Cullen (humans and elves only)

 

Basically, I removed Solas from the equation because his romance is too heavily restricted and replaced him with Vivienne... I went ahead and made her bi since I don't recall any confirmation that she is straight, as the OP suggests...

[ComedicSociopathy]

Who you can romance

 

- Cullen (Female Only)

​- Josephine (Bisexual)

- Cassandra (Bisexual)

- Blackwall (Bisexual)

- Iron Bull (Bisexual)

- Varric (Female Only and Dwarf Only)

- Sera (Lesbian)

- Dorian (Gay)

- Vivienne (Male Only)

 

Who you cannot romance 

 

- Leliana  

- Cole

- Solas (Fade Spirit Only) 

[ElementalFury106]

Where did you get this idea? We have absolutely zero information on Vivienne's sexuality.

 

Did you not read earlier where I said I made a judgement call on that? In case that wasn't clear, I made an assumption.

 

I am NOT saying Vivienne is straight. I MADE her straight just as BioWare decided to make Blackwall straight. It's their call, just as it is mine.

[Hellion Rex]

I would have been fine with 8 total.

 

2 straight (Cullen and Cass)

 

4 bi (Blackwall, Bull, Vivienne, Josephine)

 

2 gay (Dorian and Sera)

 

No race gates

[berrieh]

I assume that the non-romanceable companions are that way for a reason at present (Varric is still in love with someone else, it's been highly implied, for example) so without seeing the story, I wouldn't feel comfortable changing them specifically. However, I think it would be kind of interesting to have some class-gated romances as well or romances gated by specific choices in-game, rather than simply race and gender-gated. Like Vivienne being a mage-only romance would maybe be interesting, if there's not a compelling reason she can't romance at all (like she had a partner in the Circle who is missing in action but not dead or anything and thus she's taken). 

 

I like Bio's list better than the OP's as Blackwall is one of the options I'm most interested in (him or Cullen will likely be playthrough #1). 

[Samahl]

Did you not read earlier where I said I made a judgement call on that? In case that wasn't clear, I made an assumption.

 

I am NOT saying Vivienne is straight. I MADE her straight just as BioWare decided to make Blackwall straight. It's their call, just as it is mine.

 

I misread that as only applying to Varric. Still, that seems like a really weird assumption to make.