Who decided on companion stats?

[Indure]

I don't think they need to be perfectly min/max, but they seem like they were generated via random rolls and they are far worse than they were in EA.

Shadowheart has 13 str / 13 dex / 14 con / 10 int / 17 wisdom / 8 cha

She is a trickery cleric whose background was change to acolyte, so she can no longer stealth or pick locks and has -1 in all cha checks. Why all the odd numbers, even if you split ASI on level up you can't fix all the odd numbers.

EDIT: I think it is hilarious that she has a special modifier that makes her afraid of wolves.

Lae'zel has 17 str / 13 dex / 15 con / 10 int / 12 wis / 8 cha

She's a fighter with her +1 invested into con and you couldn't get her a con score of 16.

I know you can fix these things on respec, but I can't fathom why Larian wouldn't spend 5 minutes critically thinking about companion starting stats so players new to the game and not sure how 5e mechanics work, wouldn't start with weaken companions.

[Kaseron]

Its been this way since BG1.
Its point buy but every character has a different total amount of points, rather than something like than "everyone at lvl 1 will have 72 points"

[Indure]

Originally posted by Kaseron:

Its been this way since BG1.
Its point buy but every character has a different total amount of points, rather than something like than "everyone at lvl 1 will have 72 points"

It is pointbuy and everyone has 27 points. I'm not sure what you are talking about.

[Penitent Pilgrim]

Game designers seem to enjoy creating sub-standard characters.

[DJ]

Originally posted by Penitent Pilgrim:

Game designers seem to enjoy creating sub-standard characters.

Most veteran enjoyers of TTRPGs are going to read this and aerosolise their beverage.

[Nobelissimos]

Every RPG seems to make companions with very unoptimal or even nonsesnical stats. It's tradition.