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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Cael

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So, if I were a logical and sane developer, and I will be attacked regardless of which way I go, I'd leave the fucking thing out.
Which is what they did. As I said, BG3 doesn't have a gender selector of any kind. It just shows the male/female symbols.
A female symbol with an obvious male pic is a statement. Woketards of the cunts does not have a history of being non-political. In fact, they were at the forefront of the wokeshit wave. Anything connected to it, including anything currently labelled DnD, is automatically suspect. I don't have high hopes of anything woketard connected.
 

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Another bullshit decision is that female Dwarves can have a beard, which I presume stems from the stupid joke in The Two Towers, about female dwarves having a beard. Even if implemented as a joke, there is no joking on such matters with SJWs.

If ever there was a great example of how you people see SJW insertions everywhere no matter what, this has got to be it.

My copy of 'Dwarves Deep' by Ed Greewood published October 1990 said:
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Another quote from 'Dwarves Deep' said:

More 'Dwarves Deep' said:

It's funny, isn't it. The people claiming to be grognard defenders of the Old Faith often seem completely oblivious to the actual content of RPG history.
You could have stopped with "Ed Greenwood", as no-one should accept any of his products as a legitimate part of D&D history. On the other hand, from GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome (1988) by Aaron Allston:
(1) Dwarf Women and Beards. Female dwarves do not have beards. Their faces bear the strong, craggy features of the dwarven race, but do not have facial hair.

Confirmed in several of the illustrations by Stephen Fabian. :martini:

Ed is just a nerd coomer, the real perpetrators are other people at WotC.
 

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In the Before Times, pre-Hotfix 18, NPC corpses were… a little livelier than we had expected them to be. We’re not sure the Forgotten Realms have invented the electric slide yet, but we’re also pretty confident that they had the moves to pull it off now. Either way - we’ve fixed that now, so that the dead stay dead. This isn’t an episode of your favourite CW show, sorry.

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You could have stopped with "Ed Greenwood", as no-one should accept any of his products as a legitimate part of D&D history. On the other hand, from GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome (1988) by Aaron Allston:
(1) Dwarf Women and Beards. Female dwarves do not have beards. Their faces bear the strong, craggy features of the dwarven race, but do not have facial hair.

Confirmed in several of the illustrations by Stephen Fabian. :martini:

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You could have stopped with "Ed Greenwood", as no-one should accept any of his products as a legitimate part of D&D history. On the other hand, from GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome (1988) by Aaron Allston:
(1) Dwarf Women and Beards. Female dwarves do not have beards. Their faces bear the strong, craggy features of the dwarven race, but do not have facial hair.

Confirmed in several of the illustrations by Stephen Fabian. :martini:

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I guess the giant boobs are nature's way of helping you deal with the giant noses.

:balance:
 

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You could have stopped with "Ed Greenwood", as no-one should accept any of his products as a legitimate part of D&D history. On the other hand, from GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome (1988) by Aaron Allston:
(1) Dwarf Women and Beards. Female dwarves do not have beards. Their faces bear the strong, craggy features of the dwarven race, but do not have facial hair.

Confirmed in several of the illustrations by Stephen Fabian. :martini:

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For that matter, Larry Elmore drew illustrations of beardless female dwarves for PHBR6 The Complete Book of Dwarves:

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been a long time but I remember the original FR dwarf lore involving them having to kidnap women of other species because there were so few dwarf women and they weren't having children or some shit
modern d&dtards would lose their marbles over it
 

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been a long time but I remember the original FR dwarf lore involving them having to kidnap women of other species because there were so few dwarf women and they weren't having children or some shit
modern d&dtards would lose their marbles over it
Any sane person wouldn't like this idea.
 

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been a long time but I remember the original FR dwarf lore involving them having to kidnap women of other species because there were so few dwarf women and they weren't having children or some shit
modern d&dtards would lose their marbles over it
Zed Duke of Banville dig this up for me
maybe I'm thinking of greyhawk?
Dwarven rape fantasies are one category of Ed Greenwood's perversions that actually appeared in the published version of the Forgotten Realms, courtesy of Ed Greenwood himself writing FR11 Dwarves Deep:
Ed Greenwood said:
The tragic ‘secret’ of the dwarves is their low birthrate. Fear of clan extinction sometimes drives dwarves to raid human settlements for mates, or even to deal with slavers. The dwarves are usually in search of human women, because the low dwarven birthrate is thought to be due to low fertility among dwarven women.

The offspring of a human and a dwarf is always dwarven enough to pass for a true dwarf (although it may be a foot taller than other dwarves). Any offspring it may in turn have with a dwarven mate will be fully dwarven, reverting to usual dwarven height. The taking of human mates is “the secret salvation of the race” referred to by some dwarven elders.
Note that this same FR11 Dwarves Deep asserts that female dwarves have beards, in contradiction to generic AD&D information and the other campaign settings. It's a disgrace that Ed Greenwood was ever allowed to become the creator of an AD&D campaign setting, much less the one intended as the generic default setting.
 

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been a long time but I remember the original FR dwarf lore involving them having to kidnap women of other species because there were so few dwarf women and they weren't having children or some shit
modern d&dtards would lose their marbles over it
Zed Duke of Banville dig this up for me
maybe I'm thinking of greyhawk?
Dwarven rape fantasies are one category of Ed Greenwood's perversions that actually appeared in the published version of the Forgotten Realms, courtesy of Ed Greenwood himself writing FR11 Dwarves Deep:
Ed Greenwood said:
The tragic ‘secret’ of the dwarves is their low birthrate. Fear of clan extinction sometimes drives dwarves to raid human settlements for mates, or even to deal with slavers. The dwarves are usually in search of human women, because the low dwarven birthrate is thought to be due to low fertility among dwarven women.

The offspring of a human and a dwarf is always dwarven enough to pass for a true dwarf (although it may be a foot taller than other dwarves). Any offspring it may in turn have with a dwarven mate will be fully dwarven, reverting to usual dwarven height. The taking of human mates is “the secret salvation of the race” referred to by some dwarven elders.
Note that this same FR11 Dwarves Deep asserts that female dwarves have beards, in contradiction to generic AD&D information and the other campaign settings. It's a disgrace that Ed Greenwood was ever allowed to become the creator of an AD&D campaign setting, much less the one intended as the generic default setting.
Ed Greenwood is a maladjusted teen. His works are amongst the most deviant (for given values of deviance) of all FR DnD authors. Gratuitous nudity, homosexuality, trannism (before it became trendy, natch!), rape fantasies. It is all there. The entire Elminster series was almost physically painful to read. And Crown of Fire was... basically a bevy of females bathing together, running around nude together, or having their clothes destroyed right off their bodies.
 

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Ed Greenwood is a complete degenerate, and you'd think it would be a common knowledge on Codex.

"...“festhalls” [...] vary in customs, but the more elaborate ones ARE “a cross between a private club, a casino, and a brothel.”
This is due to the fact that many folk in Faerûn can readily couple with someone (on a rooftop or behind a midden in crowded cities, and ‘out in the woods’ or in a nearby thicket or hollow in a distant pasture, in a rural setting) if mere sexual gratification is all they want. What they go to the brothels for (and yes, some of these establishments are private clubs, particularly those specializing in S&M, mate-swapping, or inter-species congress) is for ‘added fun.’

By this term, I mean: striptease performances, playacting and dressing up in outlandish costumes (“Hah, my pretty, I’m not merely Rorold the fat butcher from down the street - - I’m Ravagar Wanderglar, dread pirate of the Serpent Seas!”), the chance to gamble (betting one’s body, temporary freedom, or items of clothing) or gambol (yes, dance), make love to music, have access to situations visitors wouldn’t dare try outside a club (mock rape of a priest or priestess or ruler or other authority figure), making love on a tomb, crossdressing, eating food off the bodies of strangers, and so on), and the chance (particularly in masked revels) to enjoy someone else in a small community who’s married to someone else - - to ‘find’ each other in public, or even be seen heading off to a tryst, would cause a scandal, but going to the brothel separately and getting up to all manner of hijinx there, even (in some cases) if observed by fellow community members, is ‘okay’ (the brothel is accepted as ‘outside’ normal society, a safety valve in which folk can temporarily set aside their usual public manner and status).

I see the popularity of brothels in the Realms as based on the Faerûnian love of play: as in our real world, children lose many opportunities for playing as they grow up (unless they can shift into participation in a sport, or acting, or performing and use that as an outlet), but brothels offer a place to go on playing, lifelong.

Some people never engage in a sexual physical act at a brothel, but visit them often. Some of these go to watch the fun (ogling), some go for the chance to flirt or make lewd suggestions they’d never dare utter elsewhere, and some just like to chat or play cards or drink with others while naked, or while crossdressing, or while pretending to be of a race or profession (example: the pirate above) that they’re not. Some folks frequent festhalls to play tag, or blindfolded tag, or all sorts of other games that again, are play but not necessarily sexual.

(And then of course there are also brothels that are ‘simple *****houses,’ particularly in ports where sailors make landing after long voyages without access to ‘fresh faces,’ or caravans disperse ditto.)"
 

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been a long time but I remember the original FR dwarf lore involving them having to kidnap women of other species because there were so few dwarf women and they weren't having children or some shit
modern d&dtards would lose their marbles over it
Zed Duke of Banville dig this up for me
maybe I'm thinking of greyhawk?
Dwarven rape fantasies are one category of Ed Greenwood's perversions that actually appeared in the published version of the Forgotten Realms, courtesy of Ed Greenwood himself writing FR11 Dwarves Deep:
Ed Greenwood said:
The tragic ‘secret’ of the dwarves is their low birthrate. Fear of clan extinction sometimes drives dwarves to raid human settlements for mates, or even to deal with slavers. The dwarves are usually in search of human women, because the low dwarven birthrate is thought to be due to low fertility among dwarven women.

The offspring of a human and a dwarf is always dwarven enough to pass for a true dwarf (although it may be a foot taller than other dwarves). Any offspring it may in turn have with a dwarven mate will be fully dwarven, reverting to usual dwarven height. The taking of human mates is “the secret salvation of the race” referred to by some dwarven elders.
Note that this same FR11 Dwarves Deep asserts that female dwarves have beards, in contradiction to generic AD&D information and the other campaign settings. It's a disgrace that Ed Greenwood was ever allowed to become the creator of an AD&D campaign setting, much less the one intended as the generic default setting.


Interesting. In Dark Sun, half Dwarf half Human are often called "Mul", they are always sterile and have a huge strength and constitution and are always result of slavery, since no woman likes manlets and they should die the mother always die after her gave birth. Muls can only exists in a very oppressive society. Does Mul exists in Faerun? I'm curious. Maybe as a bizarre Thay experiment. IDK.

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https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Mul

Any sane person wouldn't like this idea.

> Sane person
> In Codex

Chose one.

Anyway, is interesting how we never talk about BG3 in this thread. This thread spawned a lot of threads. Now we have a thread to discuss Ed Greenwood.
 

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Why people are butthurt about Faerun having the same perversions as IRL? I am all for more mature content in FR unless it’s as cringe and tranny promoting as in WOTR.

Because its just as much the author shoving his fetishes down our throats as Owlcat are doing it with their globohomo agenda. Generally people don't like being forcibly preached to.
 

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Dwarven rape fantasies are one category of Ed Greenwood's perversions that actually appeared in the published version of the Forgotten Realms, courtesy of Ed Greenwood himself writing FR11 Dwarves Deep:

Note that this same FR11 Dwarves Deep asserts that female dwarves have beards, in contradiction to generic AD&D information and the other campaign settings. It's a disgrace that Ed Greenwood was ever allowed to become the creator of an AD&D campaign setting, much less the one intended as the generic default setting.
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Why people are butthurt about Faerun having the same perversions as IRL? I am all for more mature content in FR unless it’s as cringe and tranny promoting as in WOTR.
There's nothing mature about sexual perversions. It's all cringe all the way down. The people who write this shit should be left on ice floes.
 
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Why people are butthurt about Faerun having the same perversions as IRL? I am all for more mature content in FR unless it’s as cringe and tranny promoting as in WOTR.
There's nothing mature about sexual perversions. It's all cringe all the way down. The people who write this shit should be left on ice floes.
What’s cringe in dorfs raping human females to sustain their population? Ed’s edgy take on these matters feels much more interesting and honest than official FR which not surprisingly avoids any rough terrain that can hurt ‘feelings’.
 

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There's nothing mature about sexual perversions. It's all cringe all the way down. The people who write this shit should be left on ice floes.
What’s cringe in dorfs raping human females to sustain their population? Ed’s edgy take on these matters feels much more interesting and honest than official FR which not surprisingly avoids any rough terrain that can hurt ‘feelings’.
It wasn't cringe before with orcs raping human females to breed half-orcs who are a playable race in DnD. So dunno.
 

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