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[Heroic Liberator]

So, turns out, all that premise and the fancy intro was to solely justify anime superpowers in a D&D enviroment? What a fucking shame.

you mean like making them children of the god of murder and letting them transform into a killing machine?

One makes sense in lore, the other does not.

The Tadpole thing makes sense in Lore.

1. It's a mutant tadpole, the Mindflayers are the psionic mad scientists of the setting, so of course they will experiment with things including their own tadpoles, especially when it dovetails with a massive Mindflayer conspiracy. Mindflayers do shit like this all the time, twisting humans into a race of egg layers, or turning regular Dwarves into depressing part time giants.

2. Plus the Tadpole is still an infection so it might be possible in rare cases to fight it off with a strong or even magically enhanced immune response, especially if the Tadpole itself might be infected by something.

To me it all seems forced. Either you turn into a mindflayer with all the perks which that offers or you don't and remain as you were before being infected. The fact that WotC approved of this nonsense doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's technically an infection, but I doubt your immune system is able to beat it in the few hours it takes for it to physically eat your brain. It's like being able to fight off a xenomorph infection in the Aliens franchise. Larian's writers are just dumb, said in the most friendly way possible.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

To be fair WotC has been pure decline for over a decade, so it's not surprising at all.

 

[NJClaw]

To be fair WotC has been pure decline for over a decade, so it's not surprising at all.

The last incline move from WotC was exactly 13 years ago, when they released the Avenger prestige class (link) as an April Fools' joke to mock players who took alignment requirements too seriously (the Avenger is identical to the Assassin prestinge class, with two exceptions: you have to be Good instead of Evil to become one and its cloak is white instead of black).

 

[Lacrymas]

>A look at when assassins do good
>Political murder

Mmm, I dunno.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

>A look at when assassins do good
>Political murder

Mmm, I dunno.

Murdering politicians counts as a good deed though.

 

[Riddler]

>A look at when assassins do good
>Political murder

Mmm, I dunno.

Murdering politicians counts as a good deed though.

What about journalists?

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

>A look at when assassins do good
>Political murder

Mmm, I dunno.

Murdering politicians counts as a good deed though.

What about journalists?

It's ok, as long as they are game journalists.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

>A look at when assassins do good
>Political murder

Mmm, I dunno.

Murdering politicians counts as a good deed though.

What about journalists?

It's ok, as long as they are game journalists.

We shouldn't discriminate.

 

[Desiderius]

Martyrdom is too good for the present crop.

Mere obscurity would suffice.

 

[Lacrymas]

So, paid assassinations are a good act only when sanctioned by the authorities against their enemies?

 

[NJClaw]

So, paid assassinations are a good act only when sanctioned by the authorities against their enemies?

It doesn't even need to be sactioned by the authorities:

Avengers normally belong to a specific secret guild or organization. Sometimes the government or ruler of a nation sponsors this group, while other guilds may act independently.

Apparently, assassination IS good.

 

[Lacrymas]

That's literally what assassins normally are, though, lol. That's part of the joke, I assume.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

So, paid assassinations are a good act only when sanctioned by the authorities against their enemies?

It's like Senran Kagura, good ninjas work for the Japanese government, evil ninjas work for the private corporations.

 

[Elex]

So to be clear: the people that think this stuff is not fitting the forgotten realms lore have idea of who is Ed Greenwood and what stuff he write?
He don’t changed idea the last year he was like that since forever.

 

[Nihiliste]

idgaf about lore tbh

 

[fantadomat]

It's technically an infection, but I doubt your immune system is able to beat it in the few hours it takes for it to physically eat your brain. It's like being able to fight off a xenomorph infection in the Aliens franchise. Larian's writers are just dumb, said in the most friendly way possible.

It does makes sense if it is a unique case or something. Tho it doesn't make sense when a bunch of people resist it and end up with muh supa powaz. As we said before,expecting good writing from Larian is like expecting a good writing from Obsidian.

 

[Gyor]

It's technically an infection, but I doubt your immune system is able to beat it in the few hours it takes for it to physically eat your brain. It's like being able to fight off a xenomorph infection in the Aliens franchise. Larian's writers are just dumb, said in the most friendly way possible.

Unlike what we saw in the first video ceraphmorphs is not normally that quick, it's a much slower process, that is why the character, who don't know they have mutant tadpoles, expect it to take several weeks to turn them into a mindflayer.

 

[Morality Games]

It's technically an infection, but I doubt your immune system is able to beat it in the few hours it takes for it to physically eat your brain. It's like being able to fight off a xenomorph infection in the Aliens franchise. Larian's writers are just dumb, said in the most friendly way possible.

Unlike what we saw in the first video ceraphmorphs is not normally that quick, it's a much slower process, that is why the character, who don't know they have mutant tadpoles, expect it to take several weeks to turn them into a mindflayer.

Well. That's one way to limit the Rest mechanic.

 

[Lacrymas]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

 

[Dodo1610]

Larian is working at 70 to 80% of their normal productivity, at least for now according to New York Times article
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/technology/personaltech/coronavirus-video-game-production.html

He says beta later this year, sounds like a delay.

 

[Infinitron]

Larian in the New York Times? Oh, it's by Jason Schreier hah.

Gaming Sales Are Up, but Production Is Down
The coronavirus pandemic is offering mixed news and new challenges for gaming companies, both independent and corporate.

During the early days of self-quarantine at Larian Studios, the independent video game developer founded in Ghent, Belgium, morale remained high. Designers and engineers, many of whom worked remotely (the company has 300 employees across five countries), were able to continue to do so, building levels and writing code from their homes.

“The very first week, it went really well,” said Swen Vincke, the chief executive at Larian, which makes popular role-playing games like Divinity: Original Sin and the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3. “Everyone had all the information they needed to just smoothly go work from home.”

But as the company entered the second and third weeks of social isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic, problems began to emerge. Parents have to work while caring for young children. Some employees have found themselves working limited or unusual hours, which has led to reduced productivity and communication struggles. And with Larian’s external partners closing or transitioning to remote work, everything has slowed down.

“We started seeing more stress on the leads in terms of communication,” Mr. Vincke said. “We’d spend all of our days just communicating — trying to solve problems, organize things, give direction.”

[...] “We don’t have a solution for it,” said Mr. Vincke of Larian Studios, adding that he hoped to be able to get back in the performance capture studio soon alongside heavy disinfecting and social distancing policies. “We’re hoping that eventually we’re going to organize something.”

[...] Mr. Vincke said that Larian’s next project, the highly anticipated role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3, was still on track for an “early access” beta release this year. Larian’s internal estimates show that their teams are operating at 70 to 80 percent of their normal productivity, at least for now.

“Development is proceeding,” Mr. Vincke said. “We’re just slowed down.”

 

[Elex]

EA still in this year.

 

[Gyor]

Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.

You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.

 

[Fenris 2.0]

I think in Dark Sun II you could end the suffering of some Prisoners that were going to Ceremorphosis ? IIRC there was much screaming and threshing around ?

Edit:
Looked it up, I misremembered, just a lot of controlled Slaves to kill.