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You're competing to become the lord of a land, and there is an enemy nation that's trying to sabotage you from the start and yet somehow you think this is a low-key start like a bunch of adventurers meeting in a bar.
A backward noble for a extremely underdeveloped barony. You are just a guy who saw the opportunity to raise your social status and become the lowest of low nobility and wanted to grab this opportunity.
Is because while everyone was bringing ultra balanced and modernized version of 90s RPG's like Pillars and Tyranny, OwlCat was the first one to bring a 90s style RPG.
Is perfect? No.
Now about Larian, do I hate Larian? Also no. do I like their games? No. What I like about Larian is that they re popularized turn based games. Which was dead since 90s. If I can play OwlCat games in Turn Based, including Rogue Trader, is mostly thanks to Larian. The problem is that Larian games are too """modern"" for a Grognard like myself.
A backward noble for a extremely underdeveloped barony. You are just a guy who saw the opportunity to raise your social status and become the lowest of low nobility and wanted to grab this opportunity.
Is because while everyone was bringing ultra balanced and modernized version of 90s RPG's like Pillars and Tyranny, OwlCat was the first one to bring a 90s style RPG.
Now about Larian, do I hate Larian? Also no. do I like their games? No. What I like about Larian is that they re popularized turn based games. Which was dead since 90s. If I can play OwlCat games in Turn Based, including Rogue Trader, is mostly thanks to Larian. The problem is that Larian games are too """modern"" for a Grognard like myself.
No, is not. Both games are VASTLY different in everything. MAinly for a guy who likes magery a lot like myself. Cloud kill in kingmaker is amazing Malignant cloud in PoE is pure trash. Simple as that. I can play as for example a necromancer or cryomancer by picking (greater) spell focus cold, meanwhile, wizards don't even have subclasses in PoE1 and are all except evoker worthless in PoE2.
Also, the worst problem with him is that he is a bastardization of vampires. Vampires before = Alucard(hellsing), Strahd, Maximillian Strauss and so on. Now? Hexxat, Rudi and Astarion.
Also, the worst problem with him is that he is a bastardization of vampires. Vampires before = Alucard(hellsing), Strahd, Maximillian Strauss and so on. Now? Hexxat, Rudi and Astarion.
Blahblahblah more autism. No one cares but you, and it's probably some autistic reasoning behind this, but you don't even bother to say anything but "awesome" and "trash", which means nothing.
The orc is bisexual and overtly hits on the player, Woljif is a faggot even though there's no romance for him, Daeran is an elf faggot who looks gayer than Astarion, The Storyteller is an old elf faggot, Sosiel is a total faggot, Nenio is an ugly bisexual furry, which is close enough.
The fact that you can tolerate this faggotry who knows how many hours and complain for YEARS of your life about one character in an RPG you don't even want to play is pathetic.
Also, the worst problem with him is that he is a bastardization of vampires. Vampires before = Alucard(hellsing), Strahd, Maximillian Strauss and so on. Now? Hexxat, Rudi and Astarion.
He's literally a word for word example of a vampire spawn per the lore, sperg. I've posted it in this thread before, so you know that.
The one with the weird ideas about vampires is you. You're bringing up vampires from completely different IPs as if they should all share the same traits, or have anything to do with D&D. And why do you bring up Hexxat as if she's a Larian NPC, or Rudi? Do you even know what game you're whining about?
This is what I'm talking about. You're autistic. You keep repeating the same stupid criticisms over and over no matter how many times people prove you wrong. And you're a hypocrite because you like games that do the very things you claim to hate. There's a vampire bartender you meet an hour or two into Trannyfinder.
Immortal blood sucking aristocrat undeads living in castles, doing crazy experiments and feeding upon the blood of peasants. There are a lot of cool and iconic vampires in fiction. Transform such creatures into Astarion is a disrespect towards then. He and Hexxat are teh WORST forms of vampire in all entertainment. Worse than even Edward Cullen and ESO pseudo vampirism.
Forever anchored to their unholy graves, the nocturnal predators known as vampire spawn scheme for power. They tend toward decadence, believing themselves superior to other living (or undead) creatures
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Alignment: Vampire spawn are traditionally evil, though a DM may relax this restriction in a campaign that features undead player characters. The innate selfishness of the typical vampire spawn makes a good alignment difficult to uphold.
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They are smart, insightful, and charismatic, though their sense of superiority often leads them to take on tasks best left to subordinates.
A vampire spawn is just someone who was slain by a vampire. It could even be an adventurer unlucky enough to die by energy drain.
Libris_Mortis said:
In order to take the class described here, a character must die as a result of a vampire’s energy drain (or as a victim of its blood drain if the character has less than 5 HD). Characters with 5 or more Hit Dice who are killed by a vampire’s blood drain must acquire the vampire template (see page 250 of the Monster Manual), and its +8 level adjustment places that template beyond the scope of the monster classes presented here.
What makes you think a person who's been turned into a vampire spawn would automatically become a mustache twirling aristocrat, acquire castle and start feeding off the local peasants?
Astarion is a slave. He's a self-important lower-vampire.
...who just happened to be (un)lucky enough to find a way to evade most of his curse's downsides, thanks to the parasite in his head.
He's even lower on the pecking order than what the player in Bloodlines was at the start.
I don't know what vision of vampires TV, films or other PnP IPs gave you that made you so butthurt about him, but it's pretty silly at this point.
I don't see you raging about the Dhampir in Wrath of the Tranny, and they're only a step or two below him. Where are their castles, huh?
What makes you think a person who's been turned into a vampire spawn would automatically become a mustache twirling aristocrat, acquire castle and start feeding off the local peasants?
Astarion is a slave. He's a self-important lower-vampire.
