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Good one. The people that say they miss D&D "before all the politics" and especially ones that cite Gygax's reign as the good old days are 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
Could you talk to your God's tech support for something like that?
I would be mega salt about needing to be redeemed if I didn't have a choice but to break my oath.
Which character was this? Worst thing I remember was that quest in Kingmaker with the edgy human pirate self-insert character.
I'm also relieved that Baldur's Gate 3 dropped the alignment system for a CRPG. It's always been so annoying to have the computer hard-track an "alignment meter," and now I can relax and focus on what my character would want to do.
Fortunately, I barely remember that one. It at least didn't have a quest that fucked the strategy layer of the game until you completed it.
Remember the rage over that time WotC published a wheelchair accessible dungeon a few years back? I specifically remember a lot of
explaining how a wheelchair bound wizard should actually just waste spell slots on Fly whenever he wants to move around or simply cast Wish to restore the function of his legs gg ez.
On the subject of D&D I find paladins kinda sus. I have both seen first hand or heard about way too many fash types who flock to that class because they want to be epic Lawful Good doesn't mean Lawful Nice "nits make lice" Gygaxian genociders of designated evil races while having divine backing and being the in-universe embodiment of good morals.
I didn't even need the moral reason, the fact that it's incredibly lazy writing is enough to anger me
I wanna commit
every time some nerdass reactionary motherfucker says
“if you’re reading [evil species] as a stand in for minorities I think you’re the real racist
”
GAAAAAH you disingenuous fucks! I don’t have the fucking mental fortitude to try to explain why this entire history racial coding and othering of minorities makes it a little gross when somebody says they think it’s cool to exterminate all the goblins/orcs/kobolds/etc. because it’s all pretend make believe!
It’s not even hard to make a designated group of villains! These orcs are a marauding mercenary band, these kobolds sabotage mountain passes to rob and murder travelers. That’s all you need! The race essentialism just ruins a setting for me unless they’re like, actual demons from hell or cthulhu squids (even then I’m partial to an occasional chill devil or squid). Writing the antagonists, regardless of species or origin, as people makes for media that is so much more compelling.
Doublepost but
From the Wikipedia summary:
hmmm . . .
Somewhere out there is a race of alien mosquitoes. They are inherently evil; even if it isn’t their fault.
whattabout alien outdoor ca[REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED]
I think we have at least two of them on this board who are really defensive about the validity of Justified Genocide (tm) in Goblin Slayer.
We have, yeah.
I remember one such cryptofascist weeb claiming, Thermian Argument and all, that "according to the setting's lore, the goblins are not conscious or sapient! They're more like a fungus that requires sexual violence on non-goblins to reproduce! That makes genociding them cool and good and funny actually!"
Tell me about it
Anything, everything, so the treat enjoyer can get off and not feel uncomfortable about what they just got off to.
Goblin Slayer is the second sussiest isekai after Shield Hero
I think it's much sussier because it has sexual violence throughout along with the genocide business. Shield Hero is sexist but surprisingly close to the (disgusting) average for such fiction once you get past that first episode (which is fucked up pandering to red pillers). Like, idk, think about the typical isekai and it's astonishingly objectifying, to the point that it really feels like the MC views women in the fantasy world as truly being NPCs who mainly exist in reference to his sexuality, or maybe the MC is a Good Guy (tm) but the shot composition and animation framecount demonstrate that the viewer is not meant to have nearly so noble an attitude.
On the other hand, there's the pseudo-isekai Redo of Healer and the actual isekai Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, both of which are much worse but also essentially soft porn and therefore less likely to be discussed publicly.
Shield Hero is especially bad because its sexism is so close to (the incel's fantasy of) the real world. The titular hero has his life ruined by the dreaded False Rape Accusation and then fixes all his problems by finding (buying) a tradwife (underage slave)
The expanded universe of that incel fantasy setting has a moment where (CW: gore, rape, murder)
spoiler
the False Rape Accuser is raped to death while being dismembered in front of a cheering crowd.Wow, I knew about the part where she gets renamed slurs but not that geez
I can never bring myself to make a work that's not morally ambiguous. I don't even like playing a morally upstanding MC as a good thing. My impulse was to exercise him of it with complex situations. I'll write pieces of shit (e.g. I like to use collateral damage to get back at people I don't like), but it's because they're pieces of shit for one reason or another (see: not their inherited nature).
I thought about trying to write a morally simple novel and couldn't bring myself to do it. Best I can do is "these capitalists need to be stopped"