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Cameo 2021 年 11 月 28 日 上午 12:41
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Unpopular Opinion: Tieflings Are a Terrible PC Race
So I get everyone likes to play the edgy demon-people.

Here's the problem.

If you know anything about how people actually are, with regards to fear and prejudice, you'd know what I know, which is that a tiefling would have an extremely difficult time surviving anywhere. Outside a very narrow, limited scope of possibilities (isolating under the protection of certain dark cults, living among evil intelligent species such as drow or orcs, or simply going full Les Stroud in the wilderness), actually having a life - even a wandering, adventurer's life - on the Prime Material Plane as a tiefling is only slightly safer than barebacking a two-copper berserking Rashemi prostitute.

If you strut around most places in the Prime as a tiefling, it's really, realistically, only a matter of time until you end up burned at the stake...especially if we're talking about these really deformed, flashy, obviously non-human tieflings as portrayed in Baldur's Gate 3. Magic I can suspend my disbelief for. Dragons, sure. But the fact that A LITERAL HORNED DEVIL PERSON is walking around and no one is even mentioning it is ridiculous. You'd be rounded up and burned alive at the stake faster than you can say "B-b-b-but my +2 to Charisma??!"

I can hear it now. "Oh but what if people are used to tieflings? All it means is they have some infernal lineage in their blood." Oh, really, is that all it means? You mean they're only *literally* descended from demons and devils? At various times in history, wild claims and accusations were made against certain ethnic and cultural groups to justify the extermination of entire communities, and THOSE accused people looked like everyone else. How much more severe would that hammer fall on tieflings?

"But this isn't Earth, this is Fae'run." Yeah, I know. But you need verisimilitude in order to make any fantasy setting believable. That's the whole point. You have to *believe* this is a place that could actually exist. People as a rule tend to be very savage. Dwarves? Forget about it; they'd be most retrograde, prejudiced, stuck in their ways race imaginable. Elves? Read the old German fairy tales about just some of the things traditional legends say the fae and their ilk are capable of. Hobb--sorry, Halflings? They care about their families and communities more than anything, they'd be running you off and shutting doors on you so fast it'd make your little horned head spin.

And humans, well, we all know what we're like. We are a tribal species that is literally terrifying when it comes to anything different, especially something that *looks* different.

This is all to say that Baldur's Gate 3, and 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons in general, made a huge blunder when they included tieflings as a base playable race. It's just not believable. You would be exterminated as a threat in two seconds.

But, so would any drow elf. Same situation.
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PocketYoda 2021 年 11 月 29 日 下午 8:29 
I think its safe to say i don't like edgy demon-people! I'm not even interested in non-edgy demon-people..

Unless maybe we could have an a little imp companion. They are the perfect size for my future party.
最後修改者:PocketYoda; 2021 年 11 月 29 日 下午 8:30
transmutionorchestra 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 4:54 
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引用自 Agsmfhpjsfdgbnj
So I get everyone likes to play the edgy demon-people.

Here's the problem.

If you know anything about how people actually are, with regards to fear and prejudice, you'd know what I know, which is that a tiefling would have an extremely difficult time surviving anywhere. Outside a very narrow, limited scope of possibilities (isolating under the protection of certain dark cults, living among evil intelligent species such as drow or orcs, or simply going full Les Stroud in the wilderness), actually having a life - even a wandering, adventurer's life - on the Prime Material Plane as a tiefling is only slightly safer than barebacking a two-copper berserking Rashemi prostitute.

If you strut around most places in the Prime as a tiefling, it's really, realistically, only a matter of time until you end up burned at the stake...especially if we're talking about these really deformed, flashy, obviously non-human tieflings as portrayed in Baldur's Gate 3. Magic I can suspend my disbelief for. Dragons, sure. But the fact that A LITERAL HORNED DEVIL PERSON is walking around and no one is even mentioning it is ridiculous. You'd be rounded up and burned alive at the stake faster than you can say "B-b-b-but my +2 to Charisma??!"

I can hear it now. "Oh but what if people are used to tieflings? All it means is they have some infernal lineage in their blood." Oh, really, is that all it means? You mean they're only *literally* descended from demons and devils? At various times in history, wild claims and accusations were made against certain ethnic and cultural groups to justify the extermination of entire communities, and THOSE accused people looked like everyone else. How much more severe would that hammer fall on tieflings?

"But this isn't Earth, this is Fae'run." Yeah, I know. But you need verisimilitude in order to make any fantasy setting believable. That's the whole point. You have to *believe* this is a place that could actually exist. People as a rule tend to be very savage. Dwarves? Forget about it; they'd be most retrograde, prejudiced, stuck in their ways race imaginable. Elves? Read the old German fairy tales about just some of the things traditional legends say the fae and their ilk are capable of. Hobb--sorry, Halflings? They care about their families and communities more than anything, they'd be running you off and shutting doors on you so fast it'd make your little horned head spin.

And humans, well, we all know what we're like. We are a tribal species that is literally terrifying when it comes to anything different, especially something that *looks* different.

This is all to say that Baldur's Gate 3, and 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons in general, made a huge blunder when they included tieflings as a base playable race. It's just not believable. You would be exterminated as a threat in two seconds.

But, so would any drow elf. Same situation.

It's ridiculous to assume that people in a fantasy world share the same religious-based biases as real world people. Witch hunts and inquisitions happened because there is a belief in divine will without direct access to divine knowledge (whether or not those things actually exist). People in Faerun receive power, inspiration and instruction directly from their gods. Even the most basic of priests can cast Detect Good and Evil and figure out, at the very least, that a tiefling isn't an inherently evil being. The gods of good who primarily shape society in Faerun do not approve of burning innocent people at the stake and they make their disapproval known to EVERYONE by removing power from their followers who break their tenets.

Go back to 4Chan. You sound like an idiot.
VoiD 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 10:21 
wait till you play as undead in Divinity 2
Pan Darius Cassandra (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 11:00 
引用自 Agsmfhpjsfdgbnj
So I get everyone likes to play the edgy demon-people.

Here's the problem.

If you know anything about how people actually are, with regards to fear and prejudice, you'd know what I know, which is that a tiefling would have an extremely difficult time surviving anywhere. Outside a very narrow, limited scope of possibilities (isolating under the protection of certain dark cults, living among evil intelligent species such as drow or orcs, or simply going full Les Stroud in the wilderness), actually having a life - even a wandering, adventurer's life - on the Prime Material Plane as a tiefling is only slightly safer than barebacking a two-copper berserking Rashemi prostitute.

If you strut around most places in the Prime as a tiefling, it's really, realistically, only a matter of time until you end up burned at the stake...especially if we're talking about these really deformed, flashy, obviously non-human tieflings as portrayed in Baldur's Gate 3. Magic I can suspend my disbelief for. Dragons, sure. But the fact that A LITERAL HORNED DEVIL PERSON is walking around and no one is even mentioning it is ridiculous. You'd be rounded up and burned alive at the stake faster than you can say "B-b-b-but my +2 to Charisma??!"

I can hear it now. "Oh but what if people are used to tieflings? All it means is they have some infernal lineage in their blood." Oh, really, is that all it means? You mean they're only *literally* descended from demons and devils? At various times in history, wild claims and accusations were made against certain ethnic and cultural groups to justify the extermination of entire communities, and THOSE accused people looked like everyone else. How much more severe would that hammer fall on tieflings?

"But this isn't Earth, this is Fae'run." Yeah, I know. But you need verisimilitude in order to make any fantasy setting believable. That's the whole point. You have to *believe* this is a place that could actually exist. People as a rule tend to be very savage. Dwarves? Forget about it; they'd be most retrograde, prejudiced, stuck in their ways race imaginable. Elves? Read the old German fairy tales about just some of the things traditional legends say the fae and their ilk are capable of. Hobb--sorry, Halflings? They care about their families and communities more than anything, they'd be running you off and shutting doors on you so fast it'd make your little horned head spin.

And humans, well, we all know what we're like. We are a tribal species that is literally terrifying when it comes to anything different, especially something that *looks* different.

This is all to say that Baldur's Gate 3, and 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons in general, made a huge blunder when they included tieflings as a base playable race. It's just not believable. You would be exterminated as a threat in two seconds.

But, so would any drow elf. Same situation.

It's ridiculous to assume that people in a fantasy world share the same religious-based biases as real world people. Witch hunts and inquisitions happened because there is a belief in divine will without direct access to divine knowledge (whether or not those things actually exist). People in Faerun receive power, inspiration and instruction directly from their gods. Even the most basic of priests can cast Detect Good and Evil and figure out, at the very least, that a tiefling isn't an inherently evil being. The gods of good who primarily shape society in Faerun do not approve of burning innocent people at the stake and they make their disapproval known to EVERYONE by removing power from their followers who break their tenets.

Go back to 4Chan. You sound like an idiot.

No, it's you who sounds like the idiot, because people in Faerun actually do experience that kind of fear and bigotry of the unknown.

How do I know this? Because it literally says these things in the racial descriptions for races like Teeflings and Half-Elves. A long time ago, Half-Elf used to be the only 'outcast' race, and they were accepted neither by Elfs or Humans...completely. Not attacked on sight, but never fully accepted either. Now, that appears to be Teeflings (and other non-humans, Tabaxi, Tortle, Aasimar...)

The Commonfolk of Faerun can, and often are, just as bigoted as the people of Earth.

D&D has become a menagerie of "races". This is mostly due to player request, in that people get restless and bored playing boring old "humans" and demand to be able to play much more, so the designers give them what they want. After a while, you have a zoo of possibilities, but people just assume that because all of these races are possible choices, that they must all exist in equal proportions to each other in the actual world.

Faerun is still a world mostly dominated by humans...at least the settled areas are. Even Elfs and Dwarfs are relatively uncommon (compared to humans anyway) and are rarely seen outside of their respective homelands.

Adventurers are not typical of the population of most cities, which should be mostly human.
transmutionorchestra 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 11:23 
"nO yOU soUnD lIKe aN IDiOt" lol

Of course townsfolk are prejudiced against tieflings. There's immediate examples in the game. But saying that it "breaks your immersion" that tieflings aren't burned on sight is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid. I can't decide if expecting every fantasy world doesn't conform to your Christian ehtno-state wet dreams is sad or hilarious but i'm certainly going to mock you for it.
Hobocop 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 11:42 
Being prejudiced against them doesn't mean that you immediately put them to the sword. Especially when your local town priest can ritual cast Detect Evil and Good and see that they're not actually fiends.

Acolytes Jim, Bob, and Frank, who have been pillars of the community for years, all say they're not devils, and word spreads from there. That may or may not prevent people from acting on their prejudices, but that's exactly what makes it compelling, and why they're prime candidates for the adventuring life. An occupation that the vast majority of people wouldn't even begin to consider.
最後修改者:Hobocop; 2021 年 11 月 30 日 上午 11:45
Pan Darius Cassandra (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 12:35 
引用自 Hobocop
Being prejudiced against them doesn't mean that you immediately put them to the sword.

From D&D Beyond:

To be greeted with stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling.

Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers, thieves, or crime lords.

People tend to be suspicious of tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. Shopkeepers keep a close eye on their goods when tieflings enter their stores, the town watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings.

Burn the witch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg
最後修改者:Pan Darius Cassandra; 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 12:38
Pan Darius Cassandra (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 12:44 
You can't trust the Foulbloods further than you can, BURN THE WITCH!!
Lamiosa 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 12:58 
引用自 pandariuskairos
引用自 Hobocop
Being prejudiced against them doesn't mean that you immediately put them to the sword.

From D&D Beyond:

To be greeted with stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling.

Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers, thieves, or crime lords.

People tend to be suspicious of tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. Shopkeepers keep a close eye on their goods when tieflings enter their stores, the town watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings.

Burn the witch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg

I think there is much space for interpretation how humans behave to Tieflings. Even the passages you marked leave lots of interpretation what "violence" and "blaming" means. Can be anything from just violating someone with words/insults to punching someone half dead. Same with blaming can be just telling rumours behind someone back or openly accusing someone trying to get a mob after them.
However I never ever have been in a D&D/FR Campaign where there was an open violent move of a mob against Tieflings where for other races like Drow there was (one popular is maybe Viconia from Baldurs Gate 2).
God King 069 (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:05 
引用自 Lamiosa
引用自 pandariuskairos

From D&D Beyond:



Burn the witch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg

I think there is much space for interpretation how humans behave to Tieflings. Even the passages you marked leave lots of interpretation what "violence" and "blaming" means. Can be anything from just violating someone with words/insults to punching someone half dead. Same with blaming can be just telling rumours behind someone back or openly accusing someone trying to get a mob after them.
However I never ever have been in a D&D/FR Campaign where there was an open violent move of a mob against Tieflings where for other races like Drow there was (one popular is maybe Viconia from Baldurs Gate 2).

Yep yep. I like Tieflings as a race as I feel it brings in something leaning away from the cutsie races that CRPGs and MMORPGs tend to favor. But I'm in complete agreement in that the Tiefling should be treated the same as a Drow if we're being realistic
Pan Darius Cassandra (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:16 
My only issue with them is how many of them there are, and how they are portrayed as, "Just like humans, but with horns!" Very anime.

I mean, Teeflings should be rare. Very rare. Maybe 1 in a 1,000,000. And their fiendish traits shouldn't necessarily be so obvious. Teeflings used to be more subtle. You wouldn't necessarily be able to tell them apart from a human without close inspection.

And they didn't live the life as if they were just like everyone else, raising teefling families, holding regular jobs, etc. What I mean, is that teeflings had human parents too, but like Sorcerers who inherit their magic, they inherit some kind of recessive "fiend gene" and end up teeflings. The way BG3 portrays them, they are like Teefling families, having Teefling children, living the Teefling life, when it should be like you're the "weird" cousin with the creepy eyes, but your parents and siblings are human and the only connection to Hell is your great, great, great, great grandmother who was rumored to be quite the seductress, often compared to a succubus for her salacious adventures, and now people say you got the "devil blood" in you. That's a teefling.

In other words, once again this thing has just been diluted and reduced to yet another, "Human, but with...X" race. We're just like you guys! I hate that. It actually spoils the mystery and awe that tieflings could have, if there was like only 1 or 2 of them.
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zenebatos1 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:19 
引用自 Agsmfhpjsfdgbnj
引用自 Hobocop
It's almost as if...that's exactly what makes the choice so interesting and full of narrative/storytelling possibilities beyond that of other core races?

Yeah, I mean, if you're going for a character with a short existence violently ended at the hands of a lynch mob, religious order or regular militia, sure. Go for it.

Personally I don't think that's interesting or practical as a player character.
Yeah thats because apparently you lack imagination or ressourcfullness...

Or simple comprehension of the material
Lamiosa 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:24 
引用自 pandariuskairos
My only issue with them is how many of them there are, and how they are portrayed as, "Just like humans, but with horns!" Very anime.

I mean, Teeflings should be rare. Very rare. Maybe 1 in a 1,000,000. And their fiendish traits shouldn't necessarily be so obvious. Teeflings used to be more subtle. You wouldn't necessarily be able to tell them apart from a human without close inspection.

And they didn't live the life as if they were just like everyone else, raising teefling families, holding regular jobs, etc. What I mean, is that teeflings had human parents too, but like Sorcerers who inherit their magic, they inherit some kind of recessive "fiend gene" and end up teeflings. The way BG3 portrays them, they are like Teefling families, having Teefling children, living the Teefling life, when it should be like you're the "weird" cousin with the creepy eyes, but your parents and siblings are human and the only connection to Hell is your great, great, great, great grandmother who was rumored to be quite the seductress, often compared to a succubus for her salacious adventures, and now people say you got the "devil blood" in you. That's a teefling.

In other words, once again this thing has just been diluted and reduced to yet another, "Human, but with...X" race. We're just like you guys! I hate that. It actually spoils the mystery and awe that tieflings could have, if there was like only 1 or 2 of them.

I think it is just naturally that "Tieflings" become common once they life hundreds or thousands of years with humans. They might have been outcasts and hunt in the very beginning, but humans should get used to, even if being suspicious because of their heritage.

Even in our world if people with dubious background would have live hundreds of years with us, we would drop our guard at one point and even describe the violence at someone because of his race as Tiefling as "bad" (as racism is bad anyway in todays time). So give them a chance.
Pan Darius Cassandra (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:38 
引用自 Lamiosa
引用自 pandariuskairos
My only issue with them is how many of them there are, and how they are portrayed as, "Just like humans, but with horns!" Very anime.

I mean, Teeflings should be rare. Very rare. Maybe 1 in a 1,000,000. And their fiendish traits shouldn't necessarily be so obvious. Teeflings used to be more subtle. You wouldn't necessarily be able to tell them apart from a human without close inspection.

And they didn't live the life as if they were just like everyone else, raising teefling families, holding regular jobs, etc. What I mean, is that teeflings had human parents too, but like Sorcerers who inherit their magic, they inherit some kind of recessive "fiend gene" and end up teeflings. The way BG3 portrays them, they are like Teefling families, having Teefling children, living the Teefling life, when it should be like you're the "weird" cousin with the creepy eyes, but your parents and siblings are human and the only connection to Hell is your great, great, great, great grandmother who was rumored to be quite the seductress, often compared to a succubus for her salacious adventures, and now people say you got the "devil blood" in you. That's a teefling.

In other words, once again this thing has just been diluted and reduced to yet another, "Human, but with...X" race. We're just like you guys! I hate that. It actually spoils the mystery and awe that tieflings could have, if there was like only 1 or 2 of them.

I think it is just naturally that "Tieflings" become common once they life hundreds or thousands of years with humans. They might have been outcasts and hunt in the very beginning, but humans should get used to, even if being suspicious because of their heritage.

Even in our world if people with dubious background would have live hundreds of years with us, we would drop our guard at one point and even describe the violence at someone because of his race as Tiefling as "bad" (as racism is bad anyway in todays time). So give them a chance.

You don't understand what I'm saying. My issue is with the very idea that there is a "community" of teeflings, rather than an individual here and there at all.

Like, all the teeflings in the Druid Grove. They're a regular village of devil spawn! As far as I knew, races like teeflings and aasimar were supposed to be maybe one per village at most (and most of the villagers might not even suspect anything, depending upon how subtle their infernal traits were). There might be a half a dozen in Baldur's Gate.

They're too common now. The idea has been diluted. Normalized.

And that's boring. When there were only a handful of them, they were mysterious. You wanted to get to know them. Now, they're just some funky next door neighbors with horns and a tail and stupid colors for skin. Nothing special.

Boring.

Making them more common has made them less appealing. Now, I want a demon-human hybrid, maybe one birthed by Pale Night, just so it can be interesting again.
God King 069 (已封鎖) 2021 年 11 月 30 日 下午 1:38 
引用自 zenebatos1
引用自 Agsmfhpjsfdgbnj

Yeah, I mean, if you're going for a character with a short existence violently ended at the hands of a lynch mob, religious order or regular militia, sure. Go for it.

Personally I don't think that's interesting or practical as a player character.
Yeah thats because apparently you lack imagination or ressourcfullness...

Or simple comprehension of the material

Funny, that's exactly how I feel about most of the responses in here regarding D&D. It's as if they can't wrap their minds around the possibilities that exist outside of whatever CRPG they last played and those are the ones that can at least articulate something the majority can't seem to get past 3.5 is bad, Tieflngs are bad, alignment is bad, change is bad, anything their limited scope is bad. The rest is the very very small minority but then that's how intellect works as well, thought to be had by many but actually possessed by the few.

In this instance Lamiosa makes some very valid points around what a character like this would face in a realistic setting of a typical society in whatever town, city, etc. that is based upon real world variables (Another concept people don't seem to understand. Yes D&D is based in real world concepts. I know, mind blown.)

I very much like the variation that Tieflings bring to the table in terms of physical appearance and dread what pandarius is suggesting around having them be more subtle and therefore becoming just one more race to make humans feel comfortable.
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