Spoiler Request: Should I use Illithid Wisdom or not?

[info]

Does anyone have an actual answer rather than the usual 'Just play the way you like' soft soap?

[lee]

Give it a week for gaming content creators to make progress into the game and do the write-ups and guides.

My 2 cents is that it's obvious that the more you delve into Mind Flayer powers, the more you will lose your character; unless your character concept was to be an Illithid in the first place.

There will definitely be an ending where the character completely resists the parasite and remains "pure" and another where he/she embraces it completely. That's 2 out of the supposed 17,000 endings.

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I don't think that the wisdom checks make any difference, and they provide quite a lot of plot information, but using the parasites do (apparently).

[AlphaVictorKilo]

if you keep using the illithid powers, and consume the tadpoles after getting the artefact sequence on the bridge to the goblin camp, you WILL be able to become a mindflayer and this will have quite a few repercussions. Otherwise you can resist using it, and you'll have a very different storyline as well

[info]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

if you keep using the illithid powers, and consume the tadpoles after getting the artefact sequence on the bridge to the goblin camp, you WILL be able to become a mindflayer and this will have quite a few repercussions. Otherwise you can resist using it, and you'll have a very different storyline as well

Thank you!

[eves_faith]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

if you keep using the illithid powers, and consume the tadpoles after getting the artefact sequence on the bridge to the goblin camp, you WILL be able to become a mindflayer and this will have quite a few repercussions. Otherwise you can resist using it, and you'll have a very different storyline as well

I'm curious about this too. Could you go a little more into detail as for how the story to differ? I don't want to cut out huge parts of the game but my inner voice tells me my char wouldn't trust it.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by eves_faith:

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

if you keep using the illithid powers, and consume the tadpoles after getting the artefact sequence on the bridge to the goblin camp, you WILL be able to become a mindflayer and this will have quite a few repercussions. Otherwise you can resist using it, and you'll have a very different storyline as well

I'm curious about this too. Could you go a little more into detail as for how the story to differ? I don't want to cut out huge parts of the game but my inner voice tells me my char wouldn't trust it.

So in my personal playthrough I kept refusing, so I don't know the extent to how much it changes

Again, it's not cutting OUT stuff by saying "no I don't want the tadpoles" it's just a parallel route with different options

Edit: This type of game, you need to stop thinking about it as "what will I miss out on"

You're going to replay it, so make the choices you WANT to make for the first playthrough, see what happens

Then make different choices in your next playthrough, or create a roleplaying ruleset for yourself

[ACS36]

It's a role playing game.

What is your characters motives and desires? That's how you should play the game. How do you in-vision your characters personality?

If you're a virtuous do gooder you wouldn't indulge the powers. Chaotic Good character might if they thought the benefits did more good than harm.

You can also view it through the lens of your character stats. Is your character wise? or unwise? Are they intelligence or unintelligent?

[elethyl]

honestly, i am roleplaying the closest to my real life self, i am trying to avoid conflict and bad -or dangerous- decisions. everyone, all NPCs are telling me it is dangerous, and i was on that horror show in the beginning, so nope, i just want it out of my head ASAP, still working on it.

however, i think i will embrace it in a future play. can't wait to see the difference

[wei270]

yes, you should, the biggest hint is that if you don't use it, the developer kinda forces you to use it a little later on, and no using doesn't = auto squid, to become a squid you have to do ALOT. of obviously squid stuff, that does not include using your powers.

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Embrace the tadpole, become the squid. You know you want to.