The racism in Baldur’s Gate is genuinely so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard on me

[Etzki_zo]

Playing a Tiefling as as a black non binary person is brutal. Your party members antagonize you, the game antagonizes you, and the plot positions you as the bad guy if you don’t help the druids calling you slurs. 🥲🫠 Like if I don't help the Druid who was going to execute a child of my race for being of my race I lose access to Karlach. I save the druids and they insinuate l'm a disease. If I fail the Druid quest, a massacre of my people is on my hands. What the ♥♥♥♥? I come home from a long day of microaggressions and masking and then my guard is immediately back up. I should be stressed that I'm making bad decisions, not be Lae'zel keeps threatening to kill me in my sleep for having horns. And for white priviliged players this is just fantasy. 🥲

[Leto]

well then don't play the witcher, there you have rape, torture and murder of everything that is not human, elves are about to be wiped out in the witcher universe.

in fact, here in bg3 the whole thing is even portrayed way too friendly, actually you would kill tieflings and drow immediately when you see them in the DnD world.

[Thadeus]

Yeah, Tieflings are basically the D&D equivalent of Gypsiies.

Your fault for not knowing that.

[Abisha]

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

More games should have the race you choose to play as reflected in how people treat you. Being a tiefling doesn't mean anything other than you're a tiefling and most people look at them and see devils. Doesn't help that they are genuinely descended from devils or demons.

It's great that the game treats you like that, and they treat you even worse if you're a drow.

It's one of the reasons the Drizzt Do'Urden novels became so popular. A character from an evil race and culture that proves they are not that, overcoming all the discrimination and issues from people who don't know better and becoming a hero.

You can't have that particular heroes journey, however, if you don't have people judging you based on what you look like, and that is always going to be a thing. First impressions are the most important ones after all.

yea it's funny that thieflings comment on being a drow. the irony

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Leto:

well then don't play the witcher, there you have rape, torture and murder of everything that is not human, elves are about to be wiped out in the witcher universe.

in fact, here in bg3 the whole thing is even portrayed way too friendly, actually you would kill tieflings and drow immediately when you see them in the DnD world.

Wait.
The superior Elves are losing in witcher 3.
Darth vader: NOOOOOOOO.

[Izzy]

Isn't this more like specism than racism?

[Haydencp]

Then don't play. I hate this whiny as people. Who think the game is just made for them. This is game is for everyone for goodness sake. This game is not racist. People like you ruining the game world for everyone

[Mindfultitan]

ah but there is always another option or choice you can make you just took the two more direct choices

[Kafik]

Delete the game then. Your Steam account too, just in case.

[⇧⇨⇩⇩⇩]

Originally posted by BakedBonsai:

*Sits down at computer*
*Boots up pc with wyte power*
*loads game with Nazi intent*
*Creates character white, blue eyed, blonde,*
*Dark urge*
*Side with goblins, bang minthara, snap her neck after.*

Oh yeah, it's privilege time.

Being problematic is fun. :)

[deadlyydude]

I've played 80 hours as a Tiefling and this isn't even true...

[Night Writer]

Let me tell you all about my privilege :

-Biological Father was a Cocaine Addict and an Alcoholic and an extremely violent drunk.

-Biological Father Died of drug use when I was 6.

-Was born in a military hospital, because my mom couldn't afford to have me at a hospital so my grandfather used his Vietnam veteran status to get her on base.

-Family lived on Food Stamps until I was at least 14.

-We were so poor that we rinsed out trash cans and used them as swimming pools filled with hose water.

-My Mom still couldn't afford to feed us, so she used to dig discarded meat and food out of the dumpsters behind the grocery store.

-I literally grew up on one of the most dangerous streets in my town, in a 2 bedroom Duplex /condo and my parents drove a rusted out VW Bug, and then upgraded to a rusted out Van.

-We later upgraded to a trailer out in the country where the local past time was Meth and Growing Weed, and this is where my younger brother soon became a cocaine addict himself.

-My now drug addict brother, and his fellow cronies got so bad that before my brother was 14 he had been arrested 3 times and sent to Juvenile detention twice. This would become a common thread throughout the rest of his life, he's now 40+ and still a drug addict.

-I worked my first job at 14, and was paying rent to my parents at 16.(not really because rent comes with a choice, and I didn't have one)

-I watched several of my other local "Privileged" friends die from drug OD's and drunk driving.

-My "Step Dad" was extremely violent man who beat the crap outta me from age 7-15 (till I became strong enough to hit him back)

-At 17, I was kicked outta my house with nothing but a trash bag of clothes, and had no where to go. Luckily I had some "Not Privileged" people who let me stay with them for a week.

-I had no other options and no place to live so I joined the military, where I later broke my ankle, and was medically discharged because it didn't heal right, and I couldn't run anymore. In the Army that makes you worthless.

-Homeless again, sleeping in my car and living off of Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, with no job, I went to a car dealership and starting selling cars to make a living.

-Right as I started doing well at the dealership, Sept 11th, 2001 happens. Everyone stops buying cars, because a huge financial depression hits America.

-I'm homeless again. Sleeping in my car again. No Phone, no family to turn too, and again living off Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches.

The story can go on forever really, but the truth is life sucks and then you die. The only thing that kept me going was my faith, willpower, and my sheer determination to overcome the obstacles placed in front of me.

That and Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches.

Please tell me about my privilege again.

[Helen Carnate]

Sorry OP but no one is actually as stupid as you are pretending to be. If they were, they would forget to breathe and the problem would take care of itself. 1/10 for the troll attempt because apparently there are some that took the bait.

[benji27potf]

This guy would implode if he ever played Morrowind, everyone calls you an N'wa even if you are the same race.

[Donald j. Trump]

Gotta try harder son

[Billy Blazes]

I was playing as a white Human and these Black Humans came up to my character and started calling me white pig!!!! I hate racism in games :(