Tadpole question (possible spoilers for Act 1)

[Vim]

So I found my first tadpole and the mystery dream visitor spoke to me telling me to eat it. I refused, becasue it would be completely out of character to do something like that, but then Astarion chimed in, asking if HE could have it.

Since I'm no tyrant, I figured, why the hell not, if you wanna doom yourself, you go right ahead. So he did, and now I could ask everyone around camp about what they think of "using the tadpoles for power", and the game seems to have forced me into a PRO-tadpole stance. Did I just ♥♥♥♥ my game up if I don't want to use tadpoles by giving Astarion the freedom to do it?

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[Mr Fred]

The whole choosing to use tadpole or not was cutted from the game. You will only gimp yourself not using them as they have ZERO drawback in this shallow streamlined excuse of a game with no consequence.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

You'll be finding more of those during your play. They do enable special powers. Yes, it has consequences later.

Whether you use them is up to you. Some of your companions want them by default (Astarioon) and some are opposed by default (most others)

You can convince those that don't want to use them that they should, and if you succeed, they'll be open to it.

That's all. don't click the option if you don't intend to talk them into it.

have fun!

[Scheneighnay]

No, it's just an oversight that the options to talk about tadpoles aren't great.
Personally I also see it as an oversight that you can't tell Karlach or Gale that the tadpoles can probably save them from their conditions, like Astarian's.

But nobody's forcing you to persuade them to use the tadpoles. It's just you persuade them or you ignore it.

[Vim]

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

You'll be finding more of those during your play. They do enable special powers. Yes, it has consequences later.

Whether you use them is up to you. Some of your companions want them by default (Astarioon) and some are opposed by default (most others)

You can convince those that don't want to use them that they should, and if you succeed, they'll be open to it.

That's all. don't click the option if you don't intend to talk them into it.

have fun!

The problem is, I currently have the choice you see in my screenshot up above... There literalyl is no option to "not" try to persuade karlach into accepting... I can't even drop it...

[Mr Fred]

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

Yes, it has consequences later.

Not sure whats the point of lying... kinda sad ngl

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Vim:

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

You'll be finding more of those during your play. They do enable special powers. Yes, it has consequences later.

Whether you use them is up to you. Some of your companions want them by default (Astarioon) and some are opposed by default (most others)

You can convince those that don't want to use them that they should, and if you succeed, they'll be open to it.

That's all. don't click the option if you don't intend to talk them into it.

have fun!

The problem is, I currently have the choice you see in my screenshot up above... There literalyl is no option to "not" try to persuade karlach into accepting... I can't even drop it...

Oh yeah that looks like a bug.

But there's no consequence for it yet until you get to a point where you have to make a second persuasion check later in the game.

[LinkToReality.ttv]

Originally posted by Mr Fred:

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

Yes, it has consequences later.

Not sure whats the point of lying... kinda sad ngl

It's all fun and games until you eat the wrong tadpole and the consequences kick in :P

[AnvilShock]

Originally posted by Vim:

The problem is, I currently have the choice you see in my screenshot up above... There literalyl is no option to "not" try to persuade karlach into accepting... I can't even drop it...

This game has a habit or forcing dialogue you don't like. it's funny that they can plan for you to hit astarion with the sun meme but not differentiate between you using tadpoles and him.

[AnvilShock]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝Link⎠⎞:

Originally posted by Mr Fred:

Not sure whats the point of lying... kinda sad ngl

It's all fun and games until you eat the wrong tadpole and the consequences kick in :P

there are no consequences for eating tadpoles, the whole oh no my teeth turned yellow and my veins portrude a bit now is a fat joke. There are no story consequences outside of aesthetics to taking tadpoles. Daisy died in cut content and the whole point of the tadpole story died with her.

[Rebus]

how many tadpoles can be eaten before changes in the character's appearance begin? It's gonna ruin roleplay for me when the camp starts turning into a leper colony and Shadowheart keeps talking about butterflies in her stomach.

[robert.steven.marshall]

Originally posted by Mr Fred:

The whole choosing to use tadpole or not was cutted from the game. You will only gimp yourself not using them as they have ZERO drawback in this shallow streamlined excuse of a game with no consequence.

This is such a disappointment. It seemed so integral to the story.

[Rabbit]

Topics like this are begging for spoilers and it's not helped by people giving misleading/bitter information about their opinion on it.

The decision to take tadpoles early doesn't matter much, there's a special option later where it starts to really matter.

[Gingermonkey]

Originally posted by Rebus:

how many tadpoles can be eaten before changes in the character's appearance begin? It's gonna ruin roleplay for me when the camp starts turning into a leper colony and Shadowheart keeps talking about butterflies in her stomach.

as many as you want. There is one specific tadpole that causes the change, and theres a lot of conversations about it changing you before hand.

[Calculus]

Originally posted by RMS_Gingermonkey:

Originally posted by Rebus:

how many tadpoles can be eaten before changes in the character's appearance begin? It's gonna ruin roleplay for me when the camp starts turning into a leper colony and Shadowheart keeps talking about butterflies in her stomach.

as many as you want. There is one specific tadpole that causes the change, and theres a lot of conversations about it changing you before hand.

meanwhile my ass wondering if consuming tadpoles is one of the flags that causes gale to become obsessed with power