Game is Making me Depressed

[PlasteredDragon]

I would like my character to be a good person, but I am having trouble finding good characters to ally myself with. The druids in the grove are mostly awful. The Githyanki -- despite being at war with the Illithids, are also cruel and evil bastards. The Illithids are unspeakably nasty and manipulative. (As it turns out the resident of the prism is a Mind Flayer who manipulates you through most of the story to benefit his species in their war with the Githyanki... so much for my "protector".) The absolute cultists are sadistic, the deep gnomes seem pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ too.

The wandering band of tieflings you encounter in the grove seem like okay people, but I can't really ally with them, and none of them can join me as a party member, and the storyline keeps doing awful stuff to them. Like killing off Arabella's parents for example, what was the point of that? Misery upon misery.

Anyway I finished Act I and now I am in the temple of Shar and looking at all these trials that I really don't want to do at this point... wondering if I am ever get an uplifting turn in this story? Doesn't seem like it.

[Boss]

Go forth and smite them all in the name of Good. Bring upon them holy fire, my son, and reclaim Jerusalem.

[DuckAttack]

Kill anyone who wants to travel with you and fill your team with mindless hirelings from Withers. They are neutral and will never complain.

[Humble]

This game is not high fantasy, it's middle to dark fantasy, I'm not find delight in this game as well, due way game role playing and class build as well, it's too many downside, I like prefect hero flawless, but this game is not design for prefect flawless hero good type player that had ability save anyone prefectly. Failed roll dice to save children, children die or people die, unable to turn people evil into good person, so go on.

[Bluti]

You are close to a solution

[Bluti]

Originally posted by Humble:

This game is not high fantasy, it's middle to dark fantasy, I'm not find delight in this game as well, due way game role playing and class build as well, it's too many downside, I like prefect hero flawless, but this game is not design for prefect flawless hero good type player that had ability save anyone prefectly. Failed roll dice to save children, children die or people die, unable to turn people evil into good person, so go on.

There is a difference for situations ...... decision or fate/luck/Skill
Remember...you PLAY a Character...but you ARE not the Character. So you always have to deal with a lot of things you can not directly influence because some things are based on you race, class and so on....

Actually, only game(s) I cann call up where you could do it was Ultima Online on free/open RP Shards. So if you prefer that way of playstyle, grab one of those games

[Captain Apollo Diomedes]

Sadly this is not Tolkien's universe, where almost every being has a purpose.
The struggle against the Darkness.

This game feels like full of chaos and anarchy. Anything and anyone can be anything and anyone. What's the purpose of that?

[Hollow-Enigma]

Originally posted by Humble:

This game is not high fantasy, it's middle to dark fantasy, I'm not find delight in this game as well, due way game role playing and class build as well, it's too many downside, I like prefect hero flawless, but this game is not design for prefect flawless hero good type player that had ability save anyone prefectly. Failed roll dice to save children, children die or people die, unable to turn people evil into good person, so go on.

You can steer people people towards becoming better though. As long as you go follow a good path the characters end up lightening up a lot, to an extend that feels very human. Even those that do appear more evil have some redeeming qualities, by the end i was more than satisfied.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Gordon:

Sadly this is not Tolkien's universe, where almost every being has a purpose.
The struggle against the Darkness.

This game feels like full of chaos and anarchy. Anything and anyone can be anything and anyone. What's the purpose of that?

No, it is the Forgotten Realm.

map:
https://www.aidedd.org/atlas/index.php?map=R&l=1

wiki:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

You can get as immersive as you want in the Forgotten Realm. There are many book series about the world, about its races.

Some important major cities and smaller settlements of Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter, Waterdeep, Candlekeep.

Here is some info on the Sword Coast:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sword_Coast

[RickJones]

Playing fantasy with no real moral core is a bit disconcerting. Witcher 3 is dark fantasy, for example, but it is a deeply moral game. BG3 most definitely is not.

A lot of modern woke/liberal media struggles to represent goodness. Even their heroes are often unlikable - you see that a lot with modern female heroes in TV and movies and games - one actress even had it happen twice, in a game (Forspoken) and on TV (Resident Evil). Quite an interesting and revealing phenomenon.

I think it may be because a lot of modern people tend to think they're really good for superficial reasons, like their gender, sexuality or skin colour, but in reality aren't really good people at all (because that actually requires hard work and a real set of morals and values) and it comes out in their writing.

[Fuzzyballs01 ꦙ]

stop looking at the game as black vs white and start using shades of grey
and you don't help the druids, you help the tiefling refugees to safely leave the safety of the grove
they even removed the alignment wheel for obvious reasons

maybe get the story right before you ♥♥♥♥♥ about it
also really weird that you needed to be shown that a pretty dream character is possibly trying to make you use the powers so they can use you as a tool
I was thinking that from the start

[PlasteredDragon]

Originally posted by Fuzzyballs01:

stop looking at the game as black vs white and start using shades of grey
and you don't help the druids, you help the tiefling refugees to safely leave the safety of the grove
they even removed the alignment wheel for obvious reasons

maybe get the story right before you ♥♥♥♥♥ about it
also really weird that you needed to be shown that a pretty dream character is possibly trying to make you use the powers so they can use you as a tool
I was thinking that from the start

TF are you so angry about?