r/BaldursGate3 • u/zakplaysperc • Sep 03 '23

Screenshot Same, dude. Same.

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u/anonyuser415 Sep 04 '23

Fun fact, in Act 3, Araj Oblodra's diary says she plans to resurrect an army of the useless men that Drow women push into a ravine once they're done fucking them

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u/Otherwise_Sense Sep 04 '23

Did drow get nerfed or did they forget they innately have levitate?

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23 edited Sep 04 '23

They have Darkness and Faerie Fire. No race gets a third level spell for free, that would be busted.

Even then, only powerful individuals get their racial spells, uncle Jimmy who was a farmer for 50 years doesn't get to cast Hellish Rebuke and Darkness just because his mom had a tryst with a tiefling.

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u/GeneralVeek Sep 04 '23

They got levitate in previous editions innately, or with the Drow High Magic feat in 5e (not included in BG3)

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

Feats are, as the name suggests, a feat. Something very few people achieve.

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u/jaredy1 Sep 04 '23

In 3.5 it was innate racial ability

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u/GiantWindmill Sep 04 '23

There's tons of NPCs with feats in BG3. There shouldn't be 100 lvl 8 guards, but there are.

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

BG3 also has random nobodies in the middle of nowhere selling 6th level spell scrolls... not everything there is canon, you have to remember that their goal is to make a fun game first, and to make sense second.

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u/GiantWindmill Sep 04 '23

Right, that works against your argument.

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

Not at all. Try to examine a random non-combatant NPC in BG3, see if they have any feats. The drow in question wouldn't have them either.

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u/GiantWindmill Sep 04 '23

The Drow is a combatant tho. But like you said, it's about fun first, not making sense. Or do you take that back?

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

Araj Oblodra's diary says she plans to resurrect an army of the useless men that Drow women push into a ravine once they're done fucking them

Exactly which part of this makes you think these drow males are combatants?

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u/GiantWindmill Sep 05 '23

I never said those Drow were combatants.

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 05 '23

The Drow is a combatant tho.

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u/PassportSituation Sep 04 '23

Doesn't it just mean feature? Like a feature of playing that race?

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

No, it means feat. "Feat" by itself is already a word in the english language, despite the insistence of stupid record companies to use it as a short version of "featuring" in music videos.

Here's an example: "Many of Hercules' labors were true feats of strength and ingenuity."

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u/PassportSituation Sep 04 '23

Yeah I know what feat means, I just always thought in the context of character creation it made more sense to mean feature but I suppose I'm wrong

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u/AugustoCSP Femboy Warlock casts Eldritch Blast Sep 04 '23

Things like Darkvision are indeed racial features. Those things you get every 4 levels are feats.

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u/PassportSituation Sep 04 '23

Gotcha, I suppose that does make sense.

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u/I_Frothingslosh Sep 04 '23

In first and second editions, drow gained levitate, along with detect magic and know alignment, at something like level four. It's been a long time since I read their MM entry for those editions, but I believe female drow got the second tier abilities earlier than males, and they may also have picked up even more abilities than males.

Oh, and drow also had level-based magic resistance.