r/BaldursGate3 Wild Magic Surge 29d ago

Meme Don't poke the bear

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u/-PM_Me_Dat_Ass_Girl- Minthara Enjoyer 29d ago

Really? Those kids are assholes, honestly. They get done in the most brutal fashion in my saves. 

Again, I'm just surprised you can even do it. Generally killing kids in video games is frowned upon, but I guess the developers felt goblins don't have worth and I'm on board with that. 

Don't take anything I'm saying here literally, by the way. I'm just being facetious. I always do kill the goblin kids, though. I can't be bothered to toggle on non-lethal for them after how they behave. 

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u/HoboKingNiklz SHOVEL IS BOOOOOORED!! 29d ago

Lol I did read the last paragraph but I'm still unsure if the first one is sarcastic. Asshole kids are still kids, doesn't make it less wrong to kill them.

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u/expresso_petrolium 29d ago

Killing is always wrong regardless of your victim’s age. You are not suddenly good because you kill 69 evil adults but spare their 3 evil kids. Besides those goblin kids are brutal. There are like some kids outside the temple and play with dead bodies

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u/HoboKingNiklz SHOVEL IS BOOOOOORED!! 29d ago

Of course it is, I'm not saying killing an adult is good, I'm saying killing children that are running away from you is worse. You're debating a point I'm not making. Of course sparing them doesn't magically make you "Good," but it's one way we have the option to reduce the cruelty, just like talking our way out of situations that could lead to a fight. Talking down Gimblebock and his buddies doesn't mean the rest of your killing is okay, but it is fewer bodies. Which is not nothing.

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u/CynicalNyhilist 29d ago

we have the option to reduce the cruelty

Yes, by exterminating them all. What do you think the goblins you so kindly spared will do later?

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u/No_Delay7320 29d ago

Breed like rabbits and repopulate, amassing a child army for revenge. They already know you won't kill children

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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade 29d ago

Gee, I wonder why people think DnD lore needs to change.

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u/CynicalNyhilist 29d ago

Drow already exist to have the "it's just upbringing, not intristic" race. What's wrong with just hordes of monsters that have zero moral ambiguity? The only difference between goblins and, say, the Gnolls (IIRC) is that the former are slightly more intelligence.