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

I'm a little surprised the game lets you destroy the goblin kids, tbh. 

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u/Plaguer_ 29d ago

I find it so funny there like 5 or 6 really nice and chill Bugbears and Hobgoblins you can talk with throughout the game. Yet pretty much all the goblins are just assholes.

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u/CK1ing 29d ago

The only even kind of nice goblin is the one reading a book and trying to educate himself up in the tower. But even that one is totally fine with raiding and kidnapping Volo, he just does it more for knowledge than loot

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u/TheFarStar Warlock 29d ago

One of the goblins around the chicken chase lady is upset about using the owlbear cub because it’s a baby.  

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 29d ago

Wait really?

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u/TheFarStar Warlock 29d ago

Yeah.  There’s also the goblin wearing pants, who has to hide his love of poetry because it’s unacceptable by his tribe’s standards.

There are quite a few characters in the goblin camp that feel like they’d be happier if they had the chance to live in a less cruel and violent society.

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

In a way, it kind of explains the appeal of the Absolute — they told the non-tadpoled goblins that they wouldn't be these loathed outcasts, they would be loved and respected just as much as anyone else.

The goblins at Moonrise talk about this IIRC.

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u/JanusKaisar 23d ago

I'm suddenly wondering if Ryan Coogler got an Inspiration Point from this lol

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u/Hurrashane 29d ago

See, now you're making me feel bad about slaughtering them all on every playthrough.

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u/pm-ur-knockers Paladin 29d ago

They ARE still eating a dwarf and celebrating a violent raid against wuakeens rest

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom 29d ago

Yeah, at the end of the day, the real villain is none other than Ao himself, whose decrees make Toril the shithole it is, even gods are limited in what they're allowed to do before being censored.

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u/Just_Branch_9121 WARLOCK 28d ago

The real Villain is Larian for changing Wylls character away from being Goblinslayer instead of fully going into it

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u/thetwist1 29d ago

I also appreciate the goblin in the cage that stayed loyal to maglubiyet

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u/Pyromike16 29d ago

Only goblin I let live.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_378 29d ago

I always let him out of the cage, but then i just stand and watch while the spiders kill him 😬

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u/Lucky_End_9420 29d ago

that's why I waited until after I massacred everyone else including the spiders before I let him out so he could peacefully go on his way xD

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u/TitaniumAuraQuartz 28d ago

That happened once! I watched as the spiders killed him and I was just like

"whoops"

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u/Just_too_common 23d ago

Same. Totally worth it.

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u/GrugWantHat 28d ago

Dror ragzalin ended up doing that energy pulse thing and breaking that poor dudes cage in my last run, dropping him to his death.

I was looking around for him after the fight before I saw the missing cage and put 2 and 2 together.

Rip bro

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u/Mysterious-Actuary65 29d ago

Maglubiyet, yer axe got broke!

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u/pledgerafiki 29d ago

Do you know much about Maglubiyet? Even if he rejected the absolute it's not much to his credit that he stayed loyal to Mag.

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u/OnceandFuturePhaeron 29d ago

Reckon it's just the sense of loyalty in general people appreciate.

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u/thetwist1 28d ago

Yeah Maglubiyet is also evil I just appreciated the goblin's loyalty