New Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player dismayed by D&D\u2019s \u201cstrangely depressing\u201d lore Larian StudiosA new Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player entering the world of Faer\u00fbn for the first time was taken aback by the \u201csuper depressing\u201d setting in which the game takes place. The world of Dungeons & Dragons that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 takes most of its cues from is sprawling and immersive, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s a world built from the ground up for things to go wrong. How else would all of those campaigns start? This means there are quite a few more sources of conflict on the Sword Coast than players might expect. After all, in the span of one game (admittedly quite a big one), your party runs into three gods of death, an authoritarian Githyanki queen, several devils, an Elder Brain, and a host of other deities and eldritch abominations. Oh, and the hag. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player finds too many evil gods All of this makes for a great RPG story, but would you really want to live there? For quite a few players, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is their first encounter with the lore of D&D, and it\u2019s easy to see why they might come away with a negative view of life in this world. One player in particular was dismayed by the number of antagonistic deities they ran into, saying: \u201cThe more I play, the more it appears the entire universe of BG revolves around various Gods and God-like beings fighting for control\/power. From my understanding, the more followers\/worshipers they get, the stronger they become. \u201cBut the more I play, the more it really looks like you either join them or get screwed. Everyone below them is basically a pawn for their power play. Except all the Gods suck, even the good ones really come across as mostly selfish.\u201d \u201cEveryone below them is basically stuck in a perpetual cycle of conflict between the various Gods, never-ending. I mean, it\u2019s a great world for a game, since \u201cGod-level\u201d conflicts will always arise, and heroes are needed to end the threat of that current cycle, but from an outside perspective, it\u2019d be super depressing to live in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player dismayed by D&D\u2019s \u201cstrangely depressing\u201d lore Larian StudiosA new Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player entering the world of Faer\u00fbn for the first time was taken aback by the \u201csuper depressing\u201d setting in which the game takes place. The world of Dungeons & Dragons that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 takes most of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}