Originally Posted by Imryll
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by kanisatha

Except that I don't see anything yet that signifies *meaningful* consequences. I don't see any meaningful reason for any player to not use the tadpole. And that is terrible game design.

While we don't exactly know where enbracing tadpoles power would lead us, tadpoles biting into our brain as we use it doesn't seem great. Reminds me very much of Slayer form from BG2.

Perhaps. As I said in my post, I don't *yet* see any evidence of meaningful consequences. It may be there. We'll see. Meaningful consequences for me would be that the ceremorphosis process is completed and you become a mindflayer, with your own body, mind, personality and soul completely destroyed in the process. I have my doubts that that is what we'll see.


I'd consider permanent stat or ability loss to be meaningful ... A binary win-lose seems much less interesting to me than increasing risk of possible impairment--with neither the number of required uses or the nature of the impairment being fixed, so that even on subsequent playthroughs you're uncertain what the long-term consequences of your choices may be.

<shrug> It's opinion either way. But stat/ability loss is, to me, extremely minimal. After all, it is something you can easily make up for with spells or items. That as the trade-off for the kind of power you get from the tadpole is very uneven. That would be a no-brainer that using the tadpole is the ONLY way to go.