Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Why should I be 'evil'?

Its directly in the scope of every game hat has alignment system a system that has good and bad actions. A game that plays with the DnD setting of hell and heavens, selling your soul to devils.

Is a Lord who has serves and works then hard of fields to get food for a harsh winter good or evile?
Are the serves who reble good or bad?

Its all relative depending ony our situation, thing BG1 there was no good or evile in the first place. Your main enemy didnt even wanted to take over all the realms and murder hobo every life being in sight.
In BG2 even your main adversary didn't want to murder hobo everything just stay alive for past failings.

But here we are in BG 3 with most retarded stupid story trope ever. All live is in danger and you are the only one who can prevent the doom of all dooms huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuuh
Ebile squid aliens will devour all brains and less evile squid worms want to build a giant army and take over the surface world.

I just cant.

See i think that's the core of our disagreement here.
No one 'wants' to be bad.. But everyone wants to be happy.
People have dreams and goals and needs that have to be met (be it something simple as hunger or more complex as emotional need and such). All this to ensure happiness.
The difference is that 'evil' and 'good' peeps handle it differently. A person who will put themselves and their happiness above the rest ends up being 'evil', a person who won't ends up being 'good'.
Will i sacrifice everybody if it means that i can remove the tadpole and live happily ever after, or will..not do that, lol.
Now obviouslly this is all very black and white, very simplified.. but you get the idea.

I read in some D&D book once the definition of the evil alignments. Which gives a bit more insight in evil itself according to D&D. They explained it like this:

Chaotic Evil: I want it NOW

i.e.no patience, no plotting, no care for what's right or wrong, no empathy, no code, evil just to be evil;

Neutral Evil: I want it

i.e. basically just opportunistic, a little more care into it than chaotic but if it's there and there's no risk then why not;

Lawful Evil: I want it ALL

i.e. ultimate power over everything, a planner, still adhering to some personal code (e.g.no lying).


So I'd say a certain type of greed is still at the heart of things evil. Not being evil for the sake of evil depending on which side of the spectrum you are.

I think the key to why I think evil Drow wouldn't necessarily go illithid route is here. To be given power by others in their culture is the same as being offended, just think about the way they treat Dryads. They are not only evil, they are very very prideful and would definitely hold a grudge to being kidnapped and infected by a parasite. From there its not a big leap to want to completely destroy the Absolute cult and make allies of convenience if I have to regardless of their alignment.

I was trying for less text to get same general idea across. cause I write enough in the other discussion between us.

but if being bad makes you feel good, which many evil creatures are, then your evil. Or just plain morbid, have a morbid streak.
good people feel bad when they do bad things, it's what makes them good.

again just roughly throwing it up there in short text do to walls of text of other posts.



Very true but for most part drow are willing to work with illithid. Your drow is special do to recent events. Though sorta disagree with you on given power = offensive. Sense inheriently it is a matriarch and ruled by a Goddess who actively takes part at times. Goddess part may be a stretch on what causes offense. the other is simply someone has to give you some form of power. A Matron Mother raising you up from lowly latrine duty, because she sees something in you at that moment. A Matron mother allowing an recently unhoused drow weaponmaster into her own house. and a thousand other daily life for drow things.