So when an angry druid accidentally lets her viper nibble on some thiefling kid, that's where you draw the line, but the whole part with the mindflayer ship where they sedate and dissect humanoid species, feed on their brains and twist them to become thralls or make them morph into ghaik themselves, that part you shrugged off no problem?
Pretty much yeah. That first part is the setup.
In a tabletop D&D game, if a DM did that to us without explaining out of game, it'd be annoying, and maybe enough to make me not keep with that game. But, if that's the whole premise of the campaign and I know it to start, it'd be fine. Like I said, just the setup. You can then make your character ideas around that. Real D&D is about giving the players agency. Computerized RPGs should at least present the illusion.
