Originally Posted by Clawfoot
No thanks. This NPC is a total caricature and a shining example of what I think Larian does wrong: everything has to be funny and camp and cringeworthily zany. It's garbage writing. The goblins in this game (as with many other aspects of BG3) come off like an intentional parody of D&D. If I showed up to a tabletop game and the DM had goblins behave that way, I would advise him to familiarize himself better with the game's lore. This type of "haha isn't that quirky" writing caters to the lowest common denominator who thinks anything comedic is automatically great and has no regard whatsoever for realism and lore accuracy. Goblins are not cockney rascals who will have a joke-filled conversation with civilized people. It's one of countless examples of what Larian believes: it doesn't matter if it's realistic and believable as long as it's comedic, cartoonish and unexpected.

This game is inundated in terrible writing. Please don't encourage more of it.


Yes, there is an opinion that it is necessary to degrade the design of the goblins and make them grotex monsters (perhaps Larian needs to hire a worse and cheaper designer specifically for this), and make their writing worse. A writer who writes dialogues for goblins must be on the same intellectual level with goblins, at least for it to be rednecks, ideally a gangster from the ghetto who cannot read and write but well versed in violence and hierarchy. This could help solve the problem that the goblins turned out to be too cute and smart and caused such a reaction.



Thanks to Larian for Baldurs Gate 3 and the reaction to player feedback