This is all a matter of design and understanding the design of BG3.
When is fighting a minotaur fun?
is fighting a minotaur fun at level 10 or at level 5?
at level 10 a minotaur is probably going to replace orcs. youll fight 5 of em at a time and dont break a sweat. at level 5, a minotaur is a challenge, fighting one is a terrible battle.
If you only fight monsters at the level they are "meant" to be fought, youll end up without challenges, or with realy contrived encoutners where you fight 10 manticores.
This was normal in older DnD games where there are trash encounters that you blow through, with increasingly tougher enemies as the game ramps up.
In this game, all encoutners are hand crafted, as such the narrative feeds off tough encounters that push you to your limit.
Naturally, this wouldnt come to a surprise to you if you actually play DnD.
Enemies arent meant to be "balanced" exactly to the party, avoiding them was ofthen the entire idea, especialy in older editions where you leveled off spending your loot, rather than fighting things.
But in a narrative driven campaign, the same can be used for an "oh shit" moment.
The idea that you are "skipping" a few steps is nonsense. This is not an MMORPG, thats the entire point of the Underdark, its an "oh shit" moment.
one thats exectued pretty niceley if you ask me.
>interrested in consistency in your world
And there youre wrong.
otherwise i probably wouldnt have pages upon pages of backstory for my campaign that i rigidly enforce.
However, backstory is a means to an end, the end is the game, the story, wahtever angle you prefer.
FR is a pretty stupid setting that gets taken very seriously by people that somehow grew up with it. To me its just that tho, a kitchen sink DnD settig in which real life egyptians exist side by side with god wizards and dragon people.
Minotaurs EXISt in the Underdark. Its not likeley that youll encounter them, but its not implausible either. In fact, nothing is "likeley" in the Underdark, its a very implausible place to begin with.
Just because somethign isnt likeley to happen, doesnt mean that it isnt something that shouldnt happen for th esake of a good story.
