@BuckettMonkey To me the problem is it shifts the balance between good and evil quite a bit in favor of evil. It use to be as a player you play for the good side and you face off and defeat evil. Clerics and Paladins being the pinicle of good. In order to play as evil-ish you had to be a warlock or necromancer. Then it's like you're playing evil against evil. In the end it's a sour victory. Now more evil options are up and it feels wrong. Now some want evil to be everything and fight other evil. To me it's kind of depressing. No more new good classes but many new evil ones. While the adversarys only grow darker. A lot less room to be good these days is all i'm trying to say basically. Hell tieflings(literal hellspawn) have the loudest fan base. Again it's whatever. I'll stick to what Iike.
Evil fights evil all the time - there was a whole alignment system and sometimes you don't want to play the good guy - it gets stale. I've played BG1 and BG2 as both good and evil. I played KOTOR as good, as evil, and as each switching at the midpoint revelation. You don't want to limit people and actual DnD games have mixes of characters.
Because we define masculinity by human standards, not gith standards.
As we should. Males of other species are not men, they are males. There is a qualitative difference between males and men.
Also if it's wrong for a man to do X then isn't it also wrong for a woman to do it?
Does gender really matter here? I mean Laezel is a toxic bitchbaby no matter how you slice it but you still somehow insist that men are the problem, when in fact they are the solution that this game so badly needs.
No one is saying that men are the problem. No one has said that anywhere in this thread nor in any I have seen. You keep throwing that straw man out there - speaking to a fragile masculinity. What this thread is would be people complaining that there aren't enough macho men - the characters don't exude power and dominance except for Lae'zel. Normal people aren't hypermasculine or hyperfeminine - there is a mix. Astarion is an entrenched low noble who dealt with non-manual labor for years before being turned into a puppet - he isn't a warlord noble - this is not a controversial character. Gale is an intellectual and uses his mind rather than body and intimidation. Wyll is plenty masculine in a traditional way. These are realistic personalities. Shadowheart is a bit bitchy, but most of that comes from her being a priestess of Shar and being extremely secretive.
