Originally Posted by The Composer
While I don't necessarily disagree, and personally have a couple of gripes and criticisms of my own when it comes to storytelling, there's some arguments here that I just have to raise a hand at. Mainly the case of missing meaningful answers or solutions to removing the tadpole. I know at least I don't watch the first 20 minutes of a movie, pause it and start complaining about not having meaningful answers to some of the main mysteries of the movie already, or solutions to defeat the big bad. Like... What?
The argument is more that the gross brain worms are not the mystery itself. It's not required to insert a tadpole in every PC's head to tell this story. It seems more like Larian wanted players to have more Bonus Actions and cool powers at low levels.

The third party that has altered the PC tadpoles and is working against the Mind Flayers could have done any number of other things. Whoever they are, they are putting blind faith in a clueless party to do whatever it is they need. It doesn't seem like a very good plan.

edit: It would make more sense the party would become the unwilling agents of the third party to infiltrate the Absolutes ranks. It would be a small redemption if they were in fact saving the whole introduction of this third party for the full release. But still I think this story has way too many elements way too early, because the devils and Jergal are also already introduced. It's hard to write a story that resonates well if the player is confused by too many factions and plotlines.

Last edited by 1varangian; 19/11/21 12:13 PM.