Someone put something in my brain and changed things in there and when I seem to give in to the powers it's awoken I have crazy dreams and powers manifesting...
Doesn't take much of a leap for any PC with even the smallest amount of sense to go "you know what... No, no thanks" when it comes to deliberly using those powers.
That doesn't even get to the second part, which is often using those powers is for actions that would be considered immoral, like invasive mind probing, that many would also not do.
I can't really see a reasonable reason for anyone to deliberately use the powers unless they're power mad, evil, or blindingly stupid.
Events like the new SH scene do moderate this, where a self-sacrificing person might embrace their personal damnation in order to do something good for others, but these moments are few in the game so far.
Even with this, I would say that given the average player character motives and morals, you would not have most of them using illithid powers, and only the knowledge that Larian seems to want to tie much of the narrative of the game to the assumption you do will push people to do so - but in a unnatural meta-gaming way.
Last edited by lamaros; 20/07/22 03:08 AM.
