Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Another survey: Childern killing poll.

I'm abstaining from this vote. I don't want to kill the Tiefling children, I barely want to kill the goblin children. But for reasons I intellectually get but don't really connect with, being able to kill everyone is really important to some people, so I don't want to vote to deprive them of that.

Feel free to corect me if im wrong, but i believe that he *should* ignore them if you finish them first with non-lethal attack ...
That could be the way to save their lives.

The same thing as plot armor is ... its just not based on plot, but on morality of real world.

Yes, true enough, and I have knocked them out to stop them calling the guards in a playthrough before. But when Halsin killed one of the kids, he’d beaten my party for initiative so they were dead before I’d had chance to make a move.

But you don't lose anything, if it's changed so that every child is killable, do you? If you don't want to kill kids, you simply don't kill them, even if they are killable.

But people who want to kill them (or just want consistency) gain what they want.

I voted to change it as in one of my playthroughs I tried the evil route and went in to the grove trough the hidden tunnel to help Minathra and it bothered me that I could kill the whole grove except for those stupid thiefling kids. For me this also related to the more general lackluster experience of the evil path.

Awesome typo...or intentional portmanteau?

sorry, non native english forum dweller here so you'll have to point out the typo for me.

Remember the still good Fallout games 1 and 2? Where you not only could kill children but the game reacted to it? Good times

Sadly impossible in todays moral panic, snowflake infested times.

Makes me wonder if, when Halsin is in bear form, his morals are a wee bit different.

Its Tiefling ...
By adding H you merged their race and their thievery into one word.

Exactly ...

You know as i read reactions here i realize that most of my characters would most likely not kill those kids, even tho some would still attack them in certain cases.

Just the fact that there is some invisible force protecting especialy theese childern, who still can easily die ... just not by my hand specificaly ... pisses me off. :-/

^This ^

Goblins are monsters. They're essentially two-legged vermin that deserves to be exterminated, just like gnolls, orcs, bugbears or any other kind of monster.

"thiefling"

May be ...

But that isnt question of this topic, is it? :-/

As with all poles in BG3, it is, unfortunately, not very Versatile...

Not sure if we are still in the era of " Games propagate mass murder " journalism but just in case I guess Larian is better of not allowing murdering kids. I would straight up make it easily moddable but not make it possible by default.

It might be out of date, but I am pretty sure some regions would outright ban the game - I think that's why New Vegas didn't allow killing children. I do question why we can kill goblin kids though - they are definitely sentient enough. Perhaps, that's Larians way of giving players Fallout1 level of freedom through monstrous children?

I voted to kill anyone as that creates balance for me. I generally don't kill the goblin kids as I usually "remove" the leaders in a specific sequence so all that happens when the gobbo kids shout for help.....is silence. And the occasional meaty thunk. Besides, some modder is probably/hopefully going to add just about every option or choice we could ever want. Not a fan of bringing individuals moral hang ups into rpgs. We got some pretty amazing games over the last few decades where individuals and the public at large had little or no input in the games development. Let the devs bring us THEIR word, not your, mine, someone elses. (Generric you, me etc not meaning the OP).

Does. Not. Compute. (Obviously the devs chose the first option...) :p