Well, fortunately we don’t have to agree on whether goblin children are monsters, evil, or whether being monsters or evil means that it’s okay to kill them. We don’t even need to have a settled opinion ourselves. I can choose to roleplay a character who sees goblins and their ilk as a scourge that should be slaughtered without mercy but protects lives of other races with their own, or one that treats all lives as disposable, or one who regretfully kills goblins to save lives but has nightmares about it, or one who will refuse to kill a goblin or any other creature unless immediately required in defence of their life, or all kinds of flavours inbetween. I want a game in which all of these options are possible, and I think largely we have one.
The question in this thread isn’t about that, but whether having some lives artificially protected by the game is an unwarranted restriction on our freedom to roleplay the characters we want, or I guess whether the ability to kill goblin kids means we have too much freedom. Personally, because the restrictions the game has aren’t ones that are going to significantly impact any character I’ll want to play, I just don’t care very much one way or the other, but I have sympathy with those who do. If there are no great consequences for the game classification or ability to access certain markets, subjects about which I have no knowledge, then I’d be okay with opening up more murderous possibilities. Though I do agree with folk who have said there should be appropriate consequences for killing tiefling kids, and while for me this just isn’t a priority for development so don’t mind Larian ducking the issue, I recognise that’s just my personal preference.
I’m not particularly comfortable that some of the posts here seem to be suggesting that only roleplay options that don’t see moral difficulty in killing goblin children are valid, but as long as the game continues to enable a wide range of characters with different moralities - albeit potentially with some limits - then everyone is entitled to their opinions.
