Well. I never said it wasn't complex.

What I meant is that I really hate the idea of making a mindflayer into a good aligned character. And how he mysteriously retains his personality somehow? Im no DnD expert, but isnt Ceremorphosis supposed to be a seed that acts exactly like a parasite while it grows and eventually replaces ALL THAT YOU ARE, down to the very last cell. Your brain is devoured, and your body is destroyed. How on earth can you remember anything?

And the Balduran "twist" is the biggest meh twist Ive seen for a long time. This "special mindflayer" just so happens to be this particular character from a 1000 years ago, what are the odds? And if he is himself why does he never seem to give a shit about BG? And what was the point of this quest exactly? It does nothing but ruin the flow of the narrative. You can not recruit Ansur, the fact the Emperor is Balduran has 0 impact on the story. Am I the only one that feels the flow of the narrative suffered because of too much sidestuff with little substance or relation(actual impact) to the main story?

Now I like complex characers and dynamics. I for example liked Fall From Grace in Planescape. I liked Morrigan in DA:O.
But a mindflayer? For reasons above it makes no sense. And I also feel like SOME things should be kept black and white. I like making complex decisions but sometimes it feels good to just go:" this thing is evil, im gonna kill it. The end." A mindflayer is a perfect example of this. A being whos very existence is parasitic. They are basically like a parasitic hive mind.

If everything is "complex" then nothing is special.

Last edited by Surge90sf; 06/09/23 09:40 PM.