This statement of yours reeks of sarcasm. Nice way to dismiss someone's arguments, without saying anything constructive.
Nothing I said was sarcastic. You mentioned that you had followed BG3 and read all about it, to which I replied, so have I.
As for the psychic compulsion, no rolls force you to use the tadpoles. You can collect them all and send them to your camp without ever opening your mind to them.
There is nothing dismissive about a cookie. It's an idiomatic expression, implying that a reward is expected when I don't believe it's warranted.
So you admit that there are consequences to using the tadpoles? They are RP reasons, and they are enough to keep you from using them?
I am disagreeing with your premise and explaining why I think you are wrong. That is not insulting. Calling me a "class act" and saying I'm ignoring this and dismissing that and arguing unfairly is, in fact, insulting. And unnecessarily so. It's a way of trying to bully someone else in a conversation. I just happen to find it tiresome and ineffective, as I've already mentioned.
I'm happy to discuss the issue, but so far, I haven't heard anything that seems like a reasonable argument against my position.
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That said, I can understand what fylimar is saying above, which is that the search for power often *feels* like the evil choice, and we're all conditioned in some way to expect a punishment for going that route. But that's a built in morality thing we've all gotten used to. It begins to fall apart when examined closely.
In this game, the approach is not typical. To win, you have to sacrifice a portion of yourself. You have to be reborn, forfeiting your soul and appearance. Doing so happens over a long and slippery slope as you are eventually forced to come to terms with the reality of what it will take to win.
"But I want to win without that sacrifice!" --sure, of course you do. But that's not the way it is. It's not your fault that the world is wicked.
