Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Philosophical question

One thing that when you are playing The game that is maybe interesting to think about, is that are you a man that has a tadpole on head or you as a player are you a tadpole that is playing with humans?

It came to my mind, but tadpole seems to have defined presence outside player influence, plus they tend to make us do thinks against what we imput. I wouldn’t expect Avellone-style twist.

The tadpole has its own existence outside of the player's control so we are unfortunately not controlling the tadpole itself. You can see this presence when (if you use an illithid check) it starts to try to seduce you. Other companions also see different things like Laezel sees her queen.

I believe you are a man with tadpole ...

If you were tadpole itself, i would not quite understand the situations where you intentionaly using tadpole powers ... or where narrator is taling about your tadpole ...

Unless you are tadpole who actualy DONT realize that it is a tadpole ... and things about itself as a man with a tadpole! O_o

I know it sounds outlandish theory, but come to think of it.. you start the game character who you control you don't get to control before the parasite infestation. Your player control is given after, that.. not before. when gameplay starts.. when you can give omnipotent commands to your party so you kinda have a power of a hivemind.. how about come to think of it.. you actually might be controlling their minds already at the start of the game and you are influencing their thought through your choices.. in the dialogue even the story is told through their actions your actions actually come outside from their influence.

How about the Player input to your characters the gameplay is the tadpole but the story is just told in the perspective of the human who has the predicament?

Wait.... T-A-D-P-O-L-E... T-A-V... T, T... A, A... I thing you might be onto something. xD

In all seriousness it's a cool theory and gives a nice Third Rock From the Sun perspective to the narrative. And it's a fun way to think about player agency in the game.

i get the feeling that players put way more thought into the story than the writers do