Originally Posted by ash elemental
Originally Posted by Ragitsu
It's telling that people defending the tone of Larian's attempt have to stretch further than Mister Fantastic in order to reach a flaccid comparison such as an optional cloak.
Quite telling you chose to respond to this post but not my previous post about the non-optional lack of alignment system.

So, if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying they purposely meant for a lawful good character to be a mass murderer because they thought it would be funny?

The POINT is that the game was designed so that players would play the game as intended. Lawful Good characters were not MEANT to be murderers just because it's hilarious.

In D&D,mI can make a lawful good character and go around killing untold numbers IF the DM lets me and doesn't penalize me, but that's not the intent of the rules of the game. The intent of the original games was to create a D&D video game experience based on tabletop rules at the time, and they weren't trying to make it so people could do something comical like play a lawful good person who is totally evil, and that's my point. It was meant to be serious. If you made a Lawful Good character, you were meant to behave in the game as lawful good. Just like in tabletop. You can choose to not be Lawful Good, but then you aren't playing in character.

BG3 seems like it wants to be both serious and comical creating an adventure that is supposed to be a sequel to a serious RPG.