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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is changing the way people play D&D for the better (www.polygon.com)

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Being horny for Astarion has made players better at the Rogue class in regular D&D

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the weirdest take I've seen on Astarion...

He's not part vampire, he is a vampire. He is definitionally an evil, undead monster.

But also, he's not a rapist. He never rapes anyone in the game, and he never tries to rape anyone in the game. When he flirts with you, if you turn him down he backs down immediately and accepts that no means no. Hell, when he tries to bite you if you say no he backs down immediately and accepts that no means no too.

You're also given plenty of chances to kick him out of your party and to even attack him, precisely because he is an evil undead monster. For Astarion to hang around, you have to explicitly allow him to do so.

Call him a monster, call him evil, but comparing him with a rapist is just so far out there and makes no sense at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with most of what you said, and would also not call him a rapist, and don't think he should get quite a pass on the whole "backs down if you say no when you catch him" part.

He's not stupid and evil, so when his attempted prey wakes up he doesn't force the issue. He did still try to, somnophiliac-like, literally prey on an unconsenting unconscious person which is bad. He can be forgiven due to circumstance and dialogue, but that's a choice that I wouldn't say that a player would be wrong in making as compared to kicking him out.