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In fact the races that do tend to have comparable lifespans are like, the even Hoard races, Goblins and orc and such.

like on the comparative range between fruit fly and Human man. humanity Sits closer to the Swarming Gnats Than most of their fantasy counterparts.

Girl, KOBALDS can comfortably live to be 120. not they're comfortable not getting killed to get there but, Thier a cannon fodder species, and their longer lived than humans.

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I'm not 100% certain which characters you're referring to specifically (haven't seen all the endings yet, and don't want spoilers or to spoil anything for anybody else), but I think that applies pretty generally.

I really don't want to spoil anything for you so I won't go in depth on anything, but our Pally friend can actually work as a great example.

would our holy as holy can be pally willingly become a capital "D" Devil for the ultimate power to kill more demons? no, right? they'd want to keep true to their oath and order and values.

but what if that devil form had a crazy power that did something like 2x damage to demons specifically. what if it had awesome abilities that lean way more fallen angel than devil, but really put the Fallen in Fallen angle. Wing Dives, Searing Light. AOE SMITE??

add on an external push. something that gets the character moving and puts a pressure on this choice. Maybe our pally knows that they are dying and are the last of their order of demon slaying paladins. they know with certainty that if they die without passing on their ways, it dies with them. (there may be others to fight demons, but not how they did it.)

do they stay true to their order and trust others to pick up the battle, or do they take power into their own hands to kill more demons than swords ever could?

if you're playing the game with our pally in the party and know that there's some pretty nasty demons coming along in your honor mode run, are you going to turn down that massive power up?

In the case if the BG3 characters, the power in their situation isn't a reward, actually. It's bait in a trap. You get power sure but you also get the bad ending.

In the case of our typical paladin, would not become a devil under any circumstances. That's simply trading one evil for another, a very "if you murder a murderer," trolly problem kinda situation. If your goal is to kill demons specifically than devils mught make convenient allies, temporarily, but after that then you've probably gotta fight the devils too.

If our hypothetical paladin is the last of their order and soon to die, the solution isn't necessarily to become a monster in order to slay monsters. That's what ended up happening to zariel for example, and she's a significant threat to the world. Bad example to follow, ya know? Better to die holy, ascend, grow in the afterlife as a celestial archon (I'm assuming they're going to mount celestia in their afterlife, and archons are that plane's version of devils and demons), and then joining the heavenly armies to continue your crusade against the forces of evil. Maybe write a book ahead if time knowing the life they lead is dangerous, so that even though they die, they'll still leave behind a legacy and the knowledge required for other living people to continue it even without their input, etcetera.

So, yeah, with the goal being "be a good guy," I'd absolutely reject that power up.

If my goal is specifically demon murder and I don't care about the consequences I might compromise a bit but if I'm going full white knight than no, I'd just try and plan better strategies when possible and just hope I got lucky when not.

The game isn't only about power in combat, that is an important aspect but it's only one piece of the puzzle. The roleplay absolutely matters too.

Like I know this is magical medieval times so like obviously people are racist. People in modern day real world are fucking racist so like of course a medieval society will be too. But what is the in universe bigotry? Which race has the most privilege and which one is hated the most and why? What is the like,,, general consensus on what makes a race sentient, intelligent beings worthy of respect and what makes a race “lesser”. I need to know.

I'd recommend watching videos by MrRhexx and Jorphdan to start with, they're both really good. Wade allen has some really good videos about the planes if existence too, I'd also recommend that.

Also just, reading the dnd rulebooks, they also have good chunks of at least basic lore even when that isn't the focus, and for 5e sources at least I'd recommend Volo's guide to monsters and Mordenkainen's tome of foes, because both have really good lore sections. If you don't have them, look them up online, plenty of ways to read 'em anyway.

So, gnomes, I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, kobolds hate gnomes because of a long ongoing racial war and mutual grudge between the two races. In short, the kobolds enslaved the gnomes in ages long past, and to free them the gnome god stole shit from tiamat (goddess of evil dragons), who sent the kobold's god (who works for her) to retrieve it, and the gnome god tricked the kobold god into an infinite maze and collapsed the exit so that the kobold god is trapped forever. A kobold would make a dwarf's grudge look tame, so there are ongoing issues, to say thr least.

As for the drow, uh, they're just straight evil. I wouldn't even call it racism so much since they really ARE just straight up monsters more or less, and by vast majority I mean like 99.99999% of them. The dark elves of old, before they were cursed and became the drow, were demon worshiping warmongers serving an evil goddess that was a traitor to the rest of the pantheon, and now as the drow their shit is so fucked up I can't even talk about it without maybe getting banned, research drow pregnancy at your own risk. Nowadays the drow raid the surface world, abduct people for slave labor and murder a bunch more people along the way, and generally facilitate demons entering the world which is all sorts of problematic on a literally cosmic level. The fact there are good drow AT ALL is an enormous deal. Basically, what DIDN'T the drow do would be an easier list to make, if there would be a list at all.

For the race that has the most privilege, depends where you are, but it's probably humans. Overall it's a very "you've just gotta get familiar with the setting and there aren't easy answers" kinda question.

As for what makes a race sentient, eh, roughly speaking an intelligence of at least 8, the ability to speak (not just understand, but speak) languages, and an alignment other than "unaligned." With alignment being the lowest standard because even the most otherwise mundane rock can have an alignment, but still, and the ability to speak languages being the biggest indicator, since it shows the ability to understand and communicate complex thought. Intelligence scores are kinda a fuzzy grey area because technically speaking it's possible to have an int as low as 3 with normal rules, but most sentient races average around 10. Ogres and hill giants have 5 int and they're dumber than a sack if bricks but still sentient, while non-sentient dolphins have 6 int but no alignment or languages, and there are non-sentient constructs that can have a higher int than some player characters but which still also lack alignment or languages. It's a big messy. Any creature with "unaligned" instead of an alignment is almost certainly, by definition, non-sentient, since it lacks the ability to make moral decisions whatsoever. It is distinct from neutral alignment, which is a choice to abstain from moral decisions, more or less.

Also there's like, a hundred settings that are different from the world where BG3 is set, and things change from setting to setting. The most common settings in 5e is the forgotten realms, planet of toril, continent of faerûn, on the sword coast and the surrounding area.

I'm not 100% certain which characters you're referring to specifically (haven't seen all the endings yet, and don't want spoilers or to spoil anything for anybody else), but I think that applies pretty generally.

A story with the occasional art piece to highlight really good moments would be so awesome. Maybe not whole comic pages, but if you're writing anyway...

1) We hear about the Lumiose mayor throughout the game and he seems to be an opportunistic douche, to put it nicely, but he's never seen in game

2) The official explanation for him having hired Quasartico is to develop the Wild Zones as stopgap measures to stop the city's property values from tanking following the Ultimate Weapon Incident

3) Despite the above, the slipshod way they have been implemented could theoretically point to ulterior motives to, ahem, gather, or perhaps should I say "seek" all Pokémon in the vicinity

4) Immortal/Long-lived human characters play a role in the base game and are now just an established part of the setting

5) Just as the above is established, we hear crumbs of another character that seems to have now been confirmed as another example of this after being hinted in a previous game, though we do not see them. A previous Legends game, even

6) This includes spoilers for the leaked list of new Megas in the DLC but let's not be assholes about it - Korrina is 100% debuting a new Mega Lucario in Mega Dimension

7) Another Pokémon that's getting a new Mega (even though it didn't need one) is Garchomp

8) You know who uses Garchomp on their team and could then debut its new Mega in a battle?

It’s not a paradox. Tolerance is an agreement and an exchange and if you break it you don’t get to be protected by it and you will suffer the consequences of breaking it. Period.

Tolerance cannot extend to intolerance and bigotry because they are antithetical to the entire framework of the exchange and exist to destroy the people and things that tolerance/acceptance is meant to build and protect.

Also, very important detail: Hypeman is a cis woman, who is open about this both in and out of costume and has a li'l 'she/her' pronouns pin sewn onto the left breast of her costume. She just decided she really liked 'Hypeman' more than 'Hypewoman' as a hero name, and wasn't about to let a little gender-fuckery stand in her way. She also has an LGBTQ+ Ally badge sewn under her pronouns patch; she's stated that she prefers to keep her sexual and romantic orientations private, but also wants that she wants to make it clear that she's a safe person to go to if someone from that community needs help.

This is, in fact, true, but only partially. She's absolutely an ally and happy to be open about it, but the real reason she has her pronouns and an ally badge on her costume is because she has a couple of pins for that which she wears in her day job as a kindergarten teacher. And the first time she suited up, she subconsciously put on her pins as well, because time to go to work! And then she just had to keep doing that because hoo boy, it would look so bad if she stopped, and she bears the eternal mortification suffered by all those who suited up for one job when doing another job thanks to muscle memory. Like, it's not a bad thing to have as part of her costume, she's fine with it, but the process of how it came to be makes her want to die a little inside at times.

Other thing of note in regards to overlap between hero and civilian life: her trash talk. Her manners as a civilian are those of the sort of kindergarten teacher everyone hopes to have, her manners as a hero are those of a slightly unhinged kindergarten teacher, and her vocabulary is consistent between the two. Because she knows. In her heart. That if she gets at all comfortable talking shit to villains and/or criminals, there is a 100% chance that at some point she'll slip and say something Inappropriate either to or in front of one of her students, and then that's her career down the drain.

Oh wait, actually, she has three powers: her third power is that she can sense depression. She can't cure it, but she can chat with the person who has it for a little bit and, if they say it's okay, use her powers to help them temporarily get to a mental state that allows them to do some self care - have a shower, do the laundry, have a meal, do a fun li'l activity, that sort of thing.

Final detail for the moment: I think she lives in a city, and she's very much living off of a teacher's salary, so her main method of transportation as a hero is actually a bicycle. Because, at the state of her career, at least, that was what was both available and in the budget, and by the time she got a little funding from some group or another, she was used to using it to get everywhere, so she still tends to stick with it unless it's an emergency. In relation to this, part of her hero costume is a bike helmet (initially), then later a slightly more street and combat safe helmet. Because gotta set a good example for the kids, you know?

She calls it the Hypecycle.

that tropey moment of sudden realization that you are standing on a land mine and the moment you move wrong, everything will explode.

Everyone  going alright act natural—act NATURAL. Picking up magazines upside down, fake whistling, hello commander, i didn’t see you there, oh this? i was just, uh, sharpening my lightsaber.

The troopers are a little hurt and a lot wary—they were made to serve the Jedi but they don’t seem to ever trust them to have their backs, or be alone with them, and they’re pretty sure that that lightsabers don’t even need to be sharpened.

Until a month or however long later when they finally figure out the dechipping process.

So my question is, how often do you think that thing fucking takes him out by bouncing around and smacking him right in the damn solar plexus? Like, how bruised are Yugi's ribs any time he has to jog or run somewhere? Hell, if he breaks into a sprint is he at risk of chipping a tooth or getting a black eye from the millennium puzzle bouncing around?

You bring up a good point that MANY a cosplayer found out about the hard way because even when it's made of cardboard, that sucker wants to swing around and can take out an eyeball. I have Several Theories:

The Millennium Puzzle is governed by the same Anime Physics that prevent female characters with Humongous Hungolomghnonoloughongous from knocking themselves out with their own tiddies.

Yugi's hair is Like That (TM) because he's projecting some sort of gravity-warping field that makes his hair do that and the puzzle stay put.

Gold in that universe has the same weight and texture as marshmallows.

Since the Puzzle is actually Yami's Body, Yami is using his poorly-defined magical powers to cling to Yugi's shirt like a baby Koala.

The Puzzle is actually flat and only appears to be 3D by the magic of Animation!

The BDSM Leather Bodysuit Yugi Wears is actually Legit Body Armor to protect him from being shanked by his Magical Bling.

Or it floating around when yami takes over is literal and it just floats at will.

I like the former better because it's funnier.

If in "God's green earth" the "earth" referred to is taken to mean not the earth as a whole, not the entire planet, but earth as in earthen as in the ground only, and only where it's green, than capital G Abrahamic God only holds dominion over the soil upon which green plants grow. Thus, therefore, the rest of our "blue marble" is free from god, and outside of his domain. Flee to the ocean, the sins of God cannot reach you there. Embrace The Horrors of the abyss.