I played drow the first time and these dialog options are hilarious. You just say "hey, stop fighting. Neither of you are like me so you should stop. "😂
@@Limrassonyou found zero fantasy racism at all?????? Like quite literally half the grove is like "ugh those foul-blooded hellspawn parasites" at the refugees. Aradin literally calls zevlor and his people three fantasy slurs. And if you aren't human, he will use a fantasy slur at you if he hasn't been punched. And even Zevlor, If you're drow will be like "oh uh... It's unusual for one of your kind to not be horrible" like gee thanks bud.
@@everthinggaming50829 I think lore wise in D&D, the drow generally have a track record of being evil so as a race, they’re kinda just… Hated. I don’t know though, maybe there’s a more specific reason to BG3 or broadly D&D too.
@@sakurasensations4786mostly because the drow are one of the most evil race of people out there in the lore, they love torture, rape, race war, slavery of the most brutal kind, sacrifice any humanoid with sentience to their twisted dark spidergod Lolth, half their species don't even have any 'rights' if there even is anything like rights in drow society, they condone and even encourage genocide on each others families for better standing in the eyes of Lolth... So yea I don't blame anyone for not immediately trusting a Drow...
Tbf Drow as a species are 99.9% evil. The first drow who was actually well known and good canonically in Drizzt Do'Urden. And since then only a few drow have actually turned their back on Lolth. So for them Drow are no different from goblins or mind flayers as you are most likely the only non evil drow they have met.
@@GeishaVi Played a full Drow. He was shooketh, and had to backpedal fast when I called him out on it. But Zevlor is at least not trying to bite the hand that feeds you, unlike many others. Though the most racist character in Act 1 hides it well, actually, seeing that the Sister of the Seeing Pearl can't exactly reveal _why_ she's racist against non-Hags.
The argument between Zevlor and Aradin after the Goblin attack is also really great if you're a Drow. No matter the outcome, *both* of them will be racist towards you at some point during that exchange.
Tbf most Lolth drows are walking racist genocide machines anyway, so they’re like the race known for being racist. It’s us Seldarine drows that get caught in the crossfire. We’re the goddamn freedom fighters of the under dark being lumped in with those red eyed maniacs.
I was a seldarin elf and zevlor was pretty chill once I sided with him, although come to think of it, he did say something like "you're not like other dark elves", but given what the lolth dark elves do on a daily basis, you can't really blame the guy.
@@GooseEnjoyer Its why I don't really find comparing dnd racism with irl racism to be very accurate. Faerun is a place where races like gnolls, goblins, and drow are almost universally evil due to both their nature and especially their culture. Anyone in their right mind would be suspicious seeing a drow being nice to them. It makes making characters like heroic drow so compelling to me, because you're pushing a rock uphill just to get people to give you the chance to help them. It leads to some great RP
Being half orc in the game is everyone is nice until you something to them. Then the race card comes out. Then it’s a case of you being orcish. What’s funny is you can play into their stereotypes as an option most times.
Reminds me of the Narcissism of Small Differences: The more similar people are, the more likely they are to argue and fight over minor, petty differences.
@@katier9725 It references the real life n - word. So you have words like digger and bigger etc, you can pronounce them with a soft R as in digga and bigga or you can pronounce them with a full hard R in diggeR and biggeR. Black people say soft R (n)digga but people who hate black people say hard R (n)diggeR.
I played a druid tiefling character I made for a D&D campaign years ago... didn't even think of the consequences of that in the game but was gobsmacked at being hated by the tieflings for being a druid and hated by the druids for being a tiefling
@@Juliebel177 yeah im a drow and she tried to appeal to me too. Said "is it not natural for a mother to protect her brood?" As if lolth protects her brood. She turns dudes into driders when they piss her off doesnt seem very protective to me
@@betin731The Imperials aren't too bad and are fine with any race in their ranks. The stormcloaks are most made up of nord supremacists. Solitude under Elisif seems to treat everyone pretty equally. Same with Whiterun under Balgruuf. Winterhold also has no problems with race when teaching magic to users as well. Racism in Skyrim at least is mostly based on the location. That said I understand Skyrim is only part of Tamriel as a whole.
@dhgmrz17 any race is welcome _in the Legion._ Cyrodiil proper is less friendly. The College is probably the only place in Skyrim where everyone is truly welcomed
Nah dude, goblins are cool. If I don't have the option to make friends with them in games (as well as a lot of other races), I'd prefer to stealth past them to avoid having to do the stabby stabby.
@@icetide9411 Really? In my playthrough they grew to respect each other but they didn’t start flirting, so I wonder if I didn’t long rest enough for them to start flirting.
@@alexanderinoa7850 No it's nothing official (I think), they're just really commonly shipped with each other, the same way Gale and Astarion are. People like their enemies-to-lovers trope
@@jaredouimette1 that wasn't part of the dilemma, it was goblins or tieflings. However, you can let the children live, they run for the door. Just let them get away.
The Dnd group I play with is a party of 4, with an orc, 2 half elves, and 1 human. A few months ago one of the half elves used the term "round ear" while joking with the orc about the human (knowingly in earshot of the human). It was said in an obviously sarcastic way, but the pure disgust in his tone made it easily my favorite fantasy insult ever
Arabella was quite remorseful. And there were a few children in the druid grove that weren't part of Mol's gang. (Like the ones Wyll is talking to when you first meet him)
it's like reality, if racism leads to poverty you look how you can make a coin. Honest work doesn't work out very well, due to racism, so doing crime it is - creating the classic selffulfilling racism prophecy "those people are CRIMINALS!!!"
To be fair... half orcs do look scary. I made my half orc an old warrior, which makes him look much less intimidating. Long white hair and beard, with the maturity slider all the way. He... looks a bit like a green Santa if santa had tusks. But even THEN he looks scary. I leaned all into the "be weary of the old man in a profession where men typically die young" thing.
Just started a playthrough as a dark Dwarf, and I keep getting accused of being a slave trader 💀 (granted, considering the way the Duergar in the underdark act, I can understand why)
In act 1 there is literally only one (1) duergar besides a potential duergar Tav/Durge who isn't directly either a slaver or a slaver's minion. And his reason being a masonry nerd, aka a broader dwarf stereotype.
Green Guy: "Damn Ninky Nonks! Am I Right?" Dark Urge Whispers to player: Suddenly you fantasize about how beautiful the green skin would look bathed in his red blood. No one would miss this guy. If they did, they'd blame the other guy instead.
Dark Urge Whisper: You start to question the dispute between the two men based on their colors. The thought quickly fades and is replaced with the wonderful thought of making all of them one unified color: *Red.*
@@cattysplat You know, I've heard more racist remarks from Gen Z than anyone else. Even old relatives of mine I knew that were racist, didn't really ever say anything racist.
@My-Name-Isnt-Important True. I have had family members that would throw racial slurs at the tv when they get angry, but they would be the first to help someone no matter the race. It's just anger and venting. Gen Z genuinely believes that races are unequal and the only solution is discrimination and separation. Famous colleges now raise the bar for certain races and lower the bar for others. Which exemplifies both discrimination and their belief that races are unequal.
You try living in a world of constant tribals wars between not just different _cultures_ (human, elven, etc), but dozens of sentient _species_ (often with their own subspecies and subcultures), who are all pushing and shoving for the same resources. And try not be be eaten/enslaved/burnt alive by the weekly invasion of drow slavers/Githyanki slavers/Hell fiends/demons/dragons/mindflayers/magic automatons from another planar dimension and/or the Underdark.
been playing Dragon age lately elves getting called knife ears happens so often it should be a passtime now I'm playing as a quanari and everyones calling me a bloody ox
My friends and I started playing a campaign together and I made a Seldarine drow sorcerer. I’ve got the highest charisma, so I’m the designated ‘conversation starter’ of the group. Hilarious that I’m the best at speaking and persuasion when every time I approach someone, I’m immediately met with suspicion due to being a drow 😂
As someone who hasn't played a single second of Baldurs Gate, this seems hilarious, probably right on point, and just the right amount of mirroring real life.
@@jonathanwells223So like how did you get out of those lockers when they shoved you in there? do you like bang on the door or try to pick it from the inside
I'm a Tiefling and when i got to Emerald Grove, the druids were calling my race 'half-devils' or 'parasites' and they were surprised when I got mad at them. Don't know why...
Ikr? 😂 My brother and I have been doing a multiplayer campaign where he's a tiefling and I'm a high elf. Everywhere we go, some NPC is making snide remarks about his character's race, meanwhile, the githyanki queen straight up told my character that she's heard good things about my heritage and was honored to have me as a potential servant. 😅 It's like night and day in the worst and funniest way
Gotta love how the green guy said nothing to the red guy's face, but immediately started talking shit when he left. Perfect representation of the average racist.
We all gotta admit it brings more substance to the game and really makes the world feel real, not having little social things like this makes game worlds just feel synthetic.
@kingmarc4235 reflects on the fact that Baldurs gate has all walks of life and is fairly used to other races. But under stress even Baldurs gate citizens became hostile towards the refugees.
Honestly being a drow in Baldur's gate 3 is wild considering how many people refer to me based on my race. I'm black and even I don't get this much in real life lmao
Well, in the Lore the Drow usually kill everyone else and perform dark rituals that cause tons of chaos for everyone. So the hatred is sort of earned. Now if you could play as a Bugbear, people would attack you on sight.
A lot of DnD races are actual groups of people that mostly follow the same culture, so generally all the bias are more towards a "tribe" so to speak than the color of the skin. It's a very brutal world, lack of trust is rampant. But when you get to more civilized areas, that effect is drastically lower as people feel safer, and so are the bias mostly gone.
@@MrTuubster I mean the silver lining is that there really are no good guys in 40k, so you can't feel bad for anyone in it. Just pick your favorite team and roll with it.
That's why my Tiefling Warlock has deep amethyst purple skin, blue-green hair and glowing orange eyes. But so far people have been surprisingly nice to him because he has weapons-grade charisma. ;-) My companions have yet to find out he's a Warlock of the Great Old One Cthulhu, and considers Mindflayers "posers". Hm....
@TF2CrunchyFrog Mine had Orange skin, but then a vampire offered us "Blood cake" and I partook of it to see what would happen. I now have Dark Blue skin and, in the DM's words "feel slightly more fiendish". No regrets on my end lol
I always like how in fantasy games racism based on skin color is often replaced by racism against other humanoid races. Probably because those also have huge cultural and differences and often much larger anatomical ones to blame (like saying half-orcs are dumb because they are strong.
Just as in a real life... you hate people from different town, together you hate people from different region, together you hate people from different nation, together you hate people of different race... you just add "together you're hating different type of humanoids" atop of that.
I literally yelled “LADIES WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF CAN WE NOT BE RACIST ON TOP” at my screen when Lae’Zel and Shadowheart first met 😂 Also I’m a Drow, if they aren’t saying mean things to sweet baby Karlach it’s because they’re saying them to me 😭
Gotta love when you play a Drow and get access to a special Drow-only dialogue that's "Hey, stop fighting! You're equally lesser than me"
Wait, where's that? I'm playing as a Drow now lol
@@st.altair4936 I assume Zevlor and Aradin at the beginning of the Grove
@@aquacat5552 Ah dang I missed that dialogue then
@@st.altair4936 yeah no it's not with zevlor and aradin, the drow dialogue there was smth along the lines of "ah backstabbing, just like home"
I played drow the first time and these dialog options are hilarious. You just say "hey, stop fighting. Neither of you are like me so you should stop. "😂
Act 1 really setting up 2 plots:
1) you have a parasite in your eye
2) 18 kinds of racism run rampant
Not in, behind. Don't ask me how I learnt
I've finished act 1 and there was literally 0 racism anywhere. In fact if anything, the characters are weirdly accepting.
@@Limrasson Play a Drow then. They get a buttload of racism in act one.
@@Limrassonfound the human player
@@Limrassonyou found zero fantasy racism at all?????? Like quite literally half the grove is like "ugh those foul-blooded hellspawn parasites" at the refugees. Aradin literally calls zevlor and his people three fantasy slurs. And if you aren't human, he will use a fantasy slur at you if he hasn't been punched. And even Zevlor, If you're drow will be like "oh uh... It's unusual for one of your kind to not be horrible" like gee thanks bud.
As a half-drow, anytime NPCs arent being racist towards each other, its because they're being racist towards me 😂
I’m a Drow, and I suddenly got the biggest Deja Vu because I played as a Dark Elf in Skyrim I SHOULDVE KNOWN.
Half elf half drow here and I have no idea what the drow have done to deserve all the hate
@@everthinggaming50829 I think lore wise in D&D, the drow generally have a track record of being evil so as a race, they’re kinda just… Hated. I don’t know though, maybe there’s a more specific reason to BG3 or broadly D&D too.
@@sakurasensations4786mostly because the drow are one of the most evil race of people out there in the lore, they love torture, rape, race war, slavery of the most brutal kind, sacrifice any humanoid with sentience to their twisted dark spidergod Lolth, half their species don't even have any 'rights' if there even is anything like rights in drow society, they condone and even encourage genocide on each others families for better standing in the eyes of Lolth...
So yea I don't blame anyone for not immediately trusting a Drow...
"They hate me cause of my purple skin" and I picked criminal as my back ground.
a talking mirror called me a "filthy half-breed" smh
That mirror was Out of Pocket and caught me off guard!😂💯
What were you? Maybe you deserved it lol
same 😭 so i threatened to smash it and it finally let me in
It's in the basement for a reason lmao 😂
Wait. What mirror was that???
I also assume you were playing a half-elf?
Walking up to the grove and defending the tieflings from racism only for them to hit me with racism for being a half drow was shocking 😭
Tbf Drow as a species are 99.9% evil. The first drow who was actually well known and good canonically in Drizzt Do'Urden. And since then only a few drow have actually turned their back on Lolth. So for them Drow are no different from goblins or mind flayers as you are most likely the only non evil drow they have met.
Lmfao
personally i wouldn't let that slide
Zevlor was nice to my half-Drow. I was surprised, lol. This game really thought of everything.
@@GeishaVi Played a full Drow. He was shooketh, and had to backpedal fast when I called him out on it. But Zevlor is at least not trying to bite the hand that feeds you, unlike many others.
Though the most racist character in Act 1 hides it well, actually, seeing that the Sister of the Seeing Pearl can't exactly reveal _why_ she's racist against non-Hags.
Baldur's Gate player: ''Wait, *everybody* is a racist?''
Elder Scrolls players: ''First time?''
I feel this 😂
My N'wah!
I mean at least the different type of human can tolerate each other
Though those filthy elf >->
“And you refuse to help the stormcloaks”
Elder Scrolls: "Hey, you, you're finally awake"
Me: “Why did you slaughter that human?”
Goblin child: “He killed my parents!”
Me: “My condolences.”
Goblin child: “I hated them anyway!”
I love Gale's response to that scene 💀
@@smol3113 I don't remember seeing it. What was his answer?
@@sapphirII
First line is “it seems loss and grief hold hands, even among goblins”
And then when the kids says he hates them “Nevermind.”
@@justarandomfanner7164 he really caught me off guard with that xD
Hi abelhawk
You forgot "Astarion disapproves" as soon as you break up the race war.
lmaoooo
Bro! Astarion is the worst!
My guy, just go chill in camp and stop complaining. I’ll call you when there’s a chest that needs opening…
He lives for the drama 🙄
@@TheLivewire18 you're missing out on his hilarious comments
@@TheLivewire18 you know you can respec right? and after ascending him, he's the best option for a monk or dual wield build.
Baldur's Gate 3 is either everyone being super horny or everyone being super racist.
Truly a game for gamers
aahh the classic dnd experience
Based
a normal day
Or both
Baulder's Gate be like "Oh two choices, I.... equally do not like"
*do like
You could always just attack :)
My 2nd playthrough I punched the guy and sided with Zevlor. Dude's a hero.
and that makes the dilemma - and with that one good rpg!
@@the_stagnanti did that my first one, what did you do the first run?
The argument between Zevlor and Aradin after the Goblin attack is also really great if you're a Drow. No matter the outcome, *both* of them will be racist towards you at some point during that exchange.
Unless you're a bard. Then you can get them both to chill.
Tbf most Lolth drows are walking racist genocide machines anyway, so they’re like the race known for being racist.
It’s us Seldarine drows that get caught in the crossfire. We’re the goddamn freedom fighters of the under dark being lumped in with those red eyed maniacs.
I was a seldarin elf and zevlor was pretty chill once I sided with him, although come to think of it, he did say something like "you're not like other dark elves", but given what the lolth dark elves do on a daily basis, you can't really blame the guy.
@@GooseEnjoyer Its why I don't really find comparing dnd racism with irl racism to be very accurate.
Faerun is a place where races like gnolls, goblins, and drow are almost universally evil due to both their nature and especially their culture. Anyone in their right mind would be suspicious seeing a drow being nice to them.
It makes making characters like heroic drow so compelling to me, because you're pushing a rock uphill just to get people to give you the chance to help them. It leads to some great RP
Being half orc in the game is everyone is nice until you something to them. Then the race card comes out. Then it’s a case of you being orcish. What’s funny is you can play into their stereotypes as an option most times.
That's why I like being dragonborn. Most people are just like "Ooh exotic lizard man!"
should play divinity original sin 2 as lizard folk. you will get a very different reaction from the locals 😅
Reminds me of the Narcissism of Small Differences: The more similar people are, the more likely they are to argue and fight over minor, petty differences.
Im sure thats mainly cause in the realms where bg3 takes place dragonborn everyone knows them to be honorable and noble
@@jeph7434 Also I am I blue dragonborn oath of devotion paladin so Im TOTALLY just reinforcing that idea lol
Apart from that one Githyanki knight who straight up calls you Lae'zel's pet if you try to speak
Friendliest NPC's in Morrowind:
D-Tier behavior from this farmtool N'wah amirite?
Dark elves are not racist, S'wit. Just don't be a foreigner.
@@ArchmagosErrantCarbosDamn right.
Dagoth ur when the nerevar is an argonian :
n’wah
“Let’s not use the hard *r* “💀
My goobla 🤜🤛
What even is "hard r" in this context? None of the words start with r.
@@katier9725walk up to any American black person and say "can you tell me what the hard r means?" And you'll be in for a fun surprise
@@katier9725 It's the last letter. Just like the "N-word".
@@katier9725 It references the real life n - word. So you have words like digger and bigger etc, you can pronounce them with a soft R as in digga and bigga or you can pronounce them with a full hard R in diggeR and biggeR. Black people say soft R (n)digga but people who hate black people say hard R (n)diggeR.
Just now realizing that Jackson is about to do a whole series in Baldurs Gate a lá the Minecraft series and I am so fucking HYPED
Woooaaaaah, don't get your hopes up like that
Yes please!!!
I want one!!!!!!
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@@EEEEEEEEI disagrEE
Also talking to anyone in the grove while being a druid tiefling is just magnificent 😂
Omg yeah it’s fucking hilarious😂
I played a druid tiefling character I made for a D&D campaign years ago... didn't even think of the consequences of that in the game but was gobsmacked at being hated by the tieflings for being a druid and hated by the druids for being a tiefling
@@lunardelos1210 "We have decided to come to an agreement over our equal hatred of YOU"
I'm a druid drow and Kahga said "You're a Drow, I thought you'd support me in closing the grove from these weaklings." Or some such.
@@Juliebel177 yeah im a drow and she tried to appeal to me too. Said "is it not natural for a mother to protect her brood?" As if lolth protects her brood. She turns dudes into driders when they piss her off doesnt seem very protective to me
Most tolerant elder scrolls characters:
Faerun is basically racial equality utopia compared to Tamriel. Casual racists vs professional racists
@@betin731The Imperials aren't too bad and are fine with any race in their ranks. The stormcloaks are most made up of nord supremacists. Solitude under Elisif seems to treat everyone pretty equally. Same with Whiterun under Balgruuf. Winterhold also has no problems with race when teaching magic to users as well. Racism in Skyrim at least is mostly based on the location. That said I understand Skyrim is only part of Tamriel as a whole.
@dhgmrz17 any race is welcome _in the Legion._ Cyrodiil proper is less friendly. The College is probably the only place in Skyrim where everyone is truly welcomed
elder scrolls player*
@@dhgmrz17 Yeah Skyrim is nothing compared to the rest of Tamriel. If you go to Morrowind you'll have racial and xenophobic slurs thrown your way 24/7
I really want a picture of his wardrobe right now
I'm inside his wardrobe (I won't elaborate)
Cmon just 3 likes 😂
Yeahh
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@@bloddrinkeraka elaborate.
We all are acting like we don't see a goblin and destroy them on a whim
I rarely fire the first shot, but I fire the last one every time.
Can’t be racist towards a race that no longer exists
Nah dude, goblins are cool.
If I don't have the option to make friends with them in games (as well as a lot of other races), I'd prefer to stealth past them to avoid having to do the stabby stabby.
@@dubiousinformation1756 Same
The only goblin is a bread goblin - Goblin Layer.
You turn around and shadowheart and lae'zel are calling each other slurs
Give them a couple days, and they starting saying them weirdly romantically to each other and you don't know how to feel about it
@@icetide9411
Really? In my playthrough they grew to respect each other but they didn’t start flirting, so I wonder if I didn’t long rest enough for them to start flirting.
@@alexanderinoa7850 No it's nothing official (I think), they're just really commonly shipped with each other, the same way Gale and Astarion are. People like their enemies-to-lovers trope
@@icetide9411 They go from actively hostile and antagonistic toward one another to slightly begrudging mutual indifference
In mine we kill both of them before they could do anything
That is why we need a Lizardfolk race in the game. They don't judge you for the colour of your skin. They judge you for how you taste.
If you romance Lae'zel, she will both look like a lizard person AND judge you by your taste...and smell.
I always loved the lizard folk motto. "No such thing as a useless member" which sounds really nice till you know what they're about.
Of course they don't judge you by your skin, they know it's absolutely what's inside that counts!
You can play as a githyanki or a dragonborn. Both are pretty close.
I'd say that's why we need all animal races in the game
Act 1 be like: would you like to slaughter the goblin children or the half-devil children?
Me: both
You never had to slaughter the goblin children to save the tieflings. Just their 3 leaders, two of which aren't even goblins
@@Wence42 you do to save the druid
@@jaredouimette1 that wasn't part of the dilemma, it was goblins or tieflings. However, you can let the children live, they run for the door. Just let them get away.
@@Wence42 they alert the rest of the camp if you're trying to release him stealthily.
The solution is to be a Dragonborn and proclaim yourself better than anyone else so therefore their squabbles are pointlesd
"Guys guys, none of you are the Master race, I mean comon, its so obviously us."
I can jive with this.
Drow (Lolth-sworn, female for more effect), or Githyanki also work.
And then all the races unite to slaughter every Dragonborn in the world. World peace achieved. Classic villain gambit.
@@hoangkienvu7572and then a few years down the line and people are racist again
The answer, be a racist yourself, ok... lamo
As a Druid Tiefling, the grove was... an experience. And I kept putting Shadowheart and Lae'zel on time-out. 😅
Same! Hostile experience all around.
"Knife ear" is my favorite fantasy slur
Sounds flattering to me. lol
Those damn leaf lovers can't be trusted.
Rock and stone, brother
The Dnd group I play with is a party of 4, with an orc, 2 half elves, and 1 human. A few months ago one of the half elves used the term "round ear" while joking with the orc about the human (knowingly in earshot of the human). It was said in an obviously sarcastic way, but the pure disgust in his tone made it easily my favorite fantasy insult ever
Honestly like the idea of high elves all being racist pricks
"we'll not tolerate drow here"
"another one kill him"
"go back to your caves elf"
to quote a few lines I've had thrown at my drow character.
that's what you get cavey
I take the Hag´s approach to those situations.
"You don´t want to see my face anymore?"
"Fine, I´ll just take out your eyes then."
I mean drow society is pretty damn evil to be fair.
People in Skyrim say they want to make my tail a belt, and that my brother will make a fine rug. The nerve of some people
Call them nwah’s.
"sorry, what's good?"
Delivery had me rolling
Had me rollin
"Let's not use the hard r here"
Goobla
BG3: Tries to convince me that tieflings aren't inherently evil.
Also BG3: Literally every child tiefling is a remorseless thief.
Children in general tend to be little shits.
Arabella was quite remorseful. And there were a few children in the druid grove that weren't part of Mol's gang. (Like the ones Wyll is talking to when you first meet him)
it's like reality, if racism leads to poverty you look how you can make a coin. Honest work doesn't work out very well, due to racism, so doing crime it is - creating the classic selffulfilling racism prophecy "those people are CRIMINALS!!!"
Meanwhile, Karlach
@@PsychoKilll42Karlach is such a sweetheart
It’s funny when you’re a half orc and everyone says something to the effect of “you have a scary face”
FUCKING RIGHT??
God damn it my eyes are up here, quit looking at my tusks
To be fair... half orcs do look scary. I made my half orc an old warrior, which makes him look much less intimidating. Long white hair and beard, with the maturity slider all the way. He... looks a bit like a green Santa if santa had tusks.
But even THEN he looks scary.
I leaned all into the "be weary of the old man in a profession where men typically die young" thing.
@@3KLIPSEThat one duergar called me a brute, so I proved him wrong by going on a murderous rampage.
@@warbosswurldsmasha5414 Natural 20 play👀
I worry about what has happened to all the full-orcs
Don't forget the "I don't want to die!" and you throw some ancient lore at them to convince them to ride it out.
I'd make a 2nd video of where protagonist is irritated after reloading for the 5th time for a dice roll
Just started a playthrough as a dark Dwarf, and I keep getting accused of being a slave trader 💀 (granted, considering the way the Duergar in the underdark act, I can understand why)
In act 1 there is literally only one (1) duergar besides a potential duergar Tav/Durge who isn't directly either a slaver or a slaver's minion. And his reason being a masonry nerd, aka a broader dwarf stereotype.
“Ninky Nonk” is going on my list of insults 😂
Green Guy: "Damn Ninky Nonks! Am I Right?"
Dark Urge Whispers to player: Suddenly you fantasize about how beautiful the green skin would look bathed in his red blood. No one would miss this guy. If they did, they'd blame the other guy instead.
Nobody likes Boogers anyways
Extra Option: Tell Green Skin there's a bear interested in meeting him tonight.
@@tonywilliams6294*S T O P*
Dark Urge Whisper: You start to question the dispute between the two men based on their colors. The thought quickly fades and is replaced with the wonderful thought of making all of them one unified color: *Red.*
@@AV524 Reroll (got 13): Comment on weather.
I legit thought the sound at the end was my fire alarm
I thought i was going insane and saying to myself "am i hearing things?"
I liked the video but my tinnitus did not.
Change the battery?
Everyone sets aside their differences when the Drow shows up.🤝
We live in a society.
Minority passes by.
Boomers after 1 picosecond: Here I go being racist again.
@@cattysplat You know, I've heard more racist remarks from Gen Z than anyone else. Even old relatives of mine I knew that were racist, didn't really ever say anything racist.
@My-Name-Isnt-Important True. I have had family members that would throw racial slurs at the tv when they get angry, but they would be the first to help someone no matter the race.
It's just anger and venting.
Gen Z genuinely believes that races are unequal and the only solution is discrimination and separation.
Famous colleges now raise the bar for certain races and lower the bar for others. Which exemplifies both discrimination and their belief that races are unequal.
Yup why it's so hard for people to be decent no asking anyone to be Jesus and seen so many people fall short of the decency line
This just in: local man discovers the balkans
I guess romanians are the tieflings of our setting, but who are the goblins?
@@XxInuyashadowxX Turks.
@@SOLARITY333 hey man, don't do the goblins like that, they don't deserve that. serbs is more accurate
As a central european im approve this post
No fantasy is complete without a healthy dose of racism
You try living in a world of constant tribals wars between not just different _cultures_ (human, elven, etc), but dozens of sentient _species_ (often with their own subspecies and subcultures), who are all pushing and shoving for the same resources.
And try not be be eaten/enslaved/burnt alive by the weekly invasion of drow slavers/Githyanki slavers/Hell fiends/demons/dragons/mindflayers/magic automatons from another planar dimension and/or the Underdark.
As a full blooded Drow I fully expect others to plot my demise because if they aren’t, they are weak
I’m playing a drow monk and the people in the grove are trying real hard to get her to lose her inner peace 😂
We need someone to mod Vicious Mockery into "Vicious Racism"
based
I mean with AI technology, one may even be able to modify the voicelines... who knows what could happen
"Ya pointy eared git!"
You portrayed open racism vs. closeted racism perfectly.
How do you know? HOW DO YOU KNOW!?!
Both of those guys are openly racist lol
Hahahahahahahha @@playerknownwell3702
@@playerknownwell3702 personal experience
There was nothing closeted about it.
You forgot to add “astarion disapproves” after literally helping anyone
Tieflings insulting my drow character 😭 like we are in the same boat here!!!!
No.
Lolth-Sworn Drow: **prepares your execution for the crime of sympathy**
A Drow was literally murdering them.
Welcome to the Forgotten Realms, where the color of your skin doesn't matter unless you've got different stat bonuses.
“Knife ear”
“Drunk midget”
Second one could apply to dwarves, halflings, gnomes, _and_ goblins
That's not racist. That's just Legolas and Gimli broing around (when they aren't a couple).
I still say "Knife Ear" sounds like an awesome nickname, not an insult.
been playing Dragon age lately elves getting called knife ears happens so often it should be a passtime now I'm playing as a quanari and everyones calling me a bloody ox
Come on, let's actually call them what they are. leaf backs and dirt miners.
People are nicer to my dark urge tiefling than they are my super heroic drow. They’re so mean to her 😭😭😭
"Sorry, what's good?" 🤣🤣🤣
What’s really good?!
My friends and I started playing a campaign together and I made a Seldarine drow sorcerer. I’ve got the highest charisma, so I’m the designated ‘conversation starter’ of the group. Hilarious that I’m the best at speaking and persuasion when every time I approach someone, I’m immediately met with suspicion due to being a drow 😂
I only hate 2 things:
-Racism
-Goblins
Playing a drow character makes the story even funnier bc they will unite in their hatred for me
As someone who hasn't played a single second of Baldurs Gate, this seems hilarious, probably right on point, and just the right amount of mirroring real life.
Ninky nonk
Working in a library feels weirdly the same
Probably less homeless people jacking-off tho
The magic is powered by racism.
Explains why its so powerful
And mushrooms! Which are also racist sometimes
I wish I would live in BG3, I would be a powerful magic user 😅
*Obligatory “The Ranger in a Nutshell”*
I once walked into the grove as a Tiefling/Druid, THE DRUIDS LITERALLY DIDNT SEE ME AS A REAL DRUID BECAUSE I WAS A TIEFLING LMAO
Red skin actors when they get to say the g word
When you're only one in the room that isn't a racist.
you are all experience points in my eyes.
My experience on discord
People when 5e came out: “That’s racist!”
People when BG3 came out: “That’s canon!”
The d&d gamers and the WoTC/Hasbro normies are two different groups of people
whats 5e?
@@omegadavid99 abbreviation for “5th Edition,” in reference to the role playing game Dungeons & Dragons itself.
ah ok thanks !@@dalton344
@@jonathanwells223So like how did you get out of those lockers when they shoved you in there? do you like bang on the door or try to pick it from the inside
I'm a Tiefling and when i got to Emerald Grove, the druids were calling my race 'half-devils' or 'parasites' and they were surprised when I got mad at them. Don't know why...
Ikr? 😂 My brother and I have been doing a multiplayer campaign where he's a tiefling and I'm a high elf. Everywhere we go, some NPC is making snide remarks about his character's race, meanwhile, the githyanki queen straight up told my character that she's heard good things about my heritage and was honored to have me as a potential servant. 😅 It's like night and day in the worst and funniest way
@@TiredSnowBerryFirst person who treats you well does so because they want something from you.
@@InternetMonster1 too true, lol
I’m only helping you because Halsin will be sad if I don’t. >:(
You forgot the random racism towards the player too😂
Holy shit. Never in my life did I dream a BG game or any other CRPG could blow up so big. Fucking wild man.
"So i began by spawning every village type in a single block, they don't live in harmony they're all very racist."
Gotta love how the green guy said nothing to the red guy's face, but immediately started talking shit when he left.
Perfect representation of the average racist.
Nice vid my Goobla.
It’s okay guys, I got the G pass from my green friend.
Only shrek can use that word😡
@@Wildmoonchildani94what about Fiona?
@@creeper326. I mean, obviously Fiona, yoda , Kermit and other green people can use that; it IS technically their word.
@@Wildmoonchildani94 I see
Just putting it out there,
I decked the human when I saw the argument
I love this exchange guys like "Yeah everybody around here hates me" and I was like Oh thats so sad. Then he was just a massive dick.
many such cases on the so called "marginalized groups" as i am finding lately with LGBTQ activists.
My tiefling druid was very conflicted
"Two racists walk into a bar..." 😂 Ninky Nonk 😂
Bartender’s belly explodes and a zombie refuses to take your order properly
We all gotta admit it brings more substance to the game and really makes the world feel real, not having little social things like this makes game worlds just feel synthetic.
Racism for world building
Unfortunately act 3 nearly doesn't use the players race at all
@@kingmarc4235 depression
@@kingmarc4235lol just like going to any city from a small village/town 💀
@kingmarc4235 reflects on the fact that Baldurs gate has all walks of life and is fairly used to other races. But under stress even Baldurs gate citizens became hostile towards the refugees.
Man, being a drow is honestly the best. Unifying all races against you is truly a feat to respect. 😊
Haven’t played bg3 but most realistic depiction of racism I’ve seen in a while
Yep, that's Faerûn. Dwarves hate the Elves hate the Orcs eat the Humans hate the Tieflings.
@GlitchedRed
kobolds hate gnomes (like everyone should).
Honestly being a drow in Baldur's gate 3 is wild considering how many people refer to me based on my race.
I'm black and even I don't get this much in real life lmao
Well, in the Lore the Drow usually kill everyone else and perform dark rituals that cause tons of chaos for everyone. So the hatred is sort of earned. Now if you could play as a Bugbear, people would attack you on sight.
A lot of DnD races are actual groups of people that mostly follow the same culture, so generally all the bias are more towards a "tribe" so to speak than the color of the skin.
It's a very brutal world, lack of trust is rampant. But when you get to more civilized areas, that effect is drastically lower as people feel safer, and so are the bias mostly gone.
@@justanotherLunnySooo, like entire world was before inventing nationalism?
That's the funny thing about being a Drow, you have a good argument to let off steam.
"lets slaughter these green skins brother"
-probably a space marine
Let's not get into Warhammer 40k racism. BG3 is small fry compared to that.
Greenskin vs spawn of Magnus, not sure space marines would dig either
WH40k is an advanced level of hatred for other races. Not even racism in our sense just pure hatred.
@@MrTuubster
I mean the silver lining is that there really are no good guys in 40k, so you can't feel bad for anyone in it.
Just pick your favorite team and roll with it.
@dubiousinformation1756 Everyone in 40k are the good guys so long as the Dark Eldar exist
How to get through baldurs gate 3:
Be a different race with the disguise self spell based off of what race they feel inferior to
Playing through the game as a dwarf and the racism I recieve is being called short. Or making fun of my nose.
STRONK DWARF MAGE BARRELMANCERS UNITE
Go dwarfpilled or go home
That "ninky nonk" feels way more racist that it should
I see Jackson's about to become a Dark Urge
They really had the "murder hobo" players cornered with that one huh.
I love the phrase, “Sorry, what’s good?” 😂👏🏻👏🏻 It’s a really great one.
As someone playing a Tiefling in a campaign right now, that "red skin" comment was personal
Foulblood.
That's why my Tiefling Warlock has deep amethyst purple skin, blue-green hair and glowing orange eyes. But so far people have been surprisingly nice to him because he has weapons-grade charisma. ;-)
My companions have yet to find out he's a Warlock of the Great Old One Cthulhu, and considers Mindflayers "posers". Hm....
@TF2CrunchyFrog Mine had Orange skin, but then a vampire offered us "Blood cake" and I partook of it to see what would happen. I now have Dark Blue skin and, in the DM's words "feel slightly more fiendish". No regrets on my end lol
Lmao I thought my tinnitus was acting up again.
😂first time I went to the druid camp I wanted to just punch everyone
Playing a Tiefling, you bet I put Aradin on his ass
I killed the head lady first time I went through but I myself am also a druid and could sense through her cult bs and lies.
Elder scrolls lore summarized.
Pelinal was right.
“I’m sorry what’s good? 😳” killed me 😂
The thing is, with all the different races in a fantasy world, it’s really easy to hate at least one of ‘em
I always like how in fantasy games racism based on skin color is often replaced by racism against other humanoid races. Probably because those also have huge cultural and differences and often much larger anatomical ones to blame (like saying half-orcs are dumb because they are strong.
Just as in a real life... you hate people from different town, together you hate people from different region, together you hate people from different nation, together you hate people of different race... you just add "together you're hating different type of humanoids" atop of that.
Black and white didn't matter because they both ganged up on green.
Plus the millenia of tribal wars for resources and history of enslavement between the different species/sub-species (looking at your, drow elves!)
My blind play through being a drow and being immediately sussed out by everyone, including a cow
I literally yelled “LADIES WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF CAN WE NOT BE RACIST ON TOP” at my screen when Lae’Zel and Shadowheart first met 😂
Also I’m a Drow, if they aren’t saying mean things to sweet baby Karlach it’s because they’re saying them to me 😭
What I hear in Skyrim standing in the Gray Quarter in Windhelm:
Try to be Nord everywhere in morrowind,see what happens
I'm just trying to be a very progressive human adventurer over here.
Good thing humans aren't racist right
That's right, let all the lesser species have their petty squabbles. 😅
@@cattysplat that's not what OP meant, they're saying their own character is not racist.
Go to the goblin camp and come back. Or talk to the ogres. Or the githyanki.
@@cattysplatDid I just saw a human with a maga hat on we still need a lot of work
Aradin walking into the grove and immediately calling zevlor "foulblood"
This is basically what it's like when I go for my family Xmas.
You did such a good job with those made-up slurs that I actually feel offended anyway 😡
fr, I have no idea why "ninky nonk" sounds so disturbing to me but it does XD
Damn you guys are sensitive.
Ive never felt better seeing that green skin get what it deserves.
I didn't notice the red skin, until it was mentioned...
Ah yes. BG3 the game of choosing between a rock and a hard place
"Those goblers are really up to something again" 👹
*MY RANCID BLOOD SPEAKS TO ME: "KILL. KILL. AND KILL AGAIN."*
*MY TWITCHING KNIFE-HAND WRITES A TRAGEDY IN BLOOD.*
Bhaalspawn, the literal magic test tube baby.
There’s enough powder and oil barrels to fix this issue
tieflings have fire resistance ;-)
Possibly my favorite quote of all time: “well if it ain’t the pot calling the kettle a darkie”😂