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Yeah mind flayers suck, and it sucks that anything involving the underdark has to so heavily involve them. Give me more svirfnebli if we must go to the fucking underdark
(I've never played Baldur's Gate 3 so I have no idea whether we get svirfneblin action but I have read R.A. Salvatore's books and this reminded me to rant about it)
My character's guardian is a svirfneblin! She has both of her hands, though, so no bivrip
action.
It sucks how pretty much every D&D game post Baldur's Gate 1 had an annoying mandatory detour/speed bump into the Underdark for more dae le sexy sex
elves and their oh so DAE LE EPIC LOVECRAFT AMIRITE mind flayer associates.
I wanted Icewind Dale to be more druidy and rangery and forests and snow and that sort of vibe, but nope, into the Underdark we go. Again.
The speedrun Strat of BG3 completely skips the underdark, btw.
There's 2 methods in to act 2, above ground or underground, above ground is a lot quicker.
On the other hand, you can kill slave owners in the UD. Like a whole town of slave owners.
I don't mind the Underdark as much as I'm tired of Illithid gimmicks, and those are very unavoidable.