I'm feeling down today. It's hot in my apartment, I have to work tomorrow, I can't find a good game to settle down and play. I've already finished Halls of Torment, it was fun but kind of runs out of stuff to do pretty quickly. I need like a meaty RPG to sink my teeth into....
Which is why I bought Baldur's Gate 3, but I can't really get into it until it fully comes out in a couple weeks. The character creator is pretty cool, but is lacking the truly insane depth of the Street Fighter 6 character creator. I love a good character creator, making some sort of weirdo to play the game as is so much fun.
This time I got thinking about how it would be fun to play against type in this setting. D&D is a world where Good and Evil are like real forces out there in the universe, but that just makes me want to play with that dynamic. Be like a Lolth-sworn Drow... bard, who is also a folk hero. Or a cleric of healing who worships Bane, the god of tyranny. It's a shame they don't have anti-paladins in this game.
When I was a kid, I got way into Warhammer 40k. Like, literally when I was nine years old, I got one of those old Citadel catalogues and loved poring over it. I was way into the Chaos Space Marines, got a codex and read it cover to cover. The whole idea of like... the obviously evil side having their own reasons and their own moral justifications... is something I really like, because of that.
Like, the Chaos Gods are all emotion and phenomenological experience. The positive and negative things. It seems like that is not how the "evil" gods of D&D work, so I'm probably going to be disappointed if I think of it like that.
Oh well! As long as it's fun to be evil like in KotOR or whatever, I'll be satisfied.
