Current Events > The problem with Gale's story in BG3 is that he's right. (Spoilers)

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The version of Gales path where he lives is where he acknowledges his own arrogance, pride, and fallibility, and leaves the source of magic to the gods.

However, Gales analysis of the relationship between gods and men is spot on. Gods are basically parasitic and the rules of the afterlife in 5e are crazy - people who refuse to follow any gods have their souls used as mortar for the wall of faithless in Hell. basically if you dont send worship points to someone youre punished.

If Gale could establish the Karsus weave it could give humanity a chance for a buffer against all the horrible things of hell and gods and fae. A world where all that needless suffering can be rejected. And he happens to be uniquely positioned to have the chance to accomplish this, even taking to account his past overambitiousness.

He is like a Prometheus trying to give this wondrous gift to humanity and is punished by the divine for daring bring humanity that gift.

My Tav was an abjuration wizard I was roleplaying as someone who wanted any dangerous magic he could get to try to make the world better and when Gale started confiding his plan with me I was like no way, the game has an option for this, but the only way you can kinda get close to this is to dominate the Absolute, which is implied to be an evil overlord ending.

I just think its odd that BG3 doesnt seem to think theres any positive way to change the status quo of its world despite the suffering and carnage present everywhere in it. Besides waiting for individual evils to arise and striking them down when they show themselves. But I guess thats kinda how a tabletop rpg setting needs to function.

I spent a few moments trying to figure out who the hell Gale is from battlestar galactica

if the guy who made the thing couldn't do it, captain ego definitely wasn;t.

and remember what happened the first time it was used?

Kimbos_Egg posted...

if the guy who made the thing couldn't do it, captain ego definitely wasn;t.

and remember what happened the first time it was used?

The difference is my Gary Stu OC was there to assist him of course

Doe posted...

The version of Gales path where he lives is where he acknowledges his own arrogance, pride, and fallibility, and leaves the source of magic to the gods.

However, Gales analysis of the relationship between gods and men is spot on. Gods are basically parasitic and the rules of the afterlife in 5e are crazy - people who refuse to follow any gods have their souls used as mortar for the wall of faithless in Hell. basically if you dont send worship points to someone youre punished.

This is just in the Forgotten Realms setting. Other D&D settings have it different.

Forgotten Realms in particular is explicitly set up so their gods are like the ones from Greek mythology and its pantheon is pretty demystified as a result. The 'worshipper rule' is pretty much there to make the gods pay attention to the mortals and actively court/protect them.

And the thing is, in reality the criteria/ruleset for who goes into the wall is pretty lenient, like a person would actively have to deny the gods exist to end up there (people who pay lip service at the very least to some gods still have a shot at ending up at one of those afterlives).