Social Justice Mods
spacehamzter
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I personally don’t feel the new DLC went far enough in exposing contemporary issues. So, I have few ideas for mods to make it more fair and balanced.
1. An afro-centric mod- As a black man I am not keen on the idea that most of the evil npcs are black. Sure we got one righteous sister Dynaheir in the DLC but that is an equivalent to the having one black quota. Now the protagonist child of Bhaal can say if he is accused of racism by excluding the drow characters, “I’m not racist I have one black friend”. Don’t get me started on why the dark skin drow in the game live far below the mighty white elves. This is a big sign of class warfare built into the game. We need a mod to even the odds and to have more black NPCs.
2. Climate Change mod- the druids are out of control calling down lighting on their enemies in this game. This must have significant changes on the climate. We need to spread the message to climate change deniers. I think the Cowled Wizards should be given the power to fine druids and others elemental spell casters every time magic is used. This could be a great teaching tool if it was a mod.
3. Diversity Training mod- in 1999 they had a lot of fun with the girdle of masculinity/femininity. Some thought this was a big joke. We have come a long way since then so how about a mod to change it to a +5 Girdle of Diversity Training.
Please let me know if you have better mod ideas.
1. An afro-centric mod- As a black man I am not keen on the idea that most of the evil npcs are black. Sure we got one righteous sister Dynaheir in the DLC but that is an equivalent to the having one black quota. Now the protagonist child of Bhaal can say if he is accused of racism by excluding the drow characters, “I’m not racist I have one black friend”. Don’t get me started on why the dark skin drow in the game live far below the mighty white elves. This is a big sign of class warfare built into the game. We need a mod to even the odds and to have more black NPCs.
2. Climate Change mod- the druids are out of control calling down lighting on their enemies in this game. This must have significant changes on the climate. We need to spread the message to climate change deniers. I think the Cowled Wizards should be given the power to fine druids and others elemental spell casters every time magic is used. This could be a great teaching tool if it was a mod.
3. Diversity Training mod- in 1999 they had a lot of fun with the girdle of masculinity/femininity. Some thought this was a big joke. We have come a long way since then so how about a mod to change it to a +5 Girdle of Diversity Training.
Please let me know if you have better mod ideas.
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I mean come on Beamdog, it's 2016.
Everything I said is factually accurate though. If you start to view made-up game worlds through a real-world lens everything breaks down and ceases to make sense. From a gaming perspective the drow culture is a really fascinating thing: from a real-world perspective it's horrifying.
That's why it makes no sense to apply these things to videogames.
I was hoping this new DLC would be more sensitive to the needs of modern gamers, especially black ones like me.
Really though, the Drow were just there to be a sort of Bizarro to the Suldanessellar Superman, as I understand it.
Or are they hermaphrodites? Where's THEIR representation? They're the REAL minority.
The amount of energy put into arguing about pointless things is beyond me, making fun of it is way better.
It is killing me how people are concerned over transgender characters and popular references breaking immersion while a character has " I wish I could be a chaotic good elfe" as a selection message and yet nobody said anything about this.
We already have the Elemental mod covered, it's called BG2 and wizards get JAILED for use of elemental spells.
See, we were socially progressive before socially progressive was even a thing.