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We need to oppress G*mers

Without spoiling, you do meet non-hostile Kobold(s) later on, the ones in Act 1 are just particularly aggressive drunks.

I find the slop on steam forums to be particularly rancid.

This is what you get when you make a fantasy world were certain races are born evil, it attracts all the racist freaks that want to live out their genocide fantasies.

What's wild is that Drizz't appeared in the Icewind Dale books back in 1988, making it canon that in D&D you aren't born with a certain alignment just because of your race, but some people still cling to this outdated idea thirty-seven years later.

Being really into the concept of evil races in a fantasy setting, to the point of not even accepting criticisms of the concept, is an astonishingly reliable chud marker.

gnomes ate my son

yes, it's fucked up. I was at a convention shortly after Gary gygax died and they held a hastily-assembled panel and someone pointed out that in fact it's really messed up that someone at some point has to have said "let's make a race of elves who are evil, they can have black skin", like WHAT. The biologist in me wants to point out that most things that live underground are pale so they even had to defy reality to make them black.

It's one of the reasons I think it's good that newer editions of d&d are moving away from calling them "races" in favour of "species". Plenty of the d&d "races" are way more distinct than you'd expect human groups to be anyway.

Never go on steam forums, it's the worst conglomeration of racists because valve doesn't believe in moderation.

Yeah, was upset there’s only one small area of kobolds in the entire game, and other than the first one they all turn hostile. There are mods that add them as playable characters, though. Just reloaded and left them to party despite wanting to join. And skip entirely in honour mode and subsequent runs since there’s zero of value in there.