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It kind of is, because the people doing the writing are employed for other skills than writing. So it’s a hit or miss how good their writing skills are. With a bigger budget, you can hire people whose only job is writing, so hopefully they should be good at it.

Daeran is quite similar to Astarion, and got there first.

Yes, I learned about all of these. It's important to learn about the evils committed by our ancestors, so we don't repeat them*. As a child raised in Liverpool I spent a lot of time in the museum, where there was a lot about the city's role in the slave trade and how the city benefited (and...

Wells was writing about social issues, the science fiction was simply a vehicle for that. So War of the Worlds is about colonialism, The Time Machine is about class division etc. No more is the different more evident than in traveling to the Moon. Verne attempts a realistic method (including the...

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous managed to make a likable aasimar companion character by making him affably evil and gay.

It's terribly railroady, in the sense when the game actively prevents you from doing the sensible thing and makes you do the stupid thing on several occasions. KotOR had a similar dodgy camera, but people let it off because the plot was good. Masks of the Betrayer gets by for the same reason...

I don't know what your parents were like, but my parents, who lived through WW2, taught me to be tolerant of everyone apart from fascists.

Then your beef is with players, not the publishers. It was the players who popularised tieflings immediately they appeared as a Planescape-specific option. The publisher was slow to respond, and it took the best part of a decade and the company changing hands before they were accepted as a core...

Aside from the ethnicity of the characters, the female images are male gaze cheesecake, and I’m told have insulting Native American cliches. It’s also sh*t. Any TV show should ditch the Elmore art and forge its own path. But we know there are people who will throw their toys out the pram if the...

Why? It’s pretty common for novelists not to reference the ethnicity of characters. It’s only Elmore’s cheesy art that is the problem. The society I live in has lots of black and Asian people (but no native Americans). Excluding those people would just be weird. Besides, Tanis’s endless self...

Female - one a villain, one a late addition damsel in distress stereotype, and one presented as a double-PC with her male protector (with an allergy to pants). Non-white? One pseudo native American who was illustrated with paler skin than me (a white guy) and Jossed early on. I don’t think...

Yeah, I can think of a few that are worse than Solasta 1, but NWN was the most high profile. Although NWN2 main campaign was only marginally better.

Yeah, Cormyr is definitely Hollywood medieval Europe, whilst Dales is Tolkien Edwardian rural England. But really, the city of Baldur’s Gate is closer to what England is really like.

In an "everything I know about England I learned from LotR" sense!

No, because uncertain people are not trying to deceive you, so there is no reason they would say "certainly". It's not only liars who use words like "truthfully" but it's a common tell. Your choice of wording matters, and may have connotations you did not intend, especially on a multicultural...

Yes. And many other people do to. Avoid it.

There is no line, that's the point. Yet it is clearly fantasy, full of heroes, magic and demons. Fantasy can exist with no connection to Tolkien whatsoever.

I believe the idea was a "module" could be dropped into an ongoing campaign, which was at least how I was playing in the 80s.

Her weakened state is also a plot point. Although the cause of that never made it into print.

It's normal to assume that when someone says something to you, they are being honest. If they feel the need to state that they are being honest, it raises alarm bells. "If you are only being honest now, what about all that other stuff you said? If that wasn't honest, why should I believe you...