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Message: <blockquote data-quote="charlesatan" data-source="post: 9852790" data-attributes="member: 20870">I think when you mention Baldur's Gate, various people will have various interpretation of what that means. (If I'm being vague, it's because of this. There's too much to cite.)I'll give you one example: For some people, that means divorcing Baldur's Gate from D&D altogether and exclusively reliant on lore mentioned in the video game (in this case, Baldur's Gate 3).Another example: the comment above stated: "If the tone is like the movie its not to faithful to the game." That's another potential baggage/cultural baggage.Here's a third example: when Baldur's Gate 3 was initially announced, some found it to be not sequel-worthy because of its absence of Bhaalspawn, or post-release, how it fucks up some of the endings of the original Baldur's Gate characters (even if their endings in Baldur's Gate 2 was always a player choice--they could have ended up with a good/neutral/bad ending). Fans of the game might even say "there aren't any Mindflayers in the TV series so it doesn't count".Suffice to say, there will be all sorts of reasons that people will make as an excuse that "this detail is not Baldur's Gate" even if it's a detail that might be relevant to D&D, the Forgotten Realms, or a reasonable conclusion to events that transpire after the game.* I also want to qualify that when I say cultural baggage, I don't mean real human cultures, but more of the fandom culture associated with the games. Fans of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 have a different culture compared to fans of Baldur's Gate 3 in terms of their expectations, as an example.</blockquote>

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