No Alphabets 7.1 — Baldur's Gate 3

[orinEsque]

Beat me to it, it's reddit but still sad the comminity no matter where (even discord) has been plagued by gay *** crybabies.

...who also feel entitled to moderate what others do in their game copy. Comments are nuts. Honestly, who's the nazi/whatever they say? They don't see the irony.

Went on a bit of rant, sorry!

This is the exact same issue with that Spiderman game and the gayflag removal.

I'm more surprised Nexus unbanned Orin really, I doubt it's out of kindness/fairness.

For your info, I've never been banned.

Can't get banned on nexus if you never posted on nexus. Only reason I bothered this time is because someone said management changed.

All the other times you saw no alphabets etc on nexus mods is NA users here having a little fun posting parts or whole of NA on there for shits and giggles.

[Norfleet]

Can't get banned on nexus if you never posted on nexus.

That's not true, I've been banned several times despite never posting.

[orinEsque]

Dear visitors,
Don't forget to visit: MODHQ home to all our based mods.
And especially don't forget that I made this, using vile vile AI:

EDIT: added subtitles

[7Trickster]

Dear visitors,
Don't forget to visit: MODHQ home to all our based mods.
And especially don't forget that I made this, using vile vile AI:

Holy "I CAN'T BREATH !!!!"

Didn't knew even mentioning RPGHQ could get you banned on Steam forums, no doubt in the BG3 subforum. Since every BG3 community is filled with rainbow *******.

[orinEsque]

Dear visitors,
Don't forget to visit: MODHQ home to all our based mods.
And especially don't forget that I made this, using vile vile AI:

Holy "I CAN'T BREATH !!!!"

Didn't knew even mentioning RPGHQ could get you banned on Steam forums, no doubt in the BG3 subforum. Since every BG3 community is filled with rainbow *******.

I actually got the idea from a work in progress version generated by AI. I prompted it to say: "shout angrily in ebonics". And it came out with "I CAN'T BREATH". AI knows what's what.

[Magick]

Dear visitors,
Don't forget to visit: MODHQ home to all our based mods.
And especially don't forget that I made this, using vile vile AI:

Holy "I CAN'T BREATH !!!!"

Didn't knew even mentioning RPGHQ could get you banned on Steam forums, no doubt in the BG3 subforum. Since every BG3 community is filled with rainbow *******.

I actually got the idea from a work in progress version generated by AI. I prompted it to say: "shout angrily in ebonics". And it came out with "I CAN'T BREATH". AI knows what's what.

Even better he screams it BEFORE he's dunked in. I wonder what the AI analysed that from..

[orinEsque]

something I was thinking of. why isnt there a mod to make race and sex stats a thing? like ladies absolutely need like a -3 to strength because its a woman with noodle arms.

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength. Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception. Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Adding gender just to give it lower strength by itself is right-wing indulgent design. I'd rather a good game than one that pats the back of any specific political leaning.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

[Tipfy]

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

If one want a game to be more realistic / authentic, balance is not the priority, women simply does not have a places in such context.
And if they do choose to try it ; it's not gonna be "balanced", nature aint fair.

To awnser, i suppose something like giving them a bonus in dice roll of persuasion against the opposite gender, could also affect some spells like charm or disarm for example.
Or maybe a bonus in magic, for example an extra free spell 'blue activation box' ?

The malus to such mod should be a hard cap i think, in this example ; can't go over 17 strenght.

Edit ;

Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception. Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Adding gender just to give it lower strength by itself is right-wing indulgent design. I'd rather a good game than one that pats the back of any specific political leaning.

Almost all the mods you made for the game pat the back of a specific political leaning.
And it does not mean it's a bad thing if it reinforce realism and make the world you play in more believable, reality of the world being right-wing does not mean it should not be applied because it could appear as some kind of favoritism. This here is no different.

Edit 02 ;

Also, you might be that hostile to the idea because the example here only talk of women, ideally it would also apply some tweaking to males and the various pickable species.

[orinEsque]

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

If one want a game to be more realistic / authentic, balance is not the priority, women simply does not have a places in such context.
And if they do choose to try it ; it's not gonna be "balanced", nature aint fair.

To awnser, i suppose something like giving them a bonus in dice roll of persuasion against the opposite gender, could also affect some spells like charm or disarm for example.
Or maybe a bonus in magic, for example an extra free spell 'blue activation box' ?

The malus to such mod should be a hard cap i think, in this example ; can't go over 17 strenght.

you see?

[Tipfy]

you see?

Didn't said to remove them, just that balance does not apply to that if the aim is realism/authenticity.

[orinEsque]

you see?

Didn't said to remove them, just that balance does not apply to that if the aim is realism/authenticity.

Realism never applies to the MC, you're literally the special snowflake. Even more so if you are a bhaalspawn (who this game was originally designed for). Unlike ******, who have no place here, there is plenty of plausible reasons why the special snowflake player character is more special than is logical. So you have to design a balanced character that people would WANT to play, and not just stick it on there to say:
"HAHA, girls are weak".

[Tipfy]

realism never applies to the MC, you're literally the special snowflake. Even more so if you are a bhaalspawn (who this game was originally designed for).

One does not prevent the other, you can still be the special snowflake of the story wile keeping some realism.
It never happening does not mean it should not happen.

That example above wont prevent a female MC to do what you want, it will just be slightly harder and less optimised.

I could give another example of the first Mount and Blade who had some version of that.

and not just stick it on there to say:
"HAHA, girls are weak".

It's not a "got you" or whatever, they are it is simple biology, nothing good or bad to be taken from that it's just what it is.
and that is not the point either. The point is : authenticity / realism to make the world setting you play in more believable.

[BaldursNotGay3]

something I was thinking of. why isnt there a mod to make race and sex stats a thing? like ladies absolutely need like a -3 to strength because its a woman with noodle arms.

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength. Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception. Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Adding gender just to give it lower strength by itself is right-wing indulgent design. I'd rather a good game than one that pats the back of any specific political leaning.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

Oh I definitely dont care about balance as its not even thing anyway in rpgs really basically every rpg basically gives up on balancing encounters like first few hours in such as DAO, KOTOR, Chrono Cross, this game, etc. previously I tried hand editing the stronger bosses mod to manually adjust female stats lower but ran into the issue that not every stat for every character is in the mod and trying to add lines to the mod just doesnt seem to work. but was thinking since female is a flag ingame that it could be used to apply a minus to strength attributes. so then you wont have ladies running around with higher str than a bugbear despite that their torso is smaller than the bugbears arms.

[orinEsque]

something I was thinking of. why isnt there a mod to make race and sex stats a thing? like ladies absolutely need like a -3 to strength because its a woman with noodle arms.

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength. Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception. Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Adding gender just to give it lower strength by itself is right-wing indulgent design. I'd rather a good game than one that pats the back of any specific political leaning.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

Oh I definitely dont care about balance as its not even thing anyway in rpgs really basically every rpg basically gives up on balancing encounters like first few hours in such as DAO, KOTOR, Chrono Cross, this game, etc. previously I tried hand editing the stronger bosses mod to manually adjust female stats lower but ran into the issue that not every stat for every character is in the mod and trying to add lines to the mod just doesnt seem to work. but was thinking since female is a flag ingame that it could be used to apply a minus to strength attributes. so then you wont have ladies running around with higher str than a bugbear despite that their torso is smaller than the bugbears arms.

If you want to make a mod, it is absolutely possible btw.

[Romeo]

you might wanna let the people on the farms know why i changed the little kids in the magic show:

@orinEsque, just made a post addressing it.

Also:

[Lancaster]

something I was thinking of. why isnt there a mod to make race and sex stats a thing? like ladies absolutely need like a -3 to strength because its a woman with noodle arms.

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength. Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception. Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Adding gender just to give it lower strength by itself is right-wing indulgent design. I'd rather a good game than one that pats the back of any specific political leaning.

Ofcourse, since you are asking in this forum, the typical response you will get is: just remove women from RPGs.

Oh I definitely dont care about balance as its not even thing anyway in rpgs really basically every rpg basically gives up on balancing encounters like first few hours in such as DAO, KOTOR, Chrono Cross, this game, etc. previously I tried hand editing the stronger bosses mod to manually adjust female stats lower but ran into the issue that not every stat for every character is in the mod and trying to add lines to the mod just doesnt seem to work. but was thinking since female is a flag ingame that it could be used to apply a minus to strength attributes. so then you wont have ladies running around with higher str than a bugbear despite that their torso is smaller than the bugbears arms.

I wouldn't give women penalties, just not give them bonuses to things like strength. Penalties should be race based like 3.5E, where you wouldn't see a gnome barbarian wielding a greatsword who's strength realistically would be less than a human female's.

[rusty_shackleford]

They'd need a -5 ability score penalty across the board

[Norfleet]

Someone once said if you gonna do things like that you gotta give women a few advantages to balance out the lower strength. Higher Charisma / Persuasion / Perception.

I mean, I dunno if any of those things can be considered unconditionally and demonstrably true. These are circumstantial advantages (women might be better at persuading MEN, but this is not an advantage that can be considered universal across random people, so an unconditional Charisma stat adjust doesn't fit) or confined to narrowly specific regimes (women have better fine color perception, but men have better motion tracking, working out to a wash in terms of perception). Women do have ONE demonstrable advantage over men, though: They consume about 80% of the oxygen and food resources by mass (and have less mass), working out to about half the resource consumption per head. Half is a very significant margin. Can you think of any genre of game where being able to cut the consumption of these resources in half might actually matter and you'd be willing to accept significant reductions in physical strength for this? Because I sure can. It's not a heroic land-based fantasy game, though. Playing a female character in a physically demanding role like "medieval warrior" would just be pure disadvantage. I'm not stopping you, though.

There's also the fact that stats and stat differences are so wildly abstracted that a human has only a slight advantage in, say, strength, over a hobbit. When being a ******* hobbit is only -2, being a woman doesn't even register on the scale (especially since a -1 means nothing).

Otherwise why add the gender at all just to penalise it.

Obviously, it's there to function as HARDMODE.

[rusty_shackleford]

separate foid story where you just get captured and wait for a man to fix everything while pretending you did it all

[Romeo]

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Wasn't there a mod called Immersive Stats that covered this, but the modder tard-raged out when Larian Studios decided not to hire him, and DFE. I feel like it is do-able now that you have a team with @ModdersHQ.

[orinEsque]

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Wasn't there a mod called Immersive Stats that covered this, but the modder tard-raged out when Larian Studios decided not to hire him, and DFE. I feel like it is do-able now that you have a team with @ModdersHQ.

One of our friends in ModdersHQ did express a desire to do this. But he's busy with family right now. Maybe when he's active again you'll see something like that. Or if someone is interested we can help you build one.

Being who i am, i don't like females being penalised, so I'll not make it myself

[Face]

Gets complicated, and then you have balance issues.

Wasn't there a mod called Immersive Stats that covered this, but the modder tard-raged out when Larian Studios decided not to hire him, and DFE. I feel like it is do-able now that you have a team with @ModdersHQ.

One of our friends in ModdersHQ did express a desire to do this. But he's busy with family right now. Maybe when he's active again you'll see something like that. Or if someone is interested we can help you build one.

Being who i am, i don't like females being penalised, so I'll not make it myself

[Face]

They'd need a -5 ability score penalty across the board

You might be joking, not sure. We'd need a whole "culture wars" or "men's and women's biology" thread to discuss the differences if it were a serious topic. In general, men have greater number of dumber and smarter extremes, women tend to average out. So there can be women geniuses but there tends to be more men geniuses. But there also tends to be more dumb men. But again, that's a discussion for a whole thread on its own and I don't want to hijack this one.

[Nobere]

You might be joking, not sure. We'd need a whole "culture wars" or "men's and women's biology" thread to discuss the differences if it were a serious topic. In general, men have greater number of dumber and smarter extremes, women tend to average out. So there can be women geniuses but there tends to be more men geniuses. But there also tends to be more dumb men. But again, that's a discussion for a whole thread on its own and I don't want to hijack this one.

To keep in line with not hijacking this thread, I will only recommend reading the greater male variability hypothesis.

[orinEsque]

if you guys got an update notif. I apologise! I'm testing out modhq

Very sorry!

[DecadeRiptide]

I think women should have +5 respect in all games.

[Cubiclerevolt]

Hi All,

Looking for some help and or direction:

I followed the instructions as best I could with the mods for "no alphabets" however I dont think it is working because I still have the female voice with a male character and NB options.

No Alphabets mods dl'd

Please let me know if there is something else I need to download. Thanks for your help, if I can get this to work ill gladly send money via tip jar, excited to play the game as intended.

[orinEsque]

Hi All,

Looking for some help and or direction:

I followed the instructions as best I could with the mods for "no alphabets" however I dont think it is working because I still have the female voice with a male character and NB options.

No Alphabets mods dl'd

Please let me know if there is something else I need to download. Thanks for your help, if I can get this to work ill gladly send money via tip jar, excited to play the game as intended.

Are you talking about your Character creator?

[Cubiclerevolt]

Yes.

I thought that was how you can see if the mod is working or not.

Thanks for the work on this!

[orinEsque]

Pick one.