Blood Magic Blocked forevermore because writers don't want their Heros sullied by it

Sounds reasonable. Probably a bit of a dovetail with the other conversation but the issue is what people use it for but what others can use it for. It's a reasonable standard because if you open it up then people will want to do really evil things for the sake of their evil playthroughs whether or not it makes sense.

Been a long time since I've actually been pissed off. EVEN in future games?


A blood mage saved the Griffons! Merrill was a blood mage! My Mage Warden only ever used her own blood! And even if I did use my enemy's blood I was literally slaughtering them anyway!

It's a shame, I don't want to be forced to play a noble hero who would be disgusted by blood magic. Sure, I'll do the main quest and stop the big bad but I would like to have an option to employ dubious methods while doing so.

Besides, we were told repeatedly in-game that blood magic is simply a tool that happens to be misused most of the time, and mages using it are not inherently evil. Why backtrack on this now?

Sounds reasonable. Probably a bit of a dovetail with the other conversation but the issue is what people use it for but what others can use it for. It's a reasonable standard because if you open it up then people will want to do really evil things for the sake of their evil playthroughs whether or not it makes sense

This.

This right here is what I see way too often in my actual gaming groups that I run. People wanting to use things like Necromancy and "Blood Magic" type powers/abilities, not to help the party, but to just further their own power and personal gain. And yes, 95% of those characters I've seen are evil. Not even non-good neutral, just pure, 100%, unabashed, unapologetic evil. One of those players never played past Origins because Blood Magic became "demonized" according to him. So, he just simply ends at Origins.

Do I think it's wrong to remove the option? Yes, because it's still just a game and people like to rp evil characters. But I have witnessed the example listed here far too often in my GM career. I personally don't care for it, but I'm not going to stand here and say no one should be allowed to take it. That's just silly to say things like that.

And as was said above, probably from a mechanics standpoint, they couldn't balance it properly, so it was just easier to eliminate it all together. Lore-wise, they're moving away from "villain-who-does-good-despite-everything" and going towards a more "heroic" style character, since Blood Magic has become so much more powerful in the lore since Origins. They sort of did this already in a way with Mass Effect by getting rid of Paragon/Renegade, but that's just my observation. Other people may see it differently.

They already sanitized the Qun to an extent

I know that this is off topic, but i hear people say it from time to time and don't understand what people mean by it. How did they sanitize the Qun?