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Ah you see, they placed those there so their new Absolute thralls would have a good head start in the world without being powerful enough to overthrow the mind flayers.

Kinda just feels like you are trying to nitpick plotholes which is my least favorite type of media criticism, so I guess we are at an impasse here

This is exactly how the clampdown on Wikileaks started. Critical support for Assange and Blumenthal

They’re doing the Wikileaks playbook again. How long until Max Blumenthal is hiding out at a Syrian embassy or being held in a British prison for extradition for the crime of being a journalist critical of the USA?

You think the mindflayers just let their abductees keep powerful magic items on them while incarcerated? Why wouldn't they just have confiscated them?

The plot explains this away with the magic plot device the plot is centered around doing a "reset" on people's brains

I always play the weirdest thing I can legally. Treant? yeah. Undead? Hell yeah. Weird tiny bird? Sign me up! Human? No thank you. I'm playing a human IRL, why would I want to do that again?

high-elf cantrip scales off int and is generally pretty bad (if you have high int, you're a wizard and already have that cantrip and plenty of other options).

Wood-elf gets movement speed

So take half wood-elf which is better in every single way

Yeah Deep Gnome, Halfling, Duergar and Half-Orc are by far the strongest "meta" races for min-maxxers but nobody plays them. Everybody plays dragonborn and human even though both are RP tier and objectively inferior in their abilities and powers.

Yeah they added like 12 subraces of tiny folk and there's like 2 named characters of note in the whole game that are halfling, dwarf or gnome. One of them is a serial killer.

In BG3 it's completely randomized what you start on