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Originally written by Drakefyre:

The endgame is considerably more difficult when playing as a servile cultist. Since you didn't use the geneforge, you can only gain skills through self-flagellation, which isn't too bad in the early game but gets extremely bad when you need to augment shields with steel spines facing inwards instead just to get that third level of Mass Energize.

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Originally written by Burning Shiv:

More than one or two, I'd hope. I also think that it's pretty clear that any gesture of resistance there would have been futile and you're pretty broken at that point anyway. Everyone has limits, and for some of us it's rats.

I see two different issues here. One is coddling from all impersonal danger. To a degree protection is good, but it's gone too far. Kids deserve a chance to play on their own, roughhouse, and maybe get some scrapes and bruises. Doing it on something safer than cement is good, but you can't protect everyone from every abrasion, nor should you.

Protecting kids from malice is another problem entirely. I'm not sure I agree with DV; it's necessary to know your limits, but I don't think it requires a no holds barred world. For knowing how to take physical action, why not give everyone training in some martial art. (The need for all the ritual and discipline that comes with the training is argued, but I can't see how it hurts.)

—Alorael, who thinks that learning to deal with nasty people, bullies, and idiots is part of learning how to be social. If you don't get through that part of your childhood you're going to have problems. On the other hand there comes a point at which it's no longer a learning experience and it is instead a truly harmful one, and at that point intervention is necessary.

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Originally written by ef:

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I just noticed, the destroyer is up there quite a ways... How is one both a pacifist and a destroyer?

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Now in your case that one is easy to answer.
As a guardian of light you are sworn to protect all that is beautiful and vulnerable, and so you go and face all hell and demons alone, if need be. And if Grah-Hoth roars, you roar even louder and slightly wrinkle your nose, because you don't like the stink.

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Originally written by ef:

You need deep passion for this path, agree?

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