>Good Drow good
>Good Mindflayer bad

>>712812110 (OP)
Drows are just dork elves, a mortal race like any other. Them being pure evil is played out and the potential for them to be good was always there.
Mindflayers are a totally different case. They're genuine monsters who don't even procreate like a normal species, they make tadpoles to eat your brain and turn other sentient life into them. They are parasites that cannot exist in peaceful society or totally independent of other life.

>>712812110 (OP)
>Good Drow good
Wrong.

You will never be a trend setter.

>>712812550
Book of Exalted Deeds in 3.5 had a mindflayer resist its nature to be Good after breaking free from its Elder Brain.

>>712812110 (OP)
you know when people talk about some groups being disproportionately more likely to be rapists and murderers because of cultural reasons? drow are like that except it's true

>>712812110 (OP)
Drow are not innately evil like illithids, it's cultural. Seldarine drow make up like 20% of the population and they skew good/neutral.

Drow are regular living beings and "usually Chaotic Evil"
If you separate one from its fucked up, Lolth worshipping culture then you can make a somewhat normal person
Illithids are a mostly lawful evil and survive by eating the other brains of sentient creatures. They reproduce by having a brain worm slowly eat your gray matter and replace it until it takes over but also inheriting the sheer fucking agony of your final moments having your brain eaten. They are naturally super intelligent and also psychic so they have little natural respect for privacy. They spend all of their initial years under the total psionic tyranny of an Always Evil Elder brain that uses them as its hands to do horrible experiments.
One is 90% cultural, the other is regimented psychic conditioning and a fundamental, inherit pain and malice they wish to enact on others simply by the consequences of their birth
Is it possible for a mind flayer to be good? yes, theoretically, but it'd also probably starve in a few months. Your pic that you've chosen for this thread you've reposted at least twice now isn't showing a good mindflayer it's showing a self-interested cunt who's only acting with you for the sake of killing something else that will enslave it later.

>>712812550
>They are parasites that cannot exist in peaceful society or totally independent of other life.
This is true, but they're still not of evil essence like fiends. It's just hard to not be an evil motherfucker when you're five trillion IQ and lesser races are your cattle.

>>712812110 (OP)
A good mindflayer would be cool because he'd have to accept that he can't change mindflayer society because they're necessarily dependent on murder to exist. If he convinced, say, half of mindflayers to be good from now on, it wouldn't matter because in one generation they'd all be dead and the mindflayers that carried on as before would continue to exist

>>712812110 (OP)
game is fun but playing it a second time has made me realize it's just a glorified train ride. you have virtually no agency or ability to go off the rails. it's extremely fucking linear.

>>712812110 (OP)
Mindflayers should never be good. Pretending to be good to manipulate or deceive in a long con, acting, yes, being good, no.
They are easily intelligent enough to grasp and understand the morality of other lifeforms and to abide by them for their own purposes, but they don't abide by them inherently at all.

>>712814084
Took you long enough. It's a shame, really. Could've been a game like no other. Train ride describes it perfectly. The sudden change of tone in act 2 killed it for me. Act 1, at least the first part, is a 10/10. Took them only 5 years to make that small portion of the game.

>>712812110 (OP)
what about groom frog race with bahamut code?