>Setting has big bad evil faction.
>Order-aligned factions still fight against each other.
Hate when this happens in fiction. Common sense would dictate that factions would immediately unite to defeat greater threats.
>Setting has big bad evil faction. >Order-aligned factions still fight against each other.
>That country I don't like is getting raided by CREEPS.
>Decide not to help them because I figure, "If the Creeps frick them to death the Creep army will probably be tuckered out and It won't happen to me." & "Furthermore, if they win against the Creeps they'll probably be too tuckered and I can swoose in and frick them."
>Neither of those things happen and the Creeps frick my kingdom, my crops, my peasantry.
>"Nobody could have foreseen such an event."
Nah, its realistic.
Blight in Origins wasn't full-blown.
Gay Warden efforts were so effective, the Archdemon was swept off and eliminated before it could cause any real damage.
Besides, Loghain started civil war, which made asking for assistance even more dubious at the moment.
You always want to deal with your problems yourself to not become indebted to a neighbour and out of sheer pride.
Have you ever looked at real world history?
This. Also
>Common sense
There's your problem, Anon.
OP is a homosexual, 100% attributing factions as order aligned simply for not being baby eating evil
>Hate Twitter
>Hate WoTc
>Still hate /misc/
Seems realistic to me
>common sense
Immersion broken.
I mean look at the middle east for an example. Aligned countries team up a few times to take on the antagonist country back in the past but over time things mellow out and its up to the plucky heroes to stir up support for another attempt to wipe out the big bad evil guys
Isn't it kind of bullshit that the plucky heroes' plan was to take out the BBEG's towers full of wizards as well as the BBEG's main command center was going well only for GM fiat to make it so that only the wizard tower attack succeeded
Did you at list try to understand the plot of Dragon Age Origins or did you just slog through it to see Morrigan's breasts?
>Morrigan's breasts
What tiddies? b***h is rocking B cups on a good day
>Common sense would dictate that factions would immediately unite to defeat greater threats.
haha yeah just like everybody in the Balkans immediately came together holding hands and singing kumbaya when the mongols invaded and definitely didn't continue to fight and kill each other with renewed vigor, or take the opportunity to sell out and become a vassal stage of the throat-singing horse archers so they could immediately turn around and continue attempting to genocide their immediate neighbors whom they share 95% in common with but the remaining 5% linguistic and cultural differences are enough to justify two millenia of blood feud!
Haha! That would be totally ridiculous!
>He doesn't fricking know
People are, fundamentally, people.
Spain, the frick are you doing?
>Spain, the frick are you doing?
Winning the war for house of Habsburg.
As I learned more about that period I realized that most people don't understand that it wasn't really 'nations' and that you had house holdings spread throughout various areas, with the Habsburgs having a gigantic, but decentralized empire.
It helps if you imagine masks with national flags painted on them. The masks aren't fighting, the masks are worn.
If there is one thing we can agree on, its frick the french and nuke the middle east.
Euros were fight exactly because the Ottomans kept losing to a bunch of germanic adjacent slavs. The two times they got through to europe for a month, they went around through hungarian pig yards and still lost to other slavs and germans so hard it fricked their trade and tax paperpushers out of existence respectively.
And nobody gave a shit what type of subhuman it was that was there be it the romanians, south asians larping as macedonians or other forms of sandBlack folk like the servs.
>the Ottomans kept losing to a bunch of germanic adjacent slavs. The two times they got through to europe for a month, they went around through hungarian pig yards and still lost to other slavs and germans so hard it fricked their trade and tax paperpushers out of existence respectively.
What should I look up to read about this?
>both initial belligerents both win at the end
What a clusterfrick
WTF, Imagine if the Soviets and the Nazis teamed up to win WWII
Just like how factions/countries/organizations in the real world who have aligned goals and common enemies always unite to defeat their enemies and never engage in self-destructive infighting, right?
Oh wait
>jews exist in middle east
>arabs are busy in-fighting
always happens
You'd think that, but look at the infighting among Europeans when the Ottoman Empire looked like it couldn't be stopped.
You are posting in a shitty /misc/ bait thread.
Yeah, I always thought this too. That, faced with a common, nonhuman threat, it would be natural for nations to unite against it. But then covid happened and half of the population thought it was fake. And no, I'm not talking about getting vaxxed, I'm talking about simply acknowledging its existance as a threat. People got even more divided over it. Really makes you think.
>I'm talking about simply acknowledging its existance as a threat
The numbers were massively fudged in order to sell drugs for tax money. "It's existence as a threat" was 90% myth.
It was a threat if you were already dying or had 3+ high risk factors or over 10 low risk ones (much like all sars virus variants, it acts like a force multiplier to existing levels of how fricked up you are), but the number of people that actually read studies or remember from high school bio how that shit works was minimal so everyone fell for the meme. Its why certain parts of the world with shit genetics and inability to wash their hands are still dealing with remnants of the coof.
You're moronic.
>Hate when this happens in fiction.
Then don't do that in your game.
>Common sense would dictate that factions would immediately unite to defeat greater threats.
Then do that for your game.
Yeah, but that's only a solution for people who actually play games, not for people too busy getting hung up on popularity or conceptual ubiquity.
Common sense would actually dictate that nationalists in each faction would attempt to use the crisis to their advantage.
>darkspawn
>big evil
were they really? I can't remember
Yes. There may have been other factors at play introduced later but I don't think that this changes that they were evil.
White countries didn't form a global white alliance to kill all the bolsheviks.
That would be anti-semetic.
If Africa or Brazil were being invaded by demons would you lift a finger to fight the demons?
Would we notice?
>Common sense would dictate that factions would immediately unite to defeat greater threats
Economist rationalactorcel brainrot spotted
>Common sense would dictate
Common sense is not common, less so when you're dealing with mostly inbred nobles and kings.
Prisoner's Dilemma
Trust the other guys too much and you get fricked because turns out you overextended and you opened up to a backstab.
Loghain was right, frick the French.