Nexus Mods has removed the mod, which erases a canon lesbian relationship by changing one character into a man.

Article by Vice: Mod repository Nexus Mods has removed a mod that was supposed to gender-swap the character of Dame Aylin from the game “Baldur’s Gate 3” in order to remove a lesbian relationship.

Contains spoilers for the second act of the game

  • Jaderick@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 year ago

    The damning part of the mod description is too far down in the article. They really should lead with the whole description.

    I read most of the article giving the benefit of the doubt that some person just wanted to RP as a male asimar, because I don’t want to attribute malice to what could well be explained by stupidity or ignorance.

    • yildo@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      For context, Lady Aylin is neither playable nor romanceable

      There are mods on Nexus for swapping most of the playable characters from cisfemme to transfemme and from cismasc to transmasc, which seems uncontroversial and not erasure like the referenced mod was

    • zaph
      5·
      1 year ago

      I read most of the article giving the benefit of the doubt that some person just wanted to RP as a male asimar, because I don’t want to attribute malice to what could well be explained by stupidity or ignorance.

      That’s extremely fair considering the mods for cyberpunk that let you have relationships with people regardless of gender that you couldn’t before. I’ve never heard a single complaint about them though because they’re very clearly not because of homophobia, just horny rp’ers.