I love Laura Bailey. I have the *harp music* extension. I think her presence as an internet famous girl gamer is so goddamn important and I’ve been lucky to have girls half as cool as her sit at my table, and I hope to god I get to play with more since this amazing hobby should be open to everyone and anyone.
However, I don’t think what Vex did felt “good.”
It felt like Vex stole the broom for her own uses. Nott is a goblin and has been shown to not understand societal norms of human+ society.
Shakaste essentially tells Nott that what she did was ok this time.
Nott stole for Caleb, who was likely one of the first people to treat her as more than “just a goblin” and her only real friend before joining the group. There’s a different of morality here and everything needs to be looked at in context.
“an internet famous girl gamer”
“lucky to have girls”
Laura Bailey is 36 years old. She’s a grown woman.
It’s kind of suspicious to go on a whole tangent over how much you love and respect “girl gamers” before talking about character actions, as if those two things are even remotely related. Why is Laura Bailey being a woman at all relevant to the morality behind stealing?
Besides, you seem to be completely disregarding Vex’s background for your shaky-at-best analysis. Nott and Vex have pretty similar backgrounds of growing up from poverty and shitty conditions, and both have a significant person in their life that mutually take care of each other. They both frequently steal for themselves and for the sake of their companion. One stole ALL of another character’s money, and the other stole a powerful magical item. It’s a reach to imply one was somehow more moral than the other.
Let me pile onto this saying Nott’s first instinct was to check whether the blind old man cleric helping them save people had stuff on him she could steal. Anything at all. And even though she might have come from poverty, with the additional gnoll ears and all that, it’s not like they’re particulary hurting for cash right now.
Vex stole the broom specifically, and because she wanted it to fly. She stole nothing else, tried to give Gern dragon scales as some form of exchange, had previous experience with how useful flight is in combat, especially at that point when they were going up against dragons. And came right off an arc dealing with evil necromancers.
I mean. Not trying to really make a judgement here, just stating facts. Also yes, calling a 36 year old woman a gamer girl is shady at best, and bringing up that fact at all when you’re trying to argue the morality of stealing in a D&D game is… Suspicious.
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