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I do know there is a trope misuse clean-up thread
that could possibly be of use. Beyond that, unfortunately, I don't have much other advice
Zero knowledge about this game, but I'll throw in my two cents. The "Adaptational X" tropes are about characters and how effectively they can accomplish their goals in the narrative. When a gameplay element is more useful in a sequel/adaptation, you are looking at a Balance Buff: "Balance Buff, in its simplest terms, describes improving mechanics within a game by improving how effective they are." If a class/spell/whatever is weaker in the sequels, then you've got a Nerf: "a change to a game that weakens a particular item, ability or tactic".

Hello all, I had a concern about the use of Adaptational Badass on Baldur's Gate III - Tropes A to E. I've already brought it up in the Is This an Example forum and got one response, which agreed with my points but suggested I get more opinions to be safe. The only Baldur's Gate thread I could find seemed to be dedicated to just discussing the game itself and not the main page's tropes, so I felt uncomfortable posting there and am hoping it'd be acceptable to get opinions here instead.
Additionally, I'm also realizing that Adaptational Wimp sees a lot of the same misuse. I haven't brought that up in the forum, but I'm not sure if I should bother if I'm just going to reiterate my points here.
Even allowing for the flexibility of adding non-character examples to character tropes, "badass" in context of the trope does not mean "added functionality, or different mechanics for the spell to operate under." As Canuck pointed out on the thread, some of these AB examples don't even seem to be more powerful than the tabletop. These tropes seem to be a dumping ground for people to point out the ways in which the video game differs from a tabletop game.
The example on cambions being much more powerful in BG3 than in regular DnD is also just outright false. There is (according to the example itself) a player handbook that lists cambions as potential infernal patrons, so this is not unique to BG3, and outside of Mizora and Raphael (who, again pointed out in the example itself, both have unique reasons to be more powerful than an average cambion) they are depicted as being much less powerful summonable allies.
In a similar manner, the example of Adaptational Wimp for vampire spawn admits that Astarion's siblings match the tabletop version of vampire spawn much closer and that canonically Astarion has unique circumstances to make him weaker/less useful. There is also in-game dialogue acknowledging that most vampire spawn are just as deadly as their masters.
tldr; I want to cut all but the Boo example from Adaptational Badass, and all but the archdruid example from Adaptational Wimp.
Edited by Octoya