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Hmm keine Ahnung.

Ich sage schon bei der Installation das ich English will.

Und dann ist schon immer alles in Englisch.

Ich sehe im Spiel selbst keine Möglichkeit, das noch zu ändern.

Zumindest hier bei GoG gibts keine individuellen Versionen für einzelne Sprachen.

Uh, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Dark Urge though.

Its still a 100% custom character, just a slightly different story, and a bit more content.

Literally the only thing you really lose is the choice of background, and the whole idea of D&D5 Backgrounds is not something I'm much a fan of in the first place. Even worse in D&D5.5 where they doubled down on an already bad idea.

Haunted One isnt a great background, but its also not the worst, its inspiration events are easily enough to do.

And as a Dark Urge you get some pretty good items you wont get otherwise.

Quite frankly there is no good reason NOT to play a Dark Urge.

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About being close to the original rules, well thats always the same discussion for every D&D game. Larian has a lot more homebrew than any other D&D computer game, but its fun on its own right. Rather than embarking on the endless quest of trying to "fix" it, I think I'll enjoy it for what it is.

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Yeah there is absolutely no point to the Origin starts. I can only see disadvantages from them. You cant design your own character, you are stuck in a combination of race and class you dont want, its just bad.

Btw, for someone who just wants to finish Honor mode ASAP:



Personally I dont have archievements (GoG version), also I hate the very idea of archievements anyway. I want to play the games how I like playing them, thank you very much.

Just a note, I somehow missed this was very early access.

Lots of room for improvement then.

Interesting is really only the number of mods that are actually worthwhile to have installed though.

And yes the Modmanager stinks. I have a hard time thinking of a way to make it even worse than it is.

What it SHOULD do: Use all mods that are installed and that the current game needs, then allow you to enable or disable the mods as you wish while playing, of course with the risk of breaking the game.

It also shouldnt forget your search parameters whenever you switch to the installed tab. That makes no sense at all either.

Why yes thats interesting and thats the run from Melth that I've linked above.

However, other than that, this idea is getting old for me very quickly. Oh you can win BG3 as a pizza. Yay ! Yawn.

Awesome

Based Larian

Haha, I get what you’re going for
I’ll stick around, no need for any resurrection mechanics.

No.


I guess I'm "Absolutely no player"


Of which 99.99% of them make 0 sense at all and massively devalue exploration and limits environmental storytelling in favour of "Just lockpick everything and don't ask questions as to why everyone carries around lockpicks instead of keys"

Thats something you could add back with homebrewn rules.

Anyway, the rule specified by Einstein about physics is "make it as easy as possible, but not any easier". This is also a good idea for rule design for games.

AD&D was definitely not designed with this rule in mind. AD&D was completely bloated with endless individual tables for all kinds of things.

And the central goal of game design is always that the players are enjoying the game. Not realism.

Likewise D&D is designed for P&P. Making the rules easier speeds up the whole game. So in that regard I can see how simplifying the rule about attacks may have been a good idea. Even if its less "realistic".

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D&D5 solved a lot of essential design problems of earlier versions. The proficiency bonus is an example. In previous editions of D&D, your level 20 fighter would end up with +20 to attack. Which means armor class was worthless, for you couldnt reach sufficient armor class anyway.

Knights of the Old Republic used d20, which was a simplified version of D&D3, and I have seen countless people make characters who focus on armor class and never understood why. I would forgo armor class and just put everything into offense and hitpoints, and I was much more efficient this way. For example a character like that can kill the final boss, who is like a half an hour on a defense focused character, within two minutes or less.

In D&D5 we get only a proficiency bonus of up to +6 from level 17 on, which is much less extreme. Armor class stays meaningful here.

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The real complaint for me about D&D5 is that D&D5 dropped the essential Delay Action. This allowed your character to delay acting until the character later in the initiative queue would act. This was absolutely essential, but yet was "optimized away".

For example on the Nautiloid, when I want to do the final battle, I often reload if I dont like the initiative queue. It makes a huge difference and without Delay, I cannot fix it. You need someone before Zhalk, or after the Mindflayer, otherwise you cannot push the Mindflayer so Zhalk has to move and you get Attacks of Opportunity.

As a consequence, in BG3 absolutely every character has to take Alert as their first feat, unless of course they are Gloomstalker Ranger or Barbarian, who get a weaker version of Alert on level 3 and 7, respectively. Only then all your characters end up at the top of the initiative queue, always, and can coordinate what they do.