Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Approval being tied to chance is very aggravating.

So I've been having a run of bad luck in my current game. Even having good bonuses to checks, I've failed about 80-90% of them. it's been bad, but I"ve been trying to power through it instead of loading/saving constantly. However, I just had a check fail that should have been a basically guaranteed success, and it caused EVERYONE in my party to get disapproval.

This pissed me off to no end because I had no control over it - it was based on chance. I don't think Approval/Disapproval ratings should be tied to checks unless they are checks specifically toward the party member. This wasn't. This was just something my character was interacting with on his own - but it failing caused everyone in the party to get disapproval. for a failed check. This is not okay. I don't even know what the approval system effects yet, but it is really aggravating when I am afraid to do checks because I don't know if it will effect my party's approval.

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Seriously.

You kill a baby.
Gale rolls to see if he's okay with that. Is that what it's like?

Yeah this sounds really bad. And this is exactly why I hate that so much of the gameplay systems in D&D 5e are purely based on random chance.

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approval/disapproval should be based on actions, not success or failure of the actions. Do you try to save a poor person? Regardless of success or failure, there should be a consequence.

Totally agree with OP, basing approval on checks feels wrong

I agree, and I think I know what you're talking about. Mad me want to shout at them, "WELL THEN YOU TRY IT THEN, DAMN!" Then when they fail like I did I can rub it in their faces.

I'm not spiteful, what are you talking about?

While this can be realistic, because often real people is admired "approved", though they did nothing else just got lucky -- still being hated for being unlucky likely isn't a fun game mechanic.

I'm having fun mostly, but things like these makes me want a cheat-mod something to get rid of these parts.

well. I think we should not be afraid but at least a little tense, wondering what will happen if we fail? And as long as those group disapprovals are few and far between I don't mind. But I do agree that conversation checks are set too high for act 1 and that they are too many as well as it never should be be more than one check per conversation topic. The situation I especially have in mind is the choice to kill the tadpole. That one can lead to group disapproval and feels like Larian really, I mean REALLY wants you to fail, because of the narrative, with not just one but two insight checks. That's just being a bad DM.