Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Small XP Reward for Reading Books?

I love in-game books, as an immersive way of getting to know the lore (enjoyed reading them both in the Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age games!). And I would love to see more of them in BG3, like that collection of sea shanties or the little snippets from different adventure novels. A good way to give the players an incentive to read such books would be gaining a little bit of XP from it (Dragon Age Inquisition does that, while in TES, certain books increase your skills, and in Elder Scrolls Online, they also help you advance through the ranks of the Mages Guild). Or maybe a chance for a super-randomized inspiration point?

Dragon Age gives you reward xp for finding books, not reading them. Other then that its not a bad idea.

You know what is an even better way to provide incentive to read those books? Have quests linked to those books.
Oh wait, my bad, Larian already does that.

You know what incentive I provide my college students with to get them to read their books and book assignments: Test or Paper failure.

That's fair; I meant the minor books that don't really do anything other than add flavour to the game setting (like the examples from my OP).


True, but those books (or well codexes) are usually like one page long, so finding them more or less equals reading them. Either way, it would be a nice bonus if something happened when you picked up a random book and flipped through it. ^^

They could do a more tuned version of what bethesda did in Daggerfall: some books gave experience in a due area. I said that the method have to be tuned because in Daggerfall the experience was given regardless of the class (that is a pure wizard could gain points in heavy weapons), books that gave experience based on the class would be nice (for example a dark cleric could gain a bit of xp from a religion related book, a ranger from those about exploration, and so on.. ...)

I would like books to give a small bit of xp too. I've certainly been conditioned to go yay whenever I find a book or other text in games.

I also wish that in-game books (as opposed to letters and scraps of papers and things) were valuable goods at least worth more than just one measly bit. It feels so wrong to find a book and it's not something you'd want to keep to sell, like they were all shitty penny novels from a newspaper kiosk. Books in a medievalesque setting should be treasures, or at least treasured.

How about reading books makes you a little more knowledgeable about the world and does some combination of:
-making more dialog options available based on what you have learned
-gives you advantage on certain skill checks when you have read relevant information

It doesn't need to be required in order progress the story or anything, but it could make the story a little richer by exposing details of the world and your character's experience of them.