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ecause in general people are dumb. More specifically, not every single copy of BG3 is going to be bought and played by someone who enjoys their sorcerer missing 37 times in a row and then permadying. The game is going to be purchased by people who have never played D&D before in any form in their life,
As i've said, spell slots exists even on mainstream console ARPG games like Dark Souls 1/2.
And permadeath rarely exists and when exists is as a option.
This doesn't look like rocket science
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https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Great+Chaos+Fireballis the playerbase beeing underestiamted? yes.
is vancian casting sitll dumb? also yes.
Can be dumb, but IMO the series needs to be consistent with how things works. Imagine if on Harry Potter, the magical rules changes from one book to another.
That said, i would love OFFICIAL optional rules to make spell casting more dangerous to the caster and the wizard spell selection more limited to a "research theme", so instead of wizards, we can have necromancers, pyromancers, stormlords, dominators, illusionists, enchanters, and so on.
And if 3.5e casters required more XP to level up like 2e since mastering magic seems far more complicated than mastering thieving skills. And if pathfinder 1e/D&D 5e sorcerers got the "downside" of their bloodline. Eg - Silver draconic sorcerers with crippling weakness vs fire and can't cast any spell with "fire" descriptor. A sorcerer of a specific bloodline gain a lot of good thing of his ancestor WITHOUT the downsides.
