Originally Posted by Temperance
Originally Posted by Deemer
A big problem is that the game suffers in almost every single area that DnD mechanics were stripped out or replaced.

Either respect the source material or replace it with something of comparable quality. What we have right now is a miserably considered hybrid, and it's not just for early access reasons.


Couldn't agree more with everything you've said. Exactly how I feel too. What baffles me is that you take away mechanics that are perfectly balanced from D&D to actually throw in other mechanics even more complicated (surfaces and effects). I could get why some of the changes are being made for the sake of simplification, but not why they're being made just for replacing it with imbalanced and untested systems which don't belong to the very ruleset you advertise your game to be based on.


Okay, so I'm sure what they're going for is: that they want you to feel like you can do anything, and have a lot of control over the world around you and access to clever solutions.

Unfortunately, the surface system doesn't actually do that. It's just another way of handling combat and introducing simple puzzles, and it's a poorly tuned one at that. It would be fine if surfaces were an optional playstyle thing - plenty of DnD spells create 'no-go' or damage zones on the grid. What they have in the game right now is not that. And once you've figured out how to work with surfaces - and how to plug vents, and so forth - it quickly becomes exploitable and rote. And in BG3 so far it is *everywhere*, just completely unavoidable, and the only playstyle worth considering. Just absolutely godawful.