Originally Posted by Silent Cetra
Originally Posted by Emrikol
Originally Posted by Stabbey
It's fairly obvious why this isn't in EA.

When you're sitting at the table, it's easy to say "my halfling barbarian grapples with Ogre's arm". It's not so easy when you have to depict that with models and animations for a billion different combinations of creatures.

Could maybe circumvent the animations problem with a special effect that shows two characters are locked together in a grapple. Not the most realistic, but perhaps better than no grapple at all


I mean, just because it is challenging doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done. The game is based on 5e, Larian and WotC committed to that, so grappling--a base 5e rule--should be in the game.

It always comes down to how much resources would be required to achieve something vs how important that something is. If a multitude of animations for all the varied scenarios are a priority, then I don’t think we would end up having grapple in the game. Too much work for a minor feature. If a less resource-demanding way can be used, then we might. It’s not a simple matter of should or should not.