Originally Posted by Merry Mayhem
Originally Posted by fixxer
This game isn't DND, and doesn't have to follow the ruleset and it's their choice. Larian have creative freedom, and after playing DOS2 quite a lot i think they know what they are doing and have faith. Trust the method behind the madness, but understand no matter which way they go, not everyone will be happy and if you come to the game expecting a 1:1 DND clone you've already set yourself up for disappointment.



I am going to disagree, they are marketing this as Balder Gate 3, If what they wanted is to ignore the D&D 5e rules, they should have made DOS: 3

I can never understand why people license a ruleset then choose to ignore that. It's not like they are getting to use D&D 5e for free.

For people stating you can never use a Pen & Paper rule set for a CRPG, go look at Pathfinder Kingmaker, they seemed able to use the rules as written.

BG3 seems like a game with way too many house rules. That OK if that what you want but since this is the first D&D 5e CRPG, I would rather be be more core rules and not homebrewed everything.


I'm going to have to agree with you Merry Mayhem. I don't understand why they market this as 5e but just put in so many house rules or ignore many of the 5e rules.
I loved Pathfinder Kingmaker, probably the closest modern CRPG that follows the 3.5 rule book. They only thing Kingmaker needs to do to enhance it is to add more and fun elevation from the environment and better stealth mechanics.

I know some people will probably get upset for me for saying this but this feels more like DoS3 than BG3. It's fun but it feels like 5e with finicky DoS mechanics that I was hoping would be improved for BG3.

Last edited by MasterRoo09; 10/10/20 01:20 AM.