Problem is, the game is somewhat balanced for now... but balanced for all the nonsense that is BG3 for now : everyone having access to spell scrolls, bugs making wizards able to learn cleric spells, surfaces everywhere, barrels which don't even weight that much compared to DOS so you can carry them with you for all the fights... Plus the disengage/jump being bonus action to everyone, which makes things even more unbalanced in regards to what the 5e ruleset is.
If they start fixing this mess and move closer to the tabletop version (and I hope they'll do, as this is Early Access for a reason), the combat will become unbalanced and very punishing. In D&D5, you don't send a party of 4 into a 10+ group of enemies. Unless you want a TPK. D&D5, as someone said already, is all about action economy. That's why when you begin to face huge solitary monsters (like Dragons), they have both lair and legendary actions they can use freely, so they can do something more than just one time per whole round of combat.
Take away the scrolls for everyone / surfaces / disengage for everyone on a bonus action, and the spider matriarch fight becomes unbeatable. Problem is, if you don't take away those things, BG3 will stay closer to DOS than D&D5.
Last edited by Temperance; 10/10/20 08:16 AM.
