Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Rogue 3rd attack intentional?

I actually show a gif of sneak attacking from a backstab in my thread all that is required is you are behind the target http://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=684282#Post684282

I'm guessing it was meant as a concession since they made Disengage, Dash and such bonus actions for everyone. Then they realised the Rogue had basically been reduced to a Sneak Attack feature, and decided that the non-arcane path could get a second bonus action. But likely these choices were made separately and the second as a response to the first rather than both of them being part of a balanced design approach, so now mechanical premise (the D&D 5th edition ruleset) slowly gets eroded and Larian will probably come up with new modifications to the ruleset to fix their previous modifications to the ruleset... It could easily turn into a domino-effect of "fixes" because every time they modify a class or a feature it unbalances two others, which then need "fixing", and so on...

All of this really makes me wish we could play EA with 100% faithful 5e rules as a starting point. Then change only what *really* doesn't work in a video game.

None of the Larian changes seem necessary so far. I can understand reactions slowing down the game maybe too much if done by the letter but the rest is just...why?

If you skip 4 rogue levels you're giving up 2d6 sneak die's. The offhand attacks also do not get your ability modifier to hit, so that would surely lead to a decrease in overall damage.

I expect the issue is they started with the Divinity Engine where lots of stuff was already "working" and been tweaking stuff to follow 5e rules so stuff is not getting tweaked correctly.

If they had to start from scratch to build a 5e Engine, they would have had to look at the rules to see how X works instead of adjusting an existing system and expecting they are getting it right.