Originally Posted by Zebico
I believe that most people coming to this game had expectations that this was just another baldur's gate game with a new story. Of course that's not the case, as Larian is a completely different developer, and this is their spin on the franchise. I see so many posts saying BG3 is basically DOS3, and that shows they haven't played DOS games before. The worst posts are the ones asking for surface effects to be removed, because dnd doesn't have them, and no other rational reasoning for their request. I don't think that removing more functionality and mechanics would be best.


I've seen half a dozen well reasoned arguements against this and I'm only a casual forum goer. It has to do with balance and allowing the classes to feel like they are separate things. If everyone can just toss bottles of fire around willy nilly what's the point of playing a caster? or if cantrips can do more damage than any other starting attacks why be anything other than a caster? and why bother to rest and get your spells back if you can just spam cantrips and items and kill everything. I have played through D:OS 1 and 2 a few times and I love them, but if you want to make a D&D game in the 5e ruleset there are rules that need to be followed to make it feel like D&D. I understand that some things won't transfer over to a video game well, and I am sure there will be all kinds of surfaces at higher levels (because there are spells at those levels that are actually supposed to create surfaces), but it needs to feel special. You need to have saved an item for a long time to use it in this perfect circumstance, or have just the right spell and spell slot to deal with that situation.

If this was D:OS3 I would say nothing against it, because that's what I expect from Larian and they do it well. However this is D&D and if you are going to make it feel even remotely like D&D these kinds of things are not going to fit in with every encounter.

On a side note I also agree that Bioware and some other CRPG's have ruined some of us on the idea that if you pick the right answers you should get the right outcome, and going back to the fact that this is supposed to be D&D I think Larian are on the right track here with making things not always work out (and if you really want things to work out remember to save often and just reload until you get the number you want if it is that important to you).

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