Counter point to the title of the thread

"The Biggest Draw for BG3 is 5e"

Had never head of Divinity: Original Sin 2 until I heard they were making a new Baldur's Gate by the people who made this other widely acclaimed RPG. Bought DOS2 just to check out this company's work and was decidedly "meh" about it. Barely escaped the island and had really lost all interest in the design decisions made to take it away from or make it feel distinct from other DnD like RPG's.

If Larian had wanted to make another DOS I'd be all for them taking all the creative license they want to with such a game I have no doubt they will do so again in the future, seems to be a popular franchise. But they wanted to make a Baldur's Gate game and that comes with the understanding that your game witll try to fit into what the franchise did so well.

-It brought the feel of PnP DnD to the computer, it wasn't perfect, no one thinks it was, but it trying it stuck as closely as it could to the rules and that centered it squarely in an large fanbase of people who already loved Dungeon's and Dragons
-It provided a humble beginning expanded into an epic story that carried us all the way to epic levels.
-It provided many different fleshed out NPC's, some more usable than others but there's no one perfect party, depends on what your class is, what alignment your playing, if you want more spellpower or physical power on your team.
-It took some risks on changing things from PnP like real time with pause and locks that required a threshhold to open not just rolling percent chance that changed it from being a completely faithfull Pen and Paper adaption to a fun computer game. But those risks didn't take away from it feeling like a game about DnD.

I'm hoping these are the kinds of principles that BG3 is being based on, so far I'm impressed, classes, spells, ability scores, feats, skills, there are a lot of things about this game that have been changed from DOS2 to fit 5E.

I hope they keep going, surfaces are decidedly not DnD, actions in combat (dip, jump, shove, help in particular), eating to restore health (I feel this compensates for all the surfaces you have to deal with, I'd like to see them both gone but don't take 1 without the other), super powered cantrips. All of these things may be fun, but they are not DnD.

I have a rogue buzz saw atm, take the mobility feet on Asterion and with a bonus action he can move 80' get behind anyone Sneak Attack, get behind someone else and offhand attack them as well. While fun, and super effective it's really not DnD.