Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Yes, no problem with having exploding barrels.

I don't think anyone's complaint about the barrels is that people shouldn't be able to plan carefully and set up the battlefield a little bit. If you want to do cool things, that's great!

One problem is that the barrels are currently the -only- way to do this. It would be so much cooler if, instead of generic exploding barrels that outshine the things the characters can do on their own, if we could actually utilize each class' skillset to create interesting and varied traps that are designed for the situation. Let the ranger dig pit traps and fill them with spikes or snakes or something. Let the rogue set up trip wires and attach them to that spare crossbow to fire at people as they walk through the door. Let the wizard create magic runes that summon in giant boulders to fall on the heads of whoever steps on the rune. Let the fighter weaken the base of a wall and then push it over on some enemies when they pass by. Let the trickster cleric create an illusion to draw enemies into those traps.

There are so many cool things that you could do that can make the classes shine -and- make each battle feel different because you have to customize your traps to the environment. If you can just drop a bunch of exploding barrels into any battle, it makes all characters feel the same and all battles feel the same.

All very true and valid points, but only if you play at a table or a multiplayer game. Yes you can play BG3 with others but I think they would notice if you start collecting barrels and not sure if you can save scum in a multiplayer campaign. A single player game and a table-top with other people are two really different things. If somebody wants to save scum there single player game (or blow up goblins) they are certainly allowed to do that.

The issue is with the damage the fire does in general, also it stays for a long time. But the traps in BG1&2 where not much better to be honest. Some of them (almost) instantly killed you.

*spioler* u have been warned

Also, I did not find any barrels in the underdark. Did find poison clouds tho.

In terms of barrel size and weight - I would treat that as an abstraction just so players notice.

Realistically a barrel would probably make a bigger explosion.

But if they were to put models the size of a health potions all over then that would make the game incredibly frustrating.

As it stands now I can see the barrels from a mile away and know what to expect.

But the NPCs don't. Thats a problem. If they would simply avoid the barrels the problem would be smaller. Just have them find a route around them or set them on fire from a great distance. The explosives within could be used in crafting to build smaller mines that can be hidden on the field of expected battles

So empty wooden barrel weight 20 pounds, full oil barrels weight 20 pounds. What is up with that.

You can stack barrels up to 4 high. I was seeing if you could climb on top of a barrel, idea was to carry 4 barrels to make yourself an instant archer perch but thankfully you can not jump on top of a barrel so that abuse is out.

Definitely, if the NPC's had better pathing when barrels are around that would be nice

As much as I hate this... It was pretty funny.