There’s one missing attribute evaluation that you forgot and I’d like to hear your opinion - the nemesis - highground & backstab advantage. I’d say that in that ground is where the differences get interesting! Giving the scenario: everyone hates missing, am I right? The advantage system in BG3 is way more frequent given the scenario (highground is abundant in every landscape) and that’s being used to grant that desired “playability”.
I updated my comment, Reddit is 8 on backstab/advantae, Forums 2 average with majority in 1. The only thing I can think of there is that it is a D&D mechanic and, as far as gaming, using terrain and environment to get advantages is more tactically enjoyable. It is odd though, where we saw disengage being generally disliked and it is a purely D&D mechanic, the deviation fit within the D&D experience deviation; we see advantage being inexplicably more positive beyond any correlations in disparity on experience in gaming and D&D. I wonder what would happen if you didn't lump backstab in with height. The reason I say this is backstab is a staple ability of rogues in most games and would probably be viewed as "yeah, thats what rogues do...". The elevation for advantage might be the more controversial one, but with backstab giving you such a ridiculous damage output, it might be disregarding the elevation part entirely. Anecdotally, new D&D players tend to play edgelord rogues and in gaming the class is a perennial DPS class - if you have a healer its a hard one to turn down. So, my unfounded opinion is that question is getting answered as "do you like backstab" and brushes aside the elevation portion.
Originally Posted by Sludge Khalid
On the other hand, Forum being more technical...
I don't know if Id go that far :p
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