It’s incredible to see RL reality mentioned as an argument where you can summon feys from another planes of existence.
Let me summarize:
Let our world be ruled by Newton’s laws.
Let Faerun world to be ruled by WotC laws (DnD5e).
Let me suggest how we should adjust the game to your liking:
Summon familiar = dog whistle
Firebolt = molotov throw
Tashas hideous laughter = standup comedy
(...)
Just breaking the ice
Jokes aside it would rather be like firebolt -> you can throw it but you have a dark past where you had to swallow a Molotov to learn the skill.
BG had this way of writing quests and characters where the fantastic aspect was constantly confronted to reality of simple human beings. In BG3 by Larian (for now) it wasn't brought to players attention. Everyone is special. I think that's why this argument pops off ^^
But obviously it doesn't apply to mechanics. It's more about storytelling( Anomen side quest with his family problems was a perfect example of that, the bhaal spawn wanting a normal life vs the fact he...wasn't normal, Aerie ending up in circus). 20 years later I can tell you one thing.
Every single story told in BG was straightforward and silly. " This guy is bad, this guy is sad". "Oh you're the bhaalspawn? Aaaaahhh...-> Proceeds to murder you ".And yet even now I thing BG storytelling stays at quite a high level. Precisely because of this contrast described above ^^
Anyways. Out of scope of thread. Larian can do it.
One thing that feel important for me is the fact DOS:2 general discussion forum had 150 pages up to today.
BG:3 had 150 pages in the first month. Like I think they GOT THE MESSAGE.
More precisely.
THE SEVERAL THOUSAND A4 PAGES OF MESSAGES. xD
