I will add that the video game culture has changed dramatically since bg1/2. we were a lil more lowkey back then, to be fair. we could have ripped it apart for not being strict to 2e ( it wasn't ) we could have complained that it was similar to icewind dale etc. ( order of release irrelevant ) so companies do what works for them for mechanics.
I disagree with this and it really gets at why the "5th ed purist" line annoys me so much. The thing about the IE games is that they had so many D&D fans in house -- and the NPCs were actually based on the devs own characters -- that they knew what sort of house rules to implement. In BG,. The prices for services for churches is off -- and that's a good thing. The constitution score reduction for being raised from the dead was never implemented. The level cap on demi humans was not implemented. The need to find pearls to identify items was never implemented. No one was upset that Jaheria could cast raise dead instead of reincarnation. A number of the spells were not correctly implemented -- horrid wilting should take out your party just like fireball does. And these house rules were the very same house rules I and every other group I knew were running with.
In fact, I remember people getting upset when IWD implemented a number of the spells correctly. Before Sawyer was a critic of the DnD ruleset he was the by-the-book kinda guy.
The Larian house rules are not like those. Or rather some are and some aren't. No one wants players to find diamonds to raise the dead. No one is asking that revivify be implemented correctly by only allowing it be used on corpses that died less than a minute ago. (Somewhat surprisingly) no one is asking that the "only three magic items" or "magic item attunement" rules be implemented properly. People are just used to video game levels of loot and games are more combat intensive than pen and paper. I see more combat in one hour of BG3 than tabletop group sees in a year of play.
But rules like dip, surfaces on cantrips, height giving advantage, barrelmancy and the like are different. I doubt there is a tabletop group that has implemented these features into the game.
TL;DR. The Larian house rules are not like the Bioware house rules and I've not seen a real 5th ed purist on these forums.
Oh and to keep this being declared OT -- you take the good with the bad, what I like about Larian is that they understand that fun > balance and I think Obsidian often sacrifices at the altar of balance. I'm happy that Larian got it but I do want to see a DnD game made with the PoE2 engine.
-- you take the good with the bad, what I like about Larian is that they understand that fun > balance and I think Obsidian often sacrifices at the altar of balance. I'm happy that Larian got it but I do want to see a DnD game made with the PoE2 engine.