I strongly recommend against posting personal information on unsecured internet forums.
Probably wise advice. Can always come back tomorrow and nix it hehe. Honestly I was just impressed with Niara's post there too. But yeah, there's actually not a whole host of reasons to cede the anonymity or dispell illusions. Age is probably the least interesting demographic to consider, esp in a game with zero sense of time.
I have no problem with a circlet of intelligence or whatever. I don't mind the DM giving us plenty of toys to tool around with. The kind of balance I'm interested in doesn't have to do with encounter difficulties or spam exploits or things that don't impact anyone else. There is no high score like in Centipede or a tournament ladder like in A&A. I don't mind for a Dungeons and Dragons game like this if someone can nuke the shit out of all 3 cambions and the mind flayer, by min/max stats and picking up the right barrels. Or figure out how to jump teleport or whatever. It doesn't affect me. This isn't the handcuff in Street Fighter II, where someone just jump kicked a quarter out my hand. So no biggie for me really. BG3 is an SP game for me. No pvp in this one.
I'm glad they dialed back the surfaces, and agree strongly that there is a big difference between potentially entertaining exploits which don't harm the experience vs busted mechanics which do.
