The current resting system is far from perfect, but I think switching to a cool down system would make it worse, not better. I wish WotC has actually told them to "stay true to the 5E game mechanics". My suggestion would be that you either have to set up a camp at your current location ( with the danger of being attacked )or you have to walk back to the camp ( or a fast travel point ) if you want to rest. I wish the camp was a normal place in the world, not a place where you can only get via spontanous teleportation.
I play pathfinder Kingmaker at the moment. So far I think it is the best spiritual successor of BG2. We need large dungeons and better exploration in BG3. BG3 is very good in many things, but it feels like a theme park where everything is cramped together. There are several places that are made as a stage for an epic encounter. But it also means there are several different areas very close to each other. So the goblins have problems to find the druid grove when it takes only a minute to walk there?
Yes this +1
It felt so weird in DOS2 that even the biggest area (Reaper's Coast) felt so cramped and ... compact.
In BG1 when you have to save Dynaheir (or go kill her), you have to travel across several maps to find a way to the Gnoll Fortress. That felt like a journey and an adventure!
Yeah, i think that just limitation of the engine? Probably... But yeah the scale is abit weird but it's better then it was in DoS 2.
The world building is amazing just the scale could be tiny bit bigger maybe a farm with npcs that give lore on the area, between the goblin camp and the druids with surroundings forest and wild animals to talk to or hunt whatever...
When we get the full world with multiple maps the theme park feeling will subside at least somewhat i reckon. Hopefully, as maps are amazing by themselves.
On a side note camping should be done on world map and shouldn't possible everywhere. i guess you need to have fast travel in 2021 or people would go berserk.
So maybe the camps should be at fast travel points. The camping spot right now is immersion braking. It was fine in 2009 in DA:O but today it's abit on a weak side!! Hopefully if nothing else they at least change the background environment in camps when we move to other world maps.
Cooldowns without mana are a NO-GO especially in DNd...
