Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Larian's communication, faithfulness to 5E rules, and the players who feel betrayed.

You might want to read the initial press releases where Larian said they intend to do a faithful adaption of D&D. By now though its obvious that Larian only implements as much D&D as they think is necessary to get away with instead of implementing as much D&D with as few deviations as possible which is what their initial statement implied.

The existence of Solasta shows that the changes Larian did to D&D are not required because of the video game medium. They were done because Larian didn't want to follow the D&D rules in those cases.

Larian is simply the wrong studio for BG3. That game already has the problem that it plays very different from BG2 because of several edition changes, but that problem is compounded by Larians own style which has nothing in common with wither BG2 of D&D5. The feeling of BG3 is also very different than in BG2 also thanks to Larian as they want to do goofy, over the top stories. You can see that in how every action in BG3 has an exaggerated animation which would put William Shattner to shame and light effects bathing the whole screen in effects. Or how they give you all those items to bypass resource restrictions so that you can talk with corpses and animals. Its obvious that Larian feels restricted by the D&D rules which is likely one of the reasons why they are only followed as much as necessary.

For old timers: BG2 was Costners Robin Hood. BG3 does not turn out to be a theoretical Robin Hood 2, but Mel Brooks Men in Tights.