I want more faithfulness to 5e but if Larian wants the gameplay to be more like DOS, they should bring back the surface effects for cantrips. I mean that. There’s no reason to take them away.
Unlimited AOE DOT's in a resource based combat system is not a reason?
Is it a resource based combat system? I’m hardly seeing it.
D&D is all about action economy. The entire system is based one turn one action (with a few bonus actions here and there). Action is literally your resource.
The way that Larian is using surface effects and cantrips completely nullifies the action economy of D&D. BG3 is generic RPG turn based game with Forgotten Realms skins.
