Thanks Niara, the beholder looks very deadly indeed.
20 years ago the IE were the only big western RPGs I have played, so I had nothing to compare them with.
Many rules made no sense for me, but I had no alternative.
Now that I have played many other games, I think that 2E is in many regards a totally unintuitive mess.
I have no experiance with 1E and 4E, but I would prefer a 3E or 5E game over 2E any time.
DnD 3E (or Pathfinder) is a nerds wet dream and everybody elses nightmare.
5E seems like a good middle ground between having some complexity and being relatively easy to understand the basics.
I do not play PnP, only computer games. This means I do not have any emotional connection to any system. It is just a set of rules, nothing more and nothing less. I do not care if the rules are based on a PnP system or if they were invented for this computer game (like Dragon age orrigins or PoE).
When I complain that BG3 should stick closer to PnP rules it is because:
- The game uses the licence so it should use the rules
- The changes from Larian just feel wrong for me, such as jumping behind enemies for advantage or flame arrows cause a fire surface, even if they miss the target.
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