Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General New interview with Sven by Gamespot

5e has tried to simplify the previous versions, is all. Instead of a million Prestige classes and feats to choose from and people doing all sorts of cross-classing to try to make a wizard-archer, or Warlord Mage who can wield a two handed sword, they built the archtypes for various mainstream classes.

So, if you want a magic archer, you could choose Fighter with Arcane Archer Archtype or create a Fighter who has high Dex and Eldritch Knight Archtype depending on what type of magic archer you're looking for.

I like 5e a lot. Although it isn't as intricate and complex as 3 or 4, it doesn't give me a headache when I create a character or level one up. The older versions had SO many feats I couldn't remember them all and who had what and so forth. It was a DM's nightmare trying to remember which NPC had what feats and special abilities and skills and weapons and so forth.

5e is so much easier to manage multiple characters and it is so much quicker to create them and level them up. And the Archtypes make cross-classing almost completely unnecessary, which I like, because cross-classing was always kinda messy too. It created even MORE options to choose from, and it was often overwhelming for players. Do I level up as a wizard or fighter or eldritch knight? What bonuses do I get for one over the other? What feats? What spells? What attack bonus or skills or...

It was too much. I like hoe 5e directs you more on different paths and limits your choices more. You can still have an Arcane Archer, but you get there by taking Fighter path then Arcane Archer. Done. Wanna be a cleric mage? Choose cleric and the arcana domain. Boom. Done. Simple. Efficient. Less pouring through manuals trying to figure out what choices you have to make to get you there.

Anyway, I really do hope they meant what they said and implement the game with all the classes and such. I still have high hopes for this game. It doesn't have to be total 5e, but if it was closer it would be so much better with characters having unique abilities that make each important and special.