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Beautifully crafted to work just the way tabletop players have become accustomed to... Correct. Meaning, when you play Solasta you feel the inherent connection to the source material, and Solasta can only use the SRD content because Wizards didn't authorize anything else for them. Wizards, did, though, authorize Larian to make a video game using anything and everything from the sourcebooks that they desired. In the blurb underneath the official announcement trailer from WAY back in 2019, this is what it says: "BG3 is the official next adventure in the venerable Baldur's Gate series." Is it?! Because I played BG1 and BG2, and they adhered pretty darn closely to the D&D rules of the iterations that were out at the time. Closely enough that I recognized that it was most certainly a D&D game. Whatever it is that BG3 has become, it is most certainly NOT "the official next adventure in the venerable Baldur's Gate series." Not by a LONG stretch of any D&D enthusiast's imagination. That's why I feel like there's been a bait and switch here. It's possible Larian didn't do that bait and switch maliciously. It's possible that they went about the business of making a game based on D&D, and in the process decided they didn't want to really be as close to the D&D rules as they originally anticipated. If that's the case, I'll probably never play the game in its final version, unless somebody creates a completely stable mod that makes the game behave like D&D 5e. The more I think about it, the more I agree with something jfutral said in a previous post.


That just about sums it up right there.