Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Some Suggestions after 300 hours

I said Half Drow...

This is purely conjecture and it does not discourage creativity, it penalizes it. If I want to play a Tiefling Druid for the extra cantrip and spells, I'm penalized with my stat spread. Essentially I shot myself in the arm but was given a cool glove; what good is the glove if my arm has a bullet in it? It's a character that has spells for more options in gameplay, but will literally always be worse than another race/class combination. Same applies to Dragonborn when we see them, I got a cool breath weapon and resistance, but my spell rolls and save DC sucks compared to other options. If you're only option to point out the flaw of the above statement is to criticize the one specific example given, you don't have an argument, you have conjecture. We're talking about the concept in principle, not the character example provided.

Clearly we would also benefit from another option here for people that don't want floating scores. All I was saying is it will 200% be modded in within a month of full release. In fact, there's a patch 7 mod for it right now. So how about instead of everyone gets free score placements, when you press New Game you are given a set of options with rules you can pick. You know, like a real D&D game, where other people aren't told they're wrong for liking their game in certain ways.

Game Difficulty
Maximum Party Size
Floating Ability Scores on/off
And maybe other options I haven't thought of.
I didn't realize it was actually that bad even after all these characters...Shields are clearly broken at a fundamental level. There is also no discussion for weather or not a shield on your back should give a +2 to AC because shields, as a concept, are meant to be between you and an enemy and be actively used to ward off incoming attacks. Providing protection because it sits on your back is not even an argument because that essentially implies that someone attacking from behind you just aimed as if you didn't have a shield. Enemies don't aim for your shield, it is the wielders actively moving the shield that provides the protection, otherwise proficiency in shields would not be required.

Maybe level 5 is too low of a level point, but there is a such thing as loading too much information onto a player at once. My only concern with going above a certain level in character creation is just that, giving new players and people unfamiliar with 5e classes too much information at once. Think about it, that's 12 classes on full release, and people are speculating the level cap will be 14, so you would have 168 levels worth of information, and that is excluding subclass unique features from the classes that get their subclasses at level 1, all in character creation. This is why I personally prefer a class summary, then features up to level 5. Level 5 lets you know if you are getting level 3 spells, an extra attack, or a utility feature like the Bard/Rogue, which gives you a pretty good idea of how the class will be played throughout the game. At least, that's my opinion. I've tried to get some people into D&D just for them to turn away because it was a lot of imformation to take on at once and the best way to get into 5e is to either spend hours reading, watching videos, or have a DM friend who will help you roll a starter character after asking you what you want to do in the game.

EDIT: I'd like to add, Racial progression for the races that get spells and other features later should also be listed. I'd like to know at a glance what spells my Tiefling will get, etc.