Only if this reactions work like in Xcom, where they only work with natural attacks- in Bb3 in the form of cantrips. They trigger automatically and you can not interact with them in any capacity.
Most notably: overwatch: would become readied spell: you use a selected cantrip that is in your first slot [first pick at char creation]
- on the note of solasta reactions, they are really annoying and make combat disruptive by ruining my Emerson by constantly clicking yes / no. It should be automatic and without control on player part- because by logic, reactions are our impulses. You can’t control those, it’s done by our fight vs flight response.
Exactly. Overwatch for a caster should be in form of a cantrip. To be honest I first saw it for my archer. I couldn't understand why they couldn't do an attack of opportunity if they hadn't use their action. So the idea came for there.
There's no reason why an Overwatch-like ability should be restricted to cantrips. If you have the ability to take a specific action to set up Overwatch, then you should be able to precast leveled spells too. Of course, in 5e, Ready-ing a Spell (even a cantrip) requires you to spend concentration on that spell until it is unleashed, making such an action less likely since you'd lose concentration on any other concentration spell you had up.
If Larian wanted to implement Ready Spell such that readying cantrips didn't require concentration, but leveled spells did because they are more magically complex, I wouldn't be opposed.
