Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What's you biggest fear about the final BG3 release?

@topgoon:
Thank you for your reply.
I am not a PnP player, but for Solasta and Kingmaker/WotR reading the PnP rules helped a lot to play the game.
Solasta is very good in showing things clearly in game. (I admit DnD 5E is much easier to understand than Pathfinder 1E)

Doing lots of reading about the Pathfinder system was actually needed to finish those games. (on normal, no need for more inflated stats)
First I thought knowing DnD 3E should be enough (I played NWN 1+2) but I was wrong. Reading the PnP Pathfinder rules online was absolutely needed.
WotR is even more complex than Kingmaker (mystic classes, mounted combat, ...) but they also improved on showing things (you can better see differences between base class and archetype).
Plus having played Kingmaker before made the biggest difference.

Anyway: In those games reading the PnP rules helped me a lot to play the game, even if there are differences.
Its hard for me to judge this (because I have finished Solasta before playing BG3), but for new players without experiance it would be very hard to play BG3 by just reading DnD rules.
BG1+2 came together with a great manual, so I never bothered reading the PnP rules.

PS:
BG2 was my first big computer RPG, but I have never heared of PnP before.
I started playing the game and got completely confused.
Then I read the manual and I was able to finish the game. But I did not understand why the term "dice" was used so often in a computer game.
It was years later that I learned what PnP is and that BG was based on PnP.
My first contact with PnP was when I got the video "The Gamers" on GOG for free.