Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems First post, few complaints

Well over a year ago, the word from reports was that an update was coming 'soon' to change the way scrolls work (using and scribing) to be more in line with 5e rules - that has never eventuated, and there's still no sign of it. There is supposedly a larger scale update to magic and casting in general, in the pipeline, but similarly, we've had word of it for almost a year, but no sign of anything actually being done as far as we've been shown yet.

In 5e D&D, you cannot cast spells at all if you wear armour that you are not proficient with - this is characterised as the discomfort and unfamiliarity with the armour and how it feels being too cumbersome or distracting for you to cast properly. There's no more arcane spell failure percentages, like in older editions - it's just a distinction between whether you can cast effectively, or you can't, and this is tracked by whether or not you are proficient in the use and wearing of the armour. Proficiency with a type of armour means you are proficient enough to move, act and adventure competently in that armour without being inhibited by it; this includes casting spells if you are a spellcaster. This is normal 5e rules, and one of the things that Larian have done correctly (the list of things they have not done adequately is far longer ^.^)

I wanted to add in an uproarious canned laughter sound track for your comment about Larian being dedicated to quality... of all the major game designers in the market right now, that is not a label I would apply to their work. They're dedicated to razzle-dazzle, and don't' care if their control system is clunky and janky, if their interface is counter-intuitive, long-winded or fiddly, if their inventory management is laboriously archaic and tedious, or their underlying quest progression is broken to all hell - so long as they can make bright colours and flashy lights happen at a consistent pace, that's what they want to focus on.

There will probably be tie-ins to the BG series, since they're probably contractually obliged to do so... but Larian themselves are on record in interview as saying that their goal here is to put their identity into the series, and use it as a platform to bring a new audience to their other games.... so yes, one of their stated goals is using the name and the franchise to pimp sales for their other titles, and they don't really appear to have much love or respect for D&D or the Bg franchise itself.