So I have an items opinion that I've been thinking on for a little while. I don't think Larian should have given us that necklace that lets us cast speak with the dead, or the numerous potions of animal speaking. It's very cool that they put enough thought and craft into the game that we can use those spells to figure things out, but providing items that let any class do them feels to me like it takes away a lot of the specialness. People bring up replay value from time to time on this forum; imagine how much replay value you could get if you played a character able to cast speak with the dead and that was your only way to see the spell in action? Same with the animal speaking. Larian is doing a pretty impressive job with providing class options, but those items feel like one of the ways that Larian is kinda watering down class distinction and taking away their flavour as a result.
Hopefully maybe Larian will do what [unnamed other] game did, and only have included so many free/cheap magical items in EA for testing purposes. Not all EA parties will have Speak with Dead, but Larian wants players to test out that function -> give out a Speak with Dead Amulet, which is then *not* given out for free in the Full Release version of BG3. Maybe you can still acquire it, but it costs a significant amount of gold, and you'd effectively have to choose between it and some other important item(s).
