Nostalgia is much like Sentimentality in that it is the domain of sociopaths.
Wow,
harsh. Or are you kidding, too
? I mean, I wouldn’t want BG3 to be compromised by over-attachment to the originals, but I don’t think there’s any danger on that front. And some fond call-backs and connections to the original that aren’t harmful in themselves wouldn’t seem that terrible, and I know I’d enjoy them as long as they weren’t overdone. And I don’t
think I have sociopathic tendencies!
As to attributes, I suspect I’ll probably continue to use point buy no matter what alternatives are offered, but still think it would be nice to add standard array and stat rolling options to the final game. And if rolling is added, I think re-rolling should also be permitted and don’t think a limit should be imposed by the game on this. If folk want to spend ages rolling for stats, or feel they need to “earn” their balance-breakingly high stats by spending time rolling for them, then I have no desire to rain on their parade. I also have no objection to allowing players to just enter any legal stat spread, based on their offline dice rolls or on nothing at all.
As has been said, multiplayer parties can agree between themselves what limits they want to put on starting attributes.
