You mentioned in your first post the new pop ups so I thought at first that your suggestion was that Reckless Attack should be implemented in the new “reaction” system so that it can either be turned off, set on to make the first attack of each turn automatically a reckless attack, or to ask the player when they make their first attack of a turn whether they want to attack to be reckless? That does sound like a possible extension of the system that Larian implemented, and hopefully will be rolling out for various things like sneak attack, as you say.
But then you compared it to something like a stance, which made me think more of the “old” passive toggles for reactions, and I can also see that working for Reckless Attack, and that approach might be more user friendly for a player who prefers either to use or not to use Reckless Attack most of the time so doesn’t want to be prompted each turn, but for whom it would be a faff to have to go into the reactions menu to turn off or on for those occasions they did want to do something different.
Either of those approaches would seem an improvement over what we have now, but I’m not sure which would be best. Personally, I would tend to almost always use Reckless Attack so wouldn’t want to be prompted each turn, but would want to be able to turn it off quickly and easily in the even I didn’t want to risk being attacked with advantage. But I’ve only played barbarian once in BG3 so it’s not a class I know the best way to play.
Out of interest, as I’m not very knowledgeable about 5e, does the first attack of the turn need to be a melee weapon attack in order to qualify for activating Reckless Attack, or can it be any type of attack? I know you’ll only get advantage if it’s a melee attack, so it would only be worth doing if the barbarian has a potential second attack that turn. But if the first attack doesn’t need to be melee, I can see why the current implementation would potentially disadvantage multiclass barbarians more.
