However, I believe that having the developers themselves perfectly explain what each spell and ability does via a tutorial video would be extremely desirable and helpful to a lot of players, especially those unfamiliar with D&D.
Personally I have no stakes in the feature so it is difficult for me to get excited about. Onboarding should be a concern for Larian (they made some major improvements to the tooltips throughout the EA), but it’s not my personal top priority.
From what I understand you are suggesting videos showcasing the spells, similar to DMC5. I would question a usefulness of such implementation.
In some action games video clips of skills are useful because they showcase things that verbal skill description can’t easily convey. I don’t think that would work for a system of BG3. How the spells look is mechanically irrelevant, and I can’t imagine how a video could make a tooltip of each spell more understandable.
I general interactive tutorials tend to be more effective than passive ones. Allowing players to experiment and discover spells for themselves should be more effective as long as players are equipped enough to understand what is happening.
On a more selfish side - high fidelity videos for each spell/skill in the game would significantly increase game’s instal size. I would prefer to avoid that.
