The problem with DnD leveling is that you stay exactly the same for very long time ... and the only thing that can effectively change your gamestyle is loot ...
That’s… not exactly my experience. Getting “longsword +1” won’t exactly shake things up the way a new level of spells becoming available or multiattack will.
Well, mine neither ...
But thats not even close to what im talking about.
Indeed, "getting a level" is VERY impactfull in DnD ... especialy on certain levels, as you said where you learn new level of spells, or get lets say new class feature to keep it little general ... no arguments there.
What i was talking about tho, is
this ...
The time you spend *in between levels* ... the time, where nothing changes on your character.
If you just look back at your presumation of levels Layout:
chapter 1: 1-6, chapter 2: 7-10, chapter 3: 11-12
And while level 11 is one of those impactfull ...
Lets be honest, 12 is kinda lame in comparsion.
ASI or Feat ... yes, it can be impactfull ... but "can be" is quite important for final level in game, where your character basicaly reaches apex of mortal capabilities in this particular setting (read as BG-3, not as DnD).
Also lets be honest ... unless Larian will implement some supercool final level bonuses (wich i would like, but im affraid would cause another riot from DnD fanbase) ... most of us would allready have those supercoll and impactfull feats from earlier levels, so thats even less impact left for top level in game.
Anyway, the point is that while i know XP gain should incerase aswell ... level gain should slow ... therefore 11-12 should take quite long.
And while we dont really know how long Act 3 will in the end be ... or as the matter of fact, if it will even be needed to reach level cap (you know, completionists ...).
I think its quite safe to presume that we will spend conciderable amount of gametime on levels 10, 11, and possibly 12 ...
And in that time, nothing changes on our character (wich was my point) except for gear we aquire.
BG3 has of course its gimmick sets, but those are not very D&D-like.
I gues it depeds on your GM.
