Originally Posted by Darth_Trethon
As far as I can tell a lot of the changes seem to be matching what Wizards of the Coast are doing with the next generation of D&D releasing next year.

Yes, I think this is a point that I've seen mentioned before as well and I think it's a good one. I'll admit it took me by surprise to see these changes that do indeed seem to reflect some of what we've heard about the direction of travel for the next generation of D&D, especially this late in BG3 development. Though I guess earlier might have been tricky as that next iteration of D&D is still in development itself.

I'm generally in the camp that kind of wishes Larian had just stuck to 5e as much as possible, though personally I don't mind so much as long as I can at least replicate 5e even if I'm not forced to. As a result the changes I'm most concerned about and want to know more about are the changes to spell progression (and possibly other stuff) for multiclassed characters and balance for races/subraces that don't have +2/+1 ability score bonuses in 5e (like humans).

I'm trying to reserve judgement until we actually hear what the changes are, but I very much hope Larian will offer us more detail very soon. Especially as, as far as I'm aware, they've not yet commented publicly on the change to the ability bonus approach and this is just something I and others noted in our playthroughs (though I guess you can deduce from PFH given I don't think the ability scores change for the barbarian character as the presenter scrolls through the races). And the one quick chat in one interview about multiclassing feels like it raises more questions than it answers.

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