Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Please Larian, it's a D&D game not a DoS game.

The 'just don't use it!' suggestion is trotted out every time anyone objects to the game having strayed too far from the current core 5e rules.

The player not using a feature is only half the issue - the other half is that the game system will have no such constraints and will use all these abusive tactics or OP stats etc against the player, like BA shove, potion lobbing etc. You cannot do a thing about that (*). It would have been simpler to have a core rules button (as BG1 and 2 did, as well as other D&D games) and have this as an option for those who care. It seems weird this was never even discussed, despite ample evidence of discontent about such deviations the EA forums. Yes, some compromises were made (adv -> +2 for height, some spells being 'nerfed') - but a core setting would encompass all that. OR simply say at the outset that BG3 'uses a ruleset inspired by D&D 5e' and leave it at that.

(*)I am not convinced that mods can simply fix everything - at the very least, they may ruin the challenge in encounters if those encounters have been designed with specific game-y tactics in mind. I doubt Larian have been play-testing with. say, an action economy rebalance mod - so now you may have an inferior gaming experience simply because you want something that is more rules compliant. I dunno - I find that rather a bad alternative.