Originally Posted by ArvGuy
How do you know whether a deviation was necessary? I mean, it may seem that way but we don't really know the thinking that went into these things and we don't know anywhere near as much about what was and what wasn't necessary for things to work as Larian does.

I'm not trying to justify everything they've done, but anyone with developer experience has probably tried receiving those "helpful" comments from third parties, suggesting the "obvious" solution of "just do this and that", which you probably would have done, if it was actually feasible to do.

Some examples are quite obvious, especially ones that were later changed.

When EA released: shove, hide, and jump/disengage bonus actions. Disengage was made a separate action from jump. Hide was a bonus action up through patch 9 and looks to have been changed to an action for full-release. It appears that shove will remain a bonus action. There is no way you can convince me that making shove a bonus action was somehow “necessary” or too difficult to change to be consistent with D&D rules.

Last edited by Kind_Flayer; 17/07/23 09:52 PM.