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What does this post contribute, Tuco?

Remember what happened last time you turned a regular tone like this?

This is your only warning.

My friends I’m going to be playing with are having a bit of option paralysis trying to decide what they want to play. I told them last night that the game has a very forgiving respec system so they always change their characters if they are unsatisfied with their choices and they were so relieved.

Larian made the right call.

Yeah, for myself, I find it 'cheaty', and will try to refrain from using it. This is best experienced no-reload, take it as it comes, everything you do and say matters. Get killed, start over.

But, since the multiclassing rules aren't all there yet, we'll have to experiment a little to see what's possible and on my first go, I'll likely use it once or twice.

I suppose it contributes as much as Elessaria666's post he responded to, which makes it weird, since this was over a week ago, and Tuco is getting the angry "only warning" message, but no one else is? I've had my share of disagreements with Tuco, but outright threatening him when other posters were just as antagonistic seems odd.

The Prestige system / requirements in 3.5 made multi-classing worth it. What you lacked by being behind in progression, you eventually made up for with a bad ass Prestige class.

The character customization in 3rd edition is limitless. Combined with tons of feats, class abilities, templates, etc.

Being optional means I can ignore them. I do plan on playing with other people though and that could lead to an issue. I will be sure to bring it up before I start a game with my friends.

An option to "lock" Characters from being re-rolled and manipulated would be nice. Just give me an option to turn it off as host of my game.

You cannot allow multi-class characters to progress through spell levels at the same pace as single class characters, that is silly. Why wouldn't everyone grab a spell class then. One level of Cleric can buff and heal. And continue to progress through the spell levels?!

It contributes by refuting using the term "gatekeeping" as something that is apt in this case. It makes an argument that "having standards about game design...depth or balance" does not make you a Bad Gatekeeper™. Which is a useful point to refute, imo. There's a difference between Gatekeeping that needlessly discourages a certain group from being involved in order to preserve the "in-group", vs adding mechanical game restrictions that might make a game less enjoyable for some people. Especially when there are potential difficulty levels in the game that could be tailored for different desired experiences.

His argument makes heavy use of aggressive hyperbole, sure, but note that his quoted statements are attacking arguments and posts, not the posters themselves. The closest he comes to attacking a poster is saying a user is "throwing a tantrum fit," but this is again a comment on specific actions, not on the person as a whole. I'll also echo @Boblawblah's statements.

To be more on topic:
Agreed that option to lock some of these restrictions would be useful. 1.) They'd ensure that everyone was on the same page. 2.) They'd limit the need to remember every self-imposed limitation.

And as always, I wish Larian would provide more information on exactly what they meant by their changes to multiclassed spell progression, instead of mentioning it vaguely and then leaving us to stew for almost a month.

Calling someine a 'gatekeeper' is trolling sunce the only intention is to bash, insult put down, abd tell that person their opinion doesnt matter. It's a very rude word that adds nothing.

More options are good, but there seems to be a lack of options for rolling hit points and stats which is weird since these ate the standards set in phb. Why aren't those options? Even TOEE had these, and bg had an option for rolling hp or max hp. For hp in bg3 we could have options for msx hp, minimum hp, average hp or roll for hit points. For stats there could be options fir rolling multiple ways, and fir low/typical/high pooint buy. Everyone wins.

Locking this thread as people can't behave and stick to the topic, don't take Minsc too seriously about going for the throat all the time.