Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General It's not lvls 13 to 20

More abilities / spells = more things to do, more builds to try, more character variety.

It sounds more like BG3 is your first experience of a DnD based PC game, or even a CRPG for that matter.

As for 'barrelmancy', that is purely a Larian thing, nothing to do with DnD at all.

Balance isn't fun. No character development isnt fun either. And taking up the example of barrels, one can't exactly claim to be favouring balance when crap like that already exists in this game.

I will tell you what isn't fun though, needing to click through romance / companion text in camp for hours on end in every playthrough. Meanwihile I can replay a solo run through BG1&2 for the millionth time and still have the most fun possible in any video game, or maybe not, Tales of Maj Eyal is actually even better. Or a Spiderweb Software CRPG.

In all honesty, DnD & CRPGs simply don't work well at all for a AAA game because all developers seem hell bent on ruining everything that makes them great so they can appeal to the masses.