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Super good answer.... Thank you for taking the time.,.(no sarcasm intended)

Since so many people bother to answer my question earnestly I will clarify my concerns with the game.

I like to play my RPG games in real time which means no save scumming. I have absolutely no doubt that I can beat the Kobolds hunters when I know exactly what they are where they are what they can do and what their weaknesses are.

I would guess very very very few people could go into that encounter cold and not get eaten alive.. those Kobolds will shred your party in one turn.

They are all sorts of great suggestions people made and almost all of them require that you already know what's coming...

For example the suggestion to engage the Kobolds at point blank range .... It would work great if I actually had someone in my party that could hit with a devastating number of hit points.. none of them can.

The kobolds almost always made their saving throws for grease, and barely took any hit points when you blow up the grease with a fire spell.


Pretty much every spell in the game to the point I played are incredibly weak sometimes hitting for only one or two hit points. The ones that have higher pit points are all very difficult to use and often miss.


It was like the issue with the original Baldur's Gate Games 1 and 2 ... You finally progressing level to get the really good spells like finger of death only to find out they don't work on any creature that you ever encountered cuz they're all resistant to it or all can make the saving throws every time.

If I wanted to basically save scum beat each encounter like a game of chess ... I would play on tactician which I may do in the future.

The take-home message is I don't feel empowered playing this game ... And I get more than enough disempowerment in real life why would I pay for that?

But again don't get me wrong ... Baldur's Gate 3 is way better than anything I played in a long time .... That's why my playthrough is on hold until I can either get more action points or perhaps reduce the difficulty to easy.

But to be honest I found the game pretty easy up to the point where I met the Kobolds... They just seem way too overpowered for a mundane character.

Some might say I chose the wrong party and the wrong playing class as It seems being a mage is seriously underpowered.. but I would rather fail at the game then complete it with characters I hate and that eliminated two right off the bat.


Ultimately .... A computer game needs to prove it's worth to me, not me prove my worth to it.

Baldur's Gate 3 navigates this balance very well for the most part especially in the dialogue and it's depth and skill checks.

I deeply deeply distrust game developers with my time ... But I think there's a good chance I can play BG3 through and not regret it. If so it'll be the first game since Deus ex human Revolution and New Vegas.

And a very simple way that I could play through in real time is to have the narrator come in and just say "this seems like a a bad idea" and have that user configurable.

Don't say it couldn't be done because it wouldn't be very hard.