Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Player Action Points

Again thank you for the very well considered answers.

Yes I am rubbing against the difficulty curve of this game.
No I do not expect Larian to be perfect ... And all things considered they are a very considerate developer.

Even in the encounter I described as problematic they did give some pretty clear warnings to run for your life.

One of the responders said that lots of people can beat these types of encounters in real time first time.

I can guarantee you that at my level and the level of my companion characters with the spells that I have, and the situation. .... None of you could beat that Kobold encounter in real time first run. You would be hard-pressed to even beat it knowing where every single enemy was.

Let's look at the dynamic of that encounter. First you meet some hyenas that are in the process of morphing into Kobolds .... Sane response to this is to run for your life because there's nothing foreseeable to be gained by engaging in this encounter.

But this situation might be related to what's happening in rest the the game world, and I had and I had a powerful magic item so I decided to risk it

Because the player doesn't know what's happening and monsters are appearing right in front of you that you have no clue of their capabilities ... one must use all your strongest abilities first. Chances are most players will defeat the five or six newborn Kobolds without even a character going into bleed out.

But all your good spells and all your good abilities are gone.

Then the Kobold hunters attack and chances are they will shred your entire party in one or two turns. Your mages will die in one or two hits, and your other characters will die the next turn.

This is how this encounter will play out pretty much every time at the level I hit it. If my characters were fully rested after the hyena Kobolds ... They might do a little bit better and last four turns instead of two turns.

I had one powerful magic item at that point that I picked up in the underdark ... When I went to use it I found out that it was broken and doesn't even work. I didn't have a single other magic item.

I am merely pointing out that it is almost impossible to beat this in real time and the only real choice is to run for your life which I'm perfectly okay with. The question is how do I know when to run from my life? .. and am I constantly going to be dealing with enemies that have five times my action points?

I personally dislike dealing with enemies that have much more actions than I do. That's not the type of game I want to play and judging by the popularity of the mod "action points" some people agree.

To that point in the game I pretty much played the game in real time only saves scuming when I made the most stupid mistake. Obviously I didn't beat the phase spider matriarch first time .... But at least she's a boss character and you can easily choose not to engage her.