Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Why capped at level 12?

I still have lots of gameplay left and am level 12 with 34,000 XP built up for…nothing more. Why did Larian cap at level 12, why still award/track XP one will never be able to spend? Im D&D ignorant but doesn’t it cap around level 20?

Levelling and spending points on character building is my favorite part of gaming and having that end with so much left stinks for me. I think that alone might prevent me from another play through and I’d rather go back to DOS2 for a 4th time than BG3 again.