Sigh.

Honestly I dont get why theres always these D&D players around that dizz the latest iteration of D&D.

Thats was already the case when AD&D was the previous system and D&D3 came around.

And now people act as if D&D3 is the good system and D&D5 is somehow "bad".

(D&D4 was really bad, as in it wasnt actually D&D, but thats another topic; and by the way 3.5 was basically 3.0 with only very minor changes and not even good changes)

No D&D5 is still not perfect. But it solved a lot of problems that D&D3 had.


Just an example, D&D had from version 1 to 3 always the problem that attack rates would get up and up, while armor improved much less.

In BG2 you would in the end absolutely not care anymore what your AC is. Unless you would manage to build very special characters, opponents would hit you all the time anyway. Only countermeasure was to have Improved Speed so you would kill opponents quickly, and to have Regeneration so you would heal enormously every round.

Or in "Star Wars: Knights in the Old Republic", which was based on d20, which was a simplified version of D&D3 that didnt require to pay Wizards of the Coast to use, I just gave up trying to build up defenses - even if you went all in on defenses, you still would get hit all the time anyway. Instead I went for maximum offense, combined with crowd control where that was possible, and found this much stronger.

D&D5 finally fixed that. Now you only improve your attacks with the proficiency bonus, which starts at 2 and increases by 1 every four level after the first.

All in all D&D5 is easier and more elegant, just like D&D3 was easier and more elegant than AD&D. Except the step from AD&D to D&D3 was a lot bigger.



So yeah, D&D5 is great. Its also the most successful version of D&D ever. They did something right there.



Why BG3 was so successful well I'll have to list a lot to fully explain but bottom line, its a passion project. For example I saw a statistic that only 3% of Steam players actually finished the ironman mode. And yet the game has one. The game is full of details, great storylines, etc. And they are only expanding on this now.