Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

This book is a must add. Since the psionic subclass are now official.

You know what I'm really excited about? It seems they might have backpedaled on Aberrant Mind. I was extremely disappointed they remade it into a generic psionic class (with the horrible psionic die mechanic), but I saw the TCoE table of contents and it's again called Aberrant Mind. I wonder how flavour and mechanics look like in this iteration. It could be amazing for BG3 thematically. Other psionic classes too, to a lesser extent.

Not to mention there's a load of great subclasses in general in TCoE. But that also applies to XGtE. I wonder how much of supplement content they'll manage to get into the game.

Please no. This book destroys all the identity of the different races and turns them into a generic blob.

I don't disagree about this point specifically, but I think it's mostly about the subclasses.

I can't speak for the race options because I won't pick up my copy until this evening, but the subclasses, feats and additional class features are the reason I'm excited for it.

Ah yes, I forgot about feats and class features! I'm curious how they'll differ from the UA versions, especially class features. I see they added some Battle Master stuff, too.

False. Tasha's gives you options for customizing your character's origin. It is not mandated and it doesn't radically change race like you seem to think it does.

From the book:

I had a feeling it was going to be more like the Advance Race Guide from pathfinder, which, if you've never read, dedicated an entire section to making your own race blocks. It lists almost ever racial feature found in pathfinder, assigns them a point value, tells you that core races have x number of points, advanced races have y number of points, then just.... lets you make whatever the hell you want.

It was great, i made a cervitaur archer, she had an absurd movement speed and filled things with arrows from far away and i loved her.

Also, while we're on the topic of ranger, I'm excited to see if they published the replacement class features for ranger. I've played with both them and the revised ranger, and i found the replacement class features ranger to be superior.

Well with the sidekick system, you can basically pick any creature with a CR of 1/2 or less and then make them either an Expert, Spellcaster, or Warrior. That opens up a lot of fun options that aren't available for normal player characters.

Honestly? I really hope they don't add any of the new subclasses from Tasha's. From a balance standpoint, most of them blow existing subclasses out of the water and use really strange mechanics, such as using your proficiency modifier as a cap for the number of times certain abilities can be used.

The proficiency bonus is just a static modifier that skills take their values off of, like any of your ability scores. I've done exactly the same thing when making both classes and subclasses, if you want a static modifier that grows with your character, isn't excessive and isn't tied to an ability score (and therefore currently immune to magic item trickery) its an option you have.

Not to dismiss your concerns, but if class power creep is your issue, then they also shouldn't add any of the subclasses from Xans either.

The problem is consistency. It's an odd way to design your game with some subs using scaling pr as a modifier, and others not at all. While yes I agree, there is class power creep from Xgte, but it's miles apart from the issues of Tasha's.

Ah, i just had a look at the replacement class features and I'm really annoyed that they ripped out actual spell versatility and shat all over favoured foe for ranger, what a sad day.

Remember that all those rules are options. You take what you want and throw the rest. I was just pointing that psionic are well balanced in TCoE.