Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Sven gets it. You can feel his pain.

Actually, I feel like 4e, even with all its Dragon magazines, would be the easiest to translate to a videogame. It has some of the least vague rules for dnd and has aspects that seem like they were intended to smooth things out like videogames.
5e was likely chosen because it is the current edition, so both Larian and WotC benefit from a game based on it.

Several features of 5e transfered over from 4e, ritual spells being one of them if I am correct.

Well never see a actual 4e game sadly, the only thing that came out of it was Neverwinter Online. Truthfully I think that game is even less related to 4e as BG3 is to 5e.

Honestly, yeah. And which is a shame cause 4e gets a bad rap but is honestly a pretty great system.

Ya I'd have to agree, it was a nice change from the 3.5 system. My bro, that DM'd our campaign we played said, it was boring though. I do remember the over flow of abilities/spells you got the more levels you went up. I printed them out and put magic the gathering covers on them, it looked more like a hybrid card game done that way, others just used the books or app. The push and pull system that was worked into a lot of the classes was interesting at least if you used figs, you could play the game more tactically, which was another aspect of why I liked it. For example the bard class had a cunning class feature, if someone missed a companion you could move your companion 5 ft (one square) in any direction as a free action once per round. It felt like my companions were more like pawns in a game of chess...mwahaha!

Besides that, they also brought out forgotten realms campaign guide and players guide along with underdark book and others, good amount of interesting info along with the app which was amazing. Was pretty sad how they left that app in the trash bin when I went looking for it.

Edit* I said this previously but i'll say it again since I still believe to be better. The reaction feature in 5e makes less sense than how it is in 4e, a reaction comes after someone acts not before and does not interrupt a persons turn/action that caused the reaction. 4e had reactions split with interrupts to distinguish the two.

I never played anything 4th edition related but I heard enough about it to dislike it pretty much on principle.

From what I gather salient traits of the 4th edition were:

- it was tuned in a very videogame-y fashion, resembling closely a typical MMO.

- Consequently it was very number-focused.

- All class felt pretty much the same to play for the sake of being "balanced" (similar damage output, similar utilities under different names, etc).

I heard good things about its "minions system", on the other hand, but opinions about it seem fairly divided.

My point was that the big thing that designates one edition from the other, is the mechanics, not the setting and lore. So if not trying to be particularly faithful to the rules of 5th Edition, why bother attaching to it? The setting, Forgotten Realms, is edition agnostic, its the ruleset that cares if its 5th Edition or not, so acting like being faithful to the mechanics isn't that big of a deal is bizarre to me. That is my point.

Not quite on that. Each edition marks a change in time. For example, BG3 depends on Descent into Avernus happening, which is a 5e module. The editions are kinda a set of stories in Faerun, and Faerun changes as the editions do. Doing a 3.5e game could work but it would be a little incongruous by following the 5e timeline.

So has Sven finally decided if he wants to do D:OS3? I mean, there is no shame in admitting you can't do D&D.

I'm hoping not. rather I am hoping Bg3 doesn't become more of a DOS3. Larian has the potential to make the best dnd game ever, and 5e is a part of that.