Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

With respect to melee getting in range...

In general Larian has done things with magic items in particular that I feel Wizards of the Coast could learn from. D&D 5e has been overly influenced by Chris Perkins and his whole 'magic abilities are plentiful, magic items are scarce' mentality. I find myself with a ton of magic items but with a variety of augmentations and abilities that are synergistic in a fun way rather than just 'Longsword + 2 & Scale Mail + 1'

Qhue said:

With respect to melee getting in range...

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There are some boots that grant you double base movement as a bonus action effect. I put those on Karlach and she's zipping around the battlefield like a cricket on crack

In general Larian has done things with magic items in particular that I feel Wizards of the Coast could learn from. D&D 5e has been overly influenced by Chris Perkins and his whole 'magic abilities are plentiful, magic items are scarce' mentality. I find myself with a ton of magic items but with a variety of augmentations and abilities that are synergistic in a fun way rather than just 'Longsword + 2 & Scale Mail + 1'

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Urlithani said:

- Everyone has a British accent or whatever when very few people did in BG1/2.

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This is the part that bugs me the most.

That and the constant faggotry like the bug bear scene and that Astarion rogue who talks like a stereotypical fag, like Milo Yannopolis with a thick british accent.

Rhanyn said:

Lae’zel gets it as a goth passive and it has made her one of my go to melee party members for that reason.

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Now there's a good mod idea! Turn Lae'zel into a goth girl!

They turned the stat increase into a feat, but it still functions the exact same. You had to choose between stats and feat, and still do. Monks also start at 1d8 with fists instead of 1d6 as they do in standard 5e, so they start stronger now but don't scale as high.

Someone should make a gag mod for this game, all it does is add "... if you can ever manage to land a hit." to every damage ability.

Meh just got in a fight and after Lae'zel has a dialogue line my combat is broken, the only option I have is to press space to skip which does nothing but it's her turn so I can't advance the combat at all, have to reload game. Luckily I autosaved like 5 minutes before the fight but still very annoying.

Dr.Retarded said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your monk unarmed attacks don't rise in damage as you level like in tabletop? Maybe I'm missing something. The one thing I'm seeing is I think if you spec for a weapon, it's now considered a monk weapon? Is it possible to spec for martial weapons and override that lack of damage progression?

Monks just seem wonky compared to what I'm used to from 5e. Maybe I'm just blind, but it's definitely doesn't seem the same as tabletop.

Also, is the only way to increase your stats is by forgoing a feat, or choosing a feat with a stat bump. I bought every four levels in 5e, you got staff points that you could allocate on top of earning a feat. Find you it's been a couple years since I played tabletop, but I'm almost positive that wasn't the case there.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

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for monk stuff, larian said that any weapon you are proficient in is now considered a monk weapon. so, gith are naturally proficient in greatswords, which means if you play a gith monk, greatswords are now monk weapons (which is kind of insane, honestly, but it's a lot more straightforward so i get why they did it).

as for the stat/feat stuff, in 5e every 4 levels in a class (with certain exceptions, rogues and fighters get extra intervals) gets an ASI (ability score improvement). in the players handbook feats are technically considered variant rules. in this variant ruling, instead of taking an ASI, you can choose to take an approved feat. though, honestly i've never heard of any game NOT using feats... maybe adventure league stuff which tends to be pretty strict on ruling, but i don't know.

putting those paragraphs together would mean that if you took the "weapon master" feat as a monk, you'd gain 4 monk weapons.

I don't have D&D experience outside of playing Never Winter Nights

What is the best Combat CC class, like not dialogue related Charm, but actual Charm?

Is that still Bard?

Just reading up on your guys stuff that Artillerist class sounded fun, but isn't even in this game(?)

I'd like to recreate the D2 Trap Assassin, (or FFT Calculator) but since that doesn't sound possible, The Storm Sorcerer, or Spore Druid sound promising

Don't know if this is still relevant:

but this sounds cool, sans playing as a Dragon Person, not playing a faggot Beast Race, or fucking tiny person for that matter

I really, really, really hate D&D rulesets in video games.

I'm going to give my Steam review a 1 star no matter how many hours I play or how much i like it otherwise and tell them to make DOS3 next time.

Edit: Cry more, trans bugbears!

Break said:

I really, really, really hate D&D rulesets in video games.

I'm going to give my Steam review a 1 star no matter how many hours I play or how much i like it otherwise and tell them to make DOS3 next time.

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Furry said:

I mean, I dislike the D&D ruleset too, but nobody is going against you for the captain of the color guard for the pride parade here, you can ease up on the homo.

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1 and 5 star reviews are all that matter, for any kind of product review system.

Voyce said:

I don't have D&D experience outside of playing Never Winter Nights

What is the best Combat CC class, like not dialogue related Charm, but actual Charm?

Is that still Bard?

Just reading up on your guys stuff that Artillerist class sounded fun, but isn't even in this game(?)

I'd like to recreate the D2 Trap Assassin, (or FFT Calculator) but since that doesn't sound possible, The Storm Sorcerer, or Spore Druid sound promising

Don't know if this is still relevant:

but this sounds cool, sans playing as a Dragon Person, not playing a faggot Beast Race, or fucking tiny person for that matter

Gamer Guides

Here is a build for Storm Sorcerer in Baldur's Gate 3, featuring best spells, race, feats, and other gameplay tips.

www.gamerguides.com

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i skimmed that reddit post, but it all seemed spot on.

"the best" dnd anything is generally going to be pretty subjective. but there are a couple of generalized things you want to keep in mind. CC spells like hold person, charm, hideous laughter, banish, etc are all DC based. which means that in order to afflict creatures they need to make a saving throw and beat the spell's DC (difficulty chance) which is based on who is casting (or what, if it's a scroll or an item, usually those have their own specific DC, but larian may have cut that aspect out, i haven't noticed). spell DC is 8+proficiency+spell casting modifier. so a lvl 1 wizard with 16 INT is going to have a spell DC of 13. this is why it's important to have a high spell casting stat.

a sorcerer however gets metamagic, and one of the metemagic options is "heightened spell" which gives creatures disadvantage on spell saves, so TECHNICALLY the best caster, DC wise is going to be a sorcerer. however, wizards obviously get the most varied options in spells. bards (especially lore bards) are good because a lot of their spells are utility and cc type spells, and they can also use... uh, i think cutting words? or silvery barbs? (is that spell in this game? i don't know, i don't play bards) to give disadvantage on spells saves so that's helpful.

"the best" almost always comes down to the specific situation.

and "artillerist" is a subclass of artificers, which are not in the game. larian wanted to focus on the things in the player's handbook and make sure they could get all that in before adding anything from later books and 5e introduced artificers several years down the road.

Break said:

I really, really, really hate D&D rulesets in video games.

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They fulfill an important role in the tabletop ecosystem. They allow players to murderhobo around on the most broken bullshit they can cobble together without anyone at a table having to put up with that nonsense.

Arbitrary said:

They fulfill an important role in the tabletop ecosystem. They allow players to murderhobo around on the most broken bullshit they can cobble together without anyone at a table having to put up with that nonsense.

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One thing I don't like about D&D is all the weird conditionals that item upgrades get.

Longsword + 1 - fine
Longsword of Burninating - Adds 1d4 fire damage to peasants if wielder is named Trogdor. Weapons that are almost certainly worse than a +1 most of the time.
Staff of Wizbanging - does double damage to Gender Fluids and Otherkins on their "periods". Weapons that are useful for like 1% of the game.

Ok i'll shut up now and let you cool kids enjoy the D&D, don't mind me.