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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:yeah, but I can't imagine adding more party members is high on the priority list on day 2 of the games ea release This is me going off my shoddy memory but I recall Larian saying they were definitely planning to put in more classes/races so I (maybe wrongly) assume more companions/origins will come with that. Though they've kept companions tight in OS/OS2 so who knows! Granted this is all way down the line after making sure the game doesn't burst into flames.
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Why they opt in 5e to wait until 3rd level to give fighters their subclasses and thus maybe some cool stuff to do I’ll never know other than gently caress You, Fighters.
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Oct 8, 2020 11:40
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Phlegmish posted:https://wccftech.com/baldurs-gate-3-sales-are-already-insane-says-larian-ceo/ Yeah, after seeing how early the OS2 EA was, how much was drastically changed, and how polished it came out the other side, Larian really means the early part of it. But they also use it like it should be used.
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Oct 8, 2020 14:21
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I headbutted Astarion right in his stupid elf face so he’s alright in my book. The fact I was a halfling with 9 strength was added salt in the wound. I also got a camp event of Gale admiring himself with Minor Illusion and how can I hate that?
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Oct 8, 2020 14:27
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I did that to three people at once with Thunder Wave. It was hilarious and also murdered my framerate.
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Oct 8, 2020 16:02
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Phlegmish posted:I haven't played yet, but I think the complaint is more that all of them are like that. You also need companions like Imoen or Eder or whoever, who are just happy to be there and personally loyal to you. I admittedly haven’t played very much yet because I’m all up in this Divinity Unleashed life right now but Gale seems pretty chill so far. Except the whole being a wizard thing. You’re all wildly different people thrust together by being kidnapped by goddamn mind flayers and brain-slugged, I wouldn’t be “happy to be there” either. All that being said I would love a super friendly warforged bard or something. He’s got no brain to slug but he’s along for the ride!
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Oct 9, 2020 00:39
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RedLobster posted:In fairness dms dont usually tell you the DC and ask whether you still want to roll Ask ‘em twice and if they still insist shrug and let them dig their own grave.
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Oct 10, 2020 22:35
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Horizon Burning posted:I do like that this game allows you to do DOS:2 levels of cheese. I just blew Minthara's raiding party back to the Stone Age with like twenty barrels of explosives. Incredible. I will adore Larian’s unique kind of terrain and elemental field insanity until the day I die.
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Oct 11, 2020 08:34
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My only real complaint about the nautilus is that the bulbs dangling from the ceiling are a bit hard to see because they’re otherwise a great introduction to elemental fields, along with the tanks of brine.
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Oct 12, 2020 09:24
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blizzardvizard posted:The what now They're there! I'm not sure if there's any actually in the combat arenas but there's definitely some in the room Shadowheart's pod is in.
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Oct 12, 2020 10:27
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I couldn't do it. I tried my very best but I just can't not play a new Baldur's Gate. Which class is lacking from the pre-made characters or which pre-made character is the most annoying/least interesting? Shadowheart (cleric) is annoying, Astarion (rogue) is a dumb noble bastard who gets old. Shadowheart has the double whammy of being terribly statted. 9 friggen dex?
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Oct 13, 2020 08:09
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I did like the look of a warlock. I like the idea of having a reason to have a high charisma character. Warlock is super fun. Eldritch Blast with the proper invocations (and hex) hits like a truck, and the high cha helps with all the dialog skill checks.
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Oct 13, 2020 08:31
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Wow Shadowheart really isn’t a fan of you being a githyanki huh. I got a warmer reception as a drat drow.
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Oct 14, 2020 15:17
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Planescape: Torment was the first real exposure I had to D&D as a whole and Dak'kons loredives into the Gith and their history loving fascinated 13 year old me, so even if they're the rear end in a top hat Gith I'm just happy to see any Gith be pretty prominent.  I'd love to see some Githzerai show up later on to see the other side of the coin. Going to one of their fortress cities in Limbo would be the tits.
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Oct 15, 2020 07:00
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blizzardvizard posted:The game definitely does not explain things well to people unfamiliar with the tabletop rules, for now anyway. I can't remember if D:OS2 had particularly good tutorial but hopefully they'll explain these things better in the release version. Just a minor correction, rapiers don’t have the light trait but are finesse weapons.
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Oct 16, 2020 11:35
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French Canadian posted:Should Lae'Zel be in my party from very early in the act? Like...she was trapped in a cage, and I freed her, but she vanished or something and I haven't seen her in a long time I think. Not sure where she ran off to...a bug? Is she not at camp? Related, just give me a party loadout screen Larian this having to talk to people to take them out then talk to who I want to out in stuff is for the birds.
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Oct 18, 2020 00:21
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Man if I can leave Lae’zel in the cage to make her even pissier later that would be great. I don’t hate her but I was disappointed she’s not at least a little friendlier to another Githyanki.
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Oct 18, 2020 00:46
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French Canadian posted:Without spoiling, can I expect to meet a fighter-ish companion in this act? I feel like I just need someone to use all these big weapons and armor I come across. I don't have Lae'zel so I don't know her class, but I have Astarion, Gael, and Shadowheart. My main is a wizard :/ You can find a fighter within minutes of exiting the tutorial, yes.
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Oct 18, 2020 14:07
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Aurubin posted:If they do put Minsc in as anything more than a fanservice cameo, like Volo, how is he still alive. Also why does no one address the latter, Volo included. l I'll also like to see if they don't play his mental illness for humor, but have the tadpole pretend to be Boo or something. Alternatively make it a Flowers for Algernon scenario. Clearly he took levels in warlock with the Miniature Giant Space Hamster patron to prolong his life.
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Oct 19, 2020 15:18
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Poor statting aside, the fact half-elves don’t currently get the weapon proficiencies they do in tabletop 5e hurts her a lot too. Her having access to shortswords and bows would make it easier for them to drop her strength and up her dex to more fit what trickery domain would like, otherwise she’s basically stuck with daggers. As is she’s got the bog-standard cleric starting kit and it sucks. She sucks. Please put in another healer-type soon Larian.
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Oct 20, 2020 18:57
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There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do with unconventional clerics with weird domains and racial weapon proficiencies! And they gave us Shadowheart.
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Oct 20, 2020 19:03
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Lae’zel has gone in hard on this whole Githyanki thing, which is basically screaming gently caress you at anyone who isn’t a Githyanki until your lifeforce is sucked out by a lich queen.
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Oct 20, 2020 22:52
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Druid for wildshape and paladin for smite both seem like they could throw up some problems. Though smite could easily be implemented like sneak attack is now, a hotbar action instead of something decided on after the fact.
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Oct 25, 2020 04:29
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Devorum posted:I'd hate Smite to be that way. One of the major strengths of Smite is that it can be used after you know you hit or crit. It could easily be something that doesn’t eat a spell slot if it misses. Though that does take some of the satisfaction away.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:29
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Doctor Nutt posted:Just picked this up after getting on a crpg tear and mainlining poe1 and 2, and wondering why during character creation my charisma is maxed out at 15? Feels kinda janky, thought this game was supposed to be a pretty faithful interpretation of 5e. You’re limited to a starting max ability of 15 in the PHB point-buy system, before taking racial modifiers into account.
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Jan 19, 2021 18:36
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Your choices are Iron Man, Has-gun, or some person who makes potions and one of these things is not like the others.
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Jan 19, 2021 22:23
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Turds in magma posted:I just remember it was the time when they started making classes available to more races, normalizing buffs between alliance and horde. I'm sure it got much worse. I also may have no idea what I'm saying, it's been a very long time. Piling on eighty billion buffs at the start of every fight is lame and unfun, having to actually choose what to use vs what to drop is much more interesting. Plus there are plenty of options that don't need concentration. It doesn't "wipe them out", it forces you to make a choice as to what to use. It's not perfect and I think a feat or something to let you keep one or two more effects going under concentration would be an okay idea, but if you go too ham in that direction you have the ever-present problem D&D has had before of "just use all casters they're better at literally everything".
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OS2 was in EA about a year and I think the majority if not all of that was just the first act? I imagine BG3 will be similar, maybe a bit longer since they have a new system to work with and have to deal with communication/getting go-aheads from WotC and stuff. E: A lot of stuff in OS2 was also added way late in EA, like the Polymorph/Summoner skills.
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Feb 6, 2021 01:13
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Are poor half-elves finally getting the rest of their racial kit?
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Feb 17, 2021 21:30
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Who the gently caress wouldn’t want to be an elephant-man? I want to be an elephant-man!
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Mescal posted:-How do I know what's a fey, fiend, celestial, or aberration? -Right click the enemy and go down to examine. There's a very detailed stat screen there including their type. -Your bonus to attack is your attack ability modifier (Str, Dex, or whichever stat your caster is using), plus your proficiency bonus if you're using something you're proficient in (starts at +2), plus whatever other modifiers you might have from spells or weapon bonuses or the like. Your ability score modifier starts at +0 at 10 and increases or decreases by 1 every 2 points from there (+1 at 12-13, -1 at 8-9, etc). So if their AC is 13 and you're attacking with a weapon you're proficient with using an ability that's at 10, you have 2(proficiency bonus)+0(Ability score modifier)= +2 as a bonus to your roll, so you need at least an 11. If your score is 13 you have 2+1(ability score modifier)= +3 to hit, so you would need a 10. -Your casting stat is dependent on your class. Wizards use Intelligence, Warlocks use Charisma, Clerics/Druids/Rangers use Wisdom. So no need to worry about a spell being off-class if it's on your list. -I'm not sure what you're asking here. Weapon proficiencies depend on your class, and you can see what you can use on your character panel. Lae'zel for example should be able to use every weapon you find since she's a fighter. Wizards have a very limited selection, so they have to be choosier but won't be using weapons much anyway thanks to offensive cantrips.
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Apr 5, 2021 11:30
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Larian doesn’t really do short games.
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Apr 6, 2021 03:46
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Mordaedil posted:It used to be even more obtuse with THAC0 and the ability scores not even giving bonuses until they were 15 or higher. What, your fighter's strength is only 18/99? Pathetic.
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I still haven't played a whole ton of this due to wanting to not burnout/be annoyed by the inevitable bugs, but "Teethlings" and the dialog options to call that out continues to be one of the best understated little bits of character building I've seen in a while.
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Apr 30, 2021 03:45
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Mordecai posted:Where are the dang wuxia-inspired monks in D&D and Pathfinder? It's all about unarmed for some reason. Bruce Lee? Kensai is a whole thing though?
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May 4, 2021 10:18
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Yeah Yeenoghu's whole thing is being King Fucker of Gnoll Mountain so he should have a massive pack of the snickering bastards with him when he throws down.
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May 15, 2021 06:00
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Mordaedil posted:Honestly, the only thing I'd change about 5e on a personal level is to add another higher level choice that works a bit like choosing subclass again at level 10~15, sort of like 4e's Paragon choice. If you like those sort of periodic, pivotal choices that define your character, grab a copy of Shadow of the Demon Lord. Its super cool and has neat stuff like that. Which is a system I would love to see turned into a videogame. Though the Level 0 portion could be harrowing but that’s the whole point of being level 0.
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May 15, 2021 10:42
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Larian kept EA to the first act of OS2 as well, while adding in systems and skills and other poo poo that needs tweaking while scenarios and stuff are playtested in-house.
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Jul 4, 2021 08:36
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"The Monster Math is wrong" has been an ongoing issue for D&D since 3.0. At this point it's a feature of the franchise.
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Play co-op with a moon circle druid buddy has lead me to believe 95% of the appeal of the class is photobombing conversations because I’m the talkey one and taking up my entire dang screen with their dopey bear face/butt. I have to admit its made me want to try one.
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