I dig it. I think it's one of the better games I've played in years, and I hate all the modern shit that's been coming out in current year. It's very different from Kingmaker, but it is like it in that it's turn based and it involves a lot of choice and is full of content. The first act alone is loaded down with different shit you can do and places to explore. It has the feel of a high budget game, since it was, but IMO they put in the work and it came out excellent. You can torrent the full game. Do that and check it out for yourself. Either you'll like it or you won't. At least you won't be out the money if you torrent. To me though, it's one of the more interesting and entertaining games that I've played in recent memory. It's really not anything like BG1 and 2, but its in that world so to speak, but many years later. I havn't experienced anything overtly cringe or woke, or anything that made me feel embarrassed to be playing. It doesn't try to be "funny" and it doesn't go overboard trying to hold your hand and tell you every little thing you're supposed to be doing. It's pretty challenging at times, but not annoyingly so. I don't think I'm even halfway through, but I like it a whole lot. It's one of those games where four hours will go by and you'll look at the clock and wonder where the hell the time went. It's very engaging, imo.
Yeah, the different dialogue choices you get depending on class and race are pretty extraordinary. As a bard I think I've managed to get at least three potential enemies to ack themselves and avoid an encounter entirely by proclaiming an NPC's virility would be the talk of the town:
It's pretty decent. I will say that if you're coming from 5e (which it doesn't seem like you are), be prepared to throw your expectations out the window because the mechanics are half 5e SRD and half Larian house rules like getting a circumstantial bonus or penalty on ranged attacks that depends on the relative height difference between attacker and target, and adjusting durations like making Speak with Animals last until your party's next long rest, or nerfing Hypnotic Pattern to last only two rounds. Tooltip reading is strongly suggested.
Some of the funnier things I've discovered were completely by accident. In the temple where the goblins took over in ACT 1, I was fighting one of the leaders, the goblin witch, and during the fight my PC got shoved into a pit. It was a pretty long fall, so I got hurt pretty bad. No big deal though, I'm not dead. Then I notice, the goblins have two giant spiders locked in the pit lol.
I remember getting ready to fight the hobgoblin leader but didn't feel up to taking a long rest just yet, so I used Karlach to straight up shove him into the nearby chasm. 10/10 would push again.
You know you can enlarge tarlach and actually just throw people right?
I admit I generally don't take or prepare Enlarge/Reduce Person, but with how spells have changed from the SRD I'll consider it. I thought Larian would nerf shoving from early access as it's still pretty powerful—I used it to off Balthazar—but I suppose the downside is you can't loot the bodies afterwards.
I would recommend. However, don't go into the game believing all the hype. You will be disappointed if you do. Also, be sure to go on to the Nexus and download a few mods. Preferably the mods that stop the romances from triggering with the companions.
Are they for individual companions or for all of them? Trying to romance Halsin this time around.
There is three files in that mod. Male, female and all. Give it a another few weeks and I am sure that a modder will make a mod to turn off individual companion romances. Assuming that the Nexus trannies don't throw a fit over such a mod.
If you think that Baldur's Gate 3 modding scene is degenerate just wait for Starfield to be released. This is what happens when a community becomes inundated with troons. The community just becomes degenerate and filled to the brim with degenerate porn.
In what world is 5E fuckmages? 5E brought back what made casters so fucking broken in 3.5E.
scifi is less appealing to coomers, unless you limit your aliens to be green humans or something.
It was like that for Skyrim before the Tumblr dam broke.
You're going to want someone who is proficient in Sleight of Hand to disarm traps and pick locks. Astarion's pretty good at doing that. You should also keep an eye out for a piece of equipment called the Gloves of Thievery (provides advantage on Sleight of Hand checks), which you can get in Act I.
You're going to need a decent Perception score, and getting the feat Dungeon Delver will let you make Perception checks to detect hidden objects with advantage; it also has the added bonus of also providing advantage on saving throws against traps, as well as providing resistance against them.
Keep in mind that some of the spells mentioned above also come as scrolls or potions (the latter of which can be crafted), so you probably won't want to prepare or acquire the really situational ones like Feather Fall. A few companions (like Karlach and Wyll) can gain access to Speak with Animals through class options. Early on in Act I you can get The Amulet of Lost Voices, which allows the wearer to cast Speak with Dead. Misty Step is always a great combat maneuver.
As someone who fell into the trap of thinking 5e rules would be mostly preserved, reconsider taking Mage Hand; it only lasts for a minute and you can only cast it once per short rest.