Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Larian knows Baldur's Gate 3's D&D combat is super complicated: "We used to joke you basically need a tutorial for every class" (www.gamesradar.com)

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"So then it's onboarding people, teaching them how to play D&D, which is really complex"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, all my trouble comes from my party members. I understand my character and his limitations, but managing classes that I don't fully understand has led to me greying out spells due to armor restrictions or causing my party to accidentally split because the wizard, weighed down by cloth, a book, and a cane, can't jump as high as my fully-kitted out fighter with ringmail and a greatsword and now is alone in combat against some CR3 monster.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just in case you don’t know, jump distance is determined entirely by the strength stat