yes
I mean, you can play as an antropomorphic cat, a birdperson who can only imitate other peoples' speech, or a talking reptile in a D&D game if you want to. It's up to you! :D
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Baldur's Gate 3 - Leaked screenshots - SPOILERS ahead
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I mean, you can play as an antropomorphic cat, a birdperson who can only imitate other peoples' speech, or a talking reptile in a D&D game if you want to. It's up to you! :D
That's really good, so the same thing will apply to the NPCs then. I just have never played anything D&D related.
For all the people commenting on how the UI is too close to Original Sin 2: you should probably consider that the UI is most likely the MOST PLACEHOLDER thing and the part that's going to change the most of everything they are going to show today.
While this is true, I don't know if implementing all those races is in the means for Larian. They've indicated that this is their biggest game yet, and I hope they've got a good collection of interesting races to choose from.
Reskin the UI to look like BG style and hand-paint the character portraits and I'm ready to slap a 10/10 on this baby
yeah, it's gonna be up to Larian, though...
...because of this. I hope we can see some Tabaxi, Kenku, Goliaths and all those "not-standard" races.
It's gonna be using a completely different ruleset, but its still looking like a turn-based CRPG so be prepared for some similarities.
Not sure about the others, but there's no way the PC will be able to be Kenku. The only imitation thing makes it basically impossible.
It's from deviantart, there's a few.
I feel that Dak'kon's excellent story arc is somewhat underrated.
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Okay, I see your point, that might old very fast. I'm kinda curious, you don't see it very often, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.
Kenku are the best because they manage to avoid a lot of the pitfalls most anthropomorphic animals (and dragons) fall in.
I'm very excited to see what this looks like in action. They're going to have to make some tweaks and expansions to D&D 5e to make it work for a CRPG, but if anyone can do it I think Larian can. I'd love it if this resembled The Temple of Elemental Evil, which is still probably the gold standard for combat in a Dungeons and Dragons game.
As for those bemoaning the lack of RTwP, if you haven't checked out Siege of Dragonspear it's way better than a midquel expansion made 16 years after the fact had any right to be. It's not perfect, but it's a pity that Wizards cancelled all of Beamdog's other Infinity Engine products after shithead-related backlash.
As for those bemoaning the lack of RTwP, if you haven't checked out Siege of Dragonspear it's way better than a midquel expansion made 16 years after the fact had any right to be. It's not perfect, but it's a pity that Wizards cancelled all of Beamdog's other Infinity Engine products after shithead-related backlash.
Larian generates heat like no other cRPG studio can, on an original IP.
I don't see how them taking on D&D right when tabletop is having a renaissance period could be spun as a bad thing!
Larian is one of those devs just get keeps getting better and better. Divinity 2 blew me away, will jump into this one day 1.
If there's one thing you never have to worry about with the Forgotten Realms setting, it's race/class diversity
gonna quote myself if anyone unfamiliar with 5E (or D&D altogether) wanders by and is interested because of Larian/D:OS o any other reason.
Swen reacts to leak
Swen is gonna don his armor and bring ruination to the world over this.
Thanks a lot for this. What a great summary. I'm actually liking this at least on the paper. Let's see how it turns out in couple of hours!
I know this exceeds the scope of the thread and the BG3 announcement itself, but if you have the chance to play D&D 5E, then it's absolutely recommended! I was a complete D&D noob up until a few years ago and tried 5E... no regrets whatsoever! It's a more streamlined and accesible version of D&D without sacrificing customizing your characters.
Agreed, D&D with a good group is better than any video game I've ever played.
For folks coming into the D&D 5e world blind, here's an idea of what (should) be available for players - hopefully:
Base 5e races: Dragonborn, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Halfling, Half-Orc, Human, Tiefling.
(Then there are a bunch of subraces under those.)
Base classes: Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard.
(Then there are a bunch of specializations under those.)
Anything else you could possibly want to look up is easily found online.
Like, I fully expect to be able to make my half-elf warlock.... but my Eladrin spore druid is probably gonna be a no.
Base 5e races: Dragonborn, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Halfling, Half-Orc, Human, Tiefling.
(Then there are a bunch of subraces under those.)
Base classes: Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard.
(Then there are a bunch of specializations under those.)
Anything else you could possibly want to look up is easily found online.
Like, I fully expect to be able to make my half-elf warlock.... but my Eladrin spore druid is probably gonna be a no.
...and also slightly ruins every RPG video game in comparison.
I hope they add extra races / classes down the road, especially from Xanathar's considering their popularity.
I'd love to remake the Hexblade Warlock I ran for Strahd but may have to settle for a Fighter/Warlock multiclass.
Smdh, besmirching Disco when it's the only game where you can go on a random-ass tangent about a boxer, then circle around back to it when succeeding at a more relevant skillcheck.
Looks beautiful, let's get the hype going Boo!!
I think Hexblade is a pretty safe bet. I could see some Volos and Mordenkainens stuff getting in too, though Eladrin may be a bit too separated.
Real question is, can we be a tortle?
When and where reveal stream
Why does the last guy look like Emhyr?
I thought it was! Like they'd accidentally uploaded a Witcher 3 screen.
This pretty much. It's like a reversal of Dragon Age Inquisition where they had it full 3D and then used free 3D spinning camera for conversation, probably thinking "But we could do this back on BG!" but it's a problem of modes I find.
Bringing the camera down brings new limitations. Now you're paying attention to lip-sync and gestures. This means, probably as implied by your choices that you're gonna see similar-ish choices, because they have to sync up stuff which costs a lot to do well, across a whole game of these dialogue trees.
I'm not completely bummed. I love cinematic RPGs. I'm a bit bummed on behalf of certain classic players that just wanted "Divinity, but it's Baldur's Gate and realtime combat".
Yeah, I too am a bit skeptical. It's a huge bump to immersion if lip syncing and character animation are done well throughout the game (like the Witcher 3, say), but I have seen very few developers pull that off properly in large RPGs, because it's just a ton of work for the animators. Mass Effect Andromeda's sidequests (hell, much of its main quest too) were basically dead on arrival from a storytelling standpoint because of a lack of care and detail in the associated animations, for example.
And this is arguably more difficult to integrate, because it's presumably a different camera mode from the one you use for navigation and combat.
I'm curious how - or if - the game models resting. I think it either just shouldn't at all or needs to go all-in and make it a necessary system to engage with, but I also don't really know a good way to do that well.
I'd prefer it to be dropped entirely,. I absolutely love Baldur's Gate and the Pillars games but I don't think the "x uses per rest" mechanic suits video games very well in general.
How about you play it on paper!
I've started playing D&D 5e two years ago and I love it so much that I've become bored with most video games.
Darn. I'll be at work by then. I'll have to wait till I get home.
I got bored with my current character (which is also the first char I rolled in 5E, so I tried doing the most vanilla and accessible char for a complete noob like me), a Fighter/Eldritch Knight, and I've got a completely different one already built, an Arcane Trickster with a backstory I really liked writing, waiting for the chance for me to organically appear in the narrative and replace my current one (already talked to the DM about it!)
Shame about the fact we haven't been able to play in about 3 months. FFS. I'm frustrated about that.
