Baldur's Gate 3 - out now for PC, PS5 9/6

[KSUowls]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flightwhite24

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Definitely feel you. I came into this game not knowing a whole lot about DnD.

I made a character, played probably like 4 hours. Had fun, but felt like I was missing something. I did learn a lot during those first few hours though.

So, I deleted that campaign and rolled a brand new character. I felt so much more comfortable in the game after that. Hard to recommend telling someone to just delete 4 hours of progress and try again, but I don't think that there is any substitute to experiencing things first hand.

A few tips that I would recommend:
1 - Unless you just want to do it for some kind of roleplay purpose, don't try to balance out your character stats. It's better to be really good in 1 or 2 stats than kind of equal across the board, even if it means one stat is really low.

2 - Combat will be very unique to each class, but don't be afraid to use your environment (as well as items in the environment) to help. Breaking a wine barrel next to an enemy? Well, alcohol is quite flammable and it is easy to have a character with access to a fire cantrip early on.

3 - Be careful with longresting. Many story elements are progressed by long resting, even when you don't realize it. Don't refrain from doing it if you need to, and not every long rest will advance the story. Just be aware that there is the potential there.

[Armor and Sword]

I restarted as well after about 5 hours when I finally figured out how to do some things better. And rerolled a brand new character.

Dark Elf Warlock named Varis. Much better for my personality in roll playing games. I like to be dark and have touches of serious evil.


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[Armor and Sword]

My god……..this game…….fantastic.


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[Cowboy008]

What do you guys think about karmic dice rolls? On or off? I’ve read a lot of people saying to turn it off.

[Armor and Sword]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cowboy008

What do you guys think about karmic dice rolls? On or off? I’ve read a lot of people saying to turn it off.

I have them on…..enjoying the game. Why are people saying turn them off?


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[KSUowls]

I have it turned on, and I roll critical misses on dialog options far more often than should be statistically probable. I have seen some people say to turn it off, but I'm scared just how much worse my luck can be. I already will go through streak of rolling 1's on 3 out of 5 consecutive dialog opportunities with surprising frequency. I don't want to know what bad luck streak I could hit with them off

[KSUowls]

One other tip for players that took me far too long to realize myself.

If you notice that Shadowheart is missing a lot of her attacks (specifically her cantrip fireball). It's because Fireball is her race (elf) cantrip and it is tied to the Int stat (which Shadowheart does not have a lot of points there unless you respec her.) So, even though the damage range is lower, you're going to have much more success using her other cantrips to attack with.

[Flightwhite24]

Between the YouTube videos and OS I’m slowly getting a grasp. This game is something else and I’m just learning as I go.

Folks it’s a great time to be a gamer. This game and Starfield has my attention and I haven’t even dug into Madden 24 as much as I wanted to and NBA 2K is up next.


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