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teraflopsweat, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

They put a lot of time into making sure the game would be accessible and fun for new players. Give it a go and I’d wager you’ll have a blast

Catma, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

Really none. The game walks you through rolls and what each thing does.

Having a little knowledge of how D&D works only serves to make the leveling up process go quicker since you have ideas on how to allocate stats or what specialties you take without reading through everything.

TheAndrewBrown,

Yeah I think OP is looking at this from the wrong way. As opposed to a normal game you’ve never played before in which you have to learn the mechanics completely from scratch, with BG3, if you have any knowledge of 5e, you’ll be able to pick it up easier.

Zoot_, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?
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No knowledge of dnd needed, from someone who has no knowledge of dnd and having a grand time

half_built_pyramids, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

Paladin and smite, all you need

SolOrion,

Am playing a Paladin in a 5e game rn, can confirm. If only I had more smite slots…

rolofox, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?
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If you have experience with RPGs that’s all you need, the game will walk you thru it as others have said, I’ve never played d&d and having a good time

Taako_Tuesday, do games w What is your gaming "comfort food" and why?

Minecraft. I go through phases of not playing it, but once or twice a year I’ll start up a new world and just mindlessly build and mine while listening to a podcast or an audiobook, and will play every night for several weeks. I’ve started so many minecraft worlds over the years that I really don’t need to think about what to do next

Poggervania, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?
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As somebody with no knowledge of 5e but some knowledge of 3.5e, it’s been pretty user-friendly. The game goes out of its way to make mechanics pretty easy to grasp. Tooltips can be brought up to and you can go further with any highlighted words in the spell/ability tooltip, so you can look up what “Prone” is when you’re look at the “Trip Attack” tooltip, as an example.

The only knock I have so far is that it doesn’t outline class progression at all, especially since the game apparently does deviate from tabletop rules at times, but that’s more of a QoL thing than anything else.

retrieval4558, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

In my opinion, It helps to know the rock bottom basics (like why is this d20 being rolled all the time and what the stats are) but it’s certainly not a necessity.

Navarian, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

There is a considerable amount of depth to the game, but it’s not insurmountable for anyone. You’ll have no problem going through the game if you read through tool tips and help pop-ups as they arise. DnD knowledge needed is none at all or negligible at best.

If you do end up playing, I hope you enjoy!

currychaos, do games w What is your gaming "comfort food" and why?

Hollow Knight for sure. Just load up a couple of randomizers and explore hallownest for the millionth time

argv_minus_one, do gaming w Rant: Frustration Related to Ethics of Games Companies

My partner is very tuned into the various ethical mishaps happening in the world and keeps me apprised of which companies are doing shitty stuff and which people/companies I should stop supporting.

Problem: the set of companies you shouldn’t support due to unethical behavior is pretty much all of them. As the saying goes, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. If doing business with someone with blood on their hands puts blood on your hands, then only the hands of hermits and children are clean.

This is one of the reasons why I use free and open source software wherever possible, but very few games are FOSS and most of them were commercial before being FOSSified (e.g. Doom).

Sidyctism, do gaming w What incremental games do you enjoy?

I recently restarted cookie clicker. Big mistake

Arkham, do gaming w What are some game genres / styles you like that aren't being made anymore, or are being mde but not very often?

RPGs in the style of the Ultima games, specifically ones that use a keyword-based conversion system. Aside from the Ultima series itself, the only other examples I know of that use a system like this are Cythera - a 1990s Macintosh shareware game that was very similar to Ultima 6 and 7 - and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.

jayrodtheoldbod, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 6th

Transport Fever 2, because I can ride da choo choos

It’s super chill and relaxing, you just have to ignore the rest of your empire falling into ruin

sandriver, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 6th

Continuing the PSO2:NGS grind. Leciel is extremely fun, just the right amount of tension and challenge, and constant novel boss “twists”. Yesterday we had a boss with breakable parts and a breakable bomb, as well as buffs to damage to breakable parts. The strat was to stagger him by breaking his legs then do a mad rush to break the bomb before it wiped the entire party.

Beyond that, continuing my journey through .hack//IMOQ. It’s immediately clear how special this series is. Not just for being the seminal story about an imaginary game, and being fairly unique in actually looking at how people interact with games as a third place, and the queer potential of video games; but also for actually providing a playable version of the imaginary game. Including an MMO version of the MMO!

I really want .hack to come back. Log Horizon rules, and I like the more heroic, legendary, and optimistic tone and theming, but there’s something really appealing at how realistic .hack is without being dark, gritty, or cynical. The sense of romance in the game’s backstory is great too. All this weird background fabric about genius programmers singlehandedly changing the course of the world, people overhwelmed by emotions; meanwhile the spotlight is on real people.

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