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On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:32:43 -0600, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, PW
wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:05:09 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
><
justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 12:29:35?PM UTC-7, PW wrote:
>>> Thanks for that tip about the dice roll setting Justisaur!
>>>
>>> I did restart as a Paladin but after reading about dice rolls and
>>> strategies necessary to understand and how to grasp BG3, I decided I
>>> don`t have the time and devotion and commitment necessary to learn
>>> and survive in the game. So I shelved it and may restart Starield as
>>> something else besides a cook/chef.
>>>
>>
>>I don`t know you really need to know much about the dice rolls. Dice
>>rolls are there in the form of RNG in most games, they`re just hidden.
>>I`m assuming the reason it has them so prominently displayed is
>>because it`s trying to emulate playing D&D with a group of friends.
>>
>>I`m against some of the things 5th edition added to make them a bit
>>more mechanical like advantage/disadvantage. All you really need
>>to know about those is that it`s very good when you have advantage
>>and very bad (usually) when you have disadvantage, and the opposite
>>is true for you when your enemies have them.
>>
>>Now it gets more complicated in how people get advantage and
>>disadvantage. Not being able to see someone gives them advantage
>>to hit you and you disadvantage to hit them. A rogue can get
>>advantage just by having a friendly being next to an enemy. That`s
>>where the game gets very tactical.
>>
>>All the other usual stuff in most RPGs apply, bonuses to accuracy (
>>to hit) are good for you, bonuses to damage are also good. A magic
>>weapon with +1 means 5% better accuracy, and +1 damage. If
>>you have a 16 Str, that means you get +3 to hit and damage with
>>heavier melee and thrown weapons. Dex gives that to you for
>>ranged and `finesse` weapons. Wisdom gives a bonus to
>>hit with cleric & druid spells, Int for wizard, and cha for paladin,
>>sorcerer, warlock & bard.
>>
>>But I get it, BG3 I`ve quit 3 times and I have to keep taking breaks
>>because it gets tedious for me. I`m back on my 8th level
>>characters because it seems they fixed the bugs I was having
>>with that games, and I`m just trying to get through it now.
>>
>>- Justisaur
>
>*--
>
>This the articlle that made me give up:
>https://www.pcgamer.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-dandd5e-to-play-baldurs-gat
e-3/
>
>I totally do not understand much, if any, of what it is talking about!
>
It is a confused mess. It was based on a confused mess of compiled
supplements and tables. It was modified into a confused mess of maths.
Then they drew back from the maths and made a simplified and streamlined
confused mess of it.
It has always been a confused mess. It always will be. Nobody actually
knows how to play the game.
...and then there`s 4e.
--
Zag
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