Combat In Baldur’s Gate 3 Doesn’t Make Any Sense

The scale and ambition evident in Baldur’s Gate 3 made it a hit with video game fans, but for tabletop RPG players, some of the mechanics changed from 5e Dungeons & Dragons suggests a misunderstanding of the system’s balance at all. Almost any video game based on a tabletop RPG system will have to make some changes to adapt to a different format, usually involving omitting certain spells, skills, or abilities that would be complex to program. BG3‘s liberties with 5e DnD’s rules go beyond this, showing no fundamental grasp of central 5e concepts like bounded accuracy, which has had strangely made punching the best weapon.