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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur's Gate 3: Do You Need to Play Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 Before? (afkgaming.com)
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With the release of Baldur's Gate 3, many gamers are wondering if they need to play the first two games before diving into the third. Here's a breakdown of the plot of the previous 2 games.

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[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I'm used to playing tabletop and wanted to play digital D&D, I don't really want to have to play completely differently than on tabletop. Having ranged characters being unable to utilise their maximum range increments because of RTwP is something that annoys me.

And it's not like I can't, it's just incredibly fiddly. Blaming players for not "wanting to learn" an experience that is less enjoyable for them is disingenuous. You wondered why people don't like RTwP, and I shared why: it's nothing to do with not being able to deal with the speed (your "just pause!" remark meant this, I assume), it's just a less optimisable experience when solutions like "waiting until the fight is set up" can take literal actions.

(Also syncing attacks is such a pain when everyone can have offset internal timers just because someone had to move one step further to get into position before taking their queued action.)

It's what makes spells like Web and Grease so important, like I said in my original reply, so I already had my own solution, but it's a fundamentally different game.