TheBeagle
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Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games
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j00t
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what do you mean "adding a bunch of nifty spells?"
as far as being a heal bitch... one of the things i like about 5e is that it disrupts the idea of the holy trinity for party management. you can run a full campaign without having a healer class. i don't think that will translate to a video game very well, though, because the DM needs to adjust encounters based on your party composition, in the sense of making sure you have access to healing potions and kits. this game doesn't seem to even have healing kits, but "help"ing a downed member will pick them up with 1hp, which is pretty nice.
i played a grave cleric from lvl 1-20 a few years back and yeah, i did my share of healing, but i also did a ton of damage as well. clerics have some pretty great control and damage spells, and toll the dead is an amazing cantrip. 1d8 damage to creatures, 1d12 if they are already injured. and it's a wisdom save, which a ton of creatures only have an average save on. death clerics even get to add their wisdom modifier to the damage on necrotic cantrips, which toll the dead is so it hits like a truck
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Qhue
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I should have said 'taking the time to code' rather than adding. I actually preferred the way 4e handled healing in that the healer was more of a catalyst for healing rather than a walking medic. In our 5e pen and paper games we've had people try to play creative cleric/druid types the past few campaigns and each time it just hasn't worked out and the same thing is happening here in BG3. Perhaps it has more to do with how hit dice work and the lack of 'short rest' opportunities for the pen and paper version, but in BG3 I really don't see any way around not making the cleric the healbot even with the possibility of a short rest.
TJT
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Well the hallmark of BG2 is, if you're bad, running off and resting whenever possible to restore your heals. But once you learn to play intelligently you don't need to heal in the middle of combat too often and you can get enough potions to not rely solely on cleric/divine heals.
I don't think it will be an issue.
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Dashel
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Thats too funny I was just at that part last night. I did something similar but not there and didn't die. I jumped down fairly far, took damage and fell prone. I love it. Actions have consequences.
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Caliane
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well, in 5e you have a few things going for the healing.
1. is the hit die on rests. everyone has them. So its easy to rest and get them back.
2. Nearly every class has some form of magical healing. yes druids and clerics are the strongest, and most robust. but bards and rangers can do solid patching up too.
They can throw healing potions at you in vidya too. this is one of the easier ways of dealing with the VERY high encounter rate CRPG's tend to have too.
1. is the hit die on rests. everyone has them. So its easy to rest and get them back.
2. Nearly every class has some form of magical healing. yes druids and clerics are the strongest, and most robust. but bards and rangers can do solid patching up too.
They can throw healing potions at you in vidya too. this is one of the easier ways of dealing with the VERY high encounter rate CRPG's tend to have too.
Dashel
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This game is pretty generous on heals and not dying. Mostly 5e stuff. Healing spells, abilities like second wind, potions, short rest, long rest, the game has a "Help" system if a player is down. To really die you'd need a TPK or a situation where someone is bleeding out and the rest of the party has to run. Even then you get Revivify spells.
Drinsic
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bytes
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I think I'm ready for the retirement home because I genuinely can't keep up anymore.
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rush02112
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I cant, for the life of me, figure out how to change up my party. The game will not let me talk to any of my current party members to dismiss them to pick up a new member. I really want the warlock in my party but here I am at level 4 and still not figured it out...
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j00t
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you SHOULD just be able to talk to them at any point. one of the conversation options is "go back to camp" then when you're at camp you can talk to whoever you want to add. you may have to talk to them twice, though as the first conversation script might not have it.
j00t
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i guess that's the solution for you now, but that's clearly a bug. if you have any idea when you stopped being able to talk to them i'd post about it on the official forums
