D&D (2024) What innovative elements from Baldur's Gate 3 would you like to see implimented in 2024 D&D?

[Stalker0]

One thing I haven't seen discussed here, but might be one of my favourites is how BG3 implemented Inspiration. They just made it a pool, and your background determines what actions in the game you take grant Inspiration. It's something that I kinda want figure out how to build into creating Backgrounds in OneDnD, like players would define things that would inspire them.

And the fact that it’s a reroll rather than just advantage, makes them much much more useful

 

[TheSword]

What innovative elements from Baldur's Gate 3 would you like to see implimented in 2024 D&D?

I like the weapon powers.

Not for PHB, but for a Forgotten Realms Campaign Book having the Tadpole Skill tree could be really cool.

Being able to punch things with mage hand would be great. I love that Thaurmagy actually does something useful instead of being just a pure ribbon effects, same for stuff like Druidcraft.

I'd mixed the changes to the Illusionist starting feature with the BG3 version, having both wouldn't be unbalanced.

surface mechanics would be awesome, but maybe DMG territory.

Some of the new cool magic items would be great too.

The weapon powers as actions and bonus action are very good and could probably be ported across like for like.

I really like the way inspiration is handled based on background and being stackable. I would like to see that in the game.

The herbalism is interesting to me. Seemed like quite a simple crafting mechanic. Give characters with Survival or Nature a chance to find herbs as they are in wilderness settings.

I liked the way having guidance in the party was automated. I kinda don’t mind players being assumption on that as long as the PC is willing. Speeds things up.

I really liked the way locks and disarming packs worked. Being able to consume the pack on a re-try is quite elegant and I would happily see that ported across.

I was skeptical by the rest mechanics but I must admit the short rest twice between long rests is very convenient. Also like the idea of not being able to long rest in a dungeon. The camp was a little elaborate for my tastes though.

I’d stay away from the race rules. They felt distinctly mediocre, felt very watered down, and in many cases irrelevant... pike proficiency?!

I definitely wouldn’t bring across the gratuitous sex and nudity and purile sense of humour though. I’ve no desire to a DnD version of the smutty 1970’s soft porn comedies. No ‘Confessions of an Adventurer’ thankyou. But I guess each to their own. Someone clearly thought it was a good idea.

 

[Gorck]

I definitely wouldn’t bring across the gratuitous sex and nudity and purile sense of humour though. I’ve no desire to a DnD version of the smutty 1970’s soft porn comedies. No ‘Confessions of an Adventurer’ thankyou. But I guess each to their own. Someone clearly thought it was a good idea.

This is the main reason I have yet to buy the game. I know as soon as I buy it, my 11 year old daughter is going to want to play it and I don't know if there's a way to turn this stuff off. We'll have to stick to Solasta, where we can each create 2 characters in the party and play it together.

 

[Scribe]

This is the main reason I have yet to buy the game. I know as soon as I buy it, my 11 year old daughter is going to want to play it and I don't know if there's a way to turn this stuff off. We'll have to stick to Solasta, where we can each create 2 characters in the party and play it together.

There is a nudity setting the moment you start the game, which I believe can also be toggled after the fact.

The humour stuff, you likely cannot change.

It is a mature game in terms of some of the horror aspects, torture, a lot of good wholesome violence, so if you are concerned with more than just nudity and sex (which is part of romances in the game I believe still) then yeah.

 

[Scribe]

@Gorck if you are concerned, and I dont think I'd let my son play it when he was that age, I'd look over some of the videos and some spoilers. Some of it is pretty dark/body horror type stuff.

 

[Incenjucar]

It would be really nice to have a kid-friendly official D&D game.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It would be really nice to have a kid-friendly official D&D game.

Really because I find it refreshing to have an official D&D video game that ISN'T family friendly, unlike literally every single other D&D game ever.

 

[Incenjucar]

Really because I find it refreshing to have an official D&D video game that ISN'T family friendly, unlike literally every single other D&D game ever.

I mean like specifically for kids.

 

[TheSword]

This is the main reason I have yet to buy the game. I know as soon as I buy it, my 11 year old daughter is going to want to play it and I don't know if there's a way to turn this stuff off. We'll have to stick to Solasta, where we can each create 2 characters in the party and play it together.

I really don’t expect in a computer game to open a barn door in the middle of nowhere, to find a cutscene of an orc and an ogre having sex doggy style.

Irrespective of age, I just don’t see what benefit that kind of stuff brings, feels like pandering to Edgelords to me.

 

[Scribe]

I really don’t expect in a computer game to open a barn door in the middle of nowhere, to find a cutscene of an orc and an ogre having sex doggy style.

Irrespective of age, I just don’t see what benefit that kind of stuff brings, feels like pandering to Edgelords to me.

As an edge enjoyer, I was more laughably shocked, like I physically laughed in shock. Thats not edge, its grade school level humour.