Baldur's Gate III - Spoiler Edition (please read updated OP)

Official community update for the early access. It's pretty much a written form of the Panel From hell stream.

They sound like normal 5e PCs to me.

In 5e, your character is already established in some way before taking up adventuring via the background selection. Despite their past, they will start as level 1 adventurer like everyone else. You're supposed to talk with your DM about it so they can include related content for your character as well. It's not just rolling a level 1 fighter and making up a story as you go.

For example, Wyll is a folk hero Warlock with a Fiend pact. That's all character creation stuff. It was also decided at character creation that Wyll was going to try to get free from his pact so the DM will have to include content that will lead to that over the sessions.

Thanks, guys. I'm not really familiar with 5E, although I have played other systems which work that way.

With how broken Insect Plague/Creeping Doom is, the last thing I would say that druids suck. Also, Totemic Druid is probably the easiest class to play on Legacy of Bhaal until ToB.

Oh Creeping Doom, how I love thee. Maybe I'll return being a druid after so long.

Good hands. Divinity Original Sin 2 was a big improvement over narrative storytelling over the first game.

Although, I find it strange that you say Divinity Original Sin is less story driven then Baldur's Gate when both BG games let you roam around doing "hundred" of side quests to the point you basically stumble on the main quests while the Original Sin games are quite linear going from zone to zone along with the story.

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Big take from it:
- The companions in the EA are the Evil/Neutral ones as they want testers to try something else than the goody-two-shoes path as people normally do.
- Level cap will be somewhere between 10 and 20 (exclusive on both side), most probably still lower teens (because it gets OP in the later teens)
- CRs is being tweaked as to have more enemies variety (not sure how I feel about it, as the pnp CR has year of playtesting)
- The Narrator (Amelia Tyler) is written as the Dungeon Master
- Respeccing not in when Early Access start, will be in later
- Some Reactions when EA release, more add over time
- You can stack Inspiration Points
- $59.99
- Everyone speak Common 

"Trust the dice. Trust the DM. Don't reload."

I'm impressed enough with what Larian's shown and what they say their plans are to be willing to give Early Access a shot.

How are the rest of you feeling?

The trailer and what I have seen of the game look great. I probably won't get early access because I prefer to play the game when it is complete, but I am looking forward to getting it when it comes out! If you do end up getting early access, I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on it.

I'm going to get it too, not sure how much I'm going to play it as I don't want to burn out before the game released.

That has happened to me with previous early access games. 

The plot is related to the Dead Three (Bhaal, Myrkul and Bane) set around Baldur's Gate.

And it's not like BG1 and BG2 plot are tied together that much outside the PC's heritage...which is being one of Bhaal's children. The whole Bhaal's prophecy thing came to conclusion in a pnp module, so don't expect any of the playable character to be one too.

I see BG3 as the start of something new tied to Bhaal and his friends around Baldur's Gate city. Also, it might deal with the Great BG2 Conspiracy.