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

I can't seem to find the event log to check rolls and dialogue anywhere. I wonder if there even is one?

I see I need to spend an hour or two experimenting with the UI.

It's all low level 5e D&D so far. Enemies seems balanced for your party level. Saying that, Eldritch Blast, Dissonant Whispers and Tasha's Hideous Laughter.   Warlock Great Old Ones are just great at CC and damage at low levels.

You can examine creatures/enemies before you get in range to start combat too. So you can know when enemies are higher level before you piss them off.

And I still need to test some of the throwables I picked on the mindflayer ship. 

BG3 doesn't really have crafting so no recipes/crafting materials. But it is D&D and if you wanted streamlined go look elsewhere, you won't find it in a proper D&D adaptation.

Spellcasters start with about 5 known spells and that's not counting other abilities tied to their selected archetype or race. It just grow from there.

There are scrolls. The Wizard's spell scrolls can be learned by Wizard and added to their spellbook. Some are for out of combat stuff like detect thoughts, disguise self,  friends, etc that you wouldn't necessarily waste a known spell slot on.

There are potions. I have found health, speed potions and resistance potions so far.

I'm not quite certain if spells require material components as per the rules, but I think I found some going by the item description.

You can also pick-up a bunch of trash that you probably shouldn't pick-up because they are worthless, like skull and bones. Or they might have a weird usage somewhere too. Who knows. 

Thanks, that was it.

Managed to get into a real stupid situation in the Chapel. I don't know when or if Necrotic Auras go away but protip: don't send someone with 2 HP into one to raise somebody.

Also, definitely get Gale killed at some point.

According to some reviews on Steam it is a very rough diamond, which makes me wonder; aside from tweaking, bugfixing and optimization, can they actually change any core elements of a game even during Early Access ?

I never played any of the Divine Divinity games so I am unbiased where similar mechanics are concerned ( this seemed an issue in several reviews )

The CC looks promising ( facial scans = brilliant idea ) and I am told that the cinematics and graphics were top-notch.

All in all I am hoping for a great story and immersive gameplay when the final release is... well released. Guess I will hang around in Night City until then 🙂

Having played a while I have a feeling AC isn't being calculated correctly. Even with an AC 20 I'm getting hit like 50% of the time. Something's... off.

If they have advantage it shouldn't be that hard. Are most of your encounters against elevated enemies?


The player hitting 50% of the time is 5e at level balance might I add.

No, I was even getting knocked around by the fishermen. AC 20 should be hard to hit at this level unless they have a lot of situational bonuses. I wish I could see the enemy rolls to understand what was happening.

Short rest is the "BG sleep" icon/button on the right side of the mini-map.

You just have to dip them in flames or use a candle...and I was thinking of just taking the light/dancing light spells at character creation but decided against it. Maybe I should have.

The bonuses are removed from the DC instead of added to your roll result So if the DC is 10 and you got a +4 bonus, you'll see 6 and roll a d20 against that.

It's perfect for people who don't care about the math, totally confusing for people who know how it works.

Nah, they work it the other way round. Instead of adding your bonuses to the dice roll, they subtract them from the target. If you hover curser over the target values, you’ll see the original target values and any modifications.