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[Pale Violet Light]

The bonus-action jumps that can clear the screen if you have enough STR, bonus-action shoves, no attunement to worry about, all made martials just feel a lot more fun to pilot in BG3.

They do make martials feel good, but the poor rogue (or other classes that get good bonus actions) gets absolutely screwed by the changes. Bonus-action dash - who cares?!

Itemization-wise, BG3 overeggs the pudding by quite a lot; by 1/3 of the way in I’m drowning in overpowered items (often full of incomprehensible Larianish powers) and my characters are veritable gods. On the other hand, in Solasta the items are maybe too bland, and you end up using the same gear all the time due to the restrictiveness of the attinement system. Surely there’s a happy medium somewhere?

 

[Zardnaar]

They do make martials feel good, but the poor rogue (or other classes that get good bonus actions) gets absolutely screwed by the changes. Bonus-action dash - who cares?!

Itemization-wise, BG3 overeggs the pudding by quite a lot; by 1/3 of the way in I’m drowning in overpowered items (often full of incomprehensible Larianish powers) and my characters are veritable gods. On the other hand, in Solasta the items are maybe too bland, and you end up using the same gear all the time due to the restrictiveness of the attinement system. Surely there’s a happy medium somewhere?

Bonus action dash is very good. Only rogues and Wizard types get access to it.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Right, but (depending on strength) bonus action jump can render it irrelevant, removing one of the rogue’s very few unique traits. The other martials are stealing his lunch, and he only had half a sandwich to start with. Having jump as a bonus action also means the poor rogue can’t even bonus dash and then jump, which can be a huge pain in the backside, especially with all the vertical elements in BG3. I much prefer the Solasta implementation of jump (which I think is pretty much 5E RAW)

 

[MarkB]

Right, but (depending on strength) bonus action jump can render it irrelevant, removing one of the rogue’s very few unique traits. The other martials are stealing his lunch, and he only had half a sandwich to start with. Having jump as a bonus action also means the poor rogue can’t even bonus dash and then jump, which can be a huge pain in the backside, especially with all the vertical elements in BG3. I much prefer the Solasta implementation of jump (which I think is pretty much 5E RAW)

Which is why Thief is the best Rogue.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I didn't know that you can jump in Solasta. Not as a separate action.

I've played tonnes of both BG3 and Solasta. Definitely find BG3 to be more fun.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Right, but (depending on strength) bonus action jump can render it irrelevant, removing one of the rogue’s very few unique traits. The other martials are stealing his lunch, and he only had half a sandwich to start with. Having jump as a bonus action also means the poor rogue can’t even bonus dash and then jump, which can be a huge pain in the backside, especially with all the vertical elements in BG3. I much prefer the Solasta implementation of jump (which I think is pretty much 5E RAW)

Eh, as a Rogue I'm usually using my bonus action more for Hide and dual-wield, anyway. Or even Disengage if I actually hit with my Attack action and got Sneak Attack already that turn.

Plus Rogue likely has low STR so Dash would actually be better than Jump for them.