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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9215823" data-attributes="member: 18">This is kind of wild.Most of my main group has played BG3.None of these things has happened to us. If you were a new poster suddenly appearing I might think you were making this all up on the basis of fears about what BG3 might do, but I believe you! I do presume you're playing mostly with non-friends, right, like acquaintances etc.? Otherwise some friends owe you some apologies imho!1. Is bizarre to me - I've never seen this happen. Even when I was playing Dark Age of Camelot 12hrs+/day in college (don't ask lol) when I had games I turned up to them, but maybe that's because for me, tabletop RPGs are more fun than any game. I've also never had players not turn up because of videogames (drinking, parties, controlling SOs, poor time management, etc. for sure). However it seems like it'll wear off in months at absolute worst as the game gets older.2. Players can have unreasonable expectations even without videogames. I had a "Black Ambulance" in Conspiracy X, which any sane person would understand to mean "Stealth Ambulance", i.e. a non-descript panel van fitted out internally like an ambulance. I, being an idiot, understood it to mean simply an ambulance painted black, and perhaps with retractable flashers/siren. At one point in the game I said that I turned on the flashers and siren and this devolved into the DM having to explain to me like I was 5 what a "Black Ambulance" was. I guess we may need to be clearer about barrels and their nature for a while!3. Yeah this is a trickier one. I don't expect to see it as confusion with my players but I have considered and may be asked about changing the rules to be more BG3 like. Which isn't a terrible idea but would be fiddly.4. I feel like BG3 shows how guidance has always been used in some groups but the real problem here is guidance needs like, a cooldown or something. Like maybe you're winding up your god by casting it constantly - if it was say, 1/hour, it'd be drastically less obnoxious. It is a concentration spell though so presumably as levels increase this heavy use may decrease, as other concentration may be needed?5. Interesting - I've always used them a fair bit, so not surprised to see them used more.</blockquote>

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