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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8862724" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Real time with pause was a fairly massive deviation from D&D-as-it-is-played, and a lot of things happened as a consequence of that, for example AoE spells become difficult to aim and hazardous to your own party. You never saw TPK by repeatedly bouncing lightning bolt in a tabletop game. Then there where a whole lot of rules simply left out, things that where changed like weapon proficiencies, material components and cleric domains and the inclusion of things which where largely ignored in the tabletop game because they where too difficult to track if you weren't a computer, such as weapon speed factors and spell casting times. All in all, it was very different, but for the right reasons.The sorcerer wasn't actually in BG1 at first, it was added in BG2, and then backported into BG1 by Beamdog, along with kits and some other things that made it a little closer to PnP rules.This is fair enough comment, I certainly agree with "I would have done it differently"! But then BG1 and 2 where quite bad about paladins too. Kill a few corrupt cops and it's no powers for you ever again. In some ways Larian seem quite old-school in their attitude. Whilst there is no alignment in BG3 (I assume at WotC's request), their Oath of Devotion boils down to "be lawful good" and their Oath of the Ancients boils down to "be good". And the clerics have to choose from the list of gods, druids need to be nature loving, balance serving hippies, and warlocks have to deal with a patron. I play a much looser game myself.</blockquote>

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