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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9839266" data-attributes="member: 18">It really isn't "crazy and bad" in the "nerfed" sense at all, because of the other choices that they made, which generally advantage the exact same classes who need their jump. They're also very generous with how high and far you can jump. In 5E, you can long jump half STR score (not mod) if standing, and STR score if you moved at least 10ft already, to a max of your move. A running high jump is 3 + STR mod (not score), so realistically maxes at 8ft.That is not how BG3 works.BG3 has a standing long jump at 15ft + 3ft per 2 STR over 10 (so equivalent to STR mod x3 ft). Hence a STR 14 character can do a standing long jump of 21ft, further than a STR 20 character could do a running jump in 5E. A STR 20 character can standing jump a full 30ft.BG3 also does not consider high jumps or whether you were moving at all. It simply uses the same math whatever direction you're jumping in. So if you can jump 30ft across, you can also jump 30ft up on to a platform if you can find an angle. Also in BG3 you can jump even if you didn't have enough move left (which most DMs do allow in 5E, to be fair, but some don't, and RAW it's questionable). So you could run 30ft for your Move, then jump another 20+ foot with the Bonus action, then still use your main action (to potentially run another 30ft or whatever).Like, if you wanted it to work exactly like D&D 5E, yeah, you might get an Bonus action back some rounds when you only wanted to jump a very short distance or a tiny height, but in general your ability to jump would be a joke compared to base BG3. And let's be real - unless you're playing on Honour or Custom with Honour ruleset, BG3 is a trivially easy game for anyone who understands 5E rules to the degree the average forum member does here, because so many of the rules are modified to be massively advantageous to the player (not least the "riders on riders" damage stuff, which you don't even need to understand to take advantage of, just wear magic items because they seem cool, or take Feats which sound good), so this isn't a major issue. Even on Honour it's mostly a case of as RuPaul says "And don't f**k it up", in that whilst most fights remain easy even with the rules-changes and massively buffed enemies, the only real threat is doing something profoundly stupid and getting everyone killed at the same exact time (and I guess a handful of unavoidable unreatreatable boss fights).</blockquote>

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