What D&D System Baldurs Gate 3 Uses For Combat Encounters

What D&D System Baldur’s Gate 3 Uses For Combat Encounters

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has ditched the real-time combat used in the first two games in favor of a rule set familiar to Dungeons & Dragons fans.

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What D&D System Baldurs Gate 3 Uses For Combat Encounters

The upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios has done away with the real-time combat that defined the first two games in the series. Instead, Baldur’s Gate 3 is using a combat system familiar to most fans of Dungeons & Dragons.

Previous Baldur’s Gate games (which were developed by BioWare) used real-time combat. Players would issue commands to their party members, which they would carry out according to their speed. The chaotic combat often required a pause/unpause strategy to manage, where players would stop combat, issue commands, then unpause to see how events unfolded. Larian Studios, however, has a history of using turn-based combat based on an action point economy. It makes sense, then, that Baldur’s Gate 3 stepped away from real-time combat to a system that Larian is more familiar with.

But Larian has stepped away from their own combat system as well, abandoning action points in favor of the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition rule set in Baldur’s Gate 3. This means that players are put into turn order based on their initiative roll. On their turn, a player can use an action, a bonus action, and movement. Broadly speaking, most attacks and spells require an action, while bonus actions are for smaller things like taking a health potion and are often where special class features can be used. Larian has made some tweaks to the official Dungeons & Dragons rules, giving all players access to certain bonus actions like hide and disengage.

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Use of Dungeons & Dragons 5E Gives Players a Familiar Shorthand

In an era where Dungeons & Dragons is rising in popularity, switching Baldur’s Gate 3, to the Dungeons & Dragons turn-based rule set makes sense. Popular web series like Critical Role have made basic knowledge of the rule system much more widespread than it has been in past decades. Adapting the Fifth Edition rules gives many players a shorthand that they are familiar with. The rules choice makes even more sense when considering that the Baldur’s Gate games themselves are set in the same world as Dungeons & Dragons itself.

Reviews of Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access have so far been positive, and the combat seems to work as intended, faithfully implementing Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition into combat while still leaving room for some of the chaos Larian games are known for. Players can get creative with how their party is positioned to start an encounter, or find ways to use the environment to their advantage. Baldur’s Gate 3 is built to let players try whatever chaos they can think of, which at the end of the day is the true core of a Dungeons & Dragons experience.

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