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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Karmic dice: yay or nay? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm new to both DnD and cRPGs, I've read about what the karmic dice does but I wanted to know your opinions as well.

Does it really make it for a "better" experience? Can fights go seriously wrong or extend for a longer time when not using it? What do you all think about it?

EDIT: please read this comment by @[email protected], it explains how the dice really works, something I didn't get at first, thank you burgundymyr!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! That explains a lot.

I'm a new player, didn't know anything about DnD nor cRPGs when I started, but I like to understand what I'm doing when I play a game so I'm doing my best to learn.

I started on the easiest difficulty with the dice on, by the end of act 2 I think I got a hang of how the rules work (still far from fully understand them but I'll get there eventually), I noticed that no matter what I did in combat to get advantage or trying to avoid damage, my party ended the fight badly wounded, I never died but still.

I started a new playthrough on normal difficulty with the dice off, it's been a few fights already that I can finish with most of my party unscathed, something that never happened before even if I was on easier difficulty.

This is just anecdotal experience and I'm most probably getting better as a player, but now that you explained it, I can't stop thinking it's also the dice normalizing (or not) things for me.

I don't regret using it because if you start from nothing like me, there's a hell lot of stuff you have to "digest" to be able to play, it's pretty overwhelming so the game sort of helping you in avoiding too many failures is a good thing IMO. But now that I'm starting to get a better understanding of how things work, I'll definitely keep it off.