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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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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece built on a bad tabletop game (www.polygon.com)

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The writer got mad when a goblin shoved Astarion off a cliff. It reminded me of when I had Karlach shove a goblin in lava, then a goblin ran up and shoved HER in the lava. I didn’t get mad; I took it as a learning moment: enemies can shove me back, so move away from the lava.

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[–] BURN 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I definitely don’t disagree with the author here. Combat does feel tedious. I spent 2 days trying to kill the owlbear on balanced. I had to quick save every turn to avoid my entire party being 1-shot in the same turn. I think I had 15-20 game over scenarios when attempting to fight it.

I never much enjoyed dnd combat either, so that’s probably a major focus. Combat feels almost entirely random with next to no consistent hit rules. Honestly it’s on me for not researching the game more before buying it. It’s a great game but I have a 0% chance of ever finishing it due to how frustrating the combat is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The easiest cheese is to send a rogue in alone to kill it from stealth. The ai isn't smart enough to find you if you start on the higher ledges. Attack, bonus action hide, move, repeat.

Doing it straight didn't give me a lot of trouble. Spread out, don't skimp on spell slots. Spiritual weapon and flaming sphere are pretty good and might distract the owl bear into hitting them instead of you.

Dnd 5e isn't a very deep game so there aren't that many options, really .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gonna be honest, I have never attempted the owlbear fight; I have Examined the owlbear and I don't need that kind of heat at level 3, lol. All the obvious ways I can think of to do it either involve getting lucky (for example I'm pretty sure you win if it fails its save against Blindness, but it is strong in Constitution saves so it probably won't) or respeccing your companions into cheesier classes (for example, everyone is Gloomstalker rangers and you blow it up from stealth on turn 1).

I have some ideas for approaching it with a balanced party (grease bottles to hopefully keep it prone?) but I'd definitely be sweating if I had to fight it that way!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn’t even try the owlbear fight because I had Talk with Animals on and the Ranger dialogue option was basically, “my bad my bad sorry didn’t mean to come in here please don’t eat us,” so I figured she knew better than me what we would be up against, so I peaced out immediately upon passing that roll check.

[–] BURN 2 points 1 year ago

I ended up restarting (had made some decisions that were less than great) and was able to beat it pretty easy once I had someone able to output real dps (15-20 damage)

But yeah, I got lucky when I finally did win. I found it a lot easier than some of the other larger fights in the area.