I mean, the title is mostly it. I haven’t played DnD for…long enough that I know none of the rules and few of the classes. I didn’t play BG or BG2.
It looks so shiny, but I’m afraid I would just be 100% lost. Can anyone say what it’s like to go in cold?
None really. The game will walk you through everything through tool tips and help menus.
I’d second this as someone who is only lightly aware of 5e. If only I could remember my attribute points before some dialogue choices. Whoops.
At least on pc over over the option and it will show what your roll will be.
Can’t see the DC till to late but that’s a normal rpttrpg thing
Ahhh ok. I’m using a controller at the moment for accessibility reasons, but I’ll definitely look into doing that when I can again! Maybe it’ll show if I just idle a couple seconds over the selection
There is a considerable amount of depth to the game, but it’s not insurmountable for anyone. You’ll have no problem going through the game if you read through tool tips and help pop-ups as they arise. DnD knowledge needed is none at all or negligible at best.
If you do end up playing, I hope you enjoy!
Really none. The game walks you through rolls and what each thing does.
Having a little knowledge of how D&D works only serves to make the leveling up process go quicker since you have ideas on how to allocate stats or what specialties you take without reading through everything.
It’s very user friendly in terms of tooltips, and if you don’t make deliberately bad choices during level up (e.g. taking a feat that gives you a cantrip from the Wizard class… that scales off your INT score… while playing a Barbarian with 8 intelligence that can’t cast spells while raging) it’s fairly difficult to make an unplayably bad character.
There’s a few cases where some general knowledge of D&D is helpful, such as knowing to never take True Strike because it’s literally worse than just attacking twice and having some knowledge of good builds is useful, since it helps guide what you take when you level up. That said, there’s also entire categories of actions in BG3 that don’t really have an equivalent rule in TTRPG 5e, such as weapon proficiency attacks, so online cookie cutter builds don’t capture the full extent of what you can do.
To add to the true strike thing, it is for your next 2 attacks in BG3, so it’s actually not super amazingly awful
No knowledge of dnd needed, from someone who has no knowledge of dnd and having a grand time
