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Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else (www.pcgamer.com)
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I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

That's actually my biggest criticism of D&D. Bards are better choices than rogues or fighters or wizards. Same goes with clerics or druids. sprinkle on a bit of paladin, a couple feats, and some magic gauntlets, and they can invalidate whole swathes of staple fantasy archetypes entirely.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    if by better you mean, more fun, i think that's slightly up to you.
    you can have just as much fun with a more constrained character who keeps losing dice rolls - it might be harder work though.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    no, i mean more empowered to interact with the game world. They have more agency in more arenas of play. You can play a goober of any class and have fun, i agree, but a goober who picks a "better" class will be able to create more comedies of errors beyond "Player fails to hit thing with a big stick".

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    That's the issue with how combat oriented D&D is. While there is a wide assortment of abilities between classes and their roles in combat, a lot of non-combat situations are reduced to just roling high on a skill check, not many choices and approaches to be made. There might be the odd utility spell, but even that isn't a choice for martial classes. Because of that, Bards dominate non-combat encounters, with Jack of all Trades and Expertise.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It's not a problem for a videogame, but D&D5e (actually most D&D editions) is not a balanced game at all. In fact the only RPG that I've played and would call balanced is Pathfinder 2e.

    So I was not expecting Baldur's Gate to be balanced at all given it's based on D&D5e.

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