Day 385
Despite the fact I downloaded Baldur’s Gate 3 over a week ago I haven’t played it yet. In part because I’ve been busy (having full time work again throws my self schedule into chaos). However, the reason is largely due to the fact I’m still on a Harvestella kick weirdly enough, thanks to my gremlin brain, but also because I can’t choose what character class I want.
Normally in role play games, I choose some sort of magic or healer class, because class preference has a lot to do with playing style. For me, I prefer to hit enemies from a distance and have the ability to heal myself. And often, when playing, the choice of class is pretty clear cut. Do you want to do a lot of close up damage, far away damage, be able to take a lot of hits, be able to heal yourself… very straight forward.
When you’re choosing a class for a game based on Dungeons and Dragons, and knowing how the game rules work and have heard in passing what you can do in game, choosing a class becomes much harder.
On one sense, I would like to be a cleric, not just because I normally like classes that allow me to heal, but it’s a class that allows me access to all the spells for that class that exist in the game and I can switch out my prepared spells easily. Also, the idea of having Speak to the Dead, just so I can see what the dead have to say in the game sounds very interesting.
Or I could be a druid, and have Speak with Animals, and find out what all the animals are thinking. Maybe they have some juicy gossip in the game.
But, but, I also want to be a bard, and apparently the creators of this game have put in songs just for the bards to sing and I want to see that and perform those songs. That sounds like a lot of fun. Also, bards are great when you want to play in such a way that doesn’t involve combat, because they have just great ability stats.
The other, other choice, but not high on my list of classes to try, is the wizard. I don’t know if you can do this, but I want to see if I can find spells out in the wild and add them into my wizard’s spellbook like you would in a real life game. That sounds like a fun thing to do as well.
Which funnily enough, now that I’ve written this out, I realize the biggest difference with Baldur’s Gate 3 is that I’m not choosing a class to determine my combat play style, but rather what class will be the most amusing to me.
