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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)

submitted 2 years ago by ConstableJelly@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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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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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

I'm skeptical of any article like this on its face. The whole beauty of a well done RPG, especially a CRPG, is that you get choices on how to build your character and how you handle encounters and can be successful with many of them.

If bard is the most fun for you, awesome. If it's "objectively better", the game is flawed.

[–] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 6 points 2 years ago (4 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.

[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 7 points 2 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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