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While it certainly makes sense to point out what a new patch might leave to be desired, I think it's also right to give credit where it is due: Bel'ameth, the new Night Elf city in its final(?) form, it's an incredibly beautiful, rich, and detailed zone.

I just spent the night going around, looking into all the small details, talking to the NPCs, petting the big and small animals, listening to the sounds in every building and every cavern. It's clearly a labor of love from the artists, who (as usual) did a fantastic job.

For once, spending hours in a MMO without any increase in power and feeling good with it...

I especially liked how they tried to make the whole zone reflect the variet

As by the title, Wizards of the Coast just revealed their future plans, and they include a move from now to 2024 towards an updated rule system, heavily based on 5e, but also with significant innovations. Some call it already a kind of 5.5e, although with the sense that WoTC don't want to change too much and in a way stay far from the labelling of a new edition.

You can watch the short reveal here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpI7J9vtbnw

And more details on new character options can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOQ_Exh0DmY

WoTC insists their new system will be essentially "

Since, unfortunately, there is no single thread gathering the news from today's interview with Sven, I think it may be useful to point out something that has still not being discussed, afaik, on party members and companions.

1. The party size is 4men, because they think it works better in terms of party dinamics in and out of combat. But Followers do not count to the 4 party limit, so they add up. How they are going to work, it's still unclear.

2. Sven acknowledged that a portion of the community may want 6men party because of the classic BG legacy, so they are already building the AI in a way that supports more than 4 party members: this way, if people want to make mods that expand the pa

Here's the second part of the interview RPS had with Baldur's Gate 3's lead systems designer on how they plan to implement 5e rules into the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBec5nrogw

In this second half of the interview they touch on the following topics:

- Inspiration points and how they are awarded

- Low level gameplay and difficulty compared to classic BG1

- Level cap (apparently it's still NOT set in stone at lvl 10)

- Drunkness state

- How they are implementing the use of spells in dialogues

- Color Spray and Hellish Rebuke (both seem to be in)

- Cover and partial cover

- How reactions are going