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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

“Give me a perception check.”

“Fourteen total.”

“You don’t notice anything different .”

“I get out my shovel.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

DM quietly raises encounter difficulty in response to metagaming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

DM should have rolled for the player secretly if they didn't want to call attention.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Better still, use passive scores since this is what they're for. If you want your players to make active checks, give them a narrative reason.

But I'm also of the opinion that the more you run your D&D like you'd run anything Powered by the Apocalypse, the better it becomes.

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