Why so many charisma based characters?

[Tomatokek]

Makes it really hard to form a party with classes I want to play when they all will be competing for the same gear. T_T Paladin, warlock, bard AND sorc? Really?

[DeadBeat61]

The curse of the charismatic. So popular they have to fight over clothing. Just like real life.

[Aldain]

Even more sad is that there's only one main and two subs that actually use Int without Artificer.

Why Int is so comically underused is a mystery to me.

[RealDealBreaker]

Not really. Gear isn't really charisma (or any stat) based for the most part in d&d. It tends to be class based. For example, there are plenty of magic items that are usable by only warlocks. There are some items that a sorc, bard, and warlock might be competing for, but wizard and artificer (not in BG3) would want them as arcane casters and some other items that are just good for casters in general would be equally useful on clerics and druids as well.

[Oddeye]

Have you not played DnD?

[That1BIGDude]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Even more sad is that there's only one main and two subs that actually use Int without Artificer.

Why Int is so comically underused is a mystery to me.

I love that this is unintentionally a pun

SAD means Single Attribute Dependent

[Aldain]

Originally posted by That1BIGDude:

Originally posted by Aldain:

Even more sad is that there's only one main and two subs that actually use Int without Artificer.

Why Int is so comically underused is a mystery to me.

I love that this is unintentionally a pun

SAD means Single Attribute Dependent

Didn't notice that until you pointed it out.

But yeah I don't know why there's only one major Int class (artificer notwithstanding), and I can see why some house-rule Smartlock as a thing.

[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Not really. Gear isn't really charisma (or any stat) based for the most part in d&d. It tends to be class based. For example, there are plenty of magic items that are usable by only warlocks. There are some items that a sorc, bard, and warlock might be competing for, but wizard and artificer (not in BG3) would want them as arcane casters and some other items that are just good for casters in general would be equally useful on clerics and druids as well.

Yeah im talking about in BG3

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by T⭕mat⭕kek:

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Not really. Gear isn't really charisma (or any stat) based for the most part in d&d. It tends to be class based. For example, there are plenty of magic items that are usable by only warlocks. There are some items that a sorc, bard, and warlock might be competing for, but wizard and artificer (not in BG3) would want them as arcane casters and some other items that are just good for casters in general would be equally useful on clerics and druids as well.

Yeah im talking about in BG3

And so was I with the exception of the one part I mention artificer. Leave out the word artificer and everything I say holds true.

[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Even more sad is that there's only one main and two subs that actually use Int without Artificer.

Why Int is so comically underused is a mystery to me.

I agree man. They should have made warlock int based or something.

[[Heretic]Rivga]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Even more sad is that there's only one main and two subs that actually use Int without Artificer.

Why Int is so comically underused is a mystery to me.

I think warlocks, certainly GOO warlock should be Int.
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[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Originally posted by T⭕mat⭕kek:

Yeah im talking about in BG3

And so was I with the exception of the one part I mention artificer. Leave out the word artificer and everything I say holds true.

ok gotcha. there are alot of people here that confuse baldurs gate the game with the DnD board game and do not realize they are different so gotta watch out for misinfo.

[That1BIGDude]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Originally posted by That1BIGDude:

I love that this is unintentionally a pun

SAD means Single Attribute Dependent

Didn't notice that until you pointed it out.

But yeah I don't know why there's only one major Int class (artificer notwithstanding), and I can see why some house-rule Smartlock as a thing.

Wis Ranger, Cleric, Druid, Monk

Int Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, {Rangers/Cleric/Bard/Monk for Nature/Medicine}

Char Bard, Warlock, Paladin, Sorc

Con Barbarian

So obviously we need more con based casting

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by T⭕mat⭕kek:

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

And so was I with the exception of the one part I mention artificer. Leave out the word artificer and everything I say holds true.

ok gotcha. there are alot of people here that confuse baldurs gate the game with the DnD board game and do not realize they are different so gotta watch out for misinfo.

They (d&d as played on tabletop) and BG3 are almost the same. There are a few places where Larian has deviated, but in more than 90% of cases knowing how something works in d&d is going to be knowing how it works in BG3.

[Garry Leonard]

Most the gear in this game has no impact on your stats.

[Myth Alric]

It is true in basic 5th edition, there isn't really many items that give stats. It is basically like one item for each of the stats. So most gear has nothing to do with them. I suspect that applies to this game too, since the stat cap isn't even that high.