is it legal to use SAVE - LOAD to win rolls ?

[Deleted *******]

i feel like im cheating doing this

[Muscarine]

Originally posted by jhughes:

Then don't even make it a checkable event. Just make it part of the story that you quote.

Again, literally what i just said

Holy ♥♥♥♥ you guys are dense, if this talk is going to be more about reading comprehension than the actual topic - not surprising on steam mind you - then i'm just not going to bother with you

[AbientAle]

You must restart the game on every failed combat encounter, chest unlock, battle and most of all, if you even accidentally bump into anything red. :o In fact don't even leave the Nautiloid. It's hell down there.

[dumbfish]

It's ultimately your game, but it is cheating. If you don't have fun with the random rolls, just keep save scumming.

[Ao Bai Gaming]

To be fair I think some of the dialogue/interactions and scenarios when you fail a check are pretty funny. Take interacting with the Ogres in one of the first Goblin camps, for example. There's plenty of ways out of a sticky situation, even on a failed roll. I think the main problem is that a lot of player agency is taken away in comparison to a conventional D&D setting, where context in what you're attempting is treated with differing levels of severity. In a conventional D&D setting, failing a persuade check of 15 to haggle the price of an artifact you want to buy down would have differing consequences based on if you just barely failed with a 14 and pay the normal price, or if you botched it with a 4 and now have to pay a markup. In BG3, failures are treated all the same, whether failing by the skin of your teeth or a football field.

The main problem with having an inherent D&D system in a video game is that there reasonably can't be as numerous an amount of outcomes. Killing a group of bandits in the forest via martial interactions and going about your business, or killing them via a wizard's fireball and causing a giant forest fire doesn't happen reasonably here, because the game doesn't necessarily have the capacity to have that level of contingency. Minor Illusion is a spell that has a LOT of useage in an actual D&D setting, but in BG3, I've tried time and time again to utilize it as a proper distraction, but the way the game's mechanics work just make it extremely unreliable when if used in the same exact situation at a real D&D table, my plans using it would have worked flawlessly.

Now, on the topic of savescumming, the game already has built-in ability to reroll for every character regardless via inspiration. Certainly there's a time and place for it, like succeeding a roll, dying a while ahead, and failing the very same roll when you have to reload to before you did it. It's all based on your perspective, really. If you don't like the idea of savescumming, don't do it, obviously, but I can see where some people would justify it if they just got into BG3 after playing Divinity, as Div is where Larian's creativity shines the brightest because it's not confined to the rules of a pre-established system that, in the concept of a Tabletop-to-videogame transfer in such a capacity as this, would hamper the creative process in some ways, I'd say.

[Nolen]

I have only done this a few times lol. Mostly when I roll a wisdom check and still fail even with +9-12 with proficiency and guidance because ♥♥♥♥ that. Only on single player though. Multiplayer, you gotta roll with the punches

[Jakensama]

Originally posted by EternalFun:

i feel like im cheating doing this

It's illegal, I've dispatched the police to your home.

[Patriot]

Originally posted by di9italSoul:

Originally posted by EternalFun:

i feel like im cheating doing this

I did once in my game. On one of the first rolls. I rolled a 1 saving Shadowheart

Looks like your game was doing you a solid. Save you a headache right there.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ViDZpVoYc

[Patriot]

Originally posted by Muscarine:

Originally posted by Patriot:

This is fact. I don't know what 2 checks the guy's talking about, I've yet to see a situation where there was a redundant check made, but yes rolling a 1 is considered an autofail. Now I think if you have enough bonus points to pass you should autopass, or even make it to where if you have twice the bonus points needed to pass. Autopassing should be a thing to get past the tedium of rolling for low checks.

If you autopass with enough bonus, then you don't autofail on a 1, did you fry your logic board ?
That's literally my point

And BG3 does have plenty of 2 checks, they're only here to see if you can maybe crit fail which is completely stupid, maybe play the game some more

It does seem like your logic is non-existent so beware aiming to throw stones you're not god at it. Yes you autofail on a 1 just like you auto succeed on a 20. The reason you should autopass with enough bonus is because that exceptional bonus means the task is something so mundane to you it's like basic math. If someone were to give you a math problem 1+1 you're never going to fail that question unless you have decreased your bonuses sufficiently like on drugs and even then some of us have a high enough bonus to where even drugs would not disable our faculties of reason to such an extent.

[daveyfunk]

I'm save scumming constantly. I like the game but HATE RNG in a game to the point it has more impact than the build. If I'm building to what should be an optimal build then I don't see the point in everything being decided by a dice roll. It works on a board but no need for it in a computer game

[Crom]

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

No, the FBI / CIA / Homeland Security will bust down your door and take you to a black site for interrogation for save scumming.

Man, thats not funny. This actualy is going to be reality very soon :((

[krunjar]

It's your game XD If you want to save scum .. go for it XD