What are some hidden mechanics you wish you knew about earlier?

[noisyturtle]

I am just starting out, and there seems to be a ton of things not covered by the tutorials that the player can do.
What mechanics do you wish you knew about way earlier in your game?

[Lur Nen Rue]

Dropping item is free in this game so anyone with magehand or magehand ability should drop their excess bottle, explosive vials, toxin, poison, water bottle so magehand can set up something by throwing/ just dealing damage

Chest of mundane turn any item put inside to very light very mundane item you could throw 100kg chest this way or transformed oil barrel. Just open inventory and chest of mundane, right click and throw

Respect could be used as pseudo healing or filling your spellslot for 100 gold

Benched hireling could use warding bond on you for damage mitigation and 1 ac. They might die but use it anyway if you have revivy or spell

Arrow of the many is really easy way to inflict your coating debuff to bunch of mobs I would reccomend combustion coating and drow poison for humanoid

[Klutch]

Concentration!

I am in the rhythm of casting certain buffs, and its costing me turns and spell slots.

[Cosgar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz90AMvpM64
You can do some really crazy Minecraft level nonsense

[Faptor]

Originally posted by RikaMasayume:

If you kill sombody you can put the body in you inventory - they work like chests - and hide the body, or decorate your camp with it.

My dark urge has the whole grove as corpses in his camp, the bard should be alone - so I was nice and put all her friends next to her .

But you can decorate the camp with other items. if you don´t want corpses.

Thats the single funniest thing ive read today Hahahaha!
Just a giant mountain of dead guys that you store your loot in.

Can you sell dead bodys to Traders? I didnt even know you could pick them up so im going to have to try this out.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by doublejesus:

You can have your thief rogue carry a candle around to place on the ground to dip their weapon in when they don't have a use for their extra bonus action to increase thier dps.

This one is handy. So simple but so handy.

[Silious Ivanus Lecrosia Kardova]

SO! the cap of curing found in the druids grove provides 1d6 healing on a bardic inspiration.

the whispering promise (ring that provides aid on heal),

hellrider's pride (gloves that provide basic weapon protections on heal),

and the boots of aid and comfort (boots that provide 3 temp hp on heal)

do not function with the caps healing mechanic.

[SoloQ]

The utility of Vine Whip, you can Indiana Jones levers with it.
I didn't learn the beauty of it until Act 3 when there's a lever that can't be switched without it or something like it.

[Kai]

Containers with Medium Sturdy or such works very well as a blocker for doors, the enemy will try to attack it but don't do enough damage to hurt it.

Especially on Act 1 in the earlier areas and fights, they will opt to attack a chest and may do 0 damage to it.

Now what happens if you surround a guy that will start a fight with you, but you place chests that you can't climb on, around him? He gets stuck and attempts to attack them to get to you.

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

I am just starting out, and there seems to be a ton of things not covered by the tutorials that the player can do.
What mechanics do you wish you knew about way earlier in your game?

The effects of level progression

[Lur Nen Rue]

Another one is in bg3 monk can use great weapon master on versatile weapon, this is useful on ninja since you usually hit from stealth and/or have advantage
Some longsword have versatile and finesse attributes that let you GWM and sneak attack, drink collosus elixir for bigger damage number and coat your weapon

[Belegc]

when multiclassing please be aware that not all proficiencies/skills are obtained. refer to this table https://5thsrd.org/rules/multiclassing/ for more information. however I think there is a bug since multiclassing to a ranger doesn't give you martial weapons proficiency as it should.

you can shift-click on items in the inventory for selecting multiple items.

send all camp supplies to camp. no need to carry them and they can be used without issues at the camp and they weigh a lot.

speaking to the dead will always work if you disguise yourself (spell) before. otherwise you might get a message that the corpse doesn't want to talk to its killer.

Friends cantrip gives you advantage on charisma dialog checks but on higher difficulties it also makes them hostile towards you when the effect ends. there is a warning now, but in EA there wasn't any and I couldn't understand why the entire grove was hostile towards me :).

ritual spells are very useful and do not cost a spell resource - longstrider, speak to animals, speak to the dead etc.

you can only concentrate on one spell. no shield of faith and bless together from your cleric. bless seems to be the better choice though especially with some gear coming later.

when bartering, you can sell all wares (you need to mark items as wares though beforehand). the button is at the bottom part of the screen.

you can throw potions at your companions to activate their effect on them - throwing a heal potion will heal the companion etc. throwing water bottles and grease bottles is useful too.

if you are playing on explorer and want to multiclass just switch the difficulty for the level up window. (don't entirely understand why this was limited on explorer)

always invest a proficiency point in either Athletics or Acrobatics (depends on your stats). every enemy in this game seems to want to push you from a cliff/into a pit//lava etc.

there is a useful amulet later which provides a healing cantrip but can also puts the recipient on sleep. however, elves/half-elves are immune to sleep effects...

[homekeys]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

The utility of Vine Whip, you can Indiana Jones levers with it.
I didn't learn the beauty of it until Act 3 when there's a lever that can't be switched without it or something like it.

yes this is my favorite thing. where pushing isnt an option and the target has enuf hp, it can also potentially be used as an emergency rescue lol

[Jimi]

You can open locked chest by pushing them of high cliffs

You can lure certain npcs to a place you want by moving some of their stuff ( simple waterbarrel did it for me) They will go fetch it and put it back where it belongs. Use it to your advantage you can push them into pits, cravice, of platforms etc or set a trap

I found a dead gnome called Loic in my inventory. I must have accidently picked him up. I dumped him but next time it will use him to throw at enemies.

[homekeys]

Originally posted by Jimi:

I found a dead gnome called Loic in my inventory. I must have accidently picked him up. I dumped him but next time it will use him to throw at enemies.

if u put him down in front of an npc it will count as u killing him whether u did it or not. not a fan of the way i found this out

[Jimi]

Originally posted by homekeys:

Originally posted by Jimi:

I found a dead gnome called Loic in my inventory. I must have accidently picked him up. I dumped him but next time it will use him to throw at enemies.

if u put him down in front of an npc it will count as u killing him whether u did it or not. not a fan of the way i found this out

Thanks for the tip!