What is the intended way to play this game?

[Izzy]

I imagined you aren't intended to reload a save unless your party gets completely wiped. Of course as a single player you can do whatever you want, but still I figured I may as well try to play the game as the developers intended you to play.

As I go through the game I get numerous bad dice rolls and it seems this is locking me out of much of the game. There doesn't always appear to be alternative methods to doing something so the only way to see all the content is to play the game many times and get lucky.,

I guess that is just life. What is everyone else doing about this?

[Chaotic Harmony]

I'm sure you'll get various answers ranging from "Sticking Strictly to your own personal OC headcanon and DND5e rules" to "LOLZZZ 0.01 WEIGHT BARRELS GO BRRR"

For me though, it's closer to the latter. If it's in the game, able to be done, and allows me to obtain a result i want? It's fair game. I did try to just let things happen for a while, but more often than not failing a skill check just throws you into a fight, depletes your resources and just sets you up for pain later on.

All of it is valid, so just play how you want.

[aK]

Save scumming is a sign of a bad game. It always has been, some people just like to cope by saying it's ok.

[Leeroy]

F5 before doing anything
F8 when things don't go your way

[Antearz]

Originally posted by Izzy:

I imagined you aren't intended to reload a save unless your party gets completely wiped. Of course as a single player you can do whatever you want, but still I figured I may as well try to play the game as the developers intended you to play.

As I go through the game I get numerous bad dice rolls and it seems this is locking me out of much of the game. There doesn't always appear to be alternative methods to doing something so the only way to see all the content is to play the game many times and get lucky.,

I guess that is just life. What is everyone else doing about this?

As You say. Its Singleplayer. You decide how to play.

But I do think that Larian Should Add an Ironman Mode for Challenge Playthroughs.

[Izzy]

Originally posted by Leeroy:

F5 before doing anything
F8 when things don't go your way

So you save before every single attack and then reload if it misses?

[eLeSDi^]

git gud izzy

[Edelgris]

Originally posted by Izzy:

I imagined you aren't intended to reload a save unless your party gets completely wiped. Of course as a single player you can do whatever you want, but still I figured I may as well try to play the game as the developers intended you to play.

As I go through the game I get numerous bad dice rolls and it seems this is locking me out of much of the game. There doesn't always appear to be alternative methods to doing something so the only way to see all the content is to play the game many times and get lucky.,

I guess that is just life. What is everyone else doing about this?

The intended way of playing the game is to play it without worrying about what was intended.

If you're thinking especially about loading and saving. They are there, which means they're intended to be used. How you use them, is up to you.

[765]

There always are either alternative ways to do things, you just have to break out of your usual way of thinking in normal games, or you don't need an alternative and it just won't happen for you this playthrough or will lead to a different path with other options.

[⎝Wyrd Deofol⎠]

Just play and save often.

[Adam__86]

BG3 is intended to be played however you want

[Curath]

It's always a good idea to quicksave often. That said, I don't tend to reload all that much. If I completely wipe in combat, of course, otherwise I can't continue playing. But in dialogues? Well yeah, sometimes, it's a single-player game and who's going to know. But there's no need to succeed in every skill check.

Some fails lead to combat and you can almost always find some notes and items on the corpses and surrounding area to figure out what you missed in dialogue. Sometimes failing skill checks in dialogue leads to surprising new results that you would never see if you kept reloading for success. I would say do whatever you want, but at least see what happens when you fail and don't automatically spam F8.

[Jean-Maurice Nya]

- Save&Load is part of the game. This is not a roguelike. Just test options and choose the one fitting you if you want. This is actually much more fun than just looking to get everything in a guide. Note that part of the fun of roleplaying is being stuck with bad decisions that'll impact your run.

- this is because Larian doesn't understand what roleplaying is. You should get limited options, but you also always should have a way to finish some tasks, even if your employers is disatisfied by the result. It should impact reputation/renown/... in the world and therefore the trust people have in you.

- in a RPG, if you see the whole content in one playrhough, either you're playing a Diablo-like, either you're playing a very badly designed RPG.

[匚卄乇乇ㄒㄖ丂©]

for maximum enjoyment and rp. just roll with whatever the dice has to offer you and accept your fate, like any good ol dnd night with the boys.

[Leeroy]

Originally posted by Izzy:

Originally posted by Leeroy:

F5 before doing anything
F8 when things don't go your way

So you save before every single attack and then reload if it misses?

Yes, I only ever roll 20's. I'm playing a One Punch Man run

[Ravenfur]

The game is meant to be played the way you want to play it. Yes, failing a roll can quite often cause you to miss content, but succeeding one can do the same thing.

Say you have a persuasion check against an NPC, and you clear it, now you've talked him down and he leaves you alone. But if you failed you might have gotten a fight instead, and maybe he had good loot, or it opens up something further down the line now that he's dead?

Or you succeed in unlocking a door. Huzzah, I gained entrance! But now you don't have to find an alternate route, maybe missing fights and treasure.

You won't be able to see everything in this game from one play through, you are going to miss a lot no matter what you do. My rule of thumb is this:

Did this fail/decision lower the amount of fun I have in this game?
No - Perfect, I'll just see what happens.
Yes - I load a save game and try again.

I've only done that from two choices so far, and I'm not telling you which ones due to spoilers. But they would have made the game less fun for me, and in the end that's what this is. A game, something you (hopefully) do because it's fun. So play it the way you feel give you the most enjoyment ^_^