I just realized why they didn't bring the dispel magic spell to the game

[General Nuclear]

For the first it could have made Gale instantly destabilize and explode.

Second, We could have removed the plot armor on our tadpole, thus letting us cure ourself with a simple healing potion.

Third, it works on equipment as well. Meaning that some random absolute following hobo wizard could have ruined all our gear in act two.. Well almost all of it.. Legendary gear is almost completely indestructible.

And fourth, it could have been used to sequence break a lot of instances.

Still i kinda wish they had included it in some way.

[Moonbane]

The sussur flowers in the underdark can be cleverly bought out of the underdark in a box. People have reverse looted them onto choice bosses to afflict them with a silence aura., preventing them from using magic.

Silence is probably the closest thing.

And the stasis on the tadpole kept it from evolving and turning you into an illithid.

[zero]

technically dispel magic can only remove an affect affecting gale/the orb,

the argument could be said that i'd removed gandalfs pause button, but not the orb itself, though that'd probably be not allowed due to it being god magic and you couldn't beat the DC, yada yada.

dispel magic doesn't turn off magic items, afterall.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Because so many scenarios were ruined with the split and to implement it properly ut would have doubled the size of the game and its already a large game in terms of data size alone lol

[Moonbane]

Also reduces the compleity of mages by not having to deal with various breach spells. On the other hand we have concentration to rein buff stacking.

[robilar5500]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Because so many scenarios were ruined with the split and to implement it properly ut would have doubled the size of the game and its already a large game in terms of data size alone lol

^This is specifically what Larian said.^

[General Nuclear]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

The sussur flowers in the underdark can be cleverly bought out of the underdark in a box. People have reverse looted them onto choice bosses to afflict them with a silence aura., preventing them from using magic.

Silence is probably the closest thing.

And the stasis on the tadpole kept it from evolving and turning you into an illithid.

The Sussur flower feels like an oversite when it comes to gale, and the tadpole honestly.


Also silence only prevents you from casting verbal spells, there is still a lot of spells which can be cast without speaking, and spells can be cast into the bubble from the outside.

By the way the manual states that you can kill the tadpole with enough healing, because it basically gets overfed on brain matter and dies, which is why auntie ethel hands us that healing potion in act 1, meaning that we could cure ourself if the tadpole leaves the stasis.
This by the way is an oversight in act 2 where it does in fact leave the Stasis for a brief moment, which is long enough for us to heal it to death.

Originally posted by zero:

technically dispel magic can only remove an affect affecting gale/the orb,

the argument could be said that i'd removed gandalfs pause button, but not the orb itself, though that'd probably be not allowed due to it being god magic and you couldn't beat the DC, yada yada.

dispel magic doesn't turn off magic items, afterall.

I meant the magic aura in gales body which the orb is feeding on, not the orb it self, The manual states that it works on living beings as well as objects and equipment, And sucking out the juice which the orbs needs in order to stay stable would definitely make it go haywire at a record pace.

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by robilar5500:

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Because so many scenarios were ruined with the split and to implement it properly ut would have doubled the size of the game and its already a large game in terms of data size alone lol

^This is specifically what Larian said.^

Ehh they could have left out the bear sex, and added more spells, and better mechanic implementations.

Or that time they used to write 500 useless short stories to fill a bunch of useless books.

Or hired a guy to do it, instead of the guy they hired to place 10,000 tongs, forks, plates. bottles around the map.

[General Nuclear]

Originally posted by Underprivileged White Male:

Originally posted by robilar5500:

^This is specifically what Larian said.^

Ehh they could have left out the bear sex, and added more spells, and better mechanic implementations.

Or that time they used to write 500 useless short stories to fill a bunch of useless books.

Or hired a guy to do it, instead of the guy they hired to place 10,000 tongs, forks, plates. bottles around the map.

To be fair i honestly think they did a good job with most of the spells we have gotten so far.

I don't care about any of the sex stuff as i choose not to go for those options, So i choose not to complain about them as well.

The only thing i am annoyed about when it comes to the books is how most of them are only a page long, or lacks animations like in skyrim when you turn a page.

Also my kleptomaniac ass love all those useless junk items, Because some of it is actually worth a bit, And looking for it is fun.

[Gyrmadet]

Originally posted by General Nuclear:

Third, it works on equipment as well. Meaning that some random absolute following hobo wizard could have ruined all our gear in act two.. Well almost all of it.. Legendary gear is almost completely indestructible.

in 3.0, when you tried to disenchant a Legendary (or above) Artifact, you had to roll a dice vs the god that created them and, if you failed, the god would popup and confront you about it. Basically, it was a really bad idea to even consider the option.

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by General Nuclear:

Originally posted by Underprivileged White Male:

Ehh they could have left out the bear sex, and added more spells, and better mechanic implementations.

Or that time they used to write 500 useless short stories to fill a bunch of useless books.

Or hired a guy to do it, instead of the guy they hired to place 10,000 tongs, forks, plates. bottles around the map.

To be fair i honestly think they did a good job with most of the spells we have gotten so far.

I don't care about any of the sex stuff as i choose not to go for those options, So i choose not to complain about them as well.

The only thing i am annoyed about when it comes to the books is how most of them are only a page long, or lacks animations like in skyrim when you turn a page.

Also my kleptomaniac ass love all those useless junk items, Because some of it is actually worth a bit, And looking for it is fun.

best junk item has to be the music box. get a full tune whenever you click on it!

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Underprivileged White Male:

Originally posted by robilar5500:

^This is specifically what Larian said.^

Ehh they could have left out the bear sex, and added more spells, and better mechanic implementations.

Or that time they used to write 500 useless short stories to fill a bunch of useless books.

Or hired a guy to do it, instead of the guy they hired to place 10,000 tongs, forks, plates. bottles around the map.

Yes forget atmosphere and ambience! Don't make places look lived in or not! So we could have 1 spell! A spell that would be the cause of 100gb of data alone rofl that's absurd.
The near sex is a scripted scene it isn't nearly as much effort as scripting every interaction of dispell magic possible.

Basically they either remove it, or they give it a smaller function and listen to people complain its not working as it should. Which would have the solasta effect, of a spell should work a certain way as per the description but they didn't intend for it to be used in that way so it just doesn't.
They could of course rework it but then you get a spell like banish, which is a great spell but in BG3 a 2 turn removal of an enemy is meh, but the main foe is from an alternate realm I assume so they can't just let you banish them so easily I guess haha

[robilar5500]

Originally posted by Underprivileged White Male:

Originally posted by robilar5500:

^This is specifically what Larian said.^

Ehh they could have left out the bear sex, and added more spells, and better mechanic implementations.

Or that time they used to write 500 useless short stories to fill a bunch of useless books.

Or hired a guy to do it, instead of the guy they hired to place 10,000 tongs, forks, plates. bottles around the map.

Druid sex didn't require much programming time.

You know if you collect all the tongs, plates, dinnerware, etc..., you win the Skyrim award.