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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Karmic dice: yay or nay? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm new to both DnD and cRPGs, I've read about what the karmic dice does but I wanted to know your opinions as well.

Does it really make it for a "better" experience? Can fights go seriously wrong or extend for a longer time when not using it? What do you all think about it?

EDIT: please read this comment by @[email protected], it explains how the dice really works, something I didn't get at first, thank you burgundymyr!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a programmer, the idea of replicating the randomness of dice in a game is... tricky. Simply: computers don't do random, so we must do our best to imitate randomness. So then attempting to 'curve' that artificial randomness also makes me feel weird.

I turned it off myself, though, now I can tell myself that my improbable high rolls are 'earned'... and using 3 inspiration points to only keep rolling 2s and 3s are also 'earned.'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Although from a purely scientific stand point you are correct and there is no truly random number generator, I would argue that simulating a dice in a video game can be considered random for all intents and purposes.