Do you roll with failures or do you load and try for your "expected" outcome? (lemmy.world)

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I used to always try for the best outcome but with this have it seems like half of the time a failure also leads to an amazing consequence and story.

Like this from act one in the Underdark:

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I had to find a hidden gnome that could supply me with gunpowder, but she was so much on edge that she lit up the barrel of gunpowder and blew up the whole room, leaving half of my party dead. A suicide gnome bomber. I couldn't convince her that I was not an enemy. Reloaded just to see if I could successfully do it, but much preferred the first outcome of the dice roll, so had to reload and try 6 times until I failed again. What a game!

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[-] eendjes@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

BG3 have something called karma dice to balance it out if you’re unlucky with your rolls. It’s on by default.

I always roll with the rolls, failure is part of the game.

[-] AsimovsRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, I'm aware of the option, but I was talking more about a failure being jsut that - a failure with no alternative interesting path or development. Obviously not the thing with BG3.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

it's so bad though! It makes your AC and hit chance not matter in the long run, at that point why even bother?

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Fun

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