Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev’s Top Tip for D&D Newcomers: ‘Take It Slow and Trust the Dice’
If you’re playing smash hit Baldur’s Gate 3 but have never played a game like it or Dungeons & Dragons before, you may find it difficult and overwhelming.
Baldur’s Gate 3 can be a complicated and punishing experience, especially in combat. There’s a lot to think about during each encounter, and the game itself does little to help the player understand its many systems.
As an RPG based on the 5th-edition Dungeons & Dragons rule set, Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t work like many other popular video game RPGs, so for newcomers there is a degree of unlearning that needs to be done to succeed.
While D&D veterans instinctively understand how to compose a balanced party, position their characters advantageously before initiating combat, and how to maximise their chance to hit, the unfamiliar may be left feeling bewildered and downbeat as they repeatedly fail combat encounters. And given just how incredibly popular Baldur’s Gate 3 has become just a few days after launch, it seems reasonable to assume there are many newcomers having trouble right now.
IGN has a useful Baldur’s Gate 3 beginner’s guide that includes tips and tricks, but Larian director of publishing, Michael Douse, took to Twitter to offer some useful advice that gets to the heart of the experience Larian aimed to create.
“If you’re coming into Baldur's Gate completely new, and you’re not used to this genre I can give you one tip: worry less about closing out quests and winning fights, and instead focus on exploring, toying with the tools and systems, remembering to take it slow, and trust the dice,” Douse said.
“It’s not a game about heading to a waypoint and clearing the map for a reward. It’s a game about both narratively and systemically overcoming challenges using your
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