i'm cracking open baldur's gate 3 again. i'm enjoying it more now that larian's patching efforts have stabilized its tendency to crash & that i'm playing a bard build with lots of skills so i can be good at RP. but man: the fact that this game is 50ish% about talking to people but less than half the classes in it are naturally suited to being decently convincing is such an illustration of dnd's mechanical flaws even in a framework where you pretend ideology doesn't exist
