Baldur s gate 3 has been out for a week now with thousands of hours literal years of gameplay under our collective belts now it has been quite a week.
Baldur s gate 3 d d version. Baldur s gate and baldur s gate 2 did an admirable job of adapting the advanced dungeons dragons rules but even those games changed things when needed. Larian studios is hoping to offer the same creative flow and freedom of choice in baldur s gate 3 as the tabletop version of d d 5e. During that interview it was revealed that baldur s gate iii would be based on the 5th edition of dungeons dragons which was implemented in 2014 and is the latest version of the pen and paper rpg. Baldur s gate 3 is just the first big name attempt at adapting d d for a long time.
Fans now have a chance to try the early access version of baldur s gate 3 and see for themselves whether the game was worth the wait. But it also broke the game of d d open in a good way. Though many gamers have played other games based on d d before no video game to date has used the 5th edition rule set. Baldur s gate 3 uses the current rules for dungeons dragons and the early access version of the game has revealed some of the changes that larian studios have made.