I can understand how some people want to play a blood-thirsty evil character who wants to murder everyone.īut to complete a quest by a peaceful route and kill the NPCs involved just to farm XP and loot (without any reasnable RP reason) is simply ignoring all role-playing aspect of an role-playing game, which is as absurd as it sounds. I know those who play the game like that but I simply can't understand it. There is no reason to NOT complete all quests peacefully and just straight-up murder all the NPCs afterwards, since that's the most optimal XP gathering strategy. Originally posted by Ard Feainn:DOS2 rewards non-violent solutions, but it also gives no penalties when you butcher everyone. I like the ability to grind in fully open world RPG games like the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc, but I think for games like DOS and BG3 where it's about the story, not having the ability to grind is better, but that's just my opinion. That also means that every fight should be able to be made to still be challenging to the player, without the player being underleveled or overleveled. Well setting a certain amount of XP guarantees that everyone will be at the same level by the end of an area/act which allows the Developers to always make sure the enemies are around the same level as a character. In BG1 and 2 there were ways to grind exp if you really wanted to. Yea, I just feel like limiting how much exp you can get in certain areas is taking options away from the players.

Or they could just make it so each area has X amount of XP to give and if you finish an area without getting the full amount of XP it just gives you the rest of it.

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