Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players disappointed by \u201cpuny\u201d realistic weapon Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has many fantastical weapons, but one of the realistic ones is weirding out players, as it seems too small to be effective. As Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 uses the D&D ruleset, the weapons aren\u2019t meant to be fully realistic. In real life, swords are a terrible weapon when used against an armored foe, but D&D ignores that for the sake of the rule of calm, as blades are popular in fantasy media. One weapon that appears in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is the War Pick, which is a pickaxe designed for use in combat. A user on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Reddit has shared their disappointment with the weapon\u2019s size, with others commenting that it needed to be that big to be effective. \u201cBelieve it or not, but war picks needed to be weapons, not single-use cranium diggers,\u201d one user commented, \u201cLarger picks could lodge themselves too deep, and given their weight it would be hard to remove in the heat of battle.\u201d \u201cIt looks realistic. Fantasy weapons are always over the top and huge and weigh 3x as much as they should,\u201d one user wrote, while another said, \u201cThat\u2019s a normal-sized weapon made for a normal-sized man, not a 7-8 ft tall giga chad of an Elf\/Half-elf.\u201d \u201cI think you\u2019re suffering a bit from fantasy weapon syndrome,\u201d another user explained, \u201cReal weapons are, in general, rather small-sized so you can swing them quickly and with great agility. there are some exceptions to it, but they\u2019re are known for leaving the wielder open for attacks.\u201d It\u2019s no surprise the War Pick looks weird, considering the number of huge magical weapons in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 that have fire or lightning running along their edge. Something small, but practical, is going to be out of place next to the Everburn Blade used by a devil from Hell. You\u2019re free to make your Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 character look like a spiky-haired JRPG hero, as it\u2019s a fantasy game in a world teeming with magic. Just don\u2019t be surprised if every weapon you find isn\u2019t a Buster Sword from Final Fantasy 7 with the serial numbers filed off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players disappointed by \u201cpuny\u201d realistic weapon Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has many fantastical weapons, but one of the realistic ones is weirding out players, as it seems too small to be effective. As Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 uses the D&D ruleset, the weapons aren\u2019t meant to be fully realistic. In real life, swords […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}