Baldur's Gate 3 contains over 600 spells, and we don't even know what half of them are.
46 of the spells being added in the 1.0 release, which comes to 177 known spells. That's a lot of spells on its own, but according to Larian, it's not even half the total number of spells in Baldur's Gate 3. The developer says that the RPG will include"over 600 player spells and sub-spells" when it launches on August 3. That means there are over 400 Baldur's Gate 3 spells that haven't been revealed yet.
For comparison, Baldur's Gate 2 contained 275 spells, and around 300 if you include the Throne of Bhaal expansion. Since Baldur's Gate 3 includes double that number, it's probably safe to assume that most of the spells in BG2 will show up. One we particularly hope to see isI can't help but be a little excited by the fearsome prospect of having 600 spells to choose from.
Many of these spells may be damage-dealing attacks that don't require super complex system design to implement in a videogame, granted. But what distinguishes Baldur's Gate 3 having a lot of spells from, say, Diablo 4 having a lot of spells is that therea good number of D&D spells whose rules aren't so easy to express with math. Take Commune, a spell which lets a player ask their deity three yes or no questions and get true answers.
That's especially true given that Larian is known for letting systems run somewhat wild in its games. The studio did
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