Ricky_Orso: Imho, as I said before, I find them a sort of free/legit way of cheating the game.
Now I build my PC to be a charismatic one but, going on with the game, I find a companion that is way more attractive than my PC and I find my group short of a "brawler guy". Given that, instead of "paying the consequences" of my choices (char's, skills, talents, etc...), I respec my PC to be the fittest of all.
In this way, I may have passed some important checks before in the game 'cause I was a charming PC and, from now on, I can freely walk and bonecrush everything I find on my way.
I simply find it absolutely not fair.
RPGs (both on pc and papers) are nice because you
have to make choices and
live with them.
You have to decide which ones and then
play that role.
Knightspace: What you wrote is nonsensical in this context. It's a single player game with an OPTION of respeccing. It's not a requirement, i certainly never used this, neither have i used it in BG3.
Don't want to use this system? Then avoid it. Because every time i see an opinion like yours, it comes purely from a contrarian point of view.
Sure, being the title of the thread "free respec" I felt free to give my 2 cents. Not intended to convince anyone.
As You said, the option is there and everyone is free to use it or ignore it.
And, as You did, I did, do and will do ignore it.
Simply I was stating that, in my opinion again, free respec is a way to legit/allow
some sort of cheating the game (not in the IDDQD or IDKFA way), and "crying out" against, or simply asking, the Game Dev a change of the game because they decided to put a limit to an option (making costly to use it), is not fair.
Not to say that who's asking for that change is (ab)using it through a mod/cheat.
Instead, I find that a new run, with a new PC and different choices would be much more funny (and, maybe, the Devs would like that way, instead of being driven by the community rants and make changes to applease it).
I repeat: I think that RPGs are meant to (
should) be played in a straightforward way (choice, action, consequence) and these are
my thoughts.
Just that.
Do You think something else? That's good.
Happy Holidays :)