Even Baldur's Gate 3's lead gameplay programmer had a hard time describing D&D's spell slots to their engineer, who has a PhD

Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, the tabletop ruleset which forms the bones of Baldur's Gate 3, is mostly straightforward. Gone are the days of adding double-digit bonuses to every roll—you roll one die, you add an attribute to it, you sometimes add proficiency bonus, and in rare cases you add that proficiency bonus twice...
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