Where do you think WoW got copper pieces as the lowest denomination from? Granted, in practice they aren't really used in DnD unless your DM is a dick with encumbrance and wants to watch you struggle with 100000 copper coins worth 1000 gold weighing 2000 pounds.
Finally. 8 more months. I can deal with that. I'm just glad there is an actual date announced. I really liked the early access. They're on the 9th patch, I think, but I've only played through most of the early access demo on the first patch. Every time I decide to try one of the newer patches, I don't get very far into it, when a day or two later, a new patch gets announced. I might try patch 9 when it releases, to see what all they changed, but idk, maybe just be better to wait the 8 months, that'll be here before you know it.
You know what made me really start loving the EA? The part where you go underground, you find a semi-hidden passage in some house's basement, and fight all those phase spiders. It was a hard fight that I had to restart a few times, but it was so much fun I didn't even care. I like how the fights are less frequent than BG1 and 2, but much more meaningful and epic.
Oh no, it was much worse. IIRC, Edwin picked a fight with Elminster, got his magic stripped from him, was permanently gender shifted to female (a nasty fate for a guy who looked down his nose at women), and spent the rest of his days as a barmaid.
I could have sworn that gender-bend was caused by some ancient magical scroll he carried around not a damn person could translate thinking it was some ultra-powerful spell, and you the protag finally help him translate the words and cast it. He then spends the rest of the game as Edwina before picking that fight with Elminster.
His personal sidequest in BG2 has him finding a scroll that when he attempts to use it turns him into a woman but after about a week of in-game time he finds a way to reverse it. His ending in Throne of Bhaal has Elminster permanently change him into a woman.
Definitely the latter. They pretty much took their engine & mechanics from Divinity 2 and gave it a Dungeons & Dragons coat of paint. It even originally featured all those weird elemental barrels all over the place until enough people bitched.
There's a 'muh poor refugees' thing going on in the big quest for the 1st act, but given that one of your choices is 'murder all of them for laughs' its not actually bad.
If you aren't stockpiling barrels to skip that painful hag fight by putting 20 smokepowder and fire wine barrels around her in her house you aren't playing BG3 correctly.
