Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either

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Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either
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Josh Sawyer has worked on or led design in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Icewind Dale, and Pillars of Eternity.

least played class, with the majority of players preferring to play more front-line heroes rather than the humble god-botherers we rely on for healing and buffs. But now we might know why. , a series of tweets from veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer suggests that the Cleric's unpopularity has nothing to do with its efficacy as a class in D&Dthe fact that everyone just wants to keep Shadowheart in their party.

Onlookers were quick to offer their own explanations for the phenomenon. One pointed out that BG3 already had a Cleric companion—Shadowheart—and players likely wanted to avoid doubling up, to which Sawyer replied that he'd be"willing to bet [that] doesn't stop people from making Fighters or Barbarians."

So why does Sawyer reckon Clerics are always out of favour? Because players want to be the hero, mostly. When a Twitter user called Doc Venom tweeted that"people just see Cleric as one of those side-kick classes," Sawyer was quick to agree."Yes. I'm pretty confident that's it," he wrote, summing up players' attitudes to the class as"'Support is for other people.

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