I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Baldur's Aboideau 3, but I did accept several instances area I thought: "man, it'd be acceptable to accept Allay Abracadabra here." Clouds of darkness, adversary buffs like Haste—they'd all accomplish for prime appropriate allay targets. In an interview with D&D, architect and CEO of Larian Studios Swen Vincke appear that they'd approved to accomplish it work, but couldn't for one adverse reason—it'd breach the bold in half.
"We capital to do Allay Magic, for a continued time it was on the table, but again it aloof became too much, because there's so abundant abracadabra in the game. It was consistently like: 'what if I appear in and I do Allay Magic? And I'd say 'oh my god, my arch is exploding'. So that's why you don't accept Allay Abracadabra in the game."
For those of you who aren't abracadabra initiates of Dungeons & Dragons' 5th copy (D&D 5e), Allay Abracadabra is the accessory to Counterspell, except it can be acclimated afterwards the fact. Here's a atom from the spell's description, address of the about accessible Systems Advertence Certificate (SRD): "Choose one creature, object, or bewitched aftereffect aural range. Any spell of 3rd akin or lower on the ambition ends."
The architecture cephalalgia actuality lies in the words 'magical effect'. In D&D 5e, spells do absolutely what they say they do. Application those words instead of 'spell' has above implications for its use cases, back the chat 'spell' is, specifically, any spell casting by a creature.
Granted, the spell again goes on to accompaniment that any spell on the creature, object, or bewitched aftereffect ends—but affluence of DMs will tend to accord a bit of elbowroom on that, back they don't about appetite to homebrew an absolutely new spell every time they put a abracadabra barrier on something. Not to mention, the spells their players accept admission to and the spells which anatomy the bolt of a D&D ambience are two altered things.
With that in mind, while Counterspell alone works on spells—your Abracadabra Missiles, your Afire Hands—Dispel Abracadabra could snuff out, say, a bewitched light, or blast an cabalistic barrier, or bright a application of baleful adumbration fog. Its use cases ability far above its added acknowledging cousin, so abacus it to the bold would be a above abstruse and anecdotal affliction in the butt.
"There's absolutely still traces aural area you say 'ha! They absolutely foresaw [Dispel Magic], and they capital to do it,'" Vincke admits. "And we capital to, it was aloof too much. Literally, it would've angled the admeasurement of the bold aloof to abutment that one spell properly."
While I can actually see why we didn't get the abounding adaptation of the spell, a Allay Abracadabra lite wouldn't accept gone amiss. I can't advice but anticipate of spells like Fly, which are (understandably) bottom versions of their tabletop selves. In D&D 5e, Fly aloof gives you a 'fly speed', absolution you move about in three dimensional amplitude as abundant as you want. In Baldur's Aboideau 3, aerial works added like a suped-up jump or a bendable teleport, acceptance you to hop to abroad ledges with no issues.
It makes absolute faculty to accept aerial assignment this way, but it does leave me apprehensive why agnate concessions couldn't be fabricated for Allay Magic. For instance, Larian could've fabricated it aloof assignment on spells casting by creatures, like with Counterspell, authoritative it a able action advantage after giving Vincke a migraine.
He additionally batten about some added botheration spells and abilities that were a claiming to assignment into the game: "Oh, beastly administration and Allege With Animals—doing both of them has added so abundant chat to the bold … Allege With Asleep also, all the asleep bodies in the bold … [Disguise Self] has absolutely acquired some systemic issues for us on the development front, but it works … those are things that crave a lot of accomplishment from the development point of view, but I'm blessed that they're in there."
Still, it's addition acumen to accord D&D 5e a try with your friends—I can alone adjure that there's annihilation absolutely like snuffing out an enemy's Alacrity spell and watching them weep. Acrid sword, though—I had a mage allay my bard's Polymorph while I was an hawkeye a hundred anxiety up in the air. I did not stick the landing.
