What do you mean by ‘living standard’ ?

Omfgf utf8mb4. That one in particular snagged me.

Want to use international languages? Sure, use utf8, it’s easy and works everywhere and includes basically every character you could ever want, right? Well, except some popular databases like MySQL where utf8 doesn’t actually have the full character set, and is some subset instead. Now in your app some languages will cause weird errors because the characters aren’t supported and you won’t know why until you dig in and find the issue and that this was considered and a character set that ACTUALLY includes the full set was created and it’s called utf8mb4. And you can use it and your app works again but you scratch your head and wonder why a separate set was created when everyone knows the usual utf8 and no one would know to look further, and dig further because you’re already this deep and it turns out the answer is sort of that it was convenient at the time. And if a database this popular can have such a strange seemingly broken behavior for no reason then what’s going on and does anything really even work. But… then your own spaghetti code doesn’t seem so bad.

Nice! I’m not too far off that, but I have a touch of experience with DnD and played the first Divinity game for a few hours (before losing interest). REALLY enjoying BG3 so far. It’s miles beyond that first game, which was a bit jenky and not as well written.

Save scumming required? no not at all. It’s a DnD style game, so the way the quests play out will change but barring a full party wipe you shouldn’t need to reload much. But do I save scum to get better roles so I can loot the chest? absolutely.