This is not something the game discourages.
In fact, I would say that Larian’s Dungeons-&-Dragons-but-digital game actively encourages it.
Kaput, in about an hour.
The lesson is “the DM is a prick, so savescum often”.
That’s not a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just a thing.
Because the aim is to all have fun together, right?
We should have a less negative term for it when it’s basically built in to the process.
It’s not scummy, it’s sound common sense.
We’d quicksave our way through life if we could.
So: you save before fights.
You save before opening suspicious doors.
In a sense, it makes you less risk averse, because there is no risk.
It’s not to get out of it by getting a Mulligan.
I’m not erasing all my roleplay choices with it, either.
But I killed the ox, so that’s on me.
Most of the time it is useless and gets me nothing.
But sometimes it’s important.
Scratch is my absolute best mate.
So in conclusion: savescumming is right and good.
Former contributor Emily Gera also works on it.
