Yes it absolutely is. Best feat in the game. I skip it for my 18 dex characters but everyone else gets it. Mainly for the initiative order benefit, less so the surprise mechanic.
I would honestly rank every "high-profile" and recent (PoE 1 and later), non-Larian CRPG above BG3.
Its certainly potent and a strong pick. I don't find it mandatory though. High Dexterity characters, Barbarians, Gloomstalkers and characters with Initiative boosting equipment can do without it IMO.
Funny, I reached the exact same conclusion. Still haven't finished the game btw.
Read the above, and finish the upper city, you Belgian asshole!
Even as someone who really likes the game it was even more convoluted than that, it felt like they wanted a Mindflayer story *and* a Devil story, which in itself was a problem even without the inclusion of the Dead Three since seductive evil and body horror evil don't sit very well together unless you're a very talented writer (and when you're not you just end up with a topless mindflayer randomly trying to get in your pants).
You couldn't choose a bigger shit. We're talking about a game here that has no redeeming features.
It was written somewhere on the Larian forums by someone who had access to an early synopsis of the plot. I think it's probably among the spoilers on this thread:
Sex sells and BG3 has a lot of it, also multiplayer
Here seems to be a lot of info and speculations on this topic:
Yup, scenes aren't even "soft porn" tier.
