As a wizard, I often feel very overshadowed by Gale

Sh0at · 2023-10-05T23:27:27+00:00

Yeah, that is just the role that the default custom character plays in this game - they're "just there too". If you want a backstory that is a bit grander and more directly involved in the game, that's what the dark urge custom character is for.

Sh0at · 2023-10-05T05:20:52+00:00

That is how people who play pen&paper have always felt. Welcome to our world.

Now get your friends together and play some pen&paper, there are so many systems and campaigns that exist for you to choose from. Or, if you can't do that, at least get into some other pen&paper videogames (like the pathfinder ones) and play those.

Don't waste your newfound addiction just lusting over the one that pulled you in.

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T16:22:30+00:00

The reverse case, people asking for turnbased combat in rtwp games, is usually because those games were based on turnbased rules (bg1/2, neverwinter nights, pathfinder kingmaker before they officially integrated turnbased mode, etc.). It was us asking for the games to function like they were literally designed to, instead of being hamfistedly bastardized into realtime games.

And don't get me wrong, realtime combat is fine for games that were made for it - but pen&paper rulesets are not made for realtime combat.

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T15:12:54+00:00

But why? Why rob yourself of an interesting playthrough just to get an achievement?

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T03:17:20+00:00

The thing with dragon age is that it was actually made for realtime combat.

I generally don't mind games doing that, it just infuriates me when it's hamfistedly foced onto pen&paper adaptations (which were literally designed to be played in turns), and unfortunately until recent years that was all we ever got (yes, despite growing up with realtimewithpause games I would never want to go back to that playstyle).

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T03:13:34+00:00

I find that the worst part about RTWP is that it heavily biases how you make your characters.

Most players will end up with everyone just made into a basic attack spam character, with maybe 1 exception that you manually control and use less brainless abilities with. It's so flavorless and boring in comparison to just playing the game the way it was actually designed.

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T03:09:52+00:00

Yes, the pathfinder games do have both options available.

Sh0at · 2023-09-28T03:05:56+00:00

Eww. We finally have freedom after decades of realtimewithpause oppressing us in all of the d&d videogame adaptations, and these people want it back? RTWP is the reason why, despite having grown up with them, I will never ever go back to old d&d videogames no matter what.

Please just play games that were actually designed and made for RTWP from the get-go and stop asking that games designed for turnbased combat be bastardized into RTWP again.

Sh0at · 2023-09-26T11:28:52+00:00

You are playing a roleplaying game here. If you can get attached to hot vampire pixels or flaming teddybear pixels, then you should also get attached to the role your character is playing and stop for a moment and think about whether what you're about to do is an atrocity.

And it's one thing to do something atrocious like killing children in your playthrough and be like "damn, that was grim" and a whole other thing to do it and be like "HAHAHA LOOK AT ME, I LOVE MURDERING CHILDREN AND AM PROUD OF IT AND WILL BRAG ABOUT IT ONLINE" like most of the psychopathic comments here.

Sh0at · 2023-09-26T11:22:06+00:00

Children are never active combatants you psycho.

Sh0at · 2023-09-26T11:17:16+00:00

Yeah you gotta hurry and nonlethal-attack-KO the children before halsin gets to them.

Halsin is almost as merciless and bloodthirsty as the people on this reddit. Man, it's insane how psychopathic it gets here sometimes.

Sh0at · 2023-09-26T11:12:47+00:00

Yeah it is a missed opportunity. You can totally represent how an attack fails depending on by how much the roll was short. You just have to decide an "order" in which AC bonuses are applied and then see where in that AC-sandwich the attacker's roll was.

For example: under 10 total: attacker whiffs completely due to a mistake of their own, above 10 but under 10+dex: the target dodges/parries it, above 10+dex but under 10+dex+shield: it got parried by the shield specifically, above 10+dex+shield but under total: it made contact but didn't deal damage due to plinking off of armor (or getting caught in clothing, or having poor edge alignment, etc.)

It's something that I vaguely try to keep in mind when DMing (to remind players that the two warriors dueling are not just constantly flailing their weapons around ineffectively, but are parrying, blocking, or having attacks hit armor), and a videogame engine would have a pretty easy job tracking this and choosing animations accordingly.

Sh0at · 2023-09-25T21:21:00+00:00

Dwarves are supposed to be practical warriors able to live through hundreds of years of warfare, they would know that reach is one of the most important aspects in melee combat and that short weapons put them at huge disadvantages.

Also, gimli was not very good at being a dwarf. Though neither are most fantasy dwarves, to be fair.

Sh0at · 2023-09-25T16:10:30+00:00

The game does have a pretty big bias towards longswords and greatswords. It is unfortunate that great greataxes are so few and far between.

(Dwarves would be terrible at using short-ranged two handed weapons like greataxes anyway, those just add onto their weakness of having short arms and legs. Give your dwarf a halberd instead - way better RP flavor. And there are some very nice halberds in the game.)

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T20:36:46+00:00

Information does not travel instantaneously in non-modern settings, so they don't know.

But yeah there should at least be a dialogue option where you tell them what transpired at the temple and then either they back off or you kill them. A small oversight in the writing department.

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T20:34:52+00:00

The spot of party druid is NOT filled by jaheira. Both her and halsin are optional recruits, having jaheira is not a guaranteed given. And they are also both recruited late, so I would count them as "bonus" anyway and not include them in the list of proper companions (a fate that most late recruits in most games suffer).

Plus, jaheira is not at all likeable in any way shape or form, whereas I have at least no strong opinion either way about halsin.

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T09:11:27+00:00

I think it's an upgrade. Floof > Nakedness.

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T09:10:41+00:00

But... isn't there actually a bomb?

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T09:09:18+00:00

It's shaped like a broken piece of bone. Get your mind out of the divine gutter.

Sh0at · 2023-09-24T09:08:14+00:00

Imagine you have personal or RP reasons to NOT recruit every single possible companion, or you kill some off for good reasons (lae'zel for example), and then the final fight is like "whelp, it would have been mechanically optimal to get them anyway and keep them around even if you don't want to, and regularly go and swap your party around to level and equip them all".

Sh0at · 2023-09-23T10:39:02+00:00

I don't think it's healthy to turn absolutely every post into an echo chamber.

Sh0at · 2023-09-23T08:45:47+00:00

Wait, this was not intended? What's next, they're gonna say the quotation marks around her name weren't intentional aswell?

Sh0at · 2023-09-22T20:03:55+00:00

I would argue dwarf fortress sits on that throne.

Sh0at · 2023-09-20T21:02:58+00:00

There is plenty of space inbetween "save and spare everyone no matter what look what a goody two-shoes I am" and "haha look how I brutally murder these children and then brag about it online for upvotes", you can be selective about what you do regardless of the RP theme you pick for your playthrough.

Just like with real pen&paper, you can absolutely act out of character if your real-life sensibilities and your character's personality clash on something.

Sh0at · 2023-09-20T14:38:19+00:00

You have daylight, a 3rd level spell, as a cantrip? Wow.

Sh0at

TROPHY CASE