Heindrich

Thanks for the responses above! Much appreciated. Another question... For a first time player, is it better to play with or without the White March DLC from a roleplaying narrative perspective. For example I did enjoy the expansion content in BG1 and BG2, but the extra stuff was somewhat detached from the main storyline, and the narrative was neater if you actually ignored Watcher's Keep and Ulgoth's Beard quests.

Hi all, I am considering buying PoE, but I have a rather specific and somewhat inconsistent taste in games, so I am doing some research in order to decide whether or not it's for me. (I don't doubt that objectively it's a great game, it just might not be for me.) AFAIK the official lore for Eora only covers an area the size of Spain, and the game roughly represents Europe in the 16th Century. Is there much established lore of the wider world? Does the equivalents of the Middle East, China etc exist in this world? For those of you who have also played Baldur's Gate (1 and 2), how does PoE compared in terms on difficulty, mechanical complexity and depth? Assuming we are comparing both games on the "standard difficulty" where neither players or enemies get bonuses or penalties. Does the storyline give your main character a restricted or open backstory? For example in Icewind Dale, your entire party is entirely custom, whereas in the Witcher Series, you are playing an established and fixed protagonist, and Baldur's Gate and other games fit somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. I am quite interested by the concept of Godlikes in this game, but I don't want to be constrained RP-wise by my choice of Godlike. I don't know how proactive the Gods are in this universe. From a lore perspective, does a Godlike's type determine his/her alignment? For example can a Death Godlike be technically "Good"? Is it viable/possible to build a Fighter/Mage type character who wears armour no heavier than Scale/Chain, but fights competently with melee weapons, augmented/protected magically. That's all I can think of for now. Probably quite bizarre for somebody to ask such specific questions before they even buy the game... but I personally need to be immersed with the world of an RPG and understand the context of the story before I can dive into a game, because my characters don't have amnesia and aren't clueless about the only world they have known, so I can't be either. Thx in advance! Hein