FlintlockJazz

I kinda feel that spellcasters should have one resource pool that they use for all spells rather than it being divided by spell level, or at least be able to use a higher level spell slot to cast a lower level spell. With it being limited to two per level I kind of feel like it is a trap to take more than two spells at each level otherwise, but that could be just me.

Just had the Rymrgand one! Rymrgand: I will bring oblivion upon you! Me: Bring it bitch! Rymrgand: Okay... "The party has died"

Yeah, I really approve of them following through on choices potentially killing you before you even do character creation! :D Kinda feels a bit like those situations where the DM says "This campaign involves these types of characters" only to have one player insist on creating a completely incompatible character for the campaign and for the DM to go "He's not gonna live..." repeatedly...

I assume the bonus you get from the inn comes from both resting in an eat and eating the food there (food is included with your board), and since you can only eat one meal per rest then it takes precedence over any food you bring with you. EDIT: What Sedrefilos said, didn't see his post until after I posted.

I second this, separating them out by game seems essential.

Yeah, I spent over a day trying to decide. That intro sequence is wearing thin! Ended up playing a Druid (Animist) despite my intentions to try a multiclass with subclasses and keep feeling the urge to restart (particularly to switch to Lifegiver) or to do a completely new character such as an Inquisitor, but I know if I do I will never finish this year, and don't want to waste the time off from work I got.

Same, only found it today when I saw others mentioning it, guess it was just recently added.

What's this season pass thing anyway? I bought/pledged for the DLC package, presumably the same, but it's not mentioned in my GOG Library. But then the DLCs won't come out for a few months, so maybe that's it? Go to My Products on your account page https://eternity.obsidian.net/account/products and you should find it and be able to redeem it there. Then click on the link to redeem it via the platform of your choice (make sure its the same one that you redeemed the code for the game on, in your case GOG).

I did the exact same thing, also apparently according to a poster on GOG forums if you try to buy the critical role dlc it also fixes the issue too.

My last post didn't come through, so I'll post it again for those still having issues: a poster called Sugarman on the GOG forums posted that by trying to buy the Critical Role DLC it kickstarted the downloading and authorised it. I still had to apply my season pass code, so instead I tried that and the galaxy downloader I had open at the time immediately changed from unauthorised to downloading the game. So, if you still having problems and you haven't applied all your codes yet try applying one, otherwise try 'buying' the dlc (don't have to buy it, just try to and it should then realise your account already has it, which is what my applying my code also did).

EDIT: So this is where my post went! Wrong thread sorry! Okay got it working. You wanna know how I got it working? Someone on the gog forums said that they 'bought' the Critical Role dlc and it kicked it into gear, so I went and applied the season pass code I had not yet applied yet and it immediately (I had galaxy open telling me it was unauthorised) stopped saying it was unauthorised and started downloading it. Allocating disk space now, what a ****ing joke.

You generated a GOG claim code from the backer portal and redeemed it on GOG, correct? Yep, had it in my library and still do, but when I try to download it it says it stops the download saying not authorised.

I just can't start the download at all. Preloading wasn't an issue for me, but this feels like GOG just don't give a **** about the backers on gog (less money for them or something probably) and just not even bothering with us. And apparently it is now starting but is apparently not authorised! WTF??!

Not downloading for me on GOG either, apparently backers don't get access to the game on GOG by the looks of things. Looking at the news comments on GOG it seems to be the backer version.

TWO MINUTES! (Then downloading).

Ding! PSA: 30 minutes to go! Ding!

I have tried it on galaxy a couple of times, just in case they let people download early on GOG...

Cipher-Rogue because I want to be a pirate! With mind powers!

I asked this very question! I believe some thought that spending a talent to enable the pet to generate focus was a good mid-way point, or a reduced (or lower level) Reaping Knives that you could cast on it would also work. Or just cast Reaping Knives when you get it. :D

But I'm tired and I wanna go to bed! It went straight to my head!

I'm in the UK, I was thinking it was gonna be 5pm here due to PDT to GMT. I was forgetting daylight savings time which makes it 6pm...

Fredric wipes out Gilded Vale killing the people because he doesn't trust them and for revenge, which means the town is dead not populated by undead. A gang of undead living in a castle doesn't sound like a undead barony to me. Just my impression though.

This isn't D&D. This game's system borrowed the 3-18 numerical range out of tradition, but it was not designed to encompass such a wide range of outcomes. 3 is the lowest you can go and still be a heroic (or villainous) adventurer who can reliably jog across a dungeon level (etc.) without incident. The least dextrous person on the planet probably has a DEX of -15 or something. A lion has an intelligence of 5. At 4, you're basically a spider, and not the intelligent, floating kind. Depends on what you (or rather the game actually since its the one assigning stats) determines as intelligence. Animals can be quite cunning while many humans do completely stupid things but still be able to function in human society. Intelligence in Pillars assigns area of effect and other combat effects, and may be completely unrelated to whether a creature is sapient or not.

I'm so excited! I just can't help it! I always seem to have bad luck with pre-loads for some reason, turns out its corrupted or the game starts re-downloading it all over again or the last bit it needs to download on release doesn't work... Got good download speeds here so not concerned, plus I'm off for a few more weeks due to my ankle anyway so got plenty of time! About the only two things I need to make time for is my girlfriend and to actually prepare and run stuff for the Roll20 game I am running for friends.

This thread will forever be here it seems. As far as I know the Witcher series has two gay characters. In Witcher 2 a wizard betrays the good guys. He's subsequently show with a half-naked male slave, squeezing his pimples. The designers explicitly said they intended to make him as despicable as possible. His sexuality serves to make him even more disgusting to the presumed straight player, much in the same way bishonen and sissy villains were meant to do for decades. The wizard is killed but he can also be castrated for good measure. It is indeed one the most homophobic games of the last years. In Witcher 3 Geralt can find a hunter in the wilderness. He is described as freak. If the player inquires the hunter will explain that he fell in love with the son of the local lord. Said lord caught them and the son killed himself. The lord became an alcoholic, his estate fell into ruin. And the hunter now lives in the wilderness alone because he is a social outcast. This is by no means a positive representation. Ciri is an entirely different matter. While this was not the case 20 or 30 years ago, the current ideal of heterosexual masculinity dictates that straight men must think lesbians are hot. The reactions towards lesbian characters in games is nowhere anywhere near as negative as those toward gay characters. The hunter's situation is supposed to show how the homophobia of the society they live in. The son killed himself because of the intolerance of his father who refused to accept him for who he is and the hunter is an outcast because of his sexuality, it was to show how ****ty the society is not endorse their treatment of gay people. To show the problems intolerance causes, just as it portrays racism via the treatment of elves for instance. There is also a transvestite elf you can meet who is portrayed positively. Witcher 3 was a big step forward in many ways for the series. The Ciri thing was a reference to the books, it was an easter egg for those who had read the relevant stories and a nod to a character those people would know.