I do not understand.
When people speak of mutiplayer and Pillars of Eternity I automatically think of baldur's gate and icewind dale. I think multiplayer in those games. It literally didin't affect the single player game in any way. You just connect to a lobby and you share the control of some of your party members with someone else.
Why are people so furiously opposed to this? I would love nothing more than to play this game with my brother in that fashion. Even something ancient like direct connect through a known ip would be welcomed by me.
Chain contingency : who ordered 3 ABI-DALZIM'S HORRID WILTINGS? :D
Time stop has always been close to my heart in IE games. The spell that gave me the most epic / powerful feeling was Improved Alacricity, being able to cast spells without any pause between them was so SWEET!