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This can be represented by conditions. No need to break health system of IE games that is not broken. In health/stamina system you have similar health system from IE games (character has number of health points which each enemy's hit eat some and when they go zero character dies) Addition to this you have stamina system. Character has number of stamina points which each enemy's hit eat some and when they go zero character is knocked out. Each enemy hit causes damage to both health and stamina, but usually more to stamina. Stamina system also allows more flexible condition system. For example sleep spell could great ammount stamina damage and therefore it isn't any more save check spell, but damage spell. And those characters with more stamina have better resistant against such spells. So it is mechanic that don't destroy anything but add more possibilities using easier approach to things.

In BG and BG2 your health regenerated in and out of the combat. Regeneration speed depends how much your character has constitution, with max 25 you regenerate to full health in minute.

In stamina/health system, stamina represent how dazzled character is by hit and health represent how much actual physical damage hit made. And when you add that there is no magic cure for physical damage. So blow on your characters head may be mostly stoped by helmet this is represented by character taking 1 point damage to his health, but same blow can cause your characters ears to ring and this is represented by character taking 14 point damage to his stamina. So stamina damage is not actual physical damage what your character endures, but fatigue and haze caused by enemies attacks, so recovering your stamina during combat is just what you would except and it also add more tactical depth to combat as you should be all the time cautious to take it as your character will be knocked out if his stamina goes to zero. Health damage is more serious sort of damge as it represent wounds, broken bones and etc. thing that take long time to recover and when there is no healing spells, health become very strategic resource. So my opinion is this sytem will only make this game better rpg.

Love Stamina/Health system As stamina represent how dazzled character is by hit and health represent how much actual physical damage hit made. And when you add that there is no magic cure for physical damage, the over all system sound very good. Exp system is fine by me, as it is always been bit silly in games that you can get 2000 xp if you use sneak/speak/etc. method to get past of encounter and then you get another 2000xp if you came back and kill every body. So encounter+objective+quest based xp system is usually much better even in p&p systems. Because you get rewarded from exploration and killing random encounters but there is no xp mechanics to be exploited that you get encounter xp twice from same encounter.

it's honorary system until kickstarter is ended and everybody's funds are reclaimed.

Adventure's Hall need some balance to it. Because player should not have full party by it earlier than s/he could get hiring companions There should also be some limitations how many adventurers player can hire, via limited number of hires or money. Especially with leveled up characters should be limited. Because it would be bit silly if adventure's hall works as resurrection spell in world where is no such thing.

Chris gave an answer to this in one of his interviews http://obsoletegamer.com/we-interview-chris-avellone-from-obsidian-entertainment-part-2/

In normal mode, PE style games should never ever have save or load restrictions that are not caused by technical issues. Because it only causes discomfort for those who want play game in short periods of time or with experimenting play style. And you don't achive really anything as there is always other ways to cheat (which are usually more efficient). For example player can always edit his/her stats and etc. things if s/he feels like in data files, which is in PE very easy to do as they are made as open as possible to help modders work. And even games which have only binary files you can always use hex editor and in those games that don't save any data to harddisc you can use hexeditor's that run background hexeditors. So if player want to cheat, s/he will.

Art of the combat was not unknown consept in medieval Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_European_martial_arts

That is not true, I love Fantasy Wars and Elven Legacy for example.

Steam is good as long you don't want sell your license forward.

I must say that panzer don't look good. Its graphics style is at some places I would say awful looking. Of course 2014 they should use more polygons in their character models, but isometric perspective and far looking view will make that less nessecary feature than in those games where you can zoom in on your characters.

haha, I'm eager to see my new title Oh, it seems I need to post my KS profile here:http://www.kickstart...ofile/651991632 Again, Kungfu Master of The Obsidian Order! Or Kung Fu? I'm not sure the English word... Forum titles for new member are updated once in the day. So no need to worry you will get your new title sometime today.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjRsTwF0aHv6dFVwaTF1WTI5b24tbGxpQUdQNU1TSHc#gid=14 Some nice backers keep excelent book how PE proceed compared to Wasteland 2 and Double Fine

It's possible, but not likely. PE would have to outdo Double Fine's last 5 days NOW, and PE doesn't have a full 5 days left. I wish they could raise $5million... but it's going to be lucky to reach much above $3 million. Actually PE has 5 days and 1 hour left.

That screen shot is magnificent... hups I just drooled on it.. but it just looks so yummy Yei for the stronghold and triple yei for the another big city. And lore sound great, it gives me impression that world will feel relistic and I would even care about lore, which hasn't been case in so many fantasy worlds. I give for this update A+

If some class will still be added, I would prefer if it is lich. I see liches as person who have trained to drain soul power from other people to prolong their life and to enhance their own power.

Excelent update, but there one think what I started to wonder. How about add-on where you get three expansion copies, so that I can take it with my three extra copies of the game itself.

Gandalf cheated against that balrog, because he carried Narrya (ring of fire), one of the three rings with him. That is not just fair fight

Yes, but final decision about when product is ready for markets is publisher's hands. For example no-one ever blames that Idian software subcontractor if you have bugs in your phone, but all blame goes to that phone making company which made that phone and didn't test phone enough to be sure that there is no bugs in it's software. But of course truth is that company which made the game(or software) also made those bugs in first place, but in the end it's publisher who decides when they feel that product works good enough to be send to be sold instead of new iteration of bug fixing. So when I got product with annoying bugs I blame that company which did bring it to market. But of course it would be better if company which made the product, had not done any bugs in first place.

One thing what should be remembered is that publisher is always the one who carry responsibility about quality and assurance. If you buy buggy game the main blame is on that who published it. And Obsidian is never before self-published game, so we really can't say anything about quality of their QA, except that they have told that they had their own QA team for Dungeon Siege 3, which don't have many bugs in it. But in that game they had Square Enix as publisher, whereas Sega published Alpha Protocol, Atari was publisher on Neverwinter Nights 2 and it's expansions and Lucas Arts was publisher in Knights of the old Republic 2. So we can't be sure if DS3 lesser bug count was because Obsidian's QA team or Square Enix has better QA checking than those other publishers (or both). But we know that Obsidian can do "bug free" games and this game's timetable is entirely planned by Obsidian and they have best knowledge what they can and can't do. And I trust that they can do and will excellent game, even master piece is not too far-fetched and that is why I have pledged on their product.

$100k for creative lead from 18 months work isn't really so much. What I looked that $100k in year is about average what people in his postion earn in IT sector in USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternate_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_classes I don't think that one can really invent any useful classes to fantasy rpg, which don't have similar or nearly similar class in D&D. And if you add rolemaster in that equation, then you really must be very creative to invent something new http://www.rattousai.com/rolemaster/ccprof.html So in my opinion the easiest and best route is to take those common class archetypes that fit in your world. And would like to point out that is just what obsidian has done with PE.

But knighthood is not enough for such addressing as correct addressing for knight is Sir or Dear Sir. You should be at least Lord Channelor, Lord Mayor or something like that .

There should be any universal morale code. One man's villian is another's hero should be main deisign practice in choices. Choice design in Witchers had right direction, but there should be more than two factions. Fallout New Vegas also had right idea which direction player's choice options should go.