ashendare

Instead of traditional schools, I would love to see a game where the "magic" is from the culture's heritage - an martial culture would focus more on focusing "magic" through martial arts - like spellsblade for example - In today's world, when you look at different cultures and how "magic" was in their past, you'd see that different regions had very different views and usage of magic. africa - voodoo(vodoun), thakathi, sangoma, inyanga were distinct from each other but still similiar europe - wiccan/druidic/sorcery/wizard Americas - native americans had a huge variety of unique "magical" folks that worked in different ways asia - shinto was shamanistic to some extent, mambabarang/mamalarang in filipino (used beetles for their magic), suangi in new guinea (somewhat blood/soul cannibalism related magic), and quite a few others All of those different ones would have different things that they claim are achievable, but do it in very different methods with various beliefs related that would make it so that they really couldn't learn many others due to belief conflicts.

I myself prefer to have moveable cameras. I've played some games that did it well, and others that didn't. the ones that did it well did it one of 2 ways. 1. more of an action style game play (ie witcher) which won't work well for this being an party base game 2. where you could zoom in/out any time you wanted and walls/ceilings/trees/etc became translucent if they were blocking the character, and there was view angle adjustment, but if you started moving, it would slowly revert back to a default view angle that the devs chose.

I think that it would work well that certain dialogue options are tied to what has happened and what your character and companions have done, and that you could choose which character in your group will be handling the talking part. There are plenty of books where the main character isn't all that good at talking, but does have a friend or companion that handles the negotations, or another that handles the seduction - after all that's the reason for having a party, everybody can contribute their skills and talents.