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They could have called it "cool down", but then certain people would freak.

I don't think we were supposed to notice... Perhaps it's just a particular of this soul-based setting? Animancers taking on the role of Necromancers, for example. I wonder whether the metaphysics skill provides Animancy lore?

In the second pick, the sub-classes are guaranteed to be independent of each other. Hence, if there were 3+1 possible base class/sub-class combinations for each class, the total would be 55 * 4 * 4 = 880.

Very nice, and logical. The expanded class concept allows players a much greater chance of realizing their character concept, as well as providing greater flexibility in play. But why isn't there a necromancer sub-class?

In theory, a multi-class pure spell caster with plenty of modal talents sounds like it could be a very versatile combination, but I suspect it is going to be a struggle to manage well during game play. The number of choices may become overwhelming, particularly for a new player.

Here's the latest NWN2 Plug featuring the Giant Wasp in combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXTVJxJVUs

Hmm...

Maybe her arcane knowledge comes from a remembered past life rather than her own rigorous study in this one, and the memories of what she had to go through to obtain it are so traumatic/her past personality is so maddened and grotesque that she turns to alcohol to suppress them. Or maybe she's just burned out from failure after years of diligent work. Then again, mental discipline is probably most closely represented within the game by Resolve, and it's not like it's impossible to make a wizard with an absolutely abysmal Resolve score to begin with. I tend to associate Resolve with stubbornness rather than mental discipline; they seem like different aspects. You can have a scholarly discipline but be indecisive, for example. But perhaps Randora is just a Friday night party animal, and the rest of the time she's sober and serious (...and grumpy)?

A drunken sea wizard? What could possibly go wrong... Wizards supposedly have a high mental discipline. That probably conflicts with being a hapless alcoholic.

Yes, it seems like Randora's background needs to be kicked up a notch. Right now she's just a drunken wizard/captain -- that's an odd combination, but not particularly adventurous. Maybe she'd work better as a chanter/smuggler?

The market gossip lady might spread a few scurrilous rumors about your inadequacies, dropping your faction reputations in certain quarters and causing all the local strumpets to giggle uncontrollably whenever you pass.

I'd like to see a system that works like a wargaming-style zone-of-control (ZoC): leaving a ZoC costs a movement penalty (recovery time?), and if you move directly from one enemy ZoC to another you might get whacked. But that would probably require a turn-based combat system with a hex grid.

At times like these I always think about the first guy to eat poisonous berries. What was he thinking? Maybe it's tasty, it is bright red. She was hungry; near starvation, and at risk of dying that winter. Game had been scarce that year and the tribe was suffering from disease when they finally reached the red berry lands to the south. They were desperate and willing to try anything to survive. The survivors drew straws -- she came up with the short stalk and so she tentatively nibbled one of the berries. The woman turned pale, her gut wretched, and finally, several painful hours later, she passed away. But the rest of the tribe survived because they avoided the red berries thenceforth.

Well, it looks like twice as much is not enough... Perhaps some day the text will be compiled with phoneme data so that a quality speech synthesizer can be used.

One way that animancers could contribute positively is by finding a way to heal "fractured" souls. Perhaps binding a soul into a vessel will prove to be a way to do that. Wealthy patrons discovered to possess fractured souls may decide upon this treatment at their death so that they may be reincarnated whole. Or it could all be snake oil sold by a duplicitous animancer looking to line his or her pockets.