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What I didn't like about DA:O tactics was that you had a fixed limit to the number of slots you could create, then you'd eventually earn more slots as if that were some type of XP award.

On top of a lonely volcanic island is a towering peak with a long, winding road leading to the top. There, the intrepid PC will find a grotto inhabited by a slightly crazed hermit philosopher by the name of The Mighty Grecko. This scrawny-looking old man has amassed a surprisingly large library of scrolls and tomes that all speculate on the nature of souls and magic. Grecko's ultimate aim is to determine why the spiritual energy of an individual seems to be directly linked to their physical strength. He can discuss the topic at great length, listing all of the numerous conjectures for this condition and he endlessly wonders why a scrawny wizard is only able to summon the most paltry fireball spell. In the end, the only viable conclusion he has reached it that it is "the will of the gods". He shudders at the consequences should it be otherwise.

It's a matter of semantics really. All of the PoE attributes represent more than one thing. Aye, I think I'll follow your example. *clunk*

Yes, that part is a little odd. The same with crossbows. Perhaps it's another one of those abstractions used to avoid messy implementation details like applying damage limits to various weapons?

This quote contains both the question and answer to that question :-P Debates with easy right answers aren't particularly interesting, eh? And as I pointed out, you can absolutely create a mage with low Might value - he's just not going to be very good at throwing fireballs everywhere. Which is fine as making sacrifices is one of the cornerstones of RPGs, isn't it? You don't think being physically strong is an odd requirement for a Wizard to be able to throw potent fireballs? Don't you think it would depend on the setting and the physical laws for that environment? If you want to be "realistic" about magic, then an important consideration is internal consistency. I believe that is satisfied in this case. To me the only odd thing is in thinking that a particular relationship from one game and setting (D&D-like magical mythology in a western European-like world) should be satisfied by an entirely different game and setting (PoE in Eora). I don't know if the developers intend to make the PoE game rules a universal system, but in that case this concern could be dealt with appropriately through a different balancing mechanic. For right now though, it only needs to work for one setting and one system of magic.

Heh, fixed it for you. Really mature. Thanks for showing everyone, again, the kind of behavior that can be expected from your side of the argument. My pleasure as always. Good luck to you.

Heh, fixed it for you.

Heh.

It's not a problem that needs to be solved. It works fine just the way it is, albeit with some tweaking and fine tuning.

If they are interested in me both buying the game *and* not complaining about it then hell yeah it does. I very much doubt they will make such a major change at this time, so I expect they'll have to put up with the lack of your purchase.

Because... it's magic. The setting doesn't have to fit to your expectations of how magic works; you have to adapt to it. Physical strength and spiritual strength are the same thing. Stop trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

I take the opposite view where those "empty" areas provide an opportunity for exploration. To me exploration suggest there is something interesting to find (well constructed encounter, quest, unique event, nice location). Many of the wilderness locations were quite dull, with dull combat encounters. Hmm, well exploration means travel into the unknown in order to learn about it. The key work being travel. You don't have to find something deep and interesting every other minute; this isn't a music video. I'm fine with so-called "dull" wilderness locations because they highlight the interesting locales. That's what travelling the wilderness is like, and in that sense they're much like similar areas in Baldur's Gate. My preference would have been to include more such wilderness areas with a few interesting highlights.

No, it's the TwitterZone. The Twilight Zone was more like the real world.

Unlikely. That's a common motif among fantasy cRPG games.

The exterior area maps in PoE felt like they were channeling movement too much. I'd prefer something closer to square, or at least more roomy vertically as in the Baldur's Gate series. Yes I understand the isometric perspective plays a role, but they could compensate for that by making them taller.

Sounds like this isn't the game for you then, and I'm fine with that. Good luck finding a game you'll enjoy.

I take the opposite view where those "empty" areas provide an opportunity for exploration.

My thinking is: so what? You talk as if our "concrete reality" has to hold in a world replete with magic. It doesn't. This is not a design flaw; it's the reality of a fantasy setting. The game developers have hard coded a direct relationship between physical and spiritual strength. That's the physics of Eora. It doesn't have to look like our "concrete" reality. If you were somehow tossed into that world, you'd have to deal with it on its own terms. All it really needs to be is consistent.

Well, over the years a lot of fallacies have been ascribed to NWN2, and this is one of them. For example, pretty much any model in NWN can be ported over to NWN2, then further improved. Both games use many of the same scripts plus 2da files for data storage. The main headaches with NWN2 is the extensive use of placeable models and the flexible exterior area building tool. Both are powerful methods, but much more labor intensive than in NWN. Beyond that, the two games are not that different from a toolset perspective. Once you're over the learning curve (and both NWN and NWN2 have one), it's just not that difficult to create models for NWN2. I've built and ported many myself. Meanwhile, NWN can't support the textures sizes and poly counts that NWN2 can, and with NWN2 you get normal mapping, LoD, and tinting capabilities. This (and many other reasons like full party control) is a big reason why it made sense to port games like Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, and Icewind Dale to NWN2.

It's not a problem. To me it functions like Chi in the martial arts, where it's a representation of life force. You buff up your body, and your muscles become a magical capacitor able to project more soul-based power.