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  1. rjshae
    I prefer the Baldur's Gate series approach where the stronghold depended on the class.
  2. rjshae
    Plus a castration option to keep that tone just right. Kidding.
  3. rjshae
    Maybe such features could be included as a game option in the expert mode. I'd like the ability to turn it off.
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    It's not always about wanting to exclude certain classes; it's about trade-offs in resource allocation. Do you want Bards or do you want, say, an underwater adventure? If you don't particularly want to play Bards then you might prefer the underwater adventure. No matter. We're all getting something we want or we wouldn't be here. I'm looking at it from the opposite side. Without the Bard Chanter, the Underwater adventure won't be there because the Chanter God hails from tales of a Siren that lured in good men and taught them how to sing for her pleasure.... *shrug* see where I'm getting at? You didn't disprove my point; you only noted that they will be a Chanter-related experience. The original poster was saying that we shouldn't play the Chanter if we don't like them. But that would therefore preclude the Chanter-related side quests for that player. I'm saying that the Underwater adventure (or whatever) would be available to all, regardless of whether you play the Chanter or not. Anyway, it doesn't really matter at this point. It's a done deal. I actually kind of enjoy companion-related side quests and I'm hoping the developers will make Paladin and Chanter something that everybody will want to play.
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    It'll depend a lot on the damage system they adopt. If they have hit points with a separate injury system similar to Drakensang, then the level won't matter quite as much. You suffer degradation in capability with each injury and then you go down after four injuries. It felt a lot more realistic that way.
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    Funny thing about the concept: the idea of a bunch of dangerous, well-armed adventurers wandering around should make the local nobility pretty nervous, at least if they are human nobility. I wonder what makes the place economically and socially viable? Maybe it's run by a clan of dwarves who are powerful enough not to be concerned by the potential threat? They must charge a fee for each recruit. Or each recruit pays a fee for the opportunity to be recruited by capable talent. I guess the latter would make more sense, game-wise.
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    It's not always about wanting to exclude certain classes; it's about trade-offs in resource allocation. Do you want Bards or do you want, say, an underwater adventure? If you don't particularly want to play Bards then you might prefer the underwater adventure. No matter. We're all getting something we want or we wouldn't be here.
  8. rjshae
    There is no good or evil, only survival and extinction. That which brings survival for the self and the group is called good. /
  9. rjshae
    The experience I've had with playing Monks is that they dish out a lot of damage, but they take a lot as well. Being a front-line character, they often take more damage than anybody else in the party, steadily draining healing resources. Thus, while they look interesting and have a lot of bells and whistles, they aren't always an optimal character over the course of a long campaign. That won't matter as much, of course, if they use some sort of autohealing function...
  10. rjshae
    Each companion they add likely increases the intra-party dialogue in proportion to the number of possible companions (2n - 1, where n is the total companions). I'm guessing they may also be planning to add character-specific side quests as well. Finally, it adds to the variations in enemy classes we'll face.
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    A little condescending, but fair enough. It depends on what level of combat simulation the game allows; too much detail may not always be beneficial. But it may be something they can include in the Expert mode.
  12. rjshae
    It would be cool to have a game system that modeled all those accurate little combat details. A problem in this case is the isometric viewpoint, which probably wouldn't allow us to view moves like that.
  13. rjshae
    Yes, and the ability to add annotations to journal entries would be a nice feature.
  14. rjshae
    Some day I'd like to see a game do real-time authentic crashing surf along a coastline. It's probably expensive to render, I know, and it very likely won't be in this game. But some day...
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    Several other projects have show a sharp increase in donations toward the end, so it's always possible.
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    Will this game even allow rendered character images per NWN2? That seems unlikely given the isometric display scheme. I was just expecting a portrait selection along the lines of the BG series. But rendered portraits would be nice, if it can be done cost-effectively. That way they could apply facial expressions for different states and conditions, if they so choose.
  17. rjshae
    Funny. A less irritating Chanter than Grobnar would be good, or I may have to lock him in the basement of the house.
  18. rjshae
    Paladins... without the extra starch.
  19. rjshae
    From the heart of Hell I stab at thee... with my feather quill.
  20. rjshae
    For me, Paladins can be interesting, but Bards Chanters are a concern. I hope they come up with a class that is less lame than previous D&D Bardic implementations.
  21. rjshae
    Not quite as excited about the newest classes, but I'm sure it'll make some people giddy with pleasure. I had mixed feelings about Mask of the Betrayer, but it was definitely unique. Sheesh, now I'm almost grumbling (slapping self).
  22. rjshae
    Thanks. Well the description suggested the hall is at a specific location. I'd expected that you'd trek there if you wanted to replace a recruit with a generated character.
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    I like the way they did it in some of the old dungeon crawl games: when your character was sick or poisoned, you could see it in their portrait expression.
  24. rjshae
    With regards to this topic, I'm kind of curious about something. Way back in the old Pool of Radiance game, they had a Training Hall where you not only went to get trained up in a new level, but you could also try to recruit mercenaries (for something like 1-4 shares of the loot). I'm wondering if, in addition to allowing the player to obtain recruits here, the team from Oblivion have something like this mercenary recruit in mind? I.e. for specific high risk missions, will the player be able to temporarily recruit a hit point soak extra sword to diminish the risk? I could particularly see a need for something like this in cases where the player is creating a single-class team, such as all rogues, and need a reliable fighter (or wizard) for certain missions. Has anybody heard anything to this effect? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement, and the recruits could even be custom NPCs with canned dialogues. Thank you.
  25. rjshae
    Wasn't that captured by the little icons on the character portraits? Granted, the meaning of those wasn't always clear in the BG series. I think they did a better job of that in NWN2. Maybe they need a highlight graphic when a new negative effect gets added to a character?
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