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  1. 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...
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    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.
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    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.
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    Yes, and the ability to add annotations to journal entries would be a nice feature.
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    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.
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    Funny. A less irritating Chanter than Grobnar would be good, or I may have to lock him in the basement of the house.
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    Paladins... without the extra starch.
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    From the heart of Hell I stab at thee... with my feather quill.
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    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.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    A novel approach to a CRPG might be to put a major decision point at the last third of the plot, follow both through to a stopping point, then release two entirely different sequels based on which choice you want. They would both use the same software with many of the same elements, but their plots would diverge radically to different locations and characters. Not sure if that is economically viable though.
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    At D&D v3.5, Druid characters rock; they have innumerable options, plenty of elemental-based spells, and they're not half bad at combat either. It's one of my favorite classes.
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    Me too. It's been a total nostalgia fix.
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    Where's the "let them surprise us" options? The last thing I want to play is a plot designed through a series of polls.
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    I'd be happy with a looting system that had filters; show all goods :: show goods above a certain value/mass :: show only the most valuable goods :: show unique items :: show goods of specific types, &c. But mostly I'd like a looting system that isn't tediously repetitive. (Discussed elsewhere in another thread.)
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    At the very least, we'll need the cipher to decode what the barbarian is grunting.
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    What a great idea... subterranean swamps! Ah, good one. I actually meant the levels below the lowest they are planning to build. But, a miasmic underground swamp crawling with undead would be extra creepy! Especially if rotting arms rose out of the muck to pull you under.
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    Personally I like the boxed version mainly for the manual and the disk media. They could send me those shrink-wrapped and skip the box entirely. I've never really found I needed a map when the game already has a digital version. The artwork would be enjoyable though. Shrug. Looking forward to the release date, which is way, way too far into the future....
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