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The forum software is hungry today. I disagree, and I'll just point to the 5e Sorcerer. That class is awful, it comes up short next to every other caster class in the edition. It needs to be buffed across the board just to come up to par. And that's why I think balance is important, if there's an option for the same role that is clearly inferior in most situations or by most metrics, then something is really wrong. Not every single option has to be equal, but situations where there is no real reason to pick one choice are not very good. I like Pathfinder 2e's approach, you get XP for encounters and obstacles, but it's relative to challenge rating. So you won't get anything if you bully some goblins or pick a level 1 lock as a level 10 party, but you will get rewarded with XP for beating stuff around your level. And really less trash mobs and mostly hand placed encounters would be very nice.

It's hard to say. Given that he got burned out working on Deadfire, I hope he gets to work on something he's passionate about next. The art and music were definitely high points of both games. It's a shame because in a lot of ways it was close to being an extremely good game but they really fell short in some key places. I dunno, the Barbarian whirlwind attack, the ice fireball that paralyzes people, and the Cipher abilities all stand out for me. The Rogue and Fighter are really forgettable and the Chanter takes too long to ramp up though. So you're saying DOS was born from the egg of the king?

Yes and no. I play 2 with enough mods to make the initial loading take like 5 minutes before I started using the script extender.

I can believe that. Given how few options can merge spellbooks, that seems a real bad reference point to balance around. I don't think that's a big deal. He was able to make Icewind Dale 1 and 2 after all. Really I think it suffered from bad implementation of some good ideas, some bad ideas, and stretch goal stuff. Like the whole build up of Defiance Bay and the big factions there just disappears after the big trial. And then we visit a half-baked city with some factions we barely get to know before getting thrown through the endgame meat grinder. Really disappointing and I stopped giving a **** around then. PoE classes are wildly unbalanced lmao. Like Rogues get shown up by everyone, Barbarians and Monks are martial gods, and the slot casters predictably start ****ing up everyone after the mid point. There is a pretty big difference between the base game and TWM. But I guess that just like NWN (another game Josh worked on) the expansions end up making the base game look lame. And DOS games are great. Fite me irl.

A lot of things, but that's beside the point. To make smug Mari really work I've got to make it unpredictable. Besides Berserk is really good.

Keep it away from kids under 12 just in case. Except for

My first playthrough of PoE ended with me hating the game after spending hours grazing through attrition. It did improve significantly with the releases of the WM 1 and 2, but at launch it was really bad. Deadfire was worse, because they threw out an armor system that was ok (though still prone to naked or full plate with no in-between) and implemented one where there was often no benefit to wearing full plate over padded armor. On top of that they did some wacky inversion mechanics (because making -35% mean -35% is for rubes) that their own designers didn't understand. Oh yeah, and detecting traps is now tied solely to perception, so if you don't haul the gun lady along with you there's a very good chance you'll stumble into a tpk trap cluster. The Pathfinder games use a dumbass system with equally dumb things like natural attacks being completely different than unarmed attacks or bonuses not stacking except if they're dodge bonuses. To top it off Owlcat can completely butcher it where if you were to import a PnP CR 30 enemy, like ****ing Cthullu, it could get stomped by a mid game encounter in WotR because apparently they balanced it around insane min-maxers dipping to ramp up their bonuses into the stratosphere. Point is, all these games have ****ty mechanics and I don't think those are the reason they're good or bad. There's a charm to Kingmaker that PoE just didn't have for me. I can't really quantify it but there's a reason I have so many more hours into a game I've only beaten once compared to one I've gone through three times.

Sounds like you can probably drop the demi then. Too bad there's already a god of drinking and having a great time.

Wait

Massive number bloat.

Yes.

I bet. And you're not even playing on the difficulty where they crank up stats. I think all of the mythic paths are potentially OP, but it is more from a RP perspective.

Oh, I'm definitely looking forward to playing it....after they fix the game to actually work. Personally I'm torn between Azata or Trickster. Probably one of the biggest mistakes is not having Legend be a starting path. Being able to reject becoming a mythic creature at the beginning would be nice.

Damming with faint praise I see. 55 DC is insane. For laughs I looked up CR 30 creatures from PnP (who typically have mythic stuff already) and a lot of them couldn't even make those saves. You'd have to munchkin to a crazy degree or outright cheat to be able to reliably survive that.

Man I'm glad I'm waiting at least six months before giving this a go.

you naughty but ma- [insert barrage of sanity destroying nonsense] I'm going to give it at least five episodes. It is very weird so far.

Some folks are just incapable of reading past the headline.

Steins;Gate 1 They microwaved bananas. This show is gonna be something else.

I've already seen the other two and I'd say the same about them. Berserk isn't as good as the manga, but it is a very good adaptation of the Golden Age and next to Madoka probably has one of the most misleading intros. And JoJo is just JoJo, I'm pretty sure if I tried describing it to someone honestly they'd think I was lying. Anyways @InsaneCommander seems to like Steins;Gate so I'll give that a go. I'm working on it but

Not really. More like you don't enjoy

Yeah, I don't outright hate it but I'm just not gripped by it. Which means that I'll be putting my sunglasses on and hoping nothing will be wrong by watching Steins;Gate then JOOOOOOOOOJO or the 90s Berserk.

Clannad 5 the starfish return I'm not really feeling it and going to try something else for a while.

Sad how long this list is https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/ And for a milestone: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html I guess as year two of covid comes on, we're in for even more fun.

Brisket, ribs, wings, cole slaw, potato salad, and baked beans. Pretty good, gonna wash it down with some bourbon.