MasterPrudent

I dunno. Did you think that playing as a character with massive horns or protruding bits or whose head is on fire, like literally burning constantly, like you're a human torch dude wow, would allow you to choose the option to disguise yourself with a cloth hood? You're a distrusted and feared racial minority. Of course that's going to come with consequences. Sometimes that's going to come in handy (ie fire godlike can set stuff on fire without having to use up a torch) and sometimes it's going to make things harder. That's the joy of role playing and making choices - it means that some paths are going to close down and others will open up and as a result you'll have different experiences to other players.

And chanters! Don't forget the chanters! The other thing is that buffs that boost the same stat don't, as a general rule, stack.

That's hardly a story ruiner. That's a cool piece of reactivity that means that playing as a godlike has consequences. After all there are many other ways to complete that quest.

5) You hear Kana Rua talking about how he'll be silent like a calm sea everywhere you go.

You won't get the bonus. One handed style and weapon and shield style are two different things.

Which difficulty level are you playing on?

Not as far as I know. They speak up from time to time to share their opinion but your main PC does most of the talking.

I believe it's mechanics.

Summons are very handy, no doubt, but the chanter's damage, debuff and crowd control invocations are nothing to sneeze at.

Are you sure it's not because you filled out the bestiary for that particular creature? You only get combat xp from non-kith adversaries and only until you know everything there is to know about them.

Yep. It did that for a while for me (I think it was unpacking the files?) but it's all good to go now. My advice is to go away and make a cup of coffee or something and let it figure it out.

Iirc from an earlier thread opening the console and changing the zoom parameters does not. It's only if you enable other commands by typing iroll20s that you disable achievements (only for that playthrough though). I'll try to dig up the dev post and link it here. EDIT: dev posts: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70495-the-range-of-zoom-amount-seems-very-limited/?do=findComment&comment=1569430 http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70495-the-range-of-zoom-amount-seems-very-limited/?do=findComment&comment=1569432

Well I haven't run the numbers on it but I would disagree. Between duel wielding itself, the bonus you get from taking duel wield style and the bonus from high dexterity you can significantly increase the speed of your attacks. As a cypher you need to hack and slash (or shoot) because you build up a mana-like resource (called focus) that powers your spells from physical attacks. They only thing to keep in mind with a duel wielding melee cypher is that you will be pretty squishy so it's worth sending in your cypher after you lock down the battlefield with tank-ier characters.

I was wondering why that was happening. Or rather wasn't happening.

You don't have to take the chanter's summon invocations if you don't want to. There's only about six of them in total and at every level there are many other invocations you can take instead. Paladins can tank and buff at the same time - once you switch on an aura it just keeps going for the rest of combat and your paladin is free to do other stuff. Having said that paladins don't have the variety of buffs that chanters and priests do so they're probably not ideal for you. You can always put a priest in the second rank with a pike if you want to and, for the most part, if you're close enough to heal, you're close enough to buff. Edit: More detail added and spelling fixed.

The advantage of duel wielding is that you get fast weapon attacks so I'd get high dexterity to help with that. High Int doesn't have any direct applications for duel wielding but it's very useful if you go with a barbarian as it gives them larger aoe attacks. Any class can benefit from duel wielding. Fighters, barbarians, rogues, rangers and ciphers are all particularly good choices.

See how you go. If you find yourself having to constantly rest before your party is out of spells or low on health because of fatigue then throwing a few points into athletics can go a long way.

It might be the amount of RAM you have as it's 1GB under the minimum. If you haven't already it' worth making sure that no other programs are running while you're playing Pillars.

The "it isn't working" line is played not when an ability isn't working but when your weapon isn't doing a lot of damage. Mostly this happens because the damage type you're using isn't good against the enemy's defense. Try switching to a weapon that does a different kind of damage.

Yep. Keep in mind that it's already out of date in many regards though. There's a list of errata here: http://eternity.obsidian.net/game/manual-errata

11!

As far as I know you'd just open up the party manager and switch the characters out. Not sure where the spare character would go though...

If you want to play against the rules of your paladin order, as opposed to taking an order that rewards smart ass behaviour, you can take the paladin talent Untroubled Faith which gets rid of the negative effects from acting in a way that your order doesn't endorse.

Keep in mind guys that the manual is out of date and contains a number of errors: http://eternity.obsidian.net/game/manual-errata

There's a manual in Steam (link is in the right pane) but it's a little outdated at this stage due to last minute tinkering (errata here: http://eternity.obsidian.net/game/manual-errata). There is a brief rundown on the characters in char gen and there are tutorial pop ups throughout the game that you can enable but I'm not sure to what extent the latter will deal with classes. Edit: oh and Sensuki made a detailed video that intros the classes: He also made a couple of other videos detailing mechanics as well. You'll find them if you check his channel.