Katarack21

Its not one person i.e. myself. Tons of people are opting for those choices due to getting disappointed or anally raped. What race/class did you pick? ... How does that mesh with your rankings? Not well.... It's due to those being everyone's first choice (made with a lack of judgment and experience) for the most part. No one is going to make the same inferior picks on subsequent playthroughs i.e. people will tend to go Cipher/Chanter/Druid/Fighter and so on. I will never play a Chanter. I played Kana for about five minutes. **** chanters. I loathe them.

Field Triage is *supposed* to be minor and talents never scale. I always understood as, combined with Wound Binding, it's simply a way to help ensure you can get to a point to rest if you find yourself stuck in a dungeon with no camping supplies or something.

I personally think it had more to do with the combination of Bioware switching to 3D (KOTOR) combined with the failure of Black Isle studios. When KOTOR was a huge success, and the only other majore studio making 2D isometric games no longer functional, it just kind of stopped. When Obsidian came around they had to make 3D games, too, because KOTOR was so successful and the sequel to that was an easy project to get (Bioware were former coworkers, remember).

Just like stacking bug and double click bug that affected EVERYONE. Not everyone. I was bug-free, minus a single crash in Raedrics hold and some issues with the journal timing etc. I didn't have the stat bug or the stacking bug, at any point, and those bugs were fixed within a week of release. It doesn't really matter what you say. The majority of players experienced a fairly smooth gameplay with only minor issues; this is why the forums weren't flooded with tens of thousands of people saying the game doesn't work. This wasn't VtM:B, KOTOR 2, or ToEE. No matter what you say, it will never be an "incomplete game" or a "failed launch" because the sheer reality of the situation is that most purchasers didn't experience anything like that. YOU did. YOU had the bugs and issues, and so did some other people. That sucks, and I feel sorry for you, and I'm glad that Obsidian is working to fix these problems. But don't try to shove your experience onto other peoples.

No, if you sell something and it's incapable of performing it's basic functions for the majority of people who bought it, it's wrong. A few uncaught bugs that cause problems for a small portion of the population is not only not wrong, it's normal and expected and they are legally protected because of that.

Third Edition and yes, it´s the most faithful D&D game in terms of actual PnP system integration. Just have to play if with Circle of Eight mod installed, because Troika left the patching in unfinished state themselves. Understatement of the year. In an unpatched state, that game can literally uninstall your Windows system files along with itself. Indeed. Troika made great games that were extremely unstable and unfinished. And still... Games that made, such as Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines are true classics of the genre. Truth. VtM:B is one of the greatest RPG's I've ever played. Unfinished or not, that game is amazing. From the atmosphere to the non-combat options to the fact that the whole game, from beginning to end, has entirely separate dialogue trees *just* for the Malkavians, it's really just brain-melting good.

The only problem with that is that I believe the Botanical Garden, like with taxes, only does it's thing when you complete quests. It's a little annoying.

I think you can also buy them in Twin Elms, at lest some times. I did. Also, at night in Ondra's Gift there's a secret merchant that sells all the rare gems. You have to complete a task before you talk to him, to get a password, but I did it on accident without even knowing it.

Third Edition and yes, it´s the most faithful D&D game in terms of actual PnP system integration. Just have to play if with Circle of Eight mod installed, because Troika left the patching in unfinished state themselves. Understatement of the year. In an unpatched state, that game can literally uninstall your Windows system files along with itself.

It's also another thing that you can manipulate with enemy weaknessess. I use he various lashes in a mixture on my guys weapons, to make sure that no matter what is going on everybody should be able to deal at least *some* damage to just about everybody.

Yes, I agree. My point is that the system as presented in the books, with THACO included, is difficult, clunky, inelegant, and unintuitive. That's the very reason that house rules became so very common, and that is exactly what lead into 3rd Edition. The pain of using THACO is the entire reason for the D20 system existing, period.

Yes, if you are rolling against an armor class of 0 then THACO is easy to compute and easy to use. Thank god nobody in the history of D&D gaming ever became mystified and confused by having to use it to calculate to-hit in any other set up, otherwise it might have become the laughing stock of P&P RPG's the world over.

You mean Pathfinder, right? Pathfinder, what a snooze fest & more of a powergamers paradise than 3rd edition. It's all about 2nd edition, you know: where I didn't need a ****ing feat to side step. Imagination works well, I mean that's what the whole thing is about ... right? You don't need a feat to 5-ft-step in 3rd edition. A five foot step is both a free action and doesn't invoke attacks of opportunity. Also, I will never get tired of saying this: **** THACO. :-D Yeah but you can rewrite all that bull and make 2.75 to where you don't have Thac0 you just got regular AC and regular to hit. Give a little better bonuses for Stats below 16 and above 11 ... bham instant success. And yes, there was a feat for side stepping in one of the 3rd edition rule books, it's when I decided 3rd edition was absolute fail and anything replicating it is based in a system of fail. Any system that requires modifying one of the core mechanics to such an extent is clearly a flawed system. D&D 3rd, 3.5, and Pathfinder may not be perfect systems, but 2nd Edition was just a very clunky and inelegant design. It's not modification it's interpretation for the idiots who can't do simple math? Yeah, 'cuz it's not like THACO and it's arcane, unintuitive computation and use is a standing joke among tabletop players or anything.

You mean Pathfinder, right? Pathfinder, what a snooze fest & more of a powergamers paradise than 3rd edition. It's all about 2nd edition, you know: where I didn't need a ****ing feat to side step. Imagination works well, I mean that's what the whole thing is about ... right? You don't need a feat to 5-ft-step in 3rd edition. A five foot step is both a free action and doesn't invoke attacks of opportunity. Also, I will never get tired of saying this: **** THACO. :-D Yeah but you can rewrite all that bull and make 2.75 to where you don't have Thac0 you just got regular AC and regular to hit. Give a little better bonuses for Stats below 16 and above 11 ... bham instant success. And yes, there was a feat for side stepping in one of the 3rd edition rule books, it's when I decided 3rd edition was absolute fail and anything replicating it is based in a system of fail. Any system that requires modifying one of the core mechanics to such an extent is clearly a flawed system. D&D 3rd, 3.5, and Pathfinder may not be perfect systems, but 2nd Edition was just a very clunky and inelegant design.

Same here. Even though my cipher has similar deflection and lower DR than Aloth, enemies much prefer to swarm Aloth. I wonder if the enemy AI is coded to specifically target wizards, and why. Is it because the Infinity Engine AI did it? It made sense there, as wizards were much more "special" and pidgeonholed into the "squishy nuke" role. But in PoE it makes much less sense imo. I have not experienced this problem and I've run with Aloth literally the whole game.

Are you suggesting that combat difficulty is something desired by all the fans of the old IE games?

You mean Pathfinder, right? Pathfinder, what a snooze fest & more of a powergamers paradise than 3rd edition. It's all about 2nd edition, you know: where I didn't need a ****ing feat to side step. Imagination works well, I mean that's what the whole thing is about ... right? You don't need a feat to 5-ft-step in 3rd edition. A five foot step is both a free action and doesn't invoke attacks of opportunity. Also, I will never get tired of saying this: **** THACO. :-D

Yeah, give to Minsc. He can solo most of the non-unique enemies with it. And most of your party, but what's a little murderous rampage between friends.

You mean Pathfinder, right?

There's a *lot* of talents designed to deal with that situation, in fact. There's a second-level cipher power that you target an ally with, and it both deals pierce damage to a close enemy and pushes that enemy back a few feat. I use that pretty regularly to break engagment so my priest can run away, and then use Into the Fray from my fighter to pick them back up. I use the same spell to push enemies into traps and/or Wall of Fire, too.

And that includes Calisca's gear.

Screw that, Durance talks about being personally, directly involved in the Purges and Eder doesn't say a word. That took my right out of the whole conversation.

Why aren't we talking about the real important issues, like "How do I keep my cat from jumping on my keyboard in the middle of a battle?" or "Why is tea so ****ing amazing?"

I dumped it in the interests of having Eder be my dedicated full-time tank, since I'm all super-squishy.

My cipher stays in the back and never goes closer than mid-range to the melee. That Ring would have virtually no drawbacks for me. Same with my Druid and that staff.