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Yeah I tried it for like an hour and then just went back to a regular Wizard with some rogue flare added on top lol. Bladesinger as alright since she could have the signature shortsword, then through itemization I used the gloves of archery for the shortbow of awareness to initiative or gloves...

Yeah, I felt like Sarevok and Viconia were poorly executed. It felt similar to the way Faldorn was used in BG2 to me, as just another villain that had to be taken out. Jaheira I liked, but again, her recruitment being all delayed till the end of the second Act is pretty frustrating there. Also...

Right though! Same and same Haha sorry should have checked the other thread first, when I got back home the other day saw that headline and it hit like a brick. I figured well this sounds like a case for the Tavern! Can merge it up if that makes sense. If we get any more details I'm sure we'll...

So my guess is that they'd want to somehow bring the campaign in line with the current 2024 5.5E but it's just so different from AD&D 2E. Just the other day I was playing my Imoen honour run in BG3 as the dark urge and was immediately confronted with some issues there. I went for the Shadows of...

Saw this earlier today https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-baldurs-gate-2-remake-is-apparently-in-development-with-the-original-co-lead-designer-returning/ Thoughts?

It definitely appeals to my ADHD&D! :cool: Just kidding, I can't stand subscription models for things like this. I mean I used to have Dungeon magazine, or pony up for things like CDs when I came on board, but that's when we'd get actual things, like a magazine or a CD. Some sort of ephemera in...

I miss the sprites with the low to no rez faces. Fidelity and the cinematic/cartoon presentation is just becoming increasingly boring to me. When I compare BG1/2 to BG3, Solasta to Solasta II, Resident Evil 1 to Resident Evil 4, the little low poly block faces seem charming now in a way that the...

It's bizarre as hell to see what the DLSS 5 did to the image. First it changed the temperature from warm to cool, desaturating the whole thing. Note the color of her hair and jacket, also glow coming off the street lamp, the little red lights by the garbage can and that green piece of trash on...

Same, although I bought it anyway just to see the character creator UI and such, since I always enjoy tooling around with those. I also figured that Solasta II would have to serve as my method of figuring out what 5.5 E is all about since I didn't buy the 2024 books and prefer the cRPG...

Camping on Solasta at the moment. Saw some of the previews of the character creation menus and such in this, which seem intriguing

Another thing I noted while reading through the AMA stuff and all the various gaming articles that it spawned earlier today... Quite a few questions where the framing was something like 'Are you going to ignore fan feedback this time and just stick to your guns... when it comes to xyz?' The...

Q: "The WASD movement mod was one of the most downloaded and beloved mods for Baldur's Gate 3. Will the new Divinity game include native keyboard movement controls (like WASD) right out of the box?" A: "No." lol So I guess that means no horizon line after all? That one got 66 replies, I think...

Same. I'm just not interested in the other things on offer really. Striking while the iron was hot would have been... split the party and have half the team knock out an expansion to BG3 ala Tales of the Sword coast redux? So like another lvl 1-12 adventure that feeds into the already existing...

I was just reading a study from Cell Press: Patterns, cited in an article for Digital Camera World earlier today. It caught my eye for coining the phrase "visual elevator music" to describe the type of generic imagery being produced in about a dozen clusters of image types lol. "The clustering...

@Skatan I think you got my point, but then latched onto my facetious joke about Walmart furniture as being somehow super earnest lol. I didn't actually buy any tables, but was speaking as if for emphasis. You know to stress the general decline in quality that happens, since it's more familiar...