I've was basically forced into it by Lae'zel, because there was no better option at the time, and I thought I might as well try some weird lezbo warrior shit, but all sorts of grossness arose. My party may well never recover, but it's awesome to see all the strange things that can happen.
Any DM who tells a player “No, you can’t be a non-binary pansexual anthropomorphic rainbow unicorn” is a dick.
Lol. Frankly, DMing for today’s players would be a nightmare. D&D grew out of a mix of guys painting miniatures for intensely tactical tabletop historical battle simulation and Lord of the Rings nerds… but under WOTC it’s mostly rejects from drama class who want their terrible acting and characters as the centerpiece, no thanks.
I can understand where people are coming from on this. From pretty close to the start I felt like all the other NPC party members were just waiting to hook up with me - at least based on the dialogue I was presented with (Gale, Astarian in his way), Shadowheart I don't remember being so strong, but I also went after her myself. Gale especially I thought I gave him negative signals and then I find myself off in some pasture with him and it just didn't feel like there was a neutral way out of it.Truth, I'm already planning a second build to see how different the options are. Right now, thus far, in my top 10 favorite RPGs of all time, I'll see how it stacks up once I've finished my playthrough.
Pretty much, but shit that is literally like what can happen in real life. I've had people hit on me were I needed to let them know I didn't bat for that team, I didn't play that sport, I wasn't in said ballpark, I've never really taken offense to such a thing mind you, if anything I'm flattered lol So why would it not happen in a game about humans? Keep in mind, such things happen regardless of sex, I've had men hit on me, I've had women hit on me, both times it was merely based on our interactions of them thinking my kindness was something else entirely.
So if that weird, unfavorable position exist in real life, shit thats awesome that a game does that too.
Humans can be unpredictable and I like the idea that the game shows this.
I feel some may not be smart enough to fully realize or understand any of that though...
We can't all get what we want out of life, even if we hunt for it, why should a game not reflect this?
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Good point, I agree. It's way more up front and transparant. The gameplay that depends too much on fast reflexes and eye-to-hand coordination isn't for me anymore the older I get. it's often way too adrenaline focused for my tastes. I don't want to get nervous/anxious, I want to be engaged in a story, and world. I'm glad I discovered this type of RPG game.
In my playthrough I also got the starry night scene with Gale but it was entirely platonic and a culmination of the events of Act 2 and their consequences for Gale's arc. Nowhere did Gale force himself on me, and neither have any of the other companions done the same after their initial interest. So far Lae'zel, Astarian and Gale have expressed romantic interest in me and Wyll, Shadowheart, Karlach, Halsin and Jaheira have not. I suspect there *is* a bug with the romance system that causes party members to continually proposition the player.
To be honest, anything would be better than 5e.
What, even 4e?
Strangely I never got the Gale starry night cutscene but did get the "let's talk about last night" dialogue option the next day. I was like "eh? I don't remember that".
Gale harvested enough Ruffie Mushroom caps to hit you with a little goodnight potion
I didn't know there were mid fight minions.
You can increase the size of the hot bar. Also for inventory management, use strength characters or send to camp for heavy stuff. Sell or send things you don’t need. Use auto sort.
That's probably the one aspect that doesn't translate very well from the tabletop to this game. It's so easy and cheap to rest, which just makes it pointless busywork. There should have been a bigger penalty/cost to resting so you'd have to plan your encounters around the mechanic. Otherwise just remove it and instead restrict the spellslots per fight or give me a 10 second rest button like neverwinter2.
Actually, long rests progress certain world events, i've seen this happening live where certain characters would move from one location to another, sometimes missing the opportunity to do certain things. So its fairly important to assess the moment you choose to long rest.
This is the first time I hear about it and I don't believe I've had it happen yet, not to my knowledge at least. That's even worse though, randomly missing an event/quest without even knowing about it or making a conscious decision.
Usually only happens after certain triggers, rather than independent of your actions. For example i've saved some guys from gnolls and long resting after that made them go back to their dwelling (missing the opportunity to easily steal the "secret cargo" they were carrying). But before meeting them nothing really happened regardless of how much i long rested. I imagine if i long rested after seeing them in peril they'd be dead.
Yep, that was my understanding, that's why it is annoying to rest to get the spells again, you feel trapped in a circle where you can fuck up things just because you want to recharge your damn spells.
With the absurd number of quests and events, that is basically like what? 80% of the playtime?
Her name is not exactly super easy to remember after talking to her for like 5 min, and for now she acted like a bitch so i didn't even bothered
I think thats part of the fun actually. I had just broken Halsin out of prison and he wanted to kill the goblin leaders. My party was spent and i wanted to rest but he was like "what!? We cant rest now, we nedd to get this done as soon as possible!". The end result was that i had to come up with some creative solutions to killing the leaders, mostly baiting them to a hole that led directly to a spider den and pushing them there, the spiders did the rest for me.
Some reactions for certain builds like opportunity attacks (happens when a character thats close tries to move away), happen out of turn, however there is an option that lets the game ask for your permition before executing one (should be right besides the spell book tab in the inventory menu)
Broken record here, but this is one of the big sticking points for me with classic AD&D versus 5e play.
You definitely need to parse out spells and use the cantrips as much as possible if you don't want to spam resting. That you can knock out a short rest virtually anywhere makes no sense either, or at least I've never been interrupted for a random encounter despite resting on the doorstep to a cave full of baddies. So yeah, it's hard to work the spell system in a game like this versus just a cooldown. But Vancian magic is so hard wired into DnD that most attempts to excise it are only partially successful.
How posts like this make me feel about the strength of your argument..
There are not enough emojis to express
1) how wrong you are
2) how stupid you are
3) how crazy you are
4) how detached from reality you are
5) how ignorant you are
The funniest part is that the way you write makes it seem like you have at least a bit of authority and knowledge on the subject, but then you just talk nonsense. I won't even block you because I want to spend the rest of my time here on GAF laughing at you.
Important detail: Reality doesn't care whether you agree or not; it will keep existing regardless of your will.
It's even weirder that a tall Gith wants my hafling staff of power in the first place. It's no great controversial statement that the "romance" in this game is pretty juvenile.
Fun point: that is precisely the thing that believers in the purely metaphysical notion of gender-identity can never accept.
