Wish List for Modpack 8 and up

My wish/desire for the end of this modpack series is rather mundane.

When on the feats list, each class has it's unique abilities.

However, if you are playing let us say a Paladin for the first time you have no idea what divine health is for.

A very short , perhaps four to seven word description of unique feats would be quite nice.

Or perhaps an ingame link to the information.

 

Gazra, now that you mention it, I do recall encountering a bebilith during the monster mash quest. Have you got a screenshot of the actual model?

 

Sadly the proposed project eternity game is not true turn based (its uses a pause button not structured segmented rounds). Similarly although it quotes the dungeon games of the past as inspiration it does not say it will be D & D.

I just don't understand - the TOE system plays so well. The radial menu is a stroke of genius. Their is near 50 years of D and D background to plunder.

Producing a genuine modern D and D game seams like a no brainer. i don't know why it hasn't happened.

 

Wish list item –

is it possible to use the sense motive skill to guess the level of monsters and NPCs ?

A successful roll – and the level appears on the character/monster info. e.g goblin captain L 3 or brother smith L8.



This would be really useful in knowing who to hit, who to run from and importantly who to pick pockets from.

 

Are we really so quick to forget ... Project Eternity is being written, planned and built by the exact same people that led the team that made Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Fallout 1&2 and yet we still compare Project Eternity as a .... Will it be as good as BG.

BG 1&2 and the rest of the Infinity Engine games were real time with pause and no one complained.

I'm sure there will be an option to auto pause the game at the end of each round, again like the IE games mentioned earlier.

I too would love to see PE use the DnD ruleset, but not enough to let WotC get their nasty mitts on any of the planning or production of the game.

Myself, I have a great deal of faith in these people and believe they WILL produce another game that will be the benchmark all following games will be measured by as was the BG series.

 

I'm just saying that its a pity that they have decided to have the benchmark of BG which was good but not real D & D. When they now have (thanks to the circle of eight) the benchmark of TOE which is brilliant and provides a genuine dungeons and dragons experience.

 

I'm very excited to see what they do with a clean slate, not having to bend to any existing rules or concepts, except for what us outspoken folks on their forum keep asking for.

I think in order for them to acquire the rights to use the engine TOEE was built with they'd have to track down who actually owns the rights now and then pay them. I think Atari and then Hasbro owned it but Gaear would be a better source for that info.

 

Personally, I don't really like the radial menus. I keep clicking / right clicking on the character portraits at the bottom of the screen to try to make them do something -- and then hand to forhead recalling that is not how it happens. Sometimes it is difficult to find the character on the battle field to pull up that radial menu.

 

There were other auto pause options also that one could set. I liked "target gone" so that I could target another enemy.

 

Yup, I tend to micro manage my party in tough battles.

PE has been announced to be using the Unity Engine with Obsidians own custom coding, I think it will turn out to be impressive.

 

No one complained. No one complained? NO ONE COMPLAINED!!$!!

Eyes glaze, mouth slackens, drool drips, wanders off towards the horizon muttering, – “20 years, 20 years” - “real time strategy is oxymoronic” - “Pause is not the same as turn/segment based”...............

 

I kit all of my characters with distinctive shaped and colored clothing. It's a small thing but it really makes them stand out and helps a lot with coordinating attacks

 

If I recall correctly, unless something has changed in this latest release, Barbarians are still only so good. Yeah, they get damage resistance and all that other stuff, but if I recall the only thing that changes over time as game characters level up past 10 is how many times he can rage. He doesn't get tireless rage, nor does he get Mighty Rage, nothing that increases his strength beyond that +4 bonus (I believe anyway).
Barbarian to 10 is pretty much as good as it might get. Then move to fighter, and he give him something fun like Mithril Full Plate and boots of Haste. At level 20 with a Falchion and Improved Critical, he'll be much better at hitting and damage due to weapon specialization and greater specialization.
Barbarian all the way to 20, not so much.

 

Boy did we ever get off track on this one.