Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate III by Larian Studios - it's turn-based and isometric, folks

Maybe they'll convert the miss chances to dodges, parries or blocks instead, or resists in the case of spells. :fabulouslyoptimistic:

 

It's more likely it will be graze-like mechanics where failling your attack roll means dealing reduced damage.

 

nwn2 already had this mechanic
The two easier difficulties had misses do 50% and 25% damage respectively

 

They should also hire Mark O'Green, the man behind the greatness of Fallout 1/2 talking heads dialogs.

 

They should hire people who have zero attachment to videogames because hiring people based on something they did 25 years ago is how we end up with dozens of really shitty "spiritual successors"

 

shoot arrows at barrels

 

WTF dude, how old are you?
Fallout 1 was a spiritual successor to Wasteland 1.

 

You mean the only Wasteland that exists? Yeah.

 

No modder can do that , it would require a quasi sentient IA to do that well. A very interesting game mechanics but quite unconvenient , easily forgettable .Especially painful when as DM you finish to roll all the damage for fireball and applied it to everyone just to get some player say "Oh i use counterspell as free action i forgot sorry".Could still be scripted with minimal effort, IA counterspell if players target a large group of npcs, or if its going to charm some critical npc. I doubt they are even going to implement it , remember NPC schedules were dropped in divos and that would require lot more effort.

 

even a real world army ranger is a "fighter" (soldier) with additional outdoor survival and fighting skills. its basically a type of fighter, so yeah just make a fighter and pick certain skills and call yourself a ranger or join some ranger guild or something maybe or pass som4e ranger test for added game flavor if one wanted.

 

The only way I could think of reactions being implemented properly, and be non-intrusive is to simply give the option to raise a reaction during the enemy's turn if one is available without automatically pausing to ask the player to do so. Press button during turn -> pauses, pops up list of available reactions available to use?
I'd have to go read over the 5e rules again to make sure I understand them properly.

Tbh I think that would add an interesting element to TB by needing to think quick during enemy turns.

 

So turn-based with pause?

 

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Has someone posted this already?

https://www.pcgamer.com/larian-teas..._source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

Minsc confirmed
Swen:

 

Yes, Swen, we know you can't help yourself.

 

I like this style very much 'cause reminds me on Icewind Dale which was the most beautiful one.


The current D&D one is also very nice but more realistic. Jaheira has gorgeous armor.

 

The reasoning would be "avoiding rolling two 1s and three 2s in a row", which, I can fully agree with Vincke, does not work well in a videogame. It's shit at the table as well, but at least the DM can fudge his rolls and it's all ok, not so much in a computer game.

 

Oh, I'm sorry your awesome badass self-insert chad can miss a few times and make him look not so awesome. RPGs thrive on reasonable probabilities and die on too much determinism.

 

Actually, if you roll two 1s and three 2s in a row, you will STILL miss, that was a terrible example. This mechanic is supposed to extend your hit range from an imaginary 15+ you need to 14+, 13+ etc. So EVEN with this, you will still miss on 1s and 2s.

I'm not saying Vincke's implementation or idea is the same, I'm just proposing something that is relatively balanced and doesn't break the game, while offering the player a relatively fair, less swingy RNG combat.

 

That art's from Heroes of Baldur's Gate, an unofficial DnD adventure by Arcanum Worlds (co-founded by ex-Bioware designers).​

 

just make the pet pal talent exclusive to the Rangers
there solved Mr Vincke

 

Too high fantasy 4e for my liking but gotta admit Viconia looks cool. Minsc looks like a bad 3D-Model.

 

And that tattoo of his is on the wrong side.

 

Shapeshifting Minsc confirmed.

 

Nice lyrics, but now I've got the damn song in my head.

I see he helped a great lot on TToN...