Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

Not sure if it has been brought up already, but I really hope experience points are split between party members. Split exp was instrumental for the great versatility in terms of party size in games such as Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Smaller parties could be just as viable as full parties, since characters would level up faster and therefore still be able to tackle most encounters. Solo play also worked quite well, provided that you knew what you were doing. I have probably finished Torment and Baldur's Gate more times solo than with full parties. However, in shitty games such as Neverwinter Nights 2, NPCs were forced upon the player and levelled up equally, even while being out of the party. As a result, solo play was discouraged and you had to put up with crap like fake-Gimli and fake-Annah.

And on a related note:

Always this! In addition to having plenty of dialogue to choose from, the player should always be able to attack characters at will, including innocents, party members and allies. And no "knocked out" nonsense, please. The dead should stay dead unless super-costly resurrection is possible, and ideally, it should not be possible to resurrect a corpse that is too badly damaged. The freedom to choose whom to kill is a huge part of what makes games such as Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Geneforge and Arcanum interesting and fun to play.

 

Considering Sawyer pushed for all NPCs in the game to be able to be killed in New Vegas, and got his way except for Yes Man, I would guess he will have that in mind for PE.

 

I think they can go 4E knock off and get a decent system, especially if they use the healing surge mechanic. For those who don't know: healing surges are finite resource that is calculated from the class and the constitution stat. All real healing of a character is done by using the healing surges that the character has. A character can only use one healing surge per encounter on his own; if he needs more than that, someone with the appropriate skill (the leader) will have to unlock a healing surge of the player. Even drinking potions make you spend surges. Between encounters you can spend as many as you like. It's the main attrition mechanic in 4E (the other one being spending of daily abilities).

 

It doesn't look good.

 

MHD magic confirmed?

 

Adventurer's Guild.
BAM.

Edit: beaten by infinity bro

 

You mean something like in Bard's Tale? That'd be a nice touch.

 

*sigh*

 

RPS = Rock, Paper and Shit.

 

For fuck's sake it's a drow called Aloth. That must have taken all of 5 seconds to come up with.

 

MCA will fill him with SOUL.
Hehehe, soul, you get it? Cause game has.. uh.. souls.

 

Pledge increased by all my money.

 

drow your ass... this elven chillaxer's pale skin. just look at the wallpaper, there you can see all the core companions.

 

Nah, man. I bet it took aloth of time!