Chippy
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I'm playing some NWN modules again, and I remember now why I kinda shelved this game for years. I'm actually a great believer in instant death under the right circumstances. Some examples:
So if you're in a situation where you're playing a certain class, and you haven't got death immunities (assuming they worked anyway) and if you got up against 5 beholders...then you're gonna die.
It's not even like you can use terrain or line of sight against them. At least in other games, you could snipe a beholder from range and maybe HIPS or duck behind a wall before they nuked you. In NWN they blast you through tunnel walls and target you with spells in stealth even though they can't see you/and before you HIPS.
So you're not playing a game at this point: you're just a gambler. An addict that wont accept that the deck is stacked. Because the game may as well just be a table with you vs the 'game' and 5-10 beholders/dice that are rolled - and if you roll a 1 on each of them, you lose.
So there isn't really a 'git gud scrub' here is there? As it's effectively a single player game...that is, lacking a party.
- W1: The fight agianst the Beast was effectively instant if you went toe-to-toe with him. Even if you had farmed XP, it was still a hard fight, and you had to do the research to use Aard and kill him.
- X3: You're flying around in a ship with 5000 hull and 200 shielding. You get hit by a capital ship that has 10000 damage (for example) and 1-shots you.
- A traditional RPG: You fail your saving throw vs death...
So if you're in a situation where you're playing a certain class, and you haven't got death immunities (assuming they worked anyway) and if you got up against 5 beholders...then you're gonna die.
It's not even like you can use terrain or line of sight against them. At least in other games, you could snipe a beholder from range and maybe HIPS or duck behind a wall before they nuked you. In NWN they blast you through tunnel walls and target you with spells in stealth even though they can't see you/and before you HIPS.
So you're not playing a game at this point: you're just a gambler. An addict that wont accept that the deck is stacked. Because the game may as well just be a table with you vs the 'game' and 5-10 beholders/dice that are rolled - and if you roll a 1 on each of them, you lose.
So there isn't really a 'git gud scrub' here is there? As it's effectively a single player game...that is, lacking a party.