I dunno. He could just have used the generic terms those abilities are usually associated in games.
One of the few things I like about Sawyer's design philosophy is that I know he knows what a terrible idea that would be.
Explain.
Spreading out or concentrating your abilities should be your decision, not something delineated by your baseline stats.
The same baseline stats that you asign yourself, making it your decision directly?
What that means is that wanting to spread out and manage a lot of abilities or focus on a few should not be a stat choice.
id like to read this fellow sawyer philosophy half of what i read is good, half of it is nonsense.
It's not pointless, it means I can be more efficient. See an enemy, immediate pause so I can select all and attack. An enemy dies, immediate pause so I can get a new target. Mage finishes a spell, immediate pause so I can segue into casting a new one.
Doubt it will be this way, but someone has to do the balancing so its not fundamentally borked.
Some very novel and interesting spells right there.
I've read accounts from other people who said they kept failing against that mage you run into near the beginning of BG until they turned on pause on enemy sighted. Interrupting a spellcaster can be a pretty big deal.
It's amusing because I know who are talking about... but the way you structured that thought reminds me of suspicious things like "I've read accounts from other people on that website, you know the one? Well anyway other people have told me that a certain mage in a specific location in this game was really hard unless you use what I am recommending."
I've read a bunch of threads in a bunch of different forums, can't remember 'em all beyond bits and pieces.
Some of these are quite funny. Would brofist if was older.
