Well ok but those fucking problem cards are a pain to deal with because by the time you've clocked that the game is trying to tell you something, you've already wasted a ton of resources on several of them. I'd prefer a more obvious hint than something that looks like a standard event but is actually an endlessly repeating 'warning'
You can burn time up easily on the world map (need to rest every day, lots of travelling) and through "adviser upgrade" which take 2 weeks each and you'll do dozens of them over the game.
The main limit of 1600 days is pretty hard to hit but the chapter limits can creep up on you easily, especially if you are exploring the game world and resting frequently to recover between the difficult fights.
When you hear RPG you don't think "time limits" otherwise they'd be more common. They are super rare in the genre though.
I'm sure you could make a fun football game where players who go out of bounds fall into a moat of piranhas, but that wouldn't really be football anymore.
Not an RPG. Mario RPG, however, has no time limits.
As for "great level design," I've actually posted this before:
How on earth could you ever expect full grown adults with skills and stats to ever overcome such an insurmountable obstacle?!?!?
Yeah, proper Pathfinder GM should never distract his players from larping and relaxed beer drinking with challenging combat.
I usually do it with MC level 5 and 3 others around lvl 3-4. But I play Unfair with skill check xp sharing off and always have Trickery and Persuasion on my MC. This way, I hit lvl 3 at Oleg's after big bandit fight.
Dodge and Toughness are useful for gaining access to Stalwart Defender, and that's it. +1 AC for a feat is trash, Toughness is an average feat at best. It's worth taking lategame when there's nothing else meaningful to take and it actually gives a good chunk of HP.
Makes sense. Looks like I was right, it is only doable at around level 3 or so. Been testing a monk build at level 2 and seeing how it stacks against Tuskgutter. Suffice to say, it doesn't stack as much. Well, a strength monk anyways. Might experiment with a dexterity based monk then.
Toughness is okay though? It gives more hit points, and scales nicely with high constitution users. On unfair where you can easily get one shot, having a high health pool minimizes the rng of it. Dodge is a free plus one to AC and stacks, it isn't trash. Her high constitution isn't bad either. It helps with fortitude saves, which helps with spiders swarms and other enemies that inflict poison. Only bad thing is her low strength.
Yes, it's 'OK'. That's what I said. That doesn't make it a good early feat. Frankly, Toughness is pretty close to useless early game anyway, especially in a CRPG where you can just reload if you get a string of unlucky incoming crits.
That's just feat tax, that doesn't make Dodge a good feat, Crane Style is a decent feat because it effectively gives +2 AB and +1 AC, Dodge is objectively not a good feat compared to Crane Style.
Those "critical flaws" of BG2 NPCs have far less impact on the game that you are making it to be, because BG2 a) doesn't feature hordes of min-maxed enemies as Efe pointed out, b) doesn't get combat-heavy until later on and c) is easy enough that it has been finished with a level 1 character.
BG 2 enemies don't even abide to the same rules as player characters. They have everything, from level/stat drain to instant spell-casting and magic resist, heaped on them as innate abilities. Not mentioning mages, always equipped with spell triggers Stoneskin + Protection vs Magic Weapon and (in late game) opening the fights with Time Stop - spell available to players only as scroll before addon raised the level cap.
Yeah, BG are much more free in what you're doing. You can max level without touching main story. BG2 also has biggest chunk of content present right away.
So has PK been finished with a level 1 character then? Since it's the same.
And u have level 1 Blindness spell. Speaking of same rules eh
