What books are we allowed to use?
Baaw, my STR focused mage can't kill shit! Sawyer, fix plox! And here comes Sawyer, and tells you to do exactly that. Dump all your points into strength to deal massive damage! And the retards rejoiced. He singlehandedly saved a whole generation of casual gamers from shame and ridicule. Praised be Sawyer, the crackerjack designer.
Hey, i can understand that. But don't try to rationalize shit design, ok? That whole "every attribute counts" idea could even work in a non-party based game. But then again, you can just have a classless system instead.
Nope, you're not going to play such character. There is no carry weight limit. And if your mage can cast powerful spells, that means he's physically buff, because the stat responsible for ALL damage isI'm glad that all types of characters, even muscle wizards, are viable. I'm going to play a physically weak mage, with powerful magical abilities - I figure he's spent so much of his life studying the magical arts that he hasn't hit the gym much. He won't be able to carry much vendor trash but his fireballs will rock.
If this game would use 2nd ed. D&D, or hell, even 3.5 edition, it would be a dream come true. Or D20. I will LOVE this game, but I'm pretty sure its ruleset won't be as interesting as D&D, since it goes for the MMO ways in some areas.as I read more and more comments I am becoming depressed about this game
Namely, that character creation and level up seems boring and meaningless. Picking race, culture and social status being just flavor is lame. Linear progression of stats is lame (IE,weighted 3d6 is much better system IMO), lack of specialization in general is lame and boring. More specialization=more meaningful choices and differences=more tactical variability and fun. Don't like that it seems you could almost pick things at random because having higher XXX attribute will just balance out in the end. Means all choices are just flavor. This is the end result that comes from the 'balance' fetish which seems to be some sort of aspie, OCD trait. Balance is not inherently better, in fact is is often times worse, or might as well play checkers.
I hope they fix this things but I worry because many of these issues seem to be issues that are being created on purpuse by Josh Sawyer believing that they are good design, so I worry that the entire foundation of POE is somewhat cemented in place. I don't see JS backing down on certain design ideas. I wish this updated IE could just be based on a modified D&D system. Everybody complains about AD&D for years, but honestly I have never played a CRPG that is superior and don't understand people constantly wanting to re-write it. Much of it seems based on some person having not liked some aspect of D&D and thinking they could do better, but most systems end up being worse.
People think things like magic users not being able to use swords, or clerics edged weapons is 'stupid' and not 'realistic' so they go 30 years wanting to make a muscled wizard because they are butt hurt AD&D would not let them. Or they think wizards being weak and sitting out of fights is 'bad design'. Josh Sawyer often says he thinks people don't know what they like in a game. Its ironic a bit because I feel that people don't understand why D&D is fun in the first place and rewrite the wrong things.
Not allowing clerics to use edged weapons or wizards to use swords or wear armor, make D&D a more specialized and tactical system. Same with non-linear stat bonuses and uneven strengths of relative classes at various levels. These are not bad design, they create interesting tactical trade offs. Unbalanced classes good at different specialized powers with varying strength and weakness at different levels all with restrictions or bonuses to certain types o weapons and armor are all things that add up to making a good and tactical game IMO.
Some bodies life long desire for his wizard to wear armor and carry a two handed sword is power gaming and misses the point of why D&D is fun in the first place. All my opinion.
Nope, you're not going to play such character. There is no carry weight limit. And if your mage can cast powerful spells, that means he's physically buff, because the stat responsible for ALL damage isI'm glad that all types of characters, even muscle wizards, are viable. I'm going to play a physically weak mage, with powerful magical abilities - I figure he's spent so much of his life studying the magical arts that he hasn't hit the gym much. He won't be able to carry much vendor trash but his fireballs will rock.strengthmight. That's actually quite the opposite of what you've described
as I read more and more comments I am becoming depressed about this game
Namely, that character creation and level up seems boring and meaningless. Picking race, culture and social status being just flavor is lame. Linear progression of stats is lame (IE,weighted 3d6 is much better system IMO), lack of specialization in general is lame and boring. More specialization=more meaningful choices and differences=more tactical variability and fun. Don't like that it seems you could almost pick things at random because having higher XXX attribute will just balance out in the end. Means all choices are just flavor. This is the end result that comes from the 'balance' fetish which seems to be some sort of aspie, OCD trait. Balance is not inherently better, in fact is is often times worse, or might as well play checkers..
as I read more and more comments I am becoming depressed about this game
Namely, that character creation and level up seems boring and meaningless. Picking race, culture and social status being just flavor is lame. Linear progression of stats is lame (IE,weighted 3d6 is much better system IMO), lack of specialization in general is lame and boring. More specialization=more meaningful choices and differences=more tactical variability and fun. Don't like that it seems you could almost pick things at random because having higher XXX attribute will just balance out in the end. Means all choices are just flavor. This is the end result that comes from the 'balance' fetish which seems to be some sort of aspie, OCD trait. Balance is not inherently better, in fact is is often times worse, or might as well play checkers.
I wonder what's his personal dream RPG experience, and how different from PoE it would be... he doesn't seem to be holding back that much on controversial changes to the IE formula.Josh Sawyer said:
