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Looking forward to combat encounters where balance fully depends on the team's design and not sourcebooks.

An excellent question. For me, it comes down to a few factors. There were RPGs among the very first PC games I played: Diablo I, Baldur's Gate, Might & Magic VI. These games affected me more than just adventures for XX number of hours, they helped shape my personality, my views, and my...

Good luck with your YouTube channel! The teaser looks dope.

Just finished the map called Wintersun. It had quite a lot of content packed into only 1 area. But with certain enemies giving as much as 9.7k EXP, the party quickly reached the 13th (!) level. A few of those Spectres were really dangerous. One of them one-shotted Nenio with the Finger of...

According to the recent news bit, the next major update for Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming in December: "New features will be live before the year is out, accompanied by a festive Panel From Hell that will give you a peek at what’s to come in 2023! In the Community Update accompanying that Panel...

IIRC, that lying on the ground bug can be fixed by loading a save with the same character. The model will be rendered correctly after you load it (maybe closing the game and launching it again is required as well).

A press release concerning the situation at ZA/UM from Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov: "We are Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov — the game director and art director of Disco Elysium.<...> After five years of gruelling work we released Disco Elysium, a game beloved by millions. As our...

Lucius the Arcane Rider has been slowly progressing through Chapter 3. The game opens up quite substantially as soon as Chapter 2 ends, becoming a more traditional BG-like open-world game with almost no hard time limits for quests. The addition of the Crusade system (which I like quite a lot)...

I'm looking forward to Blacktail (from The Parasight S.A.), a first-person action-adventure game inspired by Slavic folklore. Here is the official gameplay overview trailer: Bonus point: a morality system of some kind depending on the choices you make in various encounters/dialogues. Can't...

https://www.techradar.com/features/mass-effect-the-oral-history-of-a-game-changing-rpg O.G. BioWare folks discuss how Mass Effect was created. A very insightful read. The best part for me (from Mark Meer): "Full credit to Jennifer [Hale] and Bioware, female Shepard is in a lot of ways a very...

Windows Central has reported Diablo IV is targeting an April 2023 release with pre-orders starting in December alongside a marketing push at The Game Awards. https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/diablo-4-could-be-launching-in-april-2023-with-preorders-going-live-december

God of War: Ragnarök is a new contender for the GOTY award. The praise was expected, but still, similar to Elden Ring, it's unusual to see a project living up to such high expectations. And it's interesting to hear about side quests there...

TavernRPG's team of moderators managed to reach out to Annie VanderMeer—currently working at Digimancy Entertainment as a Narrative Lead. Annie VanderMeer (also credited as Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda, Annie Carlson, Annie VanderMeer Carlson, and Anne VanderMeer) is an American video game designer...

I finished Chapter 2. Overall, my thoughts are more positive than negative. The pace of this chapter was problematic, and Drezen had dozens of trash mob encounters, forcing me to constantly rest and recast all the buffs. Since I played through it for the first time and wanted to get some extra...

What I'm really enjoying is gathering special achievements in Wrath that can only be received on Core difficulty or above for killing particular enemies and sometimes under particular circumstances. I'm in Drezen fighting armies of demons. All the experience I as the player got from hundreds...

@Blackraven I know the feeling that there are too many good classes to try in this game, but there are only 6 party spots. @Xzarloxara actually plays these games with 2 custom characters: the MC, and also a mercenary. And then adds NPCs on top of that. Druids are indeed not presented among...

And you got to the gist of one of the big(ger) problems I have with these games. The price to pay for a companion's death is indeed so big that a reload might seem like a better choice. Like, you spent the only scroll as early as the beginning of Chapter 1. What will happen when you get another...

Regongar is an Eldritch Scion while my MC in Wrath is an Arcane Rider (both are Magus archetypes). While there is a slight difference between them (Regongar can have Arcane Medium/Heavy Armor while my MC can have Animal Companion & Arcane Mount which effectively increase the MC's defense), I...