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List is wrong, though. Lots of those spells aren’t on the wizard spell list.

NWN1's build tools and community content were superior, but the pre-built single-player campaign that shipped with NWN2 is WAY better than the one in NWN1.

I played the whole demo, which is what they were showing there. The dialogue throughout is comparable to the first game, albeit elevated a bit by stronger voice acting.

I enjoyed the first game, but the elephant in the room is that they really needed a better narrative designer and people who can write dialogue. For all the improvements they're making, there's no indication that they are doing that. I think it will still be good, but if they don't invest in...

Based on the job titles, I honestly would have expected the respective job responsibilities to be exactly switched.

Very helpful & thorough review. Thank you!

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Mine generally wouldn’t either, but all these adventures have a non-TPK option which just scales down the final boss to a more reasonable threat level - and most of them seem like generally good adventures regardless of the deadliness level of the last encounter.

@Nienke it sounds like you did an excellent job as a first-time DM. And yes, in my experience so far the 2024 encounter building “balance” rules are actually worse than the flawed 2014 CR system, even though they’re touted as an improvement.

GREAT reviews, thank you! Question: does the book include maps? If so, might be an easy buy for me.

You might be thinking of Avowed? That got a patch this week that added an arachnophobia setting.

Whatever you play right after BG3 is gonna seem kinda bad imo.

Incidentally, if I don’t generally like JRPGs, will I enjoy Clair Obscur? I know it’s a French game, but it seems JRPG-esque. My main objection to JRPGs is the player’s general lack of meaningful choices/agency/ability to affect the story.

And you know what? I'd argue that Veilguard is STILL quite good, particularly once you get past the first 10 hours. Certainly it doesn't at all deserve the vitriol its received online (not really from actual critics, who generally liked it, but from the usual suspects). Part of the problem is...