Honestly I have to agree with the OP.

This is mostly because as a ruleset 5e is bland, uninspiring, has many issues, and I personally hate it. I also personally hated Pathfinder: Kingmaker, for much the same reasons.

I've never liked charisma as the go to skill for intimidation, believing it should be either Con, or strength based.

you don't have to kill anyone. Albiet damage is stupid much like my comp eating my text. doing 1 or 2 damage a crit success is 3 damage when your fighter is wielding a great axe, or if your wizard is wielding a dagger is beyond me. Sure your pulling blows but that axe has more impact then a dagger, and you know as a fighter that your still going to have to put more force behind a blow to knock someone out. Your not just trying to sneeze them into oblivion.

I feel most people were thinking it was going to be more like Skyrim which is a far simplier game, with no real consequences to your actions, nor any real choice. It's not. As well as kinda daunted by the amount of thought this game forces upon you unlike Skyrim where the tactics are always the same, and imo mind numbingly boring. Block slash, block slash. cast back up, cast run, switch block slash. yaaaaawn.

Then there is the ones all about this and that making the game to hard.... Honestly this is simply the choice of the player, and it's there Choice noone is forcing them to do run into a room with little health, no spells, no healing pots. They are making that choice, deal with it.

ie. I ChOOSE to walk into a place that made my companion comment that something sounded angry. I CHOOSE to continue forward with no healing spells, and everyone in my party injured. I CHOOSE to continue, I did that the GAME didn't make me. I DID IT, and paid the price my cleric and my fighter died, Wyll barely made his saving throw, and my rogue survived with 3 hp. What did it cost me all my healing pots, my ego, and laughter from my roomie who I told. Did I cry out that fights to haaard, nope because it was my Choice to do so, just like I choose to tell my roomie. Who cackled insanely the asshole, but I was laughing with him. How did I survive luck, what would I have done if it ended in a tpk. Rage quit? Oh hell no, I'd of went back with everyone full on spells, and healing and tried it again. Why because I CHOOSE to do something stupid, and possibly game ending, and I fucked up. Thats not on Larian, or the Game it's on me!

Last edited by clavis; 12/10/20 05:36 PM.