Mary Sues? A Mary Sue is an author's hypercompetent self-insert. Where are the Mary Sues in this game? No character is hypercompetent and every one has flaws. As for the self-insert if you design your custom character to be a self-insert that's what it's going to be
I would say that the presence of annoyingly stereotypical characters is precisely that. A Priestess of Shar absent depth, a Gith warrior who is unsurprisingly chaotic evil to the point of behaving as a monolith, a vampire spawn who creeps about in textbook fashion. I can go on, but my point of contention with the supporting characters is that they behave so woefully generic, that it's as if somebody just pulled them out of the sample sections for the PHB (or MM, depending on what character you're referring to). Maybe individual quirks will be better exhibited later on in the game? Who knows? But at its current state, that is a point of concern I have regarding the characters, as they sit. This is a feedback section, after all, and this is the feedback I am providing.
Still, surprise rounds are in the game, I've done them, but they ARE buggy at the moment, as sometimes it seems like your own party can't act in the Surprise round, other than the initial attacker. If that was fixed, your party could get a round of attacks in properly.
Which, admittedly, if this were fixed, or otherwise better polished to better facilitate party surprise arounds, would do wonders for my impression of overall gameplay. On the whole, I don't judge the game overly so in the realm of gameplay, except for this solitary feature. Hopefully it's better polished, and my issue becomes moot. I want nobody to presume that my want is for this game to turn into a dud, because, well, that'd be dumb, seeing as I spent money on it, and have no intention of pursuing a refund for it.
