I play a regular D&D pen and paper session weekly (5 hours a session) and have played 2nd, 3rd, 3.5, and 5th edition D&D.
I have 20 points available, then I should be able to take a score to 18. The blockage here makes no sense
Seems weird that you claim to have played 5e, and are suprised that you cannot get an ability score over 15 with point buy.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY leave the name blank. I cannot tell you how many times I made a character whose name is Tav. Make it be the last thing to fill out. Have it stay empty to force us to change it prior to loading into the game.
Yes please. So many many Tavs.
Mostly agree.
3. Combat
If you are knocked prone, your turn is not over. You can still take actions, reactions, and bonus actions. And standing up takes ½ your movement. Let us stand up, not WASTE and entire turn.
It would be nice to create some way to do a readied action, I know this is probably wildly complicated, but it would help to ambush a group you are trying to funnel toward you.
The bonus action shove is a bad design choice – it truly trivializes a lot of things, since everyone can shove as a bonus action. It should be an attack action, thus taking a full action to perform.
Many good points, especially those left in the quote.
Good points
5. Miscellaneous
I know alignment isn’t being a hard rule, but as it stands now, the companions are all kind of on the evil side, except maybe Wyll (who I never use – see below) and possibly Gale. They are not very likeable characters to play with. Shadowheart is annoying and bad at her job. And her stats are silly. Vampire Spawn seems cool, I GUESS, but also… It’s pretty lame because OF COURSE he’s a bisexual predator that plays as being a horny teen vampire. HEAVY EYE ROLL. For gale? Eating the rare magical items? Absolutely lame, in my opinion. Lae’zel is the only person I genuinely am interested in, but she’s also super annoying because unless you’re all about ‘OVERWHELMING POWER’ she’s just not that into you.
The characters are what they are. Also more companions will be available in the future. I like them all so far, but as this is heavily a question of taste there is little sense in debating who is "right"
5. Notes:
I know that Larian did a good job with this, and overall, I am enjoying the game. But it truly does (after 80 hours) feel like a DOS:3, and not a D&D game.
For me it's more a strange mix between DnD and DOS, it is neither fish nor meat. But I agree: they wanted to do a DnD game, so they should commit to that.
