I like the "empire strikes back" aspects of the game, really do. Shoving, boulders, chandeliers, crawling in rafters all good stuff.

But the "throw the water bottle and use ray of frost" isn't really that -- it's a repeat of the "crystalline cleric" build in DOS2. Fun, but from a different game.

How many times have you used hold person? Shield of faith? Bless? (minus with the ring or staff). Personally I think my barrels exploding to Shield of Faith casting ratio is something like 100 to 1. The use your spells / class features to get advantage is missing from the game.

I get your position -- if it's fun does it matter? For some it does if you were expecting one game and got another.

"So, ready to play hockey!"

"Great, you won't need that stick"

"No sticks?"

"Or pucks"

" . . ."

"Or goals. Instead we are going to practice some elegant, complicated maneuvers on ice"

"So, figure skating"

"No, no, homebrew hockey"

"Okay, well, not-figure skating sounds fun. But I'm hoping we can we play regular hockey next week?"


Fun, but not what was advertised.


Check out the "killing firkraag" videos on you tube. How to kill the dragon with a monk, wizard, paladin, ranger, thief etc. Each class uses a different strategy. Class and spell based combat instead of environment based combat.