SoecererVictor, are you sure you are a friend of classical role playing games?
You sound a bit like a fan of dark souls or rogue likes.
One single mistake and you are dead. Reload the game (if it is nice) or start again with a new char.
Some games are so sadistic that death means you get a penalty that gets bigger with each try.
BG1+2 are great games.
But I am happy that some game mechanics have changed since then.
Give us BG3 with the 5E rules of Solasta and I am even more happy.
I an a very CRPG fan
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I like Souls style of games. And they aren't one mistake and you are dead. Missing an dodge in a boss can make you took a lot of damage and require an healing opening but not OHK you.
As for CRPG's, I mentioned Dark Sun, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Arcanum, VtMB(...) Modern games aren't good as old school ones exactly due this balance cultism "balance is good because balance is good, lets make all player choices the same and remove everything cool for the sake of balance. Everyone should be playing with boring characters".
Low INT runs on FL 1/2 aren't optimal but are fun due how the world react to a brainlet PC. Nosferatu has a hard time navigating in teh city and are so deformed that even prostitutes refuses then making harder to get masquarede risk free blood. But both examples are fun to be played for most players. An modern game dev would remove nosferatu or make the deformity a -1 seduction dot for the sake of balance cultism. Killing the uniqueness of teh clan, game athmosphere and consistency of mechanics and lore or killing variety.
RPG's used to be fictional immersive worlds to live and escape from the harsh reality where a lot of injustices happens on work, university, with your health and so on. Where you can for few moments, forgive the problems of IRL and be a necromancer, be a paladin, do a lot of cool things and see the consequences of your actions. Now, they are just boring work. There are few exceptions to that rule. 5e is not boring like 4e but is not good as 2e either.
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Niara, you are right that due the lack of SR, high save creatures and the fact that everything has exponentially more hp on 5e, OHK spells would't work on 5e. But I still believe that they aren't a problem on 2e.
But again,my concern is not that this spells will not be great like on 2e. My concern is if Larian will nerf then more than 5e already nerfed.
