1. It's long, with a lot of depth, like playing the witcher 3 game.
2. Early access, I stopped a little after January-ish when the forums were blazing and everyone was asking for the devs to say ANYTHING and we got nothing. After it was just testing and reporting.
3. It's a larian game, so the over all adventure.
4. I think really its because of 5e I'm a 3.5 and later 4e guy and 5e kept the idea of dumbing it down from 4e (if you don't like this phrase just replace it with streamlining) & combining features. Example would be combining level up attribute gain with feats, taking a 3.5 class and cutting it up into sections called subclasses, combined base attack bonus with skill proficiency for main stat, BaB determined when you got additional attacks and what bonus to attack with it, so if you multiclassed a lot with no thought into it or went spellcaster it limited your multi-attack. You also gained additional skill point ranks via leveling up, so both of those went to that. (Ya I'm done trying to explain, I just woke up and don't want to continue the complaint, I'll leave it as is and hope it makes sense).
Anyway combine the annoyance of 5e rules and Larian changing the game to a Larian game LOL, multiattack casters, halflings looking like hobbits, then mix in hollywood explosives. It' like someone put me on a rainbow unicorn in a horse race and I'm like how did I get here?! (I went way off track on that one moving on).
5.Reworked druid wildshape form, the technical problems related to benefiting from multi-classes and feats is a crap show. Remove restriction from deities being only cleric, NO ONE, I MEAN NO ONE is going to play that many runs as a cleric with all those deity choices, its straight up a waste of content to be locked to a single class. Give Dragonborn SOMETHING all they have is a breath attack, along with relocating Dragonborn piercings to horns having all piercings on the front of the face is lame and lazy. Last would probably be modding tools so people can make there own campaign and such would lead to question 6.
6. No, this game has no modding tools, people are not going to be making, quests, there own stories, etc. unlike NwN1 or 2, DoS1 and possibly 2? not sure on the last one.
I've played NwN1, NwN2, NwN MMO version, dungeons and dragons online, I previously played a lot of d&d 3.5 pnp campaigns and one 4e campaign.
Goodluck on your Journalism stuff. wish you the best.
