I love this thread and I think you make a good point too. I don't quite understand why so many people demand such a fidelity to PnP to the point where they want the whole game redone so that it is a perfect match or they will not be completely happy with it. Do they not realize how incredibly difficult such a thing would be to do? This isn't Pencil and Paper! This is Processor and Programmer! It cant be a perfect implementation especially since the game rules are already set in silicon so to speak. So most of the PnP perfectionists install mods that mess up the game and then come here to whine about how the game isn't PnP enough since their mods don't work to make the game perfect PnP either. It all seems rather silly to me. Why is it so hard to accept the balance that the game comes with?
On a more serious note you've never used Time Stop?
Time Stop in the Robe of Vecna with the IA ability, while cheesy, is some of the most crazy fun ever.
You can cast like as many lightning bolts and fireballs as you possibly can, or most other types of spells.
But it just looks so cool if you walk around and cast lightning bolts and fireballs from different positions, because when Time Stop ends they all come at once from all those different locations and it just looks amazing.
@moopy: Xzar isn't a Wereslimebear. He's a cuddly lunatic who's trying to cut your eyes out in your sleep. So adorable. As for Time Stop, nah, it's too easy. I like challenges! I died against Aec'Letec for 10 times in a row for a reason, y'know.
Please do not add a wereslimesnail to the game. My wife already complains I spend too much time in BG. If she sees a creature that makes her absolutely terrified, and she DOES feel absolute terror to anything snail-related or snail-like, my poor Mac will be in great danger of flying through the nearest window
@moopy: Xzar isn't a Wereslimebear. He's a cuddly lunatic who's trying to cut your eyes out in your sleep. So adorable. As for Time Stop, nah, it's too easy. I like challenges! I died against Aec'Letec for 10 times in a row for a reason, y'know.
I died over 10 times in a row to Aec'Letec for a reason too. It was because I didn't realise you could block his gaze with potions of magic resistance/shielding or dispel the effects with Dispel Magic. I beat him so many times simply to have Charname explode into a ghast.
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Only because he was a Wereslimebear that could cast Time Stop.
But you don't deny that Xzar was a Wereslimebear.
On a more serious note you've never used Time Stop?
Time Stop in the Robe of Vecna with the IA ability, while cheesy, is some of the most crazy fun ever.
You can cast like as many lightning bolts and fireballs as you possibly can, or most other types of spells.
But it just looks so cool if you walk around and cast lightning bolts and fireballs from different positions, because when Time Stop ends they all come at once from all those different locations and it just looks amazing.
From what I've seen of Xzar he is definitely a Wereslimebear disguised as a human. Try to read in between the lines of his dialogue, it is in there.
100 points to whoever gets that reference.
They were already murdered by the army of Wereslimebearsnails Charname brought to the battle.
We had gotten to steam engine powered locomotives.
Just think of how awesome a Werebearslimesnail could be! It might even surpass the notorious reputation of the platypus in that regard!
What if the werebearslimesnail casts remove fear.
Problem solved.
Edit: Seriously, I do think spiders are cute.