Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition Manual (NOW AVAILABLE!)
JuliusBorisov
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But seeing this, I have to admit, I'm underwhelmed... pretty much looks like the cheap html-to-pdf exports you often see for 'business applications'
Guess you should download the original manual, it's readily available on the web.
I'm a sucker for well laid out books. I have lots of RPG books at home which are simply a beauty to look at. The BG manuals and release notes followed this tradition. I enjoyed them a lot.
I just re-downloaded the original PST manual from GoG and compared to this new manual it is laid out much nicer. I mean there is not even a title page, proper index or page numbers in this new document. And as you already mentioned the original also contains additional information.
Just one example regarding layout, look at page 8 (Gameplay section), it ends with the header for the 'Find Traps' skill and the description is then on page 9, you don't do this if you lay out a document!
Sure, this is minor stuff and nobody reads manuals anymore nowadays anyway, but still, after the attention to detail Beamdog gave to previous documentation, my expectations for this manual certainly were higher and I can't help but feel disappointed. This whole document says 'rush job' to me
Still, I'm very grateful for all the work put into the EEs, so, if the money saved for a proper manual helps funding IWD2:EE, then I'm all for it!
@JuliusBorisov Will there be translation and if yes, would be done by that third company? Which did steam page and so on?
But the background lore and bestiary parts of the BG & IWD manuals would not fit Torment. Too much charm of the original was discovering the exotic world - and it makes perfect sense, that the Nameless One, waking up an amnesiac, has no background knowledge.
In PS:T the "lore manual" is part of the journal (i.e. NPC and bestiary section) and entries are unlocked at appropriate moments during the game.
In the past, we had an unofficial manual for BG by @bigdogchris - https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/14571/unofficial-game-manual-for-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/p1