Changes of the Original *Campaign?

iceblade

UPDATED! See the last post at the bottom! CLICK ME!

Can we have the OC* a bit improved?

- Less enemies (like what the Dungeon Masters Guide suggested) AND more experience gained by encounter
*- alternate ways to "overcome" enemy encounters (Like different Dungeon Masters Guides of various Editions of (Advanced) Dungouns & Dragons suggested ) like sneaking by, seducing, persuasion and so on. That could bve a long list. (... calm animal, calm enemy were spellls somewhere that some classes got)
- Enemies who can (try to) successfully flee (but the player still gets experience points)


Suggestions to improve the game
- Half-, One-Third- Classes (to simulate multiclassing at first level of Second Edition of (Advanced) Dungeons and Dragons (Fighter 0.3 / Mage 0.3 / Rogue-Thief 0.3 for example at first Level) ). That's out of the 3,5 Dungeon Masters Guide.
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- Traps more interesting/intensive
- more wilderness things to do (also things for civilization-type characters like thieves or nobles; art)
- a big overview map

There was also a similar thread of me named: "Will there be any improvements/work done on the original campaign?" CLICK ME!

deltago

The orginial campaigns aren't beimg touched, however, of Beamdog was to release their own modules these would be some good suggestions.

iceblade

It would be better to (-) reduce the amount of enemies in the campaigns, (-) the treasure, (+) increase the experience points gained and (+) playtest it a bit, also (+) adding some meaningful choices beyond picking the right weapon/armor/whatever would be very nice, too. There probably needs to be a better way to look for specific treasure containers in the toolset, maybe an excel-table-like overview? Some powerful metatools would definitely improve the toolset (also for lighting)

The original campaign dragged a bit, and I think too much boring combat was a bit part of it. It was fun playing it cooperative online with others, but like that spellcasters dominated a bit, because how the game works.

In single player mode it was just too long, I think, that's also why many people didn't like it too much (besides everyone wanting to do their own modules and other stuff).


Other suggestions:
- the outer/barrier parts of the maps shouldn't be (that much) darker than the rest.
- the (thickest) distance fog should be further away, with a bit of it starting very early (the screenshot here shows how I think it would be better)
- the textures had a bit of an tiling effect, that could be improved (the screenshot here shows how I think it would be better)
- a random walkable/reachable location feature/function could allow very interesting quest, like a collect random placed flowers/herbs quest (if it works.)
- an attack animation for when a character uses one (smaller) weapon with two hands would be great... the attack animations don't look quite right if someone doesn't use a shield but uses a weapon. Maybe like in japanese sword-fighting.

iceblade

More Suggestions to improve the game

- abilities of the existing classes (for example combat / magic feat in intervals {every so. level} can be given to new classes, by the players defined {there was a class creation table in the AD&D 1E DMG}), also for weaknesses (to keep the style of the game custom classes in general could be weaker)
- same for races
- a race / class editor